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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1963
Page
3
Local market quotations show wheat at 2.18, corn 1.15, oats 0.75, soybeans 2.41, barley 1.00. Eggs and poultry prices vary by grade and size with large eggs at 28 30 for consumer, wholesale large at 30 33, heavy hens 14, capons 16 18, live fryers at farm 1434.15, butter Grade A 0.67 0.68 per pound.
Hogs steady to 25 lower with 190 to 250 pound barrows and gilts at 13.50 to 13.85 and 300 to 400 pound sows at 12.50 to 12.75. Lambs, ewes, and feeder lambs varied with good to prime lambs around 19.50 and 18.50 to 19.00 for good to choice. Cattle and calves show mixed moves with slaughter steers 22.50 to 23.65 and vealers 24.00 to 31.00, while cows run 14.25 to 16.00 and feeder steer calves 28.00 to 30.80. Wheat and corn prices ticked up and down across No 2 to No 3 grades. futures closed mixed. Stock market activity in New York strong with major gains and trading volume around 5.9 million shares. IBM up, U.S. Steel down, while other sectors led the rise in a five-week advance.
Two masked bandits robbed an A and P at 712 State in Kansas City Kansas this morning. They used a long barrel .38 and a snub-nosed .38 revolver and looted two safes with the amount not yet determined.
A long hospital notice lists many new births and parents with addresses and locales including Sunflower Merriam Linwood Oskaloosa and DeSoto. It records a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jolliff and other newborns with dates noted as Saturday or Sunday.
Washington AP reports a national committee to draft Sen. Barry Goldwater as the 1964 Republican presidential candidate. Peter O'Donnell Jr., Texas Republican chairman, says Goldwater has political appeal to win the South and help Republicans sweep Congress in 1964.
Alfred M. Landon the 1936 Republican presidential nominee will speak Tuesday night at the Hotel Eldridge in Lawrence. He will address 35 petroleum marketers gathered for their annual management institute at Kansas University with talks on politics and business in 1963 and related industry lectures on marketing communications merchandising and selling.
Mrs. Bevah F. Eliot 74 of 631 Ohio St died Sunday at home born Jan 31 1889 Leavenworth County member First Methodist Church Surviving daughter Mrs Janice Seetin Napa Calif son Gordon Eliot Topeka four sisters seven grandchildren four great grandchildren Funeral arrangements pending Rumsey Funeral Home. Mrs Nellie Grider 82 of 1400 La St longtime Lawrence resident First Presbyterian Church husband R L Grider mining engineering professor at Kansas University died Sunday Survivors include daughter Mrs Willard Burton Billings Mont Cooper Warren Mortuary. Robert L Hundley 45 civil service employee at Ft Leavenworth died Sunday at Wadsworth Veterans Center funeral 2 p m Tuesday Davis Chapel Leavenworth burial Mount Muncie Cemetery born July 10 1917 Leavenworth served in WWII Bronze Star Survivors two sisters Hazel Stout Alice McClure three nieces two nephews.
Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at DeSoto Methodist Church for Harry Dicken 87 longtime president of DeSoto State Bank former five term mayor and school board member Survivors include daughters Lucille Gibson and Clarice Osbourne brother Charles Dicken and nephew Wayne Dicken Julien Flaming Funeral Home of Olathe in charge Burial in DeSoto Cemetery
New York February contracts for future construction in Kansas totaled 24,398,000, up 4 percent from February 1962, according to F W Dodge. Non-residential led with 9,089,000 up 28 percent, residential 8,111,000 down 13 percent, and public works 7,198,000 up 3 percent. The first two months of 1963 totaled 54,029,000, up 43 percent from 1962 with non-residential 24,588,000 up 92 percent, residential 16,448,000 up 18 percent, and public works 12,993,000 up 16 percent.
The Samaritan Lodge of Route 1 is among 18 Kansas nursing homes licensed as skilled nursing facilities under a new state program. The program emphasizes rehabilitation to bridge hospital acute care and standard adult care homes, enabling skilled nursing for patients requiring such care.
In the Courts County Court Imogene M Zimm erman McLouth speeding ten dollars Robert K Noble Eudora speeding ten dollars Franklin R Theis 1025 Emery Rd speeding ten dollars Percy W Kiser 312 Locust speeding ten dollars Frank L Rice 2418 Ohio failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident ten dollars
The Kansas State Board of Health took charge of programs standards and licensing for adult care homes on July 1 1961. A new skilled nursing home category was created to improve operation and ensure criteria are met.
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