Kansas City and Wichita Livestock Prices Summary
The Market reports cattle and hog prices with steady to strong trends for certain weights and grades. Kansas City listings show feeders and vealers mostly steady, cows higher by up to 25, hogs uneven, sheep steady to higher on slaughter lambs, with varied scores across weight classes and grades. Wichita market mirrors steady to strong for steers and heifers, steady cows, hogs mostly down, vealers 17 to 18 dollars, lambs 15 to 16 dollars, ewes around 2.50.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Wichita
Wheat and Corn Prices End Mixed on Final Delivery Day
Wheat futures fell while corn declined slightly, with oats steady to higher as December contracts expire. Government estimates had pegged wheat higher by about 23 million bushels, and open interest stood at 62,020,000 bushels as prices fluctuated in Kansas City grain trades and futures activity.
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New York
Lindh Produce
Airlin
Sion
Atchison Fe
Garden City
Lima
Kansas City
Gen Motors
Chicago Corn Goodyear
Chicago
P &L
Martin
Jan Anne
Monsan
Mont Ward
NY Central
Ohio
Jansen
Phil Pet
RCA
Hutchinson
Wichwale
Ita
Omaha
Enid
Salina
Sincair O
U Ma
Board of Trade
Move Ahead On Turnpike
Bids for lighting along the Kansas Turnpike will be opened January 12 at Topeka. Mercury vapor lights are planned for toll plazas service areas and interchanges from the Kansas City Oklahoma state line. Also up for bidding are 40 000 gallon water tanks at Wellington Rio Do rada Matfield Green Emporia Topeka and Lawrence service areas. General Manager Gale Moss said work is advancing despite bad weather since late November.
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Topeka
Kansas Turnpike
Turnpike Authority
Kansas City
Oklahoma State Line
Wellington
FE Dorada
Matfield Green
Emporia
Lawrence
Turnpike
Gale Moss
Goody Knight Plans To Enlist the Delegation
Governor Goodwin J. Knight announced a pro Eisenhower slate to the 1956 Republican National Convention in California. He pledged California’s 70 votes to himself as a favorite and only nominal candidate if the President does not seek a second term, noting state law bans undecided delegations.
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Sacramento
Calif
Goodwin J. Knight
California
Labor Independents Plan New Organization
A three day St. Louis meeting of independent labor union representatives concludes with committees finishing reports on merging about 6 million non AFL CIO members. The delegates, drawn from the National Independent Union Council and the Confederated Unions, aim to set groundwork for a merger convention in Washington February 6.
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ST. Louis
Washington
Fed. 6
National Independent Union Council
Have
Curfew Extends to Bethlehem Amid Jordan Turmoil
Rioters clashed with police in Amman over Jordan joining the Baghdad Pact. King Hussein dissolved Parliament and government to curb violence, triggering protests. New demonstrations erupted in Amman as crowds feared cabinet changes while Bethlehem imposed a curfew ahead of Christmas pilgrims.
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Amman
Jordan
Hussein
Hazza el Majali
Bethlehem
Christ
Civic Center Receives Look Subscription From Estrafita Club
See By The Telesram notes that the Estrafita club presented the Civic Center with a year’s subscription to Look magazine. Delta Mu chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority offered a pair of figurines. Pierceville schools plan a Christmas program tonight at 7 30 featuring a grade school operetta and high school mixed chorus with a nativity scene under Mrs Oscar Coulter. Garden City schools report 2600 pupils and 125 teachers will begin Christmas vacation after classes Wednesday. school resumes Tuesday January 3.
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Estrafita Club
Civic Center
Look Magazine
Delta Mu Chapter
Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority
Pierceville
Oscar Coulter
Garden City
Polio Victims To Fly Home From Honolulu
A U S airman and a Kansas mother and her 4 month old daughter, all stricken with polio and in iron lungs, will be flown back to the United States for treatment. The mother and child will go to Omaha Nebraska, while the airman goes to San Diego after arrival at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco. Their plane departs Honolulu at 11 a.m. Hawaii time.
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Honolulu
U. S
Kansas
United States
Patty Knupp
Alika
Ann
Omaha
Neb
Newton
Kas
Stuart R. Modder
Beverly Hills
Calif
San Diego
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Pastor Adultery Allegation Ties to Fatal Shooting
Bond of 7500 was set for Walter Vaughn of Denver City Texas after he fatally shot Baptist minister Chester Stevens claiming the man adultered with Vaughn's wife. Vaughn waived examining trial before Justice Pickard and expects his attorney to post bond. Mrs Vaughn, mother of four, corroborated the accusation saying Stevens entered their home under pretense as pastor.
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Weatherford
Tex
Walter Vaughn
Vaughn
Denver City
Ter
Justice of the Peace
Eddleman Pickard
Astor
Chester Stevens
New York Plans Calf Brucellosis Immunization Initiative
Albany reports New York State will inoculate every calf aged four to eight months against brucellosis. The Agriculture Department seeks $614,350 for 1956-57, up from $487,800, to fund the program aimed at eradicating the disease in dairy cows.
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Albany
N.Y
New York State
Agriculture Department
Daniel J. Carey
Daily Swimmer Braves Freezing Lake Michigan Swim
Chicago witnessed William Wohl, a 47 year old railroad conductor, plunge into Lake Michigan despite temperatures at 9 degrees above zero and a 2 degree low. Wohl has maintained a daily swim routine for two years despite the cold.
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Chicago
William Wohl
Lake Michi-gan
Wohl
Hospital Admittances and Births in Garden City
Hospital notices list R. A. Rundell Gail McNeal and others admitted to Garden City area facilities. Discharges include Wendell Ravenstine and Mrs Graves. A 7 lb 13 oz boy born at 11 40 a.m. and a 7 lb 6 oz girl born at 8 55 a.m. are recorded along with an 8 lb 3% oz boy born today. Police briefs report several bonds and speeding cases plus bicycle tire slashing complaints. County briefs note truck overload fines and real estate deeds within Garden City.
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St. Catherine
Kenneth Wilkin
Healy
LeRoy Thomas
North First
Leopold
D. A. Herman
Scott City
DeLynn Edward James
Gordon Michael Penny
Martin Frank Peitz
Pennsylvania
Duane Anthony Bieker
Albert P. Brandt
Michael Lewis Beckett
Main
Frank William Taylor
Wesley Proffit
Orvin Bradley
H. Allen Lee
Mark E. Talbott
Stoeckley
Garden City
Orville V. Brehm
J. H. Keller
$10 000 Windfall for Christmas in Missouri
A Missouri family, the Sells of Peach Orchard, receive a $10,000 windfall as the United Farm Agency marks its 50,000th farm sale. Roscoe L. Chamberlain funded the gift, enabling the family to swap from sharecropping to owning two 80-acre farms with livestock and housing after a $3,000 contract. The gift covered the new farm’s cost and cleared the remaining debt on the first property.
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Kansas City
Bob Sells
Peach Orchard
Missouri
Roscoe L. Chamberlain
United Farm Agency
Alcene
Sells
Fairdealing
United
Chamberlain
Tot Takes First Steps Toward Bright Future
In West Orange New Jersey 2 year old Cindy Ann Inman born without arms or legs used artificial limbs at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. She managed four to five steps marking a first progress in learning to walk aided by prosthetics as Sherman Texas residents contributed to a See Cindy Walk fund.
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West Orange
N.J
Cynthia Ann Inman
Sherman
Texas
Cindy
Vida Inman
Kessler Institute For Rehabilitation
Mrs. Inman
Hall Mum On Reports Of Buzick Appointment
TOPEKA Gov. Fred Hall refused to confirm or deny reports he will appoint Henry S. Buzick Jr., Sylvan Grove banker and former state senator, as state bank commissioner. Buzick also refused to discuss the reports after conferring with the Governor yesterday. Gordon Lindley of Kingman has been acting commissioner since Frank Oberg retired months ago.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Henry S. Buzick Jr
Sylvan Grove
Buzick
Gordon Lindley
Kingman
Frank Oberg
Clays Center
Galle Appointed Attorney for State Liquor Office
TOPEKA James L. Galle an assistant attorney general since July 1953 has been appointed attorney for the State Liquor Control Office by Atty. Gen. Harold R. Fatzer with governor’s concurrence. Galle 61 will assume duties December 27 succeeding C. C. Linley Cimarron. He formerly lived in McPherson and last spring announced plans to seek the Republican nomination for attorney general in 1956.
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Topekan
James L. Galle
State
Liquor Control Office
Atty
Harold R. Fatzer
Fatzer
Galle
C. C. Linley
Cimarron
State Corporation Commission
McPherson
Atttorney
Convict Two Men of Kidnapping in Kansas City Case
A federal court jury convicted Thomas A. Cochran and Archie Smith Jr. of kidnapping Vera Kelly, mother of five, near the Missouri state line. The defendants, tried under the Lindbergh Law, faced no death penalty and will await sentencing after a pre-sentence investigation ordered by Judge Arthur J. Mellett.
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Kansas City
Vera Kelly
Thomas A. Cochran
Belton
Archie Smith Jr
Stillwell
Kas
Arthur J. Mellett
Kelly
Missouri
Cochran
Smith
Stilwell
Seek Hike in Foreign Aid to Congress for 4.9 Billion
Secretary of State Dulles announced the administration will ask Congress for about 4.9 billion dollars in foreign aid including 100 million for a presidential fund in the Soviet threatened Middle East. He said the request covers military and economic aid, with a roughly 2.2 billion increase to maintain military supplies, and that actual spending will rise about 200 million above this fiscal year.
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Washington
Dulles
Congress
Middle East
GOPers Seek At-Large Delegates For GOP Natio nal Convention
Emporia Kansas two Republican State Committee members Lloyd Ruppenthal and Mildred Strohm announced candidacy for at-large delegates to the national convention in San Francisco. The committee will not influence delegate selection and set dates for six district conventions between Feb 27 and March 23. Proceeds from the January 20 Wichita Salute-talk dinner at $100 per plate will go to the national committee.
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Emporia
Kas
Republican State Committee
San Francisco
Lloyd H. Ruppenthal
McPherson
Mildred Strohm
Little River
Topeka
Wichita
GOP Nation Committee
Will Seek Increase In Public Health Funds
Welfare Folsom announced Congress will be asked to raise Public Health Service research funds by 25 to 30 percent next year. He said the administration would propose a new federal matching program for medical and dental schools. Increased funds would apply to seven major Public Health Service research areas including mental health cancer heart arthritis neurological dermal and microbiological.
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Washington
Folsom
Congress
Public Health Service
Public Health
Deaths and mncrals Ray A Rundell of Pierceville Dies
Ray A Rundell aged 32 died at St Catherine hospital ten hours after admission. A farmer and stockman, he lived south of Pierceville since 1915. Born January 5 1893 at Stafford he married May 18 1916. Surviving are his widow, a son Walter, three daughters Mrs Carl Dixon Urbana Illinois Mrs Paul Murphy Hays and Mrs Richard Pittman London England four sisters and four brothers. Funeral arrangements are incomplete Phillips Funeral home in charge.
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Rundell
Pierceville
Stafford
Walter
Carl Dixon
Urbana
Paul Murphy
Hays
Richard Pittman
London
England
May Brown
Vivian McFadden
Dodge City
Olive Bender
Fairmont
Neb
Florence Hoskinson
Montezuma
Ira B
Clifford
Bucklin
Edgar E
Garden City
Alton K
Phillips Funeral Home
Big Contract For Tuttle Dam
A $4,238,003 contract was awarded to List and Clark Construction Co of Kansas City for earth fill on the east side of the Big Blue River at Tuttle Creek Dam north of Manhattan, Kansas. The project includes excavations totaling about 3.3 million and 399 thousand cubic yards and 6.19 million cubic yards of fill, with completion planned by December 15, 1957.
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Kansas City
Dee
Liquor Tax Grants Go To Kansas Counties
The state mailed 226 283 to 105 Kansas counties as their share of the two per cent enforcement tax on liquor sales for the three months ended December 15. Distribution rose from 160 860 in the previous quarter due to a Legislature appropriation. County shares ranged from 380 for Wallace to 26 977 for Sedgwick, with 50 percent going to county general funds and the rest to cities within each county.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Commission On
Wallace County
Sedgwick County
County General Fund
George F George To Run Again In Georgia Primary
VIENNA Ga W Sen Walter F George today announced his bid for renomination in Georgia primary next year ending retirement rumors The 77 year old dean of the Senate and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee said major matters will come before the second session of the 84th Congress and he will remain at his post in Washington to meet Georgia's business in Washington
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Vienna
Walter F. George
Georgia
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
Herman Talmadge
Washington
State Labor Merger Complete Next Spring
The Kansas Federation of Labor AFL and the Kansas Industrial Union Council CIO set May 12 as the target date for completing their merger. A state convention in Hutchinson on that date is expected to formalize the unification in line with the national merger plan. Floyd Black of Topeka will chair the merger committee with H. J. Yount of Kansas City as secretary.
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Topeka
Kansas Federation of Labor
AFL
Kansas Industrial Union Council
CIO
Hutchinson
Floyd Black
H. J. Yount
Kansas City
Big Farm Output, But Lower Income
In Appleton Wisconsin a major blaze caused estimated damages of 200000 dollars in subzero weather. The city’s worst fire in 27 years burned three two story business buildings to ruins from about 9 30 p m to 2 30 a m and left at least six families homeless in second floor apartments.
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Appleton
Wis
Paul Neumann
No Gun Fired But He Gets Shot Anyway
A elk hunter Ted Tracy of Butte was shot in the arm when a rifle cartridge in his jacket pocket exploded and ricocheted into his left arm while riding in a hunting vehicle between two brothers. The blast tore muscles and severed an artery and nerves. In Washington, farmers report record production in 1955 at 105.4 percent of the 1947-49 average for crops, with meats and dairy at about 112 percent of five-year average, yet income down about 10 percent due to lower prices and surpluses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston
Mont
Hunter Ted Tracy
Butte
Washington
Agriculture Department
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Goody Knight
Labor Independents
R. A. Rundell
Gail McNeal
Wallace
Donald R. Morrell
Wendell Ravenstine
Ernest J. Graves
Copeland
Thomas Motley
Gardendale
Tot
Hall
Ray A. Rundell
St. Catherine Hospital
Tuttle Dam
Jake
George
U.S
McDonald's Hosiery Club
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