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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1964
Page
2
The report lists lambs at 21.25 to 24.00 per head for choice and shorn categories, ewes 6.00 to 7.50, cattle at 4 000 head with calves 50. Steers show steady to weak trends with choice at 21.00 and 20.00-21.75 for standard ranges. Heifers range from 18.50 to 20.30 with mixed lots around 21.25 for steers and heifers.
Market roundup lists wheat oats and corn prices from Harwood's Market with soybeans barley and mile figures. meat and egg quotes include large eggs wholesale 28 30 cents, consumer large 26 27, medium 23 25, small 18 20. Poultry and butter prices in Missouri Arkansas and national notes.
AP dispatch from Kansas City lists Wheat at 97 cars with mixed declines and gains for No 2 and No 3 grades, Corn mostly unchanged to higher across several grades, Oats and Rye prices noted, Mile maize and Barley values listed, Soybeans and bran adjustments shown, Wheat futures closed varied from a quarter to over half a percent higher.
Kansas City AP notes hog prices for 190-250 lb barrows and gilts at 13.75 to 14.25. Sow prices 12.25 to 13.00. Sheep demand strong with lambs up to 50 higher and select spring lambs at 22.50. Sizable hog and lamb volumes indicated across the market.
The market ended the day with a broad advance led by Texas Gulf Sulphur which hit a new high. Airlines rebounded with Western Air Lines up over 4, Delta over 2, Northwest around 3, while Liggett & Myers slid after cigarette advertising code news. Volume was about 4.7 million shares as several issues posted gains and mixed prices appeared on the American Stock Exchange.
Stocks higher on a moderate recovery, bonds mostly unchanged. Cotton mostly higher with some short covering. In Chicago, wheat mixed with May easier, corn steady, oats lower, soybeans firm with late short covering. Hogs steady to 25 cents lower, top 15.50. Slaughter steers steady to weak, top 22.25.
Secretary Hodges declined to say when the government might act on a 20 million pound lard shipment to Cuba. He affirmed food shipments policy remains but questioned if the lard was for food or other uses. He could not rule out reexamining the China embargo if Western nations ease trade with Red China.
Greek Cypriot forces fired on the Turkish held Kyrenia Pass and shelled the St Hilarion castle while fortifying positions at its base. UN General Gyani warned the action could affect UN roles in Cyprus and sent a report to U Thant as leaders Makarios and Küçük urged peace and a political settlement.
Communist ground fire downed two U S helicopters and a South Vietnamese fighter plane in a government assault on guerrilla mountain positions in Quang Ngai and Kontum provinces. Eleven Vietnamese troops were killed, and 15 of nearly 40 helicopters were hit. Two American airmen wounded. A fighter plane crashed. pilot seriously wounded.
Lawrence High School senior Jim Trybom is among 19 Kansas FFA members awarded $200 Union Pacific freshman year scholarships at the Kansas FFA convention closing session held at Kansas State University in Manhattan. He is son of Mr and Mrs Carl Trybom of Route 1 and member of the Jayhawk Chapter FFA. He also earned the FFA State Farmer degree Monday and plans to study entomology or agronomy at Kansas State University next fall.
Memorial Hospital and several Baldwin and nearby addresses list multiple obituaries and birth notices. Entries include names such as Roger Hallenbeck Debra Gurley Natalie Butcher Bridget Kasson Barbara Butell and multiple couples with newborns and daughters noted as born on Monday in early records.
In County Court Ronald Lee Patterson Bobby Allen Rice Dennis F Grow Nathan R Light all of Eudora charged petty larceny fined 100 each Dale Eugene Neal Jerry Wayne Trober Richard L Ford also of Eudora charged attempted petty larceny fined 50 each.
Logan C. Taggart 66 of Kansas City Kansas died Monday night at Bethany Hospital after a car crash and apparent heart attack. Funeral services 1 p.m. Thursday at Roberts Blue and Barret Chapel Emporia with burial Maplewood Cemetery Emporia. He was a machine company manager and longtime member of London Heights Methodist Church and several Masonic bodies. Survivors include wife Dessie and four sons. He had 15 grandchildren.
R E Sewell, 72, of Oskaloosa, died Monday at Winchester hospital. Funeral at 2 p.m. Thursday at First Methodist Church, burial in Wetmore Cemetery. Graveside rites by Oskaloosa Odd Fellows Lodge. Survived by wife Sadie, daughter Marjorie Jeffery, son Warren Sewell, sister Lillie Ammon, and brothers Hubert Sewell and Earnest Sewell. Born March 12, 1892, longtime resident, retired farmer and interior decorator.
Kansas University graduate student Sharon Tebbenkamp Sooter, a two time district Metropolitan Opera auditions winner, presents a graduation recital at 8 p m May 12 in Swarthout Recital Hall. The mezzo soprano has sung Madame Butterfly with KU Homecoming and toured Europe with the Santa Fe Opera. Pianist Carol D Stewart, a Manhattan graduate student, accompanies.
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