The Daily Leader from Pontiac, Illinois • Page 14

Markets Local Grain (Courtety Grain) Noon prim.today were: Corn 2.53 Soybeans 15.41 Yesterday's closing bide were: Corn $2.52 Soybeans Cash Grain CHICAGO (AP) Wheat No 2 soft red 3.33i/ 4 Friday; No 2 hard red 3.33V4n. Corn No 2 yellow 2.7di/4ti. Oats No 2 extra heavy white Soybeans No 1 yellow 5.48n. No 2 -yellow corn Thursday sold at.2.70%. Market Summary CHICAGO (AP) --Soybean futures prices posted modest gains on the Chicago Board of Trade today.

Grain prices were mostly steady. Under export buying soybeans traveled about 7 to 8 cents a bushel higher- during the day, before falling back to more modest increases at the close. Corn futures were up by about 2 to 3 cents in active trading by speculators, and closed about steady to slightly higher. Wheat prices were mixed on the close after being higher most of the day. At the close, Chicago wheat prices were about 2 a bushel lower to 2 cents higher, July 3.40; Gulf hard red wheat was not traded; corn was about a cent or two higher, July 2.61; oats were slightly lower, July and soybeans were about 3 to 4 cents higher, July 5.54.

Futures CHICAGO (AP)-Friday: High LowClose WHEAT Jul 3.37% 3.40 Sep 3.49 3.42 3.47 Dec 3.58Vi 3.52 3.55 Mar 3.64 3.59 3.60 WHEAT Gulf hard red Jul Sep Dec CORN Jul Sep Dec Mar OATS Jul Sep Dec Mar 3.68 3.73 3.79 2.63 2.60 2.61 2.52% 2.49% 2.52 2.38 2.35 2.36% 2.43 2.39% 2.40% 1.29 1-25 1.26% 1.23 1.30% 1.27 1.30% 1.29 1.25% 1.23V4 1.28V4 1.29 SOYBEANS Jul Aug Sep Nov Jan Mar 5.58% 5.50% 5.54 5 58 5.50 5.55 5.52 5.42% 5.47 5.44 5.36 5.40 5.47 5.40% 5.44 5.52 5.46 5.49 PONTIAC ELECTRIC SUPPLY 707N.Ladd Pontiac WHOLESALE RETAIL "For All Your Electrical Supplies" PHONE 844-6345 Joliet Livestock JOLffiT (AP) (USDA) -Hogs 700; trading slow Friday, butchers lower; 1-2 200230 IDS 27,00, about 50 head 27.25-28.00; 1-3 220-240 IbS 26.0027.00; 2-3 240-260 Ibs 24.50-26.60; 2-4 260-280 Ibs 22.50-24.50; SOWS 50 lower; 1-3 Ibs Cattle 800; trading moderately active Friday, slaughter steers mostly steady; insufficient receipts of heifers to a market trend; choice Ib slaughter steers yield grade 2-4 40.0040.50; 63 head at 41.00; choice and high choice and prime Ibs yield grade 3-4 38.50-40.00; load choice and Daily Leader, Pontiac, 111. Page 14 '74 prime 1,354 Ibe mostly yield grade 4-5 35.50; mixed good'and choice Itw 39.00-40.00; part load choice and prime 875 Ib slaughter heifers yield grade 34 40.50; mixed good and choice 740 Ibs 36.00. N.Y. Stocks NEW YORK (AP) The stock market scored a solid gain today, impelled by hopes for an easing of the upward surge in interest rates. The 2 p.m.

Dow Jones average of 30 industrials was up 9.46 at 814.69, and gainers outnumbered losers by nearly 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange. Brokers said the market's recent sharp declines had left it ripe for at least a temporary Melville Shoe, down at was the Big Board's most-active stock. A block traded at 6. General Motors gained to The company said it would come out with hew small cars in all five of its divisions- including Cadillac--in the 1975 model year. Strong gainers in the glamour sector included Philip Morris, up at 107; Texas Instruments, at Motorola, at 60; and Xerox, 2V4 at Marinduque Mining was the American Stock Exchange volume leader, unchanged at The Amex' market-value index rose .05 to 80.29, while the broad-based Big Board composite index was Up .53 at 46.47.

Forrest Employes of the Forrest State Bank, husbands and wives, attended the dinner meeting of the Livingston County Bankers Association on Wednesday, May 15, at the Elks Country Club at Pontiac. Name committees of Pontiac Woman's The Duke' is dead The first board meeting of the new Pontiac Woman's Club year was held at the home of the newly elected president, Mrs. Kenneth Clark, 1208 Kirkwood Drive, on Tuesday. The following committees were announced for the coming year: Fine Arts, Mrs. James chairman, Mrs.

Joseph Wochner, secretary, Clarence Mrs. Harry Heylin, Mrs. J. K. Johnson, and Mn.

T. K. Viemont: Literature, Weber, Mrs. Harold Schroder, and Mrs. Francis Sutton; Music, Miss Marjorie Martin, chairman, Mrs.

John Taylor, secretary, Mrs. R. Y. Dievendorf, Clarence L. Farber, Mrs.

Wilbert Henkel, and Mrs. Ervin H. Sandham: Public Welfare, Mrs. Ray Beck and Mrs. Rodney Crabb, co-chairmen, Mrs.

Willis Harms, secretary, Mrs. Elwin Brown, Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs. Harold Chamberlain, Mrs. Alonzo Clay, Mrs.

J. F. Duel Diemer, Mrs. Hugh Duffy, Mrs. Oliver Durham, Mrs.

Kenneth Engstrom, Mrs. Henry Eppel, Mrs. Duncan Funk, Hunsicker, Mrs. Robert Kipfer, Mrs. Harvey Lugar, Mrs.

J. M. Luther, Mrs. Malcolm McGlasson, Mrs. Harold Mies; Mrs.

R. E. Mund, Mn. John Rhode, Mrs. Henry Wagner, Mrs.

Kenneth Wesselhoff, and Mrs. Ray Westell; Social, Mrs. E-. R. Ruby and Mrs.

T. K. i co-chairmen, Mrs. Robert Ed- Benesek, Mrs. Paul Biakeman, Mrs.

J. F. Duel Diemer, Mrs. Lorena Fienhold, Mrs. Elmer Hansen, Mrs.

Lawrence Heinrich, Mrs. Carl B. Johnson, Mrs. Charles Clyde Pierce, Mrs. Fred Risley, Mrs.

Delbert Ruff, Mrs. James Rutherford and Mrs. Eugene Auditing, Mrs. Paul Biakeman, chairman, Mrs. William and Mrs.

Harold Tribley; Club Quarters, Mrs. John A. Taylor, chairman, Mrs. Robert Edwards, Mrs. E.

R. Ruby, Mrs. Thomas K. Viemont, and Mrs. Richard Winters; Dues, John Rhode.

Membership, Mrs. Gene Coriell, chairman, Mrs. Tom Larson, secretary, Mrs. Rodney Crabb, Mrs. Fred Croft, Mrs.

Lyle Dolton, Mrs. Henry Eppel, Mrs. Lorena Fienhold, Miss Edith Folsom, Mrs. Delbert Gardner, Mrs. Harold Mies, Mrs.

Justin Mitchell, Mrs. Albert Pitcher, Mrs. Joseph Popp, Mrs. Cecil Richardson, Mrs. Harold Steinbach, Mrs.

Viva Shonkwiler, Mrs: Jack Stout, Mrs. Paul Trainor, Mrs. Kenneth Tucker, Mrs. Maurice Veatch, Mrs. GaiUard Wagner, and Mrs.

Henry Worthington; Leader Delivery Service If you missed your Leader CALL 842-1153 Daily To 7:00 p.m. Saturdays To 6:00 p.m. Odell ODELL The Loyal Daughters Sunday School Class of the First United Methodist Church of Odell met on Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Edward Seal with Mrs. Parnell Kennedy and Mrs.

Dwayne Sullivan as co-hostesses. There were 17 members and three guests present. During the business meeting the following officers were elected for the coming year: Mrs. Dwayne Sullivan, president; Mrs; Carl Snyder, vice-president; Mrs. Delbert Allen, secretary, and Mrs.

Lawrence Landstrom, treasurer. Following the business meeting games were played and refreshments served. Saturday, May 25 A.M.-9:oo P.M, Sunday, May 2612:00 P.M. DICK'S CUSTOM CABINETS Route 23 Cornell, Illinois FREE REFRESHMENTS Register For Door Prizes! Discount on Formica Counter Tops on Cabinets Ordered During Our Grand Opening! Mrs. Kenneth Engrtrom, "tSSS Viemont, and tin.

R. Y. Dievwidorf. E. Mund and Paul Trainor, cochairmen, Mrs.

Dean Zehr, Mrs. Joseph Wochner, Mrs. Darrell Reno, Mrs. John Taylor, arid Mrs. Willis Harms.

Ways and Means, Mrs. Harold Chamberlain and; Mrs. Ervin Sandham, cochairmen, Mrs. Dean Zehr, secretary, Mrs. John Ray Zebell, Odell, dies rites Monday ODELL Raymond W.

Mrs. Mrs. Wochner. Rehabilitation, Mrs. M.

Luther, chairman, Mrs. John Augustine, Mrs. Rodney. Crabb, Mrs. Kenneth Engstrom, and Mrs.

John Hamilton, Revisions, Mrs. L. A. Jordan, chairman, Mrs. William Morse, and Mrs.

Harold Witmer; Budget, Mrs. R. Y. Dievendorf, Chairman, Mrs. Dale Richardson, Mrs.

William Morse, Mrs. John Rhode, and Mrs. Bill Snider; Illinois Clubwoman, Mrs. Malcolm McGlasson It was announced that the following high school students have been awarded scholarships from the Pohtiac Woman's Club, to attend various camps during the (Continued from page 1) lington, the "Duke" was known the world over and was the first jazz musician to receive the French Legion of Honor, an award he was presented in July of 1973. Asked how many countries had I given him awards, he replied: "I ne awards.

I only enjoy. I don't even count the bars when I write, do Oh, I guess I have to." Ellington, a tall, urbane, baggy-eyed piano player, wrote more than 1,000 compositions, Among them are some that al- the Medal of Freedom. The Republic of Togo in Africa put his picture on a postage stamp in a. 1967 series which also featured Bach, Beethoven and Debussy. Avant-garde composer Gunther Schuller has called Ellirig- ton "certainly the greatest American composer." Arturo Toscanini commissioned Ellington to write a piece for his NBC Symphony, and other symphony orchestras around the world have played Ellington's music.

So has almost every dance band. In 1965, when he was 66, a had been ill several years and had been seriously ill one week, will be held at conservaiion camp: will be in St. Paul's Cemetery. Charles Neubauer, music Karen of Mr. i) James L.

McCabe, art camp, until riawn after sfyNsrSSfssl Mr. ana rars. marsnau nam er-ending tours of-the world; "I'm in contact every night with people--live people, listening the "What reason would I have to retire from the road?" President Nixon invited him to the White House on his 70th birthday and gave him the nation's highest civilian honor most everybody can Pulitzer Prize jury recommerid- My Solitude," "I Let A Song Go ed him for a special award, but Out of My Heart," "Don't Get the advisory board rejected it. Around Much Any More," and "Fate is being kind to me," dozens more. Ellington said.

"Fate doesn't In later years he poured out want me to be famous too a prodigious stream of longer young." orchestral pieces, tone poems, sacred works, choral pieces, movie, television and ballet scores and even an opera or two. He composed in taxicabs, in restaurants, on buses, and often at the Watson Funeral Homer The rosary will be said He was born Feb. 28, 1912, in hoStesS) rs. Nevada Township, Livingston Mary Ellen (Feehan) Zebell. He attended Odell schools, and was a mechanic in the Odell area for 20 years, prior to his retirement.

A veteran of World War II, he served in the army air force. He married Jane Ruddy at Odell on June 14,1963. Surviving are his wife; a stepson, Bernard Stull, Sacramento, three step grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; his mother Odell; four brothers, Delbert, Pontiac, Harold, Dwight, Joseph, Lockport, and Leo, Tucson, and one sister, Mrs. Paul Armstrong of Dwight. His father and one brother preceded him in death.

He was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church and of the Odell American Legion Post. members decided donation to the lommerce toward ie Fourth pf July celebration. Tea was served by the assisted by Richard Winters, with Mrs. J.

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