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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1945
Page
7
Choice fed steers and yearlings drew strong demand while 25 loads hit $18 per hundredweight ceiling. Hog totals reach 6,000 with prices around $14.85 to $14.10 for most grades. Slaughter lambs held steady to slightly down with good and choice at $14.50 to $14.65.
Market reports show steer and heifer sales with prices around $18.00 for top steers, $17.75 for select heifers, and $14.50 to $14.65 for good to choose stock. Bucks down about $1, as slaughter cattle steady near $5.00, with natives and ewes trading lower and no action on peace.
Market active and steady for calves and cattle with bids for western grassers and beef steers. Demand mixed across categories with fresh entries in 790 head of western grassers and varied lots of heifers and yearlings. pigs show strength in lighter weights while larger sows remain steady.
OMAHA OMAHA API NO 8 DeDt Agriculture hogs steady to higher barrows and gilts 0 to 14 weight. sows and stags around 13.75. CATTLE salable 1,000 including good to choice fed steers and heifers active. cows stockers feeders slower. many lots priced 12.75 to 15.00. SHEEP receipts 6,000 fairly active. fat lambs 14.15. slaughter ewes 5.75 down. feeder lambs 4.85 to 5.25. breeding ewes 7.00 to 7.10.
Des Moines reports combined receipts at concentration rods and interior markets for 24 hours ending Tuesday. Compared with 20 300 seven weeks ago and 31 400 last year. Active steady loading heavier than Wednesday. Barrows and gilts 160 180 lbs 13 50 14 45. 180 360 lbs 14 20 14 45. Good sows 276 800 lbs 13 45. Good sows 50 lbs 13 30 13 70.
Market notes from Des Moines show hog price ranges around 13.50 to 14.45 per cwt for various categories. The Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin exchanges contribute to mixed offers with typical spreads reflecting live weight and grade differences.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market stayed at ceiling levels on Tuesday. Top prime hogs sold around 14.45 dollars, with packers bidding in the 13 dollar range. cattle quotes, sheep and oats data follow, reflecting broad market activity and varying regional quotations.
Bond market in New York eased with limited demand on Tuesday. Losses showed in Boston and Maine 4s Rio Grande Western 5s International Great Northern First 6s Morris and Essex 3s and Providence Securities 4s.
Chicago produce receipts show butter at 310 tabs with steady extras and various score breakdowns. Eggs receipts 12 521 with standard and extra categories. prices range around 49.8 cents and 42444.6 cents. live pool term nes include springers broilers roosters and turkeys. Potatoes track 118 and totals 8190 with Idaho and commercial washed prices 1.70 and 1.75 for unwashed. red warbahs noted as best deca quality unwashed.
Prices listed for mixed colors and sizes, with No 1 to No 4 categories, 45 lbs over 50.1 5.8c, medium sizes 0-44 Tbs 46. The fragment provides current general prices and extras for assorted lots.
Chicago markets saw narrow moves as rye led a short covering rally while wheat and oats softened. In late trading December prices ranged around $1.77 for wheat with fractional changes seen across corn oats rye and barley with various gains and losses.
Market notes show no wheat sales for corn sample grades with prices listed and heavy demand. Cattle and stocker feeders dominate activity with varied weights and prices ranging from 9 to 17 dollars per cwt, including loads of choice fed cattle and heifers. Wisconsin cheese prices record bulk shipments to the Dairy Products Marketing Association at 23 and a half cents per pound for twins or cheddars, totaling about 120,000 pounds.
Cyril Gavin received a 60 day suspended jail sentence from Judge M. C. Hamiel for operating a car without the owner's consent. Gavin, who pled innocent May 11, had been out on bond after arrest for taking a car from a Cedar Rapids tavern scene. The judge found no illegal intent in Gavin's May 10 actions when he drove off with his family, noting the vehicle was later found to belong to another man.
Margaret Williams owner of the Hollywood Ice Time show won permission from Linn district court to relocate show property out of state in the regular tour. Two out-of-state men sued October 22 for alleged partnership breach and a past due 9195.59 loan. Cedar Rapids receipts remain tied up pending settlement with the appointed receiver.
Joseph Hagan is named executor of his sister Marya Hagan who died in Cedar Rapids in September. Mrs bet Skersick is confirmed executrix of her husband Joseph Skersick who died in Cedar Rapids October 13, with Mrs Skersick named sole heir in the will.
Judge Floyd Philbrick dismissed the divorce case filed by Robert Barrigar Jr. against Phyllis Barrigar after hearing Tuesday. He ruled the plaintiff not entitled to a decree as the couple have two minor children.
CHICAGO AP The W A Sheaffer Pen company of Fort Aug 31 reported earnings comparison to the 1944 period with figures $502 659 for the comparable period, showing year to year changes.
Dr Arthur L Miller spoke at Coe College Sinclair Chapel closing the leadership training school sponsored by the Association of Church School Superintendents. He urged salvation rests on home, school and church as attendees and instructors are honored with awards and a $70 offering to Dr Berger for chapel windows. The program noted a record enrollment of 425 with nightly attendance averaging 320.
An army plane on a war bond sales trip from St Joseph Missouri to Fargo North Dakota overshot Spirit Lake airport Monday, broke through a fence, and slid onto Highway 71. No injuries were reported among the occupants.
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