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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1944
Page
7
Market reports show hogs steady to moderately active with prices near 1500 down to 1445 for chosen lots. Cattle calves and sheep also listed with varied receipts and prices, noting weak to steady demand and mixed offerings across load lots and feeder cattle.
Chicago and New York produce markets show receipts and prices across dairy fruit and poultry. Butter chews records high volume with steady demand. eggs and cheese quote varied by size and grade. poultry prices firm with steady shipments and strong commodity support.
The Cedar Rapids market held steady with top hog prices at 14.45 for butchers and 13.70 for packers. Hog weights span 160 to 500 pounds with varied prices. cattle show Choice to prime steers at 15.50 to 16.50, medium to good 11.00 to 13.50, and cows from 5.00 to 11.50. Sheep and lamb figures list ranging from 10.00 to 14.50 for various weights and grades.
Grain and hay prices show No. 2 corn $1.04, No. 2 soybeans $1.86, No. 2 wheat $1.40, oats 76 and 75 cents, rye 95 cents, hay and straw values. Eggs current receipts 30 cents, butter and hides listed, fruits and vegetables with crates and box pricing. Includes live stock prices for hens, stags, and horses with varying grades and weights.
Chicago grain markets edged modestly higher on short covering but sustained selling kept gains slim. Wheat rose about 4 to 4 1/4 cents, oats slipped, rye mixed, barley steady, with Chicago cash provisions noted for white and yellow wheat and malting grains and various grades and prices listed.
In Brookline Massachusetts the world’s richest cat Buster heir to forty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars rests under doctor care for an upset stomach and nerves. Margaret Thomson tends him as newsreels crowd outside. a photographer spooked him, but calmer hours return after mineral oil and kidneys. Doctors order complete rest and quiet.
Indianapolis dispatch reports Republican national chairman Bert W. Brownell Jr. saying if Thomas E Dewey is elected president he will employ the nation's best brains without regard to politics to plan peace and postwar construction and ensure broad geographic representation, contrasting with the New Deal.
Junior stocks led gains early but profits faded as major leaders struggled for buying interest. Transfers traded around 1,100,000 shares as prices drifted, with broad lists including Allied Chem, Boeing, Chrysler, Coca Cola, General Electric, Union Carbide, and U S Steel reflecting a cautious session in New York and Chicago.
Wisconsin brief gathers weekly farm weather and crop reports from towns including Davenport La Crosse Portage and Dubuque. It records small shifts in fall conditions and a rise in Hastings pork and dairy markets.
Washington AP reports House Civil Service Committee Chairman Ramspeck foresees 2 million civilian dismissals within a year after World War II ends. Civil Service Commission outlines discharge order starting with recalled retirees and wartime workers, then temporary staff, transitory employees, and finally career civil servants.
Eight hundred truck drivers in Harrisburg York and Lancaster area walked out Tuesday in a contract dispute. About 70 companies affected with hundreds of tons of war materials and consumer goods stuck in terminals as idle trucks backed up shipments.
Albert Rothschild, former resident under Hitler, told the Canopus club that Nazism’s end will create a vacuum in Germany with no class ready to govern. He traced the middle class’s destruction through the industrial revolution and postwar inflation, noting rising party fragmentation in parliament. He warned Allied headaches over Nazi loot and tangled real estate titles as owners move to reclaim property.
Pvt. Harry Coleman Faulkner, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Faulkner of Muscatine, formerly of Cedar Rapids, was killed June 15 in the European theater. Survived by his wife in Washington D C and four brothers and four sisters, with one brother Pvt. Robert J. Faulkner at Camp Wolters Texas.
City briefs note the Chamber of Commerce personnel managers group will meet Wednesday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel to plan future meetings. Also a Kiwanis meeting at the same venue will feature editor Harry Boyd discussing the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Chicago.
Classified style notice lists diverse local services from Lee's Bar-B-Q under new management Art and Vi Schmidt at Blue Haven to nearby repairs and haulers. Includes heating, plumbing, tree surgery, sodding, plaster patching and waste removal requests with multiple phone contacts and ad-like notices.
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