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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1966
Page
2
Kansas City AP reports cattle futures with calves and steers largely steady to firm while heifers and cows hold, demand for Thursday auction high. Hogs show 50 to 25 higher in some categories, sows up to 22, lambs steady with spring offerings in the 23 to 24 dollar range. Grain futures move lower for oats rye and soybeans on September contracts.
U S grade ranges for hogs cattle calves veal cows bulls and sheep listed with price bands by weight class and quality terms including Sows boars stags and various stocker categories. Prices cover grain fed and creep fed cattle plus feeder calves and breeding stock across multiple grades and weights.
Wholesale eggs show large eggs at 89 percent and 43 50, mediums at 80 percent and 43 44. Butter remains unchanged.
AP reports unchanged live poultry, butter prices, and eggs steady to firm in Chicago markets with no changes across the board.
Wheat prices mix with No 2 hard and dark at 1.82 to 1.84 and No 3 around 1.72. Corn holds around 1.40 to 1.56 for No 2 white and 1.35 to 1.44 for No 3 yellow. Oats weakened with No 2 white at 0.74 to 0.79, barley 1.11 to 1.19, soybeans at 3.09 to 23.08, sacked bran 51.50 to 52.25, and sacked shorts 55.00 to 75.00.
Chicago markets show Wheat No 2 red at 1.86n and No 2 hard at 1.84n while Corn No 2 yellow runs 1.43 to 1.44. Oats No 2 heavy white 74 1 75n with other grades. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3.08 2n and Soybean oil 11.75n. Wheat closes 3 to 6 1/2 cents lower, September 1.81 4. corn 2 to 42 lower, September 1.39 4.
Marine aircraft report ongoing combat over the North with 99 missions flown. A Phantom from the carrier Coral Sea was shot down and the pilot missing, the 368th loss in the war. In the south a Skyhawk crash with missing pilot occurred 40 miles southwest of Da Nang.
Calcutta officials withdrew a newly issued textbook after discovering a line advising students not to tell the truth. An investigating committee said the statement was a misprint and not approved by authorities.
Stock losses deepened on Wall Street in a third straight decline as trading remained light with about 5.1 million shares. Investors hesitated over President Johnson's plan for a new government savings bond and the potential need to raise up to 8 billion dollars in cash this year. Interest rate ceilings also bred caution.
A Pittsburgh bus driver barred a passenger from boarding during rush hour. A young boy insisted he could get on, then vaulted his pole down the aisle as he entered the bus.
LOS ANGELES AP Artist Lynda Dummel, 28, works nine hours in surgery drawing skulls, nasal passages and torsos. As USC medical illustrator she uses free hand drawings to enhance details, avoiding lens distortions, and her works support research papers and classroom teaching.
Barton County Community Junior College in Great Bend Kansas set November 8 for a 3.125 million bond election to fund the campus first buildings. Site planned at Bishel Point three miles northeast of Great Bend with a library and science and vocational-technical facilities to open in fall 1968 after trustees met Tuesday.
In Portis Kansas the First State Bank was broken into early today but the burglar alarm sounded as intruders drilled the vault and fled. Mrs. C M Thomas, wife of the president, said nothing was taken besides leaving their tools including an acetylene torch. Portis lies in Osborne County in northern Kansas.
The Agriculture Department reports 15,554,000 hogs were produced in 10 midwestern corn belt states during June through August, up 7 percent from a year earlier. Seventy five percent of U S hogs come from these states with September to November expected to rise about 6 percent.
Gerald Ehrenreich associate professor at University of Kansas Medical Center filed a federal suit challenging a Kansas law that requires teachers to sign a loyalty oath to the United States. Ehrenreich alleges the oath infringes constitutional rights and he represents 12 instructors.
Daily Transcript lists hospital admissions on Tuesday including Robert Krone Humboldt surgery John Q Green 1695 S Evergreen medical Curtis Hupp 724 W Forest medical Charles Rettig 597 S Santa Fe medical Mrs Ronald Umberger 528 W 4th surgery Loretta Herrington Tioga Hotel medical Mrs Richard Prather Kincaid surgery Mrs William Moore Casper Wyo medical. Birth today to Charles Shults Iola a girl. Dismissals and other admissions noted for Mrs Chester Jones Mrs Daniel Bubb and daughter Western Mrs W H Wilmns Agnes Crockatt and more.
Surveyor 1 touched down June 1 about 800 miles west of Central Bay and returned over 11 000 high quality pictures. Surveyor 2’s 63 hour voyage aimed for a gentle landing at 11 43 58 p m EDT Thursday with the Moon 241 027 miles away.
Chanute Tribune issue dated Wednesday September 21 1966 presents brief local news notes, community events and notices from Chanute Kansas including civic updates, school news and upcoming activities.
A manager reported to police yesterday that a large sign in front of the Steffens Daily Drive at 924 W. Main Street was damaged. Mrs. Robert Hesting Jr residing at 410 N. Forest entered Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott Tuesday for unspecified medical care.
Mrs. Mary Rutherford of 1718 S Evergreen received word of the death of her brother William C. Nelson of Cabool Missouri. The funeral is set for Friday at 2 30 p m in Cabool. Carl Leon Donovan’s funeral service was held Tuesday at Johnson Chapel with Rev Rodney Wilmouth of Lewisville Nebraska officiating. Mrs D A Finney and Hazel Slane sang Mansion Over the Hilltop and Until Then. Bearers were Burt Beck Jr Charles D Hanson J M McGuire Milton Ford Herman Fehr and John Almond. Burial followed at Memorial Park Cemetery.
The funeral for Mrs. E B Green was conducted this morning at the Gibson Koch Chapel with Rev Richard J Lintner officiating. Organ selections were played by Mrs. Dave Petterson, flowers arranged by Mrs. Jennie Nelson, Mrs. Julia Carter and Mrs. Leroy Hunt, and bearers named Giles Whitworth, Earl Wertz, Carl Burghart, Charles Steinman, Charles Bertram, and Lewis Wible. Burial followed at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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