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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1952
Page
5
Chicago AP report shows USDA estimated Saturday salable livestock at 300 hogs 400 cattle and 500 sheep, with Friday receipts making November marketed totals largest since February. Prices traded 50 cents to 2 dollars below month-ago levels as buyers adjust. High-choice steers with hog herds sold at 35 to 37.50 amid Exposition activity.
USDA Chicago hogs and cattle market reports show receipts around 14 000 hogs 2 500 cattle and 6 500 sheep with varied gains. Hogs 180-210 lbs mostly 16 16 75 to 17 25. heavier weights 16 50 16 85. sows 14 00 15 75. Cattle good to prime steers 26 00 34 00. load 1 125 lb steers 35 25. cows 11 00 14 50. Sheep slaughter lambs steady to 50c higher, western fed lambs priced up to 25 00 for top lots.
Receipts 2 500 cattle and calves with varied activity. Fed steers and heifers mostly steady. prices range from 25.00 to 33.00 for fed lots. Cows steady to weak with utility cows at 3.50 to 15.00. canners and cutters 11.00 to 25.00. bulls up to 18.00. stockers and feeders scarce.
Ottumwa market reports show hog prices from 25 cents lower to a top of 16.00. Weight brackets noted include 160-170 pounds at 13.00, 170-180 at 4.00, 180-190 at 4.60, 400 pounds at 4.35, and 450-500 at 13.35 with 500-550 pounds listed.
Kansas City cattle receipts total 800 with 200 calves. Slaughter steers and heifers steady while trading remains slow. several loads remain unsold. Sows steady to strong. other classes scarce. Commercial and good short fed steers quoted around 90 dollars per hundredweight, with loads and choices appearing among buyers.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market were a quarter lower with higher quotes for hogs delivered to the Cedar Rapids plant. The cattle market shows U.S. prime and choice steers and yearlings across weight ranges with prices from 15.00 to 33.50, utilities and cows traded, and a sheep market listing lambs and ewes with assorted values.
New York AP reports stocks hit another yearly high Friday with a strong advance led by railroads and steels. Some soft spots appeared. Market volume rose to about 2,100,000 shares.
Sioux City cattle receipts reach 2 500 with slaughter steers and heifers steady to 25 cents lower on a weak market. Cows stable to strong while bulls remain scarce. Stockers and feeders dull with limited demand. several loads of steer and heifer yearlings average 31 50. cannery cows 11 00 to 15 50. utilities around 16 dollars.
Market notes for produce traders show steady to improved prices for Teed goods and vegetables with mixed grain items. Geese, longhorns, and butter receipts are listed with per pound or per hundredweight figures. eggs receipts total 7619 cases with unsettled market. potatoes arrivals and on track shipments detailed with prices for McClures and Idaho russets.
A jumbled New York produce market update shows varied price quotes with several misprints. Entries mention scores and percentages for different fruit and vegetable lines, noting occasional discounts and extras though exact items are unclear due to damaged text.
Readable notes list sugar and refined corn oil in tank cars and tank-placed crude corn oil, with soapstock also mentioned in tank cars. No dates or clear events provided.
In Chicago trading the grain market edged up toward the close with some gains offsetting earlier losses. Wheat rose about 4 to 1 percent settling near 2.33, corn little changed to down slightly, oats varied and rye slipped then recovered, and soybeans advanced around 2 percent with January price near 3.09. Lard declined about 10 to 15 cents while soybeans rose amid mixed movements across grains.
Chicago price readings show corn No 1 yellow at about 1.66 dollars and No 3 around 1.61 to 1.66, oats and barley listed with nominal or feed values. Miscellaneous feeds include alfalfa top, red clover, and hay products with various per hundred weights and dates not specified.
The supplied OCR text shows a scattered price schedule for Waterloo Hogs with numerous weight ranges and inconsistent figures, making a clear item difficult. The fragment lists per hundredweight prices and weight brackets but contains typographical errors and misread sections.
Des Moines reports from Friday show receipts at 85.00 with weaker week and year-ago totals. Hog prices edged 25 cents lower than Wednesday with top at 16.25. Barrows and gilts weights 160-180 to 460-480 pounds traded 14.50 to 16.25, various weights listed with several price points and totals.
City council approved a northwest corner loading zone on Fifteenth Street NE at First Avenue to curb trucks double parking during loading and unloading, per Police Chief Kudina. The meeting also reviewed zoning concerns on 315 Nineteenth Street and noted CAP unit support and sewer water assessments for five Cedar Rapids streets.
John Caldwell and his wife Mary sailed from San Pedro to Tahiti in a 34 foot boat with two children Johnny and Steven for 43 days. Discipline kept the voyage smooth. Johnny obeyed promptly, and all remained healthy aside from typical ailments. They adapted meals from native recipes and anticipate a nine month voyage to Australia with newborn crewman Roger Hiro aboard.
City council approved a loading zone at the southwest corner of Second Street and Second Avenue SE after a request by the Borden Ice Cream Company and on recommendation from Police Chief Kudina. Borden spokesmen sought the zone to aid deliveries to the May Drug Company.
The Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company was authorized to install 65 feet of gas main in E avenue NE, north of Thirty-ninth street, and 120 feet in Twenty-first street NW, south of Johnson avenue.
C R Builders requested approval to lay 700 feet of sanitary sewer pipe in Illinois Street SW one block south of Linwood Street. The city council referred the request to the engineering department for review.
A legal opinion by Chapman and Cutler of Chicago on the city's water revenue bond issue was prepared and filed by the council.
Mrs. B. G. Ibel, 54, of Spencer, died after an auto accident on Thanksgiving night near Storm Lake. She was thrown from a car driven by her husband when it sideswiped a truck, and may have been struck by a second vehicle on Highway 71 north of town. Authorities investigated whether the second car caused the fatal injuries.
Canine parachutist Setie the cocker spaniel will not jump again at Marion Free Methodist Church district conference in Fort Bragg North Carolina. Sgt. Huth of the 505th airborne infantry explains Setie trained for jumps and once leaped from a 34 foot tower, becoming a national celebrity in 1949. Thanksgiving guests included Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Clouse of Cedar Rapids.
Marion News reports holiday dinner guests of Gilbert French and Harold Talmadge families from Oelwein Cedar Rapids and Marion. Another item lists Carters Thanksgiving guests including Shakespeare family Cedar Rapids Mt. Vernon and Marion residents and local hosts Dr H O Young and Milton White at a Bog area farm.
Dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hepker at 380 Seventh Avenue featured guests including the Charles Stroppels Miss Elizabeth Stroppel and Ardell Slach of Marion and other Hepker family members. Also notes on Buck Funeral for William G Buck Marion and related survivor details and invitations.
From Illinois Mrs. Grace Gaither of Sumner and her son and daughter in law Mr. and Mrs Merle Gaither of Bridgeport and their children join elder Mrs. Gaither s sister Mrs J P Knepper Holiday dinner guests of Mrs Lulu Peterson and Miss Hazel Evans included Mr and Mrs Donald Wallace of New Hampton and their daughter Donna Rae Mr and Mrs Harold Dean of Mt Vernon and Mrs Zona Logan and Edith Howe of Marion Also Motorola Admiral RCA Television sales and service Marion Radio Adv
Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Smith included the Coles family from Alburnett and Ypsilanti Michigan, the Nickels from Granby Missouri, the Terrill family from Portland Oregon, Mrs. Mundy, and the Millers from various locales.
New resident Mr and Mrs Vince Schroder and their son Mark have moved to Marion from Decorah and will reside at 1500 Tenth Street Schroder is an engineer employed by the Collins Radio Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Holsinger hosted a holiday dinner for their daughter Mrs. Robert Gunn of Denver and her children Kathy and Douglas. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Diserens, Mrs. Alma Curran and Donald Curran of Cedar Rapids, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ki of Mechanicsville.
Mr and Mrs O W McBride were dinner guests Thursday of Mrs McBrides nephew and niece Mr and Mrs Warren Wickham at Martelle.
Announcement for jumper prints in albums offered by Lagerquist's Camera Shop with a new photo service and advertising.
Members of Marion post 298 American Legion are requested to report to assist in finishing the redecoration of the Legion hall.
Campaign expenses filed by Herschel Loveless of Ottumwa detail contributions totaling $2,740 for his unsuccessful bid for governor. Loveless submitted the report Friday to the Iowa secretary of state, listing Loveless-for-Gov as the committee.
Ben Jensen of Extra reports a Republican ticket campaign for re election with total contributions of 2800 including 1000 from the Republican congressional committee and 1500 from the Republican state committee. Expenses totaled 2331.
Boston AP. Bernard L. Alpert of the NLRB announced a settlement of 350000 in back pay resolving a 10 year dispute between Winchester Repeating Arms Co and 106 former employees. The board found 3 workers were discharged in 1942 and 103 in 1946 for concerted organizing activity.
The tribunal discharged employees, the company appealed to the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans which upheld the workers. The U S Supreme Court declined review last June. The NLRB said all who wished to return to work have been reinstated and back pay awarded. two workers died but estates receive back pay.
Postmaster E. R. Petro announced a new Kenwood substation opening Monday in Cedar Rapids It will be housed in the Economy Super Drive-In Fruit Market at 3310 First Avenue NE The site replaces a substation that closed several months earlier in the same Kenwood area.
Board meets in Cedar Rapids adopts road vacations and secondary road assessments. Approves lumber bids, salary changes, and various fund expenditures. Appoints Ada R. Mahrt as probation office secretary and releases liens. Notes canvass of November 4 election results and future hearings on road costs and construction.
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