Steady Hog Prices Lift Iowa Markets Amid Strong Sow Trade
The Cedar Rapids hog market showed steady prices for butchers and higher bids for sows on Thursday. Range for 200 to 230 lb butchers was 37.50 to 38.25 with sows around 30.00 to 30.50, while heavier weights faced incremental reductions per 10 lb increments. The day also included broad stock market activity with the Dow up 6.07 to 984.13 and gains led by S.S. Kresge amid a 24% five week sales gain for Dec 29.
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Iowa hog futures steady as weights range 200 to 550 pounds
Livestock trade in Des Moines showed moderate to fairly active demand with hog prices holding mostly steady to up 50 cents. No 1 to 3 weights 200 to 230 pounds bring 37.50 to 39.50 per hundredweight, with heavier categories priced accordingly. sow prices mostly steady with some $5 gains. Receipts estimated at 85,000. prior day 76,000. prior week 38,000. year ago 39,000. Chicago grain prices followed with No 2 soft red wheat at 2.72, No 2 yellow corn at 2.54, and No 2 oats at 1.80. A note recalls 1967 when Dean Rusk opened peace-talk readiness with North Vietnam.
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Thursday's Chicago Grain Quotations
Yield grade 4 overfat steers and heifers are discounted $2 per cwt while yield grade 5 receive an $8 per cwt discount as listed by Shearson Hayden Stone Inc. The data reflects price adjustments for specified cattle grades in the Chicago grain quotations report.
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Cedar Rapids Sheep and Midwest Meat Prices Report
Cedar Rapids markets quoted shorn lambs at 46.00 to 49.00 dollars and wool lambs 43.00 to 46.00. Des Moines and Chicago area reports show mixed beef and pork trade with prices for various cuts and weights, including steer beef around 56.00 to 60.00 and pork loins up to 77.00 per 14 pounds.
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Beans and Corn Close Higher on CBOT Day
Soybean futures jumped nearly 15 cents a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade as the soybean complex led gains. Oats rose 44 cents, wheat and corn also advanced, with soymeal up four dollars a ton and soy oil up about four cents a pound.
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Firemen Quell Trailer Blaze in Sunrise Mobile Home Park
Alice Munson woke to smoke in her Sunrise Mobile Home Court trailer in lot 29 Cedar Rapids as neighbors called in the alarm. Firefighters found the fire under the trailer where stored items burned, causing heavy smoke damage. Munson rescued a white poodle and a white cat while her three children were at school.
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Iowa Power and Light Introduces Lighting and Service Fees
Iowa Power and Light Co announced new charges for lighting furnace pilot lights and raised its regular service rate from 12 to 16 per hour. The changes, effective January 1, affect about 315 000 customers in central and southwestern Iowa, while other safety and hookup services remain free.
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Iowa Power
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Juveniles Face Stolen Property Driving Counts
Two Independence youths, ages 14 and 15, were arrested Wednesday on charges of possession of stolen property and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent. The 14-year-old allegedly drove a car owned by Dr. M. E. Blakesley reported stolen December 19. The 15-year-old faced concealed stolen property charges linked to firearms reported stolen from Elwyn Hall December 20 and Robert Jones on November 10. Both released to their parents. George Washington married Martha Custis in 1759.
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TV Executions Stir Debate on Public Viewing of Death Penalty
Huntsville Texas AP inmate on death row Jerry Lane Jurek 25 scheduled to die January 19 for killing a deputy sheriff’s daughter argues televised executions would show what the death penalty means. The case links to a Dallas lawsuit challenging state media coverage limits and a court order allowing filming and interviews with death row inmates.
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Texas Department of Corrections
California Buys Clean Foreign Cars From Sweden
California inau gurated 10 Volvo Model 244 sedans for the government pool at 6785 dollars each. Air Resources Board chair Tom Quinn called them the cleanest cars in the world and said they emit one tenth the pollution of similar sized 1977 U.S. cars sold in California. This marks the first time California has purchased foreign passenger cars in any sizable quantity.
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Breakins Reported Over Holiday Break
Iowa City and Johnson County authorities continued to receive reports of house and apartment breakins during the Christmas holidays. Nine reports had been recorded by Thursday morning, with a Wednesday theft of tapes and tape player equipment valued at 250 dollars from an Iowa City apartment house. The other incidents involved minimal losses.
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Atalissa youth wounded in hunting accident
A 14 year old Atalissa boy, Lonnie Rogers, was in stable condition at Mercy Hospital Iowa City after an accidental shotgun discharge by a 15 year old West Branch youth. The incident occurred Wednesday morning when the youths skipped school to hunt.
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School Nurse Dies Formerly of Lowden
Edith Sterenberg, 53, Fort Madison public school nurse, died in Fort Madison Sunday after a brief illness. Born October 23, 1923 in Lowden, she trained at St Luke's School of Nursing Cedar Rapids. She married Jacque Sterenberg of Lowden. survived by three daughters and a son, her parents, two brothers, a sister, and other relatives. Services were held in Fort Madison with burial there.
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School Telephone Rate Hike Delayed One Year
The Iowa commerce commission delayed a proposed rate increase for school system telephone service for at least a year. Northwestern Bell proposed business rates that would add 309000 dollars in revenue. A hearing is set for January 31, 1978, with intervention petitions from the Iowa School Boards Association Snyder Community school district Des Moines Community school district and the Iowa Catholic Conference.
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Mason City Firemen Approve 1977 8 Percent Pay Rise Deal
Mason City firemen and city officials reached an 18 month contract. It provides a six percent wage increase for this year and a four percent raise for the first six months of 1978. The agreement also adjusts the clothing allowance and covers 39 firemen retroactive to January 1.
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