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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1952
Page
3
Chicago reports Friday estimates for livestock saleyards with hogs up to 25 cents higher and cattle and sheep trading steady to 50 cents lower. Hog strength persists, while cattle move toward new lows as the market balances demand and supply.
Hog receipts around 9 000 with moderate to active trading and gains to 25 cents. top hogs near 21.00 for about 100 head. Cattle show salable calves 300 with uneven steady to 50 cent lower trade. steers to 28.00 32.50, prime at 34.50, cows 18.50 22.75, canners 13.00 18.50, bulls 23.50 26.00. Sheep: slaughter lambs 50 cents lower. springers 23.00, bulk 27.00 28.00, cull prices 15.00 20.00.
Salable receipts 2,000 with calves 25. Slaughter steers range from 29.00 to 31.25 in scattered sales, average yearling steers around 31.50, beeves 32.00, commercial to high good steers 23.50 to 28.50, cows 18.50 to 22.00, utility cutters 13.00 to 18.50, good feeders around 27.50 to 24.00 with loads near 900 and 800 pounds.
Receipts total 2 800 cattle with calves, fed steers and heifers mostly steady but lower grades weak. Beef grades steady to down, vealers and calves mostly steady to 50c lower. Stockers and feeders weak. several loads of choice steers at 30 to 32 dollars. commercial to low choice steers 24 to 29.50. mostly 30s for select heifers. commercial cows 22 to 22.50, utilities 16.50 to 21.00, bulls up to 25.50, prime dealers around 33.00.
The listing details current prices for poultry and eggs, wholesale fruits such as Cuban pineapples and Florida oranges, fresh vegetables including celery and lettuce, dairy items like eggs, and various seeds and grains. Also notes Dow Jones Averages and field grass seed prices for delivery from Chicago.
New York AP reports a stock market day with buying strength. Prices advanced fraction to around two points while losses remained small. Volume was about 1 400 000 shares.
Kansas City cattle receipts total 400 with calves at 100. Heavy fed steers held over from earlier in the week, few steers or heifers of note. Cows uneven but generally down with the week’s decline. bulls $1 lower. vealers $31.00. Dealers and killing calves weak. utilities and low commercial cows $16.50 to $19.88. Bulls $23.00 down.
Chicago market notes steady butter and eggs receipts with mixed protein prices. Potatoes show moderate demand and slight weakness for whites while reds firm. regional fruit and vehicle pricing listed for Arizona and California items.
New York markets show steady butter with scores 93 92 and 90 cents per pound and eggs running mixed with heavy weights and No 1 varieties trading around 40 to 44 cents per dozen. Prices held firm with slight variations across grades and weights.
A Bloodmobile visit in Manchester processed 134 joints of blood on Monday. Community donors contributed to the drive, supporting local health services and blood supply levels.
European cables report drouth halves southern Italy wheat yields and signal big foreign purchases. Wheat rises across futures with July at 2.305s and related grains mixed as corn oats rye soybeans and lard move modestly in response with July contracts shown.
Chicago market notes show wheat and corn prices with No 3 and No 4 grades and sample grade values. Oats and soybeans listed with nominal ranges and feed variants, reflecting a volatile midday commodities snapshot.
Hog quotes across weights show a rise of 25 cents for sows and butchers with top at 19.50 for 160-170 pound hogs. Quotes span 160 to 550 pounds, with prices tapering from 19.50 down to 14.50 for the heaviest categories.
Hogs in Ottumwa rise 25 cents with top at 19.50 per hundredweight. Butchers and sows prices listed for various weight ranges from 170 pounds to over 500 pounds, including 170-180 Ibs at 17.00 and 450-500 lbs at 13.75.
Davenport AP reports the North Iowa Conference invited two Negro churches into its membership, marking a national lead. The motion, presented by Dr. Marvin B. Kober, includes churches in Mason City and Marshalltown with about 100 members combined.
Des Moines reports Thursday hog receipts at 49 000 versus 55 000 a week ago and 40 000 war age. Actuals Wednesday 26 500. Prices for butchers steady to 50 cents higher, sows mixed, gilts and weights 160 to 180 pounds at 17. a9, 180-200 at 19.25, 240-270 at 19.00, 70-300 at 18.35, 300-330 at 18, 270-300 at 17.35, 16.15 to 17.50 for 300-450 plus.
Two Dubuque soldiers James L. Brannon 22 and Ronald Hagensten 21 on furlough from Fort Riley Kan were seriously hurt when their car struck a bridge abutment near Des Moines June 4. Derald Entwisle 23 of El Kader died in the crash. Brannon and Hagensten were reported much better in a Des Moines hospital.
Four carloads of state agents raided two veterans clubs in Fort Dodge Iowa Wednesday night and seized liquor and punchboards. Keith Johnson manager of the Amvets club and Anver Habhab manager of the 34th Division club pled innocent Thursday to charges connected with the raids. No local official participated. Four search warrants were signed by Bill Freed justice of the peace but only two were used. The other two raid targets were not disclosed.
Waukon and surrounding towns report Boy Scout court of honor awards Tenderfoot recipients include Michael Anderman and others Second class honors go to Philip Doughty and Ronald Duckett First class to Buddy Henderson and Freddie Steele Buckingham township Cancer Crusade donations total 166.35 Ted Albin 46 of West Branch waives to grand jury on drunk driving charge Douglas Graban resigns as Waukon math instructor R.A.R.E. club tours Cedar Rapids plants Legion posts elect officers Manchester Chamber dinner speaker Cedar Rapids executive Robert Caldwell to address Manchester meeting Hawkeye Girls State attendee Maxine Daubenberger Wellman band concerts directed by Mildred Kroener Scout merit badges and service stars awarded in Oelwein and Quasqueton etc.
A Marion Christian church workshop gathered 53 women from Iowa City Cedar Rapids Coggan Alburnett Urbana Center Point and Marion to train new officers and chairmen. Other items note attendees at the Iowa conference on child development and parent education plus several weddings visits and local sales.
The game originally set for Central City will be played Friday at 5 45 p m on Legion field in Mar Mrs Le Roy Cooper of Burlington is visiting her mother Mrs Elizabeth Hatt and other relatives
Senator Hickenlooper urged Senate approval of sending returning foreign service officers to industry for orientation in free enterprise practices but rejected the idea of deploying state department envoys to governors. He warned of a pipeline for inside information shaping state economies and relations. Senator Connally and Bridges challenged the plan noting state sovereignty and federal overreach.
A long garbled page lists lost items such as shoes, iron bars, a pink shell rimmed bifocals, a red and white Schwinn bicycle, a parakeet, a small black dog, and various items with reward offers. It also includes many service ads for rental, investigations, moving, cleaning, and painting, with contact numbers and addresses. The text reads like a busy rural newspaper classifieds section with numerous incomplete entries and ad notes.
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