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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1955
Page
7
Monday market notes show hog prices off 25 cents with weak demand, sow and lightweight hog weakness, and varied cattle results led by steady to lower futures. USDA data lists receipts for hogs and cattle, with ranges for barrows, gilts, sows, steers, heifers, cows, and bulls across weights and prime to good grades.
Cedar Rapids market reports show steady hog prices across weight classes from 190 to 600 pounds with Good and Good Pack er categories leading. Cattle prices list Prime steers and heifers, Choice and Good grades, utilities and canners, plus calf and lamb figures, along with grain and straw notes.
Seed price ranges listed for field grasses delivered to Chicago per 100 pounds. Red top and alsike clovers show notable quotes from $14.5 to $61, with alfalfa and sweet clover categories also cited.
Des Moines market note shows Saturday receipts about 28 000, Friday actuals 40 500. Barrows and gilts varied by weight with top price $16.90, prices from 13 20 to 16 90 across 160 to 550 pound ranges. Steady to 15 cents higher overall with occasional bids to 25 cents lower.
Las Vegas reports the 1955 Nevada test series began with the 32nd A bomb dropped by a B 36 from Kirtland Air Force Base striking Yucca Flat. The noon air drop followed weather delays, producing a small pink mushroom cloud about 25 000 feet high and a quiet detonation heard 30 miles away.
A semi loaded with 15 tons of scrap iron left highway 64 near Melbourne Iowa when the driver David J. Vancil 41 of Dixon Illinois lost control to avoid a slower truck. The vehicle toppled into a ditch ripping part of the load through the trailer. No injuries reported. Two Marshalltown wreckers failed to free the rig and unloading began with local workers. Vancil was en route to Sterling Illinois.
Edgar C. Bundy president of the Abraham Lincoln National Republican club denounces the GOP national committee for scapegoating Chicago after it was passed over for the 1956 convention. He cites statements from Washington and says no third party movement was invited in Chicago by Lincoln Day sponsors.
Firefighters traced a smoky odor for days before locating a 36 ton coal pile in the basement of the municipal building that houses the central fire station in Idaho Falls. The coal had begun to smoulder from spontaneous combustion and had already burned about three tons before discovery.
An 88 year old Wharton man sustained a forehead wound from a fall while crossing a Marion street and required three stitches at a Cedar Rapids hospital. Other notes include attendees for a golden wedding in Campion, Calif., a 4 year old fracturing a skull at home, a 12 year old injuring an ankle on ice, and moves or visits involving Marion Cedar Rapids and surrounding residents.
A listings page details weekly services for Marion churches including Baptist Presbyterian Catholic Lutheran Methodist and others. It lists pastors, service times for Sunday school worship youth activities and prayer services along with World Day of Prayer observances and upcoming events such as family night and Philippine Islands presentations.
Chicago reports Marjorie Campbell of Dutchess County New York crowned 1955 national cherry pie champion after a four hour bake off among 48 states and Hawaii. She receives a $500 scholarship and an electric range. She hopes to present the winning pie to President Eisenhower. Her mother Mrs Richard Campbell tutors her in cooking. Two first time boy entrants placed as reserves.
Secretary of State Dulles leaves Washington with top aides for a Southeast Asia defense conference in Bangkok. They carry a plan to coordinate military and economic defenses against Communist aggression or subversion, aiming to contribute to future peace and security.
One person was hospitalized after the car in which he rode struck a parked car at 2 a.m. Saturday near First avenue and Nineteenth street E. Robert Clark of 852 Third avenue SE was treated in Mercy hospital for facial abrasions and a leg injury. The driver Alden C. Potwin of Waterloo paid a $2 fine in municipal court for failing to have his car under control.
Sioux City Iowa police report Elmer Francis 29 a mechanic charged with assault and battery for pushing a strawberry pie into Gerald Pond an auto sales manager. Francis employed by the same firm posted bond and Pond denied a personal feud prompted the incident.
Moscow proposes global destruction of atomic and hydrogen arms with international control and caps on forces. Washington officials call it unacceptable, risking Western superiority. Harold Urey supports it if proper inspections are guaranteed.
Helicopters hovered over snowbound Scotland on Saturday evacuating medical cases and delivering supplies to isolated communities as winter isolation persisted across the region.
Television listings for KCRG TV WMT TV KWWL WHBF show a slate of movies comedies and westerns with schedules from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM including titles such as Spanish Mystery Mr Wizard You Are There Horace Heidt and public affairs by Compass and Beat the Clock. Weather news and sports conclude the segment.
A brief radio listing notes a daily program on KPIG AM from 6 30 a m with ongoing fare details. The fragment hints at a morning schedule but provides incomplete times and content.
Iowa State Employment Service reports 25 127 workers employed in January in Cedar Rapids, down from 25 927 in December. Non manufacturing losses top 608 with 192 fewer manufacturing jobs, linked to holiday layoff cuts and minor food processing layoffs. The service notes rising unemployment claims but still below last year, with 285 January job openings versus 332 in December.
Taxicab driver William Littleton testified that Albert Fuller and Arch Ferrell, ousted Phenix City officials, were near Patterson’s office building minutes after the June 18 murder. Fuller and Ferrell deny involvement and claim airtight alibis. Ferrell faces trial next.
General Electric filed a federal suit transferring from Missouri to Dubuque's northern district seeking 36372 dollars in damages from Central Transit Warehouse Co of Oelwein and the Chicago Great Western railroad. Kansas City Terminal Warehouse Co is also named as agent. Central Transit is owned by KC company. claim alleges mishandling of refrigerators and freezers caused serious damage. Hearing date not set.
A Friday rally led by steel, aircraft and railroad shares lifted the New York market to a record closing high of 159.90 on the Associated Press average of 60 stocks. Reynolds Metals, Bethlehem Steel, Bendix Aviation, Douglas, Boeing, Dresser, and Baltimore & Ohio rallied as volume reached 3,360,000 shares. London news sparked late selling, then a recovery as traders blamed higher money rates and Butler’s policy for the postwar boom. The pound's weakness and rate changes pressured markets worldwide.
An Iowa man, Henry Senn Jr., 37, of Hartley, died in a two car collision on U S 16 near Austin Minnesota. Five others were hospitalized with lacerations fractures and head injuries after the Senn car swerved into the path of Edward Bjerke’s car.
Moscow radio reports that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, unseen since 1952, has been awarded the Order of Lenin on his 60th birthday. The honor follows Zhukov's recent appointment to head the defense ministry as Timoshenko returns to public notice.
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