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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1946
Page
6
Unofficial estimates show cattle receipts around 12,000 head and hogs near 15,000 with sheep light on Saturday. Hog sales firm at 14.75 to 14.85 dollars, while cattle and sheep receipts and prices are reported steady in Chicago.
Receipts for cattle and sheep described with price ranges. Calves and steer categories show values from 10 to 15.50 dollars. cows and heifers listed around 8 to 11 dollars. Sheep listings include choice lambs up to 15.10 dollars and feeder lambs around 13 to 15.50 dollars.
Sioux City report notes Friday last week bids with hogs 450 lb range shows 25 cent declines. Feeder pigs strong, steers and heifers up to 1.00, cows 25 to 50 cents higher, stockers and feeders around 14 dollars. Fat lambs 25 cents higher, choice fed lambs 14 to 14.40, shorn and lighter lambs around 14.25 for 1098 lbs, fall carrying to shippers after midweek. other classes scarce.
Market report shows mixed cattle and hog prices with weekly changes. Feeder and steer quotes reach 16.00 to 17.65 for top grades while cows range 10.25 to 12.25. Lamb and lamb cut prices around 13.75 to 14.40 with steady feeder lambs and continued buyer activity amid strike impacts.
Friday sales show slaughter steers and heifers up 50 to 75 cents, beef cows 25 to 50 cents higher, cutters steady to strong, canners steady to 25 cents higher, vealers steady, stockers and feeders firm. Prices highlight late week gains with good and low choice steers mainly 16.00 to 17.25 dollars, some 17.35 to 17.65, and dry-fed cows up to 15.50.
Good butchers priced hogs at 160 to 170 pounds and 170 to 180 pounds. Heavier hogs 180 pounds and up ranged from 200 to 360 pounds at 14.15 per hundred. Good sows listed 270 to 350 pounds. Iowa points noted market affected by packinghouse strike.
AP market notes show eggs receipts at 25 760 steady with general wholesale prices: extras 41 4 45 lbs and over 41 3 4c, medium 40 44 lbs 37c, standard 39c, dirties 35 42c. Receipts total 367 568, firm prices around 426 260 with nominal no quotations.
The page lists various coded prices and scores for commodities and items in Chicago, mentioning extras, standards, current receipts, dirties, checks, and a few nouns like twins, daisies, prints and horns. The fragmented data reads like a daily market update with mixed figures and codes.
No live stock accepted until further notice. Grain prices list Corn 1.04, Soybeans 2.10, Beet 1.25. Straw 18.00, Bay 16.00. Poultry prices for heavy and light springs, hens, ducks, pigeons. egs 0.30. Hide market by grade. horse 7.00. Ess Market items include eggs 0.27. Wholesale fruits and vegetables with Colorado onions 2.57 per 50, potatoes 4.15, grapefruit 7.95, and other regional prices. Local text ends with scattered notes and misreadables.
The Pottawattamie county jail is unfit for human habitation and should be replaced, per a report to the county board by A H Wieters and corroborated by R C Hanson. The building reportedly has nonfunctional toilets, rats, odors, faulty showers, no delousing facilities, and is a fire hazard, with nearly every grand jury in 30 years condemning it.
The nation faced a darkening labor situation as stocks fell in a brisk Saturday session. Transfers totaled 1,680,000, the largest Saturday total since September 2, 1939, reflecting ongoing labor tensions denting investor confidence.
Chicago stock list shows declines in rail and steel issues with heavyweights such as Illinois Central and Missouri Pacific slipping. New York bond review notes overall slight retreat in railroad issues while government securities remained quiet.
Dr. William H. Johnson, superintendent of Chicago public schools, was expelled from the National Education Association after a hearing found him guilty of violating the ethics code. Witnesses alleged political favoritism in the Chicago school system. Johnson did not attend the hearing and declined further comment.
Lt. Gen. Charles P. Hall commander of the Eighth Army cited the 106th Engineer Combat Battalion for actions in the Philippine theater between April 22 and June 30, 1945.
General Marshall traveled to Shanghai on Saturday for high level discussions with Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer, the U S commander in the China theater, regarding strategic plans and operations.
Chicago AP reports rye futures cooled after erratic trading as a commission house met most demand and kept prices near the previous close. Wheat closed unchanged to 3.5 cents lower. May at 1.8012 dollars. Corn and oats mixed. rye May 1.9714 dollars. barley steady at 1.22 dollars.
The Chicago market notes show No. 2 red wheat at 1.79 and No. 2 hard at 1.89 with ceilings. Corn had no sales, oats list mixed with several No. 1 and malting categories. Field seeds list red clover 31.50, sweet clover 10.75, alsike 28.50, alfalfa 33.50 to 36.50, timothy 5.25 to 5.50, red top 11.00 to 11.50.
Marion a Baptist church forms a men’s group with Richard Alexander elected president after a chicken pie dinner for 41 men. 15 veterans honored. program features songs, ventriloquism, and a talk by Bill Dykhuizen.
The bulletin lists Wednesday 6 30 p m family picnic at the church with Dr Marvin Kober of St Pauls Cedar Rapids as guest speaker Presbyterian Rev C V R De Jong pastor Sunday school 945 morning worship 1055 sermon Facts Pointing to Eternal Life Westminster Fellowship 5 pm study Genesis 25 to 31 Spiritual Life group Wednesday 10 am with Mrs Ben F Gill pastors council Wednesday 8 pm at A J Taube home St Pauls Lutheran Rev Carl T Wuerffel Sunday school 930 morning worship 1030 no winter early service Prairie Chapel Rev A B Curran Sunday school 10 am morning worship 11 Epworth League 730 Seventh Day Church of God Sixth Street at Ninth Avenue Elder W W McMicken pastor Sabbath school Saturday 1030 preaching 1130
A Miami to Boston Eastern Airlines transport crashed near a Connecticut farm, killing 17 aboard including Mrs. Charlotte Sterman Newton Mass and her baby Etta. Also killed were the baby's nurse Barbara Thompson 19 and MIT Associate Professor John Mitsch. pilot Capt Raymond E. Kuser 38 of Trenton New Jersey. Investigators searched the wreckage with little chance of immediate cause.
Army lieutenant William E. Brekke said he found an artificial arm in Mussolini Castle at Lake Garda. The device had heavy straps to fasten around the body and produced the unchanging Fascist salute seen during long parades.
Dysart 18 year old Bill R. Brandt, son of Mr and Mrs Walter J Brandt, was seriously injured when a shotgun discharged while he unloaded it at home after a hunting trip. He was taken to University hospital Iowa City with sight in danger. Brandt was president of the Dysart high school senior class.
Rev J Hamilton Dawson will lead Sunday services at St John’s Lutheran Ely at 7 30 pm with sermon The Best Wine Last. Sunday school is at 10 am. Vesper at Coe college chapel 4 pm with Dr Russell D Cole Cornell college president as guest speaker. Patty Kehne convalesces at home after a three week St Luke’s hospital stay. Rev Benedict Williams of Toledo Ohio speaks at St John’s Episcopal Sunday at 11 am urging church reconstruction.
The MARION churches list weekly services. Baptist Rev. Charles Moore leads Bible school at 9 45 a.m. and worship at 10 45 a.m. Youth meeting 6 30 p.m. Evening service 7 30 p.m. Midweek prayer and Bible study Wednesday 8 p.m. Choir practice 7 30 p.m. Catholic Rev. T J McElliott celebrates Mass at 8 and 10 a.m. Christian Rev. Vernon H Carter preaches at 10 45 with sermon Faith in Action and junior church each Sunday. Congregational Church school 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m. Rev. E J Wykle from Cedar Rapids will preach on The Strength and Inspiration of Christian Comradership. Free Methodist Rev. Carl M Cunningham preaches at 11 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. Sunday school 9 45 a.m. YPMs 7 15 p.m. Midweek prayer Wednesday 7 30 p.m. Ga a.m. worship 11 a.m. Holy communion service listed.
New York's 32,000 subway, elevated, bus and street car workers threaten a strike to halt the sale of the municipal power system to Consolidated Edison. Michael Quill of the Transport Workers Union says a walkout could paralyze the city, jeopardize 1,500 power plant jobs, cost the city $5,000,000 yearly in power, and bypass a public vote.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for support after the sudden death of Jenner Lauber and thanks Rev Hinshaw and Moen's Funeral Home. The rest lists numerous lost and found items, services, and ads from Cedar Rapids area including insurance, jewelry, home services, job wants, and shopping offers.
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