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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1945
Page
12
Chicago buyers held off at $16.65 per hundred for fat lambs as few good or choice lots sold. Steers showed slight weakness with feed steers and yearlings down about 25 cents, while common grades stayed steady to weak. Top cows reached around $15 with good cows in limited supply.
Prices for hogs at interior markets include loads around 180 pounds with weight ranges 160 to 550 pounds. Reports note very active demand, with weekly movement similar to prior periods and prices around 13.70 to 14.45 per hundredweight for various weight classes. Demand described as good and choice with gradual declines for higher weight brackets.
The Omaha market reports active receipts with calves 300 fed steers and stockers steady to easier. Vealers weak, bulls stronger, yearlings around 12 to 16. Markets show salable cattle about 11 000 with cows, heifers and sows varying. Sheep demand mixed with lambs and ewes higher. woolled lambs 16.00 and up, ewes 7.75 to 15.00.
Chicago market report shows hogs selling at varied pounds and weights with top around 17 dollars, cattle mainly steady with best steers around 16.25 and cows from 9 to 15 dollars, bulls firm. Sheep receipts near 5 000 with good and choice lambs scarce, Colorado lambs around 16.65 and odds for yearlings and ewes mixed amid thin demand.
Cattle receipts near 8000 with calves 200 salable. steers and heifers slow to steady, cows active. Stockers and feeders at midrange, weights 114.75 to 150.50. medium weight beeves 16.00. cows mostly 12.00 to 13.50. Hogs receipts 6500. market active to steady. barrows and gilts 14.45. sows 13.70. Sheep receipts 4000. feeder lambs steady near 6.00 and up. yearlings mixed, demand modest. Des Moines area prices shown for Mason City Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin ranges.
Hog prices in Cedar Rapids stayed at ceiling levels Tuesday with top prime butchers at 14.45 dollars and packers at 13.70. Reports list good hogs 160 to 170 pounds at 14.99, 170 to 400 pounds at 13.45, and 270 to 600 pounds around 13.70. Mixed yearlings and heifers range 13.00 to 15.00 with various cattle and sheep quotes included.
Readable items show corn, wheat, and eggs with prices per unit or dozen. Aggregated listings include yellow corn and white wheat, eggs at 30 cents, and assorted vegetables and fruits priced for wholesale and retail buyers. Market notes mention California produce, Athens and cobblers with various price points.
A misc report from Plymouth Wisconsin notes a car incident with two twin passengers injured. Authorities did not release full details or identities. The brief indicates a collision or setback involving dairy goods phrasing unclear from the OCR.
New York traders faced a selective rise with gains in some industrials and utilities while many recent leaders faded on profit taking. About 1.6 million shares changed hands as the tape quoted varied performances among numerous firms and sectors.
Several hundred tickets for Dr. H Roe Bartle’s lecture at Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday Feb 14 were issued at U S C headquarters on Monday. Tickets are free at the U S O or by reservation via the U S O. The event, sponsored by Cedar Rapids American War Dads chapter No 11, is open to relatives of servicemen and women and is by ticket only. Bartle speaks on America Must Keep Faith at 8 15 p m after a 7 15 p m program.
Recon photos from Guam indicate Sunday's Kobe raid was only moderately successful with one key industrial plant substantially destroyed by fire. Officials cite heavy overcast and high winds as factors limiting results and note no fires remained 24 hours later.
In Chicago grain markets on Tuesday futures eased modestly as activity stayed light and buyers were scarce. Wheat closed about 1.5 to 3 percent higher than Monday, corn near unchanged, oats up around 4 percent, rye mixed with early losses then recovering, and barley down several percent with May prices noted.
Fragmentary OCR text lists price ranges for cash provisions including barley and clover, with figures such as 1.15 and 1.06 percent. mentions Timothy, sweet clover, and feed blends. No coherent story or identifiable event.
Chicago market notes no car poultry receipts but eight trucks on hand while eggs show unsettled prices. Utter receipts total 377 584 pounds with firm market and varied score lines. Idahos and Wis consin arrivals and old stock listings provide mixed price data and stock levels.
AP report shows butter receipts at 862117 and prices unchanged at ceiling. Egg receipts 37829 steady with wholesale market details. various egg sizes and weights listed with current receipts around 368. Dirties and checks values noted.
Ottawa reports Defense Minister A G L McNaughton, backed by Prime Minister Mackenzie King, lost his Grey North seat to Garfield Case of the Progressive Conservative party by over 1000 votes in a three candidate race. Analysts see reduced odds for Kings survival ahead of a potential early general election possibly in mid April.
DES MOINES AP The house liquor committee refused to report a local option bill for state liquor stores, the only legal outlet for hard liquor. Chairman J F Miller cited insufficient votes but did not reveal numbers, with 25 members on the panel. The measure may return at a later meeting as beer local option advances elsewhere and the bill sits in a senate committee.
Dr. James W. Laurie pastor of Central Presbyterian Church Buffalo N Y addressed Coe College Spiritual Emphasis Week in Sinclair Memorial chapel on the power of cooperation with God to magnify human resources and talents. He announced a final address Thursday at 10 in the chapel titled Living as the Work of Christ.
The Marion city council approved sending 50 to the Cedar Rapids fire department to assist after the January 27 fire at the Ed Sigfred Clothing company store. It granted a class B beer permit to the Marion Veterans club. Councilmen Cary and Klumph to investigate unsanitary conditions at a barn at 965 Eighth avenue once owned by the late Dr. C A Bradley.
Miss Alice Papes daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Papes of Marion will speak at a Lions club dinner tonight at the K V cafe. She has served as a continental program adviser for the YWCA in South America with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.
Mrs Kenneth Domer and Mrs Dorothy Burrows hosted a Monday miscellaneous shower at the Domer home 1174 Fourteenth Street for their sister in law Mrs Joseph Burrows a recent bride. Refreshments were served to 16 relatives and friends.
The Raymond Daum home at 292 Seventh avenue was sold to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Latham of Georgia through H. P. Kline. The Daums bought a Hill, Mo. farm and will move there. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Black of 816 Ninth avenue will relocate next week to Minneapolis. John P. Oliver traveled to Des Moines to enter Veterans Hospital. Mrs. Oliver accompanied him. Miss Louise Cippera hosted a supper for 12 Laurance Press company workers at 1525 Eighth avenue. Gilbert Rathman of Marion theater reports $196.51 was raised in late January for March of Dimes. Valentines and Valentine-boxed candies remain available. Mrs. A. J. Kellogg of 382 Sixth avenue entertained at dinner for her son Machinist’s Mate Virgil Kellogg, his wife, and daughter Sandra. guests included Mrs. Florence Vaupel of Vinton and Virginia Vaupel of Fayette and Betty Seery of Waterloo. Flight Officer Leland Wells, en route from Shreveport to Columbus for A-26 training, is on leave with his parents and sister at the Circle C farm.
Mrs. Aileen Hyde of Marion wed Hugh Blair of Sacramento Calif on January 9 in Reno Nev. They will reside in Sacramento where Blair works as a night watchman for Del Monte Fruit Co.
Decorah resident Helmur E. Haugen, 47, was arrested Monday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder on a Winneshiek county contempt of court warrant. Haugen was taken to Decorah by Winneshiek deputies Monday evening.
An A to Z page lists beauty shops like Madeline Beauty Shop and Paris Academy with services such as cold waves and tinted hair. It also promotes events at Iowa Theater and a roller skating diversion with Ray Long and Orchestra, plus Valentine’s Day entertainment and a local football league meeting.
An Iowa venue at The Grand Cafe hosts dancing from 9 00 p m with food offerings like lunchs sandwiches and short orders served 5 to chores include bar B Q and cafe items while referencing Melody Lane on 6th Street Road SW and a repair shop at 419 Center Point Roll 3 3169 B 1024 notes lost items rewards and a variety of classified ads and services around town.
The thirteenth salute to Cedar Rapids industries by the Chamber of Commerce will honor Century Engineering Corporation. The event starts with a 6:15 dinner at the Chamber of Commerce building and includes a history talk by Joseph A. Lattner and a special display of Century parts, a 500 pound bomb, and other ordnance items along with a War Department film on precision bombing. The board meets at 5:15 p.m.
Helen Sindelar alias Helen Schwirtz asks district court to annul her marriage to Vincent C. Schwirtz claiming he had a wife living at the time of their Lancaster Missouri ceremony on November 21, 1943.
The will of Henry G. Kurrelmeyer who died in Cedar Rapids on December 19 1944 has been admitted to probate in district court. His wife Anna Kurrelmeyer is named executrix. The McBreen Shoe Company of Chicago seeks a $258 judgment against Carney's Cedar Rapids in a district court suit over an account for merchandise.
Earl Behrend deputy Boy Scout regional executive will speak at a Cedar Rapids district meeting at 6 p.m. Friday at the YMCA A color film on senior scouting will be shown and unit committees leaders and older Scouts are invited to arrive at 7 30 for the movie.
Five year old John Richard Palen son of Mrs Frances Palen 710 Fifth Avenue SE is hospitalized at Mercy Hospital with improving condition and visitations allowed Gazette newsboys and Alex Fidler visited the State theater Monday night to view Ministry of Fear and My Gal Loves Music Wheeler Van Steinburg of the Midwestern area Red Cross office in St Louis visited Cedar Rapids Monday and Tuesday to confer with Linn County chairmen on first aid water safety and accident prevention service The personnel managers committee of the manufacturers bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Wednesday noon at the Roosevelt hotel H A
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