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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1943
Page
2
The Armour Stockyards market reports a steady hog market with lightweight butchers up to 13.50. Cattle mostly steady or 10-15 lower, with calves and sheep showing mixed moves across Chicago and St Paul through Sioux Falls and Sioux City reports. Representative sales list various hog and cattle lots with prices and weights across multiple Midwestern markets.
Sioux City cattle offerings 2,200 calves 130 with mixed steer and yearling quality. Early bulk good and choice fed steers 14.25 to 15.25, top 15.50. cows 6.75 to 12.25. hogs 5,500 head, trend steady to firm, top 13.80. sheep 4,200 with spring lambs 14.56 to 15.00 and western weights 14.00 to 14.10. Also brief note from Watertown with hogs steady to higher and butcher bids around 12.
Markets report a daily telephone price range for Huron produce including heavy hens light leghorn hens heavy breed roosters and eggs with figures for butterfat cheese and various egg sizes from New York Chicago and Watertown cold storage. Prices reflect first receivers selling prices and shippers deduct one cent below quotations.
Chicago and Minneapolis grain futures show Wheat prices around 144 146 with slight declines in some contracts. Corn and oats volumes steady while barley and flax quotes drift. rye and flax futures in narrow ranges as traders weigh feed demand and hog market signals.
Prices for heavy hens and fowl listed by city markets in Sioux Falls and Mitchell on Aug 3 and Aug 5. Poultry by weight class, eggs by grade, and butterfat figures shown for regional marketing, with No 1 and No 2 categories and standard dairy products prices.
A listless grain market saw oats lead with near season highs as traders waited on war news. Cash demand supported prices while forecasts of smaller corn gains and recent rains limited losses. nearby and futures moved with modest changes.
New York on August 5 saw stocks fall modestly in the slowest session of the year. Prices edged down most of the day after an irregular open while some leaders recovered slightly at the close. Volume was about 800000 shares as traders hesitated after a long advance and recent declines.
The list compiles closing quotations for a wide range of companies including AlleghCorp AmAirhines BoeingAir General Motors USSteel and Westinghouse. The figures show varied percentages reflecting gains and losses across industries such as manufacturing aviation steel and utilities.
Washington August 5 Congress tax lenders seen ready to sidetrack a new wartime tax bill until the Ways and Means Committee reviews renegotiation changes. Rep Disney said current law lacks standards for renegotiation and that departments wield life and death power over contracts. A decision favored renego priority. two weeks could clear renegotiation issues, then tax matters by late September.
Hollywood fans watch a feud between critics and Frank Sinatra over a so called lovers of great music dispute. Sinatra defends his passion for classical music and mocks the uproar while preparing for his Hollywood Bowl appearance.
Washington reports the Veterans Administration approved a Sioux Falls South Dakota hospital as one of two new facilities for veterans. The plan expands care across 14 neuropsychiatric hospitals two general hospitals and six tuberculosis sanitariums with Lebanon Pennsylvania the other site. Edith Nourse Rogers, a Massachusetts Republican, relayed the notice from Col George E Sjams, assistant administrator, outlining the expanded medical program.
Four Huron Kiwanis Club speakers warned during a luncheon that war strain worsens peacetime issues in morals education health and business. They cited juvenile delinquency doctor and nurse shortages strained schools and diversion of medicines while urging civilian volunteer support and steady focus on home duties alongside the war effort.
Through July 22 American losses in Sicily reached 6741 with 501 killed 3870 wounded and 2370 missing Secretary of War Stimson released the tally noting casualties considered moderate given the terrain He said British figures were not available but believed higher overall
A South Dakota court reversed a $6,000 death award to Ivan Tufty for Janis Lee Tufty’s bus car collision death. The Sioux Transit Co appeal argued the verdict included parental grief and loss of companionship. The opinion states the jury might have given a different, smaller award if protected from grieving damages.
The National Broadcasting Company quoted a Stockholm dispatch that Sweden cancelled an agreement with Berlin permitting German troop transit through Sweden. Sweden had allowed troops on leave to use Sweden for movement to and from Norway provided they carried no arms.
Ramsey County district chief C Sunde told 65 rationing officials that information from a regional meeting was startling and that the United States must ration gas to save supplies. He warned the northwest faces a critical shortage and urged boards to cut consumption to the bone and keep to rationing’s original purpose or resign.
Soviet fighters bombed German supply lines behind Orel while Berlin reported an orderly German withdrawal. Russian communiques claimed Orel defenses were breached after 24 days of heavy fighting with 2,500 German casualties and 18 tanks knocked out.
At the hospitals the following are admitted or confined: Shirl ev Thompson, duron, minor surgical case. Mrs Allen King and baby girl. Harold Custard Osceola medical. Deas Hi Max Allen Peteraso.
In Belle Fourche a husband Lyle Collins and wife Isabelle Collins were arrested for malicious mischief after a three hour disturbance that began with a fight between Raymond Bunney and an unidentified Japanese evacuee and ended with the smashing of the city hall door and windows. Bunney pleaded guilty and was fined and given a suspended sentence. Walley James had earlier been jailed for similar charges.
Sutton reports flash floods in Braxton and Gilmer Counties. At least five deaths suspected as homes destroyed and communities isolated. Deputy Sheriff O N Singleton says a family drowned when their home was swept away near Heaters on Salt Lick Creek. others trapped.
WASHINGTON D.C. May name Senator Guerney to a proposed subcommittee of the Senate military affairs committee. The group would maintain contact with the Red Cross and war and navy departments to aid Americans held as prisoners of war and seek possible prisoner exchanges, especially with Japan.
The Huron Co-Operative Club announces a mixer dance at the Country Club tomorrow night at 10. Paul Moorhead leads a round band, with Fuzz Greten directing. E. H. Heussner oversees ticket sales for members bringing guests.
Public sale listing announces rummage items including ladies winter coats sizes 42 and 44, a 1940 Nash sedan in good condition with asking price 1250 Dak S, and various household goods. Rentals mention a ground floor furnished three room apartment. Contact numbers 2488 and 2086 appear in notices.
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