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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1965
Page
2
Chicago market notes show barrows and gilts mostly steady with sows up to 50 cents higher. Slaughter steers steady to 25 higher, cattle and lambs mixed, with prices listed for various weight ranges and grades. Des Moines demand fair to poor, butchers steady to 25 cents lower. receipts varied by class and weight.
On Saturday Cedar Rapids hog market prices fell 25 cents. Bulk 200 to 230 lb butchers sold at 20.25 to 20.50, packing sows under 300 lb bid 17.50 to 17.75. Weight-based deductions apply for butchers and packers across weight classes. Also listed are lamb, sheep, wool, eggs, and grain quotes with regional notes from Vientiane Laos reporting counterfeit currency finds.
Jackson Mississippi UPI reports Tom Falkenburg brother of Jinx Falkenburg former model was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for robbing two central Mississippi banks. He pled guilty and was fined 5000 dollars and faces state armed robbery charges. Falkenburg, 41, has lived in Mississippi since 1949 worked as car salesman and later as an insurance agent. He is also brother to Bob Valkenburg former tennis champion.
Heavy rains drove streams over banks in eastern and southern Nebraska with Louisville noting seven inches and evacuations of fifteen families. Flooding blocked highways near Louisville and Weeping Water as well as Clay Center and Sutton. Rain threatened small streams in southwest Iowa and snow fell in Nevada. Wheat damage from hail hit Kansas. The Nishnabotna river may rise above flood stage at Hamburg and Mapleton reported 8.3 inches of rain.
A northeast Cedar Rapids Me Too Market on Center Point road and Blairs Ferry road NE was entered Friday night but nothing was taken. Detectives say a burglar crawled through a broken duct from outside, traveled 36 feet inside the meat department, and escaped onto the roof after a nine foot drop.
Glen A. Modracek 18 of route three Cedar Rapids sustained minor injuries when his small motorcycle hit a detour sign on highway 149 at Cedar Rapids west limits. He received treatment at St Luke's hospital for a fractured finger and leg bruises after being blinded by dust while driving north. Acccident occurred about 8 25 p.m.
Walter Hartog a Tipton bakery operator for 41 years died Friday at a Cedar Rapids hospital He was born August 20 1883 in Utrecht Holland came to the United States in 1906 and retired last December He was a member of the First Methodist church of Tipton and Cedar Masonic Lodge No 11 Survivors include his wife Bessie and a son Gerald both of Tipton plus two brothers and two sisters in Holland Services are Monday at 1 30 pm at Sheets and Son funeral home burial in Masonic cemetery in 362 112 Fipton
Alfred Chandler, 53, of rural Marengo, was hospitalized in fair condition today with a leg injury after a tractor backed over him as he started the machine.
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