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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1944
Page
5
Chicago livestock reports show hogs active with prices largely steady and cattle and sheep mixed. Des Moines and Omaha desks note receipts, ceilings and price shifts. Illinois grain futures move with mixed open and close quotes across three months.
Chicago produce receipts and current prices across dairy, poultry, and potatoes with detailed figures for butter, cheese, eggs, and live poultry. The report notes steady demand, various grade and size classifications, and weekly shifts in prices and shipments across New York and Chicago markets.
Market notes show butchers raise prices by a nickel to a quarter, packers by a dime on the Cedar Rapids hog market Tuesday. Top price for butchers reaches 14.45, packers 13.70. detailed weight ranges list good hogs up to 400 pounds and packer prices across cattle and sheep sectors with multiple grade brackets and per hundred pricing throughout the market report.
Market summary lists prices for corn soybeans oats wheat rye and hay under No 2 yellow and No 2 oats. Poultry prices cover heavy springs light springs heavy hens leghorn hens stags current receipts and various egg grades. Wholesale fruits vegetables and hides sections show crates and box prices for celery lemons naval oranges lettuce onions sweet potatoes winesaps apples potatoes grapefruit as well as calf hides horse hides kin kip and related terms.
Chicago grain prices moved in a narrow range amid mixed market signals and light trading. Wheat fell to 1.5534 to 1.5538, oats rose to 1.714, rye gained to 1.34, barley up to 1.1255. cash grain quotes show No 1 red at 1.5654 and various mixed and barley values noted.
Plymouth Wisconsin hosts a small cheese sale July 31 to August 5 featuring twin and cheddar varieties priced around 74 cents per pound. Local vendors and dairy farmers showcase products with emphasis on traditional Wisconsin cheese heritage.
Gov Bourke Hickenlooper issued a proclamation naming Sept 17 to 23 as Parent Teachers Week in Iowa. He called on schools churches civic groups and educational organizations to observe the week and support PTA efforts.
The United States will host postwar peace planning talks with Britain and Russia starting August 14 in Washington, with Britain and the United States to follow with China in separate discussions, announced by Acting Secretary of State Stettinius.
Washington dispatch reports four Iowa men listed as casualties by the Navy. Among the fallen is Pharmacists Mate First Class Maurice Tedford Hurtt, wife Leanna Hurtt of 1120 C Avenue NW Cedar Rapids. The Gazette previously carried Hurtt’s name as a casualty.
In New York a small advance came from selected rails and industrials as traders showed modest confidence. Turnover was around 700000 shares in five hours, among the lightest in three months, with many gains trimmed near the close and scattered losses evident.
Cedar Rapids chapter No 194 Order of Ahepa meets at St Johns Hellenic Orthodox church Wednesday at 8 p.m. Ice cream social at First Besneel church Wednesday 7 to 9 p.m. Czech Guard members urged to report to police at 7 45 p.m. Wednesday. ODT rep at Chamber of Commerce Wednesday 10 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. Edith E Partzline reported $7 stolen from purse left in car at OK Drive In. H B Holland reported a $15 watch stolen from trousers at Second Avenue address. Navy recruiting office announced enlistments of Glenn Herbert Forristal and Merwin Donald Reynolds. T E Charter returned home after operation at University hospital. Sharon Lea Kline returned home after tonsillectomy at St Luke's hospital.
War department confirms Sgt Harry A Southerland seriously wounded July 13 in New Guinea his second wound in combat after December 30 1942 in New Guinea. His in laws Mr Mrs Lloyd Williams notified and family details follow along with local notices and community updates from Cedar Rapids Marion Osceola and surrounding counties.
Mrs. Martha Smye Scott, 87, died Sunday at 6 30 p m at her home 190 Twenty first Street Funeral Wednesday at 2 p m in Yocom chapel Rev Warren L Koon of Wooster Ohio will officiate and burial is in Cedar Memorial park Born in Ireland January 6 1857 she came to the United States in 1874 and lived with an aunt in Anamosa She married Lewis Henry Scott in 1888 in Anamosa He died in Marion in 1935 She was a Baptist church member Surviving are two sons Arthur S Scott and William J Scott The family requests no flowers Casket will remain closed
A Conservation Officer arrested a man near Waubeck Saturday for violating state fishing laws using throw lines. John R. T. Rives, former sergeant at arms for the Democratic National Convention, spoke at a Canopus club meeting at the Roosevelt hotel. Twelve Boy Scouts were advanced in rank at a Scout court of honor Monday night with names including Bill Grafton Jack Krebs and Jim Grissell earning ranks. Lorraine Wilson and Huldah Diekmann petitioned the U S Supreme Court for certiorari in the Shores company litigation, asking review of an Eighth Circuit ruling involving their case and others against Van Vechten Shaffer Don Barnes Arthur Barlow Frank Byers and the Shores firms.
President Virgil M. Hancher announced at Ames that the University of Iowa approved two assistant professorships. John C. Gerber will join English after previous posts at Pittsburgh and Chicago, and Ralph G. Jones will become assistant professor of anatomy in the medical college.
United Service Women Inc will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the French room of the Montrose hotel to organize a Cedar Rapids unit. State president Mrs Elvira Monlux of Algona and executive secretary Mrs Irma Hilliard of Oskaloosa will attend. Mothers wives sisters and daughters of servicemen and women in World War II are invited.
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