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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1944
Page
13
Hogs opened fairly active on good and choice grades with top at 13.90 but sold mostly 13.75 to 13.85. Best steers and yearlings up 10 to 15 cents. Lambs fairly active with early sales steady to strong. Official estimates of receipts show 20000 hogs 12000 cattle 5000 sheep.
Combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8 am Tuesday totaled 54 900. Moderately active and generally steady with loads about 53.106 last Wednesday. Barrow and gilt prices varied by weight from 12.09 to 13.50 with sows across several weight ranges ranging from 11.10 to 12.09 for various categories.
Ins hogs total 19 500 pounds with steady bulls and good sow prices 12 12 50 per cwt. Calves heifers and stocker classes show strength while feed er cattle remain scarce. Sheep receipts 8 500 market unsettled with bids lower on fat lambs and steady to lower on slaughter lambs and feeders.
SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK report shows hog receipts around 13 000 with early weakness but steady tone for top and mid carcass lots. Cattle receipts about 4 560 with slaughter steers steady to higher asking prices and feeder cattle firm, while sheep and lamb notes indicate mostly fed woolled lambs with no early action.
Chicago livestock report shows active hog sale with good and choice weights selling up to 13.90 and 12.76 for lighter grades. Cattle receipts at 9 000 with steer and yearling prices generally higher about 10 to 15 cents, top 16.95 for selected cattle. stockers scarce and feeders strong around 13.90 for heavy light. Sheep receipts 3 000 to 5 000 with good and choice lambs at 16.00 to 16.25 and Montana and southwest lambs around 15.25. sheep steady to higher early.
Receipts show steady movement across items with varying scores for poultry and dairy products. Cheese notes Twin varieties with slight price differentials. U S shipments firm for top Idaho Russets and western reds while other stocks show moderate demand and dull force in several markets.
The report notes live poultry prices across categories in New York with figures for turkeys ducks geese and guineas. Roosters fowls squabs and capons show varying weights and bids. broilers sell at around 33 cents per pound while overall receipts total about 44 609 pounds.
The document lists wholesale price levels and receipts for dairy items. Creamery grades exceed 92 and 90 scores with varied carton prices. Eggs show receipts of 25,315 cases of 30 dozen, with fluctuating grades, weights, and per dozen prices. cheese receipts total 623,755 with nominal quotations.
Grain markets list No. 2 oats 76c No. 3 5c No. 2 wheat 1.40 No. 2 rye 95c No. 2 corn 1.04 Soybeans 1.80 and hay at 14 to 16 dollars. Poultry delivered prices light stags 19c heavy hens 23c leghorn hens 21c eggs 28 to 29c. Fruits rind prices for oranges lemons apples and grapefruits vary. hides and calf hides priced by grade with kip and horse prices noted.
Chicago reports wheat and rye futures slipped after an early show of strength as selling follows weak stock and cotton markets. Wheat finished 3% lower with May at 1.70 and July at 1.66 1/2, rye down 1/2 to 1 1/4, oats steady to 1/2 off, and barley marginally lower at 1.22.
Chicago market bulletin lists bale and field seed prices with figures for timothy red top red clover sweet clover and other feed commodities. Prices shown include per 100 pounds timothy 5.75 to 6.06 dollars red top around 14 to 15 dollars red clover about 31.50 and sweet clover near 10.50 with nominal ranges.
Notes from Plymouth Wisconsin dated March 4 list various cheese items and prices in a brief misc item. Limited readable details reference Wisconsin cheese and local commerce.
River stage readings at Crosse show a fall to 5.1 feet with slight decline noted while other measurements remain steady according to updated river data.
In Pittsfield Mass the defense sought to prove a physician caused marks on the six month old son of Attorney John F Noxon with an anti diphtheria test rather than the father during electrocuting. State medical witness Dr George P Hunt said the marks appeared on the right arm not the left and his testimony was cut short by his death.
The text promotes war bond payroll savings at high rates, urging soldiers to contribute fully. It frames every service member as a 100 percent contributor and challenges individuals to calculate their own share.
In New York on Tuesday, February markets closed with a broad decline led by steel and railroad shares. Losses reached a point or more at mid day, later easing near the close. About 900,000 shares changed hands in transfers.
New York Bond Review reports a mixed session with a half-hearted early attempt to rise followed by a broader decline in the final hour. Fractions to over a point losses outpaced unchanged or higher issues as trading accelerated downward.
South Side Red Cross unit will restart activities in all departments on Wednesday following a Tuesday announcement. The Modern Reading club meets with Mrs. Marshall J. Hickman at 1 PM on Wednesday at 1925 Second Avenue SE with Mrs. Robert Armstrong leading the program.
Cedar Rapids chapter No. 194 of the Order of Ahepa will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at St. John's Hellenic Orthodox church Fifth street at A avenue NE. All members urged to attend.
Townsend Victory club No. 8 will meet Wednesday at 6 30 p.m. for a picnic supper at the home of Mr and Mrs W Clayton 472 F avenue NW Attendees asked to bring their own table service sandwiches and a covered dish.
The Waterloo WAC recruiting office lends Cpl. Patricia Kingston to Cedar Rapids for the Air WAC drive and she will stay through the end of the week.
Cedar Rapids merchants are asked to list all employees who sold $3,000 or more in war bonds and stamps during the fourth war loan drive. Returns should go to Carl Heelstrom, chairman of the retailers war bond committee.
Mr and Mrs Norman Hatton and daughter Phyllis return to Edgemere Mt Vernon road after work in branch architect engineering divisions of the war department in St Paul Minnesota. They also lived in Cedar Rapids Chadron Pierre Mitchell and Sioux City while employed for the government.
The 1942 national occupational accidents caused wage loss, medical expenses, and insurance overhead totaling 1,000,000,060 dollars. This figure reflects the combined burden on workers and employers from industrial incidents across the year.
Arthur E Granger plans a Cambridge visit with his son John Granger and daughter Molly John will depart mid March for England to continue Harvard research in electronics and communications Mrs Granger joins in Cambridge after a Daytona Beach stay Reading circle picnic led by Ora Crowner Mrs Earl Caraway learns her merchant marine husband is stationed at Sheepshead Bay NY Jack Baker relocates to Cedar Rapids Sgt Maynard Port arrives in England Marion lodge plans a third degree call Keystone division luncheon hosted by Mrs John Fairley and others
Major William R. Reed said he would depart from South Orange with his wife and daughter Diane and arrive in Marion Wednesday afternoon aboard the Hiawatha. Reed recently returned from 14 months in the air force serving in Africa and Italy and had been visiting his family.
Pvt. Martin R. Potter spent a week with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Lester Potter at their Marion area home en route from Camp Fannin Texas to a California camp. Family members hosting included Maxine Arlene Blair LeRoy Potter Roger Leidigh and daughter Jane S A Hopker and Frank Potter among others.
Mrs. Elsie Pringle sold her Marion residence at 412 Fifth Avenue to Mr and Mrs Paul James of Cedar Rapids. James works at La Plant Choatelery. Mrs Pringle, wintering in Chicago, will return to Marion Thursday.
Members of Trojan lodge No. 548 A F and A M will gather at the Masonic temple Wednesday at 1 p.m. to attend Clyde S. Derflinger's funeral. All Masons are asked to assemble.
Charles J. Schaefer flight engineer on a navy patrol bomber arrived Friday for a leave with his parents the Charles W. Schaefers northeast of Marion after seven months foreign service. Pvt Donald Crossett son of Mr and Mrs E D Crossett underwent an appendectomy Thursday at Camp Gruber Okla Theola Gordon went to Rockford Ill to attend the wedding of Joan Root to St George Whitfield The Sorosis club will meet Thursday at 7 45 with Mrs W K Lothian Mrs La Verna Crew will give a book review St Pauls Lutheran Family club will picnic Friday at 6 30 in the church basement Seaman 2/c Howard Bud Howe visiting Chicago university spent the weekend with his parents the H M Howes Mrs Claude Huffman of Scranton Ia and Mrs Anna Wilkins of Menlo were guests here last week Mrs Hilda Bliss of Cedar Rapids their sister also weekend guest in the Garoutte home
Community notices express sympathy with thanks from Denison and Lund families for floral offerings. Lost items include a billfold with papers, a brown leather billfold, discharge papers, a tan pigskin glove, and two narration books. Public ads promote coats, tax services, beauty salons, and various local services.
William Hamilton, pharmacist mate second class, has returned to the States from ten months of service in the South Pacific and will terminate a 25 day leave with his parents, Mr and Mrs William Hamilton, Sr., on March 10.
Stockholm AP Schwedish cavalry officer Capt. Jan Wilhelm Kuylenstierna returned from a tour of Germany and Poland reporting Nazi industries in the Ruhr were operating at full capacity despite heavy Allied bombing. He said German plants were back in working condition within two or three months and noted substantial cavalry usage on the eastern front.
State investigators probing conditions at the Anamosa reformatory for men plan to advertise in Jones county papers inviting public input during the next days. They expect to finish the survey in about a week to ten days and prepare reports for Gov. Hickenlooper. The probe was ordered after two breaks early in January.
Allied headquarters reports Canadian Spitfire pilots destroyed five loaded German troop trains on the Yugoslav coast route Monday. They also engaged fleeing Nazi columns, causing heavy casualties as fires raged along the line.
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