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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1959
Page
2
Kansas City livestock prices show hogs 25 50 higher and cattle mixed with steady to higher calves and cows. Parson's Livestock reports steady hogs and cattle values across weight classes with specific bids for U S grades and stocker calves, plus quotes for sheep, eggs, poultry and produce in regional markets.
Wall Street in New York ends mixed with steels and rails downtrodden while selected motors and electronics rise. Trading about 2.6 million shares. gains and losses held to fractions near a point, with more volatile issues up 2 to 4. Awaiting Taft-Hartley injunction court ruling for steel strike. U.S. government bonds improved.
Yesterday and today at Neosho Memorial Hospital, admissions list several patients with medical and surgical cases including Mrs. Annie Newton, Kathryn Chapman, Carol S. Carpenter, Suzanne Biele, Elmer Corkery, and Mrs. F E Roberts. Dismissals include Mrs. Kelly Richwine and Alva McLaren. Fire and court actions follow with numerous civil and criminal filings and rulings.
Short items record visits by local families and students, carloadings and rail traffic for Santa Fe, social events at Drumstick Cafe, a hospital shower for the Atkins family, and Eagle Scout Alvin Seefeldt's initiation into the Order of the Arrow at Bee Creek Scout camp with his brother Larry also participating.
The grand champion Angus steer Mr. Gimere, 1,095 pounds, sold for 6.10 per pound totaling 6,417.20 for owner Kenneth Eitel of Green Castle Missouri. Jud Putsch of Chanute bought Eitel’s prior grand champion in 1955. Reserve champion and other top lots also sold with multiple buyers and buyers including Golden Ox Restaurant and Maurer Neuer Packing Co. Kansas City.
Dr Roy Lawson superintendent of the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital and Mrs Bruce Burris chair of the Neosho County Tuberculosis Association will attend the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Assn annual meeting and the Kansas Trudeau Society in Wichita. Lawson will speak on Tuberculosis Meningitis at 2 p.m. Thursday and Burris will join a panel at 3 p.m. on rehabilition problems. a joint dinner follows at 6 30 p.m. Thursday with Dr Charles Pokorny moderating the panel.
Delbert Elvin Fulps funeral set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home with Rev. L. Don Richardson officiating. Interment in Memorial Park cemetery. Emerson Maxson of Chanute, 84, dies in Topeka hospital after family moved through Coffeyville to Chanute then Topeka. Funeral in Coffeyville Evangelical United Brothers church at 2 p.m. Thursday with Rev. L. W. Life officiating. interment in Altoona cemetery beside his wife. Bearers listed from Coffeyville, Edna, and Chanute. Ford Funeral Home of Coffeyville handles arrangements. Morford rites for Mrs. Lillian Mildred Morford held at Grace Episcopal church. interment in Fairview cemetery, Cherryvale. Bearers named. organist Mrs. Dave Petterson played. Koch-Skinner Memorial Home in charge.
The Episcopal Church of the United States announced a theological seminary will be built on a 25 acre site in San Juan Puerto Rico. Rt. Rev. John B. Bentley vice president of the Church National Council said the seminary will open in fall 1961 with a class of 80 students.
A Cornell University team designs a bomb-proof underground city as a model concept with no immediate plans to build it. The project envisions a protected shelter complex and could influence civil defense planning.
In Havana VOZ reports Major Hubert Matos and staff sheltered at Camaguey province military HQ after protesting Raul Castro’s appointment. Fidel Castro flew to Camaguey with Camilo Cienfuegos as troops and radio appeals urged workers and farmers to support the assault.
A fire at the Cities Service Oil Co bulk plant in south Pittsburg Kansas destroyed three buildings after a bulk transport truck exploded. Driver Lawrence Byrd of Coffeyville was treated for facial and hand burns and expected to be released. Firemen fought the blaze about two hours. no tanks burned.
In Maplewood New Jersey Daniel Bolger nine was killed when a train struck him as he played near a trestle after school. A companion witnessed the tragedy from nearby.
Baxter Springs voters approved a $398,000 sewage disposal bond issue by a vote of 401 to 21. The funds will finance a low-water dam across Spring River and a lagoon type disposal system, plus extensive sewer repairs. completion deadline set by the Kansas Department of Health is summer 1961.
Adam H. Black, 86, a pioneer in oil field equipment manufacturing, died Tuesday after years of ill health. He retired as president of Black, Stralls & Bryson, Inc. in 1946 when the firm’s capital stock was bought by Smith Engineering Co.
Paris dispatch reports from France Soir that President Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev are expected to hold a face to face meeting soon.
Don H. Miller, marketing division general manager for Kansas City, was named president of Skelly Oil Co. He succeeds John S. Freeman who resigned as the Getty dominated board reshaped control of the company.
TOPEKA AP reports state accident records show 0 deaths in the last 24 hours, 455 to date in 1959, compared with 446 in the same period of 1958.
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