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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1960
Page
10
Chicago reports USDA market figures with hogs 11,000 head, butchers and sows steady. cattle and calves totals noted. Slaughter steers mostly steady to 50 cents lower. select weights list at 26.00 to 28.25 for steers, various ranges for heifers and cows. lambs show steady to 50 lower trends amid 97-104 lb woolled lambs.
A UPI style price table lists beef weights from 160 to 400 pounds with varying prices. The data shows price points around 13.75 to 17.40 per 100 pounds for weight bands including 160 170 180 190 220 230 240 250 270 300 330 360 400 pounds.
Livestock market notes steady to firm on steer and heifer prices. Cattle runs include about 8,800 stockers and calves near 4,000. Steers and heifers hold steady to high with choice steers at 23 to 26.25 and high choice heifers around 24.
Cedar Rapids hog market prices Monday steady to 15 cents higher. Saturday butcher rates 200-220 lbs ranged 16.25 to 17.25 delivered at the plant. packers sows 300 lbs down quoted 14.75 to 15.35. Weights above 220 saw reductions per 10 lb increments. grain quotes include No 3 yellow corn 90c soybeans 1.93 oats .59.
Mrs Leo Reaves of Oelwein is in good condition in the hospital with injuries after a car driven by her husband struck and killed a deer crossing Highway 3 three miles west of Oelwein Sunday. Justin Shields, 18, Fairbank, is also in good condition in the Oelwein hospital after his car overturned west of Fairbank Saturday night.
The vocal music department will present a concert Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
Stocks edged higher in New York Monday with major issues advancing about a point by late afternoon. Trading volume was around 3.2 million shares as investors showed cautious optimism.
UPI reports moderate activity with prices steady to 25 cents higher than Saturday. Receipts are estimated at 85 000, up from 79 000 last week and down from 108 000 year ago, while buyers transact for butchers and sows across weight ranges with varied per hundredweight figures.
Chicago market notes show grain steady to firm except wheat. December wheat fell on profit taking while corn oats rye and soybeans rose modestly led by gains in corn and soybeans with nearby wheat weaker.
AP report from Chicago shows no wheat or soybean sales. Corn prices listed for No 3 yellow at 1.01 percent, No 4 yellow at 98 percent, and mixed grades noted. Barley and feed values appear with marginal figures and brief commentary on market choices.
Chicago AP reports steady butter receipts 632000 with wholesale prices around 60 cents per pound. Potatoes arrivals total 8 shipments on track 244 with Idaho Russets at 4 dollars per 50 pounds and red River round reds around 4.25. Market conditions described as steady with moderate demand and mixed price movement across items.
Trading in butter cheese and eggs was suspended Monday in New York due to a severe snow storm. The AP reports the disruption affected dairy markets as extreme weather closed exchanges and disrupted deliveries.
A Cedar Hills petition with 660 signatures asks the city council to preserve the area's residential character by blocking rental housing and extra commercial zoning. The appeal targets Spencer Development Co plans for Johnson First and Harriet avenues NW including 9 acres of B-4 housing and 8 acres of B-11 shopping, plus 4 acres for a city park. The Planning Commission supports rezoning with conditions on lot size, height and parking, but council action is pending.
Receipts 22 000 cattle and 1 500 calves in Omaha cattle market. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to weak with most steers in first hands. Prices show food and choice steers at around 1150 pounds down about 33 dollars per hundredweight, with prime levels reaching 26 50 to 28 78. Good to high choice heifers sell 22 to 26, with most choice at 24 50 to 25 50.
Germany’s state prosecutor will pay 10000 marks to capture Auschwitz camp’s last commander Richard Baer 49 now believed in hiding rather than dead as previously thought.
A Laos assembly majority moves to oust Quinim Pholsena's pro-Communist government as Savannakhet officials seek a special session. Rightist deputies control 38 of 58 seats while Moscow airlifted arms to leftists surrounding Vientiane. China and North Vietnam are expected to back Quinim as he fights the new Vienna regime.
Investor guide outlines options basics. A 90 day put on U S Steel at 75 for 400 gives right to sell 100 shares at 75 if price falls to or below that level. A 90 day call at 75 costs 400 gives right to buy at 75 if price rises above that level. Puts and calls mainly attract speculators though some use them as insurance.
Cedar Rapids health officials report chicken pox nearly doubled to 181 cases in November, with mumps rising from 72 to 97 and measles up from 54 to 62. The city logged 81 deaths in November, including 54 males and 27 females, down from 83 in October.
Evelyn Gordon of Ely route 1 died Sunday at her home. She was born in Indiana October 10, 1876, and was the widow of the late Jack Gordon.
A federal court in Chicago denied a plea by three meat packers to lift a 40 year old anti trust ban on expansion into general food marketing. Judge Julius Hoffman upheld the 1920 decree forcing Swift Armour and Cudahy to dispose of subsidiary interests stating the ban remains useful while the petitioners retain economic power.
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co and Sixth street station employes reach a one year contract with Local 275 of the International Union of Operating Engineers retroactive to Dec 1. Wages rise about 4 1/2 percent plus 12 44 cents an hour and shift differential. About 70 workers at this station covered. talks with IBEW on a broader pact for 750-800 plant and maintenance workers ongoing. current contract expires Dec 16.
Judge Floyd Philbrick presided as Gus Brown Jr. and Ronnie Bartosh were fined 500 and 300 dollars respectively and had licenses suspended for 60 days after guilty pleas. A fourth defendant Jesse Hodge pled innocent and Ivan Beebe was given until Tuesday to plead. Bond for Hodge was set at 500 dollars.
Duane Lueders 7 years at Ft. Madison after pleading guilty to false uttering of a check for 30 dollars written Oct 28 at Jack's Skelly Service in Marion. He allegedly wrote over 300 dollars in bogus checks and was on parole from Marshall county. Ray Meyocks received a 6 month suspended sentence and a 100 dollar fine for a 35 dollar bogus check written Oct 19 at Rhinehart's Loop Shell in Center Point.
Gordon Van Divier 23 of Belle Plaine waived to the grand jury Friday on the charge of breaking and entering the apartment of Judy Ashley at 122 First Ave NW on October 25.
Transport Truck and Equipment, Inc. files suit against William Neville seeking $622 on a promissory note. The action pursues judgment for the debt and related costs.
New Orleans officials warn that legislature actions could trigger a chain reaction ending public school integration. Lloyd Rittiner cites possible teacher penalties and school closings as federal orders move four Negro first-graders and other black students between Frantz and McDonogh schools under marshals protection.
In a bridge column example South wins the first trick with the king of spades and then heads into a diamond finesse. East gains the lead with the king and reasons that returning a spade to partner would be useless, illustrating that the best play can be to win with the lowest card in some sequences.
A bridge record shows 85 as North West South East vulnerable. North opens 1NT followed by a 3NT overcall and passes. East and West follow with passes and an opening lead is recorded.
The declarer held the queen of spades, proving West’s spade strength. East chose clubs and led the 10, allowing South to be stranded as the defense won four club tricks. A different spade win by South might have altered defense signaling, but the false card by South sealed the outcome.
In Argentina, a national airliner with 32 aboard exploded 80 miles north of Buenos Aires on a Lima to Buenos Aires run. All aboard perished. A second crash near Concordia in a storm killed three Americans and an Argentine. The Americans named were Mary Levitt Wells the pilot and Mr and Mrs Thomas Cunningham, who were en route to Asuncion where they lived.
Local notices list meetings and events across Cedar Rapids area organizations. Includes Exchange Club, YMCA Toastmasters, Linn County Democratic Women, Optimist and Civic clubs, flower orders, and charitable society activities with times and venues.
ZCJB district committee sponsors the annual children’s Christmas party set for Saturday at 2 PM in the ZCJB hall.
John Mills told police Monday $10 was missing from his apartment at 901 Ninth St SW.
President Eisenhower returned to Washington from Augusta where a weekend in Georgia ended with a snow swept landing. The Columbine III Constellation faced a two mile visibility drop before lifting to just over five miles as he stepped into 22 degree air and quipped about Georgia being colder than expected.
Marlene Steichen, 20, was fined 15 dollars in municipal court after pledging guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. She lives at 515 Seventh Ave SW and was accused of striking two parked cars on Second Street near Fourteenth Avenue SE. The vehicles belonged to Maynard Hall of 166 Seventeenth Ave SW and Lewis Mottenger of Marion.
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