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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1966
Page
2
AP market notes show cattle and hogs with flexible prices. Cattle calves and heifers mixed as cows steady, feeders strong. hogs steady to higher with 200 to 240 lb barrows and gilts at 23.00 to 25.00, sows 17.25 to 18.75. sheep lambs steady with lambs at 27.00 and ewes at 7.50. Grain futures quoted with oats, rye, and soybeans mixed.
AP dispatch from Kansas City notes wholesale egg prices with large size at 80 percent A 31 33 per cent, mediums at 80 percent A 28 30 and butter prices unchanged.
Chicago traders report butter steady and eggs mostly unchanged with small declines noted in certain grades. Prices show 70 percent or better Grade A whites at 31, mixed at 31, mediums 29 1/2, standards 30.
A fragmented price list shows various egg grades and dairy items with unit prices. Entries include Grade A Extra Large eggs, Grade A Large and Medium, Grade B Large, Grade C, current receipts, Sweet Cream, premium cream, and hides priced per pound. The legible items indicate a typical mercantile market ledger style with numeric price figures for different goods.
Chicago Wheat and corn prices show slight shifts with No 2 hard at 1.62, No 2 red at 1.62, No 2 yellow corn around 1.30, and soybeans around 3.03. Wheat ends 2 to 2.5 cents lower, corn up about 4 to 1.5 cents. May values cited.
Baker University English professor Dr Carrol Mc Laughlin will address 18 Midway High School graduates at commencement May 17 in the Midway Auditorium. Eight grade diplomas for 33 students will also be awarded. baccalaureate is May 15 with Rev Otis Beach speaking.
Wheat and corn prices shown for 41 cars and 492 cars traded with varying grades. No 2 hard and dark hard Wheat ranged 1.66 to 1.71 dollars per bushel, No 3 1.61 to 1.89, while No 2 white corn hovered around 1.33 to 1.38. Soybeans traded 2.94 to 3.05 per bushel. sacked bran 44.50 to 45.25. sacked shorts 46.50 to 47.25. Oats and rye noted with small ranges.
A selling squall hit the market driving averages to new 1966 lows before steadying slightly in light trading. Daily volume was about 10.2 million shares versus 9.74 million the prior day, while corporate and U.S. Treasury bonds remained largely unchanged.
David Daniel Smith aged 67 died in an early Thursday fire that heavily damaged his Kansas City home. Fire damage is estimated at 550 dollars and the cause remains undetermined.
Prairie View Center Grove Ladies Aid met at Mrs Francis Butts home for a dinner honoring birthdays in the first half of the year. Honorees included Mines Myrtle Wrestler Ruby Whitaker Edna Barnett Doris Wilhite Hazel Palet and Leona Lassman. Betty Stoll unable to attend. Other members present were Florence Hoepker Hazel White Pearl Lassman Norma Daniels Fay Osborn Minnie Barnett. The group will meet with Mrs Stoll May 4. John and Bill Ellis visited Roy Charles and Larry Barnett Saturday afternoon. Kenneth Bartlett Earl and Larry called at the Francis Barnett home Sunday morning.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes will honor Ernie Mehl at its 11th anniversary dinner in Kansas City on May 16. Mehl former sports editor of the Kansas City Star and a director of FCA. Board members Bob Pettit and Carl Erskine will take part in the affair.
Officers of Cecil J Meeker post VFW were installed for the coming year at the regular meeting Tuesday night. Commander Ray Moriarty and others named include Louis Berman senior vice commander Jim Davis junior vice commander John N Sherman post advocate Dr Don Abbuehl post surgeon Waldo Ogden three year trustee Tom Ogden two year trustee John Curtis chaplain and Warren Fitch quartermaster. Terms begin after the state convention June 10 to 12 in Salina. Installing officer was Harry Johnson Jr. Don Wilson reported the post set an all time membership high at 635.
Republican Sen. John J. Williams asserts the United States is rationing bombs in Viet Nam and accuses the Johnson administration of letting the war deteriorate during the 1964 campaign. He cites shortages and questions why Goldwater’s proposals were harshly attacked then adopted after the election.
Boulder Colorado Chuck Gardner star of Colorado basketball has been named winner of the Alumni Club award for 1966. The Yardley Pa senior led the Big Eight in scoring and set a University single game record with 42 points. He posted a .524 shooting percentage the highest for a Buffalo cager. Gardner is the first CU player to win the trophy since Ken Charlton in 1963.
The Chanute Tribune details publication info and staff including Dwight McCreight as publisher and John Hovorka as news editor. Subscription rates are listed for mail in trade territory and outside, with Chanute post office boxholders and carrier options also shown.
Dallas AP report says the Consultation on Church Union neared approval of a charter of principles uniting eight denominations with over 24 million members. The plan calls for an inclusive expression of church oneness and emphasizes ongoing voting to finalize guidelines. Denominations include Episcopal, Methodist, United Presbyterian, Presbyterian Church in the U S A, Southern Church, EUB, Disciples of Christ, AME, and United Church of Christ.
Wednesday admissions include Ri ta Serrato and Anna Ekstrom with medical entries and Harvie Green, Robert Jones, Susie Masters. A birth records a boy born to Mr and Mrs Jerry Tallent. dismissals list multiple residents. Admissions today include Thelma Granger and James F. Davis with surgery for the latter. A girl is born to Wayne James. District court filing in Chanute, plus police actions and a fire run at 11 59 p m for a clothes closet fire at Thelma Granger’s apartment.
James Robert Cotton of Stark goes to Lackland AFB San Antonio for training in the mechanical career area. Robert E. Smith of Stark and Ronald E. Venus of 1014 S Rutter enlisted in the Air Force delayed program with active duty set for June. MSgt Dean A Wiggins said all enlistees are in the mechanical career field. Mary Kathryn Engelman of Buffalo earns national sophomore recognition with 41 new Owens members at Kansas State College Pittsburg.
The Do Si Do Square Dance Club at Alcott School canceled their scheduled Saturday night dance. Members are advised to note the postponement and await future event notices.
Dr. Forrest Junod of Philadelphia General Hospital visits his parents at 506 S. Ashby. Former Chanute Erie residents plan a May 5 basket dinner at Whittier Penn Park. R. O. Oliphant reports his car bent a parking meter post at 122 E Main. Clyde Tunnell reports theft of two drop cards from his truck at Chanute Speedway and seeing four youths in a Montgomery County car. authorities are checking.
Fred Ellison of 221 S. Kansas filed a police report last night describing a backing pickup incident. The report notes(Fred Ellison) as the principal subject with the event details continuing in police records.
Dr. John Irwin director of UW speech and hearing clinics will join the University of Kansas in September as Roy A Roberts professor of speech pathology and audiology. The chair, funded in 1958 by Roy A Roberts KU alumnus and newspaper executive, carries a regular salary plus $100 000 endowment income.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The space agency plans to launch a 495 pound satellite next Wednesday packed with experiments to probe the upper atmosphere. The Atmospheric Explorer will ride a Delta rocket into an egg shaped orbit from 750 to 170 miles up. The primary goal is to study chemical magnetic and electrostatic changes in the upper atmosphere and to assess short term disturbances from solar storm radiation.
New York City population fell two percent from 7,706,300 in 1960 to 7,558,500 in 1964. White residents dropped from 78 percent to 72 percent, while nearly half a million whites left the city and about 400,000 Puerto Ricans and non whites arrived.
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A truck struck and damaged the front of a 1962 Volkswagen at Chanute Speedway. The pickup is reported owned by Ace High Exploration. The driver's name was not obtained.
The U S 1st Air Cavalry Division reports killing about 100 Viet Cong and trapping 300 to 400 more in a valley 11 miles north of Bong Son, with 30 Viet Cong captured and 268 suspects seized as two rings of troops lined the high ground. B 52 bombers hit a Viet Cong stronghold near the Cambodian border for the fifth day, while Stratofortress aircraft attacked an arms factory and training area northwest of Saigon.
Opal Franklin hosted Beta Delta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha in Humboldt with president Mrs. Clifford Lukenbill presiding as new officers for the year were elected Peggy Conway became president with Mrs Estle Bake as vice president Mary Lou Conway as recording secretary Mrs Robert Taylor as treasurer Reports on the state convention in Hutchinson were given by Mrs Bake and Peggy Conway The lesson Managing Our Money was given by Alice Boecker A breakfast observing ESA week was announced for Saturday morning at the Tioga Hotel.
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