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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1946
Page
2
Chicago reports a steel and yearling driven cattle sale with good and choice grades predominating. Top price returned to the 18 dollar ceiling after a week away as the market remained active and prices held steady. Hog receipts reached 6,000 with 5,000 cattle and 6,000 sheep passing to ceilings. lambs eyed 16.46 but no top market was established.
Hog receipts 5 000 to total 9 500 with ceilings at 14 85 for barrows and gilts and 14 10 for sows. Cattle receipts 19 000 with steer and yearling runs and top at 18 1 00. best heifers 16 90. cows 10 50 to 13 00. bulls 14 75 down. Sheep receipts 5 000 to 6 600 with wooled lambs unsettled. better loads above 16 40. No 2 pelts 14 75. native and shorn ewes 5 0 to 6 50.
USDA cattle and hog markets show salable receipts and price ceilings. Barrows at 14.50, sows 13.75. calves 125 fed steers 17.50 to 17.25. cows 14.00. Sheep receipts 10,000 with higher asks, lambs steady to higher, fed lambs 15.25 to 15.50, rail offerings around 15.75. Ewes limited, prices rising.
Cattle receipts 7,000 with steady slaughter classes. good and choice fed steers slow. Hogs 4,500 head active and steady with barrows and gilts at 14.50. Sheep 1,000 head salable with fed wooled lambs 15.25 to 15.75 and natives 16.00 for strictly choice.
Combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours to 8 am Wednesday totaled 17 500, down from 26 900 a week earlier and 24 600 a year ago. Prices remained steady with loaded hogs at 160-180 lbs at 14.45 and 180-360 lbs at 14.45, while sows 400-550 lbs traded around 13.70 to 13.40.
The Cedar Rapids hog market quotes ceiling prices with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Good hogs 160-180 pounds fetch 14.00. 180-400 pounds 13.43. Grain prices list corn shelled 1.16 and soybeans 2.10. Hens, eggs, hides, and wholesale fruits and vegetables also appear with various per unit prices.
A late rally lifted many leading stocks on Wednesday with gains of one to five points. Bethlehem Steel rose 3, U S Steel up 2 1/2 and Southern Pacific gained 2 points. Transfers traded about 1.4 million shares.
Long term treasury issues showed slight gains in late trading after morning highs. Dealers reported federal issues up 2/32 to 6/32 point near the close. Exchange gains reached up to 24 32.
Kansas City receipts show 4500 salable cattle with firm overall tone and selective gains on good to low choice steers and yearlings. Buyers focus on beef steers, yearlings, and light-weight stockers. cows and bulls mixed with range pricing and several loads of heavy and medium weights offered.
Chicago report announces sale of the J. and R. Motor Supply Co a chain of 54 auto parts stores in seven midwestern states to Spiegel Inc of Chicago. Sale price not disclosed.
A tally notes 21 distinct religious bodies in the United States that identify themselves with the Baptist name. The count reflects groups claiming Baptist heritage across diverse traditions and regions.
In Chicago the market moved within narrow limits as September wheat returned to the maximum quotation and oats and May rye rose. Wheat and corn finished at ceilings of 1.8342 and 1.2115, oats up slightly, rye up 1 percent, barley unchanged at 1.2612 ceiling for May.
AP reports Chicago market figures for cereals and seeds. No. 2 red hard wheat at 1.82 nominal, corn No. 2 yellow at 1.60 nominal, oats with no sales. Malting barley 1.25, feed barley 1.16 to 1.24. Field seed prices list red clover 31.50, sweet clover 25 to 28.50, alfalfa 33.50 to 36.50, timothy 5.75 to 6.00, red top 12.00 to 12.50.
Chicago market data shows firm receipts for poultry and cheese with steady butter and eggs. Idaho Russets and other potatoes arrive and shift weakly with steady to lower quotes across sizes and grades. regional varieties and track sales sparse amid moderate demand.
New York produce notes Butter receipts 571, cheese receipts 657,854. Prices firm with butter and cheese showing no change. Market activity described in crude form, indicating stable trend in dairy commodities.
Louis Francis Budenz former American Communist official testified before the House Un American Activities Committee in a closed session claiming the Soviet foreign department directs the US Communist party and pursues a Hitlerite world domination policy. He cited the Jacques Duclos letter and criticized Russia's suppression of religion while calling for improved cultural contact with the Russian people. Budenz is a Notre Dame journalism staff member.
Clyde Parker will direct the Cedar Rapids school system starting July 1, succeeding Arthur Deamer who retires Sept. 1. He urged strong community support and collaboration with civic groups to improve education, noting the program depends on local leadership and cooperation. Members of the school board attended the Kiwanis luncheon.
In a superior court session Judge Harry Johnson presided as 12 new citizens from 10 nationalities took the oath of allegiance. Immigration official Fred J. White examined applicants. Named new citizens include Dan Verteiko Russia Steve Capaducas Greece Mary Pash Lithuania Annie Belle Cohn Poland Mary Margaret Elaine Morehouse Great Britain Reginald William Holton Great Britain Fanny Rothschild Germany Marcelina Ruiz Mexico Mary Jelinek Czechoslovakia Anna Sheronick Syria and the Wolf couple Kurt and Mrs Wolf Germany and Switzerland respectively.
In Los Angeles two sons contest their mother’s will after she left both sons $1 to “purchase rope with which to hang themselves” while bequeathing $25 000 to her daughters. The 62 year old Annie Koll Rosenbaum died July 26 and the will cites abuse by the sons.
The Tientsin municipal government decreed that banquets are limited to nine courses. Shark fins bird nest soups and imported liquors may not be served. All Chinese restaurants in Tientsin were notified and even the mayor must follow the rule.
Dr. Edward Hanna, Iowa State College veterinary graduate, forms partnership with Dr. H. N. Strader of 246 Seventh Avenue and will open an office at Springville. He plans to start practice on May 1 after serving as a major in the air technical service at Rome New York during the war. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Hanna of Marion and brother to Dr. Charles Hanna, a Scranton veterinarian.
Lyle Manson visiting his parents, the Edward D Mansons, reports the Oaks nightclub fire in Winona Minnesota ten days ago. He lost a bass viol from Hawaii valued at $600, part of $10,000 in band instruments destroyed. Insurance partly covers the losses. The band heads to Kansas City for an engagement next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Trimble of Marion and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Storck of Darlington Wis. traveled to Battle Creek Ia. on Wednesday to attend the funeral of their grandmother Mrs. E. E. Leonard.
A benefit party is planned at Odd Fellows Hall at 8 o clock Friday with the Rebekahs and Odd Fellows inviting the public to attend.
Lloyd E. Tyler, a soil scientist, begins work for the soil conservation service at Marion after entering service in August 1942. He was stationed in Alaska. His wife, living at Lawton Oklahoma, has joined him. Gardens plowed, ashes, light hauling. Phone 473-LW.
Lt. Wilbert D. Friehauf has sailed for Japan, while his wife Mary Ellen Ford Friehauf plans to live in Portland Oregon. He is a University of Oregon dentistry graduate and intends to practice in Portland upon return.
Mrs Rosa Reiter returns from Marshalltown after 10 days for a relative’s illness. Rev C V R DeJong will preach a Lent sermon Such Great Love. Marvin McCalley, radarman on USS Arkansas, arrived home from Minneapolis with discharge.
Pfc. DeWayne Dickey is back from Linz Austria to Camp McCoy Wisconsin with his discharge. His wife and son Jan live at Waubeek. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester O. Dickey.
For sale fertilizer black dirt and fill dirt call 2 5770. All bricklayers are invited to a meeting at the Z.C.BJ hall at 8 o clock tonight. Mrs Roy Gordon 1108 Thirty fourth street NE is receiving treatment at Mercy hospital. First Lieutenant Dale C Billups Cedar Rapids area army recruiting staff since last October transferred Tuesday to the state headquarters office at Des Moines.
The Rev. Father Patrick W. McElliott of St Patrick’s parish Masonville will lead the Mount Mercy junior college and academy student bodies in a three day Holy week retreat April 15 16 and 17. Services run 8 a m to 5 p m daily in the college chapel.
The Rev Charles W Carter a 17 year Africa missionary will speak at the Interdenominational church at Third street and Fifth avenue SW Wednesday at 7 p m. Carter is principal and teacher at Clark Memorial Seminary in Sierra Leone West Africa and author of two Africa related books.
Katherine A. Becker secretary to A. L. Taylor of the Chamber of Commerce was rushed to a Cedar Rapids hospital with the flu. Doctors described her condition as quite well Wednesday but she cannot receive visitors at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt E. Maupin of 2633 Country Club Parkway SE travel to Winnipeg Canada on Wednesday. Mr. Maupin will install officers of the Winnipeg Optimist club and tender a charter to the new Junior Optimist club and address a joint meeting of both groups.
Miss Delores Newman of 1414 Fourth Avenue SE has been appointed physical education director of Mount Mercy Junior College. She assumed duties April 1 and will graduate from Coe College in June. Mrs. M Darwin Sandy of 1950 Fourth Avenue SE is physical director for Mount Mercy Academy.
An information charging Lester Kelsey of Toddville with failure to send his three children to school was filed with Justice of the Peace H. R. Churchill late Tuesday by Walter A. Shupp, county superintendent of schools. Shupp was unavailable and his staff did not know the details.
An ancient account details early ascetic living practices that shaped monasticism before the rise of Christianity, outlining solitary discipline, vow-based ethics, and austere routines.
Walter C. Gran of Minneapolis will dramatize the best selling religious novel The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas at First Lutheran church Thursday at 8 pm. Gran, who is blind, plays 13 characters in three acts Not a Bad Robe Woven without a Seam I Crucified Him For the Big Fisherman. Free will offering invited.
Cedar Rapids financing institutions report new G I loan application blanks cut red tape for veteran farm business or residence loans. Forms align with the revised G I bill of rights and simplify procedures, saving time and reducing correspondence for service members who have waited since March.
Des Moines report shows potential beer shortage while the state tax commission discloses higher beer revenue for March this year. Revenue totals reached 136 509 39 dollars compared with 93 056 65 dollars in the same month last year.
William M. Phillips and several Allison hotel barbers reported a burglary Wednesday. About $27.80 was stolen from the barber shop cash register after the drawer was pried open. Phillips discovered the loss when he arrived for work around 8 a.m.
Mrs. Wilson C. Fernow was elected vice-chairman of district seven for Camp Fire Girls at the district meeting in Lincoln Nebraska. She serves as education chairman for several states including Missouri Nebraska Colorado Wyoming and Kansas. Mrs. B C Christopher of Kansas City was elected district chairman and C V Waychoff of Boon named to the executive committee.
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