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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1964
Page
2
Livestock prices show mixed movement with cattle steady to weak and hogs broadly higher. Slaughter steers 19.25 to 20.25, cows 12.75 to 13.7, barrows and gilts 14.25 to 15.75, sows 12.00 to 14.00, lambs weak to 25 lower with spring lambs 22.00 to 23.50, ewes 4.00 to 5.00, veal calves 25.00 to 28.00.
Market quotes list U S hogs with grades and weights from 180 to 270 pounds and prices 8.00 to 15.00 per cwt. Cattle and calves show steady trends with grain fed steers and heifers 600-700 pounds at 19.50 to 20.00 and other grades from 16.00 to 26.00 per cwt based on weight and quality. Prime to commercial categories for yearlings and calves appear at 18.00 to 28.00 per cwt with varied price bands.
In Kansas City, consumer eggs medium A 22-24 cents per dozen, other grades steady. Wholesale large 80 cents, mediums 80 cents, with A price ranges 27-28 and 23-24 for various grades. Poultry and butter unchanged.
AP dispatch from Chicago notes live poultry steady to one cent higher. Roasters quoted at 24 to 26 cents per pound, special red white rock fryers 18 to 19, barred rock fryers 21, heavy type hens 18.
Chicago commodities report shows No 1 yellow corn at 1.29 1/2, No 2 yellow 1.29 1/2, oats No 2 heavy white 66 4n, No 2 extra heavy white 66 1/2, soybeans No 1 yellow 2.52 4n. Wheat near unchanged, July at 1.48 5/8, oats July 62 1/2 cents, rye 1 1/2 higher, soybeans July 2. -1/2, July soybeans 2.48 5/4.
Wall Street end of day trading shows moderate activity with about 4.8 million shares. Fractions to 2 point gains appear among leading issues as airlines motors retail chemicals tobacco drugs and building materials rise after recent declines. Corporate bonds mix and government bonds hold steady.
Wheat and corn futures hold near previous levels with thin activity noted. Prices for No 2 hard red winter wheat range around 2.24 to 2.43 per unit while corn bids sit near 1.30 to 1.40 for No 2 white and 1.24 to 1.38 for No 3. Rice and soybeans show minor movements with oats and rye also listed. Phone contact information for Tribune subscriptions included.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars post installed officers for the coming year led by Melvin Webb as commander and Herbert Schmitt as senior vice commander. Don Wilson is junior vice commander with Warren Fitch as quartermaster and others serving in key posts. Webb succeeds Lee Montgomery as commander with past leaders in attendance.
Two cars collide on the Brown Wells dam road northeast of town around 5 30 p m. Homer Coble 24 of 310 E 15th and Knute Erickson 57 of 201 N Steuben drove north and south respectively with damage to left front fenders. Alfred Brown 1101 N Steuben a passenger in Erickson s car was fined 15 dollars for intoxication.
John Gorton was named chairman of the Neosho county Dairy Princess contest at a Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee meeting today. The winner of the contest will be announced later.
Kenneth B. Sharp president of the Kansas Rural School Association will speak Saturday night at 8 p.m. in Petrolia about House Bill No. 377 and school unification. All interested are invited.
The Chanute Recreation Commission announced a summer band program with three bands: grade school, junior high and adult. Pre registration runs via public and parochial schools with a May 27 deadline. Adult band meets evenings at the junior high location and concerts will be at Central Park pavilion.
A local display features about one hundred varieties of tearoses including floribundas and grandifloras inviting public viewing. Mitchell Motor Co reports theft of four wheel covers from a 1957 Mercury in its used car lot, believed taken Saturday night. A Civil Defense meeting on communications and warning alerts was held at division highway offices with attendees including Ralph Toland Chanute Civil Defense director Capt L R Hassall division highway patrol commander Chief of Police Lige Matlock and Sheriff George Neely. Police obtain tentative ID from Kansas Bureau of Investigation for a man who passed fraudulent checks. suspect is an ex convict with a lengthy record, whereabouts unknown.
Rt Rev Msgr Mathias J Gorges pastor of Holy Name Catholic church Coffeyville died Monday afternoon at the rectory from a heart attack. He was born April 10 1903 at Colwich and ordained May 21 1932 at St Marys Cathedral Wichita. He served at Augusta Piqua and St Patrick Chanute before becoming Coffeyville dean in 1956. Funeral arrangements include a solemn pontifical requiem Friday at 11 am at Holy Name Church with an office for the dead at 10:30 and burial in Sacred Heart Cemetery Colwich.
Funeral services for Delbert N. Johnston were conducted at Johnson Mortuary with Dr. Duff Wagoner officiating. S D Propst and Mrs. Hazel Slane sang two hymns as honorary bearers and active pallbearers from Buffalo supported the service. Graveside rites were by the Buffalo Masonic Lodge, with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mrs Carroll H Christmas offers bookkeeping mimographing secretarial stenography and notary services at 211 West Main Chanute contact HE 1 3210 or residence HE 1 0341 for quick reliable clerical work.
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