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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1983
Page
28
A fragmented midwest market notice from Cedar Rapids hints at price reductions across multiple items. The document mentions discounts per item and a potential scale from 300 to 190 units, with additional rounds and per unit savings.
Grain and bean cash prices were released by the local elevator with quoted quotations across staples. Prices include noted figures for soybeans and corn with general market indicators and reference to recent trading activity.
The Federal-State Market News Service notes prices mostly steady to slightly lower in light trading. Large and medium eggs rise with Easter orders, while small and other grades show varied movement. Prices paid to producers are listed for loose eggs with several weight classes and bids, yet overall volumes remain insufficient for firm tests.
Fragmentary OCR text references Chicago produce prices and delivery, with garbled numbers and units. No clear entities beyond Chicago and pricing notes. Unable to determine a coherent event, date, or spokesperson from the readable fragments.
Fragmentary text shows scattered references to Omaha Sioux City and Webster City with unclear context and dates. The readable parts mention Owe, oils, and testing, but no coherent event or outcome is evident. Further readable details are needed to form a concrete item.
In Omaha federal court popcorn growers argued that popcorn is corn and should be part of the USDA payment-in-kind crop swap program. The case, before U.S. District Judge C Arlen Beam, questions whether popcorn should be treated as feed grain eligible for government grain in exchange for reducing production.
In Cedar Rapids a federal court review of the Kinze versus Deere planter patent dispute moved toward closing arguments as jurors consider the patent validity issues. Deere seeks a directed verdict on the Max-Emerge equivalence while Kinze counters with expert testimony on prior art and patent scope.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo stripped its 1983 grand champion steer after exhibitor Clifton Smith admitted the 1255 pound Chianina was not in his care for two months. The animal was kept by an Oklahoma veterinarian from December to February for hoof work. Smith said he did not know the rule and believed no rule book existed at the time.
The Iowa County Farm Bureau hosts a quilt and craft festival in Williamsburg from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday March 22 at City Hall. Quilts compete in five categories with entries from 6:30 to 7 p.m. A craft display, demonstrations, pork cookery by the Porkettes, and a program on meat and livestock conclude the event with talks by Gerry Lackender District 6 Farm Bureau women's director.
The Johnson County pork queen joins four Iowa high school seniors traveling to the American Farm Bureau youth leadership conference at the Lodge of the Four Seasons Lake of the Ozarks Missouri from April 4 to 7. Attendees include Sue Ross of Solon FFA president Jim Boggess of Villisca Shawn Stahmer of LaMotte and Sheila Brock of Albia. The quartet were chosen from eighty conferees at the Iowa Farm Bureau youth citizenship conference last July.
Public notices from Linn County Iowa announce hearings for variances and rezoning requests. The Cedar Rapids area notices detail plans for a street project and a wastewater line, with costs shown, and invite written objections. The Linn County Zoning Board schedules hearings on map amendments and property rezoning, with affected parcels described and the process for interested parties to attend. Notices are dated March 1983 and include clerk and board signatures.
By direction of the Cedar Rapids City Council bids for sewer improvements on 3rd Avenue SW from 10th Street to 11th Street and north to 2nd Avenue SW will be received at City Hall and opened April 6 1983. Specifications are available at City Clerk and City Engineer offices. Bid bonds of 10 percent required. payment by city warrant after completion. affirmative action program required. city reserves right to reject bids and waive formalities.
The Linn County Zoning Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing at 10 PM on March 28 at the Linn County Administrative Office Building Cedar Rapids. Items include a kennel use permit for Norman R and Ruby B Boots case C-2-83 and a sewage treatment plant permit for Douglas Price case C-3-83 on parcels in sections 24 86-7 and 4-86-7. Citizens may present views on the petitions under Iowa law.
Theis called to order at 7:00 pm with Reuter Wheeler Merton Bruns West present. Minutes from February 16 reviewed. Resolution 82-100 approves the war budget for FY ending June 30, 1983. other items include bids for a truck and plow hitch, sewer project, and various financials. Several motions carried with votes aye and some abstentions, adjourned by Mayor Theis with Clerk Biederman recording.
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