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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1942
Page
3
Chicago and multiple midwestern markets report hogs steady with a fair run. nominal top at 15.00 per cwt and weekly shifts show cattle at near 1937 highs, while sheep receipts soften prices. Record details cover prices for hogs, steers, yearlings, calves, and regional benchmarks like Omaha Sioux City and Austin markets.
Mixed market notes from Plymouth Wisconsin and Boston describe cheese bids with several figures and undetailed items. The Boston wool market remains generally quiet with buyers in attendance at western sections and prices near ceiling levels for domestic fine wool.
Information notes government blanket orders setting three eighths and one quarter blood wool. Some businesses recorded bright fleece sales at 50 52 cents grease basis delivered to mills.
The Cedar Rapids hog market falls for a third day by 15 cents with top quotes 14.10 for butcher hogs and 14.20 for long-haul. Cattle and sheep offer varied quotes from prime steers at 14.75 to common cows, with lambs and ewes priced per weight classes.
A Cedar Rapids market summary lists grain prices for No 1 wheat 1.02 dollars No 2 0.98 oats No 2 0.43 No 3 0.40 rye No 2 0.65 corn yellow No 2 0.01 new No 3 0.05 potatoes and hay prices also shown Straw bales 7 dollars to 10 dollars per bale poultry prices include springs under five pounds 23 cents birds and hens by size and type ducks geese and old cocks listed wholesale fruit and vegetables with Michigan celery 1.75 to 1.85 per dozen lemons 6.50 oranges 5.00 lettuce 3 to 6.25 onions 1.75 cabbage 1.50 peaches Michigan basket price 3.50 hides and cattle prices noted horse prices and pony values listed. text indicates broad commodity pricing signals.
New York price trends in Saturday trading were mixed with rail and utility bonds dipping slightly while a modest group of issues advanced. Improved notes included Northern Pacific 6s and Southern Pacific 4 3 3 of 1968. lower tier involved Baltimore and Ohio, Burlington 49s, and North Western generals.
New York and Chicago markets show butter receipts of 12 910 tubs and 11 573 cases. Cheese, live poultry, potatoes, and regional price listings across Idaho, Oregon, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and more. California and eastern trade cited with varied scores, grades, and per pound values.
New York stocks opened higher but failed to sustain gains in a quiet weekend session. Major rails showed mixed moves with some firms at new highs and others down. industrials and steels edged narrowly as tax developments provided limited influence.
Saturday quotations show Adams Express Allied Stores International Mining and many others from Amn Can to U.S. Steel. Listings include Kroger Libbey Owens Johns Manville Anaconda Copper Armours Co and notable prices across rail and energy firms with numerous industrials and utilities.
Dick Madison 1327 K avenue NE surrendered his license Aug 20 for six months in lieu of a 25 dollar fine for reckless driving. He was arrested by Patrolman John Stodola about 445 PM Friday while driving a truck on Thirty-fifth Street NE near First Avenue. Madison was fined 10 dollars and costs in police court Saturday for violation of a court order linked to the prior charge and was ordered to pay the original 25 dollar fine. His license remains suspended.
In Brooklyn the Dodgers meet the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game at 6:15 p.m. Gotham hosts its first twilight gridiron encounter. The note mentions 510 U.S. breweries at year’s start and 750 in 1935.
Wheat prices rose on Saturday to month highs as buyers from commercial firms mills and commission houses stepped in. The market gained about one cent a bushel with supporting factors including favorable price expectations and flexible price controls. Cash grain values showed No 2 yellow corn at 43 cents No 2 white 52 cents and oats around 46 to 52 cents with lard cash bids at 12.90 or 15.75 for belts.
Dr C W Noble a University of Iowa medical school graduate in 1941 who trained at general hospital No 1 Kansas City Mo has departed Cedar Rapids for Fort Leonard Wood Mo to join a medical detachment as a first lieutenant Noble resided with his grandmother Mrs W L Curtis at 1435 Fourth Street SW He had ROTC training and army reserve enlistment Private Victor E Baker son of Mr and Mrs Francis E Baker 1503 Fifth Street NW was released from an Enid Oklahoma army flying school station hospital after a throat infection he returned last Sunday from a week with his son
Charles A. Ziogas now captain in the American army stationed in Newfoundland as conveyed to Mrs. Ziogas of 429 A avenue NW. Sergt LaVerne Benz former Cen rtral City High School coach and teacher moves from Camp Polk Louisiana to Fort Belvoir Virginia. Dick Estes son of Mr and Mrs N D Estes at 1124 J avenue NW enlists in the marine corps and will depart for San Diego California.
Mrs. Fannie Ressa reported a youthful prowler ransacking dresser drawers in her bedroom around 10 15 a m on Saturday. The intruder fled toward B Street and Twenty first Avenue after dropping a light tan jacket. Detectives Marshall and Wilson recovered the jacket and secured a description of the youth.
City Briefs note the Dows camp U S W V members meet at the Mausoleum Cedar Memorial Park Sunday at 1 30 p m for Joseph Burda's funeral. Adele Kucera leaves for Washington to become a government stenographer. Curtis L Layton joins aviation cadet training at Corpus Christi. Wrist watch found. Cedar Rapids detectives seek owner through City Lines notice.
Washington action by the War Production Board prohibits manufacturing men's and boys lounging robes from wool cloth. The ban takes effect after the current cloth supplies held by manufacturers are exhausted.
The Marion Four-H club entertained mothers at leader Mrs. Byron Ambdenstock's home on West Eighth Avenue. Miss Shirley Carver led the event with corsages given by Faye Carver and Lorraine Mierson. The program included piano, a grooming talk by Lorraine Mierson, vocal solo by Shirley Carver, and a report by Adryce Quaas on the Ames state convention. Refreshments served to twenty mothers and members.
AP report from Rome notes 43 killed and 110 injured in the northern Albanian quake of August 27 with about 1200 left homeless. casualties listed as preliminary.
The Blue network partners with the treasury department for a special all-star war bonds broadcast from 8 to 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. to 3 a.m. Sunday. KXEL Waterloo (1540 kHz) airs the event with Hollywood, Broadway, and radio stars followed by 15 minute band interludes. Details appear in today's radio column.
C A Fox 46 of 92442 First Avenue NW pled guilty in district court to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was fined 300. The court allowed 25 monthly payments with the first due Monday after Cedar Rapids police arrested him Thursday afternoon on Tenth street at Eighth Avenue SE.
The U S navy recruiting office in Cedar Rapids reported the enlistment of Frank Wilbur Bailey of 427 G Avenue NW Cedar Rapids and Mason Frederick Feisel of Tama.
Direct enlistment in the ordnance department and the signals corps is authorized. Ordnance applicants include instrument repairmen diesel engine mechanics electricians opticians and radial engine mechanics. Signal corps candidates need radio operator or wire chief qualifications or membership in radio service groups. General mechanical training qualifies for air corps consideration.
Local church notices list service times for multiple congregations including Marion Baptist St Josephs Catholic Christian Congregational Free Methodist and Methodist churches. It outlines Bible school times morning worship sermons and midweek activities with specific pastors named and schedules noted. The Presbyterian entry begins with the pastor’s name and a note that this will be continued.
A dense classified page outlines buys and ads: secondhand watches offered in Hamilton and Illinois, jewelry repairs by L. A. Lower Jeweler, loan services, sewing classes, bug killer sales, lab ads, bandmasters, carburetor repair, hay fever relief, fur cleaning, machine quilting, ride requests, watch repair, city car ads, sweaters and yarn shop, leather goods, printing services, feather mattresses, beauty services, permanent waves, and employment notices for farm work, washer and dry cleaner jobs, and an auto mechanic position in Cedar Rapids.
The notice lists worship and study times for several churches. Seventh Day Church of God at Sixth Street and Ninth Avenue holds Sabbath school Saturday at 10 30 a m and preaching at 11 30 a m. St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran led by Rev Carl E Krog offers Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 8 15 and 10 30 a m with a sermon on Christians Should Be Like minded In All Humility. Holy communion is Sept 6. Prairie Chapel with Rev J B Clyde has Sunday school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m Epworth League at 7 30 p m. Saturday school begins Sept 5.
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