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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1968
Page
2
AP dispatch from Kansas City shows cattle numbers at 1,000 with calves 200, insufficient for a price test. Hogs total 4,000 with bids down 25 cents. various weight ranges quoted from 18.25 to 19.50. Sheep 400 head with lambs steady and ewes steady to 50 higher. spring lambs 28.25 and woolled lambs 24.50 to 25.50, other prices listed for cull and utility ewes.
Parsonshogs and cattle markets show varied bids for hogs, sows, and boars with weights from 180 to over 270 pounds. Cattle prices cover grain fed steers to yearlings, stocker calves, heifers, and veals with ranges from $19 to $33 per hundredweight and breeding stock values listed. Sheep fuel price bands for ewes and lambs, plus slaughter and breeding items noted.
Chicago AP listing shows live poultry roasters at 25 to 27 cents per pound and White Rock fryers at 20 to 22 cents. Butter steady with AA 93 score and various grades. eggs steady to firm with wholesale prices unchanged to up 2.5 percent across grades A whites at 32 cents, mixed 30, mediums 26, standards 25.
Chicago Wheat No 2 hard 1.60 No 2 soft red 1.5258 Corn No 2 yellow 1.14 Oats No 2 heavy white 8 Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.724 Soybean oil 9.20 The AP report converts the grain quotes into a brief price list form for traders.
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The Dow Jones at noon fell 2.61 to 40.61 while gold and silver shares advanced. Trading was active as bullion markets boosted mining stocks and silver hit record highs abroad and in the U S, despite weakness in blue chip issues. The AP average slipped 4 to 305.5 as industrials led declines.
Mrs. Carrie J. McNeal a former Chanute resident died Monday at Avon Convalescent Home Avon Connecticut She lived with her daughter Bertha Jane White in Newington for 15 years She is survived by daughter Mrs Sam Scribner of Independence son Harold G McNeal of 1401 Edith ten grandchildren and ten great grandchildren Her husband died about 14 years ago Funeral arrangements are incomplete
The funeral for Mrs. Fero Fay Daniels was conducted Tuesday afternoon in the First Methodist Church by Dr. Duff D. Wagoner. Clif ford Olson sang with Mrs. James Lusk on piano. Bearers included Dale Lakin Dale E. Daniels Gary E. Daniels all of Humboldt Stuart Elder Elvin Vliet and Cecil Crim. Burial followed at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Johnson Mortuary assisted.
Victor Clawson and daughter Barbara of Paola and Mrs. Robert Rice and daughter Les lie Ann of Welch Oklahoma visited Saturday to attend the wedding of Janice Umbarger and Dean Weber.
Danny R Barnhart son of Mr and Mrs Ray Barnhart left Monday for Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo California after a weekend visit with family and friends He served 13 months aboard a ship in the Vietnam combat zone and is returning to duty
Gerald Edwin Roberts, son of Mr and Mrs Gerald E Roberts of 313 N Washington, earned a bachelor of science from Kansas State Teachers College Emporia in January and is a 1963 Chanute High School graduate. Army Sp 4 Dennis D Moll now 21, son of Mr and Mrs Norbert G Mollnow of 423 S Steuben, is a helicopter maintenance specialist with the 20th Transportation Company near Cu Chi Viet Nam as of February 17. Local police report and vandalism incidents include a eye injury to a Chanute boy on Main Street and a mailbox knocked down at Beech and Western. A bicycle belonging to William W Davis's son was stolen from a West Cherry store lot.
Property next to Ford's Theatre is transferred to the National Park Service which already controls the boarding house across the street where Abraham Lincoln died.
Secretary Freeman warned two days remain for farmers to enroll in the feed grain idle program aimed at removing about 30 million acres of corn and sorghum from production. Through March 7, roughly 1.0 million farms signed to idle 15.4 million acres, with total signup closing March 15 and risk of continued low prices and possible overproduction.
Visiting hours listed at Neosh Memorial Hospital with patient census and Tuesday admissions including B H Sherbenou Alma Leadstrom and others. Births and discharges noted alongside Pence Court actions, building permits, patrol citations, and city court fines.
The Topeka AP traffic death log records 24 hours ending 9 am March 10 1968 with 105 fatalities versus 88 the prior year. It notes Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan as one of the oldest bases founded in 1917.
One million six hundred ninety one thousand wheat farmers signed to plant within government acreage allotments totaling 37.5 million acres. Total allotments for wheat and feed grains reach 59.2 million. Farmers must sign to be eligible for program payments, which could exceed 2.1 billion.
In Wichita O Willard Sage was elected head of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Kansas for 1968 69 at the 103rd annual convocation. More than 2000 Masons gathered for two weeks of meetings with the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Kansas and affiliated York Rite bodies.
A 15 year old driver Dan L Daily of Phillipsburg died when his car left the road near Kirwin Kansas and overturned Tuesday. Two passengers sustained injuries in the crash according to AP reporting.
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