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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1946
Page
18
Chicago cattle and hog markets saw record monthly cattle receipts as fed steers and yearlings climbed. Prices topped $18 for top mixed steers, with most cattle at $16 to $17.50, while hogs moved steadily around $14.85 for good and choice barrows and gilts. sheep prices fluctuated with thin supplies and renewed demand.
Livestock receipts show hogs at 4 000 salable with prices around 14 50 for barrows and gilts and sows at 13 75. Cattle receipts total 8 00 with calves salable and weights around 1 343 lb at 17 26 for feeder steers, and fed cattle steady to strong. Sheep receipts about 3 000 to 4 500 with good and choice shorn and woolled lambs priced near 16 75 to 17 00, deck lambs around 14 00 to 14 50, pelts noted as No 1 and No 2.
Sioux City market data shows cattle receipts around 6000 with calves strong. Slaughter cattle uneven with major packers active. hogs 6500 steady. sheep 2500 with coastal lambs selling uneven as buyers discuss lower prices.
Combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 48 hour period ended 8 am Monday totaled 45 000 head up from 33 200 a week earlier and 25 600 a year ago. Prices for Barrows and gilts were strong with weights 160 180 lbs at 14 75, 14 45 186 360 lbs, and 14 90 0 14 45. Sows 270 400 lbs at 19 46, 15 10. 430 550 lbs at 13 40 13 70.
Market notes list hog price ranges and bids in Des Moines with figures for weights from 170 to 180 pounds and 200 plus pounds. Prices show variations across suppliers including Mason, Waterloo, Ottumwa, and Austin, with bids around 13.60 to 14.45 per hundredweight.
AP dispatch from Chicago reports unsettled fowl markets with receipts of six trucks and two cars, prices for leghorn fryers and broilers around 32.44 to 33.00 cents per pound, and wholesale fowl on a fluctuating basis. Butter receipts total 3,701 tubs with varied scores, cheese prices listed, and potato and egg markets showing light supplies and moderate demand. New York: eggs receipts 48,186 over three days with wholesale prices for mixed colors and standard grades provided.
Wisconsin market summary reports no sales this week while Oaks and chegoate fetch 27 cents per pound. The item notes a quiet period with limited activity and stable pricing across listed goods.
Demand favored select stocks amid mixed leaders as miners’ return to work aided sentiment. Dow Jones averages fluctuated while volume showed uneven support from utilities and rail shares. prices moved within narrow ranges as investors weighed earnings and possible splits.
May rye fell 5 cents to $2.523 a bushel as deferred oats deliveries weakened from profit taking. Oats held steady to slightly lower, while wheat corn barley and deferred rye held near ceiling prices. Cash provisions show No 2 red and hard wheat around $1.97, No 2 yellow around $1.44, with barley and feed oats reported at about $1.23 to $1.33.
The Cedar Rapids hog market lists ceiling prices with prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70 for good hogs in 160 to 180 pounds range. Hogs 180 to 400 pounds are priced around 14.48 to 13.70. Cattle market figures follow with listed quotes.
An American military tribunal sentenced 58 Mauthausen concentration camp workers to be hanged for atrocities. Three other defendants received life terms. August Eigruber, upper Austrian gauleiter, was among those condemned. Sentences await review by the U S Third Army and Gen. Joseph McNarney.
Washington AP reports President Truman signed legislation authorizing 500 million dollars in federal expenditures over seven years for airport construction and development program. The measure aims to expand airfields, improve facilities, and boost national air transportation capacity.
The Cedar Rapids City Council approved the second in a series of street oiling programs proposed by Public Improvements Commissioner David L. Williams. The projects cover extensive segments including Third Street SW from Sixteenth to Eighteenth Avenues, Twenty-first Avenue SW from Sixth to Eighth Streets, Nineteenth Avenue SW from Second to J Streets, and other listed segments across multiple streets and avenues.
Dr. H. E. Pfeiffer of Cedar Rapids was elected president of the Iowa Clinical Surgical Society at a Saturday clinic in Ottumwa. Vice president is Dr. K. L. Johnston of Oskaloosa and Dr. Donald C. Conzett of Dubuque is secretary and treasurer. The society has 60 surgeons in Iowa and meets bi annually with the next meeting planned at University hospital in Iowa City.
Hanford Post No. 5 of the American Legion in Cedar Rapids will headline a busy May with a Memorial Day parade described as the biggest yet. May calendar includes a May 14 post meeting and officer nominations, May 21 frolic at Danceland, May 25 poppy sale, May 28 stag party, and the May 30 Memorial Day program with speakers Byron Hollinshead and Harold J. Ward. The parade forms at 9:45 a.m. on Second Avenue and ends at Oak Hill cemetery, with Coe College Band and other veterans groups taking part. Election of officers will occur June 11, with installations in August. a possible “Fem vets” chapter is planned. Membership stands at 3,855.
Former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen suggested no firm decision on a 1948 Republican presidential bid while addressing MacMurray college and sparring with reporters over labor policy. He pressed vetoes against anti-labor bills and urged duty to work, peaceful aims, and human dignity.
City finances for 1945 48 reveal a total balance of 63001975 while noting many departments lacked equipment and funds were rolled into 1946 47 budgets. Waterworks net 87757.02 on March 31 1946 bond of 60000 retirement followed April 1. Pension funds show 31000 and 44989.34 as net balances invested in securities. Contingent emergency fund stands 20862.85. Total expenditures for 1945 46 were 1693370.67.
Doris Glantz, retiring Coe student council president, denies ordering Flunk Day. An unknown girl spoofed her and prompted a campus prank with a Greene hall band invading Voorhees hall at 6 15 am. Students left campus for Cedar Rapids parks despite cold, admitting the day was chilly and unofficial.
Chemists reveal a new synthetic oil that flows at 40 degrees below zero and tolerates up to 470 degrees heat. Manufactured by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals at South Charleston, the wax free lubricant dissolves sludge gum and varnish rather than forming them, and may end seasonal oil changes in crankcases.
Cedar Rapids business firms must separate pure garbage and burnable rubbish and may haul burnable waste to the city incinerator on Burlington Street SW. The incinerator operates Monday to Friday 7 am to 6 pm and Saturday 7 am to noon. Non burnables like cans glass metal and boxes must be disposed at the city dump near the end of Fifteenth Avenue SE.
The Cedar river's largest blue catfish of the season was landed last week by Mrs Henry Spitznagle of 1307 C street SW. She used shrimp on a split bamboo pole with 27 pound test line and fought the fish for about 15 minutes. It weighed 12% pounds and measured almost 30 inches. Her husband assisted once it neared shore.
W. L. Perley of 2052 Linn boulevard SE has two black and white pictures exhibited in four international salons and headed to a fifth in Memphis. Arranged by Nature hangs in four salons and Woven In Ice in two. Both photos, Cedar Rapids area winter scenes, were taken with a twin lens reflex camera.
Judge G. K. Thompson ordered Charles Moore 53 of 1031 Eleventh Street NE to pay a 300 fine and forfeit his liquor book after pleading guilty to drunk driving. He lacked a license and cannot apply for one for a year. Installment plan set with 50 upfront and 25 monthly. Police traced the 1929 Ford hitting a Bracy auto at Havenue and Center Point Road NE, then a tree rammed in the 900 block. Moore arrested shortly before midnight Sunday.
Fire loss in March in Cedar Rapids totaled 16918.38 dollars with buildings and contents valued at 535273.13 dollars. Fire Chief E P Kohout submitted the report to the city council detailing 440085 dollar building value and 95188.13 dollar contents.
Mrs Alvin Svenksen learns of the death of her brother William H Busch 66 at his Maquoketa home. He farmed near Maquoketa former Blair's Ferry road Marion survived by wife a twin son and daughter Arnold and Anelta at home a daughter Mrs Paul Burchester Baldwin three grandchildren a sister Mrs Leo Wuest Waverly four brothers Lewis Davenport John Maquoketa Theodore and Gearhart Busch Oklahoma City member of Marion Methodist church services 2 p.m. Wednesday at Maquoketa Congregational church.
Many households reported visitors for Mother's Day including the Mason White home guests from Marion Davenport and Cedar Rapids as well as Minneapolis Naperville and San Francisco. J A Corwin's death prompted funeral services in Anamosa and a large family memorial in Carey home. T/4 Ross L Brown returns from Japan after discharge and other local hospital updates appear across the weekend schedule.
Miss Gene Rathburn visits her grandmother in Sioux Falls while T/Sgt Lawrence L. Martin just returned from Europe after 15 months service. Dorothy Thomas Donna Jean Kolda and Virginia Roberts join Marion group at a Westminster Fellowship conference in Dubuque. The Martin's Creek Community club plans its annual guest day at the K V cafe with reservations through Mrs. Haak or Mrs. Stoneking.
Ottawa reports a secret April 8 agreement among Canada Britain and Newfoundland on Newfoundland defense. It returns control of air bases to Newfoundland for three years and allows future air services, with Article V prompting U S concern over possible no US consultation.
Six members of a Memphis family were killed when their car collided with another vehicle near Tunica Mississippi. The victims include James Adkins 52 and his children Will 10 Melba 12 Patricia five months old and the couple in-law Robert Shearer and his wife. Mrs Adkins was in fair condition and the Dentsons Elswine and his wife were also hospitalized.
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