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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1958
Page
2
Kansas City AP notes cattle gains with steers and cows up to 50 cents, calves strong, hogs steady to higher for sows and barrows. Sheep fair, lambs and ewes steady to higher. Parson livestock shows similar firmness and varied grade ranges across weights and stockers.
AP reports butter receipts 669000 with wholesale prices rising. eggs show irregular receipts 5900 with varied grade A whites and other grades. Live poultry receipts 138000 lbs with price shifts. caponettes under 42 lbs and over 4%2 lbs priced. Plymouth Rocks and ducklings listed. no wheat or soybeans specified. Kansas City and corn futures noted with mixed changes. barley and soybeans prices listed.
Daily Transcript lists yesterday admittances Clyde Carroll and others from Humboldt and Kansas City for medical and surgery. Admittance today includes Alice Garrett. Dismissals cover Kelley Barlow and several residents. Birth announces a boy for Gene and Evaine Green of Earlton. Traffic citation issued for Harold Felkins with $10 bond. District Court filings in Chanute and local actions include quiet title, condemnation for highway K and appraisers. Divorce actions grant decrees and set child support and custody terms.
Clyde M. Reed, Republican candidate for governor, told a Ford County GOP picnic that Kansas cannot endure two more years of stalemated government. He urged harmony between governors and legislatures and said a governor should compromise where necessary to achieve progress.
Harvey Rhodes with Butch and Joe Morgan will present a magic program at a Urbana school meeting Friday. A meeting of the IC Guild at the EUB church was cancelled and postponed to next month.
Stored maiden name of Dimon and Charles K. Ostrander and wife of Alois Mertz and others cited in a quiet title suit. John W. Sherman Jr. appointed attorney for any of the defendants under disability.
William B Skinner 92 died after an extended illness at Bryant Rest Home. Born November 18, 1865 in Seneca Falls New York he moved to Chanute from Delphos last February. He married Emma Bell Douglas in Minneapolis Kansas on November 19 1885. He leaves two daughters four sons twelve grandchildren sixteen great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Burial will be in Delphos Cemetery with services at Delphos First Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev B A Rundus.
The funeral service for Mrs. Joe Ransopher was held yesterday at Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home with Rev. C. V. Overman officiating. Burial followed in Pleasant Valley Cemetery. songs were performed by Mrs. Overman and others. Bearers included Walter Bradford, Frank Carlyle, Wayne Trichler, Gordon Wiltse, Sam Sturdevant and Bob Wilson. Flowers arranged by Mines, Bradford, Wiltse, and Dock Pucket.
Reed accuses the governor of trying to push an inadequate revenue program through the Legislature and warns that ongoing discord risks harming state government and welfare after two difficult years. He cites the governor’s inability to work with lawmakers as a key fault.
A family from Fredonia was abducted by Sikeston Jaycees while traveling to Nashville. They received meals lodging rodeo access and the children wore western clothes while the car was serviced and safety belts installed. Coffeyville and Pittsburg enrollments dip and rise in local schools. Weir hosts 23rd homecoming with parade, events and football game. Independence enrollment up 53 with 52 at the college.
Former Congressman Clifford Hope announced a statewide drive opening Oct 21 to raise 113 237 for Kansas Boy Scouts. A 600 000 budget for 1959 supports Cub Scout and Explorer programs, with three fourths funded by Community Chest and United Fund.
Sam Anderson opened the first session of elementary Russian at the University of Kansas with 55 students, five times the 11 enrolled last fall. The course meets 5 to 6 p.m. Anderson, KU language instructor, is the son of Elena Follett and grandson of longtime physician P. Follett.
The Health, Education and Welfare Department announced a 468,286 dollar allotment for Kansas from a 40 million program. The funding supports defense education initiatives and aligns with federal education priorities.
The National Defense Education Act budget totals 46 286 dollars with Kansas receiving funds for strengthening science, mathematics and languages. Equipment and remodeling total 215 328 dollars while administration costs reach 16 212 dollars and loans to non profit private schools total 19 016 dollars. The remaining funds include 97 508 dollars for higher education student loans 64 847 dollars for guidance and encouragement of able students and 55 375 dollars for vocational education.
In Wichita Kansas city officials commended Sen. An explosion in the capital drew attention as four Algerian terrorists triggered a major gasworks incident. The Chaney Reservoir project is held as the next big expansion of the water system and the commission voted 3 to 2 with Madden and Stevens dissenting.
Agencies reported that the 1959 acreage had been seeded by the end of last week and that harvest of fair grain crops had started in limited areas before the rain.
Emporia hosts the 100th annual Kansas Convention of Christian Churches with an audience target of 4 000 for sessions Sunday through Tuesday. The AP notes the gathering draws participants from across the state to discuss church matters and community faith initiatives.
Foreign travel by Kansas residents rose 25 percent in the first six months of 1958. The State Department reported 2,854 passports issued from Jan 1 to June 30, up 572 from the same period in 1957. Excludes trips to Canada the West Indies Mexico and other passport exempt destinations.
In Topeka the 1959 Kansas wheat crop seeding was gaining momentum before weekend rains interrupted progress. Federal and state agricultural agencies reported about 17 percent planted at that point.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The Navy ship motion simulator is prepared to launch the Polaris intermediate range ballistic missile in a highly anticipated test.
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