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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1949
Page
1
In Chicago on Saturday the hog and cattle markets were quoted nominally steady with no sheep offered. Estimated salable cattle about 13 000 and hogs about 9 000, per AP report.
Chicago market notes show cattle and hog prices steady with bids for heifers and steers varying by quality. Receipts around 100 head, feeder and stocker bids range with feeders at about 19 to 24 dollars, stockers near 18, cows and ewes mixed, and calves around 16 to 19 dollars.
Des Moines receipts Saturday estimated 23 000 week 25 000 year 16 800 actuals Friday 28 000 with packing plants in southern Minnesota 12 Iowa plants and about 30 yards plus out of state stations. Prices listed by weight show ranges for barrows gilts sows from 12.25 to 20.75 per hundredweight across multiple weight classes.
Kansas City prices show limited showing with average good-choice fed steers and heifers steady. Longer loads under 1,050 pounds stronger while lower grades grainfeds fall. Grassers and beef cows uneven, bulls and killing calves down. Kansas fed heifers at 28.65 to 29.00, 1,028 pound steers at 28.75, cows up to 17.00, late medium-good cows 14.00 to 15.50.
A Waterloo market listing details butcher hog prices with weight brackets from 160 to 800 pounds. Prices range around 16.75 to 17.00 per hundredweight, noting 25 cents off for some categories and multiple weight examples.
A fragmented notice from Ottumwa lists various wholesale and retail butcher prices by weight. Figures show ranges from under 100 pounds to over 400 pounds with prices varying by cut and size, including several per hundred weight quotes and miscellaneous figures.
Prices moved as compared with Friday last week with high and choice steers and heifers steady to strong. Lower grades were 25c to 1.00 lower while canner and cutter cows stayed steady to weak. Beef cows fell 50c to 1.00, bulls rose up to 25c, vealers unchanged, stockers and feeders steady to weak.
City cattle market reports slow demand for bulk westerns with some bids 500 lower. Bulk held for Monday while calves run 100 and westerns are also held for Monday.
Cedar Rapids market reports hog prices steady to a quarter lower on Saturday with top values of 21.00 for prime hogs and 18.50 for packers. The bulletin lists weights and prices across hogs, steers, cows, calves, and lambs, plus fruit vegetables and poultry figures and mentions Rex Conn's daily farm news on KCRG.
Soybeans again hit season highs as grains rose. wheat finished 2 to 3 cents higher, corn up about 3 percent to 142, oats up 1/4 to 5. rye up 14 percent to 1. Soybeans climbed for the third straight session on continued demand from professional traders and strength in old crop beans.
Chicago AP reports grain prices for wheat oats and rye with no 1 hard spring wheat at 97.5 to 99.2 cents, yellow No. 1 at 125 to 127 cents, No. 2 125 to 126.42 cents, and other grades. Oats show No. 1 white 67 to 72 cents, No. 2 67 to 68 cents, medium heavy white 63 to 64 cents, with nominal feed at 106 to 108 cents. Rye No. 1 plump about 141 1/2 cents and sample grade 110 cents.
DES MOINES AP Twenty four Iowa farm boys will compete for six choice calves in a state championship calf scramble at the 1949 Iowa state fair. Twelve 4 H boys and a similar number of FFA members will vie on Aug 28 with six calves turned into the horse show arena. The 24 halter-wielding competitors dash to seize calves, and the six winners receive a feeder calf donated by Armour and Company of Chicago. The rules are simple but catching and haltering a calf remains challenging with no greasing.
Mr and Mrs George Hoar and daughter Donna of near Clutier were injured in a crash on Highway 218 six miles south of Vinton at 9 30 p m. Hoar suffered a crushed right knee a broken left arm and lacerations Mrs Hoar fractured jaw and lacerations Donna had cuts and bruises Renfrow of New York City driving the other car was uninjured Hoar drove onto the highway without stopping and was struck broadside by Renfrow’s car according to a Highway Patrolman
Hampton AP George Jones 65 died from injuries after the car he rode in was struck by a Great Western freight train. L W Sanders also in car in critical condition at Lutheran Hospital. his wife hospitalized. Witnesses say Jones rode in back seat when car stalled on a crossing in Hansell six miles east of Mampton. Sheriff Lemke said Sanders tried to free Jones. train traveled about 35 mph.
A tribute praising Edgar A. Guest as the poet of the people. It extols pride in enduring fame and solemn honor but declares the deepest honor is being missed by children who cry for him when he is away, valuing love over granite and applause.
President Truman vows an all out campaign in Congress to create a cabinet level Department of Welfare in reorganization plan number one. He will push the proposal in a special message and in the state of the Union next January, aiming to expand social security and cover millions more through payroll deductions and broader welfare functions.
Washington AP Inspector Miller reports John Maragon's file lists 56 traffic violation charges, with Evening Star noting 61 and The Post 59. The record covers 1934 to present, including five entries since January 12 this year about license concerns. Most charges are parking or minor infractions. only six involved moving violations.
In Monticello a bid of 43.50 topped the Jones county 4 H club auction as Jim Paulsen’s reserve champion baby beef sold to Kent Feeds of Muscatine who bought the Angus from Scotch Grove. The grand champion shown by Willis Glenn of Olin was not sold and will appear at the Iowa State fair. Dee Hansen owned the second and third high steers which brought 30 50 and 30 respectively from Rath and Dubuque Packing Company. A steer owned by Douglas Weideman of Martelle sold for 30 to Martelle Elevator. Eighty four head sold with an average around 27.
Local notices list several visitors and moves across states. Families from Forest City Minnesota and Chicago visit relatives in Marion. A Coburns move to Savannah Georgia while others travel to Chicago and Defiance for reunions and events.
The bulletin lists service times and events for multiple churches including Marion Churches Baptist St Josephs Catholic Christian Congregational Free Methodist Methodist Union services at 8:30 am union with Presbyterian Dr David Berger preaching at Ellis park picnic for education committee Sunday School and worship times for Presbyterian St Pauls Lutheran and Prairie Chapel Also Seventh Day Church of God Sabbath school 10:30 am preaching 11:30 am Elder L L Christensen pastor.
CIO Steelworkers agreed to postpone indefinitely a strike at 28 American Can Company plants. Federal Conciliator W Wayne Kenaston said negotiations held in San Jose would resume at 10 am Monday.
DES MOINES AP at close of business Friday 57,962 checks mailed by the state bonus board totaling 22,019,867 dollars average 381. Claims processed at about 2000 daily. Last check 86,665. backlog about 11,000 and 15,000 held for further investigation on residence, enlistment or foreign duty dates, or honorable discharge. Board estimates 230,000 veterans would apply. preliminary filing shows about 210,000 claims received. As of Friday 164,590 claims screened and 158,700 acknowledged.
Three well dressed gunmen robbed the Famous bar at 405 E Lake Street of about 4500 dollars after forcing more than a dozen patrons to sit on the floor. Barmaid Rose Webster said two wore panama hats and masked faces as manager Cleon Taylor returned with 4000 dollars payroll cash and the robbers took the money, safe, and register before fleeing, police reported.
Des Moines AP report says Marvin L. McPherron, 26, of Des Moines, was hospitalized in serious condition after an early morning melee in the Fort Des Moines housing area. A witness described two unidentified men roughing McPherron and his companion Jack Perryman of Newton, then beating McPherron with a broken beer bottle and hacking Perryman with the bottle end. The attackers were described as two heavyset men, 22 to 25 years old.
Albert Foster, 27, was sentenced to three days in jail after riding his motorcycle while standing on the seat with arms outstretched in Los Angeles. The incident highlights risky behavior cited by authorities.
NEW YORK UP United States Commissioner Edward McDonald announced the largest drug smuggling ring in the history of the federal narcotics bureau has been smashed. About 60 arrests were made in Peru and the United States in a ring allegedly moving 220 pounds of cocaine worth 5 million dollars into the country over the past year.
Dubuque resident Raymond W. Beckius, 40, was killed Friday night when struck by a car being chased by police. The driver, Robert Nelson, 18, of near Dubuque, is hospitalized and charged with illicit vehicle operation and drunken driving, following a chase that began after a stolen car was spotted and lasted 14 blocks.
Cascade Steer with an Angus entry owned by Raymond Kurt of Cascade wins the Jones county fat steer show at Monticello. 64 head from eight states competed, with Kurt earning a $1,000 prize and top bid of $43.50 from Dubuque Packing.
Two Boston and Maine trains collided in a siding near Canaan New Hampshire injuring 44 people. Eyewitness Leon Barnum said a brakeman rushed forward and switched the track causing the head on crash. A railroad spokesman suggested the southbound brakeman was responsible and may have erred. Authorities at Mary Hitchcock Hospital reported no critical injuries.
Mrs. Ethel Hanley 59 sister in law of Lt Gov Joe Hanley of New York state died Friday night after an extended illness in Muscatine She was wife of Attorney Charles Hanley a power boat racing enthusiast and noted for her puppet shows touring Midwest and southern schools She was a lifelong Muscatine resident Funeral services will be held this afternoon.
Iowa City AP Police Judge Emil G Trott sent two North Liberty cases to Justice of the Peace W F Murphy after a request for venue change. Charges include illegal liquor possession and gambling with obstructing justice added against The Lighthouse. Sheriff raid Aug 12 found liquor and slot machines at Shannon’s. none at The Lighthouse. Governor Beardsley referred a letter from Rev L L Dunnington to the attorney general.
A 14 year old Washington area boy freed from what the Catholic Review calls diabolical possession after conversion to Catholicism. A priest conducted baptism followed by the exorcism ritual with archbishop approval, amid prior parallel reports by parapsychology groups and church authorities.
Marvin Van Every, 24, of Mason City, and his four year old son Richard, both polio patients, were recovering at University of Iowa hospitals when a collision with a cement truck sent their car tumbling. Mrs Van Every suffered a forearm injury while both patients were near discharge and their car accident ended safely for the family.
E. A. Boss, head of a Midwest hotel chain, announced the purchase of the 150 room Wahkonsa hotel in Fort Dodge. He already runs the Warden hotel in the same block. Possession will be Oct 1. Purchase price was not disclosed.
The Omaha Council Bluffs Industrial Council invited 25 000 farmers to a Labor day celebration at Riverview Park on Sept 5. Prizes totaling 6000 include a 2300 tractor and a 1000 pure bred calf. Speakers include Gov Val Peterson Kraschel and Ralph Helstein.
The 4,200 ton Panamanian freighter Eugenia, sailing from New York, reported drifting helplessly 80 miles southeast of Halifax due to broken steering and loss of emergency gear. Canadian destroyer Iroquois and tug Foundation were dispatched to assist.
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