Livestock market trends steady with mixed gains
Chicago bids show hogs mostly steady with some 25 cent drops while steers rise up to 25 cents. Cattle receipts around 5,500 and calves 300, with bulls and steers bid up to 22.50 for good grades. Sheep and hogs in Des Moines and Des Moines region also show active trade and steady prices with top hogs around 16.50 and lambs 20 to 23. Prices vary by weight class across regions amid weekly receipts.
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U. S
Waterloo hog and cattle market rounds from Omaha sale
Hogs steady with top at 16.00 per cwt for Sinepare 160-170 lbs and varying bids up to 350+ lbs. Cattle receipts 13,000 calves 250 largely fed. fed steer and heifer runs slow to steady, cows steady, bulls and dealers steady, stockers and feeders scarce. prime 1,220 lb fed steers around 23.25, various grade ranges noted.
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Waterloo Hogs
Waterloo
INS
Sinepare
Omaha
Sioux City Livestock Market Cattle Receipts and Prices
Sioux City livestock market reports receipts of 7 500 cattle and 50 calves. Slaughter steers mostly steady to higher with best 21 00 to 23 50. Heifers weak. Choice fed steers trended 21 00 to 23 50, with high to prime 23 00 to 23 50. Good and low choice heifers 18 50 to 20 50.
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Sioux Ory Livestock
X City
Cedar Rapids hog and cattle market prices steady
The Cedar Rapids hog market held steady Tuesday with quoted prices for various weights of good and packers hogs. Cattle and calf listings show ranges for prime steers and heifers, commercial and utility cows, bulls, and calves with prices, along with poultry, grain, and straw market notes.
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Cedar Rapids
Go Packers
Stock Market Quiet Lower on Tuesday in New York
The stock market was irregularly lower with quiet trading. Prices fell around two points at most, some up between one and two. Estimated volume reached about 1,500,000 shares.
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New York
Former POW in Korea denies charges in council bluffs case
Edward C. Kirby a 24 year old former Korean prisoner of war denied charges of misconduct while in Communist hands through his Omaha attorney. He was released from military custody at Offutt Air Force Base after being held since Friday night and faces a pre trial investigation likely in Omaha. Kirby a corporal in the Seventh Infantry division was captured December 1 1950 and spent 33 months in captivity.
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Council Bluffs
INS
Edward C. Kirby
Offutt Air Force Base
John T. Grant
Omaha
Kirby
Phoenix
Ariz
Seventh Infantry Division
Break-in at Sunnycrest Grocery Stolen Pennies
About $3 in pennies were taken from the cash register during a break in at Sunnycrest Grocery on Mt. Vernon Road Monday night. Owner Edward S. Stolba told the sheriff's office the theft occurred between 8 p.m. and the onset of rain. Entry was gained by breaking the glass front door.
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Sunnycrest
Mt. Vernon Road
Edward S. Stolba
Sheriff's Office
Notice of Probate Appointment in Iowa Estate
Notice is given that on August 15, 1955, James T. Holmes was appointed and qualified as Administrator of Carrie Weldon’s estate in Linn County Iowa. All persons indebted must promptly pay and all claims must be filed in the district court of Greene County Iowa, with Holmes & Holmes attorneys representing the administrator.
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Linn County
Carrie Weldon
Hote
Up County
Iowa
Gereon County
U S Total Dept Stores Apparel Food Radio Appliance
Morris Kats reports on census data affecting a chain of stores including apparel food radio and appliance sectors under the U S Department store umbrella. The note references the U S Bureau of the Census and outlines market categories and industry classification.
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US Bureau of the Census
Morris Kats
Wheat futures rise on Minneapolis demand with mixed grains
Chicago market shows wheat firm as Minneapo lis buying and short covering meet light offerings. other grains weaken under hedging and liquidation. Wheat moves within a cent-to-four higher while corn oats rye soybeans slide to seasonal lows. Cash provisions list various No 2 and No 3 prices for wheat corn oats soybeans and byproducts.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Chicago Produce Report Shows Mixed Poultry and Dairy Prices
Live poultry weak on colored hens, steady on other classes. butter and eggs show varied prices in Chicago and New York markets. Carlot arrivals and shipments indicate moderate demand, with whites and long whites prices noted across states.
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California
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Oregon
Eastern Iowa Women Enlist in Navy for Train Here
Two young women from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City join the Navy, heading to Bainbridge for recruit training. Grace Pecher and Twyla Losee, both 19, enlistment noted beside Cedar Rapids recruiter updates, with a Cedar Rapids reserve seaman recruit also reported.
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Navy
Cedar Rapids
Bainbridge, Md
Grace H. Pecher
First Avenue SE
Twyla M. Losee
Iowa City
Des Moines
Eugene E. Johnson
Washington Avenue
315Th Medical Depot Army Reserve
Denver
Fitzsimons General Hospital
Thomas W. Sherren
Calvin Wilson
Cam McCoy
Wis
Glen Gustafson
Newhall
Cable accident claims rigger on Cape Cod radar tower
Boston AP reports a fatal incident at a radar tower off Cape Cod where an anchor cable broke and struck a rigger. The victim was Arsen Haroutunian, aged 55, as the Texas station installation proceeded.
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Texas
Cape Cod
Arsen
Haroutunanian
Former C R Man To Help Japanese Rebuild Air Force
Kenneth C. White of Pacoima California will join Lockheed advisory team in a two year mission to aid Kawasaki Aircraft Company of Japan in rebuilding and manufacturing trainer aircraft for the Japanese air force. White, a Roosevelt high school and University of Iowa alum, has been with Lockheed since 1943. He will depart for Japan around October 1 with wife Carol and two children visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids before the assignment.
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Pacoima
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B Avenue
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Edgewood Road
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Roosevelt High School
University of Iowa
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Carol [McCune
Two East Iowans Stricken With Polio
Special to The Gazette reports Harry Smith, 21, of route 6 Iowa City, admitted to University hospitals Monday with polio and in fair condition. Charles Fierstine Jr. also admitted to the polio ward in fair condition. Tuesday announcement said make-up Salk polio vaccine shots will be held at Henry Sabin school from 8 to 9 30 am for Johnson county children who missed the second round.
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Johnson County
Mrs. L. R. Hoag Dies at 44 in Monticello
Funeral services for Mrs. L. R. Hoag also known as Steve Hoag aged 44 of Monticello will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Presbyterian church with burial in Oakwood cemetery. The body is at Goettsch funeral home. Survivors include her husband a daughter Helen and a son Thomas F of Monticello her mother Mrs. G J Heiken of Monticello a brother Henry and a sister Mrs Henry Husman of Scotch Grove.
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Thomas F
G. J. Heiken
Henry
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Scotch Grove
Cedar Rapids Youth Ordered Into Juvenile Court
A 16 year old Cedar Rapids boy was ordered into juvenile court after driving his father's car into a switch in front of 3008 E Avenue NW. He was drunk when arrested and had been arraigned in municipal court on drunkenness, but Judge James Patterson dismissed that charge and sent the matter to juvenile court.
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E Avenue NW
James Patterson
Mt Vernon Man Is Charged After Crash
Mt Vernon resident Harry Decious was charged with failing to have his car under control after a Monday afternoon two car crash in front of 3138 Mt Vernon road SE. His vehicle struck Agnes Nunemaker's car at 2900 Meadowbrook drive SE, pushing it over the curb into a cement block wall.
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Mt. Vernon
Mt. Vernon Road
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Meadowbrook Drive
Steel Products Company Incorporation in Cedar Rapids Iowa
Louis Woolfolk and Mary Woolfolk organize Steel Products Company under Iowa law. Articles name Cedar Rapids as principal place of business and set the corporate purpose from manufacturing to vending machine services and IP licensing. Authorized 500 shares of common stock with a perpetual corporate life unless terminated, with initial directors listed and officers elected by the board for one year terms.
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Mary Woolfolk
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Board of Directors
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Treamurer
Teel Products Company
Yigus Woolfolk
Donnelly, Lynch
Lynch Dallas
Merchants Pank
Godot Rapids
Marion City Budget Approved and Starry Addition Platted
The Marion city council approved a 1956 budget of 180 321 with 95 951 to be raised by taxes. Hennessey Brothers bid 7 247 for six and a half blocks of sanitary sewer, winning over I K Davis. The Starry addition plat of 48 lots west of Fifteenth Street and south of First Avenue was accepted, including a central park. The council also updated traffic penalties, formed a new plats committee, and authorized public safety equipment purchases and a new squad car purchase trade.
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Charles Gabelman
Fifteenth Street
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Jess R
Mary Starry
Don
Gladys Torrence
Homer Hunsaker
Max Slater
Leighton Ford
Marion Auto Sales
Ford
Raymond Eckhart
Oak Shade Cemetery
Farmers Savings Bank of Walford 1955 Report Card
Farmers Savings Bank of Walford Iowa submits its June 30 1955 condition report. Total assets 1 085 024 45. Deposits total 985 827 47 with liabilities 60 057 72 and capital 28 966 73. President M Frusha signs as officer. notary confirms sworn statements.
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Walford
Iowa
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Linn County Board Awards Court House Tuck Pointing Contract
The Linn County Board of Supervisors on August 2 1955 approved bids for tuck pointing the Court House. D C Taylor Company Cedar Rapids Iowa won the contract for 5900.00 after bids from Superior Waterproofing Des Moines Phillips Tuck Pointing Co Marshalltown. The board also acted on a budget hearing dates and related resolutions including farm to market project S 2485 and tax compromise offers, with multiple personnel and fiscal actions recorded.
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Superior Waterproofing Co
Des Moines
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Marshallow
D. C. Taylor Company
PA Wiley
Linn County
Iowa State Highway Commission
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Ralph Green & W.ig Groesbeck
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Freas
Biddick
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Towa
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Spanos
Costes
Anpanoose
Coun Williams Earl
Muscatine
Secon
Bosra
Iles
Butera
Financial setup of Iowa families called not good
Des Moines AP reports State Banking Department head N P Black warns that many employed Iowans live on credit with most income tied to loan payments. He cites car loans and farm mortgages, notes low farm prices, falling corn and hog values, and rising overhead that could push tenants and farmers into default without relief.
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Black
Cloud of Dust Blamed For Fatal Iowa Crash
An 11 year old girl, Judy Roach of Lee Township Madison county, was killed in a two car collision four miles west of Cumming after a dust cloud from a truck obscured the Roach vehicle. Judy’s mother Harlan Roach was with her. two other Roach children, Linda and Donald, were hospitalized in Des Moines. William Lydon, 30, of Stuart, following the dusting truck, failed to see the Roach car and collided, spinning the Roach vehicle and ejecting occupants.
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Judy Roach
Lee Township
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Harlan Roach
Rex ‘Rouse
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Stuart
Rouse
Lydon
Judy
Linda
Donald
Des Moines
Dulles Receives Cautious Read on Soviet Armies
Secretary of State Dulles said Russia's announced army cuts suggest a recognition of peaceful U.S. aims but warn that Soviet forces remain larger than those of the United States and other military strengths unchanged. He urged international inspection and noted talks on disarmament to begin August 29 under U.N. sponsorship in New York.
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State Dulles
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Notice of hearing on Prairie High School building plans
Public hearing set for August 27, 1955 at 1 30 P M in College Township Linn County Iowa for objections to proposed plans specifications and forms of contract for the Prairie High School building to be located in College Township The plans specifications and contracts may be examined at the Superintendent’s office College Township Iowa Kathryn Worley secretary
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Linn County
Towa
Prairie High
Jin Said
Oenone
Wropeeeee Ae
Colege Township
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N County
Iowa
Kathryn Worley
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