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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1966
Page
2
AP report shows cattle weaker with steers 23.50 to 25.50, cows 17.50 to 18.50, heifers 21.75 to 23.50. Hog bids drop 50 to 75 cents, sows and gilts down. Sheep price declines with spring lambs 22.75 to 23.50 and ewes 5.75 to 7.00. Chicago grains slip with wheat near 1.75, corn around 1.36, oats around 0.73.
U S pork and cattle quotes show varied prices across weights from 14 to 30 dollars for boars and sows to mid twenty's for grain fed steers and heifers. Veal and lamb values range from 17 to 30 dollars, with cows, bulls, and sheep priced by category. Heavy listings include parson hogs cattle veals cows bulls sheep.
Wholesale eggs show large at 80 percent A 48 50 and mediums at 80 percent A 43 44. Butter price remains unchanged.
Chicago reports live poultry prices unchanged while butter and eggs also hold steady. No changes in market values observed across the commodities sections.
Kansas City wheat bids show No 2 dark and hard at 1.81 1/2 to 1.85 1/2, No 3 1.72 1/2 to 1.82 3/4. Corn bid at 0.87 to 0.92? 2 white 1.53, No 3 1.35 to 1.55. Oats offered 0.734 to 0.81. Mile maize 2.04. Rye 1.09 to 1.13. Barley 1.15 to 1.20. Soybeans 2.82 to 2.88. Sacked bran 51.50 to 52.25. Sacked shorts 55.00 to 75.00.
Wall Street in New York sees widened losses in moderate trading after noon. Volume reached 64 million shares compared with 6.31 million Tuesday as blue chips and glamour stocks backed away sharply.
Kansas City AP reports 65 year old Dempsey E Minter shot and killed at home. Police take 80 year old Myrtle Wright into custody at a psychiatric center. Wright claimed a dream of burglars in the house. The Minters had sheltered her before her planned nursing home admission.
Hong Kong Kai Tak airport traffic rose in the second quarter of 1966 with 5 298 aircraft and 273 865 passengers. Aircraft grew 12.8 percent and passenger total 23.9 percent from April-June 1965. Passenger figures exclude transit and military personnel. Buck Island Reef in the Virgin Islands preserves a living coral reef with bright tropical fish and plants.
A group of Argentine extremists led by a woman hijacked a passenger plane with 44 aboard and forced it to land on the Falkland Islands to press Argentina's claim. Government sources confirmed the hijacking and said a communique would be released later.
Baker University in Baldwin Kansas reports fall enrollment rising to 964 this year from 892 last year as noted by Dean B A Gessner.
Walter Wood of Humboldt dies at 82 in Siloam Springs Arkansas after living on a farm there since 1920. Survived by wife two sons Clayton and Warren six grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral held at Siloam Springs September 20. Funeral notices follow for Madge Miller Alfred C. Savidge and Lige Wells with service details and survivors.
Memorial services planned for 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Fellowship for Allen Crafton emeritus professor of speech and drama at the University of Kansas. Crafton taught at KU for 38 years and died July 22 at his summer home near Glen Haven Colorado.
The Chanute Tribune provides subscription rates for trade territory and Chanute post office boxholders, with monthly carrier rates. It lists staff including Dwight McCreight as publisher and John Hovorka as news editor, along with other department heads.
Mr and Mrs D L Geeding of 819 S Santa Fe and Mrs Beulah Stewart of 319 S Lafayette return from the Veterans of World Convention for Barracks and Auxiliary in San Diego. Mrs Geeding served on the Resolutions Committee and was flag bearer in the Massing of the Colors. The trio also visited Tijuana Coronado Island Disneyland and Knott s Berry Farm before returning home.
Revival services at the Church of God located at 4th and Kansas are ongoing and will run through October 9. Guest evangelists Cecil Ceel and his wife from Radford, Virginia begin tonight, with services nightly at 7 30.
Word came today that John G. Schultz of 720 West 7th has been promoted to first lieutenant in the Kansas National Guard. The rank took effect August 18, with Schultz serving seven years in the Guard and as Petroleum Operations officer for the Cherryvale unit.
Stephen Alcock has enrolled as a freshman at Ottawa University. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Alcock of 504 South Kansas.
The Sept. 20 funeral service for Walter Wood in Siloam Springs Ark drew relatives including Clarence Wood Mrs Frank Mc Farren Mrs Ennis Ladd Lee Wolf Duard Young and John Ellison. Also attending was Mrs Myron Cooper of Chanute R 2.
Larry Oliverson son of Mr and Mrs Fred Oliverson of 203 N Washington Wyandotte Kansas City serves as assistant football coach at Wyandotte High School. Now in his second year of teaching at Wyandotte this is his first year as coach.
Police investigated a minor traffic accident at Main Street near the Santa Fe tracks about 3 20 p m yesterday. Vehicles involved were a 1962 Chevrolet panel truck driven by Charles Chauncey II 16 of 111 N Steuben and a 1966 Plymouth driven by Darrell W Storck 17 of 821 S Ashby. Right front of the truck sustained damage.
The Daily Transcript lists Tuesday admissions at Neosho Memorial Hospital including Mrs Leslie Baker Elsmore medical Carl Fisher 309 W 6th surgery Mrs Dale Stemple 526 W 6th surgery Mrs Everett George Earlton medical Mrs Raymond Colvin 124 N Grant medical Mrs Mae Edmondson 905 W 7th medical. Dismissals Tuesday include Mrs John Newton 1902 S Highland Mrs William Moore Casper Eugene Geyer Humboldt.
Police noted damage to a car's left rear door estimated at $30 after Chauncey said he could not see the car from his truck and began to change lanes. Officers recorded the sequence and noted limited view as a contributing factor.
Mrs Ernest Kepley of Route 4 entered Wesley Hospital in Wichita on Wednesday for surgery.
American professor Robert A. Beck dean of Cornell University’s hotel administration says hotels could give a 10 percent rebate if guests make their own beds and even higher cuts if guests cook their own breakfast. He cited U.S. staff shortages as a motive during a seminar on hotel management in Melbourne.
Gilbert H. Grosvenor became the National Geographic Society’s sole employee as the magazine grown from a circulation of 1,000 to reaching 4,500,000 member families.
A rusty knife with a three to four inch blade was found Tuesday on a bluff near Valerie Percy's beach house in Kensworth. Police study the blade while Valerie’s death on Sept. 18 at the lakefront home prompts campaign pauses for Percy and Douglas.
Instructions advise contacting your Tribune by phone via your carrier and, if unreachable, dialing HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m.
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