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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1957
Page
2
Officials forecast Tuesday salable livestock receipts of 7 000 cattle 7 500 hogs and 1 000 sheep in Chicago AP. Hogs showed uneven gains and rose about 25 cents with No 1 to 3 190 to 225 pound butchers selling around 19.15 to 19.35. Steers held steady to 50 cents lower while heifers eased up to 25 cents.
Chicago market summary shows hog receipts around 7 500 with mixed grades and prices up to 50 cents higher on butchers and sows. cattle receipts about 25 000 with steers and heifers mostly steady to lower. bulk choices 22.50 to 24.00, high prime 26.00 to 26.75. sheep receipts about 1 000 with lambs weak to 50 cents lower and ewes steady, No. 1 2 pelts 20.50 to 20.75.
Receipts Monday estimated 45 000, week earlier 55 000, year ago 58 000, actual Saturday 35 000. Trading moderately active. Butchers and sows 15 25 cents higher, top 18 90. Barrows and gilts U S No 1 3 160 180 lbs 15 30 17 65, 180 200 lbs 17 30 18 80, 200 220 lbs 18 15 18 90, 220 240 lbs 17 80 18 75, 240 270 lbs 17 05 18 40, 270 300 lbs 16 45 17 65, 300 330 lbs 16 20 17 15, 330 360 lbs 15 80 16 90. Sows 270 300 lbs 16 50 17 30, 300 330 lbs 16 25 17 05, 330 360 lbs 16 00 16 80, 360 400 lbs 15 50 16 30, 400 450 lbs 15 00 15 80, 450 550 lbs 14 00 15 30.
Cattle receipts at Omaha reach 19 000 with calves 100. Fed steers and heifers mostly slow or steady to 50 cents lower, under 850 pounds saw larger declines. Cows and bulls steady to firm, heifers and stockers firmer with light supply. High grade fed steers quoted around 24.00 to 24.25, choice loads 21.75 to 23.25, good to low choice 19.00 to 21.50.
Sioux City reports cattle receipts of 9 000 with calves at 200. Slaughter steer and heifer sales range steady to 25 cents lower while top prices rise for selected lots. Choice steers bring 21.50 to 24.00, good 19.00 to 21.25, choice heifers 21.50 to 23.00, good 18.00 with some gains noted.
Fragmentary OCR shows market price notes for goods like small 13c and medium 15c items with checks and a line about “peewees 12c.” No clear entities or cohesive event.
Fragmentary OCR lists seeds and quantities with prices for carrots foals and horse items. Mentions Chicago, Red To, Northern, and various numeric entries, but no clear event or outcome.
New York stocks fell late Monday after an initial advance. Volume was about 2.2 million shares. Key issues slipped fractions to three points, while a scattering of stocks showed gains.
Ada Gretten resigns as Lamson Brothers and Company Cedar Rapids office manager effective Friday to focus on housekeeping. Al Hoelzen named successor beginning next Monday, returning Cedar Rapids to lead the office. Gretten joined in 1947 and became manager in 1955. Hoelzen has led the Quincy office for 18 years and will relocate with his wife and two children.
The Rev. A. F. Groth, pastor of Zion Lutheran church Dysart for nine and a half years, resigned and accepted a call to Faith Lutheran church in Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Groth and their three sons will move to Baltimore in mid June.
Chicago AP reports mixed wheat prices after a downturn as short covering supports late trading. Improved planting and growing weather pressured all pits with old and new style wheat varying around declines and gains. Corn and oats dropped while soybeans edged different directions amid market uncertainty.
Wheat No 2 yellow priced at 1.33 2, No 4 1.3242, No 4 yellow 2.11, corn No 2 yellow 1.3094, No 5 yellow 13p, oats No 1 heavy 67, soybeans oil 113, meal 44.50 45.00, barley choice 1.30 1.40, feed 92 1.16.
Chicago market report shows steady live poultry at 7 cents per pound for heavy hens at 14 to 16 cents. Cheese prices steady with various grades and loafs, eggs steady with whites and standards around 27 to 28 cents, potatoes and apples noted with modest demand and steady to firm pricing. California long whites and round reds quoted at 3.35 to 3.40 and 3.10 to 3.15 respectively.
New York produce market reports butter receipts at 515,000 over two days with creamery grades listed from 60 to 93 score. Prices range 60 to 32 cents with various weights and extras noted. gas prices described as steady to firm amid the same period.
Syracuse police said they do not know if suspects are adults children or a family group after a food market break in. Thieves stole about 30 dollars worth of cigars cigarettes and bubble gum from the store.
U S officials said anti American riots in Taipei were definitely organized possibly by forces seeking a deal with the Chinese Communists. Rioters attacked the embassy code room as fear over a broader Far East anti American wave grew. Chiang Kai shek dismissed three top officials for failing to halt protests and considered firing Taipei police chief Liu Kwo shien.
Two government owned China Broadcasting Company correspondents, Wang Ta-ching and Hung Ching-tzun, were arrested on charges of inciting riots. They allegedly recorded and broadcast an inflammatory anti American statement by Mrs Liu Tze Jan, widow of a Chinese window peeper whose death sparked the disturbances.
Taipei reports the United States rejected a Nationalist China bid for a retrial of M/Sgt. Robert Reynolds, the American soldier acquitted of manslaughter in the killing of a Chinese man. Reynolds left Taipei with his wife and child after riots erupted surrounding the case.
Postmaster General Summerfield warned Congress that without 140 million dollars in added funding the postal service will curtail operations and close hundreds or thousands of small post offices. He noted the Senate and House trimmed 58 million from the post office budget for the next fiscal year.
The first passenger flight in history occurred on May 14, 1908, predating the Wright brothers test flight later used for U.S. government delivery trials. It established an early era of commercial aviation.
Czech refugee Charles Burian visited Lidice in Illinois to find a neglected memorial once dedicated to the village destroyed by Nazis. He vows to help restore the monument now buried in weeds and trash behind a baseball backstop, reflecting past echo of Lidice’s destruction and a vow to keep its memory alive.
Four Cedar Rapids residents were elected to office in the Mid west Industrial Photographers Association at its Cedar Rapids convention last weekend. Fred Wise of Moline was named president with Bill Jack Rodgers of Cedar Rapids as vice president. Arlen Neilson and Adean Beauregard, both of Cedar Rapids, were elected secretary treasurer and historian respectively, with Tom Negro of Cedar Rapids and Dick Garwood of Des Moines named as new directors.
Services Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Murdoch chapel Marion for Mrs Nora M Biggs 82 widow of Earl F Biggs who died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a brief illness Born March 8 1875 near Savannah Missouri she lived in Marion with her son Harlan since 1950 She was a member of Marion Methodist church WSCS Burial in Oak Shade cemetery and viewing at the chapel Also notes school class of 1907 golden anniversary attendees and various local notices and events including a cerebral palsy fundraiser and graduates from Baylor William Brenneman.
St Joseph's parochial school will close Wednesday. Honor roll lists span all grades from first to eighth, naming numerous students such as Mary Dippel, Diane Huntoon, John Anderson, Meredith Wolfe, Amanda Victor, Elizabeth Kane, James Britt, Billy Britt, and many others. Local and out of town guests are noted, with a brief aviation and travel update for families and visitors.
Sam Cole, elected hobo king last year at Britt, has been named honorary corporal by Gov. Herschel Loveless at the statehouse. Cole, who already holds admiral and general titles, notes his travels to Alaska, Mexico, England and France and says ten of his ten children hold jobs. A successor will be named in August.
Residents from Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa gather in Lansing Iowa for a two day Memorial Day celebration and bridge dedication. The old Mississippi River bridge rebuilt after ice damage reopened last fall with Lt. Gov. W H Nicholas as speaker. The program features boat races Indian dances a 75 boat water pageant river tours and a conservation exhibit.
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Speakers Bureau books two talks for next week. Brigadier General L D Burkhater Jr of Cedar Rapids will present a Memorial Day talk Thursday at 10 45 a m in Vinton cemetery under the American Legion post. Roy Swanson of the Chamber staff will discuss Publicity and Public Relations at St Luke s hospital school of nursing next Monday at 2 p m in the nurses home.
Iowa Executive Council approves Tom Wegnall of Bussey for a two year term on the State Board of Mining Examiners. The appointment was made by the governor.
Ronald Marrone an 18 year old Fair Lawn High School sophomore confessed to the murder of Ruth Starr Zeitler 15 after being questioned among more than 40 people. He read a signed statement saying he killed her in a lovers lane incident and was to appear at a preliminary hearing June 7. Marrone who carried a Bible and was active in his church was identified as devout and a track team member. He reportedly went to Madison Square Garden the night of the slaying to hear Billy Graham.
Washington AP reports Dr. Mark Mills of UC radiation lab estimates fusion could yield peaceful energy from the ocean around 2000. He notes fusion remains unmastered and slower than fission, with deuterium in seawater offering vast potential energy once controllable.
Four Eastern Iowa men accepted into the Navy Hawkeye companies were Paul A. Millis 19 of Cedar Rapids Gary F. Leavy 18 of Vinton James F. Merchant 18 and Bryson L. Climer 20 both of Garrison They join three others from the area already accepted to be sworn in June 16 at Arnolds Park The Hawkeye companies will stay intact during basic training at Great Lakes naval training center Promotion of six men was reported by the Cedar Rapids Navy Reserve unit to sea man Jerry Long and others with transfers to fireman apprentice hospitalman.
The Golden Deed Patrol in Cedar Rapids, Marion and Hiawatha reported 4555 in Sunday contributions for the United Cerebral Palsy Center. Chairman Abdullah Igram urged mailed gifts from those not contacted and invited visitors to tour the CP Center.
Dr. Ralph F. Kharas dean of Syracuse university college of law will deliver the commencement address and receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws at Cornell college on June 10. He is a Cornell graduate of 1923 and has served in multiple legal roles including special assistant to the US attorney general and mediator on New York labor matters.
City briefs list hospital observation for Edaburn at Mercy hospital and note a series of meetings and events. Planned Parenthood hosts a St Luke's hospital gathering. various clubs announce luncheons, meetings, fundraisers, and notices with local venues and dates.
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