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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1964
Page
2
Kansas City buyers and sellers move through cattle hogs and sheep with mixed shifts. Cattle steady to higher for select classes, calves and cows down. hogs steady to strong with feeder demand steady. sheep steady to slightly lower on ewes and lambs. Wholesale and farm prices noted for eggs poultry and live fryers.
Wheat pours into southern Kansas elevators as harvest rush speeds north from Oklahoma. Garden Plain Cheney and Clearwater report better quality and yields with 25 to 30 bushels per acre and some 40 bushels. Test weights 60 to 63 pounds per bushel and moisture around 12.5 percent. Ideal harvest weather persists though some fields stay muddy and require tractor pullouts.
Stocks edged higher in a rising market while volume reached about 4.5 million shares. Commodities and bonds were mixed as cattle and hog futures showed varied moves. several industrials and rail names led gains while technology and finance lagged.
Yesterday admissions included Mrs. Karl Spurling and Mrs. Violet Jeffers plus Mrs. Howard Almond and Martin Fogel. Dismissals named several residents. births recorded for Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Borjas. Today dismissals listed additional families. Building permits issued for garage and carport work with modest costs. Highway patrol cited multiple motorists for speed and tag issues. Recent moves logged numerous address changes. District Court filings in Chanute show two divorces. Also notes the Saturn V rocket will travel by river barge from Michoud to Cape Kennedy.
Chicago AP reports butter prices steady to lower with various grades listed. Live poultry wholesale prices remain steady with mixed adjustments and egg prices show minor gains across grades A whites, mixed, mediums, standards, and dirties.
Chicago reports wheat No 2 red at 1.49 four nines per bushel, corn No 1 yellow at 1.2642-27 four nines, oats No 2 heavy white 65 four sixteenths, soybeans No 1 yellow 2.524n, and soybean oil at 8.32n. Wheat closes down one and a half cents, corn mixed, oats steady to down, rye up two cents, soybeans up to seven eighths, July contracts shown.
Cars driven by Ranelta Owen and Jackie Turner collided at 12th and Highland around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Turner and her three sisters Kathy Mary Lou and Susie were in the car. Mary Lou was taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital for glass removal and Kathy examined for a possible back injury. Owen, in a 1963 Oldsmobile, was westbound. Turner, in a 1961 Ford, northbound. Estimated damages were 50 dollars to Owen's front and 150 dollars to Turner's right side.
AP reports Kansas City grain prices with cars listed for wheat corn and oats. Wheat ranged near 1.60 to 1.82 per unit, corn around 1.21 to 1.45, mile maize 2.01 to 2.15, rye 1.13 to 1.18, barley about 1.00, soybeans 2.43 to 2.48, bran 33.00 to 33.75, shorts 33.50 to 36.25, with minor unchanged to slight gains across some grades.
The first car of 1964 Kansas wheat sold for 1.80 a bushel at the Kansas City Board of Trade. George A. Kublin of Continental Grain Co. bought about 1,600 bushels of No 1 heavy hard wheat shipped from Independence, Kansas, with test 62.3 moisture 13.8 and protein 12.10. More than 100 million people are expected to visit national parks this year, 68 million between March and August, up six million from 1963.
World War I Barracks and Auxiliary members from Chanute and nearby areas gathered in Fredonia. Grant Wilson and Mrs George Wilson visited Kansas State University in Manhattan. Chanute leaders were chosen from Sedan Area Council to attend the National Jamboree at Valley Forge with July 18 named American Heritage Day and 40 scouts participating. C L Fisher and Floyd Potter from Chanute will serve on National Jamboree section staffs.
Billy Clagg, Liberal, visits his mother Mrs. Ruth Clagg at 815 West Main. Mrs. Billy Clagg attends a two week workshop in home economics._mentions
Paris Ben Moor. Humboldt native, 75, died Wednesday at Bryant Nursing Home after a long illness. Born April 7, 1889, he married Sadie Collinsworth June 14, 1908. He retired in 1955 from Monarch Cement after 35 years. Survived by widow, one son Delmar, three sisters, one brother, and one daughter who died in 1912. Funeral Saturday 2 p.m. at Price Funeral Home Humboldt with burial Mount Hope Cemetery. Walter T. Thurman dies in Wichita. service held there, graveside at Galesburg Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. today.
The United States accounts for over 28 percent of tobacco leaf sold in free world markets at about 505 billion pounds. The Library of Congress inaugurated its main reading room on November 1, 1897, marking a milestone in its grand opening.
Mrs W L Camp and her father Matt Wiltse attended the wedding of Gail Wiltse, daughter of Mr and Mrs C J Wiltse, in Great Bend on Saturday.
Craig Wood of 715 North Evergreen is currently admitted as a patient at Allen County Hospital in Iola.
At Scene Louisville AP reports that the car rear-ended Bill Strode’s vehicle. Police arrived as Strode said he was fine but worried about his wife, who was in the other car that struck him.
Union workers their wives and children protested for an hour and a half outside Armour & Co. in Kansas City to oppose plans to shift slaughtering and reduce the workforce from about 1,800 to 800. John Butler leader of Local 15 called it an informational demonstration prompted by June 1 plans to transfer cattle and hog slaughtering to new plants in Emporia Kansas Worthington Minnesota and another plant in Kansas City Kansas.
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