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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1946
Page
16
Hog trade remained active and steady with good and choice barrows and gilts near the 14.85 ceiling as salable receipts hit 6,500. cattle receipts 2,000 with fully steady demand across killing classes and best yearling steers around 16.75. Sheep totals 2,500, with slaughter lambs and ewes steady and value ranges noted for wooly westerns and native ewes.
Salable receipts 3 500 hogs active at ceiling with barrows and gilts about 14 50 sows 13 75 early clearance. Calves 500 and cattle receipts steady fed steers 17 00 few loads 15 50 cows 10 25 12 25. Sheep 4 000 receipts fairly active steady fat lambs 14 75 fed wooled lambs 14 50 13 75 native ewes 7 50 feeding lambs scarce.
Sioux City market nontarget livestock summary shows cattle receipts 1200 head calves 25 for sale with mixed quality mostly medium to good. Hogs 7500 head, market active and steady with barrows and gilts around 14.50 and sows 13.75. Sheep 2000 head, ready to market with bulk good and choice fed lambs at 7.00 to 7.50 and early slaughter lambs steady.
Cattle prices show weakness across most classes with feeders and cows drifting. Yearling steers and heifers steady while vealers and calves vary from steady to lower, heavy heifers and selected cattle at mixed levels, buyers active for prime lots.
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8 am Friday total 37 100, down from 37 200 a week ago and 15 700 year ago. Active market with steady demand for good and choice barrows and gilts. Prices: 160- Ibs and 180-360 Ibs barrows 13.75 to 14.45, sows 270-450 Ibs 13.45 to 13.70, 450-350 Ibs 13.40 to 13.70.
Stored data shows price ranges for beef cuts across Des Moines Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin with per pound figures and packer notes. Prices span 160 to 360 pounds with varied dollars per hundredweight and packaging remarks.
Chicago reports firm market conditions for poultry and unchanged carload receipts. Dairy prices listed include cheese varieties Twins sand cheddars at 28 45c and single daisies and longhorns at 29.72 with no change in car and truck arrivals.
A UPI report notes one car of twins cheddars sold in Plymouth Wisconsin last week at 2i a pound.
The International Association of Machinists Local 831 Cedar Rapids and the Pickwick company signed a one year contract for about 20 union machinists at the Pickwick plant 221 Third street NE Cedar Rapids The 40 hour week and closed shop are covered The agreement renews automatically at year end unless a 30 day notice to reopen is given Signers include Jerry Sip and F E Corey for management and union business agents G K Strausser and George Samuelson with others.
Cub Pack 25 distributed badges at Arthur School on Wednesday led by Cub master Charles S. Brown. Bears and Lions earned several ranks including Jerry Bys Don Rockwell and Mervin Sturdivan with other names listed for Wolf Bear and Denners stripes. Den 7 won the attendance award as a play titled A Day at a Sey School was presented.
The Cedar Rapids market lists ceiling hog prices with prime butchers at 14.45 and various weights. Cattle quotes cover steers and cows by grade with utility, commercial, and cutter ranges. calf, sheep, grain, poultry, hides, and wholesale fruit and vegetable prices are included with multiple specific figures.
Nearly eighty Cedar Rapids children were examined at City Hall for a Camp Good Health attendance. The first of several public health clinics aims to correct health defects before the camp opens. Examinations included dental checks and referrals to specialists. volunteers from the Junior League and Kings Daughters assisted.
Mrs Arline Ritchison 959 L street SW fined 50 dollars and costs for drunkenness and disturbing the peace after using glasses as ammunition at a southwest tavern and conducting target practice. Joe Zarub 1106 First street SW suffered a head gash and was hospitalized after a scuffle. Theodore Longfellow 95 Ninth avenue SE and Millard Ray 2563 Fruitland boulevard SW fined 25 dollars for disturbing the peace following a fight in the Union depot lunch room.
Cedar Rapids Knights of Columbus Council 909 plans to initiate about 60 candidates from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas into the first to third degrees this Sunday. The class is dedicated to Raymond C. Lucas, longtime Columbus member and current membership chairman, who serves as an officer in Cedar Rapids' Father John F. Bowen assembly of the fourth degree.
Major financial and commodity exchanges nationwide were closed Friday in observance of Washington's Birthday. It notes markets paused trading and offices were shuttered as the holiday was observed.
In Cedar Rapids a World War II veterans group known as the Ruptured Ducks met at the YMCA and voted to align with the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. They will press housing, terminal leave payments, and enlistment bonuses through those organizations and meet again next Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
Eugene D. Gene Carson a former Coe football and track star has been named vocational adviser at the Coe college Veterans Administration guidance center Acting chief Frank H Dickson said Carson who coached at Winterset later joined the navy in September 1942 serving as a chief specialist He was discharged in November 1945 as a lieutenant jg after duty with the 7th fleet Carson will interview and advise veterans on vocational rehabilitation at the guidance center
A clutter of lost items and local notices appear in the Gazette chain of classifieds. Items include a lady's red billfold with nurse registration and license, a stainless steel wrist watch, a Helbros watch, a screen pin, a hand truck, a brown envelope with service recommendations, and several other small items. Contacts for rewards and identification instructions are listed throughout the notices.
Kingston Ballroom reserves private party space and Harold Palk's Rhythm Ramblers perform for gatherings. Iowa's Smartest Ballroom advertises reservations. The Mirror Lounge promotes annual Syrian dinner and dance on Thursday February 28 at ZCBJ hall with tickets at 312 Grill. Tom Owens Cowboys latest records on sale. Dancing from 8 to 12 45. Herb's Barbecue advertises food. Townsend 2 Dance Saturday at Pythian Hall with Sisco Orchestra. Billy Brown Derby advertises chili and beer.
A dense page of classified notices lists service and repair ads for radios, washing machines, heating, plumbing, painting, hauling, fence and chimney work, furrier and blinds services, carpentry, plastering, and moving. It includes contact numbers and brief claims of guaranteed work and on‑call hours, plus job listings for a custodian, sales agent, and farm helpers across Cedar Rapids and nearby towns.
A collage of help wanted notices from Rapids and surrounding areas seeks a dependable man over 38 with a car for a profitable permanent sales career. Also listings for engineers and sales reps, plus diners, hotel, and factory positions across Cedar Rapids and Anamosa Iowa, with varied requirements and boxes for responses.
A local message notes an opening at W D Lyon Advertising Agency for office work. They seek an experienced stenographer with bookkeeping knowledge and invite applicants to call 3-0051 or visit the agency to learn about the leaving employee and the job.
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