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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1969
Page
16
Local market report lists Wheat at 1.28, Yellow Corn 1.07, Milo 1.66, Beans 2.42, Oats 0.81. Eggs wholesale show large and mediums at 80 percent AA, butter grade A Yb at 79, grade A tb at 60.
Kansas City AP notes cattle count 100 with no calves, hogs around 3 000 with barrows and gilts 80 higher. Prices for 1-3 210-225 lb 21.15-21.25, 2-3 195-230 lb 20.75-21.00, 2-4 230-255 lb 20.50-21.00. No sheep offered.
Kansas City market notes show grain bids with mixed changes across wheat corn oats and soybeans. Futures close higher for some contracts and lower for others with details on futures open high low and close prices for March May July and later months.
The Dow fell 1.61 to 938.59 as trading remained active. Volume reached 12.52 million shares versus 13.14 million on Thursday. Analysts call the move a pause in a technical rally that began Wednesday amid weekend profit taking. On 1,569 issues, 656 rose and 654 fell. The AP 60 stock average slipped 0.1 to 357.0 with mixed sector moves.
In Huntsville Arkansas Alta Faubus sues former Gov Orval E Faubus for divorce after 37 years of marriage. She cites general indignities while Faubus waives appearance and agrees to a property settlement. They have one son Farrell Faubus, a lawyer who filed the suit.
An unofficial source says Premier Alexei Kosygin, 64, is ill with a worsening liver condition and has been out of public view for over a month. He is reportedly at his country home near Moscow and it is unclear how serious the illness is or when he will resume duties.
The Douglas County Commission filled several routine posts naming Charles Taylor and Rt J Lawrence to the Board of Zoning Appeals replacing Mrs Forrest J Springer Taylor to serve until Nov 1 1970. Har ry Prim Jr Rt 1 Overbrook named county township treasurer.
Word has been received in Lawrence of the death Thursday of Mrs. Amanda Price of Anchorage Alaska. Funeral and burial services will be in Anchorage. Survivors include a sister Mrs Verner Newman of Lawrence two nieces Mrs Alta Wilburn of Holland Michigan and Mrs Esterine Stewart of Kansas City Missouri and two nephews Chester Waters of Chicago Illinois and Alfred Waters of California.
Alvie Jones, 57, of Leavenworth, died when a one ton steel plate crushed him at the Missouri Valley shipyard on the Missouri River. A brace broke as he and a coworker were raising the sheet for a barge shell.
Thousands of sobbing Czechoslovaks filed past the coffin of Jan Palach in Prague, commemorating the 21 year old student who self poisoned on January 16 to protest Soviet occupation. Crowds gathered at Charles University as a memorial plan drew 400000 students for a citywide observance.
At the Kiwanis noon meeting Rev. Harold Mallett introduced Small World a group aiding wives and families of foreign KU students in Lawrence The program explained its work detailing language and customs instruction currently supporting 130 wives and 100 children Mrs Nadine Scheafer led nursery activities and sang the theme song One participant Mrs Thamira Alnema from Baghdad spoke on overcoming loneliness after joining the program
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