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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
1
Official estimates show Friday salable hogs at 8000 head, cattle 1000, sheep 1000. Lighter hogs sold strong with top price up to 14.10 per hundredweight, while steers were dull and lambs steady. Grain quotes provided by Lamson Brothers and Co with H R Mowrey listed in Cedar Rapids.
Hog receipts 12 000 total 20 500 steady to strong on weights 240 ibs down Wednesday averages others slow. Calves and cattle mixed with steers and yearlings steady to weak on peddling market. vealers mostly 14.00 to 15.00. cows firm to down. Sheep receipts 1 000 fat lambs steady to active. native spring lambs 14.59 to 16.00. top shorn native ewes 8.25.
Hogs receipts 8 000 to 12 000 slow. prices mostly down 10c to 15c. top 13 65. 190 lb hogs 13 50 to 13 60. sows 13 15 to 13 40. Cattle receipts 3 000. steers 15 85 to 15 75. good to choice steers 15 25 to 15 75. cows 10 50 to 12 00. calves 80 head. Sheep and lambs receipts 6 500. lambs steady autour 15 00 for 88 lb fed Californias. clipped lambs above 14 25. ewes 7 50.
A AP report from Austin Minnesota lists price ranges for live hogs by weight. Numbers show categories from 160-170 pounds to 400-500 pounds with varying bid quotes per weight class. It also notes good packing sows in the 270-360 and 360-400 pound ranges with pricing.
U S Department of Agriculture reports salable hogs receipts at 6 000 to 7 500 head with prices around 13 60 for good and choice barrows. sow and stag values shown. California receipts 3 500. beef steers and yearlings slow with mixed prices. stockers and feeders scarce. Sheep receipts 2 000 with mixed market and no early activity.
The Associated Press reports hog price listings for various weight ranges from 160 pounds to 500 pounds. Prices vary by grade and market, with typical quotations clustered around 12.60 to 13.50 per hundredweight, and packing sows priced in the 12.70 to 13.15 range.
Chicago butter receipts reach 1 048 with steady prices per Chicago price current. Cheese spot firm and live poultry mixed with turkeys at 30s 35c and hens 24c. Potatoes report arrivals and on track totals with California long whites in steady demand. U S No 1 prices noted for several regions. Des Moines USDA data show combined receipts at 39 100 across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota.
Market brief notes steady to firm receipts across dairy and poultry categories. Butter and cheese show unchanged ceilings with nominal figures, while poultry demand remains heavy with improved stock receipts and wholesale prices holding near base OPA ceilings.
John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, could be drafted under Roosevelt's plan to raise the draft age to 65 for noncombatant service. Lewis is 63. The impact hinges on whether officers are included along with rank and file workers.
Donald B Rice of Oakland California is mentioned in a Chicago AP dispatch dated Thursday detailing leadership or involvement with Kiwanis. The short item notes his connection as the Kiwanis head in the report.
Grain oats and soybeans with No 2 and No 3 grades and prices. rye priced per bushel. shelled corn and yellow corn options. hay and straw bale prices. Poultry delivered prices for cases and fryers hens ducks geese pigeons. Eggs current receipts and wholesale fruits vegetables prices for celery lemons oranges lettuce onions sweet potatoes apples box prices. Hide market prices list No 1 cured hides No 2 cured hides No 4 calf hides No 2 kip and other notes.
Chicago reports grains faced a soft session with wheat down to a May low then reclaiming some losses as prices closed near intraday highs. July wheat at 1.41 to 1.44, September 1.42, corn steady at 1.05, oats mixed and rye down about 0.34.
AP market notes show cash wheat No 2 or better at 1.02 per bushel and corn sample grades Atlanta sample. Seater white 68 cents. Barley making 1.06 to 1.14 for nominal hard Mal 10, feed 96 to 1.02.
Chicago based Harold Hedges of the USDA feed committee warned that next year the nation will eat as much meat as it averaged from 1935 to 1939. He noted even with lend lease and military needs, consumption may equal or exceed drought year 1936, while Ezra Benson cited OPA price rollbacks and subsidies aimed at appeasing labor.
The army will furnish trucks and drivers if needed as part of a program to prevent loss of large food stocks in California. Senator Downey of California disclosed the plan on Thursday.
New York buyers showed scattered favorites attracting solid interest in Thursday trading. Several leaders did not sustain Wednesday gains while most advances were fractions. Total transfers traded around 700000 shares.
In New York, most active bonds edged up slightly in early Thursday trading with a slow overall pace. Rail issues, especially low to medium priced, led the rise aided by progress from Wednesday. Southern Pacific loans, Soo Line, Great Northern 6s and rie 25 were among favored issues.
Soviet reports say Red patrols and artillery killed about 900 enemy officers and men on the Orel Smolensk Belgorod Staraya Russa and Leningrad fronts in the last 24 hours. artillery hit Sevsk HQ. Pskov airfield strikes destroyed parked aircraft and trains. Soviet scouts overwhelmed German trenches near Smolensk. Begorod Kharkov sector raid killed 200. Lenin grad detachment killed 180, seized 13 blockhouses five dugouts. two German planes downed near Mtsensk and bomber crew captured.
Mrs William Brown Meloney editor of This Week dies in Pawling New York from influenza complications after an attack.
A plant protection school will be held July 14 in Cedar Rapids to aid manufacturing plants and utilities in planning protection against bombing sabotage or disasters. The program opens at 9 a.m. with sessions on plant protection organization control centers communications blackouts protective concealment fire sabotage and other threats. A sound film Next of Kin is included.
City brief notes Townsend auxiliary will meet Friday at 2 p m with Mrs A B Steyne at 640 Fifteenth Avenue SW. The Gazette invites readers with surplus homegrown vegetables berries or spring fries to advertise them for cash via the Good Things to Eat Want Ad. Dial 2 1121 to place your ad.
Eugene Brenneman nine of 1414 Tenth street SE is recovering satisfactorily from a serious cut on the left wrist after a fall at play. He was treated at Mercy hospital.
A. W. H. Lenders of 2101 Grande Avenue SE underwent surgery at St. Luke's Hospital on June 15. Hospital attendants reported his condition as fair on Thursday.
Auxiliary Sylva T. Peet, daughter of Mrs Mitzi Gugenbuel of 1269 Second Avenue SE, is stationed at the third WAAC training center at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. Her name was omitted from the Cedar Rapids Wacks list reported by the recruiting station earlier in the week.
Dorotha Tanner daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Tanner 529 Thirtieth Street Drive SE Cedar Rapids was missing from a WAAC list printed in The Gazette. She is stationed with an air corps unit in Seattle.
Blanche Erca of Cedar Rapids will join a two officer WAAC recruiting tour covering the Seventh service command. The party including four auxiliaries departs St. Louis on July 1 and tours nine states through September 1.
Police investigated the theft of a bottle of Phil gas from G. L. Remington 915 Eighth Street SE valued at 6.50 Tuesday night. A second report from Mrs. W. V. Doubrasky 1703 First Avenue SE described a large urn knocked from its pedestal damaging several flowers in front of her home.
Esther Meek Lyman is administratrix for the estate of her son Lieut. John B. Lyman reported missing in action in the Asiatic area May 8. Edwin Pestel named administrator for Libbie Pestel who died March 20 in Cedar Rapids. Ross Clark named administrator for Earl Whitman who died June 5 in Lisbon.
Jack McKeehan, 27, of Marion, charged with uttering false checks in Cedar Rapids and Marion, received a 30 day suspended Linn County jail sentence in Justice H. R. Churchill's court. He paid restitution and court costs after being picked up Wednesday by Deputy Sheriff P. J. Whittemore.
Oliver Zahn 24 of Shellsburg was arrested by Constable George Thomas on a desertion and abandonment of minor children charge. He is held in Linn County jail.
Edward S. McNabb of 1510 Fourth street NW fined $10 and costs for speeding. Stanley W. Findley of 1372 Second avenue SW fined $1 and costs for parking in an alley. Louis A. Meyer of 1227 Fifth street NW and Mrs. E. H. Wheeler of 1607 Maplewood drive NE and Mrs. Laura M. Kennedy of 1431 First avenue SE each fined $1 and costs for overtime parking.
Mrs Homer Cherrington of Iowa City, president of the Upper Iowa Methodist conference, spoke to 60 Marion Methodist W S C S members on Women s Twofold Mission. A picnic luncheon followed with Endeavor division as hostesses. Mrs Carolyn Hanscom led devotional Love and Home as part of the program.
The Marion ration board sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce reports help was obtained for farmers who were putting up hay and picking berries the last week. The service is free of charge and individuals seeking full or part time work are asked to register.
The Baptist church picnic will be held Friday in Thomas Park with games starting, and supper served at 6 30. The Grove City Rebekah lodge degree staff meets Friday with Mrs. Fred Clark and Mrs. John Johnson hosts. Lieut Myron Sorden and Mrs Sorden travel from Matherfield California to visit Mrs Sorden's parents Rev and Mrs Gilbert Voorhies before reporting to the Sioux City air base for training.
Mr and Mrs John Coakley of Excelsior Springs Missouri and their son Lloyd Coakley stationed with the navy near Boston visited in the Ellen McGuire and Willis Jordan homes Tuesday Ruth Crow of Chicago joined the group during the visit by the former Marion residents.
Mrs. John H. Pazour and Mrs. Gene Atkinson attended the wedding of their nephew Lieut. William Wilkinson of the naval air corps to Darlene Wagner at St Patrick's Catholic church Marengo. Also notes store ads and local visits by Mrs. Irving Finger and others.
Mrs. George H. Clark of Marion received a Red Cross card from Geneva Switzerland confirming her son Milo Webb Sergt 23 was taken prisoner by Italians March 10 during the North African campaign. The note says he is safe not wounded awaiting transfer to a prison camp and will provide a new address when available. Card shows Camp Cont location and was sent to the Prisoner of War Information bureau Washington DC.
Pfc. Donald Dippel of Camp McCain Mississippi is enjoying a ten day furlough with his wife and his parents Mr and Mrs George W Dippel.
The Rev. C. V. R. DeJong and the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Voorhies returned Thursday from Ames where they attended the Presbyterian Synod.
Gilbert Turkleson of Sioux City stayed with the John L. Gritzner house while attending the Knight Templar grand commandery conclave in Cedar Rapids. A joint Cheerful Companions and Missionary Guild meeting of the Christian church is planned for Friday at 8 in the church basement.
Mrs. A. A. Hardin, Marion Red Cross production chairman, asks that all knitted garments be returned to her home at 1262 Eighth Avenue as soon as possible.
Classified notice lists want ad rates for two groups aged 18 to 23 and 24 to 29. Includes pricing and ad duration details for community needs in Eetenes.
Fragmentary OCR line shows numeric values and dollar amounts without context. The text includes phrases like TIVE DAYS and various prices, but no identifiable event, person, or organization to anchor a proper news item.
Mrs. Ollie Gritzner travels to Waterloo and Plainfield to visit relatives. Sergt. Bob Davin of Camp Claiborne La is on a 14 day furlough with his parents, Mr and Mrs Milo Davin.
Gen Draja Mihailovic and six aides wore peasant disguises in a Montenegro inn while Nazi troops passed and failed to identify the Yugoslav leader. The seven slipped away to Serbia after a later check of papers and a near capture. Mihailovic held a half million dollar price on his head offered by Germany.
A Greek refugee government spokesman said five hundred Italian soldiers, including 18 officers, were captured during a 52 hour battle in western Macedonia. The Greeks reportedly seized large quantities of yarn. A Polish spokesman reported Nazis intensified terror in Poland, shooting the population of two villages and burning much of the houses.
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