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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1952
Page
5
Chicago and Omaha livestock markets show mixed declines. Hogs fall 25 to 75 cents with slow trade and strong cattle receipts weighing on prices. sheep weak. Cattle calves and yearlings vary by class with limited demand and some prime lots offered. Prices range across regions with USDA reports indicating overall softness in slaughter and feeder segments.
City livestock prices show mixed trends with steers and heifers steady to higher for top grades while many lots not shown. Bulls rise 25 to 80 cents, stockers and feeders active with sharp gains in lighter weight calves and dairy stock. loads of choice fed steers around 31.00 to 41.34 with various weight ranges and widespread utility and commercial cows in the mid teens to upper teens.
Cedar Rapids hog prices were reported a quarter lower, with higher payments for hogs delivered and weighed at the Cedar Rapids plant. The market also listed cattle, sheep, fruit, and grain prices, followed by a note that New York stocks held a small gain with light trading.
Grain rose on Monday with wheat up 11 to 14 cents and corn 1 to 1 1/4 cents higher. Oats gained 4 to 14 cents while rye advanced about 4 to 5 1/4 cents and soybeans rose 4 to 11 4 cents, with cash wheat listed as none and corn bids varying by grade.
City brief notes announce Palette Club The F Paette club will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday on the second floor of the public library Sketching materials should be brought Also reported National Shuffleboard Leagues start soon Mizpah Lodge No 639 A F and A M meeting moved to Tuesday at 5 p m for Master Mason degree plus a barber shop notice and Kansas City Livestock market summaries including cattle prices and dairy products across several states.
William Lundquist 54 of 1004 Fourteenth Street Marion, assistant civil engineer for Milwaukee Railway, died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after weeks of illness. Born in Two Harbors Minnesota August 21 1898 he served in WWI R O T C. He lived in Marion since 1935 and worked 25 years for Milwaukee. Surviving his wife Ann Marie Paradise Lundquist a son four brothers and a sister. Services Tuesday 2 pm at St Pauls Lutheran Church with burial in Concordia Cemetery River Forest Illinois.
In Kalamazoo Michigan Riley Hickmott is listed as a roomer at the Degarmo residence. The note identifies Riley as a cocker spaniel living with Degarmo Ickmatt in the telephone directory entry.
G L Jeffrey and son Howard F. Jeffrey founded Cedar Rapids Vulcanizing Co in 1910 at 219 Fourth Ave SE as Iowa’s first vulcanizing shop. The elder Jeffrey, now retired, recalls return postcards to registered motorists and the evolution from treadless 3 500 mile tires to modern treaded tires lasting 25 000 to 30 000 miles.
A petition signed by 163 residents asks the city council to replace school signals at Thirteenth Street and J Avenue NE with four way stop and go lights due to traffic near Garfield school. The council referred the request to the police department for study.
About 1 560 people visited the light conditioned house at 749 Estroy Drive NE on Sunday. The Iowa Electric Light and Power Company sponsored the display and Smulekoff's furnished it. The Gazette featured the house in its building pages. A General Electric agent guided tours.
The first day crowd at the venue was about 50 percent larger than Davenport's opening. The house will stay open until Nov 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. daily and 2 to 9 on weekends.
Hollywood AP reports Amos and Andy may retire from radio after this season. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll have been a broadcasting mainstay for a quarter century. CBS VP Guy Della Cioppa said Gosden has not made a final decision but might leave radio and show business after the season.
Hollywood reports actress Hattie McDaniel died at 57 after a lingering illness. She starred in the Beulah radio and TV shows and had been retired a year and a half. Louise Beavers will take over the Beulah radio role. McDaniel was notable in films and won the 1939 Academy Award for Gone with the Wind.
Veterans Administration officials said Monday about 190000 veterans are training under the new Korean G I bill. They are enrolled at schools on farms and in other job settings nationwide.
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