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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1946
Page
1
Livestock markets show steady prices with receipts about 500 cattle and 500 sheep. Hog sales range from 14.75 to 14.85, with Chicago receipts listed among other figures. Across Cedar Rapids churches and churches schedule Sunday services and youth activities.
Chicago livestock receipts about 500 with steady market. Cattle prices show calves and stockers in the mid teens. cows and bulls around ten to eleven dollars. Lambs and feeder lambs traded around thirteen to sixteen dollars with mixed quality noted.
Friday sales show bulk receipts at 14.50 ceiling for butchers with some heavies and sows 25c under. Ped steer and heifer prices steady for average to select grades, feeders light supply steady. Tops include 29 loads of choice fed steers and one load choice heifers at 17.65 ceiling. good cows to 13.85, stock calves 15.75, feeder steers 14.85, bulk good to choice fed steers 15.00 to 17.59. good to mostly choice fed woolled lambs steady at 14.25 to 14.50. Wyoming feeders 15.00.
USDA hogs mostly steady with barrows and gilts at 14.50 while sows edge down at 13.00. Cattle: steers and heifers mostly steady with some declines, bulk good steers around 17.28 to 17.65, cows steady to 13.85, stocker and feeder classes higher, fat lambs steady to strong with shipments of woolskins and pelts around 14.28 to 14.60.
Slaughter steers mostly 25 to 65 cents lower while cows were steady and bulls 25 cents higher. Dealers bought above cull grades with some gains, stockers and feeders scarce. Good to low choice fed cattle traded around 15.50 to 17.65 per cwt with bulk sales to shippers and a few loads of heifers and stocker steers selling in the mid teens.
Combined receipts at 11 plants and 19 concentration yards in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Saturday totaled 13 100, up from 9 900 last week and 29 700 a year ago. Weekend receipts ran heavier than 13 800 previous week with hogs selling mostly steady in moderate volume. Prices listed include various sow and 550 lb categories around 13 15 to 14 35 per hundred.
Austin Minnesota pig prices list by weight show good butchers at 160 170 lbs and 170 180 lbs range with 13 75 to 13 90 dollars per hundredweight. A packing house strike prompts Iowa market points to shift.
No live stock will be received by Wilson and Company until further notice. Cattle market quotations vary by grade and yield with steers and heifers listed in AA A B and C classes. Grain and hay prices noted include No 4 vein corn $1.04 5 vbrans $2.10 oats No 1 wheat No 2 $1.25 hay and straw rates and assorted poultry eggs and hides priced per standard units. Wholesale fruits vegetables celery onions and Colorado onions priced per dozen or unit.
In New York markets, government loans led gains on Saturday with Greek and Peruvian issues rising while Norwegian and Argentine bonds fell. The AP notes varied performance across sovereign debt with mixed adjustments in the global fixed income scene.
A fragmented Chicago trade note lists varied prices and items such as produce standards and receipts with several odd cents values. The garbled text references scores and extras, suggesting a chaotic market snapshot with unclear items and quantities.
New York format notes demand for specialties kept the market afloat while leaders largely held or slipped. About 900000 shares changed hands, only about half of last Saturday’s brisk short session in seven years, reflecting uneven weekly activity.
In Plymouth Wisconsin three carloads of U S twins were sold last week at a price of twenty three and a quarter cents per pound.
Danell C. Sullivan of the Vets cab line was fined $2 and costs for parking in a prohibited taxi stand at the Grand hotel. A second Vets cab had been in the stand, and the rule limits one cab per company. Sullivan said he was told the rule had changed. the city council heard a request, but Traffic Captain Hughes denied it.
Glenn McMurrin of 544 H street SW was struck by a car while standing beside his parked vehicle after it ran out of gas on Eighth Avenue near H Street. He suffered bruises to both legs and a head bump. In police court he was fined $5 and costs for no driver’s license. The driver, C. W. Davis of 642 Eighteenth Avenue SW, was fined $5 and costs for improper control of his vehicle.
Grain futures surged with many contracts hitting new seasonal highs on Saturday. May rye and July oats led gains while wheat and corn held near prior closes with modest moves.
AP report from Chicago lists wheat as nominal at 1.78 for No red and 1.79 for No 2 hard ceilings. No corn or oats sales. Barley malities at 1.234 to 1.3942 and feed at 1.15. Field red clover 50 cents. timothy 5.25 to 5.50. red top 11.00 to 11.50. alsike 28 to 30. alfalfa common 33 to 36.50.
Harvey Trimble, a farmer southeast of Marion on highway 94, lost 300 chickens weighing four to five pounds each when a brooder house burned Friday afternoon. Insurance covers the loss. Assistant fire chief Jack Oxley led the township response.
Mrs. G. A. Maroon and daughter Gladys Maroon of Vallejo California along with Stella Metzger of Los Angeles visited Friday. Maroon and Metzger are army nurses at the Twenty first General hospital in Europe who cared for Lt. John A. Beeson during the battle of the bulge. They are en route to Virginia to train for social welfare work.
Re use Plastic Plaster for wall resurfacing with new sand finished walls at moderate cost. Apply over any surface. Full line of colors available. Arp's Decorating Service.
Electrician's Mate first class George Thorington Davis reports his arrival in San Francisco from Australia to his mother Mrs. Jasper Baker of West Ninth Avenue.
LeVernon Lands, son of Mrs. Clement Backer, who contracted malaria in the South Pacific, has been discharged from the Veterans hospital in Des Moines. He is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Kathryn Mattox, in the city.
Kenneth Silker advertises for a small house or apartment. Address: 903 6th Ave. Wants available unit for rente or lease as soon as possible.
Lt. Donald Bud Hillerge, son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Hillerge, was discharged from the navy air corps and has relocated to Scottsbluff Nebraska to reside there.
Capt. Philip Smithmeyer, fresh from the South Pacific, and his wife and their son Phil are weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Fernow.
An advertisement notes the availability of Hil brand chips at local grocers. It emphasizes convenient purchase options and mentions potato chips as a snack choice for shoppers.
Miss Alice Wallace underwent an appendectomy Friday at Mercy hospital. The procedure aimed to treat acute appendicitis with a standard surgical approach and was performed successfully.
Pvt Edward Failor of the air corps is transferred from Fort Snelling to Keesler Field Mississippi. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W E Failor.
Robert Peck son of Mr and Mrs Lester Peck a Gazette carrier salesman is recovering after a weeklong illness attributed to a throat infection.
Ora Miller arrives home after visiting his son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Lyell Shellenbarger in Chicago.
Wayne Kieckhaefer informs his parents, the O. O. Kieckhaef ers, that he has received a corporal promotion while stationed in Okinawa.
Pfc. David Price, a patient at Schick hospital in Clinton, is spending the weekend with his family at 1373 Ninth Street.
The Rev Charles Moore ministers at one church with Bible school at 9 45 morning and worship at 10 45. A 6 30 p m young peoples meeting and 7 30 p m evening service follow. Midweek prayer and Bible study Wednesday at 8 p m with choir practice 7 30 p m. The Rev Vernon H Carter leads another church with Bible school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 10 45 a m.
John Bates 43 president of the Des Moines Industrial Union Council died Friday after a skull fracture from a crash near the Des Moines Ordnance plant. The collision involved two cars carrying union pickets. Three other men were injured and are recovering.
Maria Osmena told Cedar Rapids executives the Philippines seek a $500 million loan and temporary free trade to rebuild war torn cities. She pledged repayment, urged market access, and described Filipino loyalty to the United States amid wartime strain.
Ralph W. Smith, 44, of Marion R F D No 2, was arraigned Monday on a drunk driving charge after being arrested Friday afternoon by Marion police. Highway Patrolmen Harry Cloud and Rudolf Sova Jr. escorted him to Linn county jail.
The notice states that on January 11 1946 Lloyd J was appointed Administrator of the estate of Alice M Williams late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All persons indebted must pay promptly and those with claims should file in the Linn County District Court Clerk's office.
An assorted urban ad page lists Cecs Floor Cleaning Service plus many trades. Entries include WASHING MACHINES SERVICED ALL MAKES, NOVAK HEA G CO airwork, ECONOMY RUG CO cleaning, STOKER SERVICE 24 hour repair, CEMENT WORK foundations chimneys, and painting plus contracting. Also notes car rental Drive Yourself and Yellow Cab Co. Inc, hauling, express transfers, and job seekers seeking clerical and social work roles.
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