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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1955
Page
20
In Chicago on Monday the hog market rose about 25 cents with sows up similarly while cattle fell 25 to 50 cents. Estimated salable livestock receipts show 10,000 hogs and 6,900 cattle with 2,000 sheep. receipts reached 8,500 hogs and 25,000 cattle, the largest cattle receipts of the year.
Hogs receipts 8,500 moderate. sows active with weights over 400 lb up. Prices: 200-270 lb hogs 16.25 to 16.75. sows 400 lb and lighter 14.75 to 15.75. Cattle receipts 25,000 calves 300 slow. steers mostly 25 to 500 lower. yearlings steady. some steers over 1,200 lb down 0.75. Heifers 0.25 to 0.50 lower. cows steady. bulls steady to 0.50 higher. vealers steady. Prime 1,025-1,075 lb steers 24.25-25.50. most prime steers 21.75-24.00. two loads prime 1,050 lb heifers 23.50. Utility cows 10.00-12.50. commercial bulls 13.75-15.50. good and choice dealers 20.00-25.00. large feeding steers 800 lb about 16.85-17.00. Sheep receipts 2,000 spring lambs slow, 0.50 lower. yearlings and slaughter sheep steady. good to prime spring lambs 18.90-20.50.
Des Moines market update shows Monday receipts around 65 000 with week 64 500 and year 52 000 actuals Saturday 48 500. Prices mostly steady to weak with some sections 15 25 cents lower and one 25 cents higher. Top 16 50. Barrows and gilts by weight bands range from 12 60 to 16 50 for 160 360 lb categories and sows from 11 35 to 15 65 across 270 550 lb ranges.
Sioux City market receipts show 15,000 cattle and 700 calves with slow slaughter steer and heifer demand. Scattered sales of steer and choice heifers ease slightly. good and choice slaughter steers fetch 18.50 to 22.50 dollars.
Receipts reach 29 000 cattle and 1 800 calves with fed steers and heifers in liberal supply. Opening prices show fed steers about 25 cents lower with most grades steady to lower. cows steady to 25 cents lower. stockers and feeders around 40 percent of receipts and generally steady. Prime 1 310 lb fed steers at 23.25 with some higher. choice to low prime heifers 21.25 to 22.75. utility cows 9.90 to 12.00, cutters 7.50 to 8.70. good stockers and feeders at 21.25.
A Sunday fire in the cutting department of the Wilson and Company plant forced a temporary shutdown of Cedar Rapids hog market operations on Monday, with preliminary assessments underway and no injuries reported.
Bee market notes for wool and grain with prices for corn soybeans and straw. Dow Jones averages and American and Midwest stock listings show gains and declines. Names and prices include Kaiser, Dodge, Cessna, Nat Bellas, and Oak Missile shares with percent moves.
John T. McBruder of Iowa City sues doctors George Scanlon and Stephen Ware and Mercy Hospital for 87 191 dollars alleging a sponge was left in his body after an operation in December 1949.
Norman McCauley, 35, of Oelwein was named Fayette County Sheriff Fred House's deputy on Monday, succeeding Deputy Sheriff Mark Schatz who died last week from a heart attack.
New York traders faced a market downturn as late selling pressured rail stocks while steels and motors led the day’s advance. Volume ran around 2.5 million shares as the session closed.
A fragmented market listing shows prices for various produce and goods. Notable figures include strawberries, ducks, turkeys, and live poultry with range estimates and per unit costs. Several entries are garbled, but indicate price points, receipts, and taxable or mix categories across the Chicago market.
Fragmented OCR notes reference mixed fat recipes and creamer blends with scattered figures. Mentions include large quantities and prices across sections, with unclear context and several garbled terms.
A cubic mile of sea water contains about 11 percent billion pounds of magnesium.
In Chicago profit taking by shorts steadied grain prices after an early decline. Wheat overall slipped modestly while corn and soybeans rose as traders priced in weekend rainfall in the Southwest. Oats and rye also moved higher on light to heavy rainfall expectations.
Chicago AP reports spot prices across grains with No 1 hard wheat at 1.9944, No 1 yellow corn around 1.3042 to 1.3042, No 2 yellow corn 1.2834-30, No 1 white wheat 1.32, oats variety prices from 0.60 to 0.62, soybeans No 2 yellow at 2.203, soybean meal around 55.00 to 57.50, and barley nominal at 1.20-1.40 for making choice and 0.90-1.00 for feed.
City briefs list community events and notices including PTA ice cream social at Van Buren Tuesday 5:30 to 8, Navy Mothers meeting Friday 7:30, Tri State rally delegates reports, Dr Roland A Zmoos relocation, Typographical auxiliary potluck Wednesday 6, Cedar Rapids Chamber Convention Bureau meeting, RAM Trowel Chapter conferring degrees, Bertram Church supper Sept 20 21 22, Cedar Rebekah picnic supper 6 Tuesday, Kiwanis meeting with Lloyd Keyser on Fourth street track removal, ads for garages at 599, Margaret Meyer earns MS from Wisconsin, Canopus club talk on Coe College football, Fried chicken supper at St James Thurs 4 30 to 7 30, Van Akkeren elected YMCA camping assoc VP, Y's Men meet with program by Arthur Barlow.
Granger farmer J Marion Steddom told Cedar Rapids listeners that Russians welcome peace but fear another war. He described state indoctrination in nurseries, limited religious practice, and a mix of capitalism with long term Communist rule. He noted women do much hard work on farms and Russia’s youth see communism as permanent.
Otto Bros sel a 65 year old Epworth man missing since Friday was found in a heavily wooded area near his home late Sunday. He was hospitalized for exhaustion and exposure and reported in good condition Monday at a Dubuque hospital.
A compact puzzle clue set lists across and down entries with hints for words like a tennis stroke and a football shoulder, plus various short definitions such as Set of rules and High note in Guido's scale.
Answer to Previous Puzzle lists numeric clues and word associations. Entries include 27 Helpful 42 Apothecaries Stranger weight 28 Greek letters 43 Advise 29 Try 44 Persian poet 31 Pushes 46 Baking forward chamber in 8 33 Happen again store 38 Total 47 Girl's name 40 Mud 48 Playing card 41 Wood and coal 56 Turf.
In Muscatine Iowa group claims traffic from Aurora Illinois to the Quad Cities halts Iowa toll road progress. The Illinois line delays jeopardize Iowa plans as the 1955 Iowa Toll Road Authority can issue up to 180 million in bonds only after a toll road reaches the state border. Illinois and Iowa toll road authorities to meet in Davenport on Friday.
Michigan's 4 percent of the national population is divided roughly 70 percent urban and 30 percent rural, indicating a strong urban concentration with sizable rural areas.
Cedar Rapids officials studied extending boulevard lighting from First avenue to Fortieth street NE after a request from commercial interests near a shopping center under construction. The move aims to improve pedestrian and motorist safety, with discussions pending with Iowa Electric Light and Power Company and the Public Improvements and Safety commissions.
California author George Adamski, known for flying saucer books, will speak at the Coe Auditorium on September 30 at 8 p.m. His recent work Inside the Space Ships is selling well in Cedar Rapids. he claims contact with an extraterrestrial in 1952 and photographed a saucer that year. Admission will cover expenses, announced by Raymond Doerman and sponsors.
Josephine Kahler, 40, of 527 Sixth Avenue SW, suffered a cut to her left foot when the car she rode in skidded from control and plunged off the road near 2830 Bowling Street SW. She was taken to Mercy Hospital. Driver Bernard Early, 110 First Avenue NW, said he lost control on a curve. Early was charged with failing to have his car under control and paid a $10 fine in municipal court.
About 500 drug store operators in Northeast Iowa attended the fifth annual gift and cosmetic show sponsored by McKesson and Robbins. The show with 34 exhibitors ran through Sunday and featured leading Christmas lines. Owners planned to place orders for Christmas items.
Wharton Bob Story elected senior class president with Richard Rinderknecht as vice president and Terry McEnany as secretary treasurer. Junior class president is John Edison with a tied vice president pair Judy Christensen and Jo Ellen Decker and Lyla Dye as secretary treasurer. Sophomores elected Joe Morgan president Eric Hender vice president and Jean Benson secretary treasurer. Freshmen tied for president Keith Hilmer and Mike Smith, with Jerry Hempy vice president and Corky Sperrino secretary treasurer. An election to resolve junior and freshman ties set for Monday afternoon.
An influential Republican congressman urged the Eisenhower administration to spend 300 million dollars on an acreage rental plan to bolster farm income in the 1956 election year. Rep H Carl Andersen proposed paying at least 10 dollars an acre to farmers who voluntarily leave land idle to cut surpluses, aiming for 30 million idle acres. Collected remarks tie to Midwest farm support and GOP election prospects.
Shirley Post’s classmates from Iowa State Teachers College spent the weekend with Miss Post in Cherokee. They attended the wedding of Ann Young and Harry Oakley at St Joseph's Church on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Titus and children Susan John and Christopher Titus have returned to their Columbus home after visiting Marion and Iowa City. They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Titus of Marion.
Emerson kindergarten teacher Rose Drum is convalescing at 102 Nineteenth Street NW Cedar Rapids after minor surgery at a Cedar Rapids hospital and will resume teaching next week.
Mr and Mrs Dallis Carsner of West Eighth Avenue host a Tuesday dinner to celebrate the birthdays of Clyde Carsner the father Richard Carsner and Danny Carsner the grandson, joining family in a shared birthday observance.
Marion fire department was summoned to the E. R. Potter residence on South Eleventh street Saturday at 9 25 p.m. when overheated brakes in an automobile caught fire. The brakes and drums of the auto mobile were damaged.
Classmates Allen Emmons of Ostrander Minnesota spent the weekend as a guest of David Carey son of the Ed and Carey family. The two boys were classmates at Iowa State college during their student days.
From Oelwein Dr and Mrs Darwin Jack of Oelwein and their sons Eddie and Leslie are guests of Dr Jack s parents Mr and Mrs E D Jack.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry J. Monn and Mrs. W. H. Dunahugh of Cedar Rapids spent the weekend with Mrs. Monn's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cheadle, at La Salle Illinois. Mrs. Dunahugh is Mrs. Cheadle's mother.
Clarence Hanna and sponsors association leaders will gather Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the public library auditorium. Ivan Bowen of 275 Twenty first street is home from Cedar Rapids hospital after spinal surgery on July 22.
There will be no meeting of the Christian church Men's Brotherhood tonight Monday according to church notices in this edition.
Cedar Rapids post office announced key deposits on lock boxes are canceled. Patrons may claim refunds for deposits already made, with a deadline of December 31. From now on two keys are free per box, with 50 cent charges for extra keys and for failing to surrender original keys.
Hillcrest area drainage meeting with city and school officials has been moved to Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. in city hall council room. Mayor Milo Sedlacek announced the change from Thursday to next Monday. Attending will include W. Bass attorney for Hillcrest spokesmen and representatives from the VA loan office in Des Moines and Midwest Investment Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Egger returned from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hawk at Glenwood Springs Colorado. They also spoke at other points in Colorado.
Marine Pfc William Howe, son of Joseph Howe of Omaha and former Marion residents, has returned from Okinawa and is now stationed at Fort Omaha Nebraska.
Mrs Mae O Kelly has come back from Chicago where she was summoned due to the illness of her daughter in law Mrs Chauncey O Kely.
Mr and Mrs Dalco Yount of Monticello spent the weekend with Mrs Younts sister, Mrs.
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