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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1963
Page
2
Cattle scarce with 600 head cattle and 100 calves not enough for test. Hogs total 3,500 with barrows and gilts 50 to 75 lower and sows 25 to 50 lower. Barrows and gilts 200 to 270 pounds priced at 15.00 to 35. Sows 275 to 375 pounds priced at 14.00 to 50. Sheep 50 head not enough for test.
Kansas City AP reports consumer eggs set for the medium category at 27 to 30 cents per dozen. Wholesale eggs see large size at 80 percent and mediums at 80 percent, with pages A35 to A40 and A28 to A31. other categories unchanged.
Chicago prices show butter and eggs holding steady with no notable change across the market. Traders note stable demand and steady supply as merchants monitor daily trading activity.
Chicago AP reports no wheat or oats sales. Corn prices listed as No 2 yellow 1.19 2-20 4, No 3 yellow 1.16-18 2, No 4 yellow 1.12-15, sample grade yellow 1.02’s. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.73, No 2 yellow 2.7114, No 3 yellow 2.73. Soybean oil details incomplete.
TOPEKA AP Judge George Templar may rule early next week on habeas corpus pleas from Richard Hickock and Perry Smith seeking new trials for the Clutter family murder. Evidence was completed and cases summarized Thursday. The defendants were sentenced to death after conviction in Finney County for four Clutter family killings on November 15, 1959. Their lawyers claim inadequate counsel and illegally obtained evidence from Hickock's parents' home without a warrant.
Wall Street in New York shows selective gains amid uneven trading. The day sees 5.3 million shares traded, far below Thursday’s 68 million, with blue chip sectors like chemicals and tobacco lifting averages while steels motors oils and other groups showed spotty results. Corporate bonds mixed, governments down.
In Neosho County Kansas probate court Sara Elizabeth Burris estate appoints Marie Bideau as administratrix with notices to creditors to file within nine months. Also notice on hearing for probate of Howard H Nutt will asks for admission to probate and appointment of William W Nutt and Golda Nutt as executors without bond with defenses due by November 7, 1963 in Erie Kansas.
AP dispatch lists rail car counts and price ranges for wheat corn oats milo and other grains at Kansas City. Prices show mixed moves with declines in some wheat and corn grades and modest gains in others, while oats remain unchanged and soybeans show a slight rise.
AP football score reports Wichita Freshmen defeating El Dorado Junior College 35 to 0. Also listed are high school results Wichita West 4 Wichita Notre Dame. Library of Congress added 664,313 items to permanent collections in fiscal year 1962 with total holdings around 41,879,000 items including 12,534,000 books and pamphlets and 17,989,000 manuscripts.
In Neosho County Kansas H E Powell deceased also known as Harris E or Bud Powell. Edith Powell administratrix petitions final settlement and heir determination with fees and expense allowance. Hearing set for November 4 1963 at 10 00 AM in Erie Court. Objections to be filed and judgment may follow. Balch Bailey attorneys for administratrix. Probate Judge.
Marine PFC Donnie Hanna of the Fourth Marine Regiment joins Operation Dull Knife with Pacific Fleet Amphibious Forces conducting amphibious assaults on Molokai as training in the Hawaiian Islands. Separate items note KU Owl Society inductee Jim Gough and minor traffic collision reports on 3rd Street near Lincoln and Santa Fe.
A2C Ronald R Friederich moves to Japan following graduation from USAF radio operator training. He was taught to operate radio receivers typewriters and recording and frequency meter equipment. Son of Mr and Mrs Raymond R Friederich of 923 S Central he is a Chanute Senior High School graduate and has recently been promoted.
County Commissioner and Mrs Frank Vaughn of 20 N La Fayette are vacationing in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
Earl Heminger of 520 West Second Street is visiting friends in Chattanooga Tennessee.
Mrs. G B Wall of 209 N Plum Mer leaves tonight for the national Girl Scout Convention in Miami Beach Florida October 21 25. About 5000 leaders and scouts are expected to attend every three years. She is one of six delegates elected to represent Meadowlark council. accompanied by Mrs Laura Wall of 526 12 W Walnut.
Karen Earnest, 22, of 311 S Lafayette and Margaret Tipping, 18, Erie R 3, drove cars that collided about 9 45 am today. Tipping backed from an alley after turning around while Eastbound. Earnest’s 1961 Dodge suffered $150 damage to its right front and Tipping’s 1958 Dodge station wagon $65 damage to its rear.
Mr and Mrs Harold Dalton of Long Beach California are visiting friends and relatives in Cha nute. The brief note records their travel and stay with local acquaintances during the trip.
The Sorghum Valley Grange will meet in open session Wednesday evening. A basket supper will be served at six o'clock. Guest speaker Mrs. Agnes Ingwersen will address attendees. The public is invited.
The children's library hosts a tale titled Looking for Alexander on Saturday at 10:30 AM. The event invites young readers to explore friendship and discovery through a narrated story.
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Lasley of Route 3 returned home Tuesday after Mrs. Lasley’s eight day stay as a surgical and clinical patient at Lakeside Hospital in Kansas City. She was dismissed Monday and spent Monday night with their daughter, Mrs.
Police arrested Wade Williams at a motel in Iola early today on charges of lacking a valid driver license and illegal license tag use. He posted a $15 bond.
Mrs James A Powell 77 of Humboldt died unexpectedly at home. She lived in Humboldt 49 years after moving from Iola and leaves a husband, daughter Mrs Dorothy Warren Independence Mo, son Virgil A Topeka, four brothers, four sisters and four grandchildren. Funeral at Humboldt Methodist Church with Rev Gene Taylor. burial Mount Hope Cemetery. Mrs Maude FE Hudson funeral held at Johnson Mortuary with Dr Fred Shaw officiating. Floral attendants listed. burial Elmwood Cemetery. The island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon is twice the size of Massachusetts.
The Dionne quintuplets reveal in McCalls that they believed they could never bear children and were sheltered until age 20. Cecile married after meeting a boyfriend, Yvonne is a nun, and three others married facing earlier fears of childbirth. Marie bore a daughter Emilie on Christmas Eve 1960 after two miscarriages.
Reporting for Thursday and today includes admissions Delbert E. Taylor Hilma Huffman Ralph Metzen and William Best with locations and medical or surgical notes. Dismissals list includes Paul S. Collins Cecil C. Reid Kenneth Adams Mrs Howard Smith and others. A marriage license was issued for Wayne Gibson and Berneice Drummond. A fire run occurred at 10 45 a m at 3rd and Highland with a dog in a drainage ditch.
Houston sources report 10 to 16 new astronauts to be chosen for two man rendezvous and three man moon missions. Capt. Charles Bassett Theodore Freeman and Capt. David Scott linked to Edwards Air Force Base may join the group, with selections kept secret until an afternoon news conference.
Warren B. Dorland of Fall City Nebraska has become manager of the Tioga Hotel in Chanute, replacing Robert Rush. Dorland and his wife Leona previously ran a cafe and farming business at Fall City. They have two children, Bobbie, 9, and Tena, 1.
Department stores in the 10th Federal Reserve District posted a 7 percent sales gain last week versus the same week in 1962, with Denver up 16 percent, Wichita 14, Kansas City St Joseph and Albuquerque 9 each, Joplin 8, downtown Kansas City 7, Lincoln and Tulsa 1, Omaha unchanged, Topeka down 8 and Tulsa down 6.
George Docking, former Kansas governor and director of the Export-Import Bank, will remain at Doctors Hospital for additional tests to find the cause of recurring fever. He was admitted on Sept. 15 and noted his temperature often fluctuates, expressing discouragement at not leaving as soon as hoped.
A $200,225 contract for erection of the Agricultural Hall of Fame building was awarded to J. H. Construction Inc. of Prairie Village, Kansas. The first of about 10 buildings, it will be a multi purpose facility of roughly 12,000 square feet and should be ready in nine months.
President Eisenhower will fly to Abilene for the unveiling of his oil portrait at the Eisenhower Library. The portrait by James Anthony Mills was donated by Boots Adams of Bartlesville Oklahoma, a close friend and Phillips Petroleum chairman. The ceremony is at 10 45 a m with Adams Will and Dr Wayne C Grover attending. Eisenhower will return to Gettysburg after the event accompanied by his son Colonel John Eisenhower and aide Brigadier General Robert Schulz.
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