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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1962
Page
2
Kansas City AP reports cattle calves and vealers mostly steady with vealers down, hogs mostly steady to lower, sows higher, sheep steady with good lambs up to 22.00. Egg and poultry markets show small shifts with wholesale eggs easing and butter unchanged.
Parson stockyards quotes list prices for hogs cattle veal sheep and bulls with steady trends across categories. Memorial Day closing noted May 30. New York AP reports a mixed late market with about 5.5 million shares traded and subdued pace after a brisk opening.
Yesterday admissions list Walter J. Lacey Jr. and others with addresses in Humboldt and Earlton, plus Melissa Rhodes at Autry Nursing Home. Dismissals include Walter J. Lacey Jr. and several Humboldt and Earlton residents. market notes follow with commodities and bonds activity and a brief AP police court item in New York and Chicago reports.
The Nooteboom family completed five years in the United States with three months in Fort Scott for oral tests and English literacy checks. They passed with flying colors and await final ceremonies on May 22. Costs for the papers totaled about $100. relatives in Rotterdam but others in Joplin and Holland.
Wheat values range from 2.14 to 2.53 for No 2 hare and dark hard. Corn priced 1.30 to 1.44 for No 2 white, and 1.14 to 1.43 for No 3. Oats at 71 to 76 cents, milo and maize around 1.19 to 1.93, rye 1.115 to 1.144, barley 1.06 to 1.11, soybeans 2.40 to 2.45, bran and shorts 32.00 to 32.75.
Police said a report that two lawn chairs were stolen from a garage at 228 E lithh was erroneous. The chairs were recovered. A transient named Carl Roberts was booked for intoxication and released to leave town.
Chicago AP reports butter holding steady with AA 93 score and B 89 4% and C 89 54% across grades. Eggs remain unsettled with 70 percent or better whites at 26s and mixed 26s, middlings 22, standards 25, dirties 23, checks 23.
Local markets list eggs by grade and size with receipts and premium cream. Hides priced by weight with under and over 30 pounds rates. An odd remark notes Michelangelo signed the Pieta sculpture in the Vatican.
Preliminary plans for a half million dollar building to replace Myers Hall Kansas Union have been approved by the Kansas Bible Chair board. The Bible Chair, a Disciples of Christ agency with seven other religious groups, will support the Kansas School of Religion expansion. The new structure will more than double classrooms used by Christian churches in Myers Hall.
Topeka Kansas traffic death log reports 39 fatalities for May 1962 and 203 for the comparable 1961 period. The record covers 24 hours ending 9 am Thursday with figures compiled by AP.
Community notices list visits and hospitality at Elsmore and nearby homes. Local families attend parties at the high school, travel plans include trips to Seattle and San Francisco, and residents share birthdays and meals with friends and relatives.
Mrs. Clara Elizabeth Sanders, 90, died at Bryant Rest Home following an extended illness. Born February 15, 1872 in Lawrence County Missouri, she married Jacob D. Sanders in 1892. They moved to Chanute in 1923. Survivors include two sons, a daughter, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. at Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Three traffic accidents were reported to police. Mrs. Robert Petty said a boy on a bicycle hit her car near Hutton School at 8:25 a.m. today. Jack Haight reported his parked car was struck on South Western by driver Pete A. Esch, estimated damage $100. Pete E. Carl and Ernest W. Roecker reported a minor collision at Main and Evergreen at 7:30 last night.
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