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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1968
Page
14
Wheat listed at 1.26 with various grades and No 2 hard up to 1.65. Corn 1.51 with No 2 at 1.68 and No 3 at 1.63. Milo 1.57, Beans 2.33. Eggs and Butter prices quoted, followed by detailed futures: Wheat contracts Dec Mar May Jul Sep with openings highs lows and closes.
Cattle 400. calves none for price test. Hogs 4,000 with barrows and gilts uneven and mostly steady. 1-2 220 lb at 18.75. 1-3 200-240 lb 18.00-18.50. 2-4 940-250 lb 17.50-18.00. 2-4 250-260 lb 17.00-17.75. 3-4 260-300 lb 16.00-17.25. Sows steady, 1-3 330-400 lb 15.00-15.75. 2-3 400-600 lb 13.75-15.00. Sheep 50 head, choice and prime wooled lambs 26.00.
New York trading saw heavy volume with analysts attributing the sharp market loss to fears of possible new credit restrictions. The declines reflected worries about tighter lending and broader financial stress.
The Kansas State Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence Chamber issue a call for reservations for the Pre- Legislative Conference Decisions 69 to be held Thursday at the Eldridge Hotel. About 21 meetings statewide aim to hear citizen ideas on 1969 legislative topics.
The Douglas County Rifle Club, inactive for years, is reactivated and now meets every Friday at 7 p.m. in the Community Building. Prospective members are invited to attend and join.
Doctors warn the Hong Kong flu mutates year to year and region to region, complicating vaccine development as tests proceed in Orange County California and prisons in Georgia. Experts note vaccines are often only 60 to 70 percent effective and aim to gauge antibody response.
A lengthy hospital notes list records admissions including William Zinn Eudora Mrs Carolyn Suit 234 Ark Walter Gile 1304 Oak Hill Lucia Dunmire 2121 Carolina and Emerson Whitehorse at Haskell Institute among others. Dismissals follow with names such as Brian Gay 1515 E 18th Mrs Mary Leavitt 1228 Pa and Barbara Pappas Shawnee Mission among others. The article also notes a factual aside on toad anatomy describing poison glands concentrated behind the eyes.
George W. Thompson 39, long time chief social worker at the Kansas Reception and Diagnostic Center, named superintendent after Joseph B. Noble moves to Kansas State Industrial Reformatory. Thompson previously led at the Boys Industrial School Topeka and earned a master’s in social work from the University of Kansas in 1957.
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