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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1948
Page
8
Chicago livestock prices closed the week on gains with hogs quoted 22.50 to 23.50 as cattle and sheep held steady. An active pork market drove hogs higher with both refiners and buyers lifting prices by about 1 to 1.25, while the Agriculture Department noted broad participation and reliable trading across sessions.
Chicago market reports show hog receipts about 500 locally and at the circle. Hogs trade mostly higher with good and choice 170 to 270 pound hogs bringing around 23 to 24 dollars. Cattle steady to higher with steers and yearlings up to one dollar. Sheep and lambs show gains with slaughter lambs about one dollar higher and yearlings up to fifty cents.
The New York market closed a slow week with small gains and losses offsetting each other. Several issues slipped to new 1948 lows while overall trends remained flat. Chrysler and Chesapeake and Ohio briefly hit bottom amid Wednesday’s dip. professional trading dominated Saturday activity.
Estimated Saturday receipts reach 70 000 with week 68 000 year 82 400 actuals Friday 69 000. Packing plants in southern Minnesota and 12 plants plus about 30 concentration yards in Iowa report movement and some out of state buying. Prices steady to 25c higher than Friday with varied hog weights and price ranges from 28 to 22.25 per hundredweight across weight classes.
Steer prices rise about 50 cents while heifers hold steady and cows mostly move 50 cents lower. Bulls fall up to $1. Dealers hold steady. Load top quality 1,113 pound fed steers at $32.00. Ed steers bring around $29.00 with medium to low goods at $23.00 to $26.50. Fed heifers fetch $25.00 to $28.00. High grades scarce while common beef prices vary from $20.50 to $21.00.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids market rose a quarter this Saturday following Friday gains. Prime butchers topped at 21.60, with varied weights and classes for hogs and cattle, plus a selection of wholesale fruits and vegetables priced across crates and pounds, and a New York bond review noting a mixed market with few changes.
Friday action shows hogs steady to higher with prices near 23.00 and 22.00 for select weights. Fed steers, heifers, and bulls largely steady to higher. stockers and feeders softening. cows and canners firm to higher. sheep and lambs mostly higher with feeding lambs and ewes trading at modest gains.
Grains rose late Saturday led by wheat as buying from Southwestern firms and short covering lifted prices above the prior close. The rally followed a prior grain selloff driven by maritime strike developments with 2 000 Brooklyn longshoremen rejecting a settlement, risking a prolonged stoppage. A Fort William Canada steamer unloaded 195 000 bushels of rye with another larger cargo vessel expected. December prices advanced for wheat corn oats rye soybeans and lard futures mixed to higher trailing the session.
AP report from Chicago lists grain and seed prices with no sales. Wheat prices show No 2 yellow at 1.42 and No 5 at 1.12, plus mixed and white varieties. Field seed quotes include sweet clover at 15.00 to 16.00 dollars per cwt and timothy at 16.50 to 17.50 dollars per cwt.
Sioux City UPI reports week to week gains in livestock markets. Hogs 180-300 lbs up about 50 to 1.00, cattle slaughter steers and heifers 50c to 1.00 higher with prime lots at 37.00. cows 41.00 to 41.50, feeders mixed. sheep slaughter lambs 50c to 75c higher with best woolskins around 25.50.
Marion area society notes report Thanksgiving visits by Margery and Dale Lary with families in La Porte City and Iowa City. Cedar Falls hosts Owen Noxon visiting Kassler relatives. Joseph Boxell ill at 808 Seventh Avenue. Dan Hickey visits Des Moines kin. Handicraft club plans Christmas party with chairs Clemans Marsh Stroope and King. Mrs Williams travels to Fayette for Minnie Duthbett funeral. Clifford Beall hosts holiday dinner guests from Manchester and ae. Marjorie Gillmore of Springville visits Laura Gillmore home.
The listing details services for Marion and nearby parishes led by various pastors including Rev. Moore at Baptist, Rev. McElliott and Rev. Norton at St Joseph’s, Rev. Goins at Christian, Rev. Perry at Congregational, Rev. Odermann at Free Methodist, Rev. Gable at Methodist, Rev. De Jong at Presbyterian, Rev. Wuerffel at St Pauls Lutheran, Rev. Atkinson at Prairie Chapel, and Elder Christensen at Seventh Day Church of God. It notes Sunday schools, worship times, sermons, youth activities, union services, and study meetings through midweek and Sunday.
Advertisement lists two pieces with two needles patterns 689 and sizes small medium large. Request 20 cents in coin for the pattern and send to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept. at 549 West Randolph Street Chicago Ill. Include pattern number name and address printed plainly.
Grandma Sprouse, 77, and her 18 year old husband Delbert, on a three month Columbus visit after a June 8 1946 wedding, say Coney Island confirms the world’s end is near and Cat Hollow remains the only civilized place. She criticizes New York City playgrounds as shocking and immoral.
Sheriff Howard Reppert says James William Bennett, 38, a mechanic and father of four, confessed to being the East Des Moines prowler. He admitted stealing clothing, peering into windows, and involvement in 20 cases, including the E. L. Fox home break and a seven-year-old girl’s assault, while denying five molestation cases. Bennett said he roamed the east side almost every night and had helped in prowler hunts.
The University of Iowa accepted gifts and grants totaling 9915 for research and educational programs. The Hoffman Laroche Company gave 6200 for vitamin A research led by Dr. Philip C. Jeans. The International Minerals and Chemicals Corporation provided 2500 for mineral nutrition studies under Prof. W F Loehwing. The Iowa division of the American Cancer Society gave 600 for cancer lectures, and the American Legion auxiliary of Iowa supplied 500 for veterans play school equipment.
Three persons were killed and three others injured in an auto taxicab collision on highway 6 near Council Bluffs at dusk Friday. Deceased were Abe Poska 47 of Lincoln Arnold Jacobs 33 of Council Bluffs and Leona Book 28 of Harlan who was a cab passenger. Injured were Orville Haas 40 Richard Snyder 23 and Lloyd Van Winkle 30 all of Lincoln and listed in fair condition at Jennie Edmunson hospital.
By Anne Adams a willowy Senya frock with Empire line features contrast trim. Pattern 4865 available in sizes 12 through 20 with size 16 needing 3 3 4 yards 39 inch fabric and 1 1 2 yards contrast. Send 25 cents in coins for this pattern to The Seer Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. 130 N Clinton St Chicago IL. Print name address size and style number plainly.
Des Moines AP reports Public Safety Commissioner Alfred W. Kahl plans a 1949 bill to screen drivers likely to black out. He cites eight traffic fatalities this year linked to such conditions and proposes physicians report to local health boards for evaluation of driving eligibility.
John Kirkove, 71, of North English, died in an Oskaloosa hospital from injuries after his truck was struck by a Milwaukee diesel train at a crossing about a half mile east of North English. He was a well driller.
Des Moines must pay 2092.90 dollars in costs for the ouster action hearing against Safety Commissioner Myron J. Bennett. Bennett was not dismissed from the ouster petition after a four day district court hearing and was reinstated to his office.
Clarence Towns 26 of Mt. Pleasant was fatally injured in a two car collision on highway 218 north of Mt. Pleasant Friday night. Two youths riding with Towns were injured when his car side swiped another vehicle driven by Eugene McCormick, also of Mt. Pleasant.
An operetta The Beauty Contest will be performed Tuesday in Tipton by the Cedar county rural women's chorus to raise funds for robes. The group also schedules December venues in London Mechanicsville Clarence and Stanwood.
Tokyo reports that Gen Douglas MacArthur approved executions of Hideki Tojo and six other top war criminals with daily news briefings to announce completion. Madame Tojo asks for ashes to be returned for burial, while authorities plan cremation at a Yokohama area facility under guard.
Beardsley indicates Charles R. Fischer likely to be drafted as secretary to the incoming governor. Fischer, former state insurance commissioner, has managed four Republican gubernatorial campaigns and is praised by Beardsley as a top public servant. Beardsley takes office in January and may appoint Fischer to start the new administration. Governor Blue currently pays his secretary $4 950.
Des Moines Iowa Friday night remarks by Will F Riley vice president of the Iowa Bar Association urged judges to curb easy divorces as abuse of the judicial process. He warned such divorces lead to hasty marriages noting problems in larger Iowa centers and the jury in divorce courts. He said a committee is studying changes in how judges are selected and will present recommendations to the 1951 legislature.
Osceola reports REA lineman Frank Wallace aged 50 was electrocuted while repairing a live 7 200 volt line south of the city. Ambulance and inhalator squad responded with fellow workers giving artificial respiration but he died at the scene.
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