Cattle and Hogs Mixed in Weak to Higher Chicago Trade
Chicago and Omaha market wires report cattle mostly weak to 50 lower while hogs sold steady to 15 cents higher in fairly active trade. Hogs saw firmness on most cuts with some gains, cattle and calves showed mixed to weaker tones, editors note steady to lower on sows and various cattle classes. Receipts listed across regions with prime steers and vealers highlighted, plus utility and commercial cows and feeders showing varied pricing.
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Chicago
Slavenia
Omaha
INS
Steels Lead Stock Market Rally on Thursday
In New York the steel sector led a moderate advance as demand boosted stocks. Gains reached up to two points while losses hovered near one point on light trading of about 1.4 million shares.
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New York
C R Markets Iowa Hog Receipts and Prices
Des Moines receipts Thursday show hog goods at 68 000 week, 74 000 year to date, actual 67 000. Active demand with prices steady to higher than average, 25 cents or more above seven month average. Barrows 160-180 pounds reported around 8 20 to 9 0 per hundredweight with varied bids. Grass delivery quoted at 138 80 per 100 pounds.
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Seares
Soybeans Soar in Active Chicago Trading
In Chicago, soybeans surged up to 10 cents a bushel in active trading, the daily limit for a single session. Wheat and corn also rose modestly while oats and rye fluctuated, and December soybeans closed higher at 2.89 per bushel with lard futures up to 15.75 per hundredweight. Cash provisions for grains and hay saw No. 2 yellow corn and other oat and seed prices noted amid mixed demand.
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ASF
Amer
Johns” Snville
Amn Jones
Ennecott Renee
Amn Steel
Idwip
India
Rden Co Warner
Cedar Rapids
Groreum
Central
Burroughs
Butler Bros i
North
Am N Co Canada Dry
Anad
Gackard
Anheing
Ramont
Celanese Enone Eloten
Glass Butchers
Iba
Cole
Proctor Gam Butchers
NJ Butchers
Acio Corp
Packers
KO Pictures Packers
Comw Edison
Exall Steel
Edison
Vultee
Reyna Tob
Lowbiscu
Union
Sinclair
Astman
Evans Pr
Sas Corp
Oak Truehauf
Fox Film Teereee
Gen Dynamics
Carbson Pac
Seeeere Gen Foods N Motors
Mt. Sa
Mon
Ig Am
Nm Corp
Goodrich
Goodyear Tire
Graham Paige
Waworth
Warner Bros. Speice
WesteRouse
Howe Sound
Woolworth
Rayon
Zenit Radio
Aetna Balser Auto
Barium Steel m
Chicago
Market Summary: Cattle and Calves Trade Mixed
Calves and cows show uneven demand with calves steady to better on some lots, cows 50 cents lower, bulls down or steady. Dealers and packing buyers push a steady tone, while the run lacks enough heifers to test the market fully.
Sioux City Livestock Cattle Receipts Steady Trade
Sioux City livestock market reports 190 cattle receipts. Slaughter steers and cows opened fully steady with steady but uneven late trading. High quality selections around 524 price level. Choice heifers and high grade stockers scarce. medium and good stock steers around 12.00.
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Sioux City
Ux City
Pveraes
Ieee
WANTE Food Distribut Profitable Opportunities
WANTE offers profitable opportunities to wholesale Piper's Bakery line by Chicago's oldest and largest variety bakers since 1568. Lane includes special type breads Brown n Serve fancy rolls and sweet rolls assorted coffee cakes or make births alone. Write or phone Out-of-Town Sales Mgr. H. Piper Baking Co. 1490 Bi. Welle Chicago ML.
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Piper's Bakery
Chicago
Chicago Produce Prices From Chicago Produce Market Report
A fragmented market list shows live poultry, turkeys, and carload prices with per hundredweight figures. It mentions hens, toms over 20 pounds, processed goods, and vitamin A contents along with receipt scores and assorted crates. arrival notes reference trucks and tracks in midweek listings.
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Mecdor
Kerth Kota Pontiacs
Ington Russets
New York Produce Market Receipts Quotes
Fragmentary list notes New York produce prices and receipts with scattered figures. Items mentioned include sea foods creamers and various produce quotes with cents per unit, but many words are garbled. The readable data shows small and dirties categories with prices in cents and dollars.
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NEW_ YORK
Boy Climbs Mt Washington With Thermos Snow Shield
Portland Maine reports 15 year old Jimmy Phillips and his uncle scaled 6288 foot Mt Washington in New Hampshire. He forgot his camera but carried a thermos of snow and ice to prove the ascent to friends, erasing doubts about their feat.
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Portland
Maine
Jimmy Phillips
Mt. Washington
New Hampshire
Auditor's Report Criticizes Emmet County Officials
Estherville reports state auditor finds alleged illegal practices by Emmet county supervisors for 1952. Claims include sale of county materials on open account, private use of county machinery, unpaid $5000 of sold supplies, and maintenance purchases without public votes. Supervisors Ellerston and Finn disputed findings, insisting records show proper actions and that equipment use aided roads and drainage projects.
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Estherville
INS
Emmet County Board of Supervisors
Emmet County Supervisors
E. I. Ellerston
Neil Finn
C. E. Conrad
Finn
Ellerston
Conrad
Robbed salesman loses 75 to 100 watches in motel raid
Iowa authorities hunt thieves who stole about 75 to 100 watches worth roughly $2,000 from Burt Streeter a St Louis jewelry salesman at the Pine Edge motel in Coralville. Sheriff Murphy and County Attorney Meardon estimate total loss near $2,000 with most watches taken from Streeter's room.
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Iowa City
Bill Meardon
Illinois Atom Plant Junked
The Atomic Energy Commission canceled plans for the Spoon River explosive plant near Macomb Illinois. The project was abandoned due to technical developments enlarging output at existing plants producing the same product. Net savings cited include 26 million dollars in construction land and engineering, about four million in startup costs and three million in annual operating costs, with two million needed for terminated contracts.
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Chicago
Atomic Energy Commission
Spoon River
Macomb
Ill
AEC
Commission
United Air Lines Records Cedar Rapids Passenger Peak in Oct
Cedar Rapids set a October record with 1,377 passengers on United, beating the prior 1,358. For the first ten months of 1953 total boardings reached 10,216, surpassing all of 1952’s total 9,565. Grain revenue through October rose 37 percent over 1952, and 3 percent above the full 1953 prior year. Nationwide, United posted October revenue passenger miles of 246.1 million, up six percent from a year earlier.
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Cedar Rapids
United Aires
C. C. McIntyre
United
McIntyre
United System
United Air Lines
Bellevue Election Ruled Valid After Machine Error
DES MOINES UP The attorney general's office rescinded the Belle vue town council's annulment of the Nov 3 municipal election caused by a faulty voting machine. The machine misaligned names, locking the lever to the candidate voted for, affecting about 136 votes before the election stood.
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Des Moines
Bellevue
Oscar Strauss
Jackson County
Walter J. McCarthy
Plane collision in Argentina reportedly kills twenty
In Villa Mugeta Argentina police say a four motor civilian transport plane collided with a smaller aircraft killing about 20 people. The crash occurred Thursday and authorities continued to list many casualties and search for survivors. In Iowa City Virgil D Fritz 34 Cedar Rapids pled guilty to drunk driving and was fined 300 dollars after being arrested September 1 on Highway 218 near North Liberty by the highway patrol.
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Villa Mugetta
Argentina
Iowa City
Virgil D. Fritz
Cedar Rapids
North Liberty
Highway Patrol
Prominent Figures in White Case Highlight Subpoenas
In the Harry Dexter White case in Washington eight figures loom large as subpoenas fly through Rep. Harold Welde's un American activities committee. Attorney General Brownell notes the FBI spy report on White reached the White House when White joined the IMF. Truman says he did not see the report and removed White upon learning. Byrnes recalls informing Truman on February 6 1946 of an FBI warning to avert White's confirmation. Jenner probes and subpoenas Gen Vaughan. Elizabeth Bentley had named White as a Soviet spy.
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Harry Dexter White
Washington
Truman
James Byrnes
Rep
Harold H. Welde
un-American Activities Committee
Herbert Brownell, Jr
FBI
White
White House
International Monetary Fund
Brownell
Gen
Vaughan
Byrnes
Senate
Leslie Biffle
Sen
Jenner
Internal Security
Red
Elizabeth Bentley
Quaker Oats Offers 5-Cent Wage Increase
Quaker Oats proposes a voluntary five cent per hour raise for about 95 hourly employees. Plant Manager E. J. Petranek says the hike would take effect Monday November 16 and applies without altering current contracts due to automatic quarterly adjustments tied to the cost of living. Local 110 DPO CIO and AFL crafts of IAM will present the offer to their members for vote.
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Quaker Oats
E.J. Petranek
Dpo-Cio
AFL
Nternational Association of Machinists
U. S. Department of Labor
Petranek
Cedar Rapids City Council to vote on 200,900 sewer bonds
The Cedar Rapids City Council holds a meeting on December 3 in the council chambers to consider the 200,900 sewer bonds to defray the cost of constructing sewers. Objections may be filed before the meeting with the city clerk. Published November 12, 1953.
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Tre”ay Council
Cotes Rapids
Linn County
Lows
Wal & Cecer
Byrnes Says Truman Would Have Blocked White Ford IMF Nomination
Gov. James F. Byrnes testified that President Truman likely would have halted the Feb 1946 nomination of Harry Dexter White as IMF executive director if the Senate had not acted. He disputed a House committee subpoena and offered to answer by mail or in Columbia. Byrnes reiterated he discussed an FBI report on White with Truman, and said the president’s desk phone communications remain unclear who answered.
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Columbia, S. C
Llp
James F. Byrnes
Truman
Harry Dexter White
International Monetary Fund
Senate
Byrnes
House un-American Activities Committee
White
Columbia
Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
Internal Security
Mr. Truman
FBI
South Carolina
White House
Leslie Biffle
Biffle
Herbert Brownell
J. Edgar Hoover
Subcommittee
Marion Tions and Shrimper Departures Highlight Marion News
Longtime Marion teacher Bertha Shrimper resigns after forty years with plans to move to Salt Lake City to live with her son. Patricia McMillen seeks release from fifth grade duties. Board adopts Hawkeye Tales as Iowa history text and approves selling surplus auditorium seats at 8.10 each. Permissions granted for Marion P.T.A. events and a local business sponsored basketball use of the high school gym.
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Bertha Roberts Shrimper
Marion
Shrimper
Lincoln
Salt Lake City
Richard
Patricia McMillen
Moeller
Iowa
Marion P.T.A
Opening of New Iowa TV Station Delayed
Des Moines station KGTV delays its start of program service for 24 hours on channel 17. Viewers flood state with inquiries as workmen could not complete mounting the television antenna atop the Des Moines tower.
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Des Moines
INS
Central Iowa
KGTV
Truman considered testifying before Congress
Rep Walter said he was told Truman initially wished to testify about memories from years past in the White case. He added the president was advised by constitutional experts not to, to avoid setting a precedent. Walter doubts hearings will occur and expects the chair would prefer to move on.
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Washington
Walter
D-Pa
Harry Truman
Caution Labeled Cause of Tighter Mortgage Market
AP reporting from New York notes money may ease for winter home purchases but lenders remain cautious. Officials cite limited access to funds, stricter down payments, and fears of housing oversupply as market tightens despite overall funds easing.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Warnecke
Bian J
West
Midwest
George L. Bliss
Century Federal Savings Association of
David Picket
Gotham Construction Corporation of
Chicago
Angeles
City bids for bonds to finance sewer project
Bids for bonds to fund a city sewer project are to be referred to the Council after opening. The high bidder will be awarded the contract at City Hall with conditions on interest rates and minimum bids. Publication notes date November 12.
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Senha
Mds
Sald Ous
Mats Zee Semann
Chapman
Chicago
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