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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1943
Page
14
Chicago prices drifted lower with a 10 cent fall after a slow start. Good butcher hogs sold mostly 15.65 to 15.80 while tops paid 17.50, with bulk at 14.75 to 16.85. Fat lambs steady to weak as buyers quoted 16.00 to 16.40 for choice wooled lambs. Furnished by Lamson Brothers and Co. H R Mowrey Cedar Rapids office.
Prices for cattle cattle calves and yearlings steady to higher with feeders and fat cows showing gains. Steers and yearlings strong 14.75 to 16.85 with some over 17.00. sheep and lamb trading active with fat lambs around 16.00 to 16.40. western ewes near 9 dollars. total receipts about 11 thousand head in a dull trading day.
The article lists livestock weight ranges and price quotes across Iowa and Nebraska. It notes steers, heifers, and sows with price bands around 14.00 to 15.50 per hundredweight and various weights from 160 to 550 pounds, reflecting mixed demand and allocation. No single event or named entities beyond regional references.
Omaha live stock auction notes a mainly steady to lower market with feeders and cows mixed. Prices listed across grades for steers heifers cows and bulls with loads of choice and good quality stock, plus a largely slaughter lamb run and steady wool lamb values.
Receipts 5 800 head with hogs selling mostly 15.15 to 15.35 for 200 300 lb hogs and sows around 15 to 16. Cattle market opened steady to weak with beef steers around 14 75 to 14 25 and cows 11 to 13 56. number of quality lots in good to choice range. Wooled lambs listed above 16 35 with trucked balance.
Fragmented OCR shows a price table with weights 170-180 lbs 200-330 lbs 330-360 lbs and 450-500 lbs. Prices listed around 14.80 to 14.90 and various totals such as 14,509 14,604 14,254. Details are garbled with multiple typos.
Chicago market notes show poultry receipts for the day at 440 780 pounds firm with mixed quotes. Eggs receipts stand at 23 007 cases with fresh graded extra firsts priced around 38 to 39 cents per dozen plus car lots. Idaho shipments and arrivals are listed with on track figures and totals.
Fragmentary OCR describes poultry pricing and produce market terms with irregular figures and notes on receipts and firm prices. Mentions percentages, weights, and delivery mentions without clear context or coherent details.
Prices on all hog grades fell 10 cents on the Cedar Rapids market Tuesday. Top price for butchers reached 15.05 dollars, long haul no-fill 15.15, and for packers 14.75.
Market prices listed include oats and wheat grades, rye and corn, soybeans, hay and straw, poultry items with Florida and naval orange crates, lemons, onions, sweet potatoes, apples Winesaps and Sweets, potatoes from McClure, and hide market notes. Includes Manestall and pony glue price references.
For the work week of March 22 to 27 the item noted is twins or cheddars priced at 234 c. per unit. The terse AP item lists Plymouth Wisconsin details on cheese.
A market recap from Boston reports Texas wool aged twelve months sold at clean prices. A large lot of 70 000 pounds was bid between 41 and 44 and a half cents but all offerings were rejected. The department indicates a sale attempt in Mexico and other lines at varied rates.
Industrial shares led a recovery as favorites rose fractions to new yearly or longer highs. Trading volume approached 1.3 million shares with many low priced issues under $10, though final prices remained below the best levels in most cases.
The bond market climbed higher in New York as rails led the advance. In the final hour many loans gained fractions and the overall corporate sector held an improved position.
In Chicago the Wheat market closed with gains as prices rallied in the final minutes. May wheat rose to as much as 5 percent from session lows, finishing above Mondays close. July also gained, while rye and other grains rose and corn traded at ceiling levels.
Corn prices range around 1.0 with futures at low 89.4191 cents per bushel for No 4 grade. Oats No 1 white offers 66 cents and malting oats around 1.07 dollars with feed oats nominally priced. Malting yellow grains quoted near 1.50 dollars.
The United States plans to construct ships totaling 15,000,000 tons in 1943 under its merchant shipbuilding program. This initiative outlines large scale output to support wartime logistics and supply lines.
Authorities forecast relatively small damage and property loss from flood water that inundated thousands of acres of farm low lands. The hardest hit areas were near Montgomery Alabama and Hattiesburg Mississippi. Red Cross evacuated several hundred families north of Hattiesburg as the Leaf and Bouie rivers spread across the lowlands.
Mrs James Donahue of 229 A Avenue NW has joined her husband Private James Donahue who is stationed at Fort Eustis Virginia Glow room of the Gas company at 2 p.m. Thursday St Johns Episcopal church will hold its lenten holyne at 11 am in Wichita Kansas after being called here by the death of his sister Helen Stanley W Barrows navy recruiter on duty Cedar Rapids is a medical patient in the navy s Preflight school hospital quarters at Iowa City for treatment of a throat ailment
The Rev. Frederick N. Nelson pastor of the Marion Congregational church has applied to enter the service as a chaplain. This development follows his submission of the application.
Paul Taylor of 185 Sixth avenue received word Monday via marine corps headquarters in Washington that his son Pfc. Robert S. Taylor, reported missing in May 1942, is a prisoner on the Philippine Islands.
Complimenting Corp Robert J Newlin leaves Tuesday for White Sulphur Springs West Virginia where he will be stationed at Ashford General Hospital. Mr and Mrs James Reynolds hosted Monday at 848 Thirteenth Street with guests including Mr and Mrs C J Newlin Mrs Robert J Newlin Mr and Mrs B L McNiel Mr and Mrs Howard Martin and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Whitlock.
Robert Franklin Goodyear of Clinton, four years old, is reported as the biggest contributor to the Marion Red Cross war fund drive. He was a guest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Goodyear, at 3095 Tenth Avenue, when a local solicitor called. Robert offered his prized nickel.
The council granted a class C beverage permit to the Kenmore food shop located at 3334 First avenue NE and a class B beer permit to Ray H. Wortman at the Taft hotel 210-12 Fourth street SE.
The city council acknowledged receipt of 7500 dollars as a half year dam rental installment and approved allocating 2500 dollars to the park maintenance department and 5000 dollars to the consolidated fund.
Mrs. Faye Atwood residing with Mrs. David Ross at 1103 Maplewood Drive NE reported a home prowling incident. The entry occurred between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday while she was at work.
Solicitors in the Red Cross war fund drive are asked to make future reports on donations to A. R. McElwain at the office of the Home Building and Loan association.
The Pastor's Council of the Presbyterian church will meet Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Voorhies. Private Frank Burkhart of Yuma, Arizona, is spending a furlough with relatives in Marion and Cedar Rapids.
Lenten services will be conducted Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Presbyterian church with the Rev. Gilbert Voorhies delivering a sermon titled Thy Will Be Done.
Joyce Marilyn Fosdick is reported ill with measles. The notification notes illness without complications and lists no additional family or illness details.
Thursday marks a Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce event as the unnamed bureau take a chance party starts at 6 15 with dinner dancing cards ping pong pool and an enigmatic entertainment lineup.
Mr and Mrs Irvin A Castle residing in Clermont while he works there spent Sunday at their home here Mrs Nora Lorence is recovering from an illness at 1160 Tenth Street
The Clinton school board voted a $300 bonus for teachers in Clinton public schools for the 1943 44 year contingent on WLB approval. Payment will be issued in monthly installments beginning September 1.
Friends may call at the chapel for services and visitation at Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Emilie Tomasek died at her home 1525 Sixteenth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1879 she married Joseph Tomasek in 1898 and they moved to Cedar Rapids in 1905. Survived by husband two sons Joseph and Wendl of Cedar Rapids a daughter Mrs Harris Nelson of Fairfield Minnesota and one grandchild Rosemary Tomasek. Body at Barta chapel with funeral announcements to follow.
Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rogers were held in Turner chapel Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev James H Blackstone Jr. Burial followed in Cedar Memorial cemetery.
Guido L DeQuatra and June Iloane Benham of Cedar Rapids wed Monday in a ceremony conducted by Justice Howard R Churchill. Churchill also united La Verne F Husted and Shirley Pierce, both residents of Cedar Rapids.
Miss Grace Denny of Cedar Rapids spent the weekend here with her aunt Mrs Mary McEan.
Services for Private Lawrence J Burke aged 624 Fourth Avenue SV will be conducted by Rev CD J Lenihan at St Patrick’s church at 9 am Wednesday. Lenihan and the first and fourth units of St Patrick’s church will recite the Rosary at the home at 8 pm Tuesday and the Knights of Columbus at the home at 9 pm Burial will be in Mt Calvary cemetery Friends may call at the home.
Mrs. George C. Murdoch and her sister Miss Alice Veach of Los Angeles have been guests of Mrs. Murdoch's son K. V. Murdoch and his family and left Tuesday for New York.
Lenten services with holy communion will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church First Avenue and Fourteenth Street SW on Wednesday at 7 45 p m The sermon topic is In the Shadow of the Cross Rev P L Bornhoeft will deliver the sermon Announcements will be received in the vestry
Mary Ellen Granger a senior at Cornell college is ill at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur E Granger.
Sergt. Howard Haines stationed in Canada is on a 15 day furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haines.
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel in Topeka signed a controversial labor control bill placing all labor unions in Kansas under strict state supervision. The measure aims to regulate union activities and oversight processes.
Helen Trembley from 515 Sixth Avenue SE paid a $50 fine for disorderly conduct on Monday and was found guilty of vagrancy in Justice of Peace Howard Churchill's court Tuesday and remanded to county officials.
The Prairie Chapel Garden club will meet Thursday with Mrs. A. E. Miller.
Lenten services are scheduled for Wednesday at 7 45 p m at St Pauls Lutheran Church Reverend Carl E Krog will preach on The Obedience of Christ.
The Gazette notes that Robert E. Long of 423 Fourteenth Street SE was omitted from the list of junior ROTC cadet officers at Coe College who have been ordered to report April 3 at Camp Dodge.
Miss Kathleen Oxley will arrive Thursday to spend the spring vacation with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George C. Oxley.
Ottawa officials denied reports that deliveries of newsprint to the United States would be further curtailed by July 1 amid wartime prices and trade measures.
Mr and Mrs J L Roberts will return Wednesday from visiting daughters Mrs De Loss Marken and Miss Bertha Roberts in Des Moines and their son Leo Roberts and family in Perry.
The Shakespeare club meets Thursday at 7 36 p m with Mrs W E Wilbur at 410 Eighth Street. Miss Emma Klein leads the lesson focusing on Act III of Measure for Measure.
Leona Burnice Lewis aged 40, wife of Paul E. Lewis of 1245 3rd Street NW, died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. Born March 5, 1905 in Manchester Iowa, she is survived by her husband, four children, parents, three sisters and four brothers. Services will be in Shelly chapel Manchester with time to be announced. Moon chapel in Manchester will host calling hours Tuesday evening.
A comparison notes welded ships carry about 13 percent less weight than riveted ones as welded steel plates eliminate overlapping joints, reducing bulk and structural mass.
Ralph Cowan of the Toronto Star warned the Interstate Circulation Managers that newsprint shortages in Canada will force U.S. publishers to shrink papers. He cited cuts already postponed to April 1 and mills halting production, noting higher costs and non existent Canadian supplies.
Mrs A A Hardin led a program on Methodism in Peru Bolivia and Chile at a Laura Bailey division W S C S meeting. The event Monday was held at the home of Mrs Carrie Reichert with nine members present.
Miss Joyce Anangst of Chicago visits her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Frank E Straley. Mrs Eloise Engel of Chicago, another sister who has been a guest in the Straley home, has returned to Chicago.
Compliments to Aviation Cadet John Ferreter noted at a Hickey dinner. Mrs Margaret Ferreter visited Solon with her relatives. The Ivanhoe club, hosted by Mrs Andrew P Munsen, donated 2 to the Red Cross. program The Ohio River. Kensington of Marion chapter 183 OES hosted 115 at supper. Christian church choir meets Wednesday at 7 15 pm. An Owens Cut Rate Drug ad lists cards 5c and up. A. E. Blinks led a program on Treasure Islands of Australia. $3 given to Red Cross drive. Loris Frager, Waves enlistee, called to Hunter College. Nicholas Michel critically ill at 855 Central Ave.
Loretta Frances Webster died at home in Burlington Street SW after a four day illness. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. Leslie L. Webster six sisters and five brothers and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wenger of Coggon. Funeral by Rev. Samuel E. Dooty at Moon chapel 1:30 p.m. Wednesday burial in Troy Mills cemetery. Friends may call.
The body of Mrs Mary Jones who died Saturday at her son John R Jones route 1 Marion was moved from Berta funeral home to Dana NL Sunday evening. Services were held in Dana Tuesday afternoon with burial in the cemetery there.
New York was jolted awake by air raid sirens at 4:55 am as a citywide blackout drill under Mayor LaGuardia tested an unusual morning procedure. Residents found no planes, searchlights, or actions beyond the early morning hours and the single blue warning signal.
Funeral services for Miss Alice Wilson who died Monday at her home 1319 Second Avenue SE will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Turner chapel with Dr. Charles J. Bready officiating. Burial will be in Oak Cemetery.
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