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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1947
Page
13
Chicago AP reports hog prices down 50 cents per hundredweight from Friday while cattle and sheep hold steady. Good to top butcher hogs sell from 26.75 to 28 dollars with a 28.25 top in one load. most good sows bring 24 to 24.50 dollars. Clearance deemed good.
The market shows hogs steady to firm with slow demand and mixed weight groups. Calves and yearlings price ranges are listed with good to choice categories, while cows and bulls move at uneven levels. Receipts total about 2,000 with early slaughter steady to shippers and several car lots noted in Colorado and nearby shipments.
City AP notes fair trade on most slaughter classes with lighter demand for strictly or choice steers. Light stockers and feeders around 70 percent of run. prices range from $10 to $22.50 for various cattle grades. Vealers and stockers show gains. cows, canners, and cuts quoted low to mid teens with frequent weekly fluctuations.
Receipts and bids varied across cattle calves and sheep. Packers offered 28 dollar bids for butchers while bulk cattle weighed 180 to 250 pounds. cows steady to 25 cents lower. vealers steady. Lambs traded around 23 to 23.50, with slaughter ewes scarce and bred ewes offered at around 135 pounds.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market were steady Monday with top prime butchers at 27.00 and packers at 24.25. The report lists varied figures for steers, yearlings, cows, bulls, and lambs, plus hides, poultry, fruits, and vegetables. Dow Jones Averages are noted at the end.
New York prices showed modest gains as professionals bid cautiously for a renewal in tech shares while leaders remained unmoved. Turnover was among the slowest of the year with many traders waiting for clearer signals.
New York prices largely held steady on Monday with bonds showing limited movement. The market opened near a key level as investors watched hesitant action from major issues including Baltimore and Ohio securities and regional offerings.
Inland markets report combined grain receipts for 48 hours ending Monday 8 pm totaling 38 000 yards, up from 37 000 last week and 24 000 a year ago. Activity is moderate with scattered报价 and miscellaneous items listed such as barrows and wood products appearing in the interior Iowa and southern Minnesota region.
The Chicago market shows mixed produce values with onions and roosters at varied quotes. Butter and cheese receipts rise, with eggs arriving at 17 804 cases and new stock arrivals noted. prices reflect current sales with several quality grades and weight ranges.
In Chicago grain markets prices surged with wheat at a 30-year peak and corn at its best since 1920. Wheat closed 10 cents higher for March at 2.96, corn up 2 to 3 percent near March contracts at 1.78, while oats showed modest gains.
Fragmentary OCR notes show barley pricing with shifts in different grades. References include price ranges from about 1.30 to 1.95 per unit and mentions various market terms. The legibility is poor, but it indicates fluctuating barley values and market activity.
Receipts reach 8,000 as cattle and calves show weak to lower tone from Friday. Fed steers 21.00 to 24.00 with top to 24.00 plus. medium to short fed heifers 19.00 to 22.00. cows and bulls mostly 16.00 to 18.50. Steer calves around 20.00. 190 to 300 lb calves 26.25 to 26.75. feeders weak, mostly 24.00 to 27.00 for 200 lb stock steers.
Nine youths killed when a speeding car struck a slow Burlington engine at a grade crossing near West Frankfort Illinois at 2 30 am. Five crew on the engine survived unharmed. Police found no liquor evidence in the car.
Senator Vandenberg has pigeonholed President Truman's pick Francis Biddle for the United Nations economic and social council. Foreign relations committee members say no discussion has occurred on the nomination, with cloakroom talk suggesting opposition based on New Deal views. The nomination to succeed John G. Winant was sent January 29 and assigned to the committee.
The United James Travelers auxiliary will meet for a 6:30 PM potluck supper at 1423 Wildwood Drive NE. Mrs. Clarence Miller hosts with Mrs. Hazel Kidd assisting as hostess.
The article notes Edward J. McGuire, a legless war veteran, received help equipping his courthouse basement lunch counter from several firms including The Sunday Gazette list and the Modern Refrigeration Company. The collaboration highlights community support for veterans in a public building project.
W R Boyd will discuss important legislation at a joint meeting of Cedar Rapids and Marion Republican Women's clubs. The event is Tuesday in the banquet room of the R V Cafe in Marion with a dessert luncheon at 1 p.m.
Elizabeth City news reports a man named Pritchard, a wealthy harvesting equipment maker with a 12 month libel sentence upheld by the state supreme court, shot the judge Luther Hamilton after his wife heard a blast. Pritchard then killed himself as officers state he had taunted Halstead and the courts from his car and porch for years.
Eileen Edwards 17, once set to wed Theodore Crabtree 19, a coal miner, remains Miss Edwards after canceling plans. The tangled romance began in London with Arnold Buesing of Waterloo Nebraska. Buesing paid her fare to America but she left him for Crabtree upon arrival.
In London the left wing Laborites accused Britain of aiding Greece and Turkey and bypassing the United Nations. They challenged Foreign Minister Hector McNeil who said Britain had not been party to President Truman's aid offer and that no political conditions were attached to the American proposal.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warned of a dark crime period in 1946 with old gangs regrouping and war era juveniles graduating from petty theft to armed robbery. He cited an 18.3 percent rise in women arrests and a total of 645,431 arrests, the highest on record.
The ninety four year old W H Roberts marked his birthday with a family dinner Sunday at the home of his son and daughter in law Carroll and wife. Attendees included J Ray Roberts Eric Sil Mrs George Schrimper Richard Schrimper Minnie Schenken Keith Jacobs Gerald Keith Lloyd Fernow and Susan Kay Fernow.
James White of Cedar Rapids and Patricia Albin of West Branch married by Rev. James P. Gable at the Methodist parsonage on Sunday. They will reside in West Branch with attendants Lucille Grecian and Verle Sisco. Other notes include a surprise dinner party for Bud Connell at Indian Creek Country Club and various social notices around Marion and nearby towns.
A British military court sentenced Moshe Barazini aged 21 of the Stern Gang to death for possessing a hand grenade in Mea Shearim. The sentence coincided with the lifting of martial law in Tel Aviv and the Mea Shearim area of Jerusalem.
Mrs. Marian L. Gilbert, 22, of 122 First Avenue NW, received a one year suspended sentence to Rockwell City women's penitentiary after pleading guilty to making false statements for credit. She initially pled innocent to cheating by false pretenses but pled guilty to the included offense for which she was sentenced. She admitted obtaining merchandise valued at 100.88 from Craemer's after getting credit.
Judge G. K. Thompson awarded J. J. W. Dvorak a $20 judgment against Harvey Stickle for rent and garage rent and $18 for basement cleanup. The defendant’s counterclaim was dismissed.
Obituary notes a death in Anamosa with funeral services at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick's Church. Survivors include the wife four daughters Emma and Agnes of Cedar Rapids and Gladys and Mary of Anamosa plus several step-children.
FRANK B. WHARTON passed away today at home. He was husband and father, survived by Catherine and Clare. The notice lists other local names and mentions a memorial with family and neighbors.
Rival coaches Bruce Drake of the Oklahoma Sooners and Johnny Flanigan of the St. Louis Billikens said their teams were ready for Monday night's playoff for the fifth district berth in the Western Regional NCAA tournament.
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