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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
8
The Daily Markets report gains in wheat rye and oats as futures climb briefly after an early downturn. May leads the advance with prices near 1.60. July and September futures also rise while oats and barley show mixed moves and no cash sales occur.
Trading closed with broad strength as major issues rose. Industrials led the advance with Allegh Stl at 26 percent and Am T and T up for a strong finish, while utilities and consumer firms also posted sizable gains.
Wilbur Wehmeyer former Iowa all American swimmer was decorated twice and promoted to lieutenant commander for sinking a Japanese submarine in the Aleutians and for other service as a naval aviator. He spotted the sub from a Cata Station PBY while on patrol. Wehmeyer has served at Pearl Harbor Midway Guam and on an aircraft carrier and is now attached to naval operations Patuxent River Maryland. The 30 year old Hawk Eye star is a Breather stroke champion of 1936.
Refuse collectors in many large cities earn 60 cents or more an hour with four hubs paying 90 cents or more. The rise marks a notable wage increase over 1940 and 1941 levels, per the American Public Works Association.
A wartime coating advance introduces a high hiding chalk‑resistant rutile titanium dioxide white pigment. By altering the crystalline structure to a denser atom arrangement it becomes about one third more opaque and shows superior resistance to chalking and fading.
Readers who want additional copies should notify this office in advance to ensure supply is not exhausted.
G. S. Pickett IV a June West Point graduate, great grandson of Confederate General George E. Pickett, entered the academy 99 years after his ancestor. Geraldine Zink of Iowa City visited relatives with her parents, while Mrs. R. F. Peel returned from Gowrie after visiting relatives.
In the District Court of Iowa Cass County probate matter George P. Schuler deceased Clair J. Schuler has been appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate. Creditors and claimants must present debts or claims accordingly. Dated June 15 1944 Rudolph Rudolph attorneys for the estate.
Mrs. Joe Gunderson and daughter Mary Claire of Bradgate visit Fred Chinn home. Mrs. Frank Smith Jr. returns to Ames after a stay with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Budd. Miss Flora Brown of Iowa City visits with sisters Mrs. Harry Swarts and family and Mrs. George Shaffer and family.
The listing shows market prices for dairy and poultry items including sweet cream at 52 cents, No. 1 cream at 49 cents, eggs at 116 cents per dozen, and various chicken types with prices from 14 to 23 cents. Old roosters, heavy breed hens, Leghorn hens, and springs appear with specific per-item rates.
Bees require roughly twelve times their weight in food per year, similar to humans. A man weighing 150 to 175 pounds consumes about a ton of food annually. A 10 pound bee colony needs six pounds of honey and four or five combs of pollen stored in the hive for winter.
In Chicago and South Omaha trades the hog market held steady for 180 to 270 pound offerings at 13.75 top. Receipts reached 19,000 with 7,000 settle packers and 18 holdovers from Wednesday. cattle and sheep shows were uneven with steers, yearlings, and cows mostly lower and native lambs down 16 to 25 cents, good and choice lambs around 15.60.
The article explains that while gas pumping water flooding and other treatments can increase proven reserves their effect on production rate is not guaranteed and may even reduce output. A separate warning notes that scrap could be used to make bombs.
Des Moines reports combined hog receipts for the 24 hour period ending 8 a.m. with 36,100 head, down from last week and a year ago. Prices shift for barrows and gilts by weight, with good to choice sows also moving at varying intervals.
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