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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1961
Page
12
Market notices show used cars and trucks for sale including Ford and Chevrolet models with prices and contact details. Livestock listings cover cattle calves and hogs with market quotes from Chicago and local trade.
Frederic Whitman, president of the Western Pacific Railroad, favors a merger with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe to strengthen the line. He told the New York Times that consolidations are likely and that a combined system could better serve shippers. The ICC plans hearings starting July 17 in San Francisco on Western Pacific merger applications.
In Des Moines the Urbanews paper published a notice about a fret practice for the Urbandale softball team. The notice failed to identify the team as a girls team, prompting many male attendees and an ensuing postponement.
Chicago grain trading today saw soybeans rally amid scattered support while other grains faced profit taking and weak demand. Wheat and oats moved modestly, with July prices hovering near prior levels as receipts and futures fluctuated in thin activity.
OCR text shows irregular grain price marks and references to wheat oats and soybeans in Chicago with scattered figures. Mentions corn and soy prices and grades, but many fragments and garbled lines obscure clear trades or volumes.
The AP reports a continued stock market drop in quiet trading with about 3 million shares traded. Major issues fell 2 to 3 points while motors and oils held steadier, Boeing rose, and several large names like DuPont, Air Reduction, Allied Chemical, Kennicott and American Telephone slipped. Some gains appeared for Johns Manville, Texaco, Royal Dutch, Eastman Kodak, and General Motors amid a mixed session.
A fragment notes a supermarket discussion of a balanced diet with a joking reference to a hamburger in each hand. Specific figures appear garbled but imply a product label or dietary balance phrase. Consecutive numbers and identifiers suggest cataloging data rather than a coherent article.
James Quls Moore, formerly a Greeley Tribune reporter and photographer, earned his bachelor of law degree from the University of Colorado on Saturday. He holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maine, and has worked on editorial staffs of the New York Journal American, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Danville Morning News, and the Tribune. His wife Roy Barrett previously worked on the Greeley Tribune staff. The Moores have a son, Louis Bar, and Moore will teach English at Fort Lewis A&M College in Durango this fall.
Alamosa Col AP Principal speakers at the 43rd Colorado American Legion convention include Rear Admiral George Luker of the Navy Hoery IL Deetzler national vice commander and Robert Lungh assistant national adjutant. More than 1000 legionnaires and wives are expected to attend with Dickey Springer Post of Manassa as host.
Former ambassador Robert C. Hill told a Senate subcommittee that the United States should blockade Cuba and seek hemispheric allies while prepared to act alone with military force if necessary. He said Iron Curtain nations are arming Cuba and warned of Communist influence guiding Castro. The State Department reportedly declined to comment on Hill’s remarks.
Cleland Feast and a Denver attorney announce they will challenge a Colorado law taxing 12 mills on Game and Fish Department property. They argue the move violates state immunity and could threaten the Game and Fish fund and federal allotments. Feast accuses the agency of not opposing the law.
Des Moines police searched a home for a suspect connected to an accident while two officers found an empty closet and a hidden man. The narrative shifts to Des Moines where nine year old Steven Laton recalls his father urging garden planting and later plows the garden himself amid mentions of automation and steel mills and a family garden called the lossed salad garden.
President Kennedy asked Congress to enact a wide overhaul of the unemployment compensation system. He urged higher benefit levels and longer durations funded by increased payroll taxes. The plan aims for a permanent revision of Social Security’s unemployment program, despite long timelines and no immediate cost figures.
Denver based D&RGW announced it will support Southern Pacific in its bid for Western Pacific. President G R Aydelott said Rio Grande aims to stay independent and seeks assurances against preferential routing. The move ties into broader rivalries among Southern Pacific Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Western Pacific over transcontinental freight control.
Rochester police report 10,882 traffic violators were arrested last year with only 15 percent being women. The finding highlights gender disparity in enforcement within the Rochester area.
Denver AP reports a western and northern Deaver hailstorm ten days ago caused nearly 2 million dollars in losses. Ed Perry regional manager of the general adjustment bureau announced the figure. The bureau handles claims for about 200 insurers and reported 9,450 separate losses to date.
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