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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1966
Page
12
Kansas City wholesale egg prices unchanged with large grade A at 28 1/2 to 30 cents per dozen and mediums grade A at 25 to 27 cents. Wheat at 1.62 percent, yellow corn at 1.23, and milo at 1.68. Harwood Market lists eggs by grade and size with receipts at 23 cents.
Kansas City reports barrows and gilts lower with varied weights and sow prices, calves and feeders steady to lower, plus wheat and corn quotes across No 2 hard to No 3 grades. Wall Street closes irregularly lower as brokers offset losses with gains, IBM dips after ex rights. Memorial Hospital lists several dismissals and births follow.
Stock market summary notes IBM rights trading off fractionally from Wednesday's close. Pan American, American Airlines, and United Air Lines post fractional gains while Eastern slumps about 21. Xerox gains 3 points. DuPont declines near four points dragging averages.
The Defense Department announced a draft call for 32 600 men in August. The Pentagon asked the Selective Service to provide 15 000 in June and 26 500 in July. All inductees in August go to the Army. the Navy Marine Corps and Air Force asked for no men.
Transmissions from Surveyor showed continuous three second clips of the spacecraft and surrounding Moon landscape. Viewers saw rock imagery, soft or cracked soil, and sun glare explanations as tapes and film captured the day’s steps, with prints expected to be sharper than Luna 9 images.
After multiple failures a Soviet 200-pound shock resistant ball with a camera was ejected from a carrier with retro-rockets. It landed with minimal impact near the predicted spot in the Sea of Storms, a potential Apollo descent site.
Mrs Dixie Banks Cumpton 25 of Topeka died this morning at Stormont Vale Hospital from a brain tumor. Funeral 9:30 a.m. Monday at Penwell Gabel Topeka. buried in Topeka. Survivors: two children Sharon and Chris Cumpton. parents Mr and Mrs John Banks. three sisters Lorena Humble Irene Stewart Alverta McDonald. three brothers Chester Darrel Wayne. Robert C Mitchell 71 of Sarasota Florida died Saturday night in Sarasota. funeral this afternoon at Lamb Funeral Home Baldwin. burial in Prairie City Cemetery. He owned a farm northwest of Baldwin.
Six warns that more than a third of farm accidents involve machinery and urges shut off while unclogging or adjusting. He stresses conditioning equipment in the off season and keeping it in good shape to reduce injuries. Douglas County notes many permanent injuries, often from tractors turning over on slopes or during highway moves at night.
The obituary notes 20 years in Baldwin and Lawrence before moving to Florida in 1960. Born in Macon Missouri, he was a Presbyterian, Acacia Lodge member, former Baldwin Rotary Club president, and World War I veteran. Survivors include wife Katherine, son Ronnie of San Jose, three brothers John Rochester NY Lawrence Syracuse NY Ben Duluth MN, sister A H McClure Huntsville AL, and three grandchildren.
Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson urges farmers to report accidents and seek escorts to hospitals if needed. He stresses that moving machine parts can overpower a person and that shutting off equipment, though time consuming, prevents serious harm.
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