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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1952
Page
5
Chicago market reports show hogs down to 50 cents, cattle steady to 50 higher, and sheep strong. Receipts: hogs 7,000, cattle 10,000, sheep 2,000. Prices quoted across weight ranges from 150 to over 400 pounds with varying highs for choice, prime, and butcher categories.
Receipts total 7 500 cattle with many fed steer lots. Three loads of choice to prime fed steers average 34.00 and 33.75 for high grade loads. Bulk loads range 31.50 to 33.50 with several prime weights. Heifers yearlings move up, cows and bulls gain 25 to 50 cents, vealers around 28.00.
Sioux City cattle receipts 1200 including 25 calves. Slaughter steers and heifers active with gains to 50 cents, cows strong, stockers and feeders little changed. Several sales report fed steers around 31 to 32 dollars, prime beefs at 32.25, stocker prices 23.50 to 26.50, cows 16.50 to 18.00, canners 14.00 to 16.50.
Receipts total 3000 cattle with 900 calves. Slaughter steers steady to 25c higher, heifers mostly steady, cows steady to strong, cann ers and cutters up 25c or more. Bulls steady to strong, vealers unchanged. Strong choice prime 1300 lb loads. Nebraska fed steers to arrive at 33.75, 850 lb fed heifers at 34.25.
Receipts Wednesday estimated at 25 000 versus 29 000 the prior week and 35 000 year ago with actuals Tuesday at 27 000. Hog prices ease with butchers down up to 50 cents, sows 25 to 50 cents lower. Top hog price 21.75. Barrows and gilts by weight range details given from 160 to 550 pounds with varied declines across categories.
Waterloo hog prices show a 25 to 50 cent drop with top at 21.25. Pigs ranged 160 to 360 pounds with various quotes from 18.25 to 19.75 for typical weights and sows from 16 to 19 dollars per hundredweight.
Ottumwa hog market reports lower prices across weights with top at 21.00. Prices listed for various ranges from under 100 pounds to 550 pounds show declines from the prior period, with sows and larger hogs also easing.
Edith Rockwell in Hayward California reports six boys argued over who would play in a tree house then broke into her garage and threw 38 dozen eggs at each other. She estimates the loss at 28 dollars.
A market overview from the Rice presses analyzes factors shaping grain and commodity prices. It outlines current forces driving futures, supply and demand dynamics, and what analysts expect for the near term and beyond.
New York stocks recovered led by railroads and closed mixed after early declines. Trading volume was about a million shares, with gains and losses spread across sectors.
CHICAGO reports a sharp upturn in soybeans pushing contracts to new seasonal highs lifting the grain complex. Soybean prices rise with demand for soy meal mixtures noted as above the ceiling price for straight soybean meal.
Chicago markets show No. 2 red wheat at 2.71 to 2.72 dollars, No. 2 yellow corn around 1.80, with various futures at 1.76 to 1.78. Oats feature heavy white near 0.84 to 0.87, barley around 1.35 to 1.81, and soybeans noted with prices incomplete.
Hog prices at Cedar Rapids fell by a quarter to half a dollar as higher bids apply to hogs delivered and weighed at the Cedar Rapids plant. The market note lists prices for poultry produce, fruits, vegetables, hay, grains, and field seed with assorted per unit figures and regional variations.
Chicago price list shows Butter receipts at 545,666 pounds up 4 cents, Eggs receipts 8,000 with mixed sizes, Cheese steady with Swiss at 57 to 75 cents, Live Poultry steady with hens at 19 to 25 cents and turkeys 32 to 35 cents, Potatoes arrivals 55 with U.S. shipments 519 and several regional prices noted including California long whites at 6.75 and Washington Russets at 6.85 per hundredweight.
Butter scores advance with AA 93 and A 92 and B 90 grades. Egg quotes lift for mixed fancy heavy weights and extra No 1 large and medium varieties. White fancy heavyweights hold with modest changes in New York market listings.
Chicago AP reports walkouts ended at some meat packing plants while new stop pages appeared at others in a dispute that could lead to a nationwide packing strike. No shortages yet, but talks across major plants show a stalemate as unions accuse Armour and Company of provoking trouble by not extending contracts expiring Monday night.
Des Moines obituary notes Mrs Preston Daniels 70 civic leader and onetime top Iowa woman golfer died of a heart ailment Tuesday at Iowa Methodist hospital. Born in Cedar Rapids she moved to Des Moines in 1910 and led Community Chest and Camp Fire Girls while competing in state women's golf tournaments.
Dates stand as a principal export and staple food for a large population in Iraq. The crop dominates farming and trade, underpinning livelihoods despite diverse agricultural products and growing demand for other staples.
REA offices at Vinton Inde haegen and Anamosa hosted Linn County officials led by R D Palmer manager Frank Frederick and A D Brenss man of Marion H A W Koch of Alburnett to Washington Barbara Trimble will vacation in Washington D C Jon Trimble in Baltimore joins her Patricia Campbell of Mission Kan visits relatives in Engel Norman New president H A W Koch succeeds William Reep as Linn County Old Settlers president Mrs Arthur Newman to welcome at 62nd reunion August 28 Charles Carrington named to nominating committee Remodeling at American Legion front windows removed to be bricked up space to be lighted with glass and brick outside basement entrance closed new hall entrance under construction Mrs Mabel Good of Chicago and daughter Marie visiting Mrs Allen R McElwain
The class reunion and picnic for Marion High School’s 1945 graduates will be held Friday at 5 30 PM in Thomas Park replacing the previously planned Sunday evening gathering.
The consolidated school will open Monday August 25 at 10 a.m. for registration. Buses will pick up students and return at 11 a.m. Teachers meet at 2 p.m. Classes begin August 26. The faculty remains short a teacher of English and home economics.
Springfield Democrat claims Stevenson met Truman for a briefing on Truman policies and is a captive candidate of political bosses. Nixon says Stevenson uses federal resources for his campaign and questions his independence from Truman, with attacks at a Republican rally in Illinois.
Multiple short items: A J Odegaard is hospitalized at St Luke's. Car Phillips admitted to Mercy for observation. Daughters of Isabella meet at 8 p.m. Masses noted for the feast of the assumption at Immaculate Conception with several morning times. Mrs Ross P Peck underwent surgery at Children’s Hospital and University Hospitals Iowa City. visitors allowed after Friday. Allison Billiard Room opens at Allison Hotel. American Legion Auxiliary Hanford Unit No 5 to meet at 6 p.m. for pot luck at Mrs A E Schoendelen’s. Blue Cross office to close Aug 11–15. Benischek-Vochoska family reunion held at Ellis Park with 150 attendees. Schwinn sale at Hall’s. Gladiolus show in Sioux City. Louis Blazek placed first in a single spike entry. Richard Brondel on 30 day leave from Navy. Capt Charles B Wild Jr and family leave for Fort Benning after seven day visit. David Nikodim in Mercy Hospital post surgery. Mr and Mrs Russell Vanda and others return home from Green Bay and Waterloo.
Wednesday followed the John Stepanek reunion on Sunday with [names redacted] at 1219 Eighth Street NW. John E Anderson recently completed boat training at San Diego Naval Training Station and is on a 14 day leave with his parents at 2409 Southland Street SW before reporting to San Francisco. A T Pleune of 1946 Bever Avenue SE will depart Saturday for Duluth to join Dr. and Mrs. William A. Hoebeke and their Kalamazoo daughter Ann for a three week Lake Louise Banff vacation. Dr Hoebeke is Pleune’s late sister’s brother.
Albin W. Moeller, 20, of 517 Fifteenth Street SE, Cedar Rapids, enlisted in the Marine Corps. The enlistment was announced by the marine recruiting station and he is in San Diego for recruit training.
The passage captures remarks attributed to figures including Alabama Democrat John Sparkman, Norfolk Public Health Director M. M. Huff, U S Steel president Benjamin Fairless, Egyptian Wafdist leader Mustapha El Nahas, and Gen Mohammed Naguib praising his forces. The diverse statements touch on pride, dissatisfaction with industry practices, wartime valor, and national honor.
Strawberry Point announces Laura Lee James 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs Loren James has honorable mention in the state American Legion auxiliary essay contest. Volga reports John R Schulte of Tulsa Oklahoma visiting Fred P Gernand home and seeking local land for oil deposits lease interest.
Des Moines INS reports 47 year old Wain S. Kile released from Fort Madison after being among 23 lifers sent to terms last December by Gov. Beardsley. Kile was tied to the 1931 Davenport murder of vigilante R. J. Sproat during a drug store holdup, with Jack and Ray Mercer also involved and later pursued.
Three men Cletus Davis 18 of Ellis Terrace NW Henry Stramer 50 of 717 Fourth Street NW and Richard Beaty 1709 Twentieth Street NW paid $100 fines after pleading guilty to reckless driving in a Wednesday traffic court Beaty was arrested after a Saturday accident on C Street SW Davis was clocked at 50 mph on Second Street SE and Stramer rammed the gate at Wilson Land Company plant early Wednesday
Harold Tyler faces a right of way case as Cedar Rapids appeals a demurrer over its amended ordinance. Attorney Thomas Woods plans district court appeal after Traffic Judge Matias overruled the challenge to the left yielding rule. The trial marks the first test since February's amendment.
Five bankruptcy cases originated in Cedar Rapids federal court and closed at the Dubuque court after operations shifted. Deputy Clerk Herman C. Richmann identified the completed matters as Adelbert A. Clevenger, David F. Gores, Malvina M. Gores, Glenn Byron Lacock, and Rosemary Elizabeth Lois Lacock. The first three residents are Cedar Rapids, while the last two list Marion addresses.
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