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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1945
Page
1
AP reports cattle mostly fully steady on Friday with sausage bulls weak. Hog classes sold at ceiling prices while sheep stayed fairly active and generally fully steady to strong in Chicago markets.
Hog receipts reach 1 000 head with salable barrows and gilts at Teedy 818 with sows at 14 00. Cattle receipts about 1 600 with 1 300 salable calves. top steers 617 65, averages around 1 369 pounds. Cows sell 9 75 to 12 75, canners 7 50 to 8 50, top beef bulls 15 25, dealers 16 50. Sheep receipts 500 with fair demand. native spring lambs 16 50 to 16 25, bucks 1 00 lower, old crop pelts 15 00.
Cattle receipts around 300 salable calves few test market, stockers and feeders mixed with medium and good fed yearlings at 15.50 and steers up to 17.25, cows mostly 7.25 to 9.00, hogs active with barrows and gilts at 14.50 and sows to 23.70, sheep receipts 600 with fed lambs 14.50 to 15.25 and ewes 7.50 to 8.00, overall market steady with limited larger sales and strong demand for good and choice grades.
AP report shows Omaha hogs steady with barrows and gilts around 14.45 while sows and stags fetch about 13.70. California cattle steady with vealers unchanged and mixed steer and cow quotes from 10 to 14.75. calves around 100. canners and cutters 6.75 to 8.50. Sheep receipts 500 with limited supply. lambs 15.75 to 16.00. ewes 7.50 to 8.00. early clearance noted.
Combined receipts in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 48 hours ending 8 a.m. Friday totaled 20 300, down from 21 200 last week and 35 a year ago. Active, fully steady with loadings possibly lighter than last Thursday. Good and choice borrows and gilts 160-180 Ibs 13.50 to 14.45. 180-360 Ibs 14.20 to 14.45. Good and choice sows 270-400 Ibs 13.40 to 13.70. good sows 400-450 Ibs 13.45 to 13.70. 450-550 Ibs 13.30 to 13.70.
Des Moines reports market quotes for beef and pork with buyers including Mason Waterloo Ottumwa Austin. Prices range 13.50 to 14.45 per unit across weight classes 160-360 and 270-500 pounds. Good packing sows priced around 13.65 to 13.76.
The Cedar Rapids market held ceiling hog prices with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.00. Cattle prices ranged with yearlings around 12.05 to 12.75 and various grades quoted, plus calf, wool lamb, and hide values. Also notes on grain, hay, poultry, fruits and a brief New York bond market roundup.
New York markets show mixed results as scattered specialties rise while many leaders retreat from long peak levels. Trading volume nears 2 million shares, among the best for 1945.
The New York Stock Exchange voted to close on Saturdays during July and August and on September 1, the Saturday before Labor Day. The curb exchange announced the same action amid staffing shortages from military service and limited skilled replacements. Last year closures occurred on August 19 26 and September 2 due to heat.
Sixteen petitions for naturalization were filed in federal district court here Friday by Clerk Betty Engle. M. W. Campbell, president of the Northern Union conference, will speak at the 11 a.m. service of the Seventh Day Adventist church Saturday. Twenty five young people of the church will participate in a symposium at 3 o'clock.
Evangelists Keith L. Hume and M. Marie Hume mother and son lead daily revival services at the Church of the Open Bible nightly at 7 45 except Saturday The pair are Open Bible Institute Des Moines graduates and will conduct meetings through June.
The Rt. Rev. Elwood L. Haines bishop of Iowa will preside at Grace Episcopal church Sunday at 8 pm for his annual visitation and to administer the sacrament of confirmation. A reception in the Guild room will honor Bishop Haines and the confirmation class after the service.
Officers installed at the closing session of the thirty seventh annual communication of Electa grand chapter Order of Eastern Star at Bethel AME church include Worthy matron Mrs Sarah E Jett Des Moines and grand secretary Mrs Mary Johnson Mason City with other officers from Cedar Rapids Davenport Fort Madison and Des Moines.
Dudley Solon Martin born March 5 1880 in Jamesport Missouri died in a local hospital after a lingering illness at 5 30 p m Thursday He lived in Cedar Rapids since 1926 and was a member of Calvary Baptist church and Modern Woodmen Survived by widow four daughters two brothers one sister and six grandchildren Funeral arrangements pending with Moen chapel.
Chicago price data shows Butter Receipts at 11 742 tabs and Eggs at 16 673 cases with steady demand. Poultry remains steady with hens and fryers quoted. Potatoes arrivals 86c with light offerings and firm market. California shipments and price details noted for various white potato grades.
AP wire notes butter at 1 309 199 firm with prices at ceilings and no quotas. Eggs 18 270 firm with current wholesale ranges for mixed colors and sizes. cuts and checks steady amid dull market.
Grains rallied early Friday but sold off after noon with rye down as much as three cents. Wheat fell 13 percent to 2 lower, July at 1.6754, corn near unchanged to 5 lower, December 1.1744, oats off 1 to 1, rye down 2 to 1.55, July 1.545, barley 1 to 1.53 lower, July 1.143.
Fragmentary OCR notes show mixed grain categories and barley terms with unclear figures and codes. It references malting and feed barley and includes scattered numbers and abbreviations.
Mrs Louise Broghammer of Decorah died in Cedar Rapids on Thursday. Funeral services are set for Monday at 9 30 a m at St Benedicts church Decorah with burial in St Benedicts cemetery. The body was moved from Dr G Broghammers residence to Decorah Friday afternoon. Friends may call Monahan funeral home for information.
A plea issued by A. L. Taylor of the Chamber of Commerce urges housewives to bring paper sacks for shopping. He notes retailers are increasingly short of paper sacks and in many cases have none left.
London AP reports a secret U S Air Transport Command operation carried 3000 plus important passengers from Sweden during the final war year. Disguised as civilians, crews faced Gestapo surveillance and Nazi defenses, yet dodged interception while evacuating internees, diplomats, and soldiers including 2000 Norwegians to Britain.
In Abilene Kansas Gen Eisenhower, greeting two childhood friends C. H. Case and C. M. Harger, is playfully reminded that he remains humble by Case who quips you may be a big shot everywhere else but not to us. Ike answers with a grin Who the hell said I was.
Sgt LeRoy T Wolfe returned to Cedar Rapids on a 60 day furlough from a 25 month German prison ordeal overseas for three and a half years He was captured in Africa and is spending time with his mother Mrs E T Wolfe at 843 Second Street NW His father serves in the Philippines with the Seabees and his brother Seaman 2/c DeVere Wolfe is in the Marianas
Articles of Incorporation filed in County Recorder Dempsy Jones office Friday for the Cedar Rapids Wholesale Beer Distributors with Cedar Rapids as principal place of business. H C Jensen is president. E J Weis vice president. Ed E Hach treasurer. Directors include Merl Holloway Carl J Janacek Jensen Weis and Hach. Membership open to wholesale beer and non alcoholic malt beverage distributors in Cedar Rapids and vicinity.
Elda Hanover filed a district court petition Friday against Roy Hanover seeking custody of three minor children and support. The couple married in Rock Island Illinois in 1920.
Elsie J. Walsh was granted a decree of separate maintenance in a court proceeding. The order provides her legal separation without dissolution of marriage. The case details include the grant of relief and terms as approved by the judge.
Friday ruling by Judge Floyd Philbrick awards Mrs. Walsh custody of five minors and grants occupancy of the family home. She will receive $159 monthly from the defendant. Public notices include multiple lost items and personal ads offering rewards and contact numbers.
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