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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1964
Page
3
Market lists wheat soybeans corn oats barley and milo with carload or farm prices and futures moves. Eggs butter and poultry prices in Kansas City markets shown with unchanged quotes and deliveries.
Hogs 4 900 slow with barrows and gilts 50 to 1.00 lower and sows 50 to 75 lower. Barrows and gilts 1 3 15.50 to 17.50, sows 13.25 to 15.50. Sheep 600 fairly active. spring lambs weak to 25 lower, choice and prime 22.75 to 23.50. Cattle 12 000 calves 200. slaughter steers slow, 50 to 75 lower, good and choice 23.00 to 24.50, good and choice heifers 21.00 to 24.00, cows 13.00 to 15.00, choice feeder steers 20.25 to 23.00.
In New York the market shows mixed activity with stocks and motors softening late in the session. Trading is moderate with about 3.4 million shares moved as Chrysler GM Ford and others waver while textiles and mining names show fractional changes.
Dayce and Beckman Instruments declined a point or so as prices on the American Stock Exchange stayed generally higher in quiet trading.
Funeral services for Miss Hazel Gray of 1225 Ky were held at the Rumsey Funeral Home. Rev Lybian Endsley presided, and burial followed in Oak Ridge Cemetery at Perry. Miss Gray aged 59 was a clerk at Kansas Power and Light Company. Survivors include two sisters Mrs Grace Dark of Lecompton and Mrs Goldie McCalle of Alma and a brother Robert Gray of Tulsa.
Four Lawrence High School graduates returning from a Phi Gamma Delta pledge party were bruised when their car struck a steel pole after a tire blew out about 15 miles west of Topeka. Driver Bill Trull and passengers Steve Heck Jeff Mitchell and Stan Hubbard were injured but not seriously. they were taken to a Topeka hospital, none admitted, car demolished.
At about 12 20 p m Saturday during a rainstorm Marvin Rogers 25 of 811 Lawrence Ave drove into a cow west of Lecompton road on U S 40. He was not injured the cow had only bruises and damage to the car was 300 dollars. The other vehicle MecLouth and Randall Cart right 15 of Route 2 McLouth suffered a total loss.
Governor Wallace convened a meeting of 10 unpledged Democratic presidential electors amid signals he will press them to resign Their replacement on the November ballot would be a slate committed to casting Alabama’s 10 electoral votes for Lyndon B Johnson if the incumbents step aside
The state Democratic Executive Committee meets to certify eight congressional nominees after a legislature redistricting act, with a mail poll replacing a live vote due to time constraints. Resignations of unpledged elector nominees threaten securing a new elector slate before the midweek deadline.
Lathrop B. Pat Read Jr. resigns as head of the Douglas County Auxiliary Police after about three years. Herb Hickock serves as acting chief. Read, a veteran officer and former Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent, remains deputy commissioner and will aid in emergencies when in town. The unit has 24 members.
Eleven Lawrence students at Kansas University are among 16 recipients of Donnelly scholarships for 1964 and 1965. Recipients include Daniel Brune Bennie Ruth Grewing Philip Paden John Pine Thorold Roberts Nicholas Sharp Elizabeth Spray Raymond Suffron Richard Warner and Gary White. Donnelly scholarships range from 250 to 600 dollars funded by a 160000 endowment created in 1938 by Jennie M. Donnelly.
In a Police Court list, Eleanor Bell of 1918 Stewart Rd faces a $25 bond for drunkenness. Jerry R. Owens a $35 charge. Charles Curtis with no address charged with disturbing the peace and $25 fine with 10 days suspended. Robert Boothe of Platte City faces $225 and 90 days for driving under the influence with an open bottle. Raymond Oshel at 1130 N J St is fined $75 for reckless driving. Leland Patton of 2223 Tenn is fined $15 for speeding. Robert Norris of 2008 Emerald Dr is fined $15 for excessive noise.
President Johnson and Hubert Humphrey spent a relaxed weekend at a Texas ranch during a string of union farmer and business events before the November 3 election. A cow pasture misstep drew a quip as Humphrey joked about stepping on the Republican platform during a ranch tour with reporters present.
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