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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 06, 1956

Page

16

Heavy Run Drops Hogs in Chicago Market Report

Chicago AP USDA market notes show Tuesday salable cattle 5 000 head hogs 12 000 sheep 3 000. Monday hog prices fell 25 75 cents with sows 25 50 cents lower as receipts hit 15 000. Cattle receipts 27 600 with steers and heifers weak to 1.00 lower. vealers down to 30. cows and bulls mixed. Des Moines Iowa receipts 70 000 with top at 13.15 for hogs and varied weights across ranges.

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Omaha Livestock Market Report From Omaha AP USDA

US cattle receipts total 15 500 with calves 400 as market stays slow. Fed steers and heifers show weak demand with bids 50 or more lower. large proportion of fed cattle uncertain. Cows light in supply and weak. stockers and feeders light and steady to weak. Prices include fed steers around 21 50 to 22 25, high choice heifers 18 50, cows 9 00 to 12 00, stock steer calves 21 00 and feeders 14 00 to 17 00.

Omaha USDA

Sioux City Livestock Receipts Report Mixed Cattle Prices

Sioux City livestock market report shows receipts of 14,000 cattle and 1,500 calves with slow bidding for fed steers heifers and cows. Load of choice 1,300 lb steers around 20.50. a few loads of choice heifers between 16.75 and 18.50.

Sioux City

Waterloo Hogs Prices From Lewes Butchers

Market notes list hog prices by weight and grade with figures for sows and pigs. Entries show varying prices in a confused ledger style including ranges like 160-170 Ibs and 220-230 Ibs with per hundredweight and total costs, reflecting local butchers' quotes.

Sagace Produce and Cheese Dark Market Summary

Sagace Produce in UP reports steady live supplies with 15 trucks. Heavy hens 24-28c lb, light hens 18-29c, rock broilers 24c, hen turkeys 38c, toms 32c. Cheese prices mixed by grade, butter receipts up to 1,198,018 lb with 57c at 3 and 92 score. Eggs receipts 11,444 cases with whites 39c per dozen. Potatoes show arrivals and on track figures with steady market. old and new stock prices listed for russets and round reds.

Sagace U. S Idaho

New York Produce Market Butter and Egg Prices Mixed

AP report from New York shows butter steady with 698,638 receipts over two days. Creamery 93 score prices at 58-58.5 cents per pound, A scores around 58.1 cents, B scores 81-89 cents, C 57 cents. Egg offerings listed by size and color with price ranges from 40 to 42 cents for extras and 39-40 to 40-40 cents for standards and large eggs.

New York USDA Mts

Stock Market Advances Again as Industrial Average Rises

New York notes the sixth straight advance on the industrial average as the market regains over half of January’s decline. Some shares posted losses amid about 2.2 million shares traded.

New York Sns

C R Markets Sheep Market and Egg and Grain Prices

C. R. Markets reports spring lamb prices 17.90 to 18.50 per 100 pounds and various ewe and buck categories. Egg prices range from 24 to 30 cents per dozen with broilers valued at 2.5 to 3 cents per pound. Grain prices list No 2 corn at 1.21 and soybeans No 1 at 87.31, with native wool at 4.0 cents per pound.

Navy Hensander & Leghorn Ucks Sr le 'Yong

Minnie R. Reinheimer Dies at 75 in Marion

Minnie R. Reinheimer 75 of 584 Seventh Avenue Marion died Monday at 4 50 am in a Marion nursing home after a long illness She was born Dee 23 1880 in La Plata Missouri and lived in Vinton Linn County and Marion She married Roy D. Sutzin in 1903 and Michael P. Reinheimer in 1912 Both husbands preceded her in death She was a Marion Presbyterian Church member Surviving are two daughters Mrs Thomas Ondrus and Mrs Donald Donnan a stepson Archie Reinheimer eight grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at Murdoch Chapel with time to be announced. Friends may call.

Dee la Plata Vinton Theodore’ Romal Linn County Roy D. Sutzin Marion Michael P. Reinheimer Reinheimer Marion Presbyterian Church

Company Reports Face Mixed Retail Sector Trends

Western Auto Sears Roebuck Grant Penney Kroger Monty Ward Murphy Lerners Woolworth Safeway Walgreens Newberry Kresge People’s Drug Bond Stores Spiegel. Deve: Company Reports present a survey of major retailers’ performance, noting varied results across chains and markets.

Western Auto Sears. Roebuck Grant Penney Kroger Monty Ward Murphy Lerner's Woolworth Safeway Walgreen Newberry Kresge People's Drug Bond Stores Spiegel

Bulk of Grains Can't Hold Rise

Grains firm at open on Monday but corn led the drift lower. Wheat closed steady to slightly down while soybeans slid modestly, oats and rye eased, and lard fell. Cash market showed no wheat sales, corn prices steady near 1.26, oats and barley offered huset prices.

Chicago Lowler

Talks Pack Schedule Across Oelwein Cedar Rapids and Springville

Booking news from the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Speakers bureau lists Marie Vitek speaking on Communism in Czechoslovakia at MacDowell club dinner in Oelwein Hotel Mealey. Robert Vernon addresses the Cedar Rapids Woman's club American home department at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Rex B. Conn discusses What’s New in Agriculture at a noon luncheon for Brown Township Mutual Insurance As sociation in Springville schoolhouse.

Oelwein Cedar Rapids Springville Brown Township Mutual Insurance Association

Fireplug Breaks After Jackknifed Truck Collision

A semitrailer jackknifed on Center Point Road NE Monday morning after braking on ice and knocked off a fire plug. The Merchants Motor Freight driver Albert Singer of St. Paul, heading south, avoided a collision with an eastbound city bus that stopped before entering the intersection at Center Point Road and I Avenue.

Center Point Road I Avenue Merchants Motor Freight Albert Singer St. Paul East End Avenue

Oldest Lion Fred Banke Honored in Lions Club

In Niles Michigan 98 year old Fred Banke is identified as the oldest active member of Lions International in the world. The veteran club member continues to participate in community service and Lions events strengthening the organization’s legacy.

Niles, Mich Fred Banke Niles Lions International

Number of Unemployed Railroad Men Is Higher

In northeast Iowa the January unemployment count rose slightly from December yet stayed well under January 1955. Walter Doud of the Railroad Retirement Board reports 399 workers on unemployment compensation at January's end, up 41 from December, with 551 for January 1955. Laborers formed the largest group, followed by train and engine men, clerks, and other categories.

Iowa Walter Doud Railroad Retirement Board

Missing plane search near Little America and base

Two land search parties failed to locate the plane about 200 miles from the South Pole. Distress signals were reported from Little America 400 miles away, with a Navy Gibson girl radio in use. Surface searches from Little America and the advance base extended 260 miles without sighting. A second Otter plane joined the search but found nothing.

South Pole Little America

Antarctic Plane Missing in Antarctic Wastes Triggers Search

On the flagship Arneb in Antarctica Navy radio operator Davis Mervin relayed a 35 year veteran’s last effort to contact the Otter plane missing since Friday with seven aboard. Distress signals were heard Friday and Saturday from the emergency radio but Waite’s attempts to reach them again failed.

Arneb Antarctica Antarctic Amory H. Waite

U.S. Exports About Two Percent of Passenger Cars

The United States exports roughly two percent of the passenger automobiles it produces, reflecting a small but steady overseas market for domestic automakers and their output.

United States

New Air Force Recruiter Arrives in Cedar Rapids

S/Sgt. Robert C. Miller, 29, has been assigned as Cedar Rapids air force recruiter after transfer from Offutt AFB. An eight year veteran from Spencer, he and his wife with two children will join when housing is available. Marine recruiters announce PLC allows college men to train in summer sessions and receive reserve commissions as second lieutenants after graduation.

Cedar Rapids Marine Corps Robert C. Miller Air Force Offutt Air Force Base Omaha Spencer Marine Corps

Relief from Cold Reaches Europe

A warm front descending from southern Greenland brought relief Monday as Europe shook off a week long cold wave that had claimed at least 170 lives.

London Europe Greenland

Quick Work by Police Fails death by own action Attempt

Cedar Rapids police thwarted a suicide attempt by James Bridge 823 Second avenue SW after a long distance call from his daughter Mrs Lawrence Lubbock. Officers found him with gas jets on and head on a pillow in the kitchen. Bridge was treated at a hospital and later put in the care of a son.

Cedar Rapids James Bridge Second Avenue Bridge Lawrence Lubbock Shellsburg

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