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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 29, 1968

Page

14

Financial and Market News Hogs Up 25 To 50 Cents

Narrow stock market gain on Monday aided by blue chips with Du Pont leading the rise by about two points. IBM jumped nine points while Standard Oil of New Jersey Owens-Illinois and Montgomery Ward posted modest gains. Volume was 8.6 million shares in four hours, with Commercial Credit as the leader in turnover.

New York du Pont Standard Oil New Jersey Owens-Illinois Montgomery Ward Laboratory Lehigh Valley IBM U.S American Stock Exchange Associated Press

Chicago Grain Quotations and Livestock Estimates

Official Tuesday receipts listed cattle 1 000 hogs 4 000 and 200 sheep. Hog prices rose 25 to 50 cents per hundredweight. steer and heifer prices were steady. Market quotes cover various weight ranges for hogs cattle and sheep with multiple price bands and yields.

Chicago USDA

North Vietnam cites Laos talks in peace site probe

U S officials report North Vietnam responded through Laos contacts to 15 proposed sites for preliminary peace talks but no agreement on a venue exists.

Washington North Vietnam Laos U. S

Liger Shasta to be honored at Salt Lake City zoo party

Shasta the liger at Salt Lake City zoo will receive a birthday party this Saturday. She is 20 years old, with an African lion father and Bengali tigress mother, and is reportedly the only one of her kind in a 700 mile area. Free zoo admission for children under four with a birthday card.

Salt Lake City Shasta Salt Lake City Zoo Bhe Zoo

Omaha Livestock Prices Slip Across Cattle Classes

At Omaha cattle market, 13 000 head calves and cattle traded with slaughter 12 000 and feeders 1 000. Steers and heifers down about 25 cents. cows steady. High choice and prime 1 235 lb steers 27 50. 1 150 lb steers 27 00. Heifers 26 45 top, prime 26 10-26 25, choice 25 00-26 00. Cows 17 50-18 50, canners 16 00-17 50, occasional 17 75-18 00.

USDA Omaha UPI

Sioux City Livestock Prices Reported for Cattle and Calves

Sioux City market figures show cattle and calves with slaughter steers and heifers steady to 25 cents lower. Average weights around 1,000 to 1,250 pounds. prices range from 25.00 to 27.15 for various grade selections with high choice and prime notes indicated.

Sioux City

Cedar Rapids market prices hold steady across livestock and grains

Prices for bulk country and plant delivered butchers 200 to 230 lbs ranged 18.50 to 19.00 with sows 16.50 to 17.00 for 300 lbs and lighter. Weight discounts apply for heavier carcasses and packers. Corn soybeans oats and poultry quotes follow, with lambs and sheep values listed and Des Moines meat trade details.

U.S Cedar Rapids

Vandals Take Jack Ruby Tombstone From Cemetery

Chicago police report Ruby's 150 pound tombstone dumped in a street two miles from Westlawn cemetery after vandals removed it. Two teenage brothers found it Saturday night and police said it would be returned to the cemetery. Ruby died January 3, 1967, from cancer in a Dallas hospital.

Chicago Jack Ruby Lost and Westlawn Ruby Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald Kennedy

Wheat Futures Retreat To Levels Last Seen In 1942

Chicago based report shows wheat futures slipping nearly three cents a bushel on Monday and touching the lowest prices since 1942. Nearby declines pull down related grains and soybeans with corn and oats also easing and rye sliding.

Chicago

New York Produce Offers Adequate Wholesale Supplies

AP reports USDA wholesale listings show slow demand with full availability. Butter demand fair with creamery prices at 93 score about 672-6734 cents and 92 score around 61-67.2 cents. Various produce grades and sizes quoted for whites. checks and standards listed with several fractions.

NEW York Produce New York USDA

Wholesale meat and egg markets steady amid mixed potato data

Chicago reports wholesale pork yofers steady with White Rock fryers 20 to 23, butter prices unchanged with various grade scores, eggs flat with Grade A whites 27, mediums 23, standards 24, checks 17. Potato arrivals total 113 with U.S. shipments Friday through Sunday at 327, demand slow for russets. Idaho russets at 5.75, Florida round reds 50 lb sacks at 3.30.

Chicago USDA Ilower U.S Idaho LCL Florida

Iowa Properties Posts Sales Rise and New Contract

Annual shareholders meeting at the Hotel Roosevelt reported a 54.4 percent gain in residential construction and factory-built homes. Builder's Components won a contract to supply 86 cluster group apartments. total assets rose to 2 707 886. Officers and directors were elected including Gerald A. Hiland and Charles E. Severn.

Iowa Properties.’ Inc Hotel Roosevelt Gerald A. Hiland Hiland Builder's Components Thirty-third Avenue J Street Joseph Michal Builder's Components, Inc Russell F. Knapp Iowa Properties, Inc Charles E. Severn Leland Wells Donald E. Gough Clyde R. Sanborn

Three Arrested for Melting Down Silver Coins

Three El Paso men were arrested at an airport near Tucson with two tons of silver coins and a small smelter. They face charges of melting coins to reclaim the silver, marking the first substantial UPI report under a new law prohibiting melting of silver coins.

Tucson. Ariz UPI el Paso Tucson U.S Secret Service

Glider Forced Down in Dartmoor Prison Boundary

Frank Pozerskis attempted a 184 mile glide from Dunstable aiming for a gold certificate. Wind ended his flight near Dartmoor prison where he made an emergency landing two miles short of his goal.

Princeton England UPI Frank Pozerskis Dunstable Dartmoor

Engineer sues firm over computer matching him with fat smokers

Eric Treaster, 22, an electronics engineer in Sacramento, sues Compatibility Testing International for $175 claiming the company’s computer matched him with fat girls who smoked and drank. Judge Gordon Sacher dismisses the suit, saying Treaster failed to prove the firm did not fulfill the contract.

Sacramento Calif UPI Eric Treaster Compatibility Testing International Fee Superior Court Gordon Sacher Treaster

Tight Boycott Keeps Negroes Out of Town

In Greenwood Mississippi a selective buying campaign has driven nearly all Negro commerce from downtown and a shopping center. White merchants reached a deal with boycott leaders to hire Negro workers and show courtesy while pressing city leaders to meet. The boycott began after Martin Luther King Jr. was buried and has reduced Negro trade across Leflore County almost entirely.

Greenwood, Miss Greenwood Martin Luther King Leflore Mississippi Johnson Street

Vintage Plane Resumes Trek To Smithsonian

Pioneer pilot Bill Hackbarth flies a 1918 De Havilland DH-4 retracing the first US air mail route. He stops in Rawlins and Cheyenne in Wyoming en route to Washington, DC to donate the plane to the Smithsonian. He notes continued smooth radiator operation after a 1922 crash and recalls teaching Maj. Thomas Duncan to fly.

Rock Springs Wyo UPI Bill Hackbarth Hackbarth Salt Lake City Wyoming Rawlins Cheyenne Maj Thomas Duncan Warren Air Force Base Duncan Fillmore Calif North Platte Neb Reno Nev California Washington, D.C Smithsonian Institution

Brooke’s Daughter Plans June Wedding With White College Student

The 19 year old Remi Brooke, daughter of Senator Edward Brooke, and Donald Hasler, an 18 year old white Monmouth College student, plan to marry in June. The tentative date is June 22 in New Milford. Brooke notes his own interracial marriage and historic Senate service since Reconstruction.

New Milford N. J Edward Brooke Rmass Monmouth College Remi Brooke Donald Hasler Eugene F. Hasler Brooke Senate

Pontiff Paul VI Weeps During Brescia Pilgrims Visit

Pope Paul VI wept briefly at St. Peter's during a Mass for pilgrims from north Italy. He addressed representatives of a Brescia women’s Catholic group, honoring his birth diocese and his mother's lifelong service.

Vatican City Paul VI St. Peter’s Basilica Italy Brescia

Mansfield Seeks Tax Surcharge Support Shift

Senate leader Mike Mansfield cites letters from Montana voters showing a switch from opposition to support for President Johnson's 10 percent income tax surcharge. He says public works and space military research face possible cuts as Congress negotiates a bill to raise taxes by ten billion dollars and trim long term spending by about twenty billion.

Washington Senate Mike Mansfield Montana Mansfield Johnson Congress House Wilbur Mills iDeArkis Ways and Means

King’s Father Warns of Hate and Hypocrisy in America

The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., father of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told about 1,000 worshippers at Concord Baptist Church in Boston that hate and hypocrisy are America’s sickness. He vowed to use his remaining strength to continue his son’s work and to strive to save America.

Boston Martin Luther King America Martin Luther King, Jr Concord Baptist Church

Summer Home Near Marquette Is Burglarized

Special to The Gazette Marquette Clayton county authorities were called Sunday to the summer home of Mrs Jack Klima near Marquette where a break in took place Saturday night. Burglar s gained entrance by cutting screens. A shotgun ax and possibly some shotgun shells were missing. Mrs Klima s nephew Joe Klima McGregor had visited the house Saturday to prepare for her arrival and found everything in order.

Marquette Clayton County Jack Klima Klima Milwaukee

UNICEF Aids Punjab Milk Plant Capacity 16480 Gallons Daily

A United Nations group supplied all required imported equipment for a milk plant in Punjab state. UNICEF assisted in constructing the facility which has a daily capacity of 16,480 gallons of milk.

Chandigarh India United Nations Group Punjab United Nations Children’s Fund Unicef

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