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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1966
Page
2
Kansas City livestock market reports cattle 7,000 head with steadier steers and mixed hogs and sheep activity. Feeder steers top 28.00 21.00, hogs barrows and gilts 20.75 24.25, sows 17.50 19.00, spring lambs up 50, and May futures show higher grain and soybean quotes.
U S cat prices for hogs cattle calves and sheep shown with ranges by grade weight and class including boars sows and stags. Veal and cow values listed with quality distinctions and pull bulls and breeding stock priced. Regional market data reflect grain fed and stocker classes with various weight bands and quality levels.
In Kansas City the wholesale egg market lists large eggs at 80 per cent A 30 to 32, mediums at 80 per cent A 27 to 29. Butter holds steady with Grade A quarters at 74 and Grade A solid at 73 per pound.
Chicago markets report live poultry unchanged to up two cents with roasters 27 1/2 to 29 1/2 cents per pound and white rock fryers at 21 to 22 cents. Butter remains steady with AA 93 score at 62 1/4, A 92 at 62 1/4, B 90 at 61 1/2, C 89 at 60. Eggs are barely steady with grade A whites at 31, 70 percent or better.
Chicago traders saw No 2 hard wheat and No 2 red wheat both rise about 1.63 percent while corn values ranged with No 2 yellow about 1.31 percent and soybean prices up around 3.01 percent.
Margaret Youngberg Edna Lindquist and Reba Chandler Chanute Production Credit Assn staff attended a training conference at the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Wichita to review operating procedures. The bank funds PCA lending in four area states and PCA loans to farmers and ranchers totaled over 3.3 million dollars outstanding as of May 6.
Wheat gains across classes with No 2 dark hard around 1.68 to 1.73 dollars per bushel and No 2 red at 1.64 to 1.70 as corn rises to about 1.33 to 1.38 per bushel. Oats and Milo values edge higher with soybeans near 2.93 to 3.04 and bundled feeds around 44.50 to 47.25.
Market report lists Egg grades with prices from 27 to 20 cents and current receipts at 23 cents. Dairy items include Sweet Cream at 0.52, Cream premium at 0.48, and No 2 Cream. Hides priced at 10 cents per pound.
The market pared sharp declines late in the session with about 10.3 million shares traded versus 13.1 million Friday. Key stocks fell fractions to several points, dragging averages lower in another big setback. Corporate bonds held steady while U S Treasury bonds rose.
In Jerusalem during Holy Week 1966 an estimated six tons of can dies were burned by candlemakers. The usual Easter candle there is a cluster of 33 yellow or white tapers, many of which are half melted.
The Chanute Tribune lists staff positions including Dwight McCreight as publisher and Dwight Wallingford as news editor. It notes AP content rights granting republication exclusivity for local news and AP dispatches.
Ed Glover reported a missing power saw from his garage. Richard K. White was cited east of Chanute for driving left of center and failing to stop. he posted a 30 bond. Donna Stanislaus cut her chin when biking into a parked car at 6th and Highland. taillight damage reported by Jim Bedenbender. Betty Earnest visited from Independence Mo to weekend with her parents. Barbara Jones and Larry Hummer from Manhattan spent the weekend with the Hummers of R. 4.
In Indianapolis an 18 year old high school girl Lorna Kay Wilson was killed by her father Jack Wilson after he awoke to a noise in the kitchen. He fired his shotgun thinking a burglar was entering as his daughter cried Daddy before collapsing.
Chief Justice Earl Warren urged the Jewish Theological Seminary to establish an Institute on Law and Ethics to study how ethics influence law and how law shapes ethics. He questioned war's impact on morality and asked why violence surged two decades after World War II.
In St Patrick’s gym Thursday evening eight Brownie Girl Scouts of Troop 171 received Brownie wings and Girl Scout pins at a fly up ceremony led by Troop 113. Rebecca Williams Monica Kneeland Jody Barker Lori Ellis Patricia Barnhart Jackie Sander Karen Marks Tammy Wood were named for the awards as the program opened with a flag ceremony and welcoming speeches by Debra Greve Leann Mugrage Aimee Guinotte and Mary Keys. A choral reading on scouting values and laws was presented by Troop 133 followed by group singing with assistances from Mrs. Charles Berthot Jr. A J Busse and Paul Fickel.
The annual session of the Supreme White Shrine of Jerusalem was held in Buffalo New York May 2 3 and 4. Attendees from the Golden Shrine of Chanute included Mr and Mrs Don C Beach Mr and Mrs Harry Kennedy Mr and Mrs Charles Leavitt Mrs Inez Bray and Mrs Bert Hargrove. About six thousand members from the United States and Canada attended.
In Wichita the Redeemer Lutheran Church judo program attracts teens and adults up to 45 years old. Instructor Earl Bemis says women especially enjoy strenuous defensive judo and can throw much heavier opponents. He notes the class aims to keep youths off the streets and is the country’s only church sponsored judo class.
19 year old Gary Cook of Florissant plunged 60 feet from a railroad trestle into 4 feet of water as a Norfolk and Western train bore down near Wentzville Missouri. He suffered a possible fracture of the left leg but survived.
Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen voiced strong support for Senator James B. Pearson of Kansas at a rally in Overland Park and Shawnee Mission East High School. He praised Pearson as a team player who diligently serves constituents and votes his convictions.
Daniel C. Williams an outpatient at Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital was arrested Saturday on intoxication charges and suspicion of passing bad checks. He posted 15 dollars bond and made restitution for two checks of five and ten dollars cashed at Rubow's Market.
Linna Marie Hunter of Denver died Sunday after a six month illness. Born February 29, 1888 in Leanna she was a stenographer and teacher, educated at Chanute Business College. Survived by sisters Clara Tyler and Maude LaSalle. brothers preceded in death. Funeral arrangements are pending with Johnson Mortuary.
Weekly hospital brief lists admissions on Saturday and Sunday including Mrs. Albert Zillner and several others with medical and surgical cases. Births reported for a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ortiz and a boy to Mrs. Arnold Elder. Dismissals and additional notices cover local residents and a fire run at Clarence Crews property. Police court action cites John R. Stout with a $10 bond posted for disturbing peace.
Police cited Charles Ballou III, 17, of 519 N Highland for failing to yield after his 1958 Pontiac hit Carl Kirkpatrick 24, of 1311 S Evergreen who stopped to turn left. Damages estimated at 150 and 100 dollars. A second crash near Main and Highland involved Nancy Drybread and Dave Carnahan with similar front to rear damage as Drybread stopped for a traffic light.
Garden Plain, Kan. Fire destroyed a gasoline service station Sunday. Owner Ollie Erker estimated damage between 12000 and 16000 dollars.
Cold gray weather spread across the northern half of the nation with below freezing readings from Duluth to Green Bay. The cold air mass pushed south into the Texas Panhandle and Ohio Valley, while showers and thundershowers dotted the coast from Texas to New Jersey and the Carolinas to Florida. Temperatures ranged from 21 in Duluth to 80 in El Paso.
Leamona HS Unit met Friday at Mrs. Harry Briley’s home. Nine members and two children attended as the presiding president Mrs. Lyle Meyer and Mrs. Ralph Reinhardt reported on the district meeting. The lesson titled Meals and Money was presented by Mrs. Briley and refreshments were served.
Abilene Kansas hosts May 22 charity horse races to fund college for Louise Ryan an 18 year old trainer paralyzed last year when a mount bled and rolled. Riders from Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma compete at Eisenhower Park with all net proceeds going to a college fund at a local bank. Thoroughbreds quarter horses stock horses and ponies race in various events.
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