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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 08, 1968

Page

23

Stocks swing toward gains as gold and silver lift mining shares

In New York, stocks trimmed losses amid moderate trading as gold and silver mining shares stayed strong. European gold trading and a weaker dollar supported mining stocks on the Big Board, while overall market caution persisted ahead of the weekend.

New York Europe Dome Campbell Red Lake Homestake Callahan Mining Bunker Hill Sunshine Mining New York Honduras Rosario American Stock Exchange

Hogs Steady To 25 Cents Down From Week Main Prices

Chicago AP reports butcher hogs were steady to 25 cents lower on Friday. Slaughter steers and slaughter heifers held steady.

Chicago

Chicago livestock markets steady amid varied cattle and hog quotes

Hog sales 4 500 head with mixed for 195 to 240 lb at 19.75 to 20.50, 220 to 250 lb 19.50 to 20.00, 190 to 240 lb 19.00 to 19.50, 240 to 260 lb 19.00 to 19.75. sows 17.00 to 18.00. boars 15.00 to 16.00. Cattle 4 500 head slaughter steers 30.00 to 31.00 yield 3 and 4. high choice prime 28.75 to 30.00. cows 17.25 to 19.25. bulls 20.50 to 24.00. Sheep 100 head wooled lambs 26.50 to 27.00 for 90 to 105 lb. others 25.00 to 26.50.

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Hog prices edge up amid strong demand in Des Moines market

Activity remains steady with demand described as generally good. Butchers hold firm to rising quotes as receipts show week over week and year over year comparisons, with U S Grade 1 3 hogs and sows offered across multiple weight ranges from 16 to 19 dollars per cwt.

Night Travel Shown More Hazardous Than Daylight

Cleveland dispatch reports the street and highway safety lighting bureau citing National Safety Council figures that after dark fatalities run 10.1 per cent versus 3.8 in daylight. Officials urge caution and insist on well lighted roads during the dark winter months ahead.

Cleveland UPI National Safety Council

Omaha Livestock Market Report Summary

Omaha cattle and hog market notes show scarce steers and heifers with cows higher. Prices listed include choice steers 1 277 lbs at 26.50 and 1 320 lbs at 26.26, utility cows 17.50-18.75, canners 16.00-17.50, hogs with varying feeder pig values and per hundredweight ranges across weights.

Omaha Livestock Omaha

ECU Tailback Leaves Teeth Behind After Davidson Win

Sophomore Billy Wightman rushed from Davidson stadium after East Carolina defeated Davidson 42-17. In the haste to depart he left his false teeth in the dressing room. Davidson officials sent the teeth back to Wightman.

Davidson N.C UPI Billy Wightman East Carolina Wightman

Cedar Rapids hog and cattle market quotes Friday

Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market were steady to weak with Thursday bids for 200 to 230 pound butchers at 18.75 to 19.15 dollars and packing sows 300 pounds down at 16.75 to 17.00. Cattle quotes cover primes at 16.25 to 27.00 for steers and 11.93 to 25.50 for various cows and heifers with noted discounts for overweight animals.

Cedar Rapids

Firmness Noted In Grain Trade

CHICAGO AP All commodity futures advanced Friday in a rare display of uniformity traders linked to gold buying in international markets. Short covering followed, pushing prices higher as wheat and other grains rose with wheat up 38 to 1% in early trade.

Chicago

Chicago Cash Grain Market Quotes

Chicago price list shows Wheat No 2 hard at 1.58 to 1.59, No 2 soft red at 1.50 to 1.51. Corn No 2 yellow 1.13 to 1.32, No 3 yellow 1.11 to 1.12, No 4 yellow 1.04 to 1.04 2, sample grade yellow 0.94 to 1.04. No 2 heavy white 8, No 2 extra heavy white 0.8. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.72 to 2.73. Soybean oil 9.25.

Chicago Cash Grain Chicago

Midwest meat trade mixed as prices show modest gains

Dressed meats in Des Moines and surrounding areas show steer and cow beef largely steady with pork loins and hams moving higher. Prices per weight vary from 14 to 18 pounds pork products up to 39.50 for sine hams and bellies around 31.00, while steers range 42.50 for 500-700 lb choices and 50.00-900 lb categories.

DES Moines USDA Midwest Lowa

Chicago and New York Produce Markets Report

AP notes steady wholesale butter prices with mixed egg and potato market activity. Eggs show improved demand but steady to higher wholesale bids. potatoes report light new supply and slow demand. New York egg markets show tight supply with mixed white and color grades and unchanged prices.

Chicago U.S Minnesota-North Dakota Red River Valley New York USDA

Robbers Hit Brink’s Armored Car in Chelsea

Two gunmen robbed a Brink's armored car of 29000 as it arrived at the State Soldiers' home in Chelsea Massachusetts no one was injured witnesses said the two man crew was ordered away and one grabbed the money bag the truck was delivering payroll funds to the home the robbers fled in an old car later found abandoned in a nearby shopping center in Revere.

Chelsea Mass Brink’s, Inc Boston Jin Revere

Nurenberg to Honor Famous Son Duerer

Nurenberg plans major exhibit program marking the 500th anniversary of Albrecht Duerer birth. The city, rebuilt after World War II, will finish reconstruction by 1971. The medieval walls moat and era buildings are restored to original plans.

Nurenberg Germany UPI Albrecht Duerer Duerer

Omaha Stockyards Hold Nation's Largest Status Ten Years

The Omaha Stockyards have maintained the title of the nation's largest stockyard for a decade, continuing to anchor meat trade and livestock commerce in the region.

Omaha Stockyard

Britain reshuffles envoy appointments to Washington Paris Bonn

London announces a diplomatic reshuffle naming John Freeman as ambassador to the United States and Christopher Soames to Paris. Sir Roger Jackling becomes ambassador to West Germany, succeeding Sir Frank Roberts.

London UPI Washington Paris Bonn United States John Freeman India Patrick Dean Christopher Soames Winston Churchill Soames Patrick Reilly Roger Jackling Foreign Office West Germany Frank Roberts

Hear Testimony In Sentencing of Henry F Brown

Pre sentence testimony was heard as Judge Walton prepared to sentence Henry Floyd Brown for the murder of a Kansas state patrolman Sgt Eldon Miller. Brown pled guilty to seven charges including robbery and faces possible life or death by hanging. Andrew Gipson and two women receive long prison terms.

Clathe Kan Herbert W. Walton Henry Floyd Brown Kansas Brown Cedar Rapids Overland Park Eldon Miller

Freeman Warns On Signup Lag For Feed Grain Program

Agriculture Secretary Freeman warned that corn prices may stay low this year unless farmers enroll quickly in the feed grain acreage reduction program. He urged those not yet signed up to act before the March 16 deadline as enrollment through Feb. 29 lagged expectations, noting prices hinge on farmers' planting and diversion choices.

Freeman Washington UPS

C R Firm Wins Bid for Rathbun Dam Relocation Work

R Burch Inc of Cedar Rapids emerged as apparent low bidder at 3.9 million on bridge and county road relocations for the Rathbun Dam and reservoir project north of Centerville Iowa. Government estimate stood at 3.723 million. Three bids were opened.

Kansas City R.B. Burch Inc Cedar Rapids Rathbun Centerville Iowa

Draft Law Delinquent Provision Plea Denied

Washington AP A U S district court judge denied Thursday a National Student Assn move to declare unconstitutional the delinquency provision of the selective service act. The provision permits priority induction of a registrant found delinquent.

Washington U. S. District Court

Mt Vernon Man Killed in Texas

Herman Pieper of Mt. Vernon Iowa was struck and killed by a truck on Interstate 10 near Winnie Texas one mile east of Winnie. Larry Dean Sparrow of Belton Missouri identified as the driver. Investigators called the crash unavoidable. Pieper lived alone in the Ivanhoe area and formerly ran a saw mill. A son in Mississippi survives.

Winnie Texas Herman Pieper Mt. Vernon Iowa Beaumont Larry Dean Sparrow Belton Pieper Ivanhoe Mississippi

Fire department hits 61 calls this year in Oelwein

The Gazette reports the Oelwein fire department has logged a record 61 calls so far this year. Many incidents involve grass fires.

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