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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1968
Page
8
Soybeans futures rose nearly four cents a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade marking the best yearly rise. Prices for soybean meal and oil advanced with grain futures. Oats and rye moved with corn and wheat, while various feed notes showed irregularities in the market.
Partly cloudy skies and little change in temperatures are expected for Town over the next couple of days. The Weather Bureau notes a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in western and northern counties through Tuesday.
NEW YORK AP The stock market held gains in moderate late trading with more advances than declines by over 200 issues on the New York Stock Exchange. Dow rose slightly while Glen Alden led on volume and several issues showed notable gains, including Flintkote, Jones & Laughlin, Raytheon, Sperry Rand, and American Smelting. Prices also rose on the American Stock Exchange. Wheat and grain futures quoted in Chicago.
Chicago AP reports hog prices rose 50 to 75 cents per hundredweight with 3,000 hogs received. Slaughter steers up to 30 cents higher, top at 30.00, highest since May. Hogs and cattle saw varied gains and the lambs sold 26.00 to 26.50. Grain quotes show corn around 99 to 94 cents with soybeans near 2.36.
Speeding Gonzales Valenzuela Fruitland $15 and costs Intoxication Bradford Scoggins Muscatine to appear in local courts Orren Sell Muscatine to appear Marie E Christian rural Tipton $5 and costs Failure to Control Vehicle Ronald H Swailes Taylor Ridge Ia to appear Sept 14 Careless Driving David G Weiershauser 1014 Iowa Ave to appear Aug 23 Assault and Battery Ramiro R Ramirez 512 Liberty Street to appear
Adrian Wilson of West Liberty seeks the Republican nomination for Muscatine County supervisor for the 1969 term. A ISU Agricultural Economics graduate, he farmed 20 years after previous roles as county agent in Redwood Falls and a fieldman for Equitable Life. Wilson served on Farm Service Co. and Federal Land Bank boards and on the county education board. he and wife Jan have three children. Hospitals list local admissions and dismissals. births noted for several area families.
A father and son were injured when a semi truck collided with a car at the junction of highways 61 and 92. Kathleen Courtney was unhurt. Robert Stanford and his 12 year old son William, both of Morning Sun, were hospitalized with leg injuries after the wreck that killed about 115 hogs from the truck. The incident involved Harbison Truck Lines and a 1968 Chevrolet driven by Kathleen Blaine Courtney.
Noon stock quotations list numerous equities with percent changes and prices for AlliedCh to Textron and others, followed by a legal notice from Muscatine County Iowa. The notice, filed with the Iowa Natural Resources Council in Des Moines, seeks a permit for continued water withdrawals of up to 118 acre feet annually at 73 gallons per minute from a reservoir and well on land described as the SW half of the SW quarter and surrounding Section 4.
Notice of a public hearing at 1 30 P M DST on September 6 1968 at the Water Commissioner office Des Moines Iowa concerning irrigation water use on land east of the public road and N M 4 of the NW 4% Section 9 T76N R4W Muscatine County Iowa. The existing permit 86 R1 to Florence A Walker Bonney expires September 11 1968. Written appearance must be filed by August 30 1963.
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