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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1948
Page
8
In Chicago, limited livestock sold at steady quotes as week of price cuts ends. Hog top steadied at 22.85 with heavy marketings and a weak wholesale pork trade pushing live hog prices down. Losses averaged 2 to 3 dollars. lowest since May 19 and November levels back to 1945 lows.
In Chicago Livestock notes, hog receipts total about 3,300 head with price gaps of 2.00 to 2.25 lower for butcher hogs and top weekly load at 22.85. Slaughter cattle show uneven declines with steers sometimes 2.00 or more lower. cows and bulls vary with bulls up to 25 cents. Feeder and yearling markets mixed. 950 lb heifers around 7.25 with gains for top lots, medium to good beef cows 13.75 to 17.50, bulk at 28 to 32 for medium grades, and overall receipts near 5,000 locally and 20,000 across twelve markets. lambs down 1.00 to 1.25, ewes and yearlings softer. packers pay 24.25 to 25.50 for good slaughter lambs and common grades down to 19.00.
Barrows and gilts sold mostly 1.75 to 2.00 lower with top around 24.25. sows 1.50 to 2.25 lower. Cattle mostly 0.50 to 2.00 lower with tops for choice steers and heifers around 39.50 and 32.50 to 39.00. fat cows 0.50 to 1.90 lower. Lambs 0.25 higher on feed lots. slaughter lambs largely 25.85 to 25.00, good and choice shorn lambs around 24.75 to 25.00. Top yearling stock steer prices and various feeder classes listed with mixed declines and some gains.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market ease another half dollar after a week of losses. Prime butchers top at 21.00 dollars, packers at 20.00, with varied weights showing declines across several categories. Cattle quotes list steers, heifers, and cows with multiple weight brackets and prices, alongside wholesale fruits and vegetables and miscellaneous market items.
New York AP reports a slow Saturday session with minor price variation. Gains had a slight edge over losses but turnover was too meager to signal a decisive trend. The general undertone remained steady.
Corn on the Chicago Board of Trade sagged as nervous traders priced in a longshoremen strike on northern Atlantic coast ports. Wheat remained steadier while soybeans rose modestly and other grains fell. embargoes slowed export shipments to ports from Virginia to Massachusetts, though grain could still move if elevators had space.
Market notes list bids for wheat No 3 red and field seed prices including sweet clover and timothy hay with nominal per hundredweight figures. Values shown reflect commodity quotes and exchange context amid fluctuating grain markets.
Des Moines market summary shows Saturday receipts about 52 000 head with weekly total near 57 500 and year ago 95 500. Friday actuals around 70 000 with prices 25 to 75 cents lower than Friday's average. barrows, gilts, and sows offered with weights and bid prices listed including 180 to 260 lbs at 20 and 206 to 300 lbs at 33, 270 to 300 lbs at 20 75, and 330 to 360 lbs around 18 19.75 with sows around 17 50 to 19 25 and larger loads noted.
Fred Galer of Edgewood, 74, ended his life Friday by shooting himself in the head with a 22 caliber rifle. His body was found later at his home by his daughter Mrs Everett Hamlett who had come to call. Surviving are another daughter Mrs Denny Culbertson of Manchester five grandchildren a sister Mrs Clint Fairweather and two brothers Gilbert and Bill all of Edgewood. The body is at Rhines funeral home pending arrangements.
In Saturday's light trading, bond activity was routine with only minor moves. Notable quotes included American Securities 2 1/2s of 1961, Baltimore and Ohio 5s, Rock Island 4 1/4s, Columbia Gas of Kentucky, Commonwealth Edison 3s and Missouri Pacific convertible 5 1/2s.
USDA and local reports show hogs down about 1.75 dollars with top near 22.85. Slaughter steers and heifers vary, steer prices 26 to 32 dollars per hundredweight with several high choices at 33 to 37.50, while cows and stockers ease and lambs mostly fall up to a dollar from last Friday.
Kansas City market notes show fed steers 1050 lbs and under mixed demand with price declines from $1.00 to $2.50. Heifers off $1.00 to $1.50, cows $1.00 to $1.50 lower, cutters and cann ers 50 to 75 cents down. Bulls and dealers steady with fat cattle $27.00 to $37.50, most around $29.50. medium assets $22.00 to $24.00. fed heifers around $18.00? and cows $16.00.
A car crashed into Zimmerman hardware in Monticello around midnight Friday causing about 1500 in damage. Ronald Jaeger 20 of Worthington drove the vehicle and was uninjured. he was turned over to state patrol after being held by local officers. Unidentified companions fled.
Mrs. Florence Costello leased 500 Thirteenth Street to Mr and Mrs Robert Illen of Cedar Rapids. She and sister Mrs Pearl Owens of Madison Neb plan to leave for California in January for winter. Larry Tanner attended the Iowa Minnesota football game.
A long bulletin lists service times and activities for numerous local churches including Marion Churches Baptist St Joseph Catholic Christian Congregational Free Methodist Methodist Wesleyan Presbyterian and associated groups. It notes pastors, Sunday schools, worship times, sermons and upcoming picnics and meetings with specific leaders and dates.
Editors from three Iowa papers led a forum on the states surplus with a resolution urging the legislature to spend the treasury balance only on nonrecurring items. They warned that exhausting the surplus could trigger a substantial tax increase. The debate centered on roads buildings improvements and a soldier bonus. John S Heffner was elected president of the Iowa Taxpayers Association with officers and directors reappointed.
Will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday with Mrs. N. A. Baker and Mrs. Clara Wilson. St. Pauls Lutheran Revered Carl T. Wuerffel, pastor. Sunday school and Bible class at 9:30 a.m. Divine worship at 8:30 and 10:30. Walther league at the church Wednesday night. Prairie Chapel Revered O. E. Atkinson, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11. Ep worth league at 7:30 p.m. Seventh Day Church of God Sixth street at Ninth avenue. Elder Lawrence Christensen will conduct services. Sabbath school Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Preaching at 11:30.
Des Moines AP reports the state filed a notice of appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court after District Judge G K Thompson dismissed the ouster action against Myron J Bennett, reinstating him as Des Moines public safety commissioner. Bennett, suspended since October 6, was expected to resume duties.
Brief poem praising Edgar A Guest for setting a good example through a simple street garden and tidy home. Neighbors imitate his efforts, improving the neighborhood and inspiring a better world by small acts.
A historical report notes that heart trouble can stem from a syphilis infection contracted years earlier, highlighting long term cardiovascular risks associated with the disease.
Laura Wheeler offers a rag-cotton crochet sandal pattern with rag sole options in small to large sizes. Includes charts photos concise directions and year round lounging footwear. Send 209 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept Chicago Illinois for pattern 772.
Four Des Moines hunters Everett Wolfe Richard Mitchell James Barbour and Herbert Gillam were fined 100 dollars and costs each in municipal court here Friday by Judge Ray Scott for illegal possession of hen pheasants. Game wardens arrested the four in Marshall county Thursday.
Four men were burned to death Saturday when a fire truck collided with a passenger automobile while answering an alarm near Newark. The crash occurred as both vehicles went through an intersection, authorities said.
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire addressed the Iowa Taxpayers Association praising the 80th Congress for balancing the budget for the first time in 17 years and cutting six billion dollars from the President’s requests. He urged stronger public support for federal economy and warned on the need to finance a military defense if attacked.
Ottumwa city council hired John D. Moon to probe the police department amid state scrutiny. Attorney General R. L. Larson confirmed Iowa is looking into alleged irregularities after four local businessmen contacted his office.
Harry Green a 58 year old bachelor farmer was fatally shot Friday. His mother Mrs Nancy Green 83 was critically injured with three gunshot wounds to the head and neck. A rifle was found near the body and a repeating rifle was cited by a nearby witness. The incident occurred two miles northwest of Corydon Iowa and Mrs Green was treated at a Chariton hospital.
Darlene Holdgrafer, 10, of Clinton, died at University hospital from polio delaying admission since Oct. 28. The death followed Thomas Heath, 4, also a Clinton polio victim who died Thursday. Another Clinton child Thomas Wilmont, 8, was admitted Friday, in fair condition. John Fritcher, Lime Springs, added to the active list, in serious condition. Total active polio cases reached 23.
Federal Judge Henry N. Graven ruled federal authorities may take custody of two men accused in the Sheffield Savings Bank robbery in which 10 744 was stolen on Sept 25. Bernard Morgan 26 of Hampton and Robert Safford 23 of Mason City pleaded not guilty to state charges. The state sought custody arguing Iowa life imprisonment for bank robbery is harsher than federal penalties.
Senator elect Guy M. Gillette warned Democratic associates they must accept sobering responsibilities with the party’s recent victory. He spoke at a Democratic celebration dinner in Iowa City noting mass support for the party’s principles since its founding.
Mrs Rose Olson of Sioux Falls South Dakota died Friday in a hospital at Rock Rapids from injuries in a car truck crash near Lester Iowa the previous Monday. Frank Hobson also of Sioux Falls died of injuries from the same accident.
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