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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1963
Page
24
New York stocks advanced in active trading on Friday with prices near session highs. Brokers attributed the gain to relief over the SEC’s final investigative report as volume reached about 3.6 million shares.
Des Moines AP regents increase thesis costs for Iowa State University students pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees. Masters fees rise from 10 to 25 dollars while doctoral fees go from 30 to 50 dollars to cover thesis handling costs. The University of Iowa charges no master’s thesis fee but 35 dollars for doctoral candidates.
Louella Wright 82, retired University of Iowa associate professor of English, died Thursday night in a Red Oak nursing home. A longtime Quaker studies author and rhetoric program contributor, she aided foreign students with English. Survived by sister Mrs. R. J. Swanson and brother Joseph.
Gazette Want Ads highlight daily value deals and bargain opportunities for shoppers seeking affordable items and services. The notice emphasizes savings and practical purchases across categories.
Chicago hog and cattle price report shows butchers up to 25 cents higher for 190-230 lb hogs and 1,230-1,235 lb slaughter steers, with mixed grades and weights across hogs cows and calves. Des Moines and northern Iowa sections largely steady to mixed with small shifts in several weight classes.
UPI wires report steady hog prices at Waterloo with No 2 butcher and sow categories detailed. Prices show ranges from 13.75 to 16.00 for various weight brackets and shifts in 270 to 400 pound classes.
In Omaha market activity cattle numbers reached about 1,000 head with calves not listed. Steers showed gains up to 25 cents, heifers steady. Choice steers traded around 23.75 to 24.25 with a 24.50 load noted for high choice. Good to low choice heifers moved 21.25 to 23.00 per hundredweight.
Castle 1,300 calves and 400 steers and heifers offered in Sioux City. Fully steady with Choice steers 23.25 to 24.00, six loads high choice 24.50. Load of choice heifers 24.00.
Cedar Rapids hog prices Sunday were steady to a quarter lower with Thursday totals at 16.50 to 17.50 and a few at 17.60. The bulk of 1s and 2s ranged 17.25 to 17.50 delivered at the plant, with packers’ price adjustments by weight. Egg and grain markets show assorted values for eggs and soybeans, corn at 1.16, soybeans 2.34, oats at 0.67 with miscellaneous egg types listed.
The Iowa Board of Regents approved buying 114 acres seven miles south of Iowa City for an observatory building to serve the University of Iowa. The land, from Linus J. Veggy, costs 675 dollars.
The board awarded $895000 in contracts for the University of Iowa zoology building. General work went to Fane F. Vawter and Co. of West Des Moines for $517,561 and mechanical work to Kehrer-Wheatland, Inc. of Cedar Rapids for $165,900. Preliminary approval was given to spend $264,600 for equipment. Malcolm S. MacLean Jr., acting director at Michigan State’s Communications Research Center, was named George H. Gallup professor for the Iowa school of journalism at $17000 for nine months, effective September 1964.
AP market brief lists Wheat No 2 red 1.85 No 3 red 1.84 No 1 yellow hard 2.024 Corn No 1 yellow 1.33% No 2 yellow 1.334 No 4 yellow 1.30% No yellow 1.294 Oats No 2 extra heavy white 689 Soybeans sales none unclear entries available referenced as soybeans.
Chicago market notes steady butter with varied grades and firm eggs though demand shows mixed tone. Arrivals and shipments for potatoes remain light while whites stay firm and round reds hold near prior values. New York USDA report indicates light demand overall with prices largely unchanged.
A reader in their mid 40s asks if they should keep holdings on 50 percent margin or switch to cash purchases. They list ABC Vending AMF Boeing General Motors L I Lighting US Steel Westinghouse Electric and seek guidance on adding to the account or paying down margin debt.
University of Iowa English professor Itrat Husain Zuberi, a Pakistan native and 1959 appointee, must leave the United States for two years after U S immigration rules blocked an extension of his visa. He will teach at the University of Windsor in Canada starting September 1, with eligibility to return and stay in the U S indefinitely after the two-year leave.
State Auditor examiners, B. Akers, released a report reviewing A. E. Frost records from Jan 1 to June 28, accusing loans with public funds by the official as improper and possibly illegal. Frost had resigned as Jackson County Auditor.
Resigned auditor Frost leaves effective July 15 after claiming a new position. Earl Burke denies demands for resignation. Frost had served since 1954. An embezzlement case against former County Treasurer Winfield Rimmer was guilty with a fine and probation. Auditors found a $55 cash discrepancy later resolved, and a $22 cashier’s check misclassified as cash. State examiners had criticized Frost in 1961 for borrowing fees for personal use.
A compact page of city briefs notes a purse theft of $40 at the Roosevelt hotel and multiple local ads. Items include bowling specials at Magnificent Tropic Lanes, a picnic dinner hosted by the Indoor Sports Club, a family reunion for Crow and Griffin families at Beaver Park, and a bicycle accident involving John Siepman in NW. Also listed are optical ads, a fall injury to Peter Kopecky, and various service promotions from May’s City Lanes and Hladky’s delivery.
Decorah News Co. staff member Dave Norris was appointed director of public information for Luther College starting August 26. Norris will coordinate publicity with the Luther College News Bureau under Ed Larson, the new development director.
Moscow AP report states a Soviet factory director was sentenced to death for taking bribes, with Pravda announcing the ruling on Friday.
Des Moines AP reports preliminary approval for repairs and remodeling at the Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton totaling about 108000. Projects include heating and power plant renewal 34000 kitchen remodeling 30000 fire protection in the boys dormitory 14950 main building repairs 15930 and emergency heating repairs 14000 funded by emergency funds if the legislative interim committee approves. Cedar Rapids firm Kohlmann Eckman Hukill selected as architect for kitchen fire protection and main building work.
The state fire marshal's office reports a fire at Hitton Mobile Homes in Guttenberg on August 1 started in the paint shop. A steel drum with smoldering sawdust near a solvent drum heated the solvent, causing it to swell and crack and spray solvent, igniting the sawdust.
Charles Carter, 49, of Charles Town Missouri, reported his truck was sideswiped on a bridge about six p.m. Thursday on Highway 52, a half mile north of Millville. The other truck did not stop and Carter said about $2,000 in damage occurred.
On August 8, 1963, Allen Shearer was appointed executor of the Anna Cain estate in Linn County Iowa. Creditors should promptly pay debts and file claims with the Linn County District Court Clerk, authenticated. The executor is represented by Thos Wilkinson Jr, attorney.
Robert C. Wright is appointed and qualified on August 1 1963 as Administrator of the estate of Charles Wright late of Linn County Iowa. Creditors should immediate pay debts and those with claims must file them with the Clerk of Linn County District Court. Akubicek Novak Kubicek appear as attorneys for the administrator.
Typhoon Bess ripped through northern Kyushu causing one death and two people missing. About 2,317 residents were left homeless as authorities struggled to assess damage and provide aid.
By direction of the Cedar Rapids City Council sealed proposals will be received by the City Clerk for constructing a sanitary sewer on 26th Avenue Southwest and Schaeffer Drive Southwest to Almview Drive. Work to use 8 inch vitrified clay or concrete pipe with rubber gaskets and concrete man holes. Bids open August 26, 1963 at 10:00 A.M. in the Council Room. Ten percent bid bond required. council may reject any or all bids.
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