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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1966
Page
15
A New Low note appears with bleached market terms for cottonseed oil futures. Prices show unchanged to lower closes with May July and October bids and lows listed alongside trading volumes and vendor notes.
The excerpt lists Chicago Mercantile prices for frozen eggs and turkeys, live beef cattle, frozen pork, and related items with bid and ask ranges across months. It also shows monthly interest totals for February through August, indicating substantial activity in commodities and finance.
Wholesale U S butter prices hold steady with small variations noted for different grades and packaging. Egg prices paid delivered to Chicago show mixed movement with slight increases for some grades and sizes amid market fluctuations.
Readable fragments reveal a radio schedule with hourly news weather and station IDs plus dense stock market figures and corporate names. The page lists WBTM AM1330 content and a long ledger of ticker data from numerous companies including Deltona Corp and Eckerd Drug stores.
New York AP reports cotton futures closed flat to one and a half dollars higher per base. Trading focused on the October and December contracts with October gains seen from short covering and December selling by traders. Spot cotton markets held steady as activity shifted between contracts.
In Chicago, demand for butcher hogs was moderate with prices steady to 25 cents lower per 100 pounds. No.1 and 2 mixed grades touched 36 dollars, others rose from 29.50. Mixed 1-3 at 29.75 and 2-3 at 28.75. Sows ranged 22.25 to 25.50. Slaughter steers held steady to 25 cents lower with most over 3150 pounds. Prime grade sold at 29.25, weights 2350 to 1400 pounds. High mixed and prime ranged 27.50 to 28, and 24 to 27.50 for larger steers. Weighed slaughter lambs unchanged at 26.50 to 28.75.
Redwood City Calif AP novelist Ken Kesey and a friend drew six months in jail for possession of narcotics. Kesey, 29, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and Sometimes a Great Nation, and 13 guests were arrested April 23 in a raid on Kesey s La Honda California hilltop home. Judge Louis B Dematteis placed the author on three years probation. same sentence to John P Browning, 27, of Mountain View. Charges against others in the narcotics raid were dropped.
NASA launched a Nike Apache two stage Weather rocket from Wallops Island Virginia releasing a sodium vapor trail visible for miles along the Virginia Maryland coast. The flight aimed to study high altitude wind velocities and directions with five shots planned through Tuesday.
Virginia Supreme Court ruled Colonial Pipeline Co. may condemn land to build a 360 million Texas to New Jersey pipeline across 15 counties. Two opinions upheld lower court decisions, rejecting challenges from Chesapeake firm Peck Iron and Metal and James City County landowner William Ferguson. The court also addressed 21 other cases, including indigent prisoner appeals, condemnation first-filed principle, and a medical malpractice dispute.
The Chicago cash grain page lists Wheat No 2 hard at 1.67 N No 2 soft red 0.70 N and Corn No 2 yellow 3.334 with No 4 yellow 1.2449.N Oats No 2 heavy white 774 78 N Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.86 N No 2 yellow 2.87 and soybean oil 11.75 a.
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