Market News Wrap: Wheat Corn Beans and Stock Advances
Local market quotes show wheat at 1.39, corn 1.17, mile 1.74, beans 3.26, oats .50. Wholesale eggs unchanged. Blue chip stocks post small gains after earlier drift. Dow up 2.18 to 912.63. NYSE and AMEX indexes edge higher as traders head into weekend. Occidental Petroleum falls 1 to 15% amid caution over Soviet tie.
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John Smith
Fahnestock & Co
Occidental Petroleum
Commerce
Peter G. Peterson
Occidental
Soviet Union
American Stock Exchange
Wheat and grain prices slide in Kansas City market report
AP reports Kansas City on July 21 1972 sees wheat Nos 2 and 3 grades easing to about 1 55 to 1 72 per bushel with red wheat 1 55 to 1 74 and corn falling to 1 24 to 1 32 for No 2 white. Oats and soybeans posted steady to mixed quotes while sacked bran and shorts run about 48 50 to 49 25.
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Kansas City
Wheat crop tests show good weight but low protein
Tests on 5,800 carloads of Kansas wheat at terminal markets find the 1972 crop has a forage weight average of 61.7 pounds per bushel and protein around 11.4 percent. Moisture runs 13.1 percent. dockage under 0.5 percent for most cars. total grade defects average 2.2 percent.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Crop and Livestock Service
Kansas
Cattle and Hog Prices Fall Into Mixed Weekly Range
Kansas City AP notes cattle with 100 head on hand and calves none. Steers mostly choice 37.00 to 38.00, heifers 35.50 to 36.50, some 35.00 to 35.50. Hog sales 1,300 head with barrows and gilts mostly 50 higher. 1-2 225 lb 29.75, 200-250 lb 29.00 to 29.50, 250-270 lb 28.50 to 29.00, 200 lb 27.00. Sows mostly steady. 330-400 lb 24.00 to 24.75, 450-600 lb 23.00 to 23.50. Sheep 50 head not tested. Monday estimates: cattle 2,000. calves 200. hogs 3,500. sheep 400.
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Kansas City
Linwood Festival Kicks Off Tonight With Queen Coronation
Linwood opens its weekend festival with a Queen coronation at a teen dance. Marilyn Kesinger Deana Jo Kirkman Diana Lines and Jocelyn Sheets vie for the title. Weekend events include parades, fairs, raffles, a fiddle contest and a Gunsmoke themed play Festus Finds a Baby.
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Linwood Pioneer Festival
Big Leavenworth
Lawrence
Marilyn Kesinger
Deana Jo Kirkman
Diana Lines
Jocelyn Sheets
Linwood High School
Kansas Old Time Fiddlers and Pickers Assn
Festus
Elizabeth Jones
Dean Sheets
H Edmund Vaught
Linda Stedham
DeSoto Council Approves Cable Television Lines
The DeSoto City Council and DeSoto Cable Corp signed a contract Thursday night to install cable television lines with system operation possible by year’s start. The panel weighs a new police car amid vandalism in parks and recreation areas. An ordinance grants control and maintenance of city water and electric meters and allows meter tampering prosecutions.
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Desoto
DeSoto City Council
DeSoto Telecable Corp
Lloyd Wettenkamp
Cable Television
Clarence Johnson
Johnson
STEP Benefit Dance for Summer Teen Employment Program
STEP youths earn wages through part time jobs with area nonprofits in Lawrence. A Red Baron benefit dance at 7 30 p m features The Penetrations and the Soul Messengers to raise funds after looming layoffs. Admission is 150 with proceeds aiding STEP's two week budget totaling about 600 weekly. Red Baron at 804 West 24th Avenue will receive concessions.
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Penetrations
Soul Messengers
STEP
Lawrence
Red Baron
Car Fire Destroys Russell Vehicle in Lawrence
Lawrence firemen battled a late night blaze discovering the 1967 automobile engulfed in flames at 11:58 p.m. The car owned by Charles S. Russell of 426 Ala was a total loss with damage pegged at 1500 dollars. Cause undetermined though cigarette is suspected.
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Charles S. Russell
Ala
Lawrence
Absentee Ballots Rolling In for July Election
Douglas County Clerk Delbert Mathia reports 365 absentee ballots issued for the upcoming election set ten days away. Ballots must be issued by noon July 31 and returned by 7 p.m. election day. registration is required for all voters and rural residents may register on election day or by absentee affidavit.
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Douglas County
Delbert Mathia
Garcia Given Five Year Suspended Term in Kansas Fraternity Theft
David C. Garcia 24 of Wichita received a five year suspended prison term and restitution order in Douglas County District Court for grand theft by deception against the Kansas Epsilon Chapter of Phi Kappa Theta. He served as fraternity treasurer from 1969 to 1971 and originally faced charges of defrauding the fraternity of more than $3,000.
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David C. Garcia
Wichita
Kansas University
Douglas County
Garcia
Kansas Epsilon
Phi Kappa Theta
Stewart
Solid Waste Report Slated for County Approval
Douglas County Solid Waste Management Committee will present its report to the County Commission within weeks for preliminary approval. Chairman Arthur Heck expects approval with few changes and may consider having Lawrence city take over countywide collection, while keeping open the option for private operation if a proposal arises.
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Douglas County Solid Waste Management Committee
County Commission
David Blackman
Blackman
State Board of Health
Arthur Heck
Commission
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