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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1949
Page
16
Chicago market reports show hog receipts cut back about one third from expected 6,000 while prices rise 25 to 50 cents per cwt on small supplies. Cattle and sheep mostly steady with varied bids. regional feeds and regional price movements influence stalls as buyers show cautious demand.
Friday prices show prime butchers at 21.00 and sows around 18.00 to 20.90, with various grades and loads of market items listed. Fruits vegetables and grains follow, including celery at 6.50 per two dozen and oranges at 3.00 per crate. Poultry prices edge up, hay and straw quoted, and grain futures noted.
In New York the stock market wobbled lower with small losses and a sprinkling of gains. Trading was slow with about 650 000 shares for the full session.
Omaha reports show 600 calves salable with slaughter classes steady to weak. Weaker areas include stocker and feeder classes. heifers and canners vary. Prices listed: medium to low good steers $21.00–$23.00. cows $17.00–$18.50. cutter and common cows $15.80–$16.75. canners $14.50–$15.25. sausage bulls $21.00. good beef bulls down to $18.00. market seen as cleanup with few lots rolling into next week. Also Plymouth Wis notes on dairy car bids and offers. Mississippi River stages at Hastings, Portage, Prairie du Chien, Dubuque, Keokuk, Cedar River at Cedar Rapids notated.
Chicago market notes slow demand for live poultry with receipts six trucks and firm butter at 69 to 93. Eggs show steady with browns and whites mixed at 11 958 cases and 60 70 percent extras. Potatoes report arrivals 718 on track 270 with moderate demand and russets firm for northern stocks amid varied regional prices.
The fragment shows commodity price notes with varied weights and prices for items labeled as heavyweight and extra large. It lists receipts 140,368 and mentions prices mostly unchanged with small increases in some lines.
Grains rose Friday back from Thursday losses led by May wheat and corn, aided by large elevator buying and short covering. The CCC raised cash wheat bids in the southwest by a cent, while a Senate committee approved a bill to let CCC acquire or rent grain storage real estate.
Market notes show Chicago grain bids for wheat corn and oats with varied sample grades. Cattle hogs and sheep receipts at Sioux City and Kansas City reveal lighter cash activity, steady to lower prices, and modest gains for select hog classifications amid broader declines in grain-linked feeds.
Miss Jeannette Ringland assistant professor of speech and dramatics at Coe College Cedar Rapids has accepted an invitation to direct the summer theater at Cornell College Mt Vernon She will teach production acting and directing and direct summer theater productions beginning in June Ringland recently became vice president of the Forensic Association of Iowa Colleges and serves as governor of the Iowa Missouri province of Pi Kappa Delta She is a Cornell graduate with a Northwestern master’s degree and has taught at State Center Boone Hackettstown NJ and St Louis Park Minnesota
Linn county Red Cross drive totals show $59,356.99 raised, about 119 percent of the 1949 quota of $50,000. Most divisions exceeded targets by Thursday, with final audit to be completed Friday night by Cedar Rapids chapter volunteers from the National Association of Cost Accountants.
DES MOINES Iowa Gov Beardsley named W B Hamilton of Hampton to a six year term on the state board of education and reappointed Carl B Stieger of Toledo to a six year term on the Iowa Employment Securities Commission Both are Democrats The appointments were sent to the senate for confirmation Hamilton would replace Lester S Gillette of Fostoria a Democrat
A jury convicted Roy Godbey of murdering Attorney Earl Pruet in Oklahoma City. The sentence was set at life imprisonment.
United Air Lines posted a 1948 net loss of $1,070,358, with a deficit of $3,474,366 in 1947. President Patterson said the year showed progress and a favorable outlook for 1949, noting industry cooperation and greater service. Traffic volume rose overall, with revenue ton miles up seven percent as mail and cargo rose 43 percent while passenger miles fell one percent.
Christian church Men's Brotherhood in Marion heard Lloyd Kiefer speak on conserving wildlife resources. A film titled Fish Fare was shown, with 50 men attending the dinner. Harold Halstead chaired the event.
Mr and Mrs Donald Scott of New Orleans arrive for a week with his mother Mrs Sarah Ford and his sister Mrs A E Miller. Scott attends Lefebvre Corporation convention in Cedar Rapids. Mrs Harold Miller recovering well after major surgery in Norman Oklahoma.
The sale was made through E. T. Brockman. The Barkwills plan to build two new houses. Dr. R. J. Leidigh has been advised that his mother Mrs. Scott Leidigh of Davenport suffered a fractured arm in an accident Thursday. Mrs. A. E. Miller hosted a dessert luncheon and bridge for eight women. Mrs. De Witt H. Smith visited Ames to spend the weekend with her father W. K. Greer. Geraldine Smith began work as a Fall River Gas Co demonstrator. Carl L. Wiley and wife visited daughter in Waterloo this week.
Words cannot express our thanks to relatives friends and neighbors for their support during our bereavement Chas Kelly and Emily. Lost and found notices include a solid gold chain emblem at Jess Manes Watch Repair Shop 141 2nd Ave NE and several dog loss rewards for dogs named Marko and a brindle and white Boston terrier. A small pins set with blue sapphires and pearls is missing with a reward offered.
A dense page of ads for home services and goods. Listings include bedding refits, fur care plans, watch repairs, truck rentals, alterations, repair and remodeling services, painting, hauling, septic and plumbing, carpet cleaning, and baby-sitting notices.
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