Kansas City Livestock Market Report
AP notes cattle and hog prices with modest moves across classes. Calves, steers, cows and heifers show varied steadiness while feeder steers and hogs shift slightly. lambs and ewes also move with steady trends.
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1968
Page
2
AP notes cattle and hog prices with modest moves across classes. Calves, steers, cows and heifers show varied steadiness while feeder steers and hogs shift slightly. lambs and ewes also move with steady trends.
AP notes butter prices steady with AA 93 at 66, A 92 at 66, B 89 at 64.4, C 89 at 61. Eggs hold or dip slightly with grade A whites around 3 percent, mixed 30, mediums 26. Live poultry mostly unchanged to down 2, roasters 25-27, red white rock fryers 20-22.
Livestock price ranges include Parson s hogs with multiple weight classes and sows, cattle categories from grain fed steers to yearling stockers, veals, cows and bulls, plus sheep. Prices are given per head or per hundredweight and cover utility, good, choice, and inferior grades across hogs cattle sheep and bulls. Numerous weight and quality distinctions appear throughout the tabulated values.
Wall Street opened with strong gains as trading volume rose on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow added about 13 points early, later trimming to a 9 point advance at noon while the Associated Press index rose 2 points to 305.2. Analysts credited international bankers steps to calm the gold crisis and reinforcing economic data for the broad market rally.
Morris L. Fuchs, a real estate operator, died in a furnace accident after leaning into the firebox to inspect an oil burner. He reportedly kicked the ignition switch and was drawn into the furnace. his bones were recovered from the firebox.
Public notice directs readers to contact their Tribune phone service via their carrier and, if unreachable, to dial HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. for assistance. The advisory emphasizes alternative contact after normal hours.
The federal prison system saw the sharpest youth commitment rise in its history and the average inmate age fell from 29.5 to 28.5 years by year end 1967. Longer sentences and more draft law, narcotics, and robbery convictions helped push total population higher.
Pfc. Eduardo Jimenez 19 died March 8 in Quang Tri Vietnam after graduating Humboldt High School in 1967 and enlisting June 26 1967. He is survived by his parents two sisters a brother and maternal grandmother. funeral 10 am Wednesday at St Josephs Humboldt. Burial in St Josephs Cemetery with rosary tonight and Tuesday. Mrs Laura Freeman 75 Moran died Saturday at Pinecrest Rest Home Humboldt born January 2 1893 in Colorado married Levi Freeman in 1928. survivors include two sons two sisters and six grandchildren. Funeral 10 am Tuesday Moran Baptist Church. Burial Moran Cemetery. Ralston Hutton Funeral Home Moran in charge.
Five Chanute VFW Auxiliary members attended the third district meeting in Parsons with Department President ElVere Cunningham making an official visit. Other attendees included district senior vice president Dottie Jones presiding and Mmes. I. O. Minniear Howard Dobson John Oglesbee Tom Slater and Dorothy Rauhoff. Weekend visitors to area residents included Kansas City couples Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walters and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lemaster and Diana El Dorado. Ar kansas City visitors Mr. and Mrs. Bok Uden Dale and Danny. and Airman 1C Jeffrey Edmondson son of McConnell AFB Wichita who recently returned from Iceland. Joseph E. Oswald CPA was elected a member of the American Institute of CPAs. Weekend guests of the Thielens included Dr. John Thielen Katherine Thielen and others from Fonda Iowa Wichita Fort Scott and Altoona. Mrs. Viola Ramsey of Salinas California returned home after a 19 day visit with relatives in Erie Savonburg and surrounding areas.
Kansas lawmakers' voting record on recent Senate roll calls shows votes on civil rights, housing discrimination, Headstart funding, tax exemptions on municipal bonds, and gold stock measures. Senators Carlson and Pearson cast multiple for and against positions, with several members not voting on key motions and amendments.
About 10 000 protesters clashed with police outside the U S Embassy in Grosvenor Square as 220 rioters faced criminal charges. More than 80 officers were injured and 28 hospitalized as unruly crowds fought for 55 minutes leading to arrests and bail. In Europe further protests occurred in Nuernberg Stockholm and Paris with various incidents and no injuries reported.
Daily Transcript reports Neosho Memorial Hospital visiting hours 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 30 to 8 p.m. census 66 adults and pediatrics and five babies. Saturday admissions Michael Kent Dunlap and Mrs Roy D Johnson. Births include twins to Mr and Mrs Donnie K Howell. Dismissals feature multiple patients including Ervin Brune and Myra Smith. Sunday and Monday admissions and births listed with names and addresses. Police actions note littering and driving citations with bonds.
David Lohrentz of Buhler died at the scene of a grass fire that burned for hours and stretched five miles along the Harvey-Reno county line. The death was attributed to a heart attack.
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