Local Market Prices for Wheat Corn Milo and Beans
Market listing shows Wheat at 1.26 per unit Yellow Corn 1.04 Milo 1.60 Beans 2.40 and Oats 0.77 per unit. Prices indicate current commodity values in local market exchanges.
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Sinclair
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Wholesale egg market quotes and butter steadies
Kansas City AP reports wholesale eggs showing large and medium grade A at 80 percent A. butter remains unchanged. Ib solid at 79, grade A Ib at 80. The brief notes standard wholesale price movements without larger market context.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Livestock Prices Mixed on Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Cattle offerings were light with no saleable test. Hogs small run of 2 500 with barrows and gilts mostly down 50, 1 3 210 225 lb at 19.00 25, larger weights 18.50 19.00, sows steady at 15.00 16.25 for 330 400 lb and 14.75 15.25 for 400 600 lb. Sheep offers nil.
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Kansas City
Wheat and soy futures steady in Kansas City markets
Wheat and grain prices mixed as 30 carloads of wheat and 14 cars of corn traded with varied bids. Prices show small changes across No 2 and No 3 classifications for wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and soybeans, with futures closing mostly lower.
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Kansas City
Market closes mixed after early rally fades on Rusk warning
New York stocks opened higher as the year began but turned mixed by session end. A Dean Rusk warning on Arab Israeli violence prompted precautionary selling, trimming gains though select industrial shares kept the Dow in positive territory.
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New York
Dean Rusk
Middle East
No Executions In United States In 1968
AP reports that no prisoners were executed in 1968, possibly the first year without a death sentence carried out. At year start 435 were under death sentences. 1967 had two executions in California and Colorado. The 1906 Oklahoma case was the last prior year with a single execution.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Prisons
Bureau
California
Colorado
Oklahoma
Shiny rock worth 11000 becomes family diamonds
J A Combs found a shiny rock on his Sawyer area farm more than 30 years ago. After his death his widow had the stone cut into six one carat diamonds valued at about 11000. Mrs Combs and a daughter wore rings from the rock in time for Christmas. Four other daughters chose necklaces.
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Dodge City
J. A. Combs
Sawyer
Jewler
Combs
Iuka
Roger Cronk
Minneola
Castro and Soviets Portray Warm Ties Amid Anniversary
At a Havana rally for the 10th anniversary of the Cuban revolution Premier Castro praised links with the Socialist bloc and especially the Soviet Union. He said despite past friction both sides have decided to overlook major differences and cited Soviet aid as decisive for Cuba in difficult years.
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Soviet Union
Havana
Cuba
Castro
Kremlin
Flu Deaths Rise For Fourth Week But Showing Signs of Easing
The National Communicable Disease Center reports Hong Kong flu deaths rose for the fourth week ending December 28, with 1,168 deaths across 122 cities. Excess influenza pneumonia deaths spread across most regions, as widespread Hong Kong flu is reported in 23 states, with outbreaks in several others.
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Atlanta
National
Communicable Disease Center
NCDC
East South Central
West South Central
Hawaii
Louisiana
Mississippi
Flu Mask Tests At Florida Colleges
University of Florida researchers test blue and white surgical masks to protect students from Hong Kong flu. About 30 percent of 19,800 winter- quarter students may be infected, with volunteers asked to wear masks in public for a few weeks.
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Gainesville
Fla
University of Florida
College of Medicine
Wilmer Coggins
Hong Kong
Rugged First Voyage For a British Liner
SOUTHHAMPTON England AP Queen Elizabeth 2 Britain s new ocean challenger limped into Southhampton Thursday after a shattering first voyage. But Cunard Line and the Scottish builders still expressed confidence the 65000 ton vessel soon would be established as the best ship afloat. Many of the 500 guinea pig passengers all Cunard employees on the nine day cruise to the Canary Islands were indignant over the extent of criticism of the ship.
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Southhampton
England
Britain
Cunard Line
Cunard
Canary Islands
Hospital births and dismissals list in Baldwin area
Hospital notes list Mrs Barbara Brand and several others across Baldwin Shirley Pearson and Sally Johnson among discharged patients. Dismissals include Rita Elledge with baby and Sharon Whitebread with baby. Birth recorded for Mr and Mrs James Dwyer a daughter born today.
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Ala
Betty Squires
Belle Haven Dr
Shirley Pearson
Williamstown
Sally Johnson
Lincoln
Josephine Powell
Joann Brauer
Eudora
Bessie Armisbury
Utah
Herve Hoskinson
Baldwin
Glady Mings
Burlingame
Gladis Thomas
Emelia Grob
Stephen Parmely
Ridge Ct
Pearl Griggs
N.Y
Lester Schwartz
Rita Elledge
Mobile Acres
Sharon Whitebread
Summit
Jamie Barnes
Miller Dr
Sara Adams
W. 27Th
John R. Wells Jr
Park Hill Ter
Lolita Wells
Conn
William Corbridge
James Dwyer
Lindenwood
Pepsi General Bottlers Buys Ottawa Bottling Plant
The Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Ottawa serving Lawrence area sold to Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc of Chicago for 22,500 shares. Transaction valued over $500,000 based on stock price. Ottawa agency holds franchises in five Kansas counties including Douglas and one Missouri county. operation becomes a subsidiary. Pepsi General serves Kansas City Chicago Des Moines Louisville Evansville markets.
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Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Ottawa
Lawrence
Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc
Chicago
Kansas
Douglas
Missouri
Pepsi General
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Kansas City
Des Moines
Louisville
Evansville
Soldier Son Mentally 10 Opposes Vietnam Deployment
Robert J. Hinkle, 21, undergoes examinations as his parents press for a mental disability discharge to keep him from Vietnam. They say his mental age is 10, and the Army previously claimed he would be sent to Ft. Lewis after Ft. Ord orders. He is evaluated at Ft. Lewis after a Christmas furlough in Scappoose, Oregon.
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Robert R. Hinkle
Scappoose
Ore
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Robert
Vietnam
Ft. Ord
Oakland
Calif
Oregon
Army
Wendell Wyatt
John McGee
Navy
McGee
Bangkok
Nav
Surgeon to Operate on Pup Kai in Open Heart Surgery
Dr. C Walton Lillehei plans to perform open heart surgery on Kai a four month old German shepherd puppy from Brooklyn as a thank you to animals used in heart research He will conduct X ray studies today at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center Kai is slated for valve replacement to repair a congenital defect and may help advance veterinary heart procedures.
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New York
C. Walton Lillehei
New York Hospital
Cornell Medical Center
Kai
Allan
Kevin Fogel
Brooklyn
Lillehei
Christiaan Barnard
Defense shifts fuel duties away from Navy over thefts
Defense officials have removed Navy responsibility for fuel quality and delivery in Southeast Asia after disclosures that about 5.5 million gallons of fuel and lubricants intended for U S Army and Air Force units in Thailand were stolen in 1967. GAO blamed bribery forgery and lax oversight.
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Washington
Navy
U.S
Southeast Asia
Thailand
General Accounting Office
William Proxmire
D-Wis
GAO
Navy Fuel Supply Office
Bangkok
Defense Department
Army
Pentagon
Bank Asset Summary Snapshot
Ledger shows cash and equivalents and investment holdings: Cash and due from banks 1.0 million, U.S. government securities 1.0 million, municipal securities 720,911.13, and government agency securities 1.0 million. Asset totals reflect short term liquidity and fixed income investments.
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U.S. Government Securities Municipal Securities
Government Agency Securities
Mayor Yorty Seeks New Four Year Term
Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty announced plans to run for a third four year term at a Thursday news conference. He defended the city against criminal and conflict of interest charges surrounding some appointees and noted opposition from at least six others in the April 1 election.
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Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
Yorty
Norris Poulson
James Roosevelt
D-Calif
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