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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1944
Page
10
Receipts of hogs cattle and sheep at Chicago were brisk with 11 000 salables and a total of 13 000 hogs and 13 000 cattle plus 6 500 sheep. Top steer price paid was 1835 for nine loads while yearling cattle showed strong demand and statewide trading across Iowa Nebraska and surrounding markets noted.
The Cedar Rapids hog market remains at ceiling levels with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70 for 160-170 lb hogs. Cattle prices vary by class from 6.00 to 16.50 for steers and heifers, with cows and bulls priced per weight and quality. Lamb and sheep markets show lambs around 13.00 to 14.50 and mixed sheep weights priced per hundredweight.
Market listing shows corn shelled Old No 2 at 1.04 with several price lines for oats wheat rye and hay straw. Vegetables include Michigan celery 1.40 per dozen, lemons 4.25, California grapefruit 15.37, onions 1.85, and apples including Jonathan 3.85 and McIntosh 3.0. Hide prices cap with various grades and weight classes.
Wheat futures jumped due to mill buying and short covering with OPA price ceiling expectations. December wheat reached 1.677 1/2 dollars, a new high since April, while corn oats rye and barley also gained. Cash wheat and barley prices listed alongside mixed corn and soybean data for Chicago grain markets.
Chicago reports show butter receipts at 312657 and steady prices. sugсgs receipts 6268 firm. live poultry steady with 26 trucks and 4 cars. Potatoes arrivals 158 on track 324 total U S shipments 946. varies by state with prices for Idaho russet, Colorado red, Minnesota and North Dakota Bliss Triumphs, Wisconsin Chippewas. New York butter receipts 676489 firm. cheese receipts 237913 nominal. eggs 27906 irregular with mixed color price ranges for various sizes and standards.
Wisconsin cheese exchange reports eight cars sold with No. 1 twins or cheddars at 2344c and 2444c. no bids uncovered. River stage notes show minor rises along the Mississippi at La Crosse and Prairie du Chien with several towns recording small increases or no change.
Six landowners led by B F Higgins and others petitioned the Linn county board of supervisors to grade and surface a two mile stretch east of Paralta extending north to highway 151. A separate delegation asked for a 1.75 mile secondary road district in Clinton township near Covington for surfacing. Also reported: a car rollover near Cedar Rapids injuring Mrs Schott and two others, Ray Morris jailed on prior charges, and the county authorized delinquent personal tax collection for 1943 with 10 percent fee.
Sparta Wisconsin residents Second Lieutenant Theron Newell White 30 of Seattle and Second Lieutenant Laurence R Forrest Jr 21 of South Orange New Jersey were killed when an artillery reconnaissance plane snagged its wheels in telephone wires along US Highway 16 near the entrance to old Camp McCoy.
New York AP reports a modest revival in buying with prices mostly steady. Hiram Walker led distillers as gains widened for Austin Nichols, Distillers Corp, National Distillers and others. volume around 700,000 shares and mixed advances across rails and key issues.
Iowa poet and University of Iowa faculty member Paul Engle will lecture across the state in addition to counseling student writers and participating in the Writers' Workshop. President Virgil Han cher announced Wednesday. Engle born in Cedar Rapids and a Coe College graduate, was among the first to submit a poetry manuscript as a master’s thesis. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford 1933 to 1936 and later taught at Iowa. He has published five books of verse, one novel, and his poetry collection won the $1,000 Friends of American Writers prize in 1941.
City Briefs note the Palestine council and Royal and Select Masters meeting Friday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic hall with refreshments after the Royal Master work. Also a sermon titled Prayer and Its Value to be given tonight at 7 45 at Four square Gospel Tabernacle. A War Production board representative will visit Davenport Chamber of Commerce Thursday 9 30 to 4 30 for appointments. Cub Pack 29 meets Friday at 7 30 in Westminster church. Graduation exercises for boys turning 12 this summer are announced and a den mothers training course is planned Friday at the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Bungalow. The Hebrew Christian Alliance Bible conference closes tonight at Calvary Baptist with Rev Howard Kramer and Rev Jacob Bernheim discussing conversion and Alliance results.
Raymond L Hill, formerly of Cedar Rapids, visits Mrs Ida M Thompson at 1550 Sixth Ave SE. Hill now works at Langley field Virginia as a signal corps electronic equipment serviceman.
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