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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1948
Page
18
USDA reports Saturday hog, cattle, and sheep receipts with declines. Hog prices drop about 25 cents to roughly 21.75 to 27.50 per hundredweight, while sows bring 21 to 25.75. Cattle and sheep values also ease with varied weights and grades across Omaha and Chicago markets, signaling softer demand and ongoing market adjustments.
New York buyers faced a dull week as oil shares led gains. Barnsdall and Phillips Petroleum boosted crude prices in Texas, lifting late sessions. Cattle and hog quotes fluctuated, with prime hogs at 25.50 and packers at 24.00 amid a thin trading day.
Chicago commodities hover near close with May wheat and July futures weak. soybeans slip along with corn while oats and rye hold near unchanged. Cash grain reports cite a Bennet Galvin crop estimate predicting a record 3 550 683 000 bushels, underpinning pressure on prices.
Chicago markets report unsettled poultry with hen prices around 31 to 33 cents and overall receipts heavy. Butter and eggs show varied gains in New York and Chicago markets with mixed lots and steady cheese demand. potatoes remain weak on russets while rest hold.
Promoter Herman Taylor cabled London to offer light heavyweight champion Freddy Mills a $25,000 guarantee to defend his title in Philadelphia next January against 21 year old Harold Johnson.
Burns Baker of Los Angeles, once bank executive and father of seven, became permanently blind after a tonsil infection damaged his optic nerve. He learned Braille, used a Seeing Eye dog, and rebuilt his life as an insurance broker. He paid off his home mortgage and was named president of a blind club called Men of Vision.
Doctors nationwide back the American Nurses Association campaign for greater security, pay, and professional prestige. Ella Best notes New York Medical Society calls for higher wages and recognition to end the nursing shortage as prewar defections rise.
Kaiser-Frazer officials moved to quash talk of a Kaiser-Frazer Sears alliance. A letter to distributors from Fred R. Cooper said discussions with Sears have occurred but no agreement or mutual interest was reached. An INS report claimed Sears bought a substantial interest in Kaiser Fleetwing Inc. of Bristol, Pennsylvania, though no confirmation was given by either party.
Secretary Ramon Ozaeta ruled that a Filipino pupil may not be compelled to salute the flag if it conflicts with religious belief. The student, a Jehovah's Witness, was within rights to refuse during school exercises, with persuasion as the method to reach the goal.
Forty parents and friends attended the Marion Methodist church event. Awards included Life Scouts Allan Mally and Billy Moffatt, Star Scouts Donald and Robert Hay, First Class Morris Grabau and Donovan Morrison, Second Class Earl Pogue and Jerry Walker. Merit badges went to Mally Moffatt Hays Grabau Morrison Kent Waffle and Jones.
Kingsville Texas students at Texas A and I College heard ringing in their ears for weeks. A graduate physics student James Rickard was conducting acoustical tests in the auditorium and sounds leaked outside, causing the noise.
New York police arrested Rafael Rios for subway thefts early in the morning. He sat beside sleeping riders reading a Bible while tapping victims on the head with a lead pipe.
Police said he was seen rifling pockets while wrapped in a newspaper. Rios told the court he was reading the Bible to learn to speak good English.
A Penn State meteorologist developed a rain predicting method using sun radiation. By measuring morning radiation, which vapor in the air reduces, he can estimate moisture. radiation below 80 percent indicates rain. The system shows about 70 percent accuracy and aids traditional forecasts but fails for frontal thunderstorms driven by air currents.
A six game Midwest conference football weekend features Cornell college versus Lawrence at Mt. Vernon Iowa, Carleton facing Grinnell on Grinnell’s campus, and Knox meeting Ripon in Wisconsin with Beloit hosting Western Michigan, Coe at Indianapolis against Simpson, and Monmouth hosting Hope.
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