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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1948
Page
8
Unofficial Monday livestock estimates show cattle 12 000 hogs 000 sheep 5 000. Prices ended the week nominally steady after declines led by hogs and sows. Agriculture department links the slump to higher receipts and falling wholesale pork prices. Chicago grain quotations follow.
USDA market notes show hog receipts around 300 with totals near 3,300. butcher hogs at 1.50 lower than last week. Cattle receipts estimated with steady to higher prices for best steers and weaker grades elsewhere. cows and canners mixed. Sheep receipts about 200 with slaughter lambs steady to higher and ewes up to 50 cents.
USDA livestock report shows hogs down 50 to 75 cents with top $22.50 and bulk around $21.25 to $21.50. Cattle mostly lower for feeders and steers with some gains in cows, bulls weak, and top steer prices hitting $33.50 for 1,003 pound cattle. Sheep all classes steady with slaughter lambs around $24.50 to $25.00 and feeding lambs at $15.
Receipts Saturday estimated 65 000, week 77 000, year 65 800 actuals Friday 61 000. Packing plants total 2 in southern Minnesota and 12 plus about 30 concentration yards in Iowa with some out-of-state stations. Prices steady with slow to moderate activity. hogs 160 180 lbs at 17.50 20.75, 200 lbs 20.25 21.00, 200 240 lbs 19.50. Sows 400 lbs 18.00 19.00, 450 550 lbs 17.25 18.25.
Market reports show steady prices for Cedar Rapids hogs with top prime butchers at 21.00 and packers at 19.50. Steers range across weights with mixed grades and several price differentials noted for cows and yearlings. Kansas and Sioux City reports mirror cautious trading and slight declines in some classes.
Demand expanded after a hesitant start in New York trading as prices advanced fractions to a point or more. Some issues reached top prices of the year while volume climbed to about 500000 shares in a two hour session.
A heavy selling wave swept soybeans down the limit in a single session. Other fields also fell with corn below parity while wheat and oats declined. The market cited the CCC new domestic sales policy effective Jan 1 as a major bearish factor for soybeans.
Chicago AP listing shows No. 2 hard wheat and No. 2 yellow corn prices with bid and ask figures. Quotations include oats at $1.03 and seed alfalfa and grasses such as sweet clover timothy priced around $15 to $18 per unit.
German Nobel laureate Otto Warburg told Illinois researchers that enzymes may trigger cancer by altering how cells process sugar. He cited eleven enzymes including zymohexoase, noting anti-enzyme trials in rats halted fermentation but requires tumor impact proof.
A grand jury in Glenwood Iowa returned indictments of second degree murder against Ed Pruitt 28 Thomas William Price 18 and Wayne Chase 18 inmates at the Iowa School for the Feeble Minded in connection with the death of E B McIlnay 77 an attendant who died November 20 after being struck with a marble slab at the institution The grand jury did not indict Dale Allen 22 who was also charged in the case
Des Moines report says Supreme Court Justice Charles F. Wenner strum of Chariton paid a $10 speeding fine in municipal court on Friday. Wenstrum pled guilty to driving 45 mph in a 25 mph zone.
Mrs. Stanley Thomas entertained 20 guests at a Friday evening party at 1354 Fifth Avenue. Out of town guests included Mrs. Marie Zeni-shek, Mrs. Beulah Whittington of Solon, Miss Kathryn Barton, and Miss Catherine Gohmann of Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Robert M. Stull returned to Sandstone after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Franke. The Lane Cedar Chest is advertised as a gift at Balster's. Mrs. H. Rubson, visiting her son-in-law and daughter, will return to New York City Sunday. Mrs. Dilman Scandrett of Galesburg, Illinois, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cippera. Old Spice gift sets are advertised by Sorg Drug. Mrs. Ernest A. Woolley is at home from Des Moines after visiting her husband at the Veterans hospital. he has been treated there the last two weeks. The Methodist Friendly Guild picnic at the K. V. Murdoch home was postponed due to Rev. James P. Gable’s father’s death.
Miss Lulu B. Kinkead daughter of Mrs Bernice Kinkead underwent an appendectomy at St Luke's hospital on Friday Marion Kinkead entered the Veterans hospital at Des Moines Mrs George Busby of San Francisco was the dinner guest of Mrs Marie Conger and Miss Helen Conger Friday
A listing of church services and events in Cedar Rapids churches including Marion Baptist and Christian groups. Times cover Sunday school morning worship youth groups and midweek activities with notes on dedications and district conference closings. Churches include St Josephs Catholic St Pauls Lutheran Prairie Chapel and Seventh Day Church of God with guest speakers and service details.
Alexander Weatherbee Stearns 76 lifelong Manchester resident died Friday of a heart attack. He led First State Bank as president and served as library board president A Congregational church trustee and active in Masonic bodies. He was a former Knights Templar commander and Knights of Pythias chancellor with 50-year membership. Survived by wife Alice Russell a son Dr A Bryce Stearns of Detroit and a granddaughter and a grandson. Funeral services were held Monday at Shelly home.
Hollywood AP reports Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist, turns down a million dollar check and retires from radio December 26 for at least eight months. He plans personal appearances and television work, aiming to refresh his act with new ideas. He hints at tax considerations but says quality over quantity matters for radio audiences.
Fifty Arizona hunters gathered in Houserock Valley after a state commission drawing awarded each man a chance to kill one buffalo and keep one fourth of the meat. The hunt aids herd improvement and marks the continuation of the only roaming herd of live American buffalo in the United States.
Iowa City AP report says the ad viser to foreign students believes a movement aims to redirect aid to China funds to let Chinese students stay and continue education in the United States. Richard E. Sweitzer cites Chinese groups and the NACSA in contacting the State Department and ECA about the issue. About 2,500 Chinese students including 58 at Iowa face loss of financial support from the nationalist government and possible deportation without a permanent income source.
A bandit robbed the New Moon tavern in Davenport Friday night escaping with 474.52 dollars. Bartender Orval Loving said the armed assailant wore a stocking cap with eye holes and ordered 15 to 20 customers to place hands on the bar before taking cash from the register.
Ian Max Weiher a 42 year old hired man on the George Probst farm died of a heart attack while feeding hogs. Probst 65 died within an hour of the same cause after finding Weiher. Probst left four daughters and Weiher left two brothers and two sisters. Coroner Dr J R Wood ruled heart attacks. Funeral plans pending.
Waterloo police report a Waverly Indiana man lost 2100 in a stud poker swindle. A trio lured him to a hotel then to banks while an “adviser” watched his money, leaving the others with the stake and vanishing. Police chief Harry Krieg issued the statement Friday.
Decorah Martin Enger sells Western Auto to Paul K. Hardy of Dubuque with possession Jan 1. Engers move to California. Monticello officers named for Burns Masonic lodge and new town assessor Leigh Clark begins work. Lorenz Lorenzen deputy. West Union Zion Lutheran parsonage to be dedicated Dec 19 with Dr. Herman Siefkes speaking. Traer 3-year-old Janelle Miller’s knee surgery deemed risky. West Union Odd Fellows elect officers. Decorah Credit Bureau secretary named. Mt. Vernon Masonic and Odd Fellows officers listed. Springville Rebekah noble grand chosen. degree class to be initiated. Traer engagement announced Walter A. Clinnin Jr. Ossian Boy Scouts elect officers. Tipton Masonic lodge installs Reid Hunt as worshipful master. other officers named. McGregor Masonic lodge officers listed.
Washington hosts Western allies as United States Canada Belgium France Netherlands Luxembourg Britain and others resume discussions on a North Atlantic security alliance. The talks aim to deter Soviet aggression and create a consultative defense framework with possible collective defense commitments while raising constitutional questions about formal war declarations.
The Iowa Board of Cosmetology seeks 1949 legislation to bar home cold wave permanent sets used in so called permanent parties. It would outlaw giving permanents for compensation to non family members while allowing parent child exchanges.
ANAMOSA Charles Richardson was found guilty late Friday of escaping from the state reformatory on November 4. The 27 year old Dubuque man fled with Orville Gitchell and John Bandy, who pled guilty and received five year sentences. Judge M. C. Hamiel set December 20 for Richardson’s sentence.
Edgar A. Guest, famed poet known as the Poet of the People, ends his golfing parson era and returns to his church duties and social duties. The piece notes winter quiet at the club and his shift back to preaching and weddings. It mentions the Schuylkill River bridge near Philadelphia in 1816 as a historical aside.
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