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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1959
Page
2
The notice lists Grade A Medium .55 and Grade A Small with cadvevkes St a Grade fee. Syeda Current Receipts refer to Sweet Cream and premium Crema. Hens are shown as 4'2 lbs and up and under 4'2 lbs with weights and pricing scattered in the text.
Hogs hold steady while cattle move lower in Kansas City market. Sheep run 1500 head with slaughter lambs up to 50 higher and ewes steady. Feeder lambs mix steady to strong, with 92 lb slaughter lambs at 29.50 and native wooled lambs 1800 to 1950. No 1 peits 19.75, ewes 3.00 to 4.30, feeder lambs 15.00 to 16.50.
Market notes show cattle and hogs in Kansas City with steady to lower asking prices across weight classes. cows steady and hogs steady to higher. New York trading mixed with gains in oils and rails but broad stock activity uneven. bonds edged lower. Kansas City produce reports and Chicago wholesale prices for eggs butter and grains included with general market movement.
Benedict and nearby towns report visitors and events. Notables include families visiting, a bank president traveling to Miami Beach, and, in Thayer, Everett Jones found dead with funeral plans noted. Santa Fe rail figures for the week accompany community notes and a two car collision near Lincoln.
Local market note notes Grade A Large eggs with a price and availability update. Details are unclear due to fragmented OCR text but indicate standard market coverage of egg pricing.
The Associated Press reports a frosty weather pattern spanning the Midwest into the Northeast with snow and rain. A snow belt stretches from Minnesota to northern New York while rain mixed with snow affects Iowa to the lower Great Lakes. Two inch snowfalls appear in Minnesota Wisconsin and upper Michigan amid strong northerly winds and hazardous driving. Thunderstorms roam the west Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Texas with the heaviest rain in Crossville Tennessee. Temperatures dip into the 20s as far south as northern Kansas and skies clear in the plains.
Bernard J. Ruysser 39 vice president of Commercial National Bank of Kansas City pleaded guilty to common assault in Worth County Circuit Court. He was fined 50 dollars and 31 dollars in costs after a 16 year old Clay County boy’s complaint dated January 31, 1957. The case was moved on change of venue after a judge read a letter from a Kansas City psychiatrist noting Ruysser had benefited from treatment.
Clarence C. Butcher 74 of 1429 S Malcolm died 1 p.m. Monday at Neosho Memorial Hospital after 45 years in the community. Born June 28, 1885 in Mill Grove Missouri, he married Myrtle Barker and later Mary Browning. survivors include a daughter and three sons. Funeral Wednesday at Johnson Mortuary with interment at Elmwood Cemetery. Othella Mae Booe 83 died Oct. 25 in Nevada Missouri while visiting her daughter. Born May 10, 1876 in Hendrix Indiana, she married William H Booe in 1898. Funeral Wednesday at Humboldt Methodist Church with interment at Mount Hope Cemetery. She is survived by six sons, several daughters, and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Seventh-day Grange to meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the school for a pot luck.
Daily Transcript records admitted patients yesterday including Mrs L at 1109 S Highland for medi co, Mrs May Davis at 528 S Lincoln for medical, Richard DeBolt at 620 W Oak for surgery, and Mrs Lillie Deems at 1623 S Evergreen for medical. Dismissals昨日 include Mrs Orville Van Winkle and daughter, Mrs James Guin jotte, Mrs Eugene Vignatelli and son, Theresa Clark, Humboldt. also dismissals today for Mrs James D Smith and son in Galesburg.
A guardian has been appointed for 15 year old Diane Roberts who admitted poisoning her parents at their Prairie Village home Oct. 13. Peter A. Martin an Olathe police judge named as guardian will preserve the girl’s property interests while she is held in jail pending a court decision on a proposed psychiatric examination.
Kansas wheat stored on Oct 1 rose to a record 563,005,000 bushels, topping the 1958 high by over 20 million. Total feed grains rose 20 percent from a year ago, while old sorghum stocks hit a record 668,027,000 bushels.
In Havana Fidel Castro delivers a three hour speech to a crowd of hundreds of thousands promising to hand over enemies of the revolution to military tribunals and firing squads. He signals possible action to expel the US from Guantanamo, contemplates Soviet bloc aircraft, and hints at execution for Maj. Hubert Matos.
Roy Parsons and officers Hale Stroup and Matlock testified about the altercation with Culton. Medical testimony cited internal bleeding from severed neck vessels as the cause of death. Witnesses described the stabbing at the Chicken Shack and York’s possession of a knife, with Fredericka Graves noting York striking Culton.
An all-male jury heard the Culton assault case with 13 members impaneled at 1:35 p.m. after three hours of voir dire. Jurors named include W. W. Shaw, Robert F. Manley, Edward C. Ranz, Foster Myers, Sheldon Propst, Jack Colborn, Cha nute, Jack Hines, Lewis Heady, Henry Perry, Eric, Bud Groner, Henry Beller, and John Moriarty of St. Paul.
Dr Roy A Lawson head of the Southeast Kansas TB Hospital was re elected to the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association board at the Wichita annual meeting. More than 300 officials and volunteers attended and heard that public apathy blocks TB control and that TB remains Kansas number one infectious disease killer.
The Erie Red Devil freshman-sophomore squad defeated the Oswego B-team 18-0 in Erie's first B-team action of the year. Jan Hagen opened scoring with a four-yard TD in the second quarter, followed by George Lockwood’s 45-yard TD run in the third and Donald Depee’s four-yard TD late. Erie B-team heads to Moran Monday night.
The Air Force announced the release of 1% million dollars for Forbes. The terse briefing offers few details and cites no further recipients or purposes.
An item from Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka Kansas reports on a training or directive issued to personnel. The brief notes the location and the force base context without detailing specific actions or outcomes.
National Catholic Youth Week ran Oct 25 31 with a Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's church. A new St. Patrick's youth group formed this school year meets Wednesdays and held a Sloppy Joe supper to fund delegates to the Kansas City youth convention on Nov 12. Officers listed include Rusty Corbitt Cesar Godinez Judy Ward and Joan Ashley. Reverend David Cushing directs the group.
Fifteen ghosts and goblins gathered at the I. D. Lawman home on Monday evening. Games were played with prizes awarded and refreshments served. Attendees included Carol Ann Pennington, Linda Lucas, Elaine Sharp, Judy and Delois Sadler, Nancy Krokstrom, Stephanie La Rocca, Rosemary Allman, Marsha Anderson, Patricia, Barbara and Mary Beth Banta, Pamela Steeves, Gayla Groves, and hostess Nicki Kay Lawman.
Crowned homecoming queen Barbara Rogers, a Lansing senior, reigned Saturday. candidate Carol Lindquist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lindquist of 718 North Evergreen, also stood as a candidate. Dennis Evans, Grinnell Iowa senior, was king.
AP report from Topeka lists 24 hour fatalities ending 9 am today with 468 deaths to date in 1959. Comparable 1958 figure was 456, indicating a rise in year to date traffic deaths.
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