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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1966
Page
11
Market notes show Bowersock's Mills wheat at 1.80, yellow corn 1.34, milo 1.90. Harwood's Market eggs grade A large 35, med 24, undergrades 18, current receipts 24. Wall street gains as Dow up 9.41 to 799.55. AP 60-stock average up to 287.1. volume drops.
Cattle buyers showed 2700 head with calves 225. Feeder steers ranged 26.75 to 28.30 for high good and choice, 27.25 for pure choice, 24.20 to 26.20 for good and choice. Feeder heifers 24.00 to 26.50 for good and choice. Feeder calves 27.20 to 29.20 for good and choice. Hogs totaled 2200 with barrows and gilts 50 to 75 lower and sows 25 to 50 lower.
Higher demand pushed barrows and gilts 1 3 200 260 lb to 24.78 25.25. 1 2 220 250 lb at 25.25 50. Sows 20.50 23.00. Sheep steady with spring lambs 24.35 25.00 and shorn ewes 5.75 7.00.
New York stocks fall modestly as trade slows. In Chicago grain markets wheat and corn slide on liquidation while oats and soybeans dip. Hog futures slip 25 cents to 1 dollar, with best hogs at 26.50. Slaughter steer prices steady with tight supply topping 26.
New York stocks closed lower after an technical rebound that failed to alter the long term outlook. Xerox dropped more than 16 points while Polaroid IBM and several airlines fell two to six points. Volume estimated at about 5.9 million shares, just above Tuesday.
Courts Police Court docket lists several motorists with brief charges and fines including John T. Smith 1527 W. 9th emergenc y vehicle $5 Violet Gott stein 2344 La speeding $14 Glenn L. Johnson 1002 W. 20th speeding $12 Jane Logan 1605 W. 9th speeding $13 Ronald F. Mensch 2452 Cedarwood speeding $25 Herschal D. Wiley 1646 Tenn stop sign $10
Memorial Hospital reports admissions including Robert Nyquist Kathy Mason Kathy Lawson Mrs Ruth Fine and baby girl Mrs Kathleen Brooks and baby girl Mrs Mary Biggers and baby boy Judith Norris and baby boy with other names and addresses from Eudora Oska loosa etc. A son was born Wednesday.
The Senate passed a compromise measure by 78 to 7 to make 4.76 billion in new government mortgage purchase funds available to ease money markets on home sales. The bill authorizes FNMA to buy FHA insured and VA guaranteed mortgages and was sent to the House.
Pentagon released a weekly tally of American casualties from the Viet Nam war. Army dead include Spec.4 Bobby J. Shockley of St. Louis Missouri Sgt. John C. Petty II of Treece Kansas Staff Sgt. Ray Fordyce of Scott City Missouri and Capt. Wells E. Cunningham of St. Joseph Missouri. Marine casualty listed Lance Cpl. Dale L. Clark of Jefferson City Missouri.
A Wichita man Burton V. Brown 63 was found dead in his car off a city south road. Investigators say the death was due to a heart attack. Brown owned a local tool company.
The stock market rally faltered today on its second day with mixed prices. Glamor stocks led a modest early advance before turning downward as airlines electronics and office equipment erased gains while tobaccos and the Big Three motors held small increases. At noon the Dow Jones average stood at 799.44, down 0.11.
Washington AP Mayors Richard C. Lee of New Haven and Ivan Allen Jr. of Atlanta tell a Senate inquiry that cost estimates are impossible but more federal money is needed to address slums unemployment and street violence. They praise aid as relief yet urge actions to keep cities thriving democratic places.
HOLLYWOOD AP Ivan Tors Vienna born producer of Flipper and Daktari pursues family appeal and big projects. He runs six productions including Around the World Under the Sea Bird Do It and Namu the Killer Whale with studios in Miami and the Bahamas. He stresses real animals over cartooned ones and recalls Sea Hunt encounters with sharks and a barracuda.
The article describes Tors who keeps four footed and funny friends on long chains to acclimate them to humans. He believes humans and animals can shake centuries of hunter hostility and aims to train almost any animal in a year. Currently he works with a tiger and a police dog as potential co stars for a future production.
Eric Dannemann of Little Compton Rhode Island will captain Columbia University's lightweight crew for the second time next year. His father Henry was a member of the Lion heavyweight crew when it won the Poughkeepsie Regatta in 1929.
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