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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1955
Page
5
Chicago and Des Moines livestock markets report lower hog prices with butchers and sows down 25 to 50 cents. Cattle and sheep receipts show mixed results as buyers adjust after recent price declines. top hogs around 17 dollars per hundredweight with varying lot sizes.
Omaha cattle receipts total 18 000 with calves 700. Supplies leaner for fed steers and quality weak. Early trade slow yet steady with prices for tech steers around 21.00 to 25.00, top loads up to 27.00, good and choice heifers 19.00 to 23.00, cows 12.00 to 15.00, cutters 10.90 to 11.75, stockers and light feeders 19.50 to 38.5, and stock steer calves listed as choice and lightweight.
Sioux City market receipts total 9 060 cattle and 150 calves. Most steers and heifers steady with choice steers selling around 23.00 to 24.00, some higher. Heifers near 21.80 to 22.50, with some entries higher.
Markets report Cedar Rapids hog prices down 25 percent on Monday with delivered plant figures for various hog sizes and poultry products. Grain values show New oats 70 cents per bushel and corn No 2 yellow at 1.35, soybeans at 2.45, while straw bids range 12 to 14 dollars per bale and native wool at 42 cents.
Delivered Chicago per 100 carloads with prices for several seeds including red top alfalfa and clover. Rates show ranges such as alfalfa northern common 36 to 37 dollars and red clover 53 dollars to unknown, with variations across varieties and conditions.
The New York stock market advanced in late Monday trading as selling softened in many areas. The index rose between one and two points with some gains near five points. Volume was about 2,400,000 shares.
Fragmentary OCR item mentions a company, a manager H Jump, and telephone details. Strong entities and full facts are unavailable in the readable text.
Twenty Japanese girls disfigured by the Hiroshima blast will travel to New York for plastic surgery and medical treatment. The group, aged 19 to 24, were trapped in a school during the Aug 6 1945 attack. They receive free care from two doctors and a hospital, sponsored by the Hiroshima Peace Center Associates and aided by Norman Cousins.
Two Oelwein men were hurt over the weekend. Richard Franks, 26, suffered a concussion, broken hand, and other injuries after falling from a tree during trimming. Carl Lenius, 41, sustained internal injuries and shock from a ladder fall while remodeling at the Oelwein Register building damaged by fire. Both were hospitalized.
The Southwest dust storm spurred modest buying in new wheat futures on Monday. Wheat finished mixed with May at 2.115 to 2.114, corn up to 1 cent, rye higher near 1.34, soybeans around 4 to 1 percent gains, and lard up to 12 cents.
Chicago market notes show grain prices with No 1 white oats and corn figures. Entries indicate No 2 and No 3 samples with varying cents and dollars, while mixed oats and sample grade terms appear. The text is fragmented but references standard market pricing for wheat corn and oats.
Receipts and prices update for butter eggs live poultry and potatoes. Butter steady at 93 score 57 cents. eggs white large and mixed lots priced around 33 to 36 cents. live poultry steady with hens 16 to 29 cents and fryers 23 cents. capons and caponettes quoted 35 to 40 cents. geese ducks and turkeys priced 11 to 34 cents. Potatoes show old stock light but demand active with strong market. U S shipments Friday through Sunday total 1 061 883 11 carlot track sales noted.
New York butter prices hold steady with USDA data showing Creamery butter at 93 8 4-58 cents and various quality scores. Receipts totaled 931 277 with mixed loads and extras in the 38-50 cent range and standards around 34-37 cents, reflecting unsettled trading.
The University of Dubuque concert choir opened Cedar Rapids union Holy week services chanting four pieces from its tour program. Dr. Gaylord Couchman urged faithfulness to purpose to glorify God and noted Christians have always sung amid persecution. About 425 attended, higher than usual for the series kickoff.
Cedar Rapids Community Chest and the Public Welfare bureau plan adding a fourth staffer to handle administrative duties and public relations. Roy Swanson says the assistant secretary will gather news releases, write material, and coordinate with volunteers and social workers while serving 15 agencies that contributed 271 085 last year. The move aims to boost year round public relations and inform the public about daily Chest activities.
Mrs James W Hubbell of Des Moines wife of a prominent Iowa banker died in her sleep early Monday at Hannibal Missouri Enroute home from a Florida vacation She was 63 and a former assistant treasurer of Equitable Life Assurance Company of Iowa Her husband James W Hubbell is chairman of the Board of Bankers Trust Co in Des Moines
Three talks have been booked this week by the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Speakers Bureau. Mae Little speaks on Nutrition and Diets at the Marion Business Girls dinner Tuesday at 6 30 p m in Legion Hall Marion. Don Isett discusses Death Valley Scotty at Lincoln Church near Palo at 8 p m Wednesday. Clarence McIntyre and Frank Hidinger discuss aviation careers at Cedar County Career Day for eleventh graders Thursday at Cornell College.
Three members of a Winthrop family escaped seconds before an Illinois Central train struck their stalled car at a crossing. Driver Jack Evers, 16, and his mother plus sister Kath een, 19, jumped free as the Land 'O Corn passenger train neared while they were en route to church.
The navy appoints Capt. Roy Lee Johnson as first commander of the new supercarrier Forrestal. Johnson, from Big Bend Louisiana, heads the air weapons system analysis staff at navy headquarters and previously led air groups on the Hornet and the Bandoeng Strait.
Alex Fidler, street circulation manager for The Gazette, will discuss "Children in Street Trades" at a Council of Social Planning meeting in Cedar Rapids. The regular Family Child Care lunch meeting is at noon at the YMCA. reservations via telephone.
The article reviews topcoats offering Tweed Cheviot Shetland covert cloth cashmere angora camel hair and gabardine options. It notes slimmer silhouettes set-in sleeves modern Chesterfields velvet collars varied fabrics and utility of zip-in linings for future use.
A reader notes that a light warm coat suffices for Taw spring days and harsh winter weather. It argues adding a second coat is not a luxury, helps extend life, and increases wardrobe variety.
The Coe college concert band drew an audience of over 2500 at its twenty second annual concert in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall Sunday evening. The 60 member ensemble also performed before more than 6000 high school students at Lane Technical High School Monday morning. During its spring Midwest tour the band played nine Illinois concerts before the Chicago appearance, with a Calumet High School show scheduled for Monday afternoon. They planned a final Lanark concert Tuesday before returning to Cedar Rapids to disband for Easter vacation ending April 12. The tour is led by Stanley Vesely Sr. and Jr. as directors.
Mrs. Donald Lambert arrived in Tokyo last Tuesday with her daughter Margaret from Minneapolis. She plans to stay several months visiting her parents in Japan where her husband Coe College student ja Coe served with U S forces. This is her first return to Yokohama. the family previously lived in Marion.
Mrs. David F. Hindman 68 of 1245 Tenth street Marion died Sunday at 6 17 am in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a short illness. Born Mabel E Cory January 1 1887 she married December 30 1908. Surviving include husband two sons Marvin C Hindman and Albert C Hindman a daughter Mrs John Dixon and many relatives. Memorial services set for Wednesday at 2 pm in Marion Methodist church with burial in Oak Shade Cemetery.
Thirteen people died and about sixty were injured when nine cars of a passenger train plunged from a cliff into Colima state's Canyon of Death on a Sunday night. Governor Salinas Reynosa reported many passengers missing, fearing they wandered off in darkness or left the scene by other transport. The accident occurred on tracks along a narrow ledge beside the canyon.
A Des Moines man forfeited $160 in fines after not appearing in municipal court on two traffic charges. Harold Welsh faced speeding at 70 in a 45 zone and improper passing. Arresting officers said he passed another car at high speed with little clearance. Harold Wischmeyer lost his license for 20 days on a separate speeding charge of 45 in a 25 zone.
In Iowa City finals of the Iowa High School Forensic League a Wilson high school play received a superior rating in the Class A Play Production Festival. Joan Buresh was among six students awarded outstanding acting citations, marking the top acting rating. Wilson was one of four schools to earn the festival’s highest superior rating.
The Santa Gertrudis breed originated from crossing Shorthorn cows with Brahman bulls, a cross that produced a heat tolerant beef cattle line suited to tropical conditions.
A prowler entered a house on Muscatine avenue in Iowa City on Saturday night and rifled the purses of four girls. Virginia Taylor reported the incident, stating the thief took $38 in total and left the purses in the living room.
Cedar Rapids sewer project bids totalled 10 percent below the city estimate with Hennessey Brothers at 56 607 50 and Gjellefald Associates at 59 184 for three locations east of Thirty fourth street SE and near Mt Vernon road by the Erskine school.
The Cedar Rapids Jaycee committee nominates members and will meet Tuesday at noon in the Roosevelt hotel. The Jaycee Council executive council also will convene Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Nick's restaurant. The Clean-Up Committee plans a luncheon Tuesday at noon in the Roosevelt hotel.
Billy Graham told British servicemen at Bedford Barracks in Edinburgh that unless human nature changes hydrogen bomb warfare will terrorize the world. The evangelist spoke while still suffering a throat infection to a rally of soldiers sailors and airmen.
Postmaster E. R. Petro reported March postal receipts in Cedar Rapids set a record for a non Christmas month. The total reached $165,955.29, higher than February’s $145,302.71 and March 1954’s $149,532.45, beating December 1950 figures.
WEST UNION An Independence youth, Inez Gilson, was fined $300 in district court here Monday for driving without a license. Gilson has served sentences in Fayette county jail for three previous driver license violations.
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