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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1961
Page
2
Kansas City market shows cattle steady with varied price moves across classes. Hogs rise modestly while sheep and lambs hold steady amid mixed feeder and stocker values and grain market notes.
Across Kansas City and Chicago exchanges, wholesale eggs show mixed levels with large and medium sizes varying by grade. Consumer egg prices in Kansas City run mostly in the high twenties per dozen. poultry prices list various weights and types from heavy hens to capons. Butter prices hold steady with Chicago and New York quotes. stock market losses deepen in slow trade, with key indicators and bonds down. Live poultry and grain prices in Kansas City reflect broadly lower to mixed movements in futures and spot markets.
Grace Episcopal Church reports no services on Wednesday or Thursday this week. The item lists Father’s Day visits and family gatherings across several households including the Markleys of 905 Central Street, Offutt Air Force Base personnel, and local residents visiting relatives in Paola Iola Lawrence and Topeka.
The Supreme Court ruled that a labor union may not use a member’s dues for political objectives he opposes. The decision overruled a Georgia Supreme Court ruling that the union shop provision of the Railway Labor Act violates workers rights. Justice Brennan delivered the majority. Frankfurter and Black dissented with Harlan joining in that dissent.
Kansas City Starlight Theater begins its summer season at Swope Park with Destry Rides Again a musical comedy. Dick Shawn stars as Tom Destry and Elizabeth Allen plays Frenchy in the first of nine productions this season.
Daily Transcript notes admissions on Saturday for Randall Wickster Earlton surgery Ray Vining at 1211 W Oak medical Paul Lowe 1002 N Lafayette medical. Dismissals Saturday Angelo Romanazi Pittsburg. Birth Saturday Mr and Mrs James Newman Humboldt a boy. Admissions Sunday Janie Reeves 201 N Garfield surgery George S Smith Yates Center surgery Ernest Settlemyer Yates Center medical Jessie Gager Thayer surgery Sean Haugsness 10 FE 1th medical. Dismissals Sunday Mrs Oma Freeman Eric Mrs Bill Frieder ich 637 St Ashby Randall Wickster Eric Mrs Melvin Allen 17'2
Obituaries highlight Mrs H J Neptune and several local residents from Chanute Humboldt and nearby towns. Services include the Neptune and Barnett families with Elmwood and St Joseph Cemeteries noted. Additional notices cover Willard Gray Edwin Lowe Ray McFarland Mary Naff Hugo Strubhart and relatives with church services and burial details. Names include Neptune McCowan Barnett Lowe McFarland Naff Strubhart plus towns Chanute Humboldt Elsmore Erie Sedan Thayer and Topeka.
In Washington a House Agriculture subcommittee approved the Kennedy administration wheat proposal for 1962. It would set the price support level at $2 a bushel, about 33 percent of parity, with a 10 percent cut in planting and potential added reductions up to 30 percent. The panel split along party lines 7-5.
In New Orleans fifteen Freedom Riders from Berkeley depart for Jackson, Mississippi to challenge segregated bus terminals. The group, 11 whites and 4 Negroes, plans protests there after warnings of jail time, with police escort in New Orleans observing their arrival.
Rescue teams retrieved 23 bodies as the Strasbourg Paris express derailed, with 100 to 115 injured. A submerged car hampers searches, and officials at a nearby U.S. base reported inconsistent death and injury totals earlier. The crash ranks among France’s worst rail accidents in years.
An AP dispatch tells of a 188 room motel under construction in Kansas City near Quality Hill as a 100 mile per hour electric locomotive derailed, sending 10 coaches off the rails in the downtown ward. The incident disrupted tracks and halted trains as crews assessed the wreckage.
Negotiators in the maritime strike faced sharper divides amid charges of attempted bribery and divisive tactics. The run away flag issue blocks settlement as over 85,000 crewmen across seven unions are involved and more than 100 ships are immobilized in ports.
Officials probing the rail disaster in an adjoining ravine found no immediate explanation for the wreck and ruled out sabotage after examining the rails.
Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda left Tokyo for Washington for talks with President Kennedy on Far East issues. Police shielded his route as thousands cheered. Ikeda will press for Japan to gain more say on Okinawa and Southeast Asian aid while balancing ties with the United States and Red China.
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