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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1977
Page
18
The New York Stock Exchange lists show several issues with notable gains and losses based on percentage changes for Friday. Notable increases include Gamb Skog at 27 percent and Horizon Co rising about 63 percent, with many others showing daily shifts and price movements across sectors and firms.
A dense OCR of a 1977 AP stock page lists numerous company tickers, figures, prices, and percentages. Names include Motorola, Nabisco, Texaco, Xerox, and Sears with varied values and percentages, reflecting a broad market snapshot. The data clusters around midday price points and company identifiers without a single clear narrative focus.
New York stocks edged lower in a subdued Friday trading day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.82 to 962.02 as volume on the Big Board reached 13.66 million shares, with declines slightly ahead of advances. The CPI jumped 1 percent in February signaling inflationary pressure, while Cowles Communications led active losers with a 724 decline in heavy trading.
USDA bulk selling prices to Chicago were unchanged for butter and eggs on Friday with specific scores and retail carton ranges listed. Sioux City market reports show hogs down 25 to 50 cents for 200 to 250 pound subjects, sows mostly lower, and cattle not enough for market test.
Des Moines reports slow to moderate demand with lighter bids on hogs and sows steady to lower across weights. Omaha and Webster City show mixed quotes and weaker finishes, while Joliet notes higher prices for cattle and variable hogs. Receipts vary from 1,500 to 76,000 across places and days.
Friday price ranges show bulk butchers 200-230 lb at 35.00-36.00 dollars delivered. 230-240 lb minus 25c. 240-250 lb minus 50c per 10 lb. 250-260 lb minus 75c per 10 lb. over 260 lb minus 1.00 per 10 lb. Sows 300 lb steady at 32.00-32.50. Sheep lambs 48-50, wool lambs 44-47. Corn 2.27, soybeans 8.13, oats 1.63. Chicago futures noted. beef and pork trade slow in Des Moines.
Maquoketa, Iowa. Louis Blezek aged 82 died from injuries after being struck by a car while crossing the street near his home. Authorities attributed the fatal mishap to the vehicle impact sustained Thursday. An unrelated 1937 Texas explosion at Consolidated Public School in New London killed 426 people, most of them children.
Cedar Rapids police investigate a March 7 theft at Kirkwood Community College horse husbandry barn valued at $4 140 with saddles birds bits and harnesses. A reporting system change caused a delay in notifying police and the case remains active as detectives follow leads.
Iowa lawmakers advanced bills including SF233 to appropriate funds across state agencies and SF234 and SF235 for examiners and tax, with strong House votes. HF327 targets transport safety and defense funding, HF279 cuts required full-time public defender salaries in small counties, HF414 and HF415 address civil rights funds and inheritance tax exemptions, HF416 enables administrative hearings in utility cases, HF417 rewrites railroad laws.
The Iowa Senate voted 43 to 2 to table the long truck conference committee report, halting a measure that would overturn IDOT’s ban on 65-foot twin-trailer trucks. The move followed the state supreme court ruling negating IDOT’s 1976 conditional approval. Charley Pride is noted as turning 39 today.
Articles of incorporation filed in Des Moines create the Iowa Freedom of Information Council. Members include the Iowa Broadcasters Association Iowa Daily Press Association Iowa Press Association Register and Tribune Co and the Iowa Broadcast News Association. President is Edwin J Lasko of KCRG Cedar Rapids. The group aims to safeguard public access to government information and oppose closed meetings and secrecy.
WWI Veterans Barracks 695 and auxiliary plan a Sunday 1 p.m. potluck at the coliseum followed by business and officer elections. Alfred Coppock of Springville is listed in St Luke's ICU. AA group will host speakers from Marengo at 8 p.m. Saturday at 328 Rockford Road SW.
The Linn County notices announce a public hearing March 30 1977 at Cedar Rapids City Hall to consider vacating alleys in Richmonds Second Addition and conveyance to Mt Calvary Cemetery Association. Also bids for metal supplies in CR Community School District due April 1 1977. a small claims case 13033 0377 against VoDepo for $645. a public auction March 29 1977 at Linn County Courthouse selling Carpenters additions real estate. public notice by Linn County Board of Supervisors March 11 1977 authorizing road or property improvement funding.
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