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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1955
Page
5
Unofficial Tuesday estimates show cattle 25 000 hogs 12 000 sheep 4 000 as hog prices fall about 25 cents, with sows steady to 25 cents lower. Wholesale hogs top at 12.75, cattle steady to 50 cents lower, and pork market activity mixed amid holiday receipts and increased salable pork.
Waterloo Iowa market report lists hog categories with prices by weight. Top notes include butchers 160-260 Ibs around 7.90 to 10.65, sows 270-550 Ibs from 7.50 to 8.75, and varying weights up to 550 Ibs showing a steady trend.
Prices for meat type hogs were 10 to 40 cents above or below the quotation line for over fat hogs. Delivered hogs at the Cedar Rapids plant included various weights and classes with quoted figures. cattle and lamb rates appear in a jumbled list of prices and descriptions.
White House press secretary James C. Hagerty dismissed a report that President Eisenhower would resign to become a television commentator. He referenced a TV columnist in the Indianapolis Times claiming a New York source predicted the Gettysburg farm as the president's network base.
Iowa City police arrested 46 year old ex convict George P Crawford after he threatened patron Jim Rybinski with a loaded 16 gauge shotgun during a tavern brawl at the Brown Derby. Russell Pagenpohl wrested the weapon away. Crawford held on $1500 bond on assault charges. Rybinski then left town.
Lincoln attorney Max Towle said Darrel Parker told him he had nothing to do with his wife’s death. Parker, 24, is charged with first degree murder in the December 14 strangling and is awaiting a January 21 preliminary hearing while held for safekeeping. He says he was coerced into signing the statement used to claim the case was solved.
Paris reports a French cameraman for Fox Movietone News was cleared of bribing an Algerian policeman to kill a rebel in a propaganda plot. The foreign ministry called the charge theoretical and unsubstantiated, issuing an official apology to Georges Chassagne, a native of Algeria.
ERIE Pa. UP Joseph Samec gazed at his day old triplets born a week premature and noted another 1800 dollar deduction. With six other children under 18 his exemptions total 5400 dollars. Including his wife the family can earn 6600 dollars before taxes. Samec is a laborer.
Vatican City AP Pope Pius XII designates the apostle Matthew as patron saint of keepers noting he kept accounts before following Jesus and contributing to the gospel
Mr. and Mrs. Schenken returned from Jackson Michigan after Christmas with their daughter and son-in-law Mrs. B Wayne Carpenter and their children. Other items note visitors to the Carpenter home including Mrs Irene Sandholm and Miss Mildred Carpenter.
The bulletin lists church schedules for Marion churches including Baptist The Rev Charles Moore pastor with services at 9 45 for school and 10 45 worship plus 6 30 youth and 7 30 evening. a Bible film. board and leadership classes. picnic and annual meeting. missionary circle. St Josephs Catholic mass times. Christian church with guest speaker Gaylon Decious. Chi Rho CYF and CWF meetings. Free Methodist services. Evangelistic and Bible study nights. and Methodist services with MYF at 6 30.
Community church activities list a New Year's party Sunday at 6 30 p.m. and multiple circle meetings on Wednesday. Bible study Friday 2 p.m. with Mrs Norman J Waffle. Worship services Sunday morning include a sermon Some of These Days and Lord's Supper on Jan 8.
Dr Kate Daum 63 longtime University of Iowa hospitals nutrition director and professor of dietetics died at 2 30 am after months long illness. Born in Great Bend Kansas she joined the UI hospital staff in 1926 and earned her MD from the University of Chicago in 1927. Funeral services set for Monday at 10 am in an Iowa City church with burial in Lawrence Kansas. The McGovern funeral home handled arrangements.
U. S. automakers produced a record 7,940,862 cars in 1955, an all time high surpassing 1950’s 6,658,510 and last year’s 5,509,339. Ward's Reports notes the year would have hit eight million if the year had two more production days.
Newark veteran James Kutcher, a World War II amputee, denounces VA charges that he aided communists and called for strikes during the Korean conflict. A three member VA panel heard two hours of testimony and will rule next year on whether to revoke his $329 monthly disability pension.
A reflective verse notes the passing of Edgar A. Guest as the year ends. It envisions the poet’s death at midnight and his station being filled by others while the world continues through winter and spring to harvest the year.
Rep Moss demands four federal agencies explain alleged misuse of secrecy labels to withhold nondefense information from the public. The Interior Department Health Education and Welfare SEC and the Federal Reserve are cited for labeling papers confidential under Eisenhower orders.
Joseph G. Maher, 42, will assume the Muscatine police chief role at midnight Saturday, succeeding Ted McGill who retires January 1 after more than 24 years in the department.
Four teen agers were charged with larceny after midnight thefts in Iowa City. The suspects are Jay Landiss of Iowa City Ronald Kucera Jerry Larimer both of Oxford and Terrall Creighton of Seattle. They were arrested by Highway Patrolman Joe Smith after a drive in at Hills and accused of stealing a bottle of brandy and a woman's purse from a parked car. Detective Lt. Harland Sprinkle said Kucera admitted taking part in a Walcott and Stockton break in in Scott County. Authorities are sending an official to Iowa City to quiz the youths. The four are being held in jail.
The Central Connecticut Aviation Association plans a regional airport and rejects Ky Hill after engineers estimate it would cost about 1 million dollars to clear rocky terrain.
Channel lineups for KCRG WMT KWWL WHEEF WOI WOC WKBT WHO and others show 8:00 start times and 10:15 10:20 10:30 programs. Listings include Playhouse and Ski segments across multiple markets and stations.
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