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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1963
Page
3
Kansas City AP market notes show wheat mostly steady to down. corn higher in spots, soybeans 2.51 to 2.56, barley and rye prices listed. Eggs and poultry prices from Harwood's Market and regional sources. cattle and hogs with price ranges and shifts noted. milk and butter prices cited. Continuous futures data included for wheat and related commodities.
Markets at a glance show higher stocks with select issues advancing while bonds move mixed in light trading. In Chicago wheat edges up with short covering and export demand lifting corn and soybeans strong amid active trading. Hogs and slaughter steers vary as investors digest merger prospects and aerospace shares.
About two points in play Grumman and General Dynamics each rose near a point. Merger of assets among oil firms discussed while several candidates gained. Amerada gained about two as Sunray DX Oil climbed about a point in heavy trading.
Memorial Hospital records list births for Mrs. Mary Jenkins and baby girl in Eudora, Mrs. Anne Thomas and baby girl in Lecompton, Mrs. Beatrice Davison in Richland, and several other newborns. Names of residents include Frank Hafferkamp Linwood and Patricia Backus in Barker, plus multiple addresses and family entries.
A Police Court docket lists defendants from addresses across Lincoln streets and towns facing disturbing the peace speeding traffic violations and stop sign breaches. Fines range from 5 to 50 dollars with several 10 day suspensions and one 60 day sentence.
Richard Allen Shobe died Wednesday at St Luke s Hospital in Kansas City Missouri. Graveside services were held this afternoon in Kansas City. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs James L Shobe and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs James R Wells. Twin brother Robert Wayne Shobe also died recently.
Mrs Maude Burdick 77 died Wednesday at her home in Oskaloosa after living in Topeka and Tonganoxie. Funeral services will be Friday at the Hampton Funeral Home with burial in Pleasant View Cemetery. Surviving nephew Clifford Sturgis of Colorado Springs.
Postmaster General J Edward Day warned to possibly shut down parcel post service on July 1 if budget cuts remain. He testified to a Senate appropriations subcommittee urging restoration of a $92 million reduction imposed by the House.
Japan trails the United States and the United Kingdom in ownership of television sets with 9,000,000 units reported. The figures position Japan as the third largest market for television ownership among the three nations observed.
Fellowship hall at 10th and Vermont hosts a Methodist Men benefit spaghetti supper on April 18 1963 from 5 30 to 7 30 pm in Lawrence Kansas.
The Washington DC school board voted 5 to 4 to keep the paddling ban in place amid a heated debate over corporal punishment led by Supt Carl F Hanson. The board also approved indefinite suspensions of unruly pupils pending May rulings on legality. Mordecai Johnson criticized Hanson as out of touch with disciplinary issues after the Thanksgiving Stadium riot.
A championship game riot between a mostly Negro student body and a mostly white school prompted a citizens committee to fault school discipline. Hanson proposed a 22 point program including paddling and expelling troublemakers. Johnson accused Hanson of rushing judgment and masking administrative failures while the board backed Hanson.
A fun fest for junior high students is set for Friday at 7 30 p m at Plymouth Congregational Church.
The Douglas County Trail Riders Club invites members and interested persons with a manageable horse to join a Kansas University Relays parade contingent. They will meet at 9 15 a.m. Saturday on South Park Street between Massachusetts and New Hamp
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