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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1954
Page
10
New York stocks rose in early trading as steel shares led the advance. The Dow gained 40 cents, rails slipped, utilities up 11 cents, and various factors offset by dividends. North American Aviation and American Cyanamid showed notable gains while Bullard Co. remained weak.
San Francisco Oakland metropolitan area unemployment insurance claims fell in April while manufacturing jobs held steady from March. State agencies disclosed the figures today, noting the slight decline in claims amid a steady manufacturing sector in the region.
Bank clearings for San Francisco reached 98 million 700 thousand dollars, Oakland 6 million 914 thousand, Berkeley 1 million 20 thousand, and Los Angeles 22 million 352 thousand in a regional summary.
Closing stock market notes from New York report faintly describe Dow Jones averages, bond averages and stock activity. The piece references cotton futures, trading volume, and price levels with scattered figures and indices, indicating a volatile session with various sectors moving.
Funeral services set for three days before death anniversary at 2 pm in Brothers Hayward chapel. Henry Meyer, a German native who moved to Hayward 44 years ago, died Monday in a rest home. Survived by daughters Marie Trummer, Elizabeth MacDonald, Ann McVean. son Carl Meyer. grandchildren Bruce Trummer, Kirk McVean, Carol McVean, Douglas McVean, Carol Meyer. siblings Emma Harder, Bertha Creon, Lena Thomsen, Johannes Meyer, and late Marie Schilling. Inurnment at Oliver Columbarium.
Prudential Insurance reports 1954 first quarter San Francisco Oakland Bay area real estate loans totaling 48.086 million dollars approved by the Western Home Office. Of this, 43.7 thousand financed farm projects, 35.766 million funded residential properties, and 227 thousand supported commercial and industrial properties.
Curtiss-Wright Corp. reports net income for the three months ended March 31 of 3,193,042 dollars, or 9 cents a common share. This compares with 2,445,642 dollars, or 28 cents a share, in the prior year’s last quarter. The company notes unfilled orders and scheduled production under letter contracts totaling 825 million dollars as of March 13, 1954, versus 70,009,000 at year end 1953.
Bendix Aviation corp reports net income for the quarter ended March 31 of 6.39 million dollars or 2.80 a share. This compares with 4.72 million or 2.08 a share a year earlier. Revenue fell to 133.08 million from 164.95 million.
Hayward residents can get delivery on orders of four dollars and fifty cents from A A P X Market Ungers at 400 First Street, a local shop promo advertised in the notice.
Oakland Hag Hickman Price, president of Willys-Overland Export, said April sales of passenger and utility vehicles reached a record for the company. He noted a steady 1954 increase, orders on hand for May and June, 4274 vehicles sold in April, and a stronger pace than 1953 when exports totaled 6105 vehicles.
In Hayward on May 24 1954 Hermann Lodge No 127 F and AM honors Elizabeth Meyer and the late Harry Viner with a German born 87 year old father and grandfather list of survivors. Funeral services set for May 27 at 2 p.m. at Sorenson Byos Chapel 1140 B street Hayward under Hermann Lodge auspices. Burial at Mt Olivet Cemetery.
The family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness sympathy and floral offerings after the passing of Whiton B Peck.
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