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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1943
Page
2
Live hog receipts met expectations with prices steady to 10 cents higher, top at 15.80, while cattle traded actively and remained steady to strong. Sheep demand remained active as slaughter offerings included various weight classes and quality grades.
Receipts show cattle and hog markets with steady to higher demand. Hog top at 15.15 for 210 plus pounds, most hogs 14.75 to 15.00. Cattle strength in high grades with 14.75 to 17.00 for select beef steers. heifers 14.00 to 15.75. cows 9.00 to 13.00. vealers 14.00 to 15.50. Sheep and lambs scarce with no early fed lamb trading. ewes around 7.50 and native lambs limited.
The notice summarizes varied beef and pork weights with price quotes in dollars per hundredweight and total costs. It lists ranges such as 190-170 lbs at $13, 330-180 lbs at $14, 186-200 lbs at $14.80, 270 lbs at $14.35, and 400 lbs at $14.25, reflecting a compact auction or market bulletin style.
Sioux City market report shows hog receipts around 500 with 270 to 360 lb range at 15.00 dollars per cwt, good sows and feeders at 25 to 1250 lb averaging 16.75 dollars, cows scarce but active, bulls steady to 14.35, stock cattle and mixed loads including Texas feeders, lambs held firm with better prices.
Receipts and prices for poultry butter eggs and onions show firm to unsettled markets. Summer staples like Bliss Triumphs and tagged seed oats appear with mixed unwashed and washed values across U S regions and Florida listings. Tracking notes indicate light supply and sparse carrot offerings, with Wisconsin Nebraska and Maine entries showing varied quotes.
New York produce receipts show eggs with graded categories and price ranges. Butter prices indicating bulk and per pound adjustments amid dairy market notes.
Grain quotations furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company. Contact H. R. Mowrey manager Cedar Rapids office at 503 Merchants National Bank building.
Prices on all hog grades held firm on Wednesday in Cedar Rapids. Top butchers price reached 15.00, long haul no-fill 15.10, and packers 14.65.
Market report lists grains and commodities with prices for oats wheat and soybeans. Includes poultry prices for springers hens ducks young geese pigeons and pullets and wholesale fruit vegetable and hide quotations with package and unit details.
A brief market note from Wisconsin Milwaukee describes cheese price ranges and availability for March 15 to 20. It mentions Twins or cheddars and provides unspecified pricing, reflecting a regional dairy trade update.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports the purchase of 40 000 fleeces of fine and half blood southeastern wools at grease price of 362c F OB or $1 19 1 22 grease basis delivered Boston. Demand continues for Montevideo wools with most grades offered at 36c grease basis in bond for May delivery.
Chicago AP reports potential early action to cap price deductions on benefits and crop damage in winter wheat fueling a stronger grain market. Wheat futures rose, May at about 1.452 to 1.455, July near 1.464 to 1.461, oats gained about 3.4 cents, rye up around 1.5 cents.
Chicago market update lists cash wheat and corn prices with variations for No 2 yellow No 3 and No 4 futures. Mixed lots and white wheat quotations show bid levels around 90 to 106 cents per bushel with feed grain around 78 to 90 cents.
The house naval committee approved a measure to curb absenteeism among war plant workers by tightening the selective service act. Employers seeking deferment must provide draft boards with records of worker absences. departments and contractors must supply the labor department with names of workers absent over a specified period.
An explosion at the Sussex ordnance plant near Milford Delaware on Tuesday kills three workers and injures others. Rescue and investigation crews work at the scene as authorities determine the cause of the blast.
The New York market bogged down as shares shed gains amid profit chasing. Early slow activity gave way to a downturn before easing to about 1.4 million shares traded over five hours.
New York bond report notes rail leaders moved lower in trading Wednesday as profit selling hit favored carriers. Some declined 1 to 2 points while a few stocks held firmer in late trading.
Plans are complete for a joint American Legion USO dance at Coe College Memorial Coliseum on Saturday night for air force reserves and other service members. The Jack Parrish band will play eight thirty to midnight with a variety show at intermission and casino style food served all evening on the lower floor. Ferriter and Albright urge service men not in the Coe reserves to report to the USO office to ensure enough junior hostesses.
British light naval forces manned by Norwegians sank two Axis supply ships during a daring raid into a Narveat Floroe harbor. One large supply ship broke in two and sank near the Norwegian coast about 100 miles north of Bergen. Shore batteries fired but proved ineffective as raiders escaped without casualties.
Kiwanis speaker urged choosing a generous peace over a vindictive one as the United Nations’ path after the war. He warned that lasting solutions require continuous service, not armistices, and called for stronger international governance and food aid across occupied lands and former prisoners. He cited postwar Germany and Greece cases and warned against racial prejudice diminishing liberties for Black and Oriental Americans.
Townsend club No. 7 convenes Thursday at 7 30 p m in the club room located at 117 F avenue NW with a picnic supper at 6 30 preceding the meeting. Lost ration books ad urged via The Gazette. Chamber of Commerce youths set a 6 15 p m meeting with a double feature program from Elks Minstrels of 1943. Civil service commission seeks executives from food textiles metals and other key industries for war production.
A vesper service is set for tonight at 7 30 at First Lutheran Church Third avenue at Tenth street SE. The meditation will focus on the first part of the history of Christ's passion with Rev. Paul Luther Miller presenting Jesus Tears as the subject.
Verne E Reichling is president and George A Merrifield is vice president of the Foresters of America post No 1. Dominick Feiereisen serves as financial secretary with Louis F Black recording secretary and Anton Krejci sergeant at arms. Fred E Holcomb and Charles J Oteigay are robbers of the post authorized to invest a sizable percentage of funds in war bonds.
At a special meeting the city council approved March payrolls totaling 28 648.39 and adopted a resolution transferring 5 275 from the garbage collection fund to the sewage rental fund to pay a loan. The move follows temporary loans in 1941 and 1942 and leaves unfinished business minimal before year's end.
City Treasurer Walter E. Miller reports dog license sales lag behind 1942 as March 31 deadline nears. Cold weather kept many away from city hall causing 56 fewer licenses sold to date. Licenses required for dogs over three months. county licenses also due. unlicensed dogs will be picked up April 1 with a $1 penalty. proceeds go to the Humane Society.
The Iowa highway commission approves extending Linn county trunk road M eight miles from Cedar Rapids to Palo establishing it in the county primary road system. Maintenance will transfer to the commission around April 1. Traffic counts rank it as Linn county’s heaviest traveled secondary road. The stretch was resurfaced with crushed rock last year. Parts of the route were once part of the 1847 Cedar Falls to Cedar Rapids state road.
Charles J. Heller of Central City and others filed a petition Tuesday with the Linn county board of supervisors to establish a secondary road district in Maine and Buffalo townships for surfacing 4.1 miles of road. The request was referred to County Engineer William H. Behrens.
Earl Bailey of Marion, a World War I veteran, appointed elevator operator by the Linn county board of supervisors to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clarence Anderson.
Earl Ross dismissed without prejudice his district court suit against Joe Topinka doing business as the Topinka Roofing and Insulation company. Ross sought a judgment of 90 dollars plus interest for a sales commission.
The Linn county board of supervisors bought a woolen United States flag six feet by sixteen for the grand jury room. Evelyn Gibson of Cedar Rapids resigns as stenographer in the Linn county relief department. The board appropriates up to 150 for bee inspection work in 1943. Tuesday the supervisors awarded Broulck Brothers of Cedar Rapids a contract to wash and clean walls and ceilings of courthouse offices for 2235.
Private Robert Brereton on furlough hunted all day in bad weather and got only one bird shot. At 7 p.m. he saw a pheasant rooster on a locomotive cow catcher as the train pulled in. After it left, the bird lay between the tracks and was alive. The next day he ate pheasant.
WAAC Third Officer Helen E Wallace with Auxiliaries Paul ette Burgie and Blanche Erca will headline a two day recruiting drive at the YWCA Cedar Rapids starting Thursday at 8 pm They will also visit the army recruiting office in the post office Friday and Saturday to take applications and provide mental tests The drive is run in cooperation with the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs.
At a Marion Legion auxiliary meeting Frances Wahl was appointed chairman of Poppy day sales. Delegates selected for the county conference at Cedar Rapids on March 31 include T. A. Barkwill Glenn Larkin Margaret Leming Carl Kassier Herbert Price Harold Ballard Carolyn Hanscom and A R McElwain with alternates Will Evans O W McBride Oscar French John Clay Ned Jones Neal Miller J W Bowdish Jr and Thomas Costello. The Camp Fire group directed by Mrs D D Hastings presented a playset. Margaret Leming read the new pledge ruling and guests Margaret Jacobsen Ruth Reed attended. A picnic supper for 75 members and families preceded the meeting.
Kenneth E. Cornell praises a large volunteer turnout at the Legion hall as Marion hosts a three day drive. Marion’s goal is 3 540 and the township’s goal 1 414 with Mayor John C. Mullin named captain of the business and commercial section and a list of workers assisting.
Mrs A A Hardin asks all kitbags be returned to production rooms above Edison pharmacy Thursday. Mrs Walter R Morgan and daughter Abigail Louise have been sent home from Cedar Rapids hospital to her parents Mr and Mrs Will Yule. Pfc Morgan is at Cheyenne Wyoming. Sorosis club meets Thursday at 7 30 pm with Mrs Louis C Ross. Mrs Karl W Kendall leads the program.
The Theristrial club was entertained Tuesday by Mrs. C De Jong. The program continuing the study of Canada was in charge of Mrs. Josephine Whitacre.
R. P. McLain recovering satisfactorily ten days after a major operation at St Luke's hospital. He is to be returned home at 780 Fifth avenue by the end of the week.
Des Moines reports Gov. Rourke B. Hickenlooper reacted to a telegram from a Storm Lake business man describing wartime strains. The note details family enlistments, farm staffing shortages, a 320 acre Sac county farm, and a tenant in poor health with a drafted hired man and a sick child, urging urgent help.
Arthur Brayton, manager of the Des Moines Chamber convention bureau, will give a talk at 8 p.m. March 25 in the Coe College chapel under the Coe Victory Speakers Bureau. His subject is The Public Acceptance To the War Effort. Public invited.
Some fissures opened by earthquakes remain visible while others seal rapidly. Scientists monitor ground shifts and assess ongoing geological activity for potential aftershocks and landscape changes.
Classified ad seeking women for laundry work, apply in person at Paris Laundry. Local notices mention social visits, cooking class, and a golden wedding anniversary dinner, plus an ad offering Bexel Vitamin B Complex capsules at Owen's Cut Rate.
Kenneth E. Cornell was elected president of the Marion board of education at the annual reorgan ization meeting in the office of Superintendent C. B. Vernon. Irvin L. Ford was chosen vice president. Mrs. Calvin Moore and daughter Nancy Sue returned home from Cedar Rapids hospital. Mrs. Jessie L. Moore of Kansas City visits Calvin Moore. Cub Scout Pack No 58 meets tonight at 7 30 in the Legion hall. Gene Jacobs, son of Mr and Mrs Earl Jacobs, quarantined at Camp Dodge after March 11 induction trip due to measles.
Lieut. William Dippel and Mrs. Dippel visit Davenport relatives after Fort Knox graduation. Mrs. Mervin Wissmiller and daughter Patricia host George W. Dippels. Marionette Four H to meet with Arlene and Dorothy Pflughaupt. Twig Benders hold picnic supper at church. Frank Tanner to leave for Camp Dodge. R. E. Tanner hosts Cedar Rapids and Marion visitors. Electa circle to meet with Mrs. Fred Holsinger. Psalm 100 devotional study. Flournoy Corey spoke at Lions club dinner. Dorcas circle meeting postponed. Mrs. S. A. Fontaine visits Iowa City with daughter Marilyn. Miss Sara Nott attends Republican women meeting in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Earl Welsher hosts O. O. P. club. Book review of Broad and Alien is the World by Cira Alegria by Mrs. Mary English. Red Cross and other fund gifts noted.
Paterson light heavyweight Ed ward Comiskey aged 22 was found guilty by a Passaic county jury of raping Ida De Vries, 27, at Garret Mountain Reservation. The verdict carries a 10 to 20 year prison term. The jury deliberated five hours and twenty one minutes. Comiskey denied the charges.
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce legislative committee chair Don Hines issued an urgent invitation for all members to attend the last committee meeting Friday noon at the Montrose hotel. Discussion will include a proposed revision of the Iowa public school system code with Haven Y. Simmons and Walter Shupp reporting.
The first condenser or milk canning plant in the South began operations at Starkville Mississippi in 1. The facility marked a milestone in regional dairy processing and industrial development.
Fragmented OCR shows storefronts and ads for gifts at Vincent's jewelry store, a laxative product MagLAX, mineral oil mixtures at Fisher Drug, and a ballroom dance listing at GarenaSo Dey Morbert with address hints. Also urges to buy war bonds and mentions Carroll Ting and 10th Street.
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