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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1957
Page
10
Friday livestock trading showed butcher hogs up to 25 cents, sows steady, and cattle receipts strong. Estimates for Saturday include 200 cattle 100 hogs and 100 sheep as buyers noted varied prices across weight classes and grades.
Omaha cattle receipts of about 400 with 25 calves show weak trade. Some No 1 cows hold steady while choice fed steers sell around 23 dollars, with portions of cows carried over into next week.
Sioux City Livestock reports receipts around 600 cattle mainly cows with some stockers and feeders. Cows hold steady as limited other classes prevent full market echoes. Load of choice at 1190 pounds noted for steers.
Prices for broilers and hens vary with weights under 4 pounds to 5 pounds and Leghorn hens listed. Eggs shown at 2 to 18 cents with various grade checks. Field grass seed offerings include Timothy, Red Tops, Alsike, Sweet Clover, and Alfalfa with regional prices and delivery notes.
AP reports a Friday decline in the U S stock market as investors booked profits. Key shares slipped fractions to around two points while several issues rose up to three points amid total volume of about 2,090,000 shares.
Receipts for the period show seven day totals around 42 000, week 61 500, year 42 000. Trade remains moderately active with butchers steady to 15 cents higher and some cases up to 25 cents. Sows mostly steady to 15 cents higher. top price reached 19.85. Prices for different hog weight classes and sow ranges are listed with openings in the 16.30 to 19.85 range for barrows and gilts and various sow brackets across weight classes.
Private detective Mark Saber is assigned to recover stolen Egyptian tomb figurines in The Sucker Game airing on THE WISE Friday at 8:30 on Channel 9. The episode follows Saber's pursuit across clues and danger as he tracks the items to a hidden cache.
PORT AU PRINCE Haiti AP reports the Provisional President Fignole has been overthrown in a Friday coup. It marks the fifth government unseated since December as Brig Gen Antonio Rebreaud, army chief, dismissed Fignole and the cabinet and promised a communique transferring all governmental powers to the army.
Chicago market notes show wheat gaining on reports of crop damage from ongoing Midwest rains. Corn finished mixed as traders took profits and hedged, with oats and soybeans showing modest moves amid a volatile session. July futures levels cited for wheat soybeans corn oats and related components reflect a cautious trading atmosphere.
AP notes Chicago cash provisions for cereals and oils with grain samples and price quotes. Wheat and rye not available while corn sample grade yellow stands at 1.26 dollars per unit. Oats No 1 mixed heavy 73 with soybeans absent. Barley nominal at 1 301.40 and barley feed 0.854/1.00. Soybean oil quoted 11L%e and soybean meal 44.50.
Live poultry steady at 82,000 lbs. Cheese holds at 38 1/2 to 39 cents for daisies and longhorns, leaf 36 to 37, Swiss A 42 to 43, B 39 to 41, C 36 to 34. Butter steady around 59 cents, 56 1/2 for B9. Eggs firmer with 13,600 cases. standards 28 cents, white large and mixed large extras slow. Potatoes: old arrivals 6 on track 54, new arrivals 172 on track 384, supplies moderate, demand slow. California long white at 3.00 to 3.25, bakers 3.10, round red 3.50 to 3.65.
AP report from New York notes USDA Dairy prices steady with butter and cheese unchanged. Butter receipts 402000, cheese receipts 39000, eggs receipts 12500 with mixed colors and size ranges and price bands for extras, standards, and loose eggs.
The Quaker Oats Company declared a 45 cent common stock dividend for the current quarter and a 1.50 dollar regular quarterly dividend on its 6 percent preferred stock. Both payments are due July 20 to holders of record at the close of business June 24.
President Eisenhower told 42 GOP House members at White House breakfasts that foreign aid is a vital peace effort and can economize defense costs. The sessions, attended by Vice President Nixon and party officials, covered defense spending civil rights and veto power over appropriations as lawmakers weighed the $3.865 billion aid request. Some members expressed no evident shifts in stance despite the discussions.
Smulekoff's Home Planning Center earns a Better Homes plaque as one of a selected national group. Eligibility cited includes satisfactory performance and continuous service. Smulekoff's has operated for 12 years offering free consultation and information.
The State Department ordered two South Carolina students to return to the United States after they crossed into Communist Hungary last month to see what it was like.
In Keystone, a record 464 voters participated as a school land purchase proposal failed for the second time this year. The measure sought 10,500 to buy land for a school site and playgrounds, but lost 236 to 223 with five spoiled ballots. Superintendent Elmer Gast noted the April defeat by two votes.
The Iowa Des Moines Methodist Church Conference passed a resolution deploring racial and national superiority shown in the William Girard case. It sent a telegram of regret over the death of the Japanese woman Girard was said to have slain and commended Eisenhower and Stassen for world disarmament efforts. The group, representing 140000 Iowa Methodists, also backed fair reapportionment and a fair employment practices commission.
Atlantic Amvets post No. 1 plans a protest against the release of army Specialist 3/C William Girard to face trial in Japanese courts, arguing against foreign jurisdiction in the case.
Recruiters report six Eastern Iowa men enlisted in the armed forces. Four join the army and go to Fort Chaffee Arkansas for training. Ronald R. Prusek 17 Lavern W Cruise 19 Donald L Vanourney 18 and Dennis J Hrabak 22. One joins the air force James D Fitch 22 from Clarinda heading to Lackland Texas. David W Hoagland 17 Lisbon heads to the marine corps Corn Belt platoon sworn June 20 at Des Moines and trained as a unit at San Diego California.
Hawkeye voters Thursday approved a 25 year natural gas franchise by a 94 to 7 vote. The franchise will be with Peoples Natural Gas Company of Omaha.
Rep McCormack said the invitation to Tito was issued without Dulles approval. He cited internal State Department friction and said Stassen harmed disarmament talks by releasing information prematurely. The Yugoslav bid was rejected, McCormack added, and Dulles later received guidance from Julius Holmes.
Marion residents Mr and Mrs Harvey Montgomery and daughter Sandra with fiancé George Wright return from a northern Minnesota vacation. Mrs Z W Bain of Ottumwa visits son-in-law John Pazour. Bain and Pazours plan Bloomfield weekend to visit Mr Bain in Davis County hospital. Various ads promote Father’s Day gifts and local shop offerings.
OXFORD martia Flannery and Macy Kennedy earned nursing degrees from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Iowa City recently, marking their entry into the profession.
Gov. Herschel C. Loveless says no reason to appear before the special legislative committee investigating the Iowa Highway Commission. He notes his parallel inquiry has yielded no facts warranting prosecution and offers no new information at this time.
Local notices report Camille Lorene earning an associate in arts from Colorado Woman's College in Denver and Master of Fine Arts degrees for Metz Gordley and spouse at the University of Oklahoma. Also listed are a mother’s death in Des Moines, charity events, stamp arrivals at Cedar Rapids, a hit and injury from a car in Cedar Rapids, Northwestern graduates, a dance sponsorship in Kansas City, and a window break on a Cedar Rapids street.
A 10 year old newsboy reported to Cedar Rapids police that two older youths knocked him from his bicycle at the mouth of an alley on the 700 block of Fifteenth Street SE about 2 p.m. They took his wallet containing $4.35 and fled on town bicycles. The victim named his address at 1023 Nineteenth Street SE.
Gary Hutchins of Central City recently earned a divinity degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo California. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Paul Hutchins longtime residents of Central City.
Everett J. Weigle is elected president of the Decorah Rotary Club. Other officers named include Isadore Meyer as vice president and Dave Worthington as secretary with Odin Nelson serving as sergeant at arms.
Mr. and Mrs. James Fielding welcomed a first son on the birthday of Mr. Fielding’s father and a second son on the birthday of his maternal grandfather, satisfying both their fathers.
On June 13 1957 Crothy Ray was appointed Administratrix of the estate of Florence Martenik of Linn County Iowa deceased. Creditors are to pay, claimants file authenticated claims with the Clerk of Linn County District Court. Attorneys Barnes Wadsworth Elderkin and Locher represent the administratrix.
Painting and paper hanging by Will Hanson and free estimates by Amos Kruger. Lawn grading, sodding, seeding, gardens plowed. Contact numbers and EM listings included with scattered initials and partial codes.
Harold Stassen, U.S. delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee, said in London that major powers are nearer a first-step disarmament agreement than at any time since World War II. He cited progress after talks with Dulles and state department officials, while noting remaining major problems.
Notice is hereby given that on the 13th day of [month] Eugene McConaughy is administrator of the estate of Mary Elizabeth McConaughy, deceased of Linn County Iowa. Creditors must file claims with the Linn County District Court Clerk. debtors must pay the administrator. Ted V. Ruffin is attorney.
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