Market News Wheat Prices and Livestock Auction Rates
Kansas City AP reports livestock prices with 8 000 cattle and calves at feeder auction. Feeder steers 525 675 lb 31.50 33.20, 700 975 lb 29.70 30.80. Feeder heifers 540 725 lb 26.70 28.40. Hogs 3 500 head with various weight bands priced 19.75 20.90. Sheep 100 head spring lambs 31.50, old crop lambs 27.75. Wheat and corn prices listed along with eggs butter and oats.
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Wheat futures close lower amid mixed grain prices
Kansas City notes show No. 2 hard red wheat around 1.55 to 1.59 per bushel with No. 3 at 1.42 to 1.39 and corn holding near 2.70 to 2.80. Soybeans and barley posted small gains while sacked bran and shorts traded in narrow ranges as May through December contracts reflected slight declines.
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Fire Damages Car and Brush Fire Set at Mount Hope Nursery
Firemen report a car owned by Jim Bruce at 1310 East 21st Street sustained about 100 dollars in damage when it backfired and burned in the engine area at 228 East 28rd St. Wiring in the engine was damaged and hood paint scorched. A separate brush fire at Mount Hope Nursery at West 2nd and Wis. Street was intentionally set, reported at 4:52 p.m.
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St. Lawrence
Mount Hope Nursery
West 2Nd
Wis. St
Market dips on cautious trading ahead of long weekend
Wall Street closed lower as investors paused in moderate volume with the Dow Jones average down 3.62 to 927.30. Of 1,554 issues, 708 fell and 576 rose, new year highs at 23 and new lows at 126 signaling broad weakness.
Brooklyn Man Charged With Victimizing Vietnam War Families
Francesco Flores, 24, of Brooklyn, allegedly posed as a sergeant in the Army or Marine Corps to prey on relatives of Vietnam war dead. He exploited newspaper lists to visit families offering fake burial services for a $100 fee, claiming to arrange a glass viewing window in sealed caskets. He was arrested at home and charged with larceny criminal impersonation fraudulent accosting and obtaining money fraudulently.
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Francesco Flores
Vietnam
Keating Named As Ambassador To New Delhi
President Nixon announced four ambassadorships including Kenneth B. Keating of New York as ambassador to India replacing Chester Bowles. Also named were William Leonhart to Yugoslavia Val Peterson to Finland and Robert C. Hill to Spain. Keating served as a New York senator from 1958 to 1965. Bowles had served as ambassador to India since 1963.
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New York
India
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Yugoslavia
Val Peterson
Nebraska
Finland
New Hampshire
Robert C. Hill
Robert F. Wagner
Spain
Leonhart
Foreign Service
Lyndon B.johnson
X. Burke Elbrick
Belgrade
Elbrick
Woodcock Song Origin Tied to Wing Feathers
The woodcock’s distinctive song does not come from its throat but from air vibrating through the three outer feathers on each wingtip. This wingbeat noise creates the familiar spring call of the bird.
Capital Argues King Rites
Washington city grapples with how to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. death on April 4. Mayor Walter Washington issues a liberal leave policy but stops short of an official holiday. Community demands for closings clash with merchants plans to keep normal Friday hours amid prior riot damage near 14th and U streets.
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Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade
Creative Writing Winners Named in 1969 Contest
Winners named in the Lawrence Theta Sigma Phi 1969 Creative Writing contest for Douglas Franklin and Jefferson counties include 11th and 12th grade top winners Pattie Sue Young Dean Richards I and David E Thayer with others named for 9th 10th and 7th 8th grades. A record 154 entries were judged by Theta Sigma Phi members with entries from 17 schools and 25 teachers. Winning pieces will be published next week in the Journal World. Lawrence chapter president is Mrs George Francis.
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Franklin
Jefferson
Pattie Sue Young
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Dean Richards I
David E. Thayer
Ottawa
Mike Aliman
Rt. 4
Linda Bottom
Journal-World
Lawrence
George Francis
Countryside Lane
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