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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1957
Page
2
Chicago hogs mostly steady to 25 cents lower with some losses. Cattle receipts 700 with steers and heifers largely steady. vealers and cows mixed but generally firm. Des Moines prices show gains to 40 cents higher with clear regional demand strength across weight classes.
New York stocks rose on Friday with oils and selected issues higher and volume around 2.5 million. Industrial and rail sectors showed gains while grains and livestock markets reflected firmer prices, illustrating a mixed performance in the day’s trading.
Sioux City cattle receipts show varied bids with low-choice steers around 19.25 to 20.00 per hundredweight and load lots near 850 pounds priced near 30.28, reflecting market activity in a cleanup trade. Sparse legible details mention buyers and price ranges amid overall quiet trade.
Base prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market rose by a quarter Friday. Meat type butchers will be priced 19 to 50 cents a hundredweight over, and over fats 10 to 50 under the delivered prices.
Donald L. Ackerman, 29, sworn in by the Maquoketa city council as full time city manager after serving on a December trial basis. He succeeds temporary manager J. G. Thorne, who announced resignation plans for January 1. Ackerman, a Sabula native, is a civil engineer.
Two friends compete in a light hearted bid over a horse in a scene titled A Horse For Old Hickory, as Jim Bowie invites viewers to watch Friday at 7 on Channel 9.
Soybeans firmed as oil spiked with the market showing short covering ahead of President Eisenhower's Saturday address. Wheat, corn, oats and rye moved variably with mixed cash provisions in Chicago. soybean oil and meal quotes noted.
Receipt data from Omaha shows about one thousand calves and third of supply on ordered basis with scattered steer and heifer on order. Cows rally about 25 percent of supply with nominally steady prices in clean up trade. Load low choice around 1050 lbs fed steers 20.50, cows 10.00 to 12.00, cutters 9.00 to 10.00, bulls up to 14.75, dealers quotes to 20.00.
Chicago market news shows live poultry mainly strong for heavy hens and weak for turkeys amid truck movements. Butter receipts high at 844,000 lbs with varied scores, cheese and butter prices quoted. Potatoes arriving 66 tracks with moderate demand. Idaho Oregon russets around 4.60 per cwt and Red River Valley stock about 2.35 to 2.40.
In New York the USDA reports butter weak with creamery prices around 93 to 94 cents per pound and various score categories. Markets note receipts of 22 000 and extras 48 to 50 pounds with prices ranging 32 to 60 cents for different sizes, indicating a soft overall butter market.
CAMDEN South Carolina AP Six men were arrested Thursday in the beating of a high school band director who they believed favored racial integration. All were released from jail that night. Two face conspiracy against civil rights charges with $3 000 bonds each while the other four face assault and battery of a highly aggravated nature with $4 500 bonds each.
SULLY AP Gertrude Jansen, 68, of rural Lynnville, was killed and three people injured when a gravel road intersection collision occurred Thursday night about three miles north of Sully. Gerrit Jansen, 68, and Clarice VanKooten, 20, both from Sully, drove separate cars. VanKooten’s passenger, Lois Fopma, 17, also from Sully, was hospitalized but not seriously hurt.
Rochester Minnesota report says Mrs. P. W. Flickinger about 70 of Greenfield Iowa died at a hospital Thursday from injuries sustained November 17 in a New Hampton Iowa auto crash. Her husband Dr P W Flickinger 72 was killed in the accident. She was hospitalized at New Hampton with neck injuries and later moved to Rochester for treatment.
Fragments from a Cedar Rapids Iowa telegraph note describe carloads and tank cars with references to goods like bagged starch and paper items. The garbled text mentions crude corn and rail shipments with quantities but lacks full context or readable details.
Cedar Rapids police hunt a burglar who left his tools behind after attempting to pry open the Neighbor tavern on Third Avenue. John Waters fired a warning shot when he heard the commotion, and a pry bar was found at the door. An adjacent break in at 1200 Sixteenth Avenue SW involved a rear door and an attempted safe opening with nothing missing.
Cedar Rapids reports an opening at the naval reserve training center for a yeoman rated first to third class to assist the chief yeoman. Must be a veteran and naval reservist with full pay. Marine recruits Clarence J. Supple and Ralph M. Beltz sent to San Diego for basic training.
Archie D. Dennis, formerly of Cedar Rapids, was elected as assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. He now heads the credit corporation after leading Cedar Rapids works, acquired from LaPlant Choate. At the meeting Boyd S. Oberlink was elected to the board, and Pickens Johnson became an assistant secretary. Robert S. Stevenson noted Oberlink would replace Rex Reeder, retiring director from Marine National Exchange Bank.
Detroit directors of Fruehauf Trailer announce a regular quarterly cash dividend of 35 cents per share for common stock payable March 1 to holders of record February 13 plus a 2 percent quarterly stock dividend payable March 20 to holders of record March 8, with a separate 1 dollar per share quarterly dividend on the 4 percent preferred stock payable March 1 to holders of record February 13.
Rep Merwin Coad of Iowa and a four member staff operate from a first floor office in the Old House office building. Coad, the first Democratic Iowa representative since the 1940s, defeated James I Dolliver in the Sixth district. Ed Peters Jr an attorney from Denison heads the staff as administrative assistant. Marguerite Fennessy Sullivan Fort Dodge serves as personal secretary. Mrs Jerry Johnson Jewell and Mrs Peters serve as clerks. Mrs Robert Atherton leads Coads Boone district office.
C. T. Nolan 70 of Pasadena died in a California hospital after a three month illness. Born in Williamsburg he was the son of J. W. and Esther Nolan. He lived in Sigourney for a time and married Carrie Stout of Ottumwa. A Milwaukee Road dispatcher for 25 years in Ottumwa, he moved to Los Angeles in 1930 and later served as a safety supervisor for Pacific Electric until retirement six years ago. Survived by his wife two daughters his California-born father a brother a sister and two grandchildren. Funeral services tentatively planned for Monday with burial in California.
Donald Johnson of 345 Nine teenth Street SE was elected president of the Cedar Rapids Executives Association. Other officers include Robert Merveaux as vice president D D Olsen as second vice president L W Struesky as treasurer and Ed C Rudin as secretary Ed J Weis named a director for a three year term.
A 100 million dollar federal suit charges the Bell System with unwarranted pension deductions. Six representatives of the Bell System Pensioners Association allege AT&T and Bell units divert half of retirees federal social security benefits. The action covers pensioners in 47 states, arguing the fund is funded by no employee contributions yet treated as deferred wages subject to taxes.
Operation Safe Haven, the airlift of 9,700 Hungarian refugees to the United States, was completed Thursday at Encs Air Force Base. The operation, part of a broader U S effort, brought a large group of evacuees to safety.
Dr Leonard O Riggert of Clinton elected first president as the Iowa State Coroners Association meets in Des Moines. The group aims to improve coroner duties, clarify instruction, and back legislation to raise coroner pay. Other officers include Kenneth F Boughton Britt and Dr George C McGinnis Fort Madison as vice presidents. Dr John M Schutter Algona as secretary. Jack L Raymond Fairfield as treasurer.
Roosevelt high school seniors Stanley Long and Robert Owen have advanced to the final round of the National Merit Scholarship competition. Finalists will take exams on January 12 across the nation to determine the 700 four year college scholarships. The district notes 162,000 participants started the contest, with 7,500 remaining in the field.
A battered 500 pound safe with nine thousand five hundred dollars in cash was recovered from the Des Moines river three miles north of Des Moines on Thursday night. The safe had been stolen from Deck Produce Company on December 28 and held nine thousand five hundred dollars in cash with water damaged checks bonds and insurance papers remaining inside. Water conservation measures urged Adair residents urged to conserve water and check lead-in lines for leaks as waterworks pump more than in summer though water tower won’t fill. Fall Is Fatal Clifford McKinney 50 Hampton died after falling from a loading platform while finishing loading his farm service truck. Banker Dies Ralph R Brubacher 73 president Toy National Bank Sioux City died Thursday. Brubacher was cone president of the bank in Illinois.
The Senior Men's bureau of the Chamber of Commerce reports the Coe College Band funding campaign has raised 1265 dollars toward a 3000 dollar goal. About one third of potential donors were represented in the Friday tally, with the drive set to continue through next Wednesday. Contributions can be sent as checks to Coe College Band Chamber of Commerce.
Charles Holmquist, 34, a specialist and aircraft mechanic at Fort Riley, was seriously injured with a head wound in a one car crash on an access road off U S Highway 40 near Fort Riley Kansas on Thursday. A second soldier was killed. identity withheld pending next of kin notification. Holmquist, son of August Holmquist of Cedar Rapids Iowa, was hospitalized at Fort Riley base hospital in critical condition.
Gov elect Herschel Loveless will confront a major paperwork issue when he takes office on January 17. Iowa law requires notary public licenses to be renewed every three years on July 4, affecting more than 21,000 notaries. From takeover to July 4, renewal applications bond forms and return-address envelopes must be mailed to current notaries.
Ivan H. Cummings of Fort Collins Colorado brother of Mrs Ralph M Anderson of 251 Eighteenth Street NW died suddenly in his office Thursday morning Fort Collins To Philadelphia Dr Richard B Hudson dean of Coe College will attend a meeting of the American Association of Academic Deans in Philadelphia Tuesday He will be joined by Dr Harry M Gage acting president of Coe for a meeting of the Association of American Colleges Wednesday through Friday
Des Moines Iowa Health Department announced gamma globulin supplies are no longer sufficient to stock serums for red measles or infectious hepatitis prevention in schools. Distribution will be limited to indigent or medically hard pressed individuals exposed to known cases. will be given only to children under two or those with debilitating conditions. No gamma globulin is available for poliomyelitis prevention.
Des Moines report shows smaller Iowa towns cutting state conventions held in Des Moines. In 1954 eighty eight percent of conventions were here, in 1956 the share fell to eighty percent. A record turnout in 1956 saw 160,909 attendees spending about 9.15 million dollars during 412 conventions.
Tommy, Ives and Judy Smith of Central City are patients at St Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids for tonsillectomies scheduled Friday. They are the children of Mr and Mrs Richard Smith.
Floyd C. Dickey becomes commander of Patmos Commandery No 27 Knights Templar and Robert Hess inducted as high priest of Marion Chapter No 10 RAM. Other officers named include Portzline, French, Kemp, Ellis, Gritzner, Boettcher, Oxley, Stimson, Sweet, Welsher, Ireland and more. Memorial services planned for Lillian Clemans. residents visit relatives, air force training updates, and local club elections. Marion church changes service times. many short notices on travel, visits, and local affairs prevail.
Leonard Mike Barr of Manchester was appointed deputy to Sheriff George Ponsford at a court house meeting. Officials announced new terms for supervisors, reappointments for county roles, and designated official depositories and newspapers for the county.
CHICAGO INS report says Peter Coates 41 alias Paul Caras an alleged narcotics peddler and one of the ten most wanted on the treasury list was arrested in Cicero. He surrendered to federal Chicago and state officials without resistance when surrounded a two story building in the suburb. He was unarmed.
Manchester newborn winner Donald Donahue and wife welcomed a son at 8:30 a m Friday, the second male baby to earn the Chamber of Commerce New Year’s baby award. The Dona hues have three daughters, and the other winner is a daughter born Tuesday to Clair Mangolds of Ryan, marking the first boy and girl births in Manchester for the contest.
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