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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
19
USDA reports Thursday livestock receipts show about 6 000 hogs and 5 cattle with prices mostly steady to 25 cents lower for hogs and cattle, bulls steady to 25 cents higher, with lambs and ewes steady to down one dollar from last week.
Market receipts show uneven hogs with barrows and gilts steady to 50 cents lower and sows 25 to 50 cents lower. Cattle trade very slow with steers and yearlings down about 50 to 60 cents, cows weak, bulls steady, and stockers slow. Top loads and good grades noted in specified weight ranges amid varied buyer demand.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market climbed about 25 cents. Top prime hogs reached $23.75 with various weights from 180 to 360 pounds showing bids around $21.75 to $23.25.
The excerpt lists bid ranges for choice to prime steers and cows across weights, with bulls and calves priced, plus sheep and goat market notes. It also includes produce prices such as oranges, potatoes, and cantaloupes, with regional references and unit measures.
In New York stocks rose early in the day with gains in rubbers farm implements motors and steels and rail shares. Profit taking later left the market mixed with about 900000 shares traded as dealings quickened on the rise before closing mixed.
Trading ended with a late upturn as some issues trimmed losses while overall gains remained small. The session closed with advances and declines roughly balanced as the market showed a cautious tone.
A historical market summary lists receipts and stock movements with figures such as 332, 93 score, 24745, and 1100 total shipments. It notes old stock arrivals from Idaho, new stock and moderate supplies, and a demand with market activity in various categories.
New York creamery butter receipts show firm wholesale prices with A and B grades at 65 to 90 scores and premium marks. Butter and egg markets report varied carton pricing, higher demand for extras and large retailers, with spot quotations and color considerations influencing wholesale receiver quotes.
Chicago AP reports broad grain gains on Wednesday with Wheat up 3 to 4 cents to July price 2.16 and corn up 4 1/4 to 6 1/2 cents to 1.93 1/2. Likewise oats rose about 2 to 3 cents and rye climbed about 2 to 3 cents with July contracts showing higher quotes.
The snippet lists wheat corn oats barley and feed prices with various grades and values such as No 2 white oats, No 2 wheat and barley quotes. It mentions a sample price and implied totals like 2 135.42 dollars and feed prices around 1.60 to 2.15 dollars per unit.
Cattle receipts remain active with varied bidding. Steers and heifers steady to higher for good quality while other grades trend slow or lower. cows and feeders show dull demand. Sheep buyers talk lower as market lacks established price.
Cattle receipts 3 500 calves 700 and choice slaughter steers heifers and mixed cattle strong to mostly higher. Most steers traded in the good to choice range with top at £26.00. Choice grade steers and heifers around $27.75 per head. Stockers scarce and steady.
Iowa interior market activity shows 24 hour and 1 week comparisons with 27 600 head. Prices vary with weights and grades. some hogs range 19 to 22.60 per cwt and sows around 19.00. Readings reflect uneven demand and lighter Wednesday trading.
Louella Parsons reports Marty Cushing III, Kathleen Vanderbilt’s son, plans a film titled Rapture in Italy and has discussed George Sanders in the lead. Other Hollywood notes include Iturbi’s legal fight for grandchildren, Constance Bennett’s California move, and Danny Kaye’s rumored War ner Brothers deal.
Gov Sir Henry Moore announced in Colombo that Britain has decided to take immediate steps toward granting dominion status to Ceylon. The statement marks a significant shift in colonial policy with Ceylon expected to gain broader self-rule.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Carpenter hosted a dinner for guests Mr. and Mrs. Del Price and their sons David and Danny. Mr. Price recently earned a hospital administration degree from the University of Chicago and the party included Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crim of Lafayette Indiana and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Pyle of Marion. Mrs. Price, Mrs. Crim, and Miss Mildred Carpenter were University of Iowa classmates. The Price family is en route to Denver.
Seaman Dean Hughes, a six month patient in Oakland naval hospital, visits Marion friends. He is a former Marion resident who suffered a fractured right foot and multiple arm fractures after falling down a cargo hole aboard ship. his arm remains in a cast.
Weather permitting two softball games tonight at 7 30. The first pits the DX and A and H teams against each other and the second features Farmers State Bank Alburnette and Culberts in a clash at Marion Stadium.
Mary Lowe Dickinson circle King s Daughters closed its season Tuesday with a picnic at Miss Ruth Engstrom s. Mrs. Arthur Chase state second vice president of King s Daughters and superintendent of junior groups installed new officers: Mrs. Harlan F. Knight president, Mrs. Amber Travis vice president, Miss Elizabeth Brown secretary, Mrs. Carl J. Kassler treasurer, and Mrs. John C. Smith Jennie McCowan representative. Guests included Mrs. Charles M. Campbell Hartland Wis Mrs. Harry Emerson Cedar Rapids and Kathryn Kassler. Engstrom and Mrs. Emerson played piano duets and Miss Kassler sang several selections.
Mr and Mrs Joe Turner with Susan and Melvin left Marion for Lemoore California after attending the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Owen Turner. Mrs Carl Danielson who visited relatives departed by plane for Sacramento. Miss Doris Case of Lemoore remains in Marion for a longer visit.
Activities include property transfers with Hattie Alsop selling to August Kray and C E Pearson selling a North Tenth Street lot to D F Hindman. Various social notices cover shop management, travel to Hedrick, and condolences. Also listed are sales ads, relatives visiting, youth events, and community updates including State 4-H convention attendees.
Mrs. Carrie Cowan of Glendale California arrived on Wednesday to visit her sisters Mrs W J Greer and Mrs Laura Gillmore.
Mr and Mrs Eugene Houda arrived Wednesday to visit Mrs Bess Milner the mother of Mrs Houda He has just graduated from the University of Nebraska and he and his wife are en route to Akron Ohio where he will work for the Goodyear Rubber Company.
Mrs. L M Phelps is elected president of Electa circle King’s Daughters with A E Miller first vice president and S O Stamy second vice president. Willis Jordan secretary Andrew P Mupsen treasurer D B Storck corresponding secretary. Lesson on The Paradise of the Good Samaritan by Mrs Ralph C Seager. Devotions led by Mrs Munsen. John Louis of Harlan contributed piano selections. Picnic dinner served. Guest Mrs Elmer Stamy of Robins.
Leo J. Sweeney, former editor of the state penitentiary magazine, is ordered to serve two 10-year terms for uttering forged instruments and a seven-year term for obtaining money by false pretenses. The judge rules all terms run concurrently. Sweeney, arrested in Dubuque on forged check charges, faces return to the prison.
Gov. Robert D. Blue led an Iowa group to Washington to join a highway safety conference called by President Truman. The delegation included Alfred Kahl public safety commissioner S N Jespersen Fred Gilbert and W Earl Hall editor of the Mason City Globe Gazette. The conference opened Wednesday and runs through Friday.
City brief notes a chicken supper at Sinclair Memorial Church on Thursday June 19 at 5 30 p m Admission details not specified indicating a community fundraiser event for locals and church members.
The Chamber of Commerce board will meet at noon Friday at the Roosevelt hotel. Rev. C. F. Olson of the Free Methodist church attends the general conference through June 25 at Winona Lake Ind. Derby entries close Saturday June 21. Forms and rules available at Rapids Chevrolet Co Adv.
Pfc. Shafer, son of Mrs. Minnie Shafer of Toddville, is home on a spell of leave from Chanute Air Field.
W C Messner, formerly of 519 B Avenue NE, underwent a leg amputation at Mercy Hospital on Tuesday and is now allowed visitors as he recovers.
Kenneth Peterson, organist at St. Paul’s Lutheran Davenport, provides an 8 p.m. Friday organ recital at Second Christian church.
Mrs Geneva Ashford, president of the Midwestern Baptist Women s Home and Foreign Missionary State convention, will address Mt Zion Baptist church Wednesday evening.
Algy B. Long, 30, of 1410 Third Street SE, was arrested by Constable George Thomas on a charge of false utterance of a check. He is held in the county jail awaiting examination before Justice H. Churchill.
Michael M. Malacek of 1319 C Street SW reenlists in the army to serve with the combat intelligence corps. John D. Davis of Dubuque is announced as a technical sergeant by the army recruiting station in the Federal Building.
Otto Ambroz of 1834 First Avenue NE told police Tuesday night he posed with a man he believed to be a prowler in the Stanley Reid apartment driveway shortly before midnight. Officers searched the area but found no trace of the man.
The YMB Civic bureau renews its softball classic with play at 5 45 p m Thursday on No 1 diamond at Ellis park. A picnic supper is planned at 7 p m near the duck pond. Galyn Peterson leads arrangements as sports committee chairman.
Three area men enlist in the marine corps for three years. William J. Ely of 1532 Ellis Boulevard NW, Alfred L. Carder of North Ish and Harlan L. Zerbs of Center Point are assigned to the San Diego base for boat training.
ST JOSEPH AP Stuart Allen aged 16 committed to a state hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the hammer slaying of a sexton at his foster father's church on Paes of insanity.
A dense, mixed page of lost items and ads lists lost wallets, a white Angora cat, a leather strapped watch, and a tire with license 52-739. It also advertises clothing deals, furniture and repair services, a beauty shop, auctions, and job offers with local business names and contact numbers.
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce figures reveal a lower May in building permits employment and post office receipts. Nine index declines to four gains. only small upticks in car loadings connected telephones and clearing house debits accompany overall activity drop.
S N Isler of Indianapolis showcases a worm pulling trick in Cleveland using a powder named Worms Galore and a sprinkling can. At public hall, one minute fifteen seconds after sprinkling, the first worm surfaced followed by fourteen more within thirty seconds. He notes the need to locate wormy areas for best results.
The Iowa supreme court admitted 31 men to the state bar after exams in Iowa City. Named among the new lawyers are Frank-George B. Mallum Harold J. Birch Leon Neilson from Iowa City plus Charles N. Goerdt Dyersville Richard C. Park Victor Walter F. Rismiller Tipton and Carl E. Winkler Elkader.
Laura Wheeler's new improved pattern offers easy embroidery and a smart flared skirt with embroidery transfer. Pattern 646 covers Jr Miss sizes 11 13 15 and 17 with a cutout neck and back design. Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept lists 1147 Needlecraft Catalogue featuring 302 illustrations of crochet embroidery and house accessories plus free instructions.
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