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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1969
Page
18
Chicago hog market shows steady to 25 cent losses for butcher hogs while slaughter steers and cows move in narrow ranges. In New York, stocks drift with investors awaiting direction as trading slows and volume totals around 8.7 million shares.
In Des Moines and Chicago reports a drive by the National Mobilization Committee urges parents to involve children in war-related homework topics. Coordinator Davis notes many youngsters discuss military topics at home and seek help with assignments as WWII wartime reading and study habits gain emphasis.
Price listings show cattle and hogs with weights 200 to 600 lbs and discounts for weight grades. Sows and butchers priced from 23.50 to 26.75 per cwt, steers and heifers varying by quality. feed grains include yellow corn at 1.44 and No 2 yellow soybeans at 7.48 per unit. oats also noted with delivery details.
An American pacifist who traveled to Hanoi says 1970 will see the fiercest fighting. North Vietnam's Premier Pham Van Dong predicts an intensification of hostilities as efforts to recover three American prisoners continue.
Prices for wheat corn soybeans and oats advanced on the Chicago Board of Trade with modest gains across commodities. Livestock also moved higher with higher values in fat cattle and pork products while dairy and potato markets showed mixed or unchanged levels.
Iowa manufacturing payrolls reach a new June peak with hourly earnings advancing to $ydhi amid May to June increase. Durable goods overtime and longer the workweek push total production pay up with weekly earnings at $146, up $42 from May. Unemployment shows minor shifts and farm labor adds to civilian employment as the economy trends through June.
The Cedar Rapids civic center redevelopment seeks contract approval for sanitary sewer work and construction. A hearing will be held at the district courthouse to review plans specifications and assess objections relating to zoning yard variances and relocation of structures within the urban renewal area.
Employment figures show a rise of 9,700 to 41,200 in Juste with the unemployment rate at 3.1 percent, up from 2.5 percent in May and 32 percent in June 1908. The change is attributed to unemployed entrants, mainly students, entering the workforce.
Police in Auckland carried out raids seizing rifles a telescopic sight a silencer and plastic cylinders as part of actions against the Progressive Youth Movement and a group distributing Molotov cocktail instructions. Demonstrations against Rogers accompanied his arrival to brief New Zealand cabinet ministers on Nixon policy for Asia and the Pacific.
Democratic State Chairman Rasmussen accused Republicans and the liquor commission of forcing Harlin Lemon to resign as director of the enforcement division. He alleged the GOP bypassed the merit department in hiring Greco and criticized the governor for not seeking staff facts. Lemon, a Democrat, had held the post. Greco is noted as a former state auditor employee now serving as acting enforcement director earning 11000 dollars.
In Burgos four men, including a Catholic priest, were sentenced for militant rebellion connected to an underground Basque independence movement. They were convicted of trying to sever the Basque provinces from Spain and were detained in related charges.
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