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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1967
Page
2
AP report from Kansas City shows cattle at 2,500 head with steers steady and cows weaker by up to 25. Prime and choice steers fetch 25.25 to 26.35. Heifers reach 25.25 to 50 for high grades. Cows mostly 16.50 to 18.75, feeders 24.50 to 27. Hogs at 6,000 head with barrows and gilts 25 to 50 lower and sows 25 lower. Lambs up 5 to 75 with spring lambs 26 to 27. Ewes range 4 to 6.
Parsons hogs top at 209 to 220 pounds from 22.00 to 22.80 dollars and 230 to 270 pounds at 21.00 to 22.00 dollars. Cattle include grain fed steers at 23.50 to 25.00 dollars, heifers 22.00 to 25.25, calves 22.00 to 24.50, stockers 28.00 to 32.00, and bulls 20.00 to 24.00. Veals 27.00 to 33.00. Cows range 14.50 to 21.00 for canners and shelly stock, sheep include lambs up to 23.75 and feeder lambs 18.00 to 22.00. Breeding ewes 10.00 to 15.00.
In Kansas City wholesale eggs held at 80 percent A with large eggs 22 to 26 and mediums 19 to 22 as butter remained unchanged. In Chicago live poultry prices also showed no change.
Wheat No 2 hard 1.68 4n No 2 red 1.66 4n. Corn No 2 yellow 1.40 4n. Oats No 2 heavy white 777 n. Soy beans No 1 yellow 2.90 4n. Soybean oil 10.28n.
In active trading this afternoon the stock market faced a sharp decline with losses outweighing gains more than five to one. Brokers cited Middle East war worries as the main cause while large blocks of stock moved on the ticker as selling intensified. Prices hovered above earlier lows toward midafternoon.
A gunman opened fire at a suburban Pittsburgh motel room during a card game, killing James Oliver and Allen Neely and wounding Warren Mulkey and Eugene Staton. Cecil Jones, 54, of Lambertville New Jersey, was captured after a high speed chase and faces murder and felonious assault charges. The four victims worked for a construction firm that had fired Jones after a 1956 accident, with the shootout linked to an old feud.
Topeka Kansas State controller Roy Shapiro, 55, died Monday apparently from a heart ailment. He was dead on arrival at a hospital after being struck at a physician's office. Shapiro, a native of Topeka, was KU business graduate and served as controller since 1953. Funeral services were set for 3:30 p.m. today.
Mrs Lillie Marie Roberts 58 of 411 N Santa Fe died Monday after two years illness. Born July 4 1908 in Bartlesville she was a Stanley Products dealer and widow of Felix Roberts. Survives include two daughters two sons a sister eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at Johnson Chapel with Rev Dale Sneeringer officiating. Burial Greenlawn Cemetery. Roy W Kelly 57 of Wichita died Saturday born in Chanute lived in Wichita since 1936 interior decorator. Survived by widow Margaret Lason a son and a brother. Funeral service 2 p.m. Gill Mortuary burial White Chapel. FRITZ memorial service for Mrs Effie R Fritz held at Johnson Chapel with Dr Duff Wagoner officiating. Floral attendants listed. Burial Elmwood Cemetery.
About 75 local and area law enforcement officers attended a crowd and riot control school at the National Guard armory. Sponsors included the Kansas Peace Officers Assn, University of Kansas Government Research Center, Extension Service and Peace Officers Training School, the highway patrol, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and the local police department. Lt Maynard Brazeal of Kansas City MO led instruction as director of the crowd and riot control program.
Diplomats predicted the United Nations Security Council would adopt a restraint resolution in the Middle East crisis before the weekend. The draft, redrafted by Bulgaria, Ethiopia, India, Japan, Mali and Nigeria, followed a working paper from Denmark and may be handed in after the council's fifth meeting and adopted Thursday.
Vern L. Owens son of Mr and Mrs Orville Owens of 417 W 3rd has been promoted to master sergeant in the U S Air Force. He is a guidance and control technician at Kadena AB Okinawa and is a 1948 Chanute High School graduate who attended Neosho County Junior College.
Mr and Mrs Frank P Johnson of Wichita formerly Humboldt will be honored at an open house on Sunday celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary at the home of their son Ernest Lynn Johnson in Valley Center.
Kent T. Perry of Lawrence will earn the juris doctor degree from the University of Kansas Law School after completing the bar exam. A 1964 KU ROTC and business administration graduate, 1st Lt. Perry will join active duty in the U.S. Air Force as an adjutant. Mrs. Perry is Juliane Schaberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burl Schaberg.
The annual Odense homecoming will be held Sunday at the school six miles west of Lavonburg with a basket dinner at 1 p.m. and a program to follow. Pvt. Larry D. Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beck, began basic training May 18 at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Vernon McGee graduates Covington High School in Covington Louisiana. Police detained two curfew violators, a 16 and 17 year old girl, then referred them to the county juvenile officer. An officer found two evergreen trees in a metal tub and a fishing tackle box in Walnut and Lafayette streets. a Pittsburg man visiting his mother claimed them. In 1967 the equinox marked spring at 2 37 a.m. EST on March 21. Winter ends when day and night are equal worldwide.
At a Memorial Day council meeting Iyalla urged issuing an appeal for restraint and backing the secretary-general’s plan. He specifically called for reactivating the Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission to manage the conflict.
Neosho Memorial Hospital limits visiting to 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 30 to 8 p.m. The patient census stands at 58 adults and pediatrics with four babies. Monday admissions include Mrs Gary Van Hoozer Buffalo surgery and Mrs May Crowl 25 W 4th medical. Discharges list multiple residents including Selma Sellegren Eric and Myrtle Kilgore. Birth recorded for Mr and Mrs Richard DeLa Torre a boy. Police court action lists Larry Wikel and Larry W Woods with licenses and driving citations.
The Chanute Tribune lists Highland Dwight McCreiseeeees Publisher Dwight Wallingford News Editor John Hovorka Advertising Mar Fay D Clopine Circulation Mar Ben Nicholas Composing R Fmn Dorsey Osborn Press-Stereo Fman with subscription rates for local and outside trade territories and AP news access.
Newspaper page note lists local items from Chanute Kansas with brief notices and columns dated Wednesday May 31 1967. The readable text outlines community news and upcoming events on page 2.
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