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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1963
Page
2
Kansas City livestock roundup reports cattle 900 and calves 25 insufficient for test. Hogs 2,500 with barrows and gilts 25 higher, sows 25 higher. 190-250 lb barrows and gilts 16.00-35, 275-400 lb sows 13.75-14.50. Sheep 100 with choice lambs 22.00-75. ewes and feeders absent.
Kansas City AP reports consumer eggs prices range from 18 to 22 cents a dozen for dirties and checks with others unchanged. Wholesale eggs show mediums at 80 percent capacity and 24 to 26 cents, others unchanged.
Wichita AP The Kansas Conservation Division reports pipeline runs of Kansas crude averaged 312,359 barrels per day for the week ending May 20, down 3,278 barrels from the prior week. The current rate beats the 305,000 barrel daily allowable.
Kansas City grain shows varied prices across cereals with No 2 hard wheat at 2.17 to 2.50 percent, corn futures around 1.23 to 1.31, oats steady, and soybeans near 2.02 to 2.03. New York stocks close with a mixed, mostly flat tone, airlines and aircrafts leading, Korvette and Wilcox up, Polaroid down, and American Sugar packets mixed.
In Earlton Captain Robert E. Taylor on leave from Sondrestrom Greenland visits his wife and three daughters with his parents. Primary teacher Mrs E J Salzman will teach in Chanute schools next year. School will end May 28 with dinner May 24. Wayne White family returns after graduation. Skating party at Meyers Rink. Ladies Aid to serve five o’clock ham dinner May 28. Story hour on Paul the Hero at the Chil dren's Library. Gwendolyn Kay Blair seeks an Associate in Arts from Stephens College with Baccalaureate Sunday.
Chicago grain prices show no wheat or soybean sales. Corn values for No 2 yellow and No 3 yellow cited. oats No 2 extra heavy white at 72 percent. Barley vary from 1.23 to 1.34 for choice and 0.98 to 1.06 for feed. Wheat up a cent, July at 2.86. corn down or up index unclear. oats higher. rye higher. soybeans mixed to higher with July near 2.60 to 2.64.
Don A. McNeal editor and co owner of the Council Grove Republican was chosen president of the Kansas State Alumni Association. Five new directors were named to three year terms including Richard W. Dodderidge Dale W. Mattson Alvin J. Mistler Ben A. Sellers and Robert M. Siefkin from Shawnee Mission Coffeyville Topeka Salina and Wichita respectively.
Herbert Propper a Miami Okla graduate student at the University of Michigan won a $1,000 prize Thursday in a drama contest at Ann Arbor. He received the award for students in the field. The event highlighted university theater talent and will be remembered as a notable achievement.
Union Valley School will host a Last Day program Monday featuring the division's 29th Artillery at Fort May 27. A basket supper will follow the 6:30 p.m. event in Lewis, Washington. Visitors yesterday at the home of Mrs Albert Steedes included Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lacen of Earlton and several others from Urbana Thayer Chanute and Chanute R2. 1956 Chanute High School graduate attended Harding Christian College in Searcy Arkansas. his wife Donna resides in Tacoma.
Carol Gillam of 124 N. Forest is among over 125 University of Kansas students completing eight weeks of student teaching in Kansas schools. Gillam teaches kindergarten at Somerset School in Corinth District Overland Park. AS1 David E Burdue 24 son of Jessie and Mrs Burdue of Earlton took part with others in Exercise COULEE CREST, a one day U S Army Air Force Strike Command drill at Yakima Washington firing center ending May 20. A medical aidman in the 6th Howitzer Batary
Kenneth Spurling, an animal control officer, issued a summons yesterday to Mary George of 6 W Main for permitting a dog to run at large. A hearing was set for this afternoon in police court.
Daily Transcript reports Neosho Memorial Hospital admissions and dismissals for Thursday and today, listing patients by name and address for medical and surgical cases, plus transfers. Fire, police court actions, building permits, and recent moves are also noted with names, addresses, and brief actions.
A 19 year old, Robert Wilson, son of Mr and Mrs Percy Wilson of rural Burden, was killed when his car left a township road six miles west of Winfield and crashed into a high voltage transmission line pole. The top of the pole broke five feet above the ground and fell on the car trapping him for two hours before removal.
Philadelphia AP report notes Gertrude C. Evans a 90 year old widow died May 4. In her will dated Thursday she leaves $1000 to Michael Varallo the taxicab driver who served her for many years.
A sequence of street to street moves is shown, naming names such as Lillie Massey Oscar Bell J. W. Neff and Donald Walburn with former and new street addresses including N Steuben Edith Evergreen Garfield and Forest. The notes resemble a civic change of residence or real estate listing page without clear context or dates.
Earl F. Milligan 63 died at noon yesterday of a heart attack at his Benedict home. He served as mayor and was born February 26, 1900, in rural Fredonia. Survivors include wife Hazel, brother Harvey Milligan of California, and three sisters in Fredonia and Lincoln. Funeral set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Cason Chapel Fredonia. burial in Fredonia Cemetery.
The Rev. Ray J. Hutchison was mourned in a Thursday service at First Baptist with Rev. Kenneth E. Ellsworth of Parsons directing. Clergy from several churches led the ceremony while choir members sang. Burial followed at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City.
Funeral service for Mrs Ella Wolfe takes place tomorrow at 10 a m at Buffalo Methodist Church with Rev George Pierce of Galena and Rev Ron Bumstead officiating. Burial follows at Buffalo Cemetery.
Thelma Smith, 44, of Geneseo Kansas, died when her car overturned on a graveled road southwest of Lyons on Thursday. The accident occurred in Lyons county area and authorities investigating the fatal crash.
Philadelphia man Thomas R. Rainear was killed Thursday in a collision with a pickup truck on U S 59 near Garnett Kansas.
Daisy Bell Lane, 71, was struck by a car Thursday while hurrying to Trinity Lutheran Hospital where she worked in the dietary kitchen. The incident occurred in Kansas City and Northwestern area responders were called to assist. Lane was employed as a dietary worker at the hospital and the driver remained at the scene for investigation.
London AP reports Flight Sgt. Maisie Wilson of the Women's Royal Air Force is eight years overdue for retirement. A 63-year-old grandmother she joined in 1941 and should have retired at 55, but age was not released due to a clerical error.
Reports from Moscow show almost every newspaper devoting front pages and entire sections to Fidel Castro. Pravda headlines proclaim the Soviet Union stands with fraternal Cuba. Castro's image graces Page 1 with Khrushchev, and speeches from the leaders fill most papers.
After a month of silence the 70 year old Portsoy town clock will ring tonight. Tourists complained the hourly chimes disturbed sleep while 1 720 residents nearly the entire population petitioned the council to restore the sound as they had grown accustomed to it.
The Kansas wheat harvest labor control office will open in Great Bend June 3. Edward Schoepner, farm labor supervisor of the Kansas Employment Service, will direct the movement of men and machines for the harvest.
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