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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1952
Page
4
Chicago livestock reports show hogs up 25 to 50 cents, cattle steady to up, and sheep steady on Monday post-holiday activity. USDA data list salable hogs around 9,500 with varied carcass prices and weights. calves, vealers, and steers reflect modest gains and strong finishes in select lots.
AP USDA cattle market summary notes 8 000 cattle and 250 calves with steers over 1 150 pounds slow to steady gains. Prices show choice steers 30 50 to 33 50 per hundredweight, loads 825 to 1 250 pounds 20 00 to 32 75 for various grades, canners 14 00 to 18 50, stockers 26 00 to 30 00, and fleshy stockers at 31 00.
Cattle receipts total 12 000 with calves 600. Fed steers and heifers mostly steady, light weights stronger, heavier weights slow. Cows and bulls steady to 25c higher. Stockers and feeders steady to strong. High choice and prime fed steers around 1 200 to 1 354 lb. commercial grades in steers near 27.00 to 30.00 for mixed lots.
The notice lists price per hundredweight for hogs across weight classes from 160 pounds to 550 pounds. Prices range from $28.75 at mid ranges to $16.00 for top heavy categories with several tiers at $20.75, $19.25, and $20.25, reflecting market quotes.
The clipping lists C R Markets poultry prices for fryers and hens, geese, eggs, and cocks with varying weights and prices. It also itemizes wholesale fruits and vegetables including California Elberta peaches, cherries, grapes, cantaloupe, Valencia oranges, peaches, celery, cabbage, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, carrots, peppers, hay and straw, canneries, and grain market values plus Dow Jones averages.
New York AP reports the stock market traded uneventfully with a gradual retreat. Prices moved within a two point range, and volume reached about 1.1 million shares as traders steadied after early gains.
Chicago live poultry and eggs markets show hens firm and chicks steady while turkey and guineas price ranges are noted. Cheese butter carrots eggs potatoes and regional produce prices are listed with receipts and market steady indicators for the week.
New York reports butter steady with AA grade 93 score and 73 percent unchanged, A grade 71 percent off 90 score, B 69 percent. Gas prices higher with mixed market for fancy heavyweights and extra No 1 grades showing small gains. whites and 24cc categories cited with 57 to 59 cents for some lots. extra No 1 large and medium positions rise 2 cents.
A two day recess was called Monday in the armistice conference at the request of the Communists.
Chicago AP reports heavy flour demand lifted wheat futures with the grain holding near unchanged. July wheat at 2.28 while corn slipped 5 to 1% lower, oats down 1, rye off 15 to 2, soybeans 2 to 4 percent lower, lard steady to down 5, July 11.25.
A Chicago market roundup lists cash grain prices for wheat corn barley and soybeans. Prices shown include No 1 and No 2 yellow wheat around 2.25 to 2.33 per bushel, corn No 2 yellow near 1.80 to 1.85, barley around 1.25 to 1.65, and Illinois origin No 2 yellow soybeans about 3.27 per bushel.
Des Moines market report shows Monday hog receipts around 45 000, week ago 54 000, year ago 34 500 with active demand. Prices for butchers up 25 to 50 cents, sows 25 to 50 cents higher, with varied top weights and ranges across weight classes.
Cattle receipts 13 000 calves 1 300 in Kansas City with slaughter steers showing few early sales about steady. Higher asking prices, mixed terrain but generally steady to higher for cows and heifers, bulls up to 50 cents. Dealers and killing calves steady to strong with occasional loads of top rainfed steers at 31.00 to 35.25.
Former Marion residents Mrs. Bowman and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chehak of Tulsa visited Mrs. J. W. Bowman. The St Pauls Lutheran Ladies Aid meets Thursday at 8 pm in the church basement with hostesses Mrs. Earl Schuettpelz and Mrs. Harlan Johnson. The Hotle family returned from a two week East vacation visiting relatives in Washington DC New York City and Salisbury Maryland.
Mrs Fred M Blakeslee entertained at a dessert luncheon on Monday. Guests included members of her Monday Bridge club and Mrs Alfred Remley of Anamosa and Nevah Prior of Cedar Rapids.
Visits Dr Hender Mrs A B Hender Davenport is hosted by her son Dr Robert A Hender in a family gathering noted for its warmth and reunion.
Young people spanning multiple families spend a week at the Clear Lake Methodist Institute. Judy Walsh, Robert Bunting, Carole Bunney, Priscilla Tanner, Karen Byam, Hilda Schneider, Eleanor Joss, Bethine Culbert, Karen Foster, Janice Kent, Joanne Byse, Janet Holmes, Eric Henderson and Alice Palmer are listed as participants. Mrs. Ramona Bunney and Mrs. Carl Foster serve as camp counselors.
Returns Home Mrs Harvey and Omans depart Syra buse New York after visiting Aunt Alice Lininger and relatives in Cedar Rapids Center Point and North Liberty. Various families host or visit relatives in Davenport Central City Perth Van Horne and Perth North Dakota during weekend gatherings.
The ongoing steel labor dispute widens impact beyond plant gates. Washington hints at price relief if wage and working conditions talks succeed. One and a half million idle workers, 309000 auto workers payless this week, and widespread cutbacks threaten factories and consumer goods as steel stockpiles melt.
Mr and Mrs C W Hampton hosted a Sunday dinner at their cottage near Paris Indiana. Guests included the extended family and local neighbors. The social gathering reflected a warm community welcome in the home setting.
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