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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
8
Street and agricultural notes show varied prices for beef, poultry, and produce with mentions of Denver markets and US demand. Livestock receipts and wholesale values shift. calves, hogs, and lambs list moderate to weak demand with steady to rising hogs and cattle in select lots.
In Chicago trading, grain depts indicated large day volumes at subsisting terminals, boosting hedged wheat futures while oats and other grains faced reductions. Buyers weighed new crop prospects and potential production cuts amid plans to adjust supply, signaling shifting demand expectations for upcoming months.
The New York stock market closed largely steady with minimal price changes and small turnover. Trading hovered around a point or so, with many issues unchanged and activity at a slow pace for the session.
Gropley Kiwanis club met at Weld County General Hospital auditorium for a Thursday luncheon and program. A. RK Gapron introduced three youngsters to be wards of the club at the Easter Seal camp 31 Stonehenge this summer. H. Af. Hill presented hospital growth data and explained current operations and break-even finances. Tours of the building followed. Ray Rucker and James Stewart were guests of the hospital board.
A Denver couple, Everett Fesler 83 and his wife, were killed when their car sideswiped a bridge seven miles west of Goodland Kansas late Thursday night. Hetty June Fesler a daughter and two sons Randy 3 and Robbins 1 were listed in critical condition at a Goodland hospital along with Mrs Jack Wills of Denver. The group was returning to Colorado after a Memorial Day visit at Palco Kansas.
A list of individuals admitted to Weld County General Hospital on Thursday May includes Bill Lawrence Romero Fort Lupton Dean Butz 1206 Sixteenth Avenue and many others with addresses. Dismissals include Mrs Thomas C Ellis and son of Kersey and Mrs Dean McMurry and son among others.
Corrected market values for June 17 show wheat at cu. 1.59, oats 2.10, barley priced, beans at 35.50, bullerfat es C grade, colored hens 5 pounds and over at 2. Leghorn and Hyline chicks 4 pounds and over listed with prices. colored fryers and pullets 4 pounds and up at 2s. 1. ducks and turkeys noted with typical price indicators.
The article details promotions and moves within the Sugar Company across multiple plants. Swaney advances to assistant superintendent at Brush and holds posts in Windsor and Johnstown. Schmode becomes Fort Morgan head and previously served at Windsor. Muscaviteh shifts to Billings, while Miller moves to Findlay and Richter returns to Fremont as superintendent.
A long police court list includes numerous defendants from Pine Bluffs Cheyenne Gl La Salle and Evans with charges of speeding careless driving no operator's license failed signals and driving while intoxicated or under the influence. Fines range from 3.50 to 159.00 with several not guilty verdicts and multiple defendants noted for speeding and improprieties in driving.
Virgil Timothy, co owner of Gilcrest Feed and Elevator Co., was run over by a tractor and spraying machine while spraying weeds on a farm near Gilcrest around 2 30 p m Thursday. He was taken to Weld County General Hospital with injuries described as serious but improving. the tractor apparently rolled forward while he was off the seat.
Two Fort Carson soldiers were killed near Cotopaxi when their car left a curve at night and overturned. Private David A. Hartikka, 19, died at the scene. Private Robert L. Bennett, 21, was hospitalized in serious condition. State Patrol credited excessive speed and loose gravel. Colorado traffic deaths for the year rose to a new level.
President Eisenhower on Friday named a seven person cabinet committee as part of a 17 member group to study small business needs. Arthur F. Burns chairs the panel with Wilson, Works, Mitchell, Blemining, Barnes and Albert Cole as members. The panel is tasked with ongoing recommendations to strengthen the small business sector and advise on administrative actions and potential new legislation.
Brantn Cole George Stout Weld County General Hospital assistant administrator and health and hospital director left Friday to attend a one day briefing in Colorado Springs. Mrs Max Littleton Weld County public health nurse will join CD officials from across the state to view radar detection install observe the new air force interceptor jets in action and witness the split second takeoff of jets during an air raid warning.
City officials and contractor Hensel Phelps report the $248000 Community Building will be ready for inspection and city acceptance within about two weeks. Remaining work includes interior painting, flooring, seating installation, door and boiler areas, and final site landscaping and parking gravel.
An 18-year-old Birmingham schoolboy Beharrell and Glasgow's Leslie Taylor reached the British Amateur Golf final at Troon. Beharrell beat Reid Jack 2 and 1 in the 36-hole semi after Jack defeated defending champ Joe Conrad. Taylor beat George Henderson 6 and 5 to win the other semi. Jack had eliminated Conrad, the last American in the field, in the quarterfinals.
Birth notices list two Weld County General Hospital deliveries for Eaton residents and a third Osteopathic Memorial Hospital birth with connections to Eaton. A local meeting trip notes Dr. Kenneth J. Hansen departing Friday for Wichita for an orientation conference of the National Office Manager Association. He leads CSCE business education and Trinity chapter activity in Greeley Fort Collins and Loveland. He plans to return Sunday June 10.
Colorado education officials announced disbursement of the state public school fund for the 1954 55 school year totaling 18 478 515 72 with Weld County receiving 87 918 and Denver 385 090 in apportionments. Checks will be mailed to districts.
Two masked assailants killed Thomas Dombrowski editor of the weekly Glos Ludowy and Frank Grodzki of Queens during an attempted hold up at a club. Walter Nogas, wounded, questioned at Bellevue Hospital as police dismissed political motive and pursued robbery-linked suspects. Dombrowski’s paper faced claims of communistic ties.
The Daily Vacation Bible School sponsored by the Greeley Council of Churches is cancelled due to inadequate leadership. It was scheduled in March as an annual council project. Separately, Bret Acreage Sugar beet growers from western states will meet in Denver in June to discuss 1957 proration under the sugar beet act. The state Ag. Con. and Stabilization office will not release individual county acreage allotments until early fall.
Colorado reports show 1181 teachers graduated last year with only about a third remaining in state service and half qualifying for elementary teaching. Many depart for higher wages or other careers while the state pushes for mandatory degrees and education coursework to boost public school staffing amid a surge of emergency certificates totaling 2341 last year.
New York City property assessment soared to 21.974 billion dollars, rising by 253.7 million or 1.7 percent from last year. The record valuation reflects overall growth in taxable assessments across the city.
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