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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1966
Page
2
AP cattle and hog market summary from Kansas City shows 3,000 cattle and 1,000 sheep with prices and grades listed. Steers and heifers largely steady, cows firm, feeders mixed, hogs weak to lower, sows steady, lambs weak with firm egg prices overall for egg products.
Parson s Livestock reports bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep. Prices cover U S grade categories by weight and product type including sows boars and bulls with values per hundredweight and by group such as grain fed steers heifers stockers calves veals and slaughter ewes.
In Kansas City wholesale market, large eggs sold 31 1/2 to 33 1/2 cents per dozen and 80 percent A 31 1/2 to 42 1/2 cents per dozen. Medium eggs unchanged at 26 1/2 to 28 1/2 cents. Butter prices remained unchanged.
Chicago AP reports live poultry prices steady to higher with roasters at 26 1/2 cents per pound and special fed White Rock fryers at 21 to 23 cents. A few heavy hens quoted at 24 cents. Butter prices also noted.
Wheat totals show 33 cars with declines across grades from No 2 hard red to No 3. No 2 red wheat at 1.7754 to 1.80. Corn 231 cars with mixed moves. No 2 white to No 3 prices range 1.30 to 1.37. Oats listed with minimal data and no mill run. Soybeans at 3.1474 to 3.25, sacked bran and shorts prices noted.
Grain bids show No 2 red and hard wheat at 1.76 and 1.76 a bushel. Corn No 2 yellow at 1.31. Oats No 2 heavy white 75. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3.23. Wheat down to 1.71. Corn steady to lower at 1.27. Oats flat at 68. Rye down to around 1.21. Soybeans up about 4 percent to 3.21 for July.
Wall Street held steady after another bout of profit taking with active trading. Volume reached about 6.8 million shares, down from 7.6 million on Monday, as glamour stocks especially airlines recovered from early losses and gained, with Pan American, American, and Eastern rising over one point.
Summer session classes started with a record 4 575 persons enrolled and about 5 500 expected. Lawrence campus accounts for 3 955 with 620 at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, up 146 from 1965.
In Manhattan Kansas Dr E M Gerritz dean of admissions and records predicts about 3500 on campus students for the summer session a gain of 250 students or about seven percent from last year classes began today at Kansas State University
At the Methodist District conference in Topeka June 6 to 10 Reverend Duff D Wagoner was returned to Chanute First Methodist Church. Reverend Gene Taylor Humboldt moves to Girard and is replaced by Charles Minsch from Wathena. Reverend Ron Bumstead transfers to Frankfort.
Requiem mass for Mrs Eva Idell Strubhart was held at St Patrick's Church this morning at 10 o'clock with Rev Vincent Brown officiating. Flowers were arranged by Carl Breiner and Floyd Sallee. bearers included Breiner Sallee Bemmer Burtch Lassman Osburn and others. Burial followed at St Joseph's Cemetery Humboldt under Johnson Mortuary direction.
Don Buster issued a police court summons to Floyd Cushman for allowing a dog to run at large after a post office report that the dog bit mail carrier Ted Gorrell. Other items note a fender bender on downtown streets, visits by residents to relatives, a Palm Springs fire department promotion, travels to Galveston and Houston, a class reunion plan, and a camping event by Safari Chapter at Fall River Lake with local hosts.
Admissions and births at Neosho memorial Hospital include Rev Harry Miller Buffalo. Mrs Millard Morgan 1705 S Highland. Mrs Fred Bishop Yates Center. Jerald Fogle 1431 S Katy. Mrs Hattie Epperson 314 N Lincoln. plus John Kinney Humboldt Jr Ray 23 N Tennessee and others. Birth today to Paul and wife at 1105 N Garfield a daughter. Dismissals list several local residents. Fire run at Lincoln and Main for a car. Police and highway patrol citations for various driving offenses with fines listed.
A list of citations includes no driver’s license charges with fines of 15 plus 5 costs and 5 plus 5 costs for failing to yield. Stop sign violations result in 10 plus 5 costs. Overload trucking fined 229.20 plus 5 costs. Reckless driving reduced from DWI with 50 plus costs. Inadequate muffler and additional license violations noted with small fines. Names include Robert G. Babcock and Arden I. Moore among others.
Kansas traffic death log lists 24 hours ending 9 am Tuesday with 1 fatality for June 18 1966, compared to 3 fatalities in the comparable 1965 period. record shows a steady pattern of fatalities in Topeka.
Instructions urge readers to reach their Tribune contact via phone if unavailable during business hours. If the primary line is unreachable, use HE 41 3400 after 6 pm. The note emphasizes after hours dialing to connect with the carrier.
The Chanute Tribune lists subscription prices for local and mailed territories and notes staff roles including Dwight McCreight publisher and John Hovorka news editor. It explains carrier and post office box rates and mentions AP membership and circulation auditing.
Warren G. Phillips of Chanute was elected president and Robert E. Taylor of Chanute vice president of Local Union 718. Lawrence E. Noakes of Erie was reelected business manager and financial secretary, with C. F. Dixon of Parsons as treasurer. New two year terms begin July 1.
Army Spec. 4 Willie Cole Jr. of Wichita Kansas was killed in action in Vietnam, the Defense Department said Monday. He was married to Mrs. Billie F. Cole.
Ed Lewis once known as Strangler in professional wrestling has made his home in Tulsa Oklahoma and is now blind.
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