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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1952
Page
20
Chicago AP USDA notes estimate Saturday salable receipts 300 hogs 200 cattle 100 sheep. Hog prices 10 to 50 cents lower on Friday as supply outpaced demand while cattle and lamb markets held steady on light receipts.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market held steady Friday with higher prices paid for hogs at the Cedar Rapids plant. The report lists detailed figures for cattle, calves, sheep, hay and straw, fruits, vegetables, eggs, grain, and field seeds with multiple ranges and weights across categories.
New York Stock Exchange and other major U S markets closed for Good Friday. The New York Curb Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade also paused trading in observance of the holiday.
Chicago reports live poultry market steady with receipts of nine trucks and no price for cornets. Cheese prices show daisies and longhorns at about 41 to 43 cents per pound, processed leaf around 41 to 42 cents, with grade A 60 to 62 cents, B 58 to 60 cents, C lower. Potatoes arrivals listed at 45, with overall U.S. shipments unavailable due to telegraph strike. supplies very light and demand good, market nominally firm though track sales hindered by stock tables.
Receipts 500 calves and slaughter classes steady in mostly all grades. stockers and feeders weak. One load high choice 1,372 lb fed steers at 35.00. Utility and commercial cows 20.23, canners and cutters 16.00 19.00, odd. commercial bulls up to 26.25.
A price list from Waterloo shows hogs and pigs priced by weight ranges. Top quotes reach 16.50 for heavy hogs, with multiple weight brackets from 160 pounds to 550 pounds and varying cents per pound for sow and barrow categories.
Ottumwa hog market reports a 15 cent decline with top price at 16.35 for butchers. Various weight ranges are listed from 160 pounds up to 300 pounds with prices ranging from 13.85 to 16.35 and a continuing decline for heavier lots.
Receipts Friday around 40 000, weekly 44 000, yearly 52 500 with Thursday actuals 65 000. Prices mostly steady to 15c lower, some 25c off. southern anne pair prices steady to 10c higher. Top hogs $17. Barrows and gilts by weight: 160-180 lb $14.15-16.25. 180-200 lb $15.90-17.00. 200-220 lb $16.50-17.00. 220-240 lb $16.20-16.85. 240-270 lb $15.75-16.55. 270-300 lb $15.15-16.10. 300-330 lb $14.70-15.65. 330-360 lb $14.25-15.20. Sows by weight: 270-309 lb $14.85-15.50. 300-330 lb $14.60-15.25. 330-360 lb $14.35-15.00. 360-400 lb $13.85-14.75. 400-450 lb $13.35-14.25. 450-550 lb $12.35-13.75.
Kansas City market reports cattle receipts at about 200 calves and 50 cows or other stock with light offerings. Prices not indicated as demand remains weak for varied classes.
Hardin county officials investigate a $1,001 safe burglary at the Lawn Hill Cooperative office a mile north of New Providence. Burglars entered through a window and pried open the safe door.
City briefs report hospital admissions and statuses including D P Marvis at Mercy Hospital and Arnie Mader improving with visitors, K G Chrysler undergoing surgery at St Luke’s with visitors allowed, and Frank Balsanek at Veterans Hospital Houston. Also notes Easter library closure, a death call to Gary for Mrs Charles Remm, Easter observances for local commanderies, VFW officers installed with 250 attendees, and a head injury at Market tavern involving Francis Woods.
Authorities debate whether the manor arose as a late Roman empire estate development or as a medieval creation. The discussion centers on origins of this core feudal unit and its evolution across periods and regions.
Sioux City stockyards suspended livestock quotations Friday as flood waters rose and halted incoming shipments Thursday. Officials expect quotations to remain paused for about a week.
City Arborist Elmer Delaney warns residents planning tree work in city parking areas must obtain a free permit from his office at City Hall. He urges against topping trees and notes private arborists must carry city-approved insurance. Four Cedar Rapids men meet the requirement. the department also details spring planting on Eighth Avenue Williams Boulevard and Twenty first Street SW and upcoming trimming resumption around May 15.
Washington AP reports the Office of Price Stabilization sets 30 day ceiling increases for bread by about one cent, cakes up to five cents, and expands covered items to fresh bakery goods. Perishable items like crackers and biscuits stay unchanged, with regional variations based on past price increases.
Three Franklin high school students in Cedar Rapids Donald Cassiday Waldo Mead and David Skinner join 37 others invited to Grinnell College April 18 to 20 for a three day series of tests and interviews to determine the ten Baker scholarships.
Iowa North English public school teachers were granted a 100 dollar cost of living salary increase at a school board meeting. Contracts for the 1952 53 year were issued and must be returned by April 21. In North English Homer Kirkpatrick donated a merry go round for the park. Dr L A Miller donated use of his Main Street basement for Boy Scout troop 27 giving the scouts a permanent home. Anamosa Frank Nye will lead a Jones County Republican women’s club discussion at the courthouse community room Monday at 1 15 pm. Onslow exceeded the Red Cross drive goal of 100 dollars, according to chairwoman Mrs Donald Jansen.
Waterloo Iowa reader Mrs John Manross reports years of failed remedies before Baker's Hair Tonic eased her dandruff and itchy scalp. She praises the product and notes the money back offer. The ad also promotes Baker's "Lathernist" Shampoo for a clean scalp and lustrous hair. Both products are sold on a advertising basis.
Miss Phyllis Lanning daughter of Mr and Mrs Erwin Lanning of Marion and Donald H Hagerbaumer of Iowa City were married Wednesday at 4 pm in Marion Methodist Church. The ceremony followed by a dinner for 27 at the Roosevelt hotel Cedar Rapids. The couple will reside in Iowa City after a trip.
Raymond Wickham a machinist aged 59 died Friday at 12 45 am at his home 330 Third street Marion after a six months illness He worked 27 years for Iowa Manufacturing Company Cedar Rapids He was born September 26 1892 near Sutliff married January 12 1916 to Mary Akerly in Iowa City They moved to Marion in 1925 He belonged to Marion Methodist Church Surviving wife three daughters seven grandchildren a sister Mabel Fuhrmeister Iowa City and two brothers Glenn W Lisbon and Gifford D Wickham Marion Services are set for Monday at 2 pm at Yocom Murdoch chapel Friends may call after 1 pm Saturday
In a hopeful Easter briefing Sam Dawson notes farmers expect winter wheat to be the third largest crop ever with higher yield. March steel output reaches a record. auto production rises with projections for April to June. Government quotas may be exceeded as GM officials cite rising disposable income and suburban growth. Council of Economic Advisers cites all time high 339 billion dollars in output.
Early spring favors peas planted four inches apart and national convention delegate primaries. The piece notes peas will perform with more certainty than delegates once July convention trading begins.
By late March the expansion plan for mobilization was in place as the Defense Production Administration announced. The total cost of the new plant was put at more than 12 billion dollars.
Ralph Shannon 63 publisher of the Washington Evening Journal was elected president of the Iowa Press Association. John R Burroughs succeeds Shannon as vice president and Duane E Dewel was chosen treasurer. S E Tennant treasurer and two board members were re elected with John Rigg added to the board and Carl Sexauer retiring as president.
In Fairmont West Virginia authorities held Dr Eugene A Holland 47 on a drunkenness charge after the death of 17 month old Warren Russell the boy was ill when his mother Mrs Clint Russell called for help and the telephone strike delayed service the doctor could not recount events incoherent at the veterans club where he was found following the call and examination The death occurred Thursday at the Russell home and the child was not pronounced dead until taken to General Hospital The mother filed a complaint alleging the doctor was drunk during treatment
Illinois Commerce Commission orders the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company Davenport to reduce electric rates in the Quad City area by about 14 percent. The temporary order runs June 1 for nine months or until a final decision, with a new rate schedule due for all service classes. Cedar Rapids area unaffected per supervisor Albert L. McKinstry.
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