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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1969
Page
9
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market were steady with Friday deals for country and plant deliveries in the 200 to 230 pound range at 18.25 to 18.65 dollars. Packing sows 300 pounds and lighter sold 15.75 to 16.00 dollars, with reductions for heavier weights by weight grades.
The navy says it moved civilian inspector John McGee out of Bangkok after information linked to fuel pilferage in Thailand. McGee was transferred to the Washington area as GAO reviewed the thefts while noting prior investigations by Rankin and OSI. The move shifts petroleum quality control from navy to army in Formosa, with Thailand kept under navy inspection. theft disclosures linked to the case were not cited as the reason.
The Cedar Rapids City Council enacts a 1969 appropriation ordinance detailing General Fund 1 032 mill levy and 152 106 licenses and fines revenue, Street Fund 10 000, Public Safety Fund 148 000 taxes plus 56 000 other revenue, Sanitation Fund 831 000, and Debt Service and Agency funds with specified balances and tax levies. Publication January 4 1969 in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Chicago prices show cattle with prime and high choice ranges for slaughter steers from 28.50 to 31.50 per hundredweight across weight classes. Hogs display multiple weight bands from 16.50 to 20.50. Sheep and lambs list choice prime lambs at 26.00 to 27.00 with ewes and wooled slaughter sheep at 5.00 to 7.00.
Ortsiel reports Monday estimates for Chicago market show cattle receipts around 000 head and hogs near 000, with no data on show stock or other items.
Federal State Market News Service notes two Iowa auctions on January 2 with no clear trend post Christmas. Slaughter cows utility to commercial 14.90 to 17.70. steer and heifer prices range from 24 to 29.50 for various weights. calves and feeders show 2300 to 2800 per hundredweight in limited lots.
Prices for beef and pork show steady to lower trends across cuts. Steer beef 600-800 lbs at 45.00, heifer beef 500-700 lbs at 43.50, pork loin 14-17 lbs at 42. es, skinned hams 14-16 lbs at 38.00. Seedless bellies 10-14 lbs around 28.50.
Donald Moritz, 31, of rural Hopkinton, was treated and released at a Montecello hospital after his LP gas truck skid on an icy curve and overturned two miles west of Buck Creek.
Harold Hanna named park board chairman for 1969 at the reorganizational meeting. The board authorized a request for an open spaces grant for property along Dry Creek from Dormelly park to the city limits and Alburnett road. Plans discuss four tennis courts at Willow park in 1970 and a trailer for transporting equipment between parks.
Harold Schultz 30 of Greene was hospitalized after his pickup collided with a Rock Island freight train in Butler County town. Engineer Robert Koehler and conductor William Douglas, both Cedar Rapids residents, were unhurt. Schultz tried to stop for the crossing but spun and was struck broadside by the engine.
A short promotional note urges readers to use want ads to sell, buy, or rent items quickly and provides a contact dial number 369 1234 for assistance.
ANCHORAGE Alaska AP The guide license of Al Burnett who served as royal guide to King Mahendra and Queen Ratne of Nepal in 1967 has been revoked permanently by the Alaska board of fish and game on two major game violations. Burnett aided his royal clients in killing a brown bear in a closed area on Kodiak Island and in taking a mountain goat out of season northeast of Anchorage.
The Civil Aeronautics Board approved new Hawaii routes for American Braniff Continental Trans World Western Air Lines and granted additional authority to United and Northwest. Flights begin March 5 with varied origins and stopover rights. American faces Japan-point questions delaying service.
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope co host the Sixth Anniversary edition of Hollywood Palace airing Saturday at 8:30 PM in color on Channel 9 KCRG TV. Crosby and Hope headline the program with musical acts and comic skits on the prime time special.
Santa Fe reports Anton io Taylor 64, Johnson's brother in law, recovering after surgery to remove two brain blood clots.
About 500 demonstrators in Ibadan stoned the U S cultural center and the British high commission tearing down the American flag and burning the Union Jack. The protests followed a university led action against foreign intervention with police using tear gas to disperse the crowd. nine U S center windows and one at the British office were broken.
Listing fragment shows channel numbers and shows for KCRG TV Cedar Rapids WMT TV Cedar Rapids KWWL TV Waterloo KTVO Ottumwa. Mentions sports weather news and a yearend review at 10 45.
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