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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1964
Page
2
Kansas City cattle market shows 1 200 cattle and 50 calves trading as moderate activity. Cows advance 25 to 50 cents with good and choice slaughter steers at 21 50 to 23 38 and heifers 19 10 to 21 50. Willy and commercial cows quoted around 19 0A.1d. U S Steel update follows in the next item Jose.
Miss Kate Figgins 80 of 1036 Miss St dies Monday and funeral set for Thursday at Ninth Street Baptist Church with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. Survivors include sister Gladys Williams and brother L O Figgins, plus relatives. Lorena Rathmell 63, longtime KU house mother, dies in Kansas City. services held Tuesday at St Pauls Episcopal. Olive Vitt 78 of Eudora area dies. services Friday at Rumsey Funeral Home with burial at Deay Cemetery.
New York stocks rise slowly with gains in several leaders as steel shares advance. Chrysler slips slightly, Ford up, GM unchanged, American Motors up, Studebaker firm, IBM gains over 3. In Chicago, wheat firm on short covering, corn mostly firmer, oats strong. soybeans steady to firm. Hog prices near 18.25 top, slaughter steers up to 25.25.
Farmers including Harry Parker and Mrs. Roy Blosser report poor yields with tomatoes turning orange or rotten, despite staking. Parker notes about 30 ripe fruit from 350 plants while Blosser sees small harvests. several growers blame weather and blight, while some report minimal disease and no fertilizer use.
E R Shepard of 741 N 7th St and Bill McClindock of 316 Lincoln describe poor tomato yields amid cutworms and army worms. They note late planting, limited ripening, and little use of insecticides. Sweet corn and other crops fare better with corn selling at 35 cents a dozen and tomatoes at 15 to 25 cents per pound.
Memorial Hospital admitted Mrs. Wilma M. Richardson of 918 La, Mrs. Mildred Weeks of 045 Tenn, Mrs. Mildred McFall of 1408 EB 19th, Jeanette Gottstein of 1705 Vi, and Mrs. Kay Benjamin as listed.
Dallas AP report states Jack Ruby’s attorneys rushed to meet a deadline by thirty minutes to file 15 bills of exception arguing error in the trial court where Ruby was sentenced to death. The move aims to overturn the electric chair ruling.
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