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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1948
Page
11
Unofficial Monday estimates place cattle at 13 000 hogs at 20 000 and sheep at 5 000. A Friday hog run cut prices by 50 cents to a dollar, while cattle and sheep stayed mostly steady with top barrow and gilt prices at 19 to 22 dollars and one load at 22 50.
Hog receipts 11 000 to 20 000 with slow activity and prices 50 to 75 cents lower for butchers. Iowa prices down 1.00 to 2.00 with tops around 227.00, various weight ranges and sow prices 14.50 to 17.25, heavier weights down. Cattle receipts 1 000 and calves 200 with slow slaughter steers and heifers but steady bulls and cows. cutters and common beef cows 15.00 to 18.00, select fed lambs 26.00 top, ewes 10.50 downward.
Hog prices listed by weight and class with bids from 170 to 300 pounds. steady to slow demand and carryover into weekend. Calves and bulls mixed. slaughter cattle mostly steady aside from bulls and vealers. Sheep market shows moderate activity with fat lambs down from Thursday and ewes steady. shorn lambs and light weights sold unsold on three decks.
Receipts total about 600 with cattle firm to lower on fed steers and beef cows holdovers. Canners and cutters steady after Thursday decline while stockers and feeders remain scarce. Hogs slow with live weights 249 to 336 pounds down 50 cents. sows and feeder pigs show varied prices. Lamb and ewe offerings limited with wool prices steady to firm. deck yearlings carried over.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market slipped a quarter on the last day of 1948. Prime butchers topped at 20.00 while other weights and grades ranged with lower bids. cattle listings show steers, yearlings, cows, bulls and calves with a broad spectrum of prices, reflecting a market slowdown at year end.
Chicago reports a downward tilt in grain prices as trading broadens from a sparse week. Wheat and corn show losses amid cash grain sales and CCC purchases, with soybeans and oats also easing and no. 2 yellow and other futures reflecting the trend.
The New York market drifted downward with small losses and many stocks staying positive. turnover reached about 1.4 million shares for the day, near the month’s high. Railway issues supported the early gains as freight-rate increases were announced, helping rails outperform other sectors.
Des Moines reports Friday estimates of 50 000 age on farm and 105 000 actuals a year ago. Thursday unloads at two packing plants in southern Minnesota and 12 plants with about 30 concentration yards in Iowa. Prices are slow and mostly lower with varying bids by weight ranges from 160 to 550 pounds and ranges listed from $14 25 to $18 50 per hundredweight.
Receipts at Kansas City livestock show cattle and calves totaling around 250 head. Several shipments are held off market until Monday, with numbers not sufficient to test market activity.
Chicago market notes show steady poultry and dairy demand with varied prices. Receipts and prices for eggs cheese butter reflect mixed tone, while russet and other potatoes sell steady to dull. market activity remains subdued amid fluctuating scores and sizes.
In Washington the Democratic Senate caucus chose 27 year veteran McKellar over Tydings 27 to 25 to serve as president pro tempore, with Barkley named majority leader and Lucas succeeding as majority whip. The post, largely honorary, includes a limousine and chauffeur.
Sioux City AP reports arrangements for the sale of the T. S. Martin department store to the May Company. Formal stockholders approval occurred Thursday and the May Company will take over operate the Sioux City firm by January 30.
Mrs. Elmer Ellacott in Brussels Ontario faced two armed home intruders and challenged them to read the Bible. The men fled after she stood between them and her husband and displayed the open Bible on the table. The assailants knocked her husband down but she thwarted the break in.
Nearly all American Protestant missionaries expect to remain in China even if the Communists take control, officials say. Denominational leaders call the decision a practical Christian response to communism.
AP reports that defeated or retiring congressmen will return to lawyering. Senators Cooper Revercomb Wilson Stewart and Ball weigh plans. Grant Harness and Jarman may seek related roles. Knutson and Robertson plan vacations, while Landis asserts campaigning for re election.
Budapest sources said Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty will be tried in the first half of February. The report came from government quarters and noted no specific date was given. The anticipated trial follows months of pressure over church affairs in Hungary.
Walter Winchell notes that Gentleman's Agreement was 20th Century Fox's top grosser in 1948, a fact meant to prompt producers to embrace adult themes. He highlights a powerful news photo of a 19 year old refugee arriving in the USA, reflecting grim wartime losses, and cites various Hollywood and political anecdotes from the era.
Dr. C. F. Holton of Savannah Ga comments on a radio broadcast. He praises the mystery clue from Matthew 25 and notes it drew more Bible readers than any preacher, and wishes a Merry Christmas to all in the era’s readership.
A frenzied courtship ended in the killings of Jane Williams a 45 year old Cleveland teacher and Ernest Roley 55 a farm hand. Ellis McLaughlin 38 of Portland Oregon killed himself after shooting Hodson 63 of Ipswich South Dakota wounded. Mary Williams 50 fled unharmed. Sheriff A Roe Francis named the victims and noted McLaughlin’s motive related to a warned marriage demand.
A government report links rising per capita whisky consumption to alcoholism as a major public health threat. The National Committee for Education of Alcoholism promotes rehab and prevention similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, urging that alcoholism is a treatable disease, not a moral failing.
Earthquakes were reported in southern California and Nevada on Friday but Reno did not feel the new tremors. A Monterey coast quake was barely felt and a UC scientist warned instruments may have recorded a faulty reading.
The U S Fish and Wildlife Service reports jet planes and Sonne S-7 cameras will simplify counting ducks and geese. An experimental Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star made rapid low passes over San Joaquin valley marshes, producing ribbon photographs for precise tallies.
Hans Fritzsche now in Langwasser internment camp says Bormann probably in Russian hands and asserts Hitler died by suicide. He claims Berlin surrendered after a three hour delay to give Bormann a chance to escape and cites a jaw bone as proof of Hitler’s death.
Marion residents report travels and family news including Prof Robert A. Titus leaving for Worthington Ohio after Christmas visit with his parents Susan Titus. Obituary Fred Huddleston funeral at Yocom chapel and Cedar Memorial cemetery. Birth Markes Eric Johnson in Cedar Rapids. Allan Sloan to Chicago then Le Mars for Westmar college. Local visits by G A Chamberlain family and Grace Koppenhaver from Texas. Rentals, hospital, and New Year plans close the column.
Rates show 1 day 860 lines 90 46. 3 days 1.38 2.80. 7 days 1.38 2.80. Small ads count five words first line six words each additional line. Blind box numbers count. Ads accepted until 1:00 AM for the same week and 1 PM on Saturday or Sunday. Memorial notice and several lost items listed with rewards and contact numbers.
Immediate possession grant noted. Mr and Mrs Jack Blood return to Sharpsburg from visit with Mrs Blood’s parents the Armstrongs. Lost tan zipper notebook. Berlin, Guy B slight improvement after weeks ill. Granger family visits from Boston during Christmas. Indian Creek CC New Year’s Eve party planned hosted by Mr and Mrs Bud Connell. Capt and Mrs Charles Grace of Colorado Springs and son Charles Jr visit Alburnett guests of the Knapps.
Mr and Mrs Fred Shireman recently moved to Seattle and announced to Marion friends they are visiting their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Merle Starks in Porterville California.
In Albuquerque the Auricular Foundation tests on 700 Indian children at the Indian School show their hearing is superior to thousands of white children previously tested. Executive director William B. Hargrave notes similar rates of hearing defects in both races and that some Indians hear sounds not audible to top white listeners.
In Redmond Oregon the school baton corps practiced to Stars and Stripes Forever until the gym crew a foreman ruined the record by mixing the pieces into fresh concrete. The instructor and foreman debated tempo and the next day the group tried five new records.
A reflective verse fragment contrasts two fates at year’s close: one man’s death and another’s birth. Midnight bells signal the old passing and the joyous welcome of the new year as time flows on. The imagery pairs weariness, mortality, and renewal in a single moment.
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