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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1949
Page
4
Chicago livestock prices moved unevenly with cattle up to 50 cents higher while sheep held steady and hogs mixed. Receipts totaled about 25 hundred cattle and 9.5 thousand hogs with buona weights showing varied demand and stockers slower.
Omaha AP USDA cattle market report shows receipts around 10 000 head with calves and stockers selling mixed. Prices include steers around 25 50 26.25 for good weights, cows in 14 75 to 18 75 range, stockers and feeders about 18.00, vealers steady, and bids varying by class and weight.
USDA cattle market report shows calves strong and higher prices for steers and heifers while cows are uneven. Fresh western grassers run and load lots with bids around 25 to 27 dollars, feed lots reporting supplies and assorted weights with buyers active.
Cattle receipts at Reno City show 1 calf and mixed lots with 25 to 50 cent advances in a market split between good to choice fed and grass cattle. Prices listed include steers around 26.75 to 38.50, and heifers and mixed lots near 20.00 to 25.00, with many unsold in the undertone market.
Market notes show a surge in butcher prices with sows off and top grades. Recorded ranges include 400-450 lbs at 14.50, 450-500 lbs around 13.50, and 500-550 lbs between 10.50 and 11.50 per hundredweight.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market were steady to a quarter higher Monday with prime butchers at 20.00 and packers at 16.25. Yard reports show various steer and yearling prices across weight classes, plus fruit and produce bids and daily grain quotes for corn, wheat, and oats.
In New York the market showed polite indifference as prices moved unevenly around the President's address. Most leading issues held Friday's levels with only minor gains or losses and overall turnover ran about 650000 shares. Brokers viewed the message with mild favor but felt it added no new factors to trading strategy.
Chicago receipts show mixed poultry and produce bids with irregular butter tubs at 2 dollars for 93 AA score and 59s for A scores. Citations indicate live hens at 23 to 30 cents and roosters at 2 cents, guinea hens and turkeys tracked with various prices, plus regional price references for Arizona and California markets.
Wholesale prices show steady dressed poultry with varied weights and boxes. fresh eastern chickens quoted 12 boxes per cent, top spades iced at 2 pounds. western and northwest tiers list hens, breeders, and toms with price ranges. Live poultry demand remains quiet, rabbits at wholesale, eggs receipts 1 578 cases with mixed markets and color grades. creamery and white eggs show multiple price points across sizes.
A steady run of buying orders boosted commodity futures with bullish government crop forecasts. Soybeans surged over 6 cents to fresh seasonal highs and rye rose above 1.50 as wheat edged up to about 2 cents. Corn oats and lard joined the broad advance with July contracts showing mixed gains.
Fragmentary list of Chicago market prices for grains and beans. Mentions oats and beans with per bushel or price quotes, but details are unclear due to garbled OCR. No clear dates or complete itemized entries.
Des Moines reports weekly cattle receipts around 30,000 with 33,000 actuals last week. Prices for butchers under 240 lbs rise 25 to 50 cents, heavier weights steady to 25 cents higher. cows mostly steady or down. Barrows and gilts in 180 to 340 lb range attract $18.35 to $20.80, certain weights around 125 to 175 dollars, sows and craters listed with varied bids.
Waterloo hog sale shows gains for butchers and sows holding steady. Prices listed by weight range from 160 to 550 pounds with most figures around 11 to 17 dollars per hundred pounds, reflecting market movement and packer demand.
Soviet authorities tighten controls on cross border trucking to Berlin at Helmstedt. Only about six western border checkpoints remain, with traffic at Helmstedt cut to 20 percent. Trucks face cargo checks, daylight only travel, and long lines form as 40 to 50 trucks await search per vehicle.
AP reports a three day closed door conference in London with United States Treasury Secretary Snyder British Economic Chief Cripps and Canadian Finance Minister Abbott. They issued a communique promising immediate fact finding and more talks in Washington in September to seek a world trade pattern enabling dollar and non dollar countries to operate together within a single system. Remedies beyond financial aid must be explored.
The United Auto Workers at the national convention voted overwhelmingly to expel Communist led unions from the CIO. Walter Reuther condemned Communist sabotage and defended union democracy while Paul Silver presented the opposition.
Local notices list Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown of Midland Michigan visiting Mrs. W. W. Waddill in Marion after a trip to Canada northern Michigan the Wisconsin Dells and Chicago. Also listed are Frank J. Larkin’s death in Salt Lake City and services there Tuesday.
Members of Boy Scout troop 35 spent a week at Camp Waubeek. Donald Hay earned honor camper. James Drenkhahn Dennis Jones and Billy Stuber earned pro marksman rifle ranks. Hay plus John DeJong Charles Kent Billy Moffatt Donovan Morrison also advanced in archery. Troop 35 won a rowing race and earned a campsite pennant. Linn chapter 900, Order of De Molay, will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Masonic temple.
By Bob Considine the Queen of Bermuda sails Bermuda bound with postwar luxury still echoing wartime roots. The 27 000 ton liner moved troops and passengers during the war and now offers six bars a pool and tea service while officers’ decorations recall battles.
PRAGUE AP Communist police keep Archbishop Joseph Beran locked in his Prague palace. A high church leader says access is like a cell with a plain clothes guard. Beran, 60, has not left since June 19 after being hooted from St. Vitus cathedral. The party press accuses the church of waging war on the government and denies religious freedom is restricted.
The Rev. John F. Neifert, 68, died Sunday night from a brain injury after being struck with an iron hook by Frank Bates, 42, a stevedore, as he changed vestments after mass at Holy Redeemer church. Bates was jailed on aggravated battery with intent to murder and armed robbery charges.
Des Moines 23 year old Norbert J. Kramer died after a limb he cut on the De Grott farm east of Altoona fell into a 7 500 volt line. The limb pulled two wires and wrapped around his knee and foot as he worked for a street trimming service.
Japanese civilian guards have been stationed in each home occupied by a member of the Allied occupation in Japan to combat thefts. The move, confirmed by U S Army headquarters, denies a rise in robberies though one official notes burglars targeted generals' homes. General MacArthur’s information officer says the guards’ strengthening is not linked to labor unrest.
The FCC says it would add 42 channels in the ultra high frequency band to the U S television service while keeping the current station application freeze in place. The move aims to expand broadcasting beyond the present 12 VHF channels and requires converter adaptors for existing sets.
Dean Rinderknecht 30 of Atkins and Warren Johnson 28 of 1700 Fifteenth avenue SE were each fined 100 and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving. Rinderknecht was arrested at 1 58 a m Sunday in the 200 block of Third avenue SE for erratic driving, and Johnson was arrested minutes later on Mt. Vernon road SE near Ores street for the same offense.
Police seek Charles Wesner aged 77 from 1018 Fifth avenue SE who vanished Sunday while traveling to his sister’s home on Thirty first street SE. He left 177 Thirty third street SE about 5 30 p m and did not reach the destination. He is described as about six feet one inch and weighing unknown pounds.
Friends say the missing man, about 135 pounds with white hair, was last seen wearing a gray suit. Authorities have issued a search for him and asked the public for any news about his whereabouts.
South Side News lists meetings for Ceske Vlostenky at River side park and several C.S.A. groups at Bever park and C.S.P.S. hall. It includes a Sokol hall installation of officers by Joseph J. Janeba, and a Card of Thanks from STASTNY and DALY families with floral tributes. Lost and found items, personal notices, business ads, and services fill the remainder of the page with rentals, alterations, jewelry, and local ads.
A cluttered classified page offers washers repair painting lawn care carpentry plumbing and general contracting services in Marion Iowa. Businesses and individuals advertise exterior interior painting gardening landscaping cement and masonry flooring and cleaning plus housework sewing and masseuse options with various phone contacts.
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