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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1954
Page
14
US livestock receipts show 8 500 hogs 7 000 cattle and 1 500 sheep in Chicago trade with generally 25 to 50 cents lower prices versus Friday. Hog top near 26 dollars the lowest since March 12 and calves and cows easing into the week with mixed demand across regions including Omaha and others.
Sioux City cattle receipts reach 8 000 with calves about 450. Slaughter steer and heifer bids run 25 cents lower with most bids 60 cents lower. Choice steers largely 21.50 to 23.00, loads held higher. Good cre, be 21.00, choice heifers 20.50 to 22.
New York trading opened with marginal advances for some issues while a long list moved into negative territory. Volume approached 1.5 million shares as Dow averages showed uneven performance across industries and individual stocks.
Receipts for the week show 37,000 Monday, 34,000 last week, and 38,000 Saturday with 18,000 actuals. Prices opened steady to 25 cents lower, with most trades 25 cents lower. Heifer and hog weights list various quotes from 160 to 570 pounds, with ranges from about 17.90 to 24.35 per hundredweight and occasional higher or lower bids noted.
Cattle receipts 10,000 with calves 1,400. Slow early sales as steers and heifers run 25 to 50 percent lower. Good to choice stones 7 004 23.50, better grades held to $24 and above. Good and ghotee eifers 50% around 22.50. Dealers steady to $1 lower with top at $20.
Cedar Rapids hog market prices fell a quarter on Monday. The Cedar Rapids plant listed delivered hog prices for the day.
Chicago Produce reports steady to slightly lower butter receipts 2,464,178 pounds with various colony grade scores and 22,319 cases. Swiss Age live poultry prices show small declines across hens and fryers with other fowl, turkeys and ducks listed. Potatoes arrivals total 271 on track with U S shipments Friday to Sunday. New York butter and egg quotations given with receipts 25,675 and standards and dirties noted.
DES MOINES, (INS) State Secretary of Agriculture Clyde Spry of Bronson reported to the secretary of state that he spent $597.80 in the recent primary election. He was unopposed in the Republican race.
John Wadsworth won election as commander of the American Legion post in Waukon. Officiating officers include Dale Bublty as vice commander, Alex Dro as second vice commander, Art a as adjutant, Alfred Smeds as treasurer, Charles Berg as quartermaster at arms, Vivian Wilt as chaplain and general, with additional details on post governance.
Former Gen Auguste Nogues, who led a five day French resistance against Allied landings in North Africa, returned from exile in Portugal. He faces a 20 year sentence from a postwar court and was taken to prison after surrendering Monday. An appeal is expected to seek freedom pending the ruling.
Police confiscated an assortment of fireworks valued at 10000 dollars in New York. The sale or possession of such fireworks is illegal in the city.
Chicago prices show grains mixed with wheat softening while soybeans rise sharply. corn gains on news of government grain storage purchases. oats follow. cash grain quotes for wheat corn and oats listed along with soybean futures and barley prices.
E A Karsten lof Pierson was elected president of the Iowa district brotherhood of the American Lutheran church ending a two day Cedar Falls meeting. The group voted to fund Wartburg college scholarships and to contribute 1000 dollars to a revolving mission fund. The body recovered the 16 year old Des Moines drowning victim Joh Schlampp from the Raccoon River after days of search. Also reported are officers elected in the Iowa Shorthand Reporters Association and Jewish War Veterans at Omaha, a Mills county courthouse bond defeat, and fossils donated to the state historical department.
DES MOINES AP State Rep R O Burrows Republican of Belle Plaine filed to the secretary of state that he spent 159 in his unsuccessful bid for renomination in the June 7 primary. Rep Karl Le Compte reported 26 spent in his unopposed bid. Maurice Rawlings of Sioux City said he spent nothing in his campaign.
Senate Democrats show reluctance to back Sen. Flanders in his bid to strip Sen. McCarthy of chairmanships. Republican leaders say they do not want such action and fear setting a precedent. Only Sen. Cooper backs Flanders while Sen. Johnson keeps quiet.
City council on Monday approved two measures to replace the condemned Fourth street viaduct with a new four lane span. Consulting Engineer Ned L Ashton of Iowa City will prepare preliminary plans and specifications, with cost estimates to follow after railroad discussions.
Visitors crowded the Iowa State Rose Show in Waterloo as officials estimate over 3,000 attend. More than 600 exhibits were entered. Harold Stowe of Davenport won the member's trophy for exhibiting the queen. New officers were Glen E. Ralston of Waterloo president, Kenneth Scott of Spencer vice president, and R. G. Raines of Des Moines secretary-treasurer. The 1955 state show was voted to be held in Marshalltown. Other trophy winners include Elliott McDonald of Davenport for Sweepstakes and Mrs. Joseph Trattner of Cedar Rapids for best collection of climbers.
Obituary notes for Mrs. Laura Tripp Burns 1885 196? and marriage details. multiple society, school, and military family announcements from Marion Iowa local column including visits, baptisms, anniversaries, and upcoming events. mentions Lt Lowell Parks and connections to Cedar Rapids and Milwaukee. sports and school activities listed among community items.
Adlai Stevenson warned on the Vassar College stage that the corruption of conformity is a hazard of modern life. He urged graduates to think freely and act with conscience, contrasting expediency and fear with courage and freedom. He cited the Oppenheimer case as signaling a troubling shift toward a security obsessed society.
Des Moines a gathering of groups linked to the Grand Army of the Republic will convene Sunday for the fifth time without any GAR members present. Lawrence K. Boutin of the Sons of Union Veterans notes about 450 delegates are expected from allied bodies including the auxiliary of the Sons of Veterans, Daughters of Union Veterans, the Women's Relief sector, and the Ladies of the ALA. The Iowa GAR department disbanded in 1949 after the death of its last member, John P. Martin.
Gerald Bogan of the Iowa Good Roads Association told the Pocahontas Rotary club that 2200 miles of no passing zones remain in the primary road system. He noted 102 miles on U.S. 30 in the cross state route and urged annual funding to modernize highways, needing about 18 million dollars more yearly alongside current spending.
Three workers were badly burned at the Link Belt Speeder plant when an unguarded bus bar flashed an electrical current through a dust filled room. Paul Ganske 31 of Oelwein Arthur DeSotel 27 of Marion and Forrest Parker 24 of 12628 Schaeffer drive SW suffered burns to face neck arms and hands. Parker suffered a badly burned eye. The incident occurred about 7 20 a m as they cleaned around the sub station.
The queen presided over a rare investiture as Churchill joined Britain's oldest chivalric order. Only 29 members remain in the order founded in 1348 by Edward III.
Thomas Sauerbry, 45, of Greeley, suffered a badly injured left arm when his car sideswiped a rural mailbox near Marion. He said his arm rested on the door frame as the accident occurred. Elbow fracture and severe shoulder laceration reported. He was returning from Cedar Rapids.
In Davenport a North western Bell Telephone sales supervisor Marvin Mulford aged 27 died in a hospital from a self holding gunshot wound. Police say the rifle discharged accidentally as he cleaned it at his wife’s bedside where she was pregnant. The coroner opened an investigation and Mulford’s widow Lisa aged 3 survives.
Prime Minister Churchill and his successor were invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the insignia of a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in a Windsor Castle ceremony, marking a centurysold tradition.
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