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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1955
Page
3
Chicago and Des Moines market reports show hogs mostly steady with declines up to 25 cents for under 230 lb butchers and steady to higher for heavier weights. Prices for cattle and lambs vary by weight with mixed gains and losses across receipts and categories.
Receipts reach 300 cattle with steers 1100 lbs in best demand while a small show at 1125 lbs is slow. Heifers weaker than recently, cows uneven but mostly steady, bulls firm. Fresh stockers and feeders too small for market test. Prime scarce with limited mood around 18.50 to 20.00. Typical sales include choice fed steers 21.00 to 22.00, few yearlings 22.25, and utilities 11.50 to 13.50 for cows.
Delivered Chicago per 100 lbs loads over country run basis clean. Timoth y, $20.50 to $62. alsike $26. clover yellow $14. white $36 to $37. Red top $60 to $30. sweet clover ten weeks. Common items priced 61650016 00, Tpgm 835.00 to 34.66, 21.00.
New York traders saw thin turnover in a quiet summer session with little overall change in the Dow Jones averages. Many issues posted wide price moves even as advances roughly equaled declines in a market with muted activity.
Receipts total 2 500 with calves 100. Slaughter steers mostly steady. some clean-up lots unevenly lower. Hiefers unchanged. cows steady to 26 cents lower and some unsold. High choice shipments 1 000–1 170 lb steers at 22 75. most choice steers 20 50–24 22.25. Utilities and commercial cows 11 50–13 00. canners and cutters 9 50–11 25.
Live poultry steady on fowl and springs with weakness in fryers. Butter prices slip with large arrivals and steady to weak demand. Eggs receipts rise. whites and mixed sizes weak to steady. Potatoes at track, US shipments up. California long whites priced at 36 35, bakers at 4.00, round reds $2.85, Texas and Arizona red varieties noted.
New York markets report prices steady with postwar style quotes. Collection notes include varied small goods, with extras and standards values listed in cents per pound and per hundredweight.
Five minutes after Mrs. Margaret Jones age 59 paid an automobile insurance bill, her car plowed into a tree in front of the agent's office in Manchester Connecticut.
A steady run of hedge selling lowered grain values in Chicago on Thursday. Oats, rye and soybeans slid to new seasonal lows as cash prices dropped and cash outs on a to arrive basis from the country increased.
Wheat prices list No 1 red No 2 No 1 hard and other classes with ranges from 1.09 to 2.07 per bushel. Corn values show No 2 yellow No 3 at about 1.47 to 1.48. Oats and soybeans prices appear with various grades and meal figures, plus a child name misprint and a feed figure.
Lt Cmdr Cleo P Casady of Iowa City will take command of the Cedar Rapids Naval Reserve division at a Monday night training center session. He succeeds Lt Henry Beauday who led the unit for 18 months. The change was ordered by the Ninth Naval District after Casady’s promotion. The local division has 158 enlisted men and 20 officers and seeks non veterans and veteran petty officers. Army recruiters report enlistments for Guy Cole Toddville Whiston R Larimer Oxford Jon D Peterson Oxford Rob ert W Pearson Lone Tree with Cole assigned to Fort Knox and others to Camp Chaffee. The recruiting office in the federal building will close Friday for a sector meeting in Waterloo.
In New York Mrs Cath erine Kreitzer the scripture quoting grandmother who won 32000 on a TV quiz has signed to do a series of biblical readings on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town Her first appearance on CBS TV will be next Sunday Sullivan will interrupt his vacation to greet her.
Dr Warren E Erdice 69 an optometrist for 50 years in Independence died Wednesday at People's hospital. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Powell funeral home Keota with burial in Keota cemetery. He is survived by his wife Pearl and two daughters Elizabeth Erdice of Iowa City and Ruth Douglas of La Jolla California.
Notice of appointment of executrix Hazel Nievas in the estate of rest FP Reinser deceased in Linn County Iowa. Undersigned attorney Illiman & Gray announces probate actions and calls all heirs and creditors to respond per local law.
Jose Rivera Gonzales of Jamaica, New York, writes that in his Latin American view coffee is drunk black, yet in America he must pay for cream and sugar. The column responds that coffee is sold by the cup and costs include labor, rent, and service, and notes the strong value of freedom behind paying for the cup.
About 200 residents met in the recreation room near the Light company office to debate preserving Marion city park. Henry Katz led the discussion with input from Mrs. Stanley Thomas Carl Falcon Harvey Montgomery Will Kassler Leo Brown and Margaret Paul among others. The group supported a straw vote limited to whether the park should remain intact.
City notices list mayor court actions including fines for reckless driving and speeding. Names like Kaplan Klinger Crowley Raeglin Bascome Miller and Rowley appear with specific amounts. Building permits grant four new dwellings to Schuettpelz Fashim pau r Hilmer Kinkead Edmunds with values from five to ten thousand dollars. Community notices include dinners at Elk's club, drill team signups, and an auction sale at Leonard Dunn residence.
Classified notices show multiple lost items and small ads. Items include a brown suitcase between Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, a yellow Hydro ski at Iowa City, a bumper plate with license plate, a brown leather billfold, a brown glove at Daniels Park, and a blue parakeet on Ellis Boulevard.
Milwaukee families and Troop 58 members camp at Waubeek this week. Lee McDaniels works at a Lake Geneva camp. A list of visiting families, friends, and local events follows including a birthday, visits, funerals, and court fines. Lt. Fontaine welcomes at Alexandria, and several residents travel for visits and services across Iowa towns and beyond.
Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ichiro Kone will depart next month for a two month tour of the United States. He will seek to negotiate a new rice purchasing agreement in California and meet U S officials and agribusiness groups.
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