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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1949
Page
11
Chicago market notes show hogs at 28 000 receipts cattle 15 000 and sheep 7 000. Hogs topped at 22 dollars previously, with the current top at 21 dollars and average around 18 62, reflecting post OPA ceiling removal pricing. Cattle and sheep also steady amid thinning shipments.
Receipts with hogs down 25c for the week and cattle showing mixed moves. Slaughter lambs and ewes edge higher while heavy weights discount. top hogs near 23 dollars with feeder and cow prices varying in thin trade. high-choice cattle and yearling steers hit marked prices for the period.
The report records USDA price comparisons for last week with sows down 50c to 100, butchers top at 2150 and late tops around 20.50. Steers and heifers mostly recovered from early declines, cows and bulls steady to weak, feeders down 50c, with heavy feeders off up to 100. Prime steer lots and yearlings priced, lambs steady to 50c lower, with slaughter and feeding lambs listed and skins noted.
The page lists wholesale fruits vegetables and prices from markets in California Arizona and Dakota. It shows itemized costs for celery lettuce Naval oranges lemons seedless grapes and potatoes with price per crate per bushel and per hundred pounds. Also notes futures data for January 1949 and market quotations.
New York markets opened with a steady undertone as advancing stocks paused on a usually slow Saturday. Movements were modest with a faint late drift downward while brokerage sources described the buy power as a normal step in the prior advance. Volume and turnover hovered around 400,000 shares, not signaling a decisive trend.
In a brief Saturday session, New York bonds rose with gains outpacing losses. Most moves were in fractional terms. some issues advanced a point or more. Active traders included American Airlines 33, American Tobacco 32, Baltimore and Ohio 4a, Bethlehem Steel 2345, Boston and Maine 4s, City Provesting 45, Cleveland Union Terminal 58, Northern 25, Illinois Central 5s and LaClede Gas 4n8.
Friday week earlier hogs were 50 to 78 cents lower with some mediumweights 100 dollars down. sows down 75 to 100. Cattle prices mostly higher on prime steers over 1150 pounds and yearlings, with yearlings 29.00 to 31.50 per hundredweight and heifers up to 23.50 to 27.00 for choice calves. Cows recovered losses, stockers and feeders steady to down, western feeding lambs around 23.00.
Grain futures drifted lower with soybeans dropping 6 to 7 percent as markets concern over new farm legislation and ample selling pressure weighed on prices. Wheat, corn, oats, and rye fell, while CCC purchases provided a limited bullish note in an otherwise downbeat session at Chicago.
Appellate market notes show mixed bids for goods in Chicago. Prices listed include corn No 5 at 81 1 2 cents, timothy hay at 17.5 cents, clover around 15 cents, and soy products near 20 cents per unit, reflecting farm trade activity in the Chicago area.
Receipts Saturday estimated at 65 000 with a holiday week comparison and 59 000 a year ago. Friday unloads at 41 500 across 12 packing plants in southern Minnesota and Towm with related out-of-state stations. Prices show notable shifts with hogs and sows up to 50 cents, barrows steady to higher, varied weights priced from 10 to 19 dollars per cwt and sows reported at 16 to 18 dollars depending on weight class.
Kansas City market report shows price shifts across cattle types with feeders and stockers showing declines and vealers and calves posting gains. Beef cows and canners slide while bulls hold steady. Wide ranges noted for yearling steers and heifers with medium weights selling around mid twenty dollar prices.
Iowa City polio convalescents at the State University of Iowa hospital joined a March of Dimes kickoff meeting. The informational session drew polio committee workers from 29 Iowa counties with Dr. W D Paul, head of physical medicine, as chief speaker. He demonstrated treatment techniques used locally and elsewhere.
Davenport police arraigned Merle Calkins Jr a 25 year old window trimmer on a charge of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. He admitted fighting Gus Boysen 71 of Clinton and beating him with crutches. Boysen hospitalized with severe cuts and bruises. Bond set at unspecified amount.
DES MOINES AP reports cigarette tax receipts last month totaled 431 147 dollars, up about 55 000 from November and 20 000 from December 1947. Beer tax revenue rose to 252 847 dollars, up about 6 000 from November and 10 000 from 1947.
A turkey carried a silver wedding ring found by Dr. A. J. during a domestic route. The engraving on the ring could not be read due to wear, and the scene involved a message or gift to Wanda as part of the odd incident.
Two fires in Marion cause damage from kerosene spill and a car blaze. Obituaries note the deaths of Walter L. Lowe and J Edward Keenan with funeral details and pallbearers. Shown also are social events, a beauty shop ad, and several local residents’ moves and recoveries.
A religious notices page lists multiple denominations with pastors and service times. Marion Baptists, St Josephs Catholics, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, St Pauls Lutheran, Prairie Chapel and Seventh Day Church of God each provide Sunday school times and worship services plus midweek events and meetings.
Davenport woman Mrs. Paul Hines was stricken with a heart attack Friday afternoon while driving in Bettendorf Iowa and died before her car struck a tree. Dr Earl Houghton pronounced death due to a heart attack. The injuries from the crash were not fatal and she was alone.
District Judge H E Fry authorized the sale of the Ames Canning Company by heirs of the late Henry W Chavis. The court approved selling the plant for 100000 offered by Minnesota Valley Canning Company and allowed voting of 425 shares of common stock. Loreyne M Hagen Doris Rehnblom and Mrs Chavis executrix filed the application noting stockholders had voted to accept the offer.
Elkader vocational homemaking instructor Evelyn Thiele was chosen as the sole Iowa teacher to attend a U S child development conference in Washington in January 2028. Her nutrition work with elementary classes and rat experiments aided by Iowa State College influenced national focus. Thiele, Cornell graduate, begins her third year at Elkader Public Schools and will depart January 22.
The Veterans Administration plans a January 25 meeting in Washington to resolve funding for Iowa State College veterans education. Iowa VA officials invite college reps and state education board members to discuss an audit by the General Accounting Office that paused VA payments, which found a $551,000 overcharge over two years. The college and board defend their bills and counterclaim $920,000 for education costs since payments were suspended.
Great Western railroad to temporarily close part of its car shops in Oelwein due to traffic declines in November and December. The measure takes effect Tuesday and is described as temporary by a railroad spokesman.
Elisa Adamson, 29, just arrived from Memphis Tennessee, died in a downtown Los Angeles blood bank minutes after selling a pint of blood for four dollars. An investigation into the cause of death is not immediately disclosed.
Pattern 528 offers nine medallions for a chairrest and a star design that enhances upholstery for a quick pickup. It promises to appear on chairs and sofas and directs readers to send 20 cents for this crochet pattern to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept at 549 West Randolph Street Chicago Il. Print name and address plainly.
Lewis Ross 37 died in Marshalltown hospital from injuries after a wagon load of wood pulled by a tractor jackknifed on a hill and pinned him to a tree two miles south of Tama. Two walkers, Karl Waltz Floyd Conrad Leander Van De Walle Kenneth Van De Walle and Edward Braye, helped free him. He leaves wife two children Barbara and Robert three brothers and three sisters. Body taken to Harrison funeral home Tama.
Fayette Mr and Mrs Nor Iman F Henry celebrate 60th anniversary with noon family dinner and reception. Traer Galt Turner named fire chief succeeding Paul Fleming. Ed Vesely asst chief and Ted Joens as secretary treasurer. Maren go American Legion Auxiliary sponsors farm fire shower for Mrs Neil Augustine. Vinton Lorenz Imler marked 60th anniversary, parents to C C Dulin Abernathy and Harry Morgan. Manchester First State Bank stockholders to elect new president. Oelwe in Gladys Kirkendall and Ralph Galer wed. Decorah Richard Sandager named county draft board chair. C C Lowery added fourth member. Monticello Lary Walton opens Clover Farm store. Iowa City Roland M Smith becomes Chamber of Commerce president. Oxford Junction Ed Sazma suffers fractured hip. Fayette First Methodist church observes 99th anniversary with basket supper and sermon. West Union engagement Mary Louise Swale to Bernard Hamilton. Traer Ruth Sager and Sandy Spiers wed Jan 1. Traer Lloyd J Pritchard announces daughter Maria engaged to Harold Ireland. West Union 660 births and 276 deaths in Fayette County in 1948. Decorah Building and Loan earns 4 percent dividend. profits bolstered. Nordic Cathedral choir of Luther College to CBS Church of the Air broadcast. Coralville Ernie Potter announces Elma Hein engagement to Lester Fritz. McGregor Mrs Arthur App suffers head injuries in car crash. Strawberry Point Darlene Baumgartner and Bud Holthaus wed New Year’s Day.
Des Moines AP reports W ds Herwig, head of the Iowa Temperance League, says dry forces will ask the legislature to prohibit beer permits for holders of federal liquor stamps. The plan includes countywide beer referendums and bars local option votes on state liquor stores.
DES MOINES AP The state Democratic central committee recommended William Hart Iowa City attorney for the southern Iowa US district attorney post. Hart, 55, is active in bar and civic groups and a World War I veteran. Maurice Donegan of Davenport holds the post pending confirmation.
Whody Wasn't There But Dance Went On. AP reports band leader Woody Herman stranded in Cheyenne Wyoming Friday night. Harvey the disc jockey filled in until a local orchestra could play for the University of Iowa inter fraternity formal. Marilyn Madson from Sheldon was crowned queen with attendants Phy Eshbach Ames Peggy Thompson Oakland Rosemary Frazier Missouri Valley and Doris Anderson Cherokee.
The Presidio, published by Fort Madison inmates, calls for abolition of the death penalty. It denounces capital punishment as barbarous and un-Christian and notes Corliss R. Bruntlett, slated to hang February 18 for the slaying of Percy Smith, has appealed insanity and sentence. If carried out, he would be the 27th execution at the Fort Madison gallows.
Poem reflects on how individuals live beyond death through influence. It emphasizes that lives leave lasting impact in many encounters and deeds. Every life decays, yet a single influence can endure across countless others.
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