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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1945
Page
3
Top steers sold up to 17.75 dollars, a 30 cent gain from Friday as fed steers and yearlings were slow but steady. Hog market held firm, sheep steady, cows and bulls scarce and firm to higher. Cattle mostly from 14 to 17 dollars with weighty bulls at 13 and cutters from 8.50 upward.
Salable cattle receipts 9 500 with steady demand for most classes and firm prices for good cows. Hogs active with firm market. 150 400 lb barrows and gilts around 14 45, sows and stags 13 70. Sheep receipts 5 400 with no early action and red shorn lambs moving in.
In Omaha, hog receipts 5,590 with barrows and gilts around 1445 dollars, sows and stags at 13.70, feeder pigs 15.00, heavy weights 14.45, bred hogs 15.00 to 15.25. Cattle receipts 12,000 with calves 200, fed steers and yearlings opening steady but slow with some bids 25 cents lower. cows steady to weak. bulls under pressure. Sheep receipts 2,000 with active demand, spring lambs around 16.00, good and choice around 15.75, shorn lambs 14.00 to 14.75, yearlings about 100 off, ewes 75 to 77.5.
Hogs on offer 5 000 receipts 10 000 total with 140 lb barrows and gifts at 1475 ceiling and best sows at 1400. Cattle receipts 16 000 with 1 900 calves. fed steers and yearlings slow but steady last week. Steers top 1775 with some higher. best heifers 1770. cows and bulls scarce yet firm to 25 higher. Sheep receipts 2 500 with native spring lambs steady and good grades 16.00 16.25. bucks about 100 less. light weight lambs around 13. ewes steady to 800 on odd lots. Car lots not observed.
Combined receipts across 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 48 hours ending Monday reached 31 800 head. Compared to 90 400 a week prior and 43 300 a year earlier, demand remained active and steady with lighter loads than last Tuesday. Prices for barrows and gilts 160-180 lbs ranged 1350 to 1445 dollars, 180-360 lbs 1420 to 1445, sows 270-400 lbs 1345 to 134?0, 300-450 lbs 1345 to 1370, 450-550 lbs 1330 to 1370.
Cedar Rapids hog prices held at ceiling levels with prime butchers at 14.45 and packers 13.70. Cattle and calf markets show wide ranges by grade with modest gains for some classes, grain prices listed, and Wisconsin cheese sale to the Army noted.
Heavy buying of rails and assorted specialties kept the New York market near an eight year peak on Monday despite declines among key industrials. Notable quotients include Butler Bros 18 1 2 Quaker O Co 89 8 Cent S W Ut 4 2 Quaker O Pr 164. Other listings show Cherry Burl 20 4 Swift and Co 34 Chicago Corp 8 9 Swift Intl 365s Coln Edison 31 Walgreen 32 J. E. Bennett & Co. W. H. Jump mer. Dial 9151 Merchants Bank building.
Chicago AP reports rye jumped up to five cents on Monday, touching a 20 year high and lifting other grains. Wheat rose to 134 higher than Saturday, corn largely steady to up, oats and barley also higher as grains rallied after early indecision.
AP dispatch from Chicago shows wheat no sales and no exports. Corn prices list No 4 yellow at 1.17 dollars per unit and oats at 7342c, with No 1 special grade heavy red corn at 1.15 to 1.18 dollars.
Public welfare board to meet Tuesday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel. Mrs. Thomas Sturgeon returns home at 114 Thirteenth Street SE after five weeks at Mercy hospital. Edward B. Zbanek of 2404 C Avenue NE is confined at St Luke s hospital with a heart ailment. No visitors. Unnamed bureau meets Tuesday evening at Marion Country Club. golf planned for the afternoon. Trowel Chapter No 49 Royal Arch Masons meet Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in Masonic Hall for work in the past master and most excellent degrees followed by refreshments. Three figures in Miss Alice B Story library report were incorrect. additions total $10 643.38, operating $26 316.43, building $7 136.04, grand total $44 095.85.
New York bond market opens higher on moderate demand for select rail issues. Leaders include New Haven 45 42s and convertible 6s with Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern 5s Central of Georgia 4s and 5s Missouri Pacific 5s Rio Grande Western first 4s and Seaboard Airline refunding 4s.
Chicago produce market report shows butter receipts 11 206 tubs steady with various grade scores, eggs receipts 14 475 cases steady with current receipts 3312c and dirties 32 2c, cheese at 25 26c, poultry steady with hens 25c, springers 28c, turkeys 33 35c, potatoes arrivals 57 on track 73 with very light new stocks and firm market. California long whites U S No 1 at 4 07 4 29 and Virginia cobblers No 1 size B at 3 32 per 100 pounds.
Army troops man Chicago truck lines after a 10,000 driver strike. Soldiers drive and escort trucks while civilians show up. Police TP force rises to 1,500. Government plans include reviewing striking drivers for possible draft board reclassification.
New York receipts show egg prices with varying grades and weights. Extras from 39.74 to 41.33 cents, medium 38.3 cents, standard 36.2 to 38.0 cents, dirties 35.2 cents, reflecting current wholesale market conditions.
Collins Radio announces a revolving credit agreement with Northern Trust Chicago and participants Harris Trust and Savings Chicago National City Bank New York and Peoples Savings Cedar Rapids for up to 10 million dollars. Matures by April 15 1947 with 3 percent plus 1/4 of 1 percent annual commitment fee on unused funds. Used for receivables inventories and possible government termination claims on war contracts. Replaces the 1.5 million prior credit and contemplates liquidation of government advances.
Picket lines surrounded all Goodyear Tire and Rubber plants in Akron after an authorized strike by United Rubber Workers. About 20,000 workers are affected as unions and management fail to settle 32 grievances after months of contract talks.
R H Hunt from Warehouse Point Conn visited Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard chasing big wages. He earned 15.20 for two days at week end while board cost 14.02 with 1.00 federal tax and 0.17 other deductions. He refuses to cash a one cent check because it costs too much.
Two of Cedar Rapids twelve playgrounds failed to open on schedule due to out of town directors' late arrival. The sites at Arthur school Twenty seventh street at B avenue NE and Sinclair park Twelfth avenue at Fifth street SE were affected. Superintendent Robert Black said openings would occur as soon as possible.
In Cedar Rapids Margaret Deditz who died June 10 left Walker House to four Skallerup brothers Walter Jr Glenn Harvey and Forrest. Personal property to be divided among them includes a large radio and half the dishes bedding. Belle Brewer receives items by lot. Marie Holster gets flowers quilts cushions. A White House quilt goes to Mrs Belle Skallerup. Dr Walter M Skallerup confirmed executor of the will under $2 000 bond.
Dr. L S Nelson of Salina files in district court against W T and Ruth M Ellis seeking 70 dollars plus 6 percent interest from April 27 for a promissory note of 343 50 dated May 1 1937 with installments of 20 dollars monthly at Salina. Ellis in Cedar Rapids serves as state agent for Great Northern Life Insurance Company.
In Brussels labor unions and leftist parties warned of a general strike Monday if King Leopold resumes the throne. New anti Leopold demonstrations were reported. At Waterloo cries of Death to Leopold Hang him were heard during ceremonies at the Napoleon monument.
Waterloo Waterloo area operators in Waterloo Waverly Oelwein and Manchester announced a two meatless days a week schedule and voted to stop serving butter at all meals. The move follows Des Moines leaders and aims to meet an OPA red point ration cut of 20 percent on July 1.
The Y M C A craft shop, under Director W J Dawson, shifts to summer hours. Open 8 to 12 and 1 to 5 on Mondays, 8 to 12 on Tuesdays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays, closed Wednesdays. Open to boys 8 and older, about 200 attend monthly making items from birdhouses to model sailboats.
The city council added 14 street oiling projects. Key routes include Sixth Street SE, Hamilton Street SW, Eighth Street SW, and Twentieth Avenue SW. Additional work covers Wilson and Fourth Streets SW, alleys near Blake Boulevard, and several SE and NW corridors from Bever Avenue to Ellis Boulevard.
Two more Cedar Rapids men returned home from German captivity. Pvt. John M. Gutierrez Jr., 26, medical corps, spent 27 months in German prisons and visits his parents at 523 C avenue NE. Cletus H. Osweiler, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Osweiler of 109 Tenth Street NE, was overseas three years and held 13 months by Germans, arriving home Saturday after last being freed April 22.
In German territory near Mulhausen, U S troops discovered the bodies of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg former German president and three other figures along with Hindenburgs wife. A large hoard of imperial jewels crowns battle flags and state seals lay with the remains.
Maj Robert Lapham, 28, a Davenport native and noted guerilla leader on Luzon during World War II, returns after four years away. Parents feared him dead or captured by Japanese, only to learn he led a Filip ino guerilla band for three years in a dangerous jungle campaign.
Dubuque police chief Joseph Strub says a weekend burglary at a wholesale grocery netted 44 cartons of cigarets and six candy bar boxes.
Mrs Anna Mary D Louhy aged 68 widow of Frank R D Louhy died Sunday morning at a Cedar Rapids hospital after a brief illness. Born December 30 1876 at Oxford Junction she married there April 26 1902 and moved to Marion about 1910. Surviving are a son two grandchildren and two sisters. Services Tuesday at 430 pm in Yocom chapel with Rev James P Gable officiating. Burial Cedar Memorial Park.
Mrs. Joseph H. Murphey died Saturday. Services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Yocom chapel by Revs. Grant Anderson and Frank H. Ward of Cedar Rapids. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial park. Granddaughters Mrs Ned Brewer and Mrs Joe Nelson and their children arrived Monday from Independence Missouri to attend.
Paul DeSotel and Kathleen Caroline Paul were married Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Methodist parsonage by Rev. James P. Gable. They were attended by Merna Crookshank and Darrence Sweet. DeSotel recently honorably discharged from the navy and is a farmer.
O W Rust announces start of beginner and general swimming classes at the Legion pool this week. Instructors include Al Miller Gertude Jacobs of Cedar Rapids and Mrs Dorothy Ford Jacobs of Marion. Seaman Bob Whittemore will be stationed at Shoemaker California, son of Mr and Mrs Carl Whittemore.
A string of lost items appears including a lady's handbag with social security and family pictures. a cat. a silver watch. a billfold with money and identification. a navy leave papers. another billfold with $33. a small red pig. a black coat. a pair colored eyeglasses. and a fox terrier. Contacts and rewards listed for each item.
A bustling page of 1950s style classified blurbs includes fishing bait ads, birthday gift suggestions, jewelry stores, riding to Los Angeles, home services, rug and curtain care, print shop offerings, rental and rides, massuers, car carburetor checks, pest control, hauling services, plastering, and cleaning. Multiple named businesses and contact numbers appear across a mosaic of errands and services.
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