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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1953
Page
2
The Chicago livestock report notes a fairly active hog trade with prices steady to firm. Cattle showed mixed movements but remained steady overall, while hog receipts reached about 3,500 with prices for various weights and classes listed, and sheep receipts near 2,500 with the market not established.
Receipts total 5 300. Slaughter steers and heifers are largely steady to weak. Cows light supply, mostly steady. Stockers and feeders slow and weak. Early sales good, high choice fed steers up to 19.6 per cwt. Heifers to 21.50 for load 925 lb. utility cows 13.50 to 14.25. Bulls 14.50 down. Stock steers around 23.50 for 550 lb. weights.
Receipts Tuesday around 50 000 on par with Monday and above year ago levels. Demand remains good and butcher prices show gains from 10 to 25 cents, with sows up to 25 cents and some 50 cent increases. Top quote about 20 75 for select heavy hogs. range across weights documented with multiple price points.
Receipts 8 000 cattle calves 150 generally steady on slaughter classes cows scarce stockers and feeders slow weak high choice and prime priced around 1 250 lb fed steers 23 25 few loads 22 75 to 23 00 most choice steers 20 50 72 50 good to low choice 18 50 24 00 good and choice heifers and mixed yearlings 17 00 21 00 utility and commercial cows 12 25 14 00 few young lightweight commercial cows 14 50 15 00 commercial bulls mostly 16 50 17 50 vealer top 27 00
Hog prices hold steady in Austin Minnesota with top quotes around 20 dollars per cwt. Butchers in specific weight brackets command 18.15 to 20.65 per cwt. Sows from 18.65 to 19.05 depending on weight, with heavy 500 to 550 pound sows at 17.15.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market rose a quarter to half a dollar Tuesday with delivered hogs at the Cedar Rapids plant varying by quality and distance. The report also lists current figures for wool, eggs, hay and straw, grain bids, and Kansas City livestock quotes including cattle, calves, steers, and cows with modest gains and steady to strong tendencies.
Fort Madison, Iowa. Robert Frost and Kathleen Bowton, both of Fort Madison, were each sentenced to ten years for beating and robbing Louis Blunt of Denmark, Iowa. Frost received Fort Madison prison time, Bowton the Rockwell City women's reformatory after pleading guilty.
New York AP reports two selling waves jolted stocks as Korean proposals continued under review. After each bout, prices recovered from the lows. Volume reached about three million shares, the majority in more than two years. The worst drop was about three points, with most declines centering on fractions to around one and a half points.
Three Monona area districts vote to consolidate with the Monona independent school district. The unit vote was 72 to 29, Monona turnout 293 for and 10 against. A second election will decide three more districts in Allamakee and Clayton counties Hawkeye Pioneer and Farmersburg Wagner.
A $10 854 civil suit filed by the Office of Price Stabilization against the Lawsonomy university in Des Moines was dismissed in federal court. Judge William F. Riley signed the order after government lawyers said errors were made in the figures used in the original suit filed November 7.
Grain markets closed mixed after several selling squalls. Soybeans led a late rally as processors bought beans. Wheat slipped 1 percent while corn rose and soybeans advanced, with traders watching the Korea situation but not reacting as strongly as Monday.
The Chicago cash market shows wheat and soybeans as none traded. Corn prices range for various grades from No. 2 yellow at 1.56 56 to No. 4 at 1.46 49. Barley and field seeds quote per hundredweight with sweet clover 9.75 to 9.00, redtop 42.43, alsike 27.28, timothy 12.50 to 13.00, red clover 28.00 to 29.00.
Live poultry market in Chicago shows steady tone with 8 trucks observed. Turkeys hens and longhorns priced around 38 to 41 cents per pound, butter receipts at 1,718,070 lbs with scores and values listed. eggs receipts 16,215 cases with mixed price levels. potatoes arrivals and prices noted with Idaho Russets around 5.20 and Florida Triumph sacks at 2.60 to 2.70.
New York prices show butter unchanged with several scores listed for AA and A grades ranging from 93 to 92 and 90. Egg prices hold steady across mixed fancy heavyweights, extra large and medium, with variations noted for weight categories and quality.
National City Lines reports operating revenues of 30.91 million in 1952 up from 30.77 million, while net income fell to 2.66 million from 2.74 million. President E. Roy Fitzgerald discusses public agency transit ownership and potential city purchases with options including cash, tax free revenue bonds, and continued management until bonds are paid.
Northwestern Bell reports 1952 expansion with $40.6 million spent on new facilities across Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota. It added 66 000 phones reaching 1 693 000 in 661 exchanges and long distance calls rose from 102 000 to 285 000 per day over 12 years. The company notes rising rural service and improved speed and reliability while earnings rose only 0.4 percent due to higher expenses and taxes and a 21.7 million increase in average capital investment. Rate increases in all five states cited as the ongoing postwar inflationary challenge.
Decorah man Clair Nelson died in a late night crash on highway 9 near Decorah after his pickup left the road and burned. Nelson was thrown from the vehicle and trapped beneath it as fuel reportedly exploded. his brother Alvin arrived soon after. Firefighters removed the body after extinguishing the flames. immediate cause of death under review. He was survived by his parents, three brothers, and three sisters.
A two car crash three miles south of Burlington killed three people. Keith Wiles, 23, Manhattan Kansas, died in a Burlington hospital from injuries. Elmer A. Andre, 31, Burlington, and Clarence J. Bush, 37, Kankakee Illinois, were killed instantly. Bush and Andre drove the colliding cars on Highway 61 as a light rain fell.
Marion notices report scouting awards pledge ceremonies and local civic notes. Cub Scouts awards include two year service stars for Stephen Brown and others, merit badges and badges across dens two and eleven. Residents promote WAVES, travel notices, visiting relatives, and Easter sales at local shops and farms with farm and church community events.
Des Moines Iowa C B Akers state auditor said a report on the state car dispatcher's office will be public after audit completion. He noted abuse in automotive use on public business and potential savings of over 162000 annually with a different system.
An unauthorized railroaders strike forced U S Steel Corporation to close its four big plants in the Pittsburgh area. About 4 500 employees of the subsidiary Union Railroad Company struck, furloughing all workers in plants served by the railroad. An official of the Brotherhood for Railroad Trainmen said the walkout was unauthorized over suspensions of two conductors.
A miscellaneous classified section notes found items including a billfold and a beaded purse. It lists various local services from carpet to painting and sign work, with firm names such as Meyers Carpet Service Novak Heating Co and Sign Co, plus contact numbers and shop locations.
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