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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1947
Page
7
Chicago hogs rose to a record 29.00 per 100 pounds as buyers bid up to 1.75, with sows and barrows showing gains. Cattle and sheep also advanced across major markets including Omaha Kansas City and Sioux City as receipts rose and demand stayed strong.
The Cedar Rapids market lists prices up for hogs with prime butchers at 27.75 and packers at 25.00, plus assorted weights. Cattle values appear across steers, yearlings, cows, calves, and bulls with price ranges from 11.00 to 25.00, including choice, good, and medium grades. Also shown are sheep, lambs, hides, poultry, wholesale produce, and grain notes with regional commodities such as apples, cranberries, potatoes, and corn.
New York stocks drifted lower in a sluggish session with steels and autos leading the retreat while some gains appeared late. Turnover hovered around 800000 shares as the market showed few decisive moves and bond activity centered on the Rock Island reorganization. Iowa hog receipts and river stage updates also appeared in markets notes.
The White House said President Truman will send a message to Congress this week on extending the draft law. He previously indicated no extension of the selective service act expiring March 31. Presidential Secretary Charles G Ross said the universal training message will be delayed until April or May due to a pending report from the President's special committee on military training.
Authorities studied clues to a third horror murder in less than two months. A nearly nude woman’s body was found by picnickers at a reservoir. She had been brutally beaten on the head. Separate line notes wheat rice oats corn among world’s leading cereal crops.
Grain prices rise across wheat corn and oats with deferred deliveries hitting seasonal highs. Wheat gains reach 4 to 8 cents, corn 4 to 5 percent, oats 1.54 to 2.7 percent, with various No numbers and seed values listed for grains and field seeds in Chicago markets.
Chicago psychologist says divorcees have better odds in a second marriage than first timers. Mrs. Francesca Meucci notes the first marriage as training for the next and that second unions often endure. She cites tolerance, lowered expectations, and the search for companionship and understanding as key factors.
Marion News reports Mrs. R H Armistead of Sheldon Iowa announces the engagement of her niece Miss Mary Lyman a Lincoln grade school teacher to Don Merritt of Mt Vernon a University of Iowa student. The wedding is set March 28 in the Coe college chapel.
Chicago and New York markets show mixed commodities with poultry, cheese, butter, eggs, and potatoes. Numerous items list receipts, prices, and various varieties for Hens, Leghorn, fryers, ducks, turkeys, cheese types, butter scores, egg grades, and potato origins across Idaho, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Florida markets.
City and area items report a 4 15 p m children story hour at Sixteenth Avenue library led by Mrs Richard Miller. Hospital updates note Mrs Joe Edwards improved after pneumonia at St Luke's, with visitors possible. Cedar Rapids residents convalesce after major surgery at St Luke's. Three Cedar Rapids marines home on leave from Santa Ana air base are John W Dunn Reginald H Lewis and Donald S Hamel. McLean agency staff dinner in Des Moines discussed Los Angeles trip. Funeral held for Michael J Cleary of North Western Mutual Life in Milwaukee where he served on University of Nebraska board. Cedar Rapids visitors attended.
Lt Gen John R Hodge said there is something to reports that Russians are organizing and training Korean troops He spoke after a White House conference with President Truman He said there has been no change in behavior and the iron curtain still exists He just returned from Korea for talks with the war and state departments
William Weber files in district court seeking 650 dollars for seven calves that escaped through a defective pasture fence adjoining the WCF and N Railway Company right of way. He claims the calves entered a bean field, perished, and he also seeks 280 dollars for past rent and 350 for the seven cattle plus 20 for veterinary bills. Separately Clarence A Engledow is released from county jail on 60 dollars back alimony.
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics notes December wages in the coal industry set records, with soft coal miners at $70 weekly and hard coal miners at $66. The average coal work week reached 46.44 hours, the longest since the war’s end, and December pay rose about $10 weekly from November.
Loss estimated at 18000 dollars after a midnight Sunday fire destroyed a large barn on State Rep Lawrence Putney’s farm one mile north of Gladbrook. Fifty livestock items including 25 tons of hay 25 bales of straw 25 purebred Hampshire hogs and several litters of pigs were lost.
Davenport AP report states two people paid fines in police court Monday after Sunday liquor raids led by Police Chief Reed Phillips. Charged with keeping disorderly houses, each was fined 100 dollars plus costs by Magistrate John J. McSwiggin. Twenty seven others were charged as inmates. eight appeared, fined 10 dollars each, others forfeited 10 dollar bonds. Small liquor quantities were seized.
The piece portrays nurses as essential in hardship and birth, praising their cap and pin earned through skill and study. It appeals to readers to value trained nurses and recognizes the rewards of devotion, love, and gratitude.
Archibald MacLeish, U S representative to Unesco, said at an American Civil Liberties Union meeting that a campaign for international freedom of information ended in apparent complete frustration. He warned world opinion distrusts Americas mass media and urged using the United Nations as a positive force for international information. He noted an extraordinary deterioration of the will to peace and rising talk of war with Russia.
A jumble of lost items appears including a two strand sector pearls from a wedding gift near John Deere Ride with a Tuesday night reward to Wilber Peters Central City, a black billfold with drivers license, a small black and tan hound, red side brackets of a Rev truck on 6th St SW, a Saturday keys on a chain between Sth and 6th St. on 3rd Ave, a tan suitcase with textbooks, a gold Hamilton Keepsake watch, a girl's glasses in a black case, a fraternity pin, and loans on diamonds and watches at Siegels Iowa Loan Co. Advertisements include coat and boot sales, repairs, car rentals, and misc services from local merchants.
DES MOINES AP An administration bill to reorganize Iowa public school districts would give districts three years to merge and continue state aid. It creates an Iowa reorganization commission to standardize lines county by county and eliminate small districts. Local plans could be voter approved, with fallback to state plans if local ballots fail twice. The final draft awaits completion before spring recess.
LONDON AP Britain appeals to Argentina for rush shipments of meat to avoid further cuts in the present ration. A food ministry spokesman cites labor troubles delaying imports from the southern dominions and warns that prolonged delays could make maintaining current rations impossible. The adult weekly meat ration stands at 20 cents worth about 10 ounces plus four ounces of canned corned beef. Fuel restrictions also trigger a cut in the weekly candy ration from four to two ounces effective March 2.
Five officials of the Allis-Chalmers Company told the House labor committee that a Communist fifth column exists in the labor movement and is undermining the United States government. They described Local 248, UAW at West Allis plant as communistic and the current 10 month strike as fraudulent, directed by the Communist party for covert aims.
Death notices for Nancy Sue McMurray infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Gailord McMurray indicate three month illness ending with services held Sunday at Mason funeral home in Iowa. The child died in an Iowa City hospital Saturday.
Harold E. Stassen arrives in Brussels at the start of a two month European tour as a Republican presidential hopeful. Delayed from New York by bad weather, he plans talks with Prime Ministers Atlee and Stalin and other heads of state before departing for Paris on Tuesday.
In Kansas City Missouri a second major blaze in as many days leveled two barns in the stockyards district. The main pen area across the Kaw river was not at risk. About 500 cattle were moved from the danger zone and three horses were led to safety by a Swift and Company employee. Estimated loss stood around ten thousand dollars.
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