Market closes steady as grain futures tick higher
Local markets show mixed prices with wheat at 1.27, corn 1.07, Milo 1.63 and beans 2.41. Wheat futures end the session up to one cent amid small gains across March May July and September contracts.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1969
Page
10
Local markets show mixed prices with wheat at 1.27, corn 1.07, Milo 1.63 and beans 2.41. Wheat futures end the session up to one cent amid small gains across March May July and September contracts.
Cattle offerings were light with no calves. hogs total 2,500 with barrows and gilts up 50. Prices ranged for 210 to 235 lb at 20.00, 225 lb at 20.10, 230-250 lb at 19.50-20.00, 250-280 lb at 18.50-19.75. sows up 25-50 to 15.50-16.50. Sheep offered none.
AP reports wholesale prices paid to producers in Kansas City show eggs unchanged for Large A or better at 43 to 47 cents per dozen and butter steady at 79 cents per pound for solid and 80 cents for quarters, Grade A.
Wheat prices for No 2 hard and dark hard are around 1.61 to 1.39 per bushel with varies. Corn prices show No 2 White around 1.66 to 1.48 and No 2 Yellow around 1.19 to 1.22 per bushel. Oats fell by one cent while Milo maize is listed at 1.95.
The New York market opened higher on Friday but failed to sustain gains as trading slowed. the Dow gained 4.17 points in early trading before easing into negative territory. Auto stocks faded and a large General Motors block pulled the average lower, while Anaconda Copper stayed firm with earlier gains aided by higher metal prices.
An F11F Tiger formerly with the Navy’s Blue Angels will be hauled by highway from Topeka to Lawrence for KU’s aerospace engineering program. It will be disassembled for use as a teaching aid with cockpit instruments, engine, and wing stress devices providing hands on training.
Marguerite Oswald files five libel suits for 5 million dollars each in federal court. Named defendants include Rep. Gerald Ford, John R. Stiles, Simon & Schuster, Jim Bishop, Columbia Broadcasting System, Jimmy Breslin, New York Magazine, William Manchester, Harper & Row, and Cowles Communications. The suits allege publications exposed her and her son to hatred and ridicule.
An estimated $10 in change was taken Wednesday night from the Jayhawk Cafe at 1340 Ohio St after a thief broke a glass opened a door and pried open the cash register. Lawrence police report the loss discovered by a patrol officer early Thursday.
KU student body vice president Joe Goering proposes a resolution to remove firearms from campus police. The All-Student Council tabled the measure pending Traffic and Safety Committee review.
Funeral services for Samuel Tipton age 69 from the Guardian Angel Rest Home will be held at 10 30 a m Monday at the Rumsey Funeral Home with Rev V William Bailey presiding. Burial follows in Oak Hill Cemetery. He is survived by Clarence Norman and Vernon two daughters Mrs Beth Jones and Mrs Betty Singer and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs Virginia Mae Waltman of Baldwin will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Warren Mortuary Chapel with Rev Willard Newmann officiating. Burial is set in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs Waltman died Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital aged 56.
Mrs. Ruby May Biggs 73 of Santa Ana former Lawrence resident died Sunday. Funeral services held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Westminster Memorial Park Mortuary Santa Ana with burial in Westminster Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by widower Leroy of the home and three sons.
Virgil Duff Spurgeon 72 of Independence Missouri died Wednesday at Menorah Medical Center Kansas City. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Lamb Funeral Home Baldwin with Dr. C I Coldsmith officiating. Burial Oakwood Cemetery Baldwin. Survivors include widow Faye son Rex sister Leona Erickson and grandson James. Born September 10 1896 in Baldwin.
Hospital notices list discharges and births across Baldwin and nearby towns. Names include Cleo Anderson Adeline Darner Juanita Bryant Leonard Jella Katie Henderson James Garst Morris Cleveland Gisela Cockburn Charles Zook Clif ford Neider Rocio Smith Eugene Dimick Alice Conger Steven Hoover James Stranathan Nettie Puckett Peter Barr Irma Spangler Chad Brady Nancy Swanson Faye Cox Jessie Warren Cheryl Lin Scott Glenn Hunt Pearl Broers Clive Jackson Josepha Mulvihill Sean Stinson Marsha Gentry Richard Withers Judith Orr Mary Ramsey Geraldine Wadkins Jean Snodgrass and a Baldwin birth report notes a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Louis Slusser.
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