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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1968
Page
8
New York AP reports the 1968 market tale as small investors move from odd lots to the new over 1000 share class with a 20 percent commission cut. Brokers cut back on small accounts under pressure from the SEC while insiders get faster access to information and bigger players profit.
A ziggurat is a temple built like a pyramid with diminishing stories and a terrace around each floor, serving ceremonial functions in ancient Mesopotamian cities.
The New York stock market drifted lower with heavy early trading as declines in major blue chips dragged the Dow below 981. Losses outweighed gains by under 100 issues while Federated and Trans Union rose on active trade. Note gains in Sears Roebuck, Woolworth, Alcoa and others cushioned the overall drop.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange wholesale prices show butter grades AA A B C at 93 6754 6734 6754 6035 and 90 B 67 percent 89 C 62. Eggs unchanged with grade A whites 4412 medium 4042 standards 39 checks 27.
Chicago cash grain market closes with Wheat No 2 hard yellow at 1.384n and No 2 soft red at 1.304n, Corn No 2 yellow 1.15, Oats No 2 extra heavy white 68 1/4n, Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.57, Soybean oil 8.40n.
In Memphis, Judge W Preston Battle delayed the contempt hearing for FBI fingerprint expert George Bone Brake until after the James Earl Ray trial. The hearing had been set for December 6 to address the publicity ban surrounding Ray, charged in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. slaying.
In Memphis Harbor the 10 year old tug formerly named Ethel Woods will be renamed George L. Murphy after refitting. Warner & Tabmel Transportation Co. said the vessel, once active on Arkansas White River, will now perform harbor chores under shore captain.
A burglar entering Estella Howey’s apartment was met with a shoe slap and an armed chase, four shots from the 81-year-old woman’s pistol reportedly missing the intruder. Police note the scene as a dramatic defense in an urban incident. Theodore Roosevelt supposedly carried 12 extra eyeglasses on his Spanish American War deployment.
New York humorist Ogden Nash, aged 63, discusses updating his 1931 quatrain for the psychedelic era. He notes liquor remains the social ice breaker and that marijuana tends to be more individual, while he prefers the traditional idea that liquor fosters intimacy.
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees wed Molly Hullis at a registry office in London. Hullis, aged 21, was the woman he rescued from the Hither Green train wreck a year earlier that claimed 49 lives. Gibb, 19, wore a bell-bottom suit and paisley tie as he carried Hullis out of the hall.
Deborah Jean Deerman aged 19, a New Mexico State University sophomore, is named the 1969 New Mexico State Fair Queen. She studies art and physical education and teaches riding, dancing, piano and trains horses.
Mrs Helen R B Trotter 89 of Coal City died at home on Wednesday born February 20 1879 in Ayrshire Scotland daughter of Robert and Jane Fleming came to the United States settled in Coal City area taught in Cen tral City and Carbon Hill she married Benjamin R Trotter in 1901 and was a longtime member of Coal City Methodist Church and White Star Eastern Star survived by daughter Jane Beaumont Olympia Field three sons Robert W Mason Kenneth F Coal City Warren A New Athens seven grandchildren nine great grandchildren two sisters Anne Flett Evanston Elizabeth MacGregor Sarasota burial Oakwood Cemetery Wilmington funeral at Coal City Methodist Church with Davis Funeral Home Morris memorials to Coal City Methodist Church.
William Leo Harty of Kinsman and Rita Ann Cox of Mazon were issued marriage licenses.
A brocade cocktail dress adapts into an evening suit with a jacket. The ensemble features a short jewel neckline dress and ornamental seam. A Talon invisible zipper creates a seamless look, stitched in three steps with the Talon Zipper foot. Simplicity Pattern 7903 offers misses sizes and 20 percent half sizes.
Robert E. Bradbury 93 of Roberts retires as a cooperative observer for the U S Weather Bureau after more than six decades of daily weather observations. He has lived on the same Ford County farm since 1911 and will receive an award at a dinner in his honor on December 9 in Rantoul.
New York University honored film producer director Stanley Kramer with the Gallatin Medal for 1968 at a Plaza Hotel reception. NYU president James M. Heston presented Kramer a plaque for his contributions to film and humanity.
An over the counter weight loss ad touts Odrinex tiny tablets with a money back guarantee. It promises fat reduction without thyroid or digitalis risks and notes a $3 price from Liberty Walgreens Drug at 309 Liberty St with mail order option.
Local families from Northern Illinois University to Joliet shared Thanksgiving gatherings with relatives across Dwight, Streator, Bloomingdale, Steger, Seneca, and Joliet. The piece notes multiple households hosting relatives and attending the Ed Phelan Barbara Yanovick wedding reception in Jon Mr. and 3. Die' Prin' 1 and family in Seneca.
Two people reported minor injuries in a one car crash late Wednesday on the Gardner South Wilmington road. Robert Wicks 28 of Braidwood and Anthony Baudino 27 of Coal City were treated at Morris Hospital and released with Baudino awaiting X rays. State police from Joliet District 5 handled the incident. no official report was available.
San Francisco reports Mayor Joseph Alioto ordered negotiations with the federal government over compensation for Alcatraz as a potential recreation spa site. The rock prison, closed in 1963, could change hands under state talks.
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