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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1963
Page
9
Kansas City AP reports mixed price quotes and receipts for grains and livestock. Wheat, corn, soybeans, barley, oats show varying bid prices. eggs, butter, and poultry markets list regional quotes. Cattle hogs sheep markets reflect steady to higher tones with select price ranges.
New York stocks fell sharply as trading slowed with 4.1 million shares. Major issues declined from fractions to over one point while hopes of a possible nationwide railroad strike weighed on sentiment. IBM Polaroid and several rails slid. Parke Davis led gains along with Merck Pfizer.
The Small Business Administration will send William V. Turner from the Kansas City regional office to Lawrence on September 6 to explain SBA services. The session runs 8 40 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. in the Post Office Building Civil Service Examination Room. one appointment is required. This is the final of three monthly visits.
Dismissals list includes Mrs. Bertha Niebrugge and Sharon Bailey at 422 Johnson and Tonganoxie respectively. Birth entries note a daughter for Nelson Watson Jr at 925 Ala and a daughter for Martin Long at 941 Tenn on Monday. Another birth shows Donald Gary Hunter at Stouffer Place, a son, also on Monday.
Horace L. Peterson 75 died Sunday at 425 Maple St. Funeral 2 pm Wednesday at Second Christian Church with burial Maple Grove Cemetery. Visitation Bowser Lee Mortuary 5 to 10 pm today and noon Wednesday. George F. Belt of Lawrence died last Tuesday in Topeka. funeral Friday at Holy Name Catholic Church Topeka with burial Oak Hill Lawrence.
Former Lawrence resident Arnold Mitchell died Monday evening in Manteca California from a heart attack. Survivors include wife Edith, daughter Dorothy, three sisters and four brothers. Funeral 2 pm Friday at Fry and Son Funeral Home Manteca. Lloyd Castle 61 of 328 Elm Street died this morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital while painting at Allen Fieldhouse. He was a painter and decorator, lifelong Lawrence resident. Survivors include wife Marie, daughter Jean Arentas, son William Lloyd Castle, sister Doris Henderson, brothers Clyde Bert Dale and Otis, eight grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending Rumsey Funeral Home.
At 8 p.m. Thursday the Douglas County Farm Bureau office at 2323 Ridge Ct hosts a meeting chaired by Harley Lyon. The agenda includes taxation and natural resources topics with invitation extended to all interested persons.
Police court records list multiple cases with fines for improper muffler and U turn violations, speeding, stop sign and traffic light infractions, excessive noise, no driver’s license, and failure to yield. Named defendants include Roger Schmitt William Wilson Henry Green Jeanette Piety Larry Raffety Ronnie Hopkins Donald Ray Norman Bell William Titus Eupene Breshears and attorney Carmen Wright.
Eight Latino American envoys urge Haiti and the OAS to secure safe passage for 44 refugees seeking asylum in Port au Prince embassies. The group includes 120 military officers sentenced to death in absentia for an aborted plot to kidnap Duvalier’s children in April.
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