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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1943
Page
2
Live hogs closed steady after a slow start with top at 15.80. Cattle gained 15 to 25 cents across most killing classes while lambs showed slow demand with bids about 25 cents lower. Receipts around 8,000 hogs and 5,000-7,000 fat lambs. packers and shippers quoted mixed results across weight ranges and grades.
Combined hog receipts from 19 concentration points and 11 packing plants in interior and southern Minnesota show prices for gilts and sows across weight ranges. Notable ranges include 160-180 lb at 14.05 to 14.14, 180-200 lb at 14.85 to 15.25, 200-330 lb at 15.00 to 15.30, 330-360 lb at 15.20, and sows 270-360 lb around 14.65 to 14.90 with feeding costs near 14.45 to 14.85 for 400 to 550 lb ranges.
Hogs 4400 receipts total 6500 with top at 15.25 for select 190 lb hogs. sows above 15.20. Cattle 6200 receipts with calves 100. steers 15.00 to 16.75 for good or better, fat cows mostly 11.50 to 12.35, bulls around 13.00 to 14.00. Sheep market unsettled with fat lambs up to 15.85, bids near 15.60 for some loads, lambs 5.40 for loads, ewes scarce and steady to higher weighed.
Sioux City livestock receipts total about 4 200 hogs and 3 800 cattle with mostly steady to higher prices. Hogs top at 15.45 for 260 320 lb. feeders and cows show varied values with steers around 16 75 for choice on load, heifers scarce, cows mostly ata 11 25 to 12 50. sheep sales 2 500 with good wool lambs above 14 85.
Prices listed for good butchers hogs by weight in Minnesota reported in Austin Minnesota. Various weight bands from 160 to 500 pounds show prices ranging roughly from 13.85 to 15.15 per cwt with several percent values and pack numbers indicated among the listings.
Market list shows hog price ranges with multiple figures from various sources. Prices hover around 14.0 to 15.3 per unit, with occasional notes of 14.95 and 15.15 in the midsection.
A brief, unclear AP item notes fluctuating figures about twins in cheese related context labeled as MPR 289 and 280. No additional details or outcomes are provided.
The U S Department of Agriculture notes contracting activity in Idaho with figures at 43 44 2c for bales. Details show market activity shifting as buyers and sellers negotiate prices amid supply signals from the region.
Chicago reports firm prices for poultry and potatoes with limited cured styles. Lamb stocks mixed with arrivals on track and on hand dinners. Minnesota and Wisconsin unwashed stock shown with prices and table stock notes, brought by trucks and ships with light supplies midweek.
New York fruit and egg market reports show steady receipts and firm prices. Excerpts indicate eggs at 38 to 40 cents and butter at ceiling levels, with total receipts around 653,548 and dressed meat values noted.
A fragment notes OPA maximum selling prices with capons listed at 3745c and roasters at 324: 34c, Richiers 2ac and BA 50c referenced in market shorthand.
Cedar Rapids hog prices remained steady with top butchers at 15.00, long haul 15.25, and packers 14.85 for 330 to 360 pounds. Packers and cattle quotes appear for various weight ranges with steers listed up to 16.00 and down to 10.00, plus lambs and sows noted in brief.
Grain and feed prices listed for oats wheat rye soybeans and hay with new and old quotes. Poultry prices cover hens ducks geese pigeons pullets and pullet hens while fruit prices note Texas grapefruit by box with tail and price clues.
In Chicago wheat held firm in quiet trading. Parity gains and renewed government flour business supported prices. May wheat closed around 1.45 and July near 1.4542, corn unchanged at ceilings, May at 1.01, oats up and rye higher by small margins as traders await Bankhead bill action.
AP notes Chicago cash wheat and corn quotes with mixed grades. No. 2 yellow corn around 1.02 dollars and No. 3 near 1.00 dollars per bushel. White and other barley and mixed feeds show varied small-rate prices around 0.65 to 1.07 dollars for different lots.
Chinese high command reports the destruction of Japanese defense works and communications in attacks near the Great Wall about 700 miles north of Chungking. Communique says spirited fighting is underway as Japan attacked Chinese positions in central province.
At a Washington conference with President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Barkley said Congress hopes to recess for a couple of weeks around Easter if the legislative situation permits. He noted no recess was discussed with the President, but stressed the value of members returning home to engage with the public.
Rennell Island lies 110 miles south of Guadalcanal and marks the southernmost point of the 960 mile Solo Mons chain.
New York stocks retreated from early peaks but finished with gains as major shares recovered. Losses narrowed in the final hour with several new yearly highs, while total volume ran about 1.5 million shares, below Tuesday’s pace.
Developed irregularity Wednesday as portions of the foreign department neared the final hour. A majority of rails, industrials and utilities stayed within small fractions of prior levels with scattered loans moving wider in both directions.
CHICAGO UP report says Donald Nelson and four Washington officials faced a disabled navy plane approaching Chicago municipal airport. With landing gear jammed, a vote chose to stay aboard while the crew worked the mechanism. the wheels were released and no bailout occurred.
Washington AP reports that under new pork ration rules butchers must display ration point values on meat trays. Ceiling prices on pork cuts are not required to be posted, per OPA, as the change takes effect Thursday.
The House Appropriations Committee, 21 to 19, struck $44.06 million for Florida canal construction from the war department civil functions bill for 1944. It said the project would not ease eastern fuel shortages for months and that existing pipelines and water transport would suffice next winter.
Frank Kominsky a 13 year old Eastside boy found thirteen thousand nine hundred one dollars in a junk heap with two other youths. He turned the money over to his family and then to the police saying it could be stolen. If unclaimed in six months officers will declare it finders keepers.
United States forces bombed Japanese runways and installations at Kiska in the Aleutians, while Flying Fortresses hit Vila in the Central Solomons and Kahili in the Shortland Island area. All U S planes returned safely from the raids.
Philadelphia AP reports 1942 salaries filed with the SEC show Wilson and Company Inc. executives receiving notable pay. Thomas E. Wilson chairmanship earned 75700.12 dollars, Edward Foss Wilson president 40699.95, J D Cooney vice president 35000.16.
The Linn county board of supervisors creates secondary road district No. 191 in Boulder township to surface two miles of road. Petition led by W A Holub of Monticello and others. Additionally King Yessler Real Estate sues Ollie A Johnson for 431.42 rent and attachment. Courthouse jail heating contract renewed with Iowa Electric Light and Power from Sept 1 1942 to Sept 1 1947.
A wartime note explains buying a pistol belt for soldiers with War Bonds. It stresses the belt costs 88 cents and that many buyers can fund essential equipment for millions under arms.
Maxine I. Garrison and Edward C. Kehoe, both of Cedar Rapids, were married Sunday at Kahoka Missouri and will reside at 316 Fifth Street NE. Cub Pack 26 of Van Buren School meets Thursday at 6 PM for a picnic supper inviting all members and parents. The city council closed the fiscal year with a payroll of 9482.45 for the two week period. Harold J. Nilsson, soil conservationist, screened a film The Land Pays Off before Kiwanis members.
Dr. Alice B. Salter assistant professor of social science and secretary studies will participate in the 1943 Iowa Welfare association conference in Des Moines April 8 to 10. She will preside at a student luncheon meeting.
Andy Woolfries who recently returned from England where he did communications research for the royal navy will address a dinner meeting of the young men’s bureau of the Chamber of Commerce at 6 15 p m Thursday.
Trinity Lutheran on First Avenue at Fourteenth Street SW will hold Lenten services this evening at 7 45 with the sermon titled Bearing the Cross.
A tax lien for delinquent corporation income and declared value excess profits tax for 1941 amounting to 423.49 has been filed in Cedar Rapids federal district clerk's office against Pla-More Enterprises Inc located at 709 Second Avenue SE.
A vesper service will be held tonight at First Lutheran Church on Third Avenue at Tenth Street SE at 7 30. Part three of the history of the passion will be read and Rev Paul Luther Miller will speak on Jesus' death and resurrection themes.
Chaplain R N Schwyhart of the Iowa naval Preflight school aboard the sunk cruiser Vircennes in the Solomons will address Mt Hermon lodge No 263 A F and A M at the regular April meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m in Masonic hall. Refreshments will follow.
Director Elmer Davis of the Office of War Information said that Axis forces in Tunisia could be exterminated or neutralized in time to permit invasion of continental Europe this year. He cautioned against premature optimism while noting Rommel’s chances of evacuating men and equipment from North Africa are lower than the British at Dunkirk.
Twenty seven petitioners are to appear in the superior court room at city hall at 9 am on April 13 for final hearing on citizenship petitions. An examiner will conduct the hearing at that time per Miss Maude Krebs, clerk.
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce pledges full cooperation in the April war bond sale. A board resolution warns against inflation if banks absorb too large a share and urges strengthening payroll deduction plans to boost individual bond purchases.
Washington AP Office of Price Administration allowed contract carriers to raise maximum charges for fresh meat products packing house items and supplies from 11 states including Iowa by up to eight percent. The move responds to mounting costs that threaten to force carriers out of business.
In Washington CIO and AFL leaders resume wage peace talks as word comes from the White House that President Roosevelt will meet with the labor chiefs on Thursday to press for a settlement. The talks aim to avert a wider labor dispute amid rising costs and industrial pressures.
Grove City hosts Linn Jones counties convention as 250 attend. Grand lodge officers present include Ruth Hamblin and Hazel Schaller. Convention officers led by Grace Berlin with Luncheon at the Presbyterian church and a school of instruction conducted by Grand Master Menefee and President Hamblin.
Ivan Gillmore chosen president of the Marion township school board and director of the Bighead school. Also elected for one year were Le Roy Scott Wildcat school Milo Petrak Squaw Creek Ralph Beckner Martin's Creek Henry Boesenberg Millwood Roy Lange Concord Fred Miller Excelsior George Klouda Lakeside George Michel Picayune Theodore Pech North Star Rudy Novak Prairie Ridge C J Gorius Prairie Union Glenn Dahms Sunnyside Irvin Kemp Hillsdale Clyde Simonsen Pleasant Grove No 5 Charles Wood Pleasant Grove No 11 Ankor Severensen Hazel Ridge.
Dallas Carsner Jr. underwent surgery at St Luke's hospital Monday. The Baptist guild meets Thursday at 2 p.m. Mrs. Wendell Bills hosts at 376 Twentieth Street and the lesson Christian Friendliness will be given by Mrs. E A Lagerquist. Baptist choir rehearsal is Thursday at 7 30 p.m. St Pauls Lutheran families plan a church picnic Friday at 6 30 p.m. Mrs Harold Grimm and daughter Jackie will leave Thursday for San Antonio for two weeks with Pfc Grimm. Miss Bess Boyles, convalescing at her aunt Mrs Frank S Skinners home, has returned to Milwaukee. Mrs James Pringle returns from Chicago visit. Birthday club observes Mrs Earl Welsher with a Wednesday gathering at the Welsher home 925 Seventeenth Street and Dutch treat dinner. Stephen Silker, two, ill at grandparents home Mr Mrs H C Silker Clinton. Marion lodge No 6 AF and AM holds special meeting Friday at 6 30 p.m. in Masonic temple for third degree work. Christian church choirs meet tonight at 7 15 with Mrs Raymond Eckhart hosting luncheon at 560 Tenth Street. Guests include Mrs Leo Varnes Cedar Rapids and Mrs Ed Bills Marion.
A short film Your Victory Garden will be shown Thursday at 2 p.m. in the home service room as part of a program with Quick Breads. Women of St. Pauls Lutheran Ladies Aid will sew Thursday 1 to 4 p.m. in the Red Cross production room. Mrs. C. E. Krog and Mrs. John W. Byse returned from Cedar Rapids hospital.
Bill Perrin of the Great Lakes station is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. William H. Perrin, sharing a family reunion moment during a short break from duties.
Mrs D A Slife of Clinton spent the weekend here with her brother Eugene Isham who has been ill the last two weeks.
Mrs Clarence Martin of Alburtnett and Mr and Mrs Bob Safely of Cedar Rapids spent Sunday in Independence with Mrs Martin's cousin Mrs Mike Joyce.
Mrs. Coy Kelley formerly Doris Flockhart will travel to Quanah Texas on Thursday to visit her husband's parents Mr and Mrs E A Kelley. Miss Margaret Watkins was taken to Mercy hospital Tuesday for X rays after injuring her hip in a fall at home. Pfe John Smeltzer, son of Mrs Elizabeth J Smeltzer, has been transferred from Camp Barkeley to Camp Swift Texas.
Mrs. Harvey E. Montgomery was discharged and returned to her home at 560 Thirteenth Street Wednesday from a Cedar Rapids hospital.
The notice lists lost items including a brown leather billfold with contents, a wire haired terrier puppy named Cap or Cappy, a 5 20 mud tire and wheel, a red female cocker spaniel puppy, and a dark blue overcoat with billfold and draft card. Contact E M Horak or 3 614 Cobban Ct for rewards.
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