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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1944
Page
7
Chicago and Omaha livestock desks report hogs steady with strong Cattle demand lifting prices for grain fed stock. Sheep trading moderate with spring lambs under steady to firm values. Iowa and Sioux City yard activity shows mixed receipts and firm bids on select cows and steers.
Wisconsin and Mississippi River stage readings show slight rises or falls at Davenport La Crosse Prairie du Chien and Keokuk with varying depths. Chicago grain quotations list Wheat Corn and Rye futures with multiple contract figures, highs lows and closes for Sept Dec May July.
Chicago receipts show 5 exes and 22 trucks unsettled with unchanged cheese and butter markets. Eggs at 12 943 cases with limited quotes. potatoes arrivals total 493 cars with varied US and regional prices for multiple varieties. New York and New Jersey markets list steady butter cheese and eggs with mixed wholesale price ranges and standard grades across regions.
Wheat trading was light and uneventful while rye moved sharply within a wide range. Wheat closed higher by about 1/4 to 3/4, with September futures at roughly 1.5454-54 and 1.5454 nearby. Rye showed notable gains after an opening break, with mixed early gains later in the session.
Scattered industrials led by steels rose on Wednesday while motors and airlines drew intermittent support. In late trading, overall gains were modest with volume around 700,000 shares as prices moved fractions to about a point. The report lists widespread quotes from Adams Express to ARMOUR alongside numerous steel and automobile names in a busy board.
John D. Welch 30 of Sioux City withdrew a guilty plea entered August 4 to desertion and abandonment of a son Eugene 6 and pled innocent to a similar charge involving son John Denton Welch Jr 5. His divorce action with former Eleanor Heerner of Toddville is ongoing. Bond set at 1500 in each case.
Linn county and Cedar Rapids each allocate 2000 for the ambulance service year starting July 1. Arley J. W. Hancock, 35, of Ottumwa, arrested on a Wapello County warrant for seduction and returned to Wapello. Brown named administrator for estate of father William Brown who died in Cedar Rapids on June 17.
The Cedar Rapids hog market runs steady with top price on butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Cattle prices show various grades from prime steers at 15.50 to common steers at 6.00 to 8.00, with ranges for yearlings, cows, bulls, and calves. Wheat, corn, soybeans, oats, straw, hay, poultry, eggs and wholesale fruits and vegetables prices listed, along with No 1 and No 2 cured hides and other animal products. A Lions club talk on Germany’s revolution was noted, plus Kiwanis luncheon at Roosevelt hotel with Lt. (j.g.) Ernest Kosek speaking. Lost and found notices, personal messages, and local ads follow.
Carpenter foremen and carpenters wanted for essential post war construction. Permanent work for experienced form workers, able to travel. Economy Steel Forms experience desirable but not required. Also machine trainees turret lathe operators general laborers shipping laborers janitors. Good wages and working conditions, convenient to local transportation. Century Engineering Corporation.
Two men died in a fiery crash after a west bound Great Northern Empire Builder struck a gasoline truck Tuesday night in Towner N Dakota. The driver and engineer perished and a fireman was reported in critical condition.
Chester Day Salter Jr joined the naval reserve on Tuesday. Cham ber of Commerce purchasing agents meet Thursday noon at Montrose hotel. Sixteenth Engel Herwin reunion held in Ellis park Sunday. Bethany church Ladies Aid meets Thursday at 10 a.m. at Mrs A Preston’s home with a birthday luncheon at noon. WAC recruiting office hours changed to 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. call 2 7411 for appointments. Mrs Gertrude Myers recovered from surgery at Spirit Lake, mother of Mrs Stanley Lubbock and Harry E Myers. Kiwanis heard Dean Myron Koenig speak on The Back.
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