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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1945
Page
8
Chicago market notes hogs steady and cattle strong with top steers around 17.90. Hogs receipts 6 000 with good to choice hogs 14 75 and sows at 14.00. cattle receipts 11 000 with firm fed steers and yearlings and calves 800. sheep receipts 4 000 with fully steady prices and lambs selling best at 15.25 to 16.00.
Salable receipts: hogs 4000 with steady demand. barrows and sows mostly $1445 and $1370. Cattle receipts around 10000 calves 159 fed steers and cows weaker. good-fed steers $1700, up to $1750. choice heifers $1625. feeder stockers steady. Sheep receipts 2500. slaughter classes active. loaded wool lambs $1660. Nebraska yearlings at $3450. native spring lambs $1575 to $160. ewes mostly $800.
Salable cattle receipts 8 500 steady to weak bids as much as 25 cents lower than best. stockers and feeders scarce with several sales steady. Fed steers and yearlings around 1500 1650 pounds priced. heifers 1200 1550 pounds roughly 9 to 16 dollars. Cows 9 50 to 12 50 classified. canners and cutters limited sales. Hogs market active steady 160 to 400 pounds at 13 70 to 14 45. feeders and sows firm. Sheep receipts 1 569 including fed wool lambs. balance largely fed chips, no early action.
A fragmented Des Moines AP market note lists cattle and pork prices with figures like 160 170 and 1400 14.00 among entries tied to Mason Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin. The text includes pack numbers and packing sow ranges but is largely garbled.
Combined receipts in Des Moines for 24 hours ending Wednesday totaled 31 200 head, down from last week and last year. Hog prices ranged from 135.0 to 144.9 for 180 to 360 lb, with 270 to 400 lb sows and other weights showing variations, indicating active but steady demand across packing plants in interior towns and southern Minnesota.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market held steady at ceiling levels with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. The cattle section lists various grades and weights with mixed quotes, while sheep and lamb markets show bids around 14.00 to 14.50 per hundredweight and notes on animal quality and by product prices. commodities such as corn, oats, and hay are provided alongside wholesale fruits and hides. River stage readings for Davenport, Portage, and other towns are included with rise and fall figures.
In New York the stock market fell as profit taking weighed on many issues. Trading volume reached about 1,300,000 shares with several prominent names cited including Butter cent, Quaker O Company, Cherry Burl, Swift & Co, Edison, and Walereen. A bank building figure and merchant interests were noted among the day’s transactions.
The bond market showed little movement in early Wednesday dealings with a steady undertone. Selected rate changes contributed to stability while industrials and utilities were subdued. Czechoslovakians rose two points and demand lingered for Latin American issues in the foreign desk.
Chicago and New York markets show dairy fruit and poultry receipts with steady tone. Butter cheese eggs and potatoes feature varied prices and notable No 1 and wholesale figures across regions and firms.
Guam dispatch notes Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner says Okinawa invasion already impacts Japan. U S forces transform island into base for daily strikes with airfields in operation and an expanding road network, signaling future escalation in the campaign.
Grain eased mid session but offerings dried up before close and prices rallied. Wheat finished higher with July at 1.6325, corn up to 1.167, rye up, barley modestly higher. Chicago cash provisions showed no sales across corn and cats, with barley nominal at various tops and timess noted.
City briefs note a Czech Alliance meeting in the Z.C.B.J. hall at 7 30 p m Thursday. A Czech Reading society gathering is planned Friday evening. Mrs R M Threlkeld and family have traveled to Washington DC and Roselle. Herbert Von Lackum, son of Dr and Mrs J K von Lackum, is a Cum Laude inductee at Shattuck School and serves as a corporal in the cadet battalion. The Bible study at Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle is postponed to Friday 745 p m with Rev H H Caswell as speaker.
Dr. Reuben Hill of Iowa State College will discuss questions in the field of family relations at a luncheon meeting of the Council of Social Agencies Friday at noon at the YMCA. This is the council’s last regular meeting until fall.
Lila L. Rice 25 of Vinton suffered a bruised ankle and shoulder and a lacerated lip in a Tuesday evening crash. A car, with Robert Herson of 223 Thirty-second Street NE, went out of control and struck a culvert at Wilson Avenue near the North Western tracks SW at 7 30 p.m.
The First Congregational Church Cub pack No 6 awarded members at a Monday meeting. Recipients include Dick Aderman Billy Delp David Clarke Rodney Dennis Max Daehler Mark Daehler Paul Foster Ronney Hawkins Peter Helming Peter Bailey Jimmy Johnston Lee Frankel John Randall Larry Torgler and David Minshall. Scotty McIntyre advanced to scouting and Bob Winter and Bill Galway received den chief related recognitions.
Defendants Sam and Ella Farmer of 1216 Newcomb Court were cleared of contempt in Judge G K Thompson's court on condition they deliver John Leroy Walker’s clothes and belongings to his grandmother Virnie Boyd at 1210 Eleventh Street SE. The court also required continued compliance with custody orders. the case, brought by the grandmother March 17, claimed wrongful detention of the child. The prior order by Judge Floyd Philbrick on March 26 had directed delivery of the child to the grandmother after defendants failed to comply. A contempt charge was filed May 22. Wednesday the court heard that the boy was sent to his grandmother on Monday.
Calvin F. Coates, 20, of 22 Mc Kinley street SE, appeared with counsel before Judge Floyd Philbrick and was sentenced to six months in Linn county jail. Mittimus withheld during good behavior. Coates, held on a charge of larceny of a motor vehicle, pled guilty to the included offense of operation of a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. Richard G. Shields, also 20, of 500 Fifth avenue SE pled innocent before Judge Philbrick.
Incorporation papers for the Causeway company of Cedar Rapids were filed with the secretary of state in Des Moines. The firm lists coal coke and mining as its business. Harry Wilmarth is president Harold R Grigg is vice president and O J Butler is secretary, all of Cedar Rapids.
Washington dispatch reports a government inquiry dismissing rumors of vast lend lease housing to Britain as fiction. It states only 30,000 temporary emergency houses are funded, using about two thirds of 1 percent of 1945 lumber, with other claims about meat cigarets and trade labeled unfounded.
Card expresses thanks to neighbors and relatives for kindness and flora offerings during illness and death of husband and father Cyrus Merl. Also thanks from Mrs Ella Jackson and family for sympathy in the loss of their son and brother Eugene R. Jackson. Several lost items and local business ads follow with contact numbers.
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