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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 12, 1968

Page

9

Cotton futures ease after brisk rise and profit taking

In New York, Cotton futures No. 2 slumped Thursday with most contracts down by 55 cents to 1.55 a bale while July 1969 delivery rose 40 cents on a bid amid profit taking and selling due to clearing weather. Bleachable cottonseed futures closed quiet with May, July, September, and December bids and asks shown.

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Livestock Prices Mixed At Chicago and Fort Worth Markets

Chicago hogs gained 50 to 75 cents with 3 000 head receipts. Prices ranged from 20.00 to 20.50 for 190 to 240 pound butchers, around 200 head at 20.50, top 20.25. Cattle receipts 300 head, cows up to 20.75, canners 17.00 to 19.50. Sheep thin at about 28 to 29 for select lambs. Fort Worth cattle and hogs steady with ranges: cattle 17.70 to 19.60 for cows, hogs around 18.75 to 16.50, lambs 24.00 to 28.50, ewes 8.50 to 9.00.

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Plains Farming Push Advocates Reserve Plan Amid Wheat Surplus

Plains farming editors discuss a growing push for a national grain reserves bill as USDA forecasts a potential 1.534 billion bushel 1968 wheat crop. The piece notes Senate hearings since 1967, acreage cuts, yield gains, and possible market pressures on Congress. Also covered are FDA antibiotic restrictions, final cotton diversion data, and state comparisons on allocations.

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Grain futures ease after Agri Department report on stocks

An Agriculture Department report on grain production and stocks spurred liquidation on the Chicago Board of Trade, driving seasonal lows in wheat corn and rye. Soybean oil and soybeans also hit seasonal lows as Thursday's session, the last before the Good Friday shutdown, showed mixed trading and solid market activity.

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Dow Jones Averages Close Mixed As Markets Move

Dow Jones averages end mixed with Industrials up 13.06 points and Rails up 0.52 while Utilities rise 0.52. Closed prices show Industrials 908.29, Rails 230.45, Utilities 125.32 with volumes led by Industrials and Rails. Bond closes show slight declines and a commodity index hits a new 1968 low at 136.43.

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Dairies and Local Firms List From Texas town

An extended OCR list captures numerous business names in a Texas area including dairies farms banks gin companies mercantile stores and service providers such as Foremoat Dairies Abilene Acme Manufacturing & Supply Co Frank's Meat Market Coca Cola bottling Farm supply stores and real estate banks and insurance firms. The fragment highlights the local economy and a dense roster of entities with varied industries.

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Bacon Claude Gentry Mrs Gibson Discount Center Becknell Wholesale Company Gibson Printing Company Godbold, Inc Bedford's Prescription Pharmacy Goodnight Sausage Factory WW. V. Bighan Goodpasture Grain & Milling Co., Inc Borden Company Bozeman Auction Service Ken and Myrtle Bozeman Gordon, Hull, Arrington & King Great Plains Manufacturing Co Bozeman Machinery Auction Bozeman Real Estate Bob Grice Shallowater Tommy Bramlett Bray’s Cleaners & Furriers Briercroft Savings & Loan Assn Hale's Market Griggs Furniture Company Title Co John Halsey Drug Store Broadview Gin Company, Inc Homer Hancock, O'Donnell Hannsz Supply Ad. H. Brock & Company Brooks Super Market Hart Grain, Hart Brown-McKee, Inc Hart Oi! Company Hart Brown's Varsity Shop Hemphill-Wells Company Bryant Farm Supply Hickory Inn of Lubbock, Inc Caldwell Gin Company O'Donnell Cannaday Chemical Company Hill Canyon Canyon Lumber Company Hilton Supply Company Hot Shot Cafe Caprock Business Caprock Seed Company FE. K. Hufstedler Carlisle Grain Company, Inc J.D. Hufstedler Truck Co Carlock & Murdough Hull & Riddle Drug Case Power & Equipment Cassel & Company Cathey Brokerage Company Hunt & Tipps Seed and Grain Co Chemagro Corporation Hurlbut & Holder Real Estate & Loan Dale Chute, Ralls Hygrade Gin Inec Citizens Co-op Icee West Texas Citizens National Bank Idalou State Bank Idalou Citizens State Bank Slaton Jackson Delinting & Mfg. Company City Gin Coca-Cola Sprite Bottling Company Jimmie Cochran Cotton Company Johnson Manufacturing Company Kcbd Radio-Tv College Avenue Klbk Radio-Tv Coop Grain Company, Abernathy Roy Cooper Motel KSEL Rain Cattle Company Kitalou Gin, Inc Daniell Gin Company Jimmie H. Davis L&h Drugs Deal's Machine Shop Lindsey Funk Seed Company Lubbock Cotton Oil Company Lota Lubbbock Gin’ Company Lubbock Glass & Mirror el Ray Builders Supply, Inc Ellwood Employers Insurance of Texas Equitable Life Assurance Society Estes Chemicals, Inc Lubbock Livestock Supply Lubbock National Bank Lubbock Savings & Loan Association Lubbock Sheet Metal Farm & Ranchers Commission Co Farmers Co-op Farmers Grain Hart Farmers Supply, Inc Tuco Lubbock Tailoring Company Lubbock Western Wear & Shoe Repair Laskey's Western Store, Inc Luther Transfer & Storage, Inc McFarland-Massen Company McKelvy’s Furniture Company Faubion & Rigsby Insurance Agency Featherlite Block Company Fenner Tubbs Company Fieldy & Company First National Bank Merchants Fast Motor Freight Lines, Inc Charles S. Middleton First State Bank Mills & Givens Cattle Chevrolet Company Moncrief-Lenois Manufacturing Co Montgomery Motors Montgomery Ward Company W. H. Nelson Real Estate Newsom Paint & Supply Compa Ny Ten Corporation Oliver 3 i Machinery Company Paymaster Off Mill Company Hates & Witken's Manufacturing Co Piggly Wiggly Plains Compress & Warehouse Co. Ltd Plains Plains Gas, Inc Plains Hog Company Plains Laboratory Plains Meat Company Plains Seed & Definting Company Pollard Friendly Ford Company Jamean L. Porter Prater’s Turkeys Bill Price Pritchard Brokerage Company Production Credit Association Brownfield Production Credit Association, Ralls Quality Shoe Store A, FE Quest and Sons Ramada Inn Red Lion S&h Sam Ribble Florist Safeway Stores, Inc Sanders Funeral Home Scoggn-Dickey Buick Company Seara Roebuck & Company Service Grain & Fertilizer, Abernathy Shur-Gro Irrigation Company South Plains Cattlemen Alford Stanton Brunson Ranches Caprock Cattle Company D. W South Plains Electric Co-op, Inc Southwest Canvas Manufacturing Co Southwest Fertilizer & Chemical Southwest Wheel, Inc Southwestern Electric Supply Co Southwestern Public Service Spears Furniture Company Standard Milling Company Swift & Company Tapp Cotton Company Tatum Brothers Elevator Tahoka Tatum Brothers Grain Co Hale Center Tatum Brothers Grass Co Wolfforth Texas Compress & Warehouse Texan Cotton Harvester Sales Co Texas Roofing Company Thatcher Printing Company Tide Fertilizer, Hart George H. Traylor Triangle Manufacturing Co Trotter Duroc Farms Tucker Duroc Farms Varsity Bookstore Veazey Cash Lumber Company Veterinary Clinic Vickers, Vickers & Garner Vann's Leroy Waggoner & Co Watts & Gibson Insurance, Abernathy Wes-Tex Aircraft, Inc Westerburg-Farley & Company Western Gin Company Western Implement Company Western Title Company Bill Wolfe Joe Wood Market & Locker Woodrow Woody Tire Company Yellowhouse Gin Company Lee York R. C, Young Seed & Grain Company Youngblood's Fried Chicken Penny Packer Bourbon the American Distilling Co New York, Bly R. P Bob) Brown City Council Yeears
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