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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1946
Page
7
Tuesday activity shows cattle at peak levels with steers hitting 27.90, while hogs and lambs fell. Receipts included 4,000 hogs, 6,000 cattle, and 5,000 sheep in Chicago, with similar trends reported in Sioux City and Omaha as markets adjust to tighter slaughter supply and potential price controls.
The Cedar Rapids markets resumed bidding Tuesday with prime hogs at 19.50 and packers 17.00 per drop, down from Friday. Cattle prices range from 10.00 to 20.00, with steers, yearlings, cows, bulls, and calves all listed by weight and quality. Also reported are hog, sheep, lamb, hide, poultry, fruit, and grain prices including potatoes, watermelons, peaches, corn, beans, oats, wheat, and hay.
The market showed cautious buying and selective leadership on Tuesday with uneven progress. Trading fluctuated, transfers around 700,000 shares as utilities and industrials moved only modestly, while several rail issues led the broader rally late in the session.
Chicago and New York markets show mixed receipts and price shifts for produce and livestock. Butter and eggs rise on demand from hotels and restaurants, while hogs cattle and poultry move with steady or varied gains. potatoes and other produce show mixed arrivals, shipments and price ranges across regions and grades.
CHICAGO price action shows mixed gains as traders await the Price Decontrol board decision. Corn rises about 14 to 41 percent, oats vary, and barley advances. Kansas City cattle receipts and drive totals rise with slaughter steers firm to higher and feeders steady, highlighting broader market uncertainty.
In Holly Springs Mississippi federal and state authorities said J B Wooten a 28 year old Negro farm worker admitted poisoning a well with arsenic causing six deaths and illness to more than twenty. He confessed after sheriff told him others saw him at the well and he replied the lord saw him. The well used by three large Negro families was condemned after water samples showed arsenic.
DES MOINES UP A J Loveland state director of the Production and Marketing administration announced the signing of the Iowa school lunch program between the U S department of agriculture and the state department of public instruction. The act funds Iowa for 1946 47 with 808 150 for food and 167 500 for non food items. Private and parochial schools receive 81 460 for food and 16 880 for equipment through PMA.
Robert Rose of Springville got into an argument after a traffic mishap Monday afternoon. He allegedly clipped a vacationing officer from St. Petersburg, Florida, who then pursued him. Rose was later arrested and faces a police court charge for leaving the scene without identifying himself.
Russell B. Wehde of 319 Third Avenue SE was fined $25 and costs in police court on a disturbing the peace charge after a downtown disturbance about 10:30 pm. His brother LeRoy of 509 Ninth Avenue SE also faced the same charge, with his case continued until Wednesday.
Marion auxiliary members heard Mines A B Nollsch J Kassler Earl Helbig Hugh Hutton and T A Barkwill report on the state Legion auxiliary convention in Des Moines The group voted to sponsor a cradle roll for World War II veterans families attended a post auxiliary and guests picnic and clubs held golf matches at Indian Creek Country Club A picnic lunch is planned for Ladies Day Thursday at the club including a tea hosted by the Congregational church auxiliary for Miss Mary Parkhurst of Long Beach.
A. Marvin Braverman, formerly of Cedar Rapids, resigns as assistant to John D. Small civilian production administrator to launch law offices in Washington. Braverman served in the navy as lieutenant commander and was previously assistant general counsel for the Defense Plants corporation and on the Reconstruction Finance corporation legal staff. He is the son of Mrs. Sarah Braverman, now residing in Washington.
Kiwanis members embark on a guided inspection of Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids. They will meet at noon Wednesday in the Roosevelt hotel lobby, depart by car, enter from Thirty fifth street or north side, tour the plant with guides, then lunch in the cafeteria.
Army engineers on Tuesday announced plans for new streamlined hospitals to be built for the Veterans Administration. Hospitals would feature glass operating rooms, pneumatic patient communications, central oxygen piped to rooms, and a radio for each patient. Each facility would include medical theaters, conference rooms and libraries with research facilities to keep staff updated on medical advances.
Iowa City faced a housing crunch as forty requests for rooms were logged on Monday, the first day of a campaign to house University of Iowa students with no vacancies reported.
Senator Bourke Hickenlooper spoke at a Jefferson hotel banquet for 250 Johnson county 4-H members urging youth to se riously uphold citizenship for peaceful world cooperation. He recalled the second atomic blast and a pig seen swimming near the lagoon, as Emmett Gardner introduced leaders and announced livestock judging winners with D Williams serving as toastmaster.
Dr Clara B. Dice Roe, 31734 First Avenue SE, has four prints accepted for exhibition at the Iowa State Fair. Entitled America's Food Front Old Stone School The Lagoon and Dubuque Hill Climbing the 11 by 14 enlargements were developed and printed from her own snapshots. Six of her prints were shown in the University of Iowa centennial exhibit in May.
A collage of lost and found notices, personal ads, and service promotions. Items include a brown female terrier missing since Sunday August 11 with reward, a white and tan female fox hound, several watches and portfolios listed as lost with rewards, a lost Persian kitten and a gold handled watch case, along with found purses, a personal ad for a business traveler, and local business ads for printing, bicycle rentals, and a massage parlor.
Chicago Sun reporter Frank Marron tests a bookmaker relay by dialing a wrong number and betting on Ozzie after hearing race results. He wins $12 from a $2 bet, illustrating a mistaken “nerve center” broadcast used by local bookmakers.
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