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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 13, 1945

Page

9

HOG RECEIPTS UP CATTLE OFF IN CHICAGO MARKETS

Chicago market report shows Tuesday hog receipts up from Monday with 7,000 salable hogs and cattle at 13,000. Hogs stayed near ceilings with 140 lb barrows and gilts around 24.75, while cattle saw mixed trade and steers top at 17.25 and heifers at 16.00. Sheep arrivals 5,000 with lambs around steady to 25 cents lower. Sioux City and Omaha reports follow with varied cattle, sheep, and hog activity and prices.

Chicago API WFA Geverally Sioux City Omaha WFAI Iowa Des Moines Minnesota

Chicago Produce Market Report With Butter Eggs And Potatoes

Chicago price listings show butter eggs and potatoes with steady or firm markets. Receipts include 5 555 titbs for butter and 15 779 cases for eggs with varied price ranges across grades. New York notes eggs and butter prices with firm tones and ongoing wholesale ranges.

Chicago Ceiling Idaho Russet Burbanks Nebraska Bliss North Dakota U. S Wisconsin Chippewas Florida New York

Cedar Rapids Market Report for Grain and Produce

Grain prices show No 2 yellow corn at 1.05 per bushel, No 2 yellow soybeans at 2.10, No 1 white oats at 0.75, and No 2 wheat at 1.40. Hay, straw, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables list varying prices with Pomona staples and livestock values noted along with current receipts and hides.

Timothy

Lieutenant Melvin Stone Returns to Action in Europe

Second Lt. Melvin G Stone 22, son of Mr and Mrs Finley M Stone of 1291 Elmhurst Dr NE, is hospitalized with frost bitten feet but back with the Hell-on-Wheels armored infantry in the First Army in Europe. Overseas since September, he is a Iowa State University graduate. His brother Corporal Homer Stone is finishing radar training at Corpus Christi Texas.

Melvin G Stone Finley M Stone Elmhurst Drive Hell-on-Wheels Armored Infantry First Army Iowa State University Cpl Homer Stone Corpus Christi Tex

Stock Market Volume Small But Broad Support Near Close

Mild buying aided select stocks in a choppy session as leaders slipped fractions. Turnover hovered around 800000 shares, among the lightest since last November, with declines easing and a sprinkling of gains near the close.

New York

Cedar Rapids Hog Prices Hover at Ceiling Levels

Cedar Rapids hog market reports ceiling prices across classes with top prime butchers at 14.45, packers at 14.70, and varied quotes for hogs from 160 to 650 pounds. Sheep and lamb quotes show choice western lambs at 15.50, good lambs around 14.00 to 14.50, and ewes from 5.00 to 7.00 with lambs priced per hundredweight.

Iowa Des Moines Mason C. Waterloo Ottumwa Austin Cedar Rapids Pacceres

Grain Futures Move Mixed As Futures Rise On Short Covering

Chicago grain futures showed a steady to firm tone with short covering lifting wheat early, then profit taking limited gains. May wheat near 17158 to 1/4, corn around 1.15, oats and rye modestly higher, barley steady, cash grain quotes listed for wheat, corn, oats, and seed crops in Chicago trade.

Chicago

Cheese shipment to army from Wisconsin plant

A carload of twins or cheddars from Wisconsin cheese exchange at Plymouth was sold to the army. The shipment, rated 23 percent moisture, underscores wartime dairy supply moves.

Wisconsin Cheese Plymouth Wis Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Army

Father and Son Banquet at St. Pauls Wednesday

The St. Pauls Methodist church father and son banquet will be held Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the lower auditorium. Willis Lamb of Coe College will be principal speaker. Dr. Charles J. Bready gives the invocation. R. T. Moore is toastmaster. Gerald Heyl leads group singing. Robert Colson of Coe gives a piano solo. Toasts by Dr. Hoyt Thomas and Jim Wasta. Keith Benner is general chairman. Eugene Wasta handles reservations. Mrs. Raymond Reid heads dinner arrangements.

St. Paul’s Methodist Church Willis Lamb Coe College Charles J. Bready R. T. Moore Gerald Heyl Robert Colson Coe Hoyt Thomas Jim Wasta Keith Benner Eugene Wasta Raymond Reid

Marion News Highlights Local School Board Reelected

unopposed school board candidates Paul Rose and W C Sheets received 57 votes each at the Monday election. The column also lists residents attending luncheons, travel plans, furloughs, arrivals and visits, housing ads, and local notices from Marion.

Paul Rose W. C. Sheets

Marion High Wins In Pre District Speech Tournament

Marion High School topped all divisions in the pre district speech tournament held Monday afternoon in the Lincoln auditorium. Helen Frazier and Joyce Franzenburg placed in the first division in oratory, Barbara Seger in dramatics, and Louise Smith in humorous. Other schools participating included Olin Earlville and Norway.

Marion High Marion High School Lincoln Auditorium Helen Frazier Marion Joyce Franzenburg Keystone Barbara Seger Louise Smith Olin Earlville Norway

Famed Red Raider Pilot Killed in Pacific Crash

Col. Richard W. Robinson 25 commander of the Red Raiders heavy bomber unit perished with his 10-man crew in a takeoff crash during the first Formosa raid of the SW Pacific. The crash happened January 21 and was announced after next of kin notification. Robinson, son of Mrs Ruth Robinson Wilkinsburg Pa, held more missions than any other bomber pilot in the theater.

Fifth Air Force HDQ Philippines Richard W. Robinson Red Raiders Formosa Robinson Ruth Robinson Wilkinsburg

Ruml Criticizes Stabilization Plan for Postwar Economy

Washington AP reports Beardsley Ruml warned before the House Postwar Committee that relying on private and public works to stabilize the economy after the war would fail and could harm the construction industry. He urged planning public works and conservation to smooth annual activity.

Washington Beardsley Ruml House Postwar Committee

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