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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1966
Page
2
AP reports cattle hogs sheep and calves trading with varying moves across weight classes. Wheat corn oats rye barley soybeans and by products show mixed pricing and futures notes in Kansas City wholesale market data.
Parsons market notes show varied bids across cattle hogs sheep and calves. Prices cover hogs at multiple weight classes, cattle including grain fed steers and heifers, cows calves stockers and feeders and veal, plus sheep with lambs and breeding ewes listed.
Wholesale eggs show large 80 per cent A 31-332 and mediums 80 per cent A 272-30. Butter price remains unchanged.
Chicago AP notes butter and eggs remained unchanged while live poultry prices held steady. A kitchen tip suggests melting processed cheddar with a splash of milk as a hot topping for apple pie, with hot serving likely enhancing flavor.
Wheat No 2 red and soybeans closed near day highs with May futures around 1.64 for wheat and 3.08 to 3.77 for soybeans. Corn rose about 1 cent with May around 1.28 to 1.29, oats and rye also finishing higher on the session.
Wall Street opened with a strong late rally but faltered after reports that the Agena satellite failed to reach orbit, dooming the Gemini 9 mission. Volume reached about 9.5 million shares with a late surge of buying then a selling downturn as prices stayed mostly higher before turning lower. Bonds remained largely unchanged.
Neosho Memorial Hospital reports admissions Monday including Matilda Shulte Thayer Anita Ford Humboldt Selma Sellegren Eric Ines Guad ian 906 S Steuben and Sam Willis 121 S Tennessee medical with dismissals Charles Pribbernow Humboldt. Later admissions list Guy Farrow 511 W 2nd Madaline Compton 802 N Grant Lon Seaman R 3 surgery Mrs Floyd Smith 521 N Washington Ned H Allen 905 S Malcolm medical. Dismissals include Leah Mitchell 314 S Central Kenneth Wilson Topeka and Dennis Baker and son 303 W 3rd ADD 6PT Transcript Police Court actions involve Dennis Oliphant and Marion Oliphant with bonds posted Kenneth J Wilson Topeka intoxication. Recent moves show residents shifting addresses and building permits issued for a room addition and an office expansion. Highway patrol citations list multiple speeding cases with varied fines. Fire run logged at 11:45 p.m. 123 E Main for an electric meter issue.
Instructions advise calling your Tribune phone or, if unavailable, dialing HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m. to reach the carrier. The note emphasizes contact methods and after hours access.
Mrs Russell Page attended a Kansas Republican State Committee fundraising dinner honoring Richard Nixon at Hotel Lassen in Wichita. She joined a private reception at the Wichita Club after the event and took part in a county chairmen workshop led by Oliver Hughes.
Emery O Olson 81 of Erie died this morning at Labette County Medical Center Parsons after a month as patient. He was vice president of Olson Mercantile Co a southeast Kansas grocery chain. Survived by wife Beulah, son Eugene Olson Lafayette LA daughter Aurel Lee Ladd Boulder CO brother A B Olson Allen KS and four grandchildren. One son Stanley was killed in World War II. Funeral home in Erie handling arrangements.
B F McAllester of Wichita died Sunday evening. Survived by widow Imogene Wheeler of Chanute. Funeral service Wednesday at 2 pm at Culbertson Mortuary in Wichita.
Funeral service held at First Christian Church with Rev. Bert Sutton officiating. Mrs. Dale Stemple and Mrs. Dave Petterson sang two hymns. Honorary bearers listed as Neal McCoy, Harry Rash, Thayer, and Scott Phillips. Active bearers included Bill Cochran, Johnnie Williams, George Lightfoot, Jim Lightfoot, Webb Marks, Bill Johnson, Ray Smith and Verne Holman. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery under Johnson Mortuary.
Monte K. Saxton, 35, was ordered held without bond for district court trial in September on a first degree murder charge. Judge Richard P. Senecal ruled after a preliminary hearing with 17 witnesses. He is accused in the hatchet slaying of neighbor Mary J. Ogle, 70, at her Horton area home on April 8.
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday May 19 1966. Figures compare with May 1965 and 1966 totals showing shifts in fatalities.
Louis W. Hansen aged 83 of Greenleaf sustained fatal injuries Monday when his car collided with a gravel truck at a county road intersection northeast of Greenleaf. Police identified him as the victim in the accident and ongoing investigation follows.
Police arrested Steve Brooks on a misdemeanor assault and battery charge after a complaint by Mrs. H. K. Rush alleging he struck her son Kenneth at the Eight Ball bar. Brooks was released without bond to appear in police court tomorrow.
Howard and Mrs Arthur Solomon, once Chanute residents now back from Hawaii, observed their 25th anniversary in Honolulu on May 4. Mrs Ray Hutchison of 125 N Forest reports theft of six or seven one dollar bills and seven silver dollars from her home while away.
Members of the Sweet Ade lines chorus the Honey Bees and Tioga Tones Quartets gave a 45 minute program at a reception honoring Arm and Bishop retiring worthy grand patron of CBS in Parsons last night.
Lt Col Marion W Manion of Topeka finished the 18 week associate course on May 13 at Fort Leavenworth. The program primes officers for command and general staff duties in divisions or logistics commands and for general staff tasks at corps and Army levels. Manion, son of Mrs Elvira M Manion of Humboldt, serves with the Headquarters Detachment, Kansas Army National Guard.
Mrs Floyd Kelley of 122 N Steuben attended the state postmasters convention in Dodge City from Thursday through Sunday.
A Mexican Superior Court increased Sharon Kinne S 13 year term for simple homicide in the 1964 Mexico City hotel room death of Francisco Parades Ordenez. She had appealed her Oct 18 conviction and also faced charges of wounding a motel clerk and attempted robbery. The court reversed the robbery verdict but kept the extended sentence.
William E. Montgomery of Syracuse Grand Master of Masons in Kansas will visit Savonburg Virginia Lodge No. 315 on June 2 to present 50 year pins. An open meeting at the Masonic Hall in Savonburg begins at 8 p.m. Montgomery, 58, became the 97th Grand Master at Topeka on March 10.
The Kansas State Council of the Knights of Columbus, meeting in Wichita, urged an end to all discrimination, especially in housing. Dr Leo Rongers of Hanover was elected state deputy, succeeding Victor A Wasinger. Donald Dreiling became state secretary and Marvin K Steinmetz state advocate. Two officers were re elected: John Lane and Robert Pudden.
North to south the Golden Isles of Guale stretch about 100 miles off Georgia’s coast. Included are Ossabaw St. Catherines Sapelo St. Simons Sea Island Jekyll and Cumberland.
The Chanute Tribune lists staff roles and advertising contacts. It details subscription rates for readers in and outside the trade area and Chanute post office boxholders. The paper notes association with the Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Police reported a minor two car collision at Lincoln and Elm as H E Elliott’s 1965 Chevrolet bumped the Kuhns 1956 Ford. Earlier, David Shields faced a careless driving charge after his car hit a curb and a traffic sign near Evergreen. A parked 1964 Chevrolet at Alcorn plant sustained about 100 dollars in damage from an unknown vehicle.
The defense department named three Missourians and one Kansan killed in Vietnam. They are Army Sgt. Vincent Q Rodriguez of Junction City Kansas. Army Staff Sgt. Blanchard W. Cochran of Brentwood Missouri. Marine Cpl. Curtis L. Watson Jr. of Richmond Heights Missouri. and Marine Pfc. Tommy R. White of Kennett Missouri.
A Santa Fe mother of about 25 died after eating poisonous hemlock found in a Pecos Mountains cave. She reportedly ate part of a plant bulb with her father-in-law John T. Watson saying she ate it on Sunday. The husband also became ill after eating some of the hemlock.
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