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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1968
Page
17
New York stock market holds gains with blue chip rotation and inflation concerns cited as strength. High volume trading features Wilco Chemical Boeing SCM and other leaders while grain quotes show wheat futures dropping amid mixed sector moves.
Chicago and Des Moines reports show modest price shifts with hogs steady to weak and cattle down modestly. Wheat futures hit seasonal lows on liquidation while spring soybeans drifted. Slaughter lambs rose, with mixed cattle and steady corn and oats alongside.
Iowa City authorities report Steven Hendren a 19 year old inmate from Waterloo fled from University Hospitals during a medical check at 9 40 am He is serving a 10 year term for breaking and entering He is 5 feet 8 inches tall 140 pounds with red hair blue eyes and was in prison blues. He was admitted to the Anamosa reformatory on Dec 16 1967. Joey Bishop Show guest star Jimmy Dean returns Tuesday night at 10 30 on Channel 9.
Cedar Rapids prices for hogs Tuesday were 25 lower. Monday bulk deliveries for 200-230 Ibs butchers ranged 19.50 to 19.85, with packers’ grades discounted by weight. Car arrivals totaled 48 cars, including corn and soybeans. Iowa auctions reported steady to higher cattle and feeder markets, with specifics on steers, heifers, calves, and feeder pigs, plus sow and sheep values and spring lambs.
UPI dispatch lists cattle prices at Omaha and Sioux City auctions. In Omaha 6,000 head with calves slaughter steers bulls and cows priced across grades. steer prices up to 28.75 per 100 lbs and heifers around 26.85 to 27.00 for 950-1050 lbs. In Sioux City 4,000 head no calves with steers and heifers steady. steer prices 28.25 to 28.25 for 1,151 to 1,250 lb ranges and heifers 25.50 to 26.55 for 830-1,000 lb.
Wholesale live poultry prices show declines and increases for roasters and fryers. Butter and eggs follow varying grades with mixed demand in Chicago and New York markets, including creamery and bulk carton quotes and standard egg offerings.
The communist press says Czechoslovaks may travel to Western countries and stay there with invitations or financial assurances, a return to pre invasion norms. A Prague source notes visas are being granted and borders will reopen, though no date is given.
UPI reports the Commerce Department shows August personal income up sharply, lifting the annual rate to 694.2 billion, about 60 billion higher than a year earlier. The August payroll rose 3.5 billion, continuing a pattern of roughly five billion monthly gains for four straight months. Non wage income from dividends, interest and rents continued to contribute to the rise.
Government spokesmen said all major industry groups added to the August wage upsurge with manufacturing, trade, services, and government all climbing about $750 million.
In Anaheim Nixon unveils a five point program to curb narcotics with stricter enforcement and rehab. He vows to triple customs agents to 1000, form international commissions, review smuggling gaps, bolster rehabilitation, and unite law enforcement nationwide.
Carlton Waller Jr. earned a graduation honor for perfect attendance, having not missed a day of school in 12 years at Vona High School.
In Gaffney South Carolina Roger Dedmond saw his murder conviction overturned and was released on bond while Lee Roy Martin 31 pled guilty to the 1967 murder of Lucille Dedmond and received a life sentence Martin also pled guilty to the strangulation deaths of Opal Dianne Buckson 15 and is to be tried later for two more strangulations Nancy Rinehart 14 and Nancy Parrish 20 both in Gaffney The cases involved the killings of four women near Gaffney and the court noted the impact of prior oral confessions on trials
SDS leaders meet Columbia University acting president Andrew Cordier to demand an end to militaristic and racist policies and Columbia expansion in Morningside Heights. They urge amnesty for students arrested last spring and oppose court prosecutions of about 1,100 students, with 154 facing serious charges.
President Johnson telegrammed the Texas Democratic convention in Austin urging strong support for Hubert Humphrey. He said Humphrey earned his confidence and would be best qualified as vice president and praised unity to keep America and the world from chaos.
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