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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1968
Page
5
The national map notes only showers tonight in extreme southeastern Florida. Warm conditions prevail across the eastern half of the country with cooler air in eastern Montana.
Hogs 7,000 head down 25 to 50 cents for barrows and gilts with 210 to 240 lb pigs at 21.75 to 22.25 and sows 16.25 to 19.75. Cattle 9,000 head with calves steady. choice steers 27.00 to 27.74. choice heifers 26.00 to 27.00. Sheep 1,400 head with lambs firm to 25 higher. spring lambs 26.75 to 27.75 and ewes 4.25 to 5.25. Grain quotes show corn at 1.06 and soybeans at 2.63 with 15 day delivery.
USDA estimated Wednesday receipts 6 000 cattle 4 000 hogs with hogs down 25 to 50 cents. Cattle trade steady for slaughter steers while cows and heifers show varied moves. Vietnam war claims lives of three Iowans including Lt Warren K Brown of Sioux City. other two Army Sergeants listed. Brown killed when his jet was hit over South Vietnam. funeral details not released. Potatoes and cash grains also updated from Chicago market notes.
Grain and soybean futures fell on the Chicago Board of Trade as widespread rain eased drought fears. Wheat and corn saw hedging and selling, soybeans and oil faced pressure, while a strike against processors influenced soybean meat markets. Roy East of Muscatine injured when his vehicle overturned on Lowe Run Road. he was hospitalized in fair condition.
An AP stock page lists noon quotations with diverse moves across AlliedCh, Int Harv, AmCan, AmHome and many others. Investors watch shifts in sectors from steel and oil to utilities and consumer goods.
Ralph Cullen won the speakers award with The Best Year of My Life at the Muscatine Toastmasters meeting held Monday evening at Sauer's Dining Wheel. William Spieth was the other prepared speaker on An Outstanding President.
Wilton Lions Club sponsors a two-division softball tournament Sunday with profits aiding community projects. Admission 1 for adults and 50 cents for students. Class B offers 300 prize fund with 150 for first, 90 for second, 20 for third and fourth. Class A awards 150 to winner and 50 to runner-up. First-round games are five innings. semis and final seven. Local teams include Safley’s, Durant, Wilton, North Equipment Fertilizer, Roadner Machines, M Serv ice Co, Parks Tap, Hob Nob, Wilton All-Stars, Gridiron, Rock Island shops, Happitime, and Parris Top Metro.
Standings show Charlie's All Stars Rilemito's G M Dragsters 69 Bombers Morgans DJ's Hoosier Hat Shots and top individual leaders: Caran Rigdon 160 in game, 455 in series. Cathy Rigdon 433. Mike Hall 217 and 506. Jim Kleindorsh 456. Nearby lanes list high team totals and next week pos round.
In Cincinnati AP report Kathy Whitworth leads LPGA earnings with 24,290. Carol Mann gains with fifth win of the season at the Pabst Classic in Columbus, earning 4,200 to lift her total to 22,995 while Whitworth finished second for 3,235.
George Brunet of the Angels pitched a five-hitter to end a six game skid against Detroit as California defeated the Tigers 4-0 and reduced the AL lead to six games. Richie Allen belted his 19th and 20th homers, added a single, and drove in three runs as the Phillies beat the Mets 5-3.
Jacksonville Illinois AP reports Dr. Ernest G. Hildner, 95, the last surviving member of the first basketball team formed by Dr. James Naismith at Springfield Mass in the 1890s, died Monday in Jacksonville.
Texas El Paso faces a re evaluation of athletics after charges of racial discrimination circulated by the Albany Knickerbocker News. Phil Harris alleged black athletes were recruited with weak academic support, while AD George McCarty denied the claims and a university committee was named by President James Ray to review the athletics program.
Willie Johnson of Miami Beach faces Dave Zyglewicz of Houston in a scheduled 11 round bout at Sam Houston Coliseum. Johnson trains with Jimmy Ellis, world champion. Zyglewicz holds Texas heavyweight title, sports a 26-1 record. Ex Celtics star Sam Jones to coach at Federal City College in Washington after upcoming NBA season.
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