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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1945
Page
5
Official estimates show 6000 hogs 8000 cattle and 2000 sheep to be salable. Cattle were active with top offerings near 18 dollars while medium grades moved slowly around 15 down. Hogs held steady and showed fair activity despite limited demand.
Hogs: receipts 5,000 active and steady. Barrows and gilts around 14.45, sows and stags 13.70. Feeder pigs under 140 lb about 15.00, heavier weights 14.45. Cattle: receipts 11,000. Calves 250. Fed steers and yearlings opening steady. cows uneven but mostly steady. bulls steady to strong. Stockers and feeders in light supply, several loads of medium to heavy steers around 17.00 to 17.30. good and choice 15.00 to 16.85. some 15.25 to 16.00. Cows 10.50 to 12.00. others up to 13.50 on order. Sheep: receipts 1,000. Market fully steady. Lambs 15.75 to 16.00. old crop shorn lambs 14.50 to 15.00. good to choice shorn ewes 7.50 to 8.00. 59 lb California shorn feeder lambs 13.00.
Hogs show active receipts near 5 000 with good and choice barrows at 14.75 and sows at 14.00. Cattle with 20 000 receipts. top fed steers around 18.00, best heifers near 17.50, vealers 16.00, cows 9.50 to 12.50, stock cattle slow. Sheep 2 000 receipts. spring lambs mostly 16.00 to 16.25, native ewes 6.50 to 8.00, one batch 100-lb shorn lambs 15.25.
Market notes list hog prices at Des Moines and several locations with figures for good packing sows and common hog grades. Prices shown include multiple districts and ranges, indicating regional activity and varying quotes across firms.
Sioux City cattle hogs and sheep market summary shows salable receipts 12 000 cattle 100 calves multiple price levels with steers and heifers slow and steady bids, hogs active with good feeder counts and mixed weights, sows and stags weaker, sheep receipts 3 600 with lambs and yearlings in mixed lots and no early action.
Combined hog receipts for 48 hours ending Monday at 8 am in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 32 200 head, up from 31 800 last week but below 46 200 a year ago. Heavy demand kept loads steady with lots moving to packing plants. price ranges quoted for various hog weights and grades.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market held at ceiling Monday with prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Cattle values show various grades and weights with steer and yearling ranges and bulls, plus calf, sheep, grain, hay, poultry, and dairy product quotes from local markets and Wisconsin cheese purchases by the army.
Davenport and other river towns show river stage readings with rises and falls across stations. Data includes Davenport Hastings La Crosse Dubuque Keokuk McGregor and Portage readings, noting rises and occasional no change and a fall at several points.
Bullish forces kept control on Monday lifting rails rail equipment rubbers avia tions distillers and low quoted motors and utilities. The aggregate for the full proceedings stood near 1,800,000 shares, marking a high since 1937.
Chicago AP reports grains finished steady to fractional gains after mid session Monday with wheat varying from 3 to 3 1/2 percent higher than Saturday, corn mostly unchanged to up 4 percent, oats up around 4, rye mixed, and barley up to 4 percent with July and December prices noted.
New York AP reports rail issues continuing upward Monday with Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron 6s rising over 9 points. Other carrier issues posting advances include Missouri Pacific General, Consolidated Railway 4s ort 1954, and most New Haven bonds.
Chicago AP market notes show no sales for wheat and mixed results for corn oats and rye. No 4 yellow corn at 1.17 a bushel, No 5 yellow 1.17, sample grade yellow 1.06 1/2, No 1 mixed oats 100c, No 2 white 20 1/2c, sample grade white extra heavy 68, No 1 special read 70c, malting rye 1.15 1.3042, feed rye 90c 1.18.
GUAM AP Iwo Jima cost the lives of more than 4,000 American marines yet saved B 29 air crews, Lt Col John R Maney group operations officer Cedar Rapids Iowa says Iwo enabled new tactics and total air war against Japan earlier, shortening the war and saving more American lives.
Chicago reports receipts for poultry eggs butter and cheese with price levels and market notes. Leghorn fowl roasters fryers and old roosters listed with varying cents per pound. eggs receipts and standards shown. cheese brands and prices. potatoes fall new arrivals track and on track shipments with California and Arizona prices and conduct noted as market firm with high demand.
The U S Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Cedar Rapids food costs for 61 items rose 1.6 percent from mid April to mid May, matching national gains. Fresh fruits and vegetables drove the rise with a 7.6 percent jump. meats edged down slightly while dairy stayed steady. Prices compared with last year show a 4.7 percent increase and a 48.8 percent rise since January 1941 under the Little Steel formula.
New York butter receipts over two days at 1 490 777, cartons delivered in New York with prices set by OPA. Creamery grades AA 42% and 92 score 1A 4134c, 80 score B 41 1/2c. tubs 3s cent higher. Egg receipts 28 332 two days, firm with wholesale prices for mixed colors extras No 1-4 39.76c-41.3c per lb, standard and curve receipts 36.2c. dirties 43 lbs 36.2c.
The Iowa Elks state executive board met in Cedar Rapids and voted to hold a conference September 15 and 16 in Marshalltown. Exalted rulers from 36 lodges will attend and the gathering will conform to DDT regulations. Henry Dukes of Centerville, president of the state organization, presided with eleven board members present.
The city council approved 191 permits for cigaret sale signs for the coming year. City Clerk Maude Krebs noted the figure trails the prior year’s 217, with about a dozen more permits to issue and only five cancellations received to date.
The City Plan Commission is urged to rezone a southwest Cedar Rapids area by the Industrial Bureau and Chamber of Commerce. The plan outlines a postwar industrial site north of Wilson Avenue, bounded by Sixth Street SW, city limits, and a line from Twenty first Street SW to Thirty third Avenue SW and back to Wilson Avenue.
CAMP EDWARDS MASS UP Two naval officers listed as missing and presumed dead after a training plane reportedly plunged into the sea three miles south of Hyannis Thursday were identified by the navy Monday. Ensign John A. Cherveny pilot son of Edward J. Cherveny of Belle Plaine Iowa and Ensign J Huddleston Heath New Orleans were named.
City council grants 41 class B licenses, 36 class C licenses, eight club and three hotel permits in a single action. Applicants must file by June 14. Surrenders of class B permits by Myrtle Fatka and Helen Ann Clymer were accepted, and Floyd J. Brecht’s class B permit was transferred to 227 Fourteenth Avenue SE.
Linda Ahrens filed in district court against Joe A Goldsbury LeRoy Findley and Century Cab for 7500 dollars. Incident occurred June 13 1944 at Sixth Street and Second Avenue SW when a Boland driven car collided with a Finley owned taxi. Ahrens was hospitalized 34 days with a leg injury and fractured vertebra.赔
George Prizler aged 42 of 636 Seventh Avenue SE was arraigned on a third driving while intoxicated charge. County Attorney Carl Hendrickson and Judge Floyd Philbrick set bond at 1500 and ordered a plea and counsel by Wednesday. He was arrested on Highway 30 east of Cedar Rapids after patrolmen observed unsteadiness and crossing the center line. Previous records show a Linn County conviction on August 27, 1943, with a 300 fine, and earlier offenses in Johnson County with 45 days in February 1942, plus prior fines for reckless driving and intoxication dating 1935 to 1939.
John Edwin Meyers a 32 year old Center Point resident is jailed in Linn county on two desertion and abandonment charges involving minor children and a separate count of selling mortgaged property Bond for the first charge is 1500 with a similar amount suggested for the second County Attorney Carl Hendrickson reports Meyers who had been released to enter the army was not inducted and was rearrested Saturday Family resides west of Center Point and the arrest was made in Waterloo by Deputy Sheriff P J Whittemore
County Recorder Dempsey Jones office shows two liens released for Eugene J. Hickey of Fairfax 17.39 for 1943 income tax and Dan Christensen doing business as Dan Christensen Construction 205 Bever building 5479 for withholding tax over five months in 1943 and 1944. Judge G K Thompson Monday dismissed Bernice L. Price versus Edward L. Price petition for separate maintenance at plaintiff’s request.
City briefs report Mrs. Donald Her ring of 2039 Park Ave SE was taken to Mercy Hospital by ambulance Friday suffering a heart attack and improving Monday. Justice Howard R. Churchill bound over Margaret Hall on a child desertion charge after waiving hearing. Euphemia Harris, a Mercy Hospital patient for four weeks, returned home at 1429 Seventh Ave SE.
On a Sunday drive toward Cedar Rapids Shirley Wilson of Troy Mills and Dwight Zeiser and Bob Craig of Center Point found a purse on the highway. Inside were $108, 124 meat points, A and B gas ration books, and items belonging to Flora M Water of 123 Twenty third street. They turned it in, the owner recovered, and each received a $5 reward.
Pvt. Lowell Reu, 19, was killed in action May 12 on Okinawa. Inducted September 1944, he went overseas three months later. Survived by mother Mrs. J. W. Steggall of 127% Third Avenue SW, father H. L. Reu of Stronghurst, IL, three brothers LeRoy, Donald, Robert, and sister Orlean, with farm ties to Laverne, Minnesota and Fort Madison connections.
Pvt. Harry D. Hatt, wounded May 15 on Okinawa and paralyzed, is at McCloskey General hospital in Temple, Texas. His wife Judy of Fairfield and sister Mrs. Roy Hatt of Burlington, with his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hatt, have gone to Temple to visit. The Cavalcade of Amusement show left Ceman park for Clinton after a stop at Cedar park last week and will perform there this week.
Nearly twenty eight thousand dollars of the eighty four thousand dollar E bond quota for Marion city and township remains unsubscribed. Bonds must be purchased this week to reach the target. Various local notices include military returns and visits, a pantry shower for a recent bride, and community advertisements.
A dense string of lost items including a brown leather service man's wife bag with $45, a yellow bathing suit, a Sheaffer fountain pen, various wallets and papers, a black purse, a tan jacket, and other personal effects tracked with contact numbers and rewards. Additional notices invite readers to contact numbers for recovery and list numerous advertisements and local notices from Cleaners and stores.
A collage of classified items offering Sears washing machine service and repair, refrigeration service for all makes, lawnmower service, and garment cleaning. Names include Sears Service Department at 313 3rd Ave SE, Globe Appliance at 1115 Snd Ave SE, Kutchera Sodding and Fuel Co, and Arnold Ahlgren Storage. Addresses, contact details, and prices appear with varied services from rubber wringer rolls to insurance offerings.
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