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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1943
Page
2
Officials estimate Thursday receipts for hogs at 14 000 head cattle 5 000 and sheep 2 000. Hog prices fell 10 to 20 cents per hundredweight on Wednesday while fed steers held steady and lambs showed active but steady demand. Furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company.
U S Department of Agriculture market reports show hogs with receipts near 28 000 and prices 13 80 to 14 10 for 180 360 lb stock, cattle receipts around 7 000 with steers and calves trading up to 16 50, stockers firm and cows scarce, fat lambs 14 25 to 16 25 with western clipping and Iowa fed lambs around 15 00 to 16 25, sheep steady at 7 50 to 8 00 for ewes.
Hogs receipts 4,500 with top hog prices around 13.60 to 13.65 as weights rise. Cattle receipts 7,500 with steady to weak tone, calves and fed steers showing limited strength. top fed steers near 16.10 to 16.35 and heifers 15.40. Sheep receipts 7,500 with slaughter lambs not established and bids around 14.75 to 15.06 for good lambs. ewes steady to 8.00 and feeding lambs around 11.25 to 13.50 depending on quality.
U S Department of Agriculture report shows hogs mixed with bids 13.25 to 13.65 and sows around 13.35 to 13.75. Cattle receipts 5 500 with steers and heifers mostly steady, beef steers 14.75 to 16.00, cows 11.00 to 13.00, bulls firm. Sheep receipts 4 000 with limited early action on mixed Idaho ewes and lambs.
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ended 8 am Wednesday were 38 800, down from 57 700 a week ago and 23 200 a year ago. Activity fair to good with prices generally 10 to 20 cents lower, spots steady. Loadings somewhat less than last Thursday. Barrows and gilts 160 to 180 lbs 12.50 to 13.35. 180 to 200 lbs 13.30 to 13.80. 200 to 330 lbs 13.45 to 13.80. 330 to 360 lbs 13.35 to 13.70. Sows 270 to 360 lbs 13.20 to 13.50. 260 to 400 lbs 13.19 to 13.40. good 400 to 480 lbs 13.10 to 13.55. 450 to 550 lbs 13.00.
Prices for various meat cuts and weights are listed from 170 to 500 pounds with cents per pound. The fragment includes figures like 170-180 Ibs at 12.80 and 400-500 lbs at 12.90 to 13.20, plus notes on good packing and a brief reference to AP Good.
For the June 7 to 12 period, Plymouth offers specials on cheddar varieties with 23 percent discounts, highlighting a weekly cheese promotion for Twin brothers or cheddars.
Chicago market notes show poultry receipts at one car and nine trucks with firm, unchanged prices. Cheese prices hold. Twins at 25.2 cents, daisies and longhorns at 5. B-Receipts total 1,406,482 with steady quotes. Potatoes arrivals 40, on track 53, shipments 1,017. Idaho shipments 8, light supplies, strong demand. California long whites, Nevada-like listings, and various unwashed and washed potato grades cited with price ranges from 3.90 to 4.40.
New York AP reports eggs receipts 32 653 firm. Butter receipts firm with prices unchanged. Cheese receipts 436 460 nominal no quotations. Dressed poultry strong demand for most qualities with arrivals below requirements. Sales of dressed poultry include one permissible price.
Wholesale dealers report live poultry prices with modest gains across species. Turkeys hens and young toms quoted around 38c, roosters 2lc, ducks 27 1 2c, rabbits 30c, colored fowls Leghorns 28 1 2c, squabs small pairs 50 55c. Pigeons and other stock also listed with small price ranges.
Prices for all hog grades fell ten cents on the Cedar Rapids market Wednesday. Top prices reached 12.55 for butchers, 13.65 for long haul no-fill, and 13.35 for packers, reflecting a broad drop across grades.
Cedar Rapids price list shows oats No 2 65c No 3 63c wheat No 1 1.20 No 2 1.16 red oats No 2 75c shelled yellow 94 2c soybeans No 2 yellow 1.66 hay and straw bale straw 12 14 hay 14 16 poultry rates include broilers 26c under 2 1 2 lbs hens 18c heavy hens 2ic ducks 11c geese 1c pigeons 1.00 a dozen wholesale fruits Florida crate 6 6 50 lemons 7 4 California oranges 85 75 onions 2 84 sweet potatoes 5 10 winesaps 4 25 potatoes cobblers 3 15 Texas grapefruit 3 85 hides No 1 cured 12c No 2 cured 11c No 1 calf 13 2c No 2 calf 12 2c horse 6 lanes full tail included pony and glue half price.
CHICAGO AP A Dominion shipping board ruling banning non wheat grain shipments to the United States spurred oats buying. July oats reached a peak not seen since 1928 while wheat, corn and rye advanced or held firm with narrow changes across the board.
Chicago market update shows No. 2 yellow corn at 1.07 per bushel with sample at 1.03. Wheat cash prices listed as cash wheat with no sales. Oats no sale and barley quoted 97 to 98 percent with a nominal 1.07 for feed.
Ira Stephenson named executor for Ellen Beggs who died May 27 at Toddville. Howard L. Young appointed administrator for John Alfred Young who died June 5. O. J. Elsenbast appointed administrator for Joseph C. Dvorak who died March 4. Olga S. Kosina named administratrix for F. L. Kosina, who died May 30 from bullet wounds by his wife. Pearl Fagan granted a decree of separate maintenance from Carl Fagan in Judge G. K. Thompson's court.
Robert Crowell age 7 of Davenport drowned in a lagoon at a Davenport park at 11 am Wednesday. Police say he and his brother Rex age 10 were playing on the lagoon bank when he tripped on a tree stump and fell in. A park employee recovered the body about ten minutes later in five feet of water.
Readable text notes tires may lose air pressure while stationary and still behave inconsistently when driven. No specific measurements, dates, or entities are provided.
In New York on Wednesday motors and steels showed late strength as major shares closed slightly higher after earlier weakness. Trading volume ran around 800000 shares with narrow price changes at the close.
The market stayed near established levels with gains and losses about evenly divided at the start of the final hour. Trading remained quiet as investors paused ahead of the close.
AP dispatch from Bern notes Italy nears four years of war with a battered air force and navy, low morale, and strong public discontent. Sicily is seen as the only mainland area likely to resist invasion. Italians may rally around the House of Savoy.
Dubuque Iowa Anna Moes 90 longtime survivor of the Rockdale flood which killed 44 on July 4 1876 died at her home Survivors include one daughter and seven sons among them William H Moes of Cedar Rapids Iowa local address listed
The Rev. Frederick N. Nelson, pastor of the Marion Congregational Church, has been commissioned a chaplain in the naval reserve with the rank of lieutenant (j.g.). He will report to the naval training school at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, with Mrs. Nelson staying with his parents in Mount Vernon, New York, and the couple to leave Marion at week’s end.
Supt. C. B. Vernon reported strong attendance at a Tuesday meeting to organize a summer band. Former high school players attended and the group will practice in the Lincoln building starting June 15 with the first concert slated for June 17.
The Marion Chamber of Commerce lists farmers needing assistance and invites applications for part or full time wage work or voluntary service in the war effort. Application blanks are available at the chamber office in the Commercial building.
Mary Eleanore Kurt and Miss Nettie Cira left Wednesday for Washington D C to visit Private Michael Cira Jr who is stationed at Camp Myers. A meeting of the New Art club scheduled for Friday has been indefinitely postponed.
Mr and Mrs M D Randall and their children from Glenwood were guests of Mrs C W Biggs, Randall's mother in law. Mrs Biggs traveled to Glenwood on Tuesday to accompany them.
The Marionette Four H club plans a meeting with Ramona Brown on Thursday. Masonic grand lodge sessions in Des Moines include Elmer Stamy Nathan P Van derlinden and Earl Welsher. Mrs Roy Kellams visits Chicago with her sister in law. WSA club to hold a Friday picnic at Mrs Sarah Huttons home 240 Eighth Ave. An Owens Cut Rate Drug ad promotes slug shot a safe insecticide for vegetables. Frank Fuller returns from Rolfe after his brother Omar B Fuller local merchant passes away. La Verna Mae Titus of Riverside Ill visits her parents Mr and Mrs Howard M Titus. Concord A and L club to meet Friday with Mr and Mrs Clyde Kearns.
T Ralph Wilkinson has been released from St Luke's hospital and is convalescing at his home 360 Fifteenth avenue SW Visitors are permitted Apollo Commandery No 26 Knights Templar will meet for regular business and work in Order of the Temple at 7 30 p m Friday in Masonic hall Refreshments will follow air corps and will go into service through voluntary induction army recruiters said They are Richard C Lewis 1044 G avenue NW H Q Cook of Williamsburg and Melvin Stepanek of Swisher.
Mt Hermon lodge No 263 AF and AM will hold second degree work Thursday at 7 30 pm in Masonic hall with refreshments to follow.
Townsend Club No 7 hosts a picnic supper at 6 30 p m Thursday at 117 F Avenue NW with a social hour and dancing. Public invited. Also note Gazette Want Ads offer used baby buggies and nursery furniture for sale with cash buyers urged to call 2 1121.
Otter Creek township exceeded its quota in the 1943 Red Cross war fund drive. The drive chairman was Harold Johnson of Alburnett, with the report filed to Linn county Red Cross headquarters in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday.
Miss Marjorie Patterson representing Lux laboratories visits Newman’s this week to demonstrate care and handling of washable fabrics through practical tips and demonstrations.
Justin W. Albright, attorney, speaks at the Lions Club luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel Thursday noon about simplification of civil law procedure under new rules drawn up by the Iowa supreme court with 1941 legislative authorization.
Melvin M. McCurley age 24 of Springdale Arkansas appeared before U S Commissioner R L Whelan in Cedar Rapids on charges of failure to have a selective service registration card and to keep his local draft board informed of his movements. The case was continued until June 24.
Eugene F. Brown, 17, of Marengo enlisted in the Army Air Corps Reserve as reported by Cedar Rapids Army Recruiting Station. He will remain on inactive status until after his eighteenth birthday. Three other men, all 18, have passed examinations for the Army.
Dr James M Crandall 81 died at 6 45 pm Tuesday at his niece Mildred Titus home 603 Third Avenue where he lived since 1932 Born Decorah July 19 1861 he practiced veterinary medicine in Cemp Arkansas for many years He is survived by a brother Lucius Crandall Riverside California Private services will be in Yocom chapel at 4 pm Thursday led by Rev C B Patrick Burial will be Oak Shade cemetery No flowers The family requests no flowers Friends may call at the chapel
Mayor John C. Mullin reports 15 tons of scrap were turned in by volunteers in Marion and Marion township, with five more tons by farmers earlier in the week. Trucks didn’t reach dirt roads, another drive will be scheduled. Reading circle officers were elected at a luncheon, and the group donated $1 to the Red Cross in addition to prior gifts.
Mrs. Waline hosted a luncheon for eight including Mrs. McGowan of Huntington Park California Mrs. Jayne of Alameda California and Mrs. Cheadle of Newton. Sergi and Mrs. Lathrop of Camp Barkeley Texas visiting friends here. Private Clark Meer of Tampa formerly Marion visited family and friends. Charles Schaefer sails to Norfolk naval air station. David Lee newborn son knecht taken to St Luke's hospital. Patricia Georges Gravatt visit their grandfather C E Reiter in Savanna Illinois. Church choirs schedule practices tonight. Mrs. W T O'Brien of Chicago guests of Mrs. Hart.
Cedar Rapids Postmaster Frank B. Baldwin urged residents to mail their war ration book No 3 applications by Thursday. Forms required a three cent stamp and must be filled out completely and mailed to Chicago and the OPA office. late submissions delay the first delivery group and push back Book 3.
Sergt. Ed Filipi, with eight Tunisian campaign engagements and the Order of the Purple Heart, will be chief speaker at a Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce young men’s bureau dinner at 6 15 p.m. Thursday at the chamber.
STOCKHOLM AP reports rail traffic through Dortmund halted for days as bomb damage blocks the main station. Western German cities including Cologne Essen Düsseldorf Duisburg and Dortmund suffer widespread destruction with destroyed districts and gutted facades per VOA Beobachter accounts and travel impressions from neutral sources.
Classified personals announce beauty shop services and ads for labor and jobs. Listings include permanent hair styling at Lovely Lady Oil Permanents near Bishops, shop nearby, with phone contact 2-1451, plus several job offers for teens and adults at various local businesses.
A collage of lost and found notices from the Gazette includes items such as a short haired male bird dog found near 1450 34th St NE, a Sunday Bulova wrist watch, a blue yellow hooded academic costume near Coe College, a Bulova wrist watch at Hiway Gardens, and a black cocker spaniel named Snaps. Rewards offered and contact numbers listed.
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