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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1969
Page
12
Market news lists wholesale egg prices with large and medium eggs and notes butter prices steady. It also provides grain prices including wheat corn mile beans and oats with specified per unit figures.
Cattle 4 500, calves 125 with high choice and prime steers 34 75 to 35 00. Hogs 4 500 with barrows and gilts up 25 to 50. Sheep 800 with lambs up 50 to 75, ewes steady. Feeder steers and heifers show strong demand, prices reflect broad gains across weights.
Wheat and corn prices shift with 264 car load volume noted in Kansas City. No. 2 hard and dark prices rise to 1.4114 while No. 2 red wheat runs 1.29 to 1.32. Corn holds near 3.30 to 3.40 for No. 2 white with other grades moving in narrower ranges. Wheat futures close varied with gains near 1% for several contracts.
AP reports the New York market with the closing average at 309.8, down 2.3 points as a broad sector decline weighs on major indexes.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped to a fresh yearly low, 870.86 at the close, after an early steep slide. A late bargain surge trimmed losses as brokers cited oversold conditions and selective buying on attractive issues.
Ernest Paul Sims 26 admitted the killing of two Michigan teenagers and an Oklahoma City taxi driver was a fabrication. Police say he signed a confession after further questioning and family input, then said the hoax was prompted by his sisters’ wish to move from Nashville.
Sigma Delta Chi dedicated a plaque at Mark Twain's Hannibal home honoring his career as a newspaperman. Twain began as a writer for the Hannibal Journal.
A bag of what police describe as marijuana was delivered to the Lawrence police station about 6 30 p.m. Sunday near Armstrong Street and Haskell Avenue. The vegetation was found by Bruce Wolhuter and Jim Blakely during a field trip in the Haskell Wetlands. Officers hold the vegetation as investigations continue.
Johnson County attorney James W. Bouska filed an information in district court asking the film I Am Curious Yellow be seized and destroyed as obscene. Operators of the Kimo South theater in Overland Park were ordered to appear before Judge Herbert W. Walton to show cause why the movie should not be confiscated. A New York federal court jury previously ruled the film obscene, a decision later reversed by the U S Court of Appeals.
Pope Paul VI warned of a diffuse lack of confidence in church administration and the risks it poses to the Catholic Church. He defended the Curia and bishops, urged humility toward criticism, and called for renewed canon law and peaceful solutions to Vietnam and Middle East tensions.
Flash floods swamped Red Boiling Springs Tennessee and surrounding areas. Homes were swept away and several residents reported missing though no deaths officially confirmed. The flood extended into Allen County Kentucky disrupting lines and services. Trammel Creek overflowed affecting Adolphus and Mount Union while nearby Scottsville Kentucky logged heavy rainfall.
The Supreme Court, in a 6-2 ruling, held that the double jeopardy ban is fundamental to the American justice system and applies to state criminal proceedings. The decision reversed a Maryland man Benton’s larceny conviction, and clarified protections after prior acquittals in related charges.
AP report lists Kansas traffic fatalities for 24 hours to 9 am Monday as 42 for June, 293 for 1969, and 294 for the comparable 1968 period. At Topeka the log details state a rising toll with statewide figures indicating a grim trend in road deaths.
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