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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1955
Page
5
Market report shows mixed hog values with Friday steadiness to strength for most butcher hogs and sow declines around a quarter. Receipts near 6,000 head with prices listed for 190-375 lb butchers and 450 lb sows, alongside cattle and sheep figures from Chicago and Des Moines reports.
Hawkeye Area Boy Scout council executives report a record year at Camp Waubeek with rising Scouting and Cubing membership and plans for new units. Nearly 900 boys expected at camp. Boy Scout exposition reservations exceed initial booth plans. Warden Ray Purcell, inmates and university figures attended the dinner at the state reformatory in Anamosa.
Sioux City cattle receipts total 250 with calves none. Slaughter classes steady. Few good and low choice steers bring 20.00 to 23.25 per hundredweight. Few good heifers 18.50 to 19.50. Choice heifers 986 and 926 lb fetch 22.75 per hundredweight.
Receipts at Omaha were about 600 cattle and 50 calves, offerings too light for a fair test. Slaughter classes steady. Two loads of choice fed heifers around $23.00 per hundredweight. Utility and commercial cows mostly $11.25 to $14.00, canners and cutters $9.50 to $11.00, light canners as low as $9.00.
Police records report at 10:06 a.m. Andrew Polehna asked that two runaway bulls be shot after escaping from his pasture near the Peter home south of Wilson Avenue Mallory Street end. Car 1 officers Hlavacek and Rubey responded. Hlavacek, deemed to have expertise, shot the bulls twice.
Des Moines Gov Leo A Hoegh rejected claims he pushed creation of a legislative research bureau to provide a job for his former campaign manager Russell Lundy. The senate plans to confirm Lundy as director in a harmony plan after previously denying him a Highway Commission post.
New York AP reports the stock market extended its eight straight gain into new highs for a fourth session. Most major divisions rose about one to three points while losses remained small. Trading volume was about 3.1 million shares.
C R Markets quotes Spring fryers four to six pounds at 17 cents per pound. Under four pounds sixteen cents. Leghorn springs ten cents. heavy hens five pounds fourteen cents. hens under five pounds thirteen cents. capern hens twelve cents. ducks over six pounds fourteen cents. geese fourteen cents. Current egg receipts twenty eight cents. pullet eggs eighteen cents. Grain markets list oats seventy cents. corn No 2 yellow one dollar thirty five cents. new crop soybeans two dollars forty five cents. Egg market quotes hennaries thirty four, firsts twenty nine cents. Straw prices twelve to fourteen dollars per bale. Native wool four cents per pound.
A report shows failures or business deaths in the first quarter remained at year-ago levels. The data underscores stable performance despite ongoing market pressures across firms.
In Chicago trading, corn futures rose as reports showed large processors buying cash corn at firm prices. Short offerings from producers and expectations UK buyers will import more US corn supported the rally. Wheat, oats, rye, and soybeans showed mixed moves with modest gains and losses across futures.
Chicago and New York markets show steady to firm pricing for live poultry dairy and eggs with large white eggs at 40 to 50 cents a dozen and butter scores 90 and 92 fetching 54 to 57 cents per pound. Potatoes show mixed movement with Idaho russets around 5.75 to 6.00 and new stocks limited.
Delivered Chicago per 100 pounds with carloads shown prices range for various forage like alfalfa white clover and red clover plus timothy and alsike. Notable figures include alfalfa northern common 37 dollars and red clover 53 dollars.
Bill Murphy, longtime Aurora high school coach and principal for six years, resigns to take the position of high school principal and coach at Hazleton.
Mt Vernon pacifist Walter Gormly renewed his tax protest by notifying the Federal tax bureau that he would again refuse to pay income taxes. He spoke for a group calling itself the tax refusal committee of peacemakers, noting about 29 participants nationwide have joined in refusing 1954 taxes over fears the United States would use nuclear weapons in major war. Some pacifists refuse all taxes while others pay a portion equal to the war budget share.
Mrs. Edwin Schlatter aged 40 died Thursday at her farm home near Hawkeye from a heart attack. Services will be Saturday at 1 30 p m at Emerson funeral home and 2 p m at Trinity Lutheran church with burial in Hawkeye cemetery. Born Leola Schult February 20 1915 in Fayette county she married Edwin Schlatter December 6 1933. Survivors include her husband three children Lois Duane and Joan at home three brothers Lester William Loyal and two sisters Mrs Lawrence Seergers and Mrs Walter Koch.
Ernest Triplett a 56 year old Woodbine man faced a murder charge in the mutilation death of 8 year old Jimmy Bremmer of Sioux City. District Judge R G Rodman granted a postponement at the request of Triplett’s attorney who said he was tied up in another case and had not time to study the matter. Bremmer’s body was found in a field north of Sioux City about a month after his disappearance the night of August 31.
DES MOINES INS George West announced a Clinton city council hearing set for April 21 at 7 30 p m on eight tavern operators cited after a March 18 raid. State Agent Strand filed complaints March 22 accusing each owner of having intoxicating liquor on premises. West said revoking class B beer licenses and forfeiting $500 bonds are requested. Kruse and state agents will attend, and Dayton Countryman said Kruse will present evidence to the Clinton county grand jury the same day.
Archbishop Leo Binz of Dubuque says Catholic and public schools contribute to national strength and security. He urged Catholics to respond with Christlike spirit when faced with critics of religious schools and called diversity in education a source of strength. The session elected Archbishop Joseph Ritter as president general.
Des Moines AP Don Pierson Republican state chairman issued another progress report on the Iowa legislature Friday noting progress on key sections of the 1954 Republican platform and Hoegh recommendations. He expressed confidence the session will produce a legislative program Iowa can be proud of once completed.
Practical guide from a bank article advising home maintenance to save money on repairs. It emphasizes oiling motors on a schedule and keeping a date chart for items like vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, electric fans, power mowers, sump pumps, and power tools. It also promotes careful check writing, correct use of pen, and filling spaces with heavy lines. The bank highlights services such as loans, checking, thrift, and safeguarding valuables, and explains Travelers Checks needs and countersign requirements.
Cedar Rapids residents and Cancer fund-raising workers opened a campaign asserting that cancer education must reach all. Anne Wilson of Mason City urged visiting every home to hand out pamphlets while highlighting a three phase program of research, service, and education. A film on Sloan Kettering research will be shown at the 7:30 p.m. session.
Des Moines Iowa Attorney General Dayton Countryman reports no federal liquor stamp renewals in Iowa during March the first month under his enforcement policy. He previously issued a list of stamp holders to county attorneys guiding monthly raids and many establishments surrendered permits. The office now provides renewal lists to law enforcement.
At the 87th annual Iowa Conference of the Augustana Lutheran church convention in Des Moines plans were unveiled to expand the Iowa Lutheran Home for the Aged at Madrid. The project includes a chapel and enhanced facilities for psychiatric care and aged residents. Rev. Raynold Lingwall urged better Sunday school facilities nationwide as the conference continued through Sunday.
The statement indicates that manufacturing newsprint uses 37 percent of its weight in sulfur. This percentage reflects the sulfur requirement per ton of newsprint produced, highlighting material inputs in papermaking.
Wherion-Wherion host a family dinner for Carol Whitmer of Arlington Virginia with guests from Scarsboro Williamsburg and Memphis. Maud Waters injured in a fall at Campbell Clinic Memphis. Florence Scott memorial services set in Cedar Rapids with burial at Oak Shade. Birthday dinner for Earl Welsher with twelve attendees. Various local visits moves and notices from Des Moines Center Point and Cedar Falls.
A report summarizes familiar moves and visits as residents return from wintering in Corpus Christi. Ellwood Beiber family hosts travelers, while William Shepard relocates with Cedar Rapids plans. Elmeda Kollman remains hospitalized at St Luke’s. John Yordi family returns from Iowa City. Marion appoints William Armstrong, Chamber of Commerce member, as Cancer Drive chairman by Mayor Franke.
IOWA CITY The University of Minnesota regents named Robert S. Hoyt associate professor of history from the University of Iowa to join Minnesota as a faculty member. Hoyt, a medieval English history specialist since 1946, will teach in September and has led courses in Medieval England and Renaissance studies and directed the department's graduate seminar Historiography and Philosophy of History.
City briefs note Foreign students studying in Cedar Rapids and Marion schools toured the Amana colonies Friday under the Americanism committee of the Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce. Also listed are thanks for flowers and cards, a spring dinner-dance by the Cedar Rapids Horsemen's Club, a father-son banquet with Jim Meaghan speaker, and a Fruehaus Management Club dinner with Meaghan presenting films.
Cedar Rapids city parks will have picnic facilities ready Sunday with wood placed at all fireplaces. Pavilions will not open until May 1 and further cleanup plus possible bad weather may delay openings for another two weeks, commissioner Richard C. Jones said Friday.
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