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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1963
Page
8
Chicago AP dispatch notes mixed cattle gains and steady to weak sows with regional shifts. Slaughter steers up to 2 higher with primes near 27.75 for 1,375 to 1,450 pounds. heifers 1.00 to 1.50 higher. cows down 25 to 75. Hog prices steady to weak, lambs steady with spring slaughter lambs 21.50 to 22.00 for 85 to 100 pounds.
C R Markets reports Cedar Rapids hog prices for Saturday fell a quarter. Friday’s top ranges were 16.50 to 18.00 dollars with most 1s and 2s at 17.50 to 18.00. Packing sows at 300 pounds down were 14.00 to 15.00, while butchers and packers varied by weight groups and margins.
Three 15 year old boys in Canyon Park admit to tampering with a switch March 4 causing a seven car Southern Pacific train to derail near a chemical plant. Eleven of 118 passengers were injured as the train halted short of the warehouse housing methlene gas. David Walk is named by police as the mastermind with George Whitmore and James Morgan arrested.
UPI reports slow demand with uneven movement in hog markets. Butchers steady to 25 cents lower, some drops up to 50 cents. Estimated receipts 25,000, week ago 27,000, year ago 21,000, Friday 51,000. Prices listed for U S 1-3 and 1-2 butchers, sows across weight ranges, with regional notes from Waterloo.
Hawkeye farmer Martyn L. Jorgensen, 24, was injured Saturday when his left leg was caught in a power take-off shaft on a self unloading wagon. Neighboring help and Dr. W. E. Walsh freed him and transported him to West Union hospital for treatment. Jorgensen formerly served as county extension assistant at Marengo.
Local broadcast on KCRG TV 9 features Middleweight Joey Archer against Farid Salim in a scheduled Saturday night bout. The card includes multiple other program listings and narrative segments from Desi Benedict and Sam Benedict.
A U S spokesman said the United States will not interfere with the Cuban mission to the United Nations funding. The reply follows a Cuban complaint that freezing Cuban assets in the United States would choke the mission’s operations.
The Boone County board set August 27 for a special election on liquor by the drink after petitions with 2735 signatures were filed by the Boone County committee on local option. The petitions exceeded the 2249 needed and under Iowa law a county remains wet until it votes dry. Only one license application exists and officials said licenses should not be granted before the vote.
Multiple Linn County Iowa probate notices appoint executrix and executor for estates of Gladys K. Mc tachron Jean Weakland Chester C Hauser and Antonina Jasinski. Hearings set for probate and instrument of last will to admission in Cedar Rapids District Court. Attorneys listed Shuttleworth Ingersoll Ackley and Fulton.
The Board of Directors of Palo Consolidated School District in Fayette Township Linn County Iowa will meet July 23 1963 at 8 00 P M at Palo Consolidated School. Taxpayers will be heard for or against the budget estimate of expenditures including transport and text books with amounts shown for preceding years.
Bad weather postponed today’s bicycle licensing event. It has been reset for next Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Emerson school replacing the former C. B. Vernon junior high site. Complete Want Ad service remains at the Gazette Marion office.
The Civil Aeronautics Board formally dismissed the proposed merger between Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines on Friday. The ruling ends the bid and leaves the two carriers to pursue separate operations.
President Kennedy named George Leighty of the Railway Labor Executives Assn to the six man rail board. He replaces George Harrison who cannot participate due to medical advice.
The Board of Education awarded contracts totaling 1,730,364 for the new Warren G. Harding junior high school. The bids came in under the estimated 1,840,000 cost by 109,636. General electrical and mechanical contracts went to low bidders, all Cedar Rapids firms, including Abell-Howe Co. for the general contract.
The bid package for a 132,000 square foot building near Noelridge park in northeast Cedar Rapids includes a base bid of 1.198 million dollars with four alternates for concrete drives maple gym floor ceramic tile and cabinetry. Cummings Plumbing and Heating won the mechanical contract at 334 thousand dollars with an alternate air conditioning bid deferred until Aug. 5. Acme Electric won the electrical contract at 146 thousand dollars and the project now tests at about 13 dollars per square foot versus the anticipated 14. Harding will construct the facility next to Noelridge Park.
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