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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1942
Page
2
Market report from Huron dated December 16 notes hog prices steady to lower with top at 13 dollars for butcher hogs. Long haul hogs in good condition remain 6 to 10 cents per hundredweight higher. lambs are 25 cents lower.
Huron markets report daily prices by phone from 10 to noon. Listings include heavy weights of chickens and hens, leghorns, and other birds with price ranges. butterfat eggs and creamery eggs cited. Chicago and New York futures and cash prices noted for butter eggs and poultry with live and dressed offerings.
USDA and regional quotes show hogs active and steady in Chicago with top around 14.10 for 190-330 lb hogs and cattle futures mixed. Sioux City and Sioux Falls listings note softer early trade for many classes, with hogs mostly steady to lower and cattle steady to higher on some loads, and sheep and lamb markets uneven.
At South St Paul state market news shows cattle supply steady with steers mostly easing to 22.25 per cwt for common medium, cows steady to strong, heifers around 22.25, good sows and stocker categories varied from about 6.59 to 12.00, bulls weaker to 10.50. overall activity described as nominal with mixed tone.
Dairy cows at 136.00¢ per lb and 230.00¢ per lb for alges with 2,700 vessels steady. Hogs salable 19,000 with butchers opening fully steady. top 13.65 paid on weights 220 lbs and up, 200-220 lbs 13.50 to 14.06, 160-200 lbs 16.35. Good sows all weights 14.40, stags 13.85. Sheep trading not yet visible.
Boston wool market stays quiet with few sales of South American scoured wools arriving for woolen mills. Texas wools offered at clean Boston delivered prices of 1.14 to 1.16 but buyers show no interest. Other markets report unchanged butter and egg prices with varied poultry and dairy figures across Chicago Sioux Falls Watertown listings.
Profit taking checked the wheat market today after prices rose to near five year highs this month. Early gains faded as mill demand remained weak and flour markets stayed above base period levels, with December and May futures showing fractional changes.
Huron Grain market report from Minneapolis dated December 16 shows wheat receipts 1435 today with trading basis unchanged. Cash quotations list No 1 heavy dark northern 130 3 4 to 128 1 2, No 2 126 1 2 to 128 3 4, No 1 hard Montana 132 1 2 to 135, and red durum 123 2 1 to 126 1 2.
Stocks firm with rubbers rails and specialties leading the advance. Bonds higher with carriers and utilities up. Wheat and corn show losses and profits. cotton quiet with price fixing noted. Chicago grain futures show mixed open high and close, soybeans and rye with varied figures. Minneapolis feed barley and oats activity also listed.
In today's stock market rails chemicals and specialties drew demand, with gains from fractions to over one point and some as high as three. Steel and motor issues lagged, but late trading added strength to the list. Volume reached about 800000 shares, a strong December total.
A list of company stock quotations compiled by The Associated Press shows varied percents for firms including AlleghCorp Johns-Many AmisCham LockhollAire AmAirlines MackTruck AmInternat MarshField AmTel MartGleCo AmWoolp MiamiCopter Anaconda MontWard Armlllps NatDaitry AviationCorp NorAvaAvia BendixAvia NorPac BethSteel BoeingAire BrigesMig BuddMig CalumetHec Fitz celotex Zase JDCo Cerrodépasi ChryslerCorp ColpPalmP ComSouth ConsCopper ComProd CurtissWrtA OliverFarm OlsElev Parampic PenneyIC PepsiCola PhelpsDodge FillsFlour ProcGam RadioCoram RevSteel RevTovE SearsRoc Server StandBrand.
A list of company names and percent figures shows a volatile trading session with varied gains and losses. Notable entries include CurtissWrt 634 StandOilCal 27% and Deere&sCo 24 percent, alongside UnitedAire 25 and USSteel 47 percent.
Max Palmerton, an Army Air Force navigator trainee at Hondo, Texas, arrived in Huron Monday night on a 15 day furlough to visit his wife.
Admitted: Mrs. C. O. Moffit Hu ron medical, Harry Anderson Ca vour surgical, Mrs. D. F. Shepherd Huron medical, Pauline Sawyer Bonilla medical, Mrs. Martin New harth Yale medical, Peter Losing Alpena medical. Dismissed: Raymond Cooper Hitchcsck, Aregid Gardner Huron, Yvonne Zell Bancroft, Mrs. Ida Brush Huron.
Mr and Mrs L J Manning of 408 Ohio Avenue Southwest heard their son Pat Manning on a WGN Chicago radio program. Pvt Manning spoke briefly from the Chicago Service Center about his civilian life at South Dakota University and his air force radio and mechanics course at the Congress Hotel.
Contact with the ground after two parachute leaps under average conditions equates to falling from the top of a car moving at 20 miles per hour.
Sullivan Henry LeBeau, a 24 year old Sioux Indian and Jehovahs Witness, becomes the first to seek religious exemption from service in a two war era. he agrees to follow his draft board while working in conscientious objector camps after federal court action. Other named defendants Lee Oland Whisler Hikowise Whisler and Bronemann brothers face trials as they contest draft orders and await jury waivers from Henry Mundt.
Rubber Director William M. Jeffers appoints an American mission led by Ernest W. Pittman to visit the Soviet Union and gather chemical and engineering data on Russian synthetic rubber production, a field Russia has pursued for more than three decades.
Sam Lassen prominent Aurora D. died today in an Omaha hospital after being stricken ill while his wife attended the Farm Credit Bureau meeting. Lassen was named to the eight district Farm Credit Board in 1912 and served on Farmers Union Farm Bureau and the National Committee for Agriculture. He formerly served on the South Dakota AAA committee and resided in Huron. His widow and two sons survive.
Dick Meadows youngest of three brothers enlists in the Marines and reports to San Diego for training just before enlistees were halted. His brothers Bill and Jim, aged 20 and 21, already serve in the same unit, with Bill first joining in June 1941 and Jim following a year later.
Private John Bartek of the Army Air Forces told the Freehold Rotary Club that the plane with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker survived a Hawaii bombing, bore over 100 bullet holes, and drifted 21 days at sea after navigation failures and fuel loss. One crew member died in a life raft. Rickenbacker and others were rescued. Bartek is visiting his parents on furlough.
The treasury announced that money orders may be sent to American armed forces abroad via the army post office naval or other service mails. The ruling answers numerous inquiries to the foreign funds non nationals section.
Har rison BE. Spangler new national chairman visits Washington to start a quick reorganization of campaign personnel and express confidence in GOP prospects in 1844 if mistakes are kept few and minor.
George Deklotz, high school coach, described the public schools physical education program at a Lions Club meeting Tuesday. He outlined methods used and urged requests for 12 Army and Navy officers to supervise physical training of the nation’s youth.
CAVOUR, Dee 16 Special Gus Boethe 82 died at his farm home near here last night after two weeks illness. Born in Germany in 1860 he came to South Dakota 37 years ago and had lived here since. He is survived by his wife five sons Carl and Otto of Cavour Claus of Troquois Dorhardt living at home daughters Mrs Dora Siegeldor and Mrs Cledar Reich Yale as well as 22 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at the Lutheran church with burial in the Cavour Cemetery.
Harry E. Neeley, 78, longtime wholesale merchant and former head of the Haley Neely Company in Sioux Falls, died after a heart condition. Born August 5, 1867 in Ohio, he moved to Sioux Falls about 60 years ago and led the firm through its evolution into the H. E. Neeley Company. Surviving are his widow and a daughter, Mrs. Herbert C. Amesbury.
Miss Cora Hubbard died at 4 AM after months long illness at Huron hospital. She resided in Pena for years, lived in Kansas previously, and moved to Huron six years ago. Survived by brother George Hubbard of Lyons Oregon and nieces. preceded in death by another brother. Christian Science service Friday at 2 PM at Wileier Chapel with Mrs Martina Dwyer as reader. interment in family lot.
Eilers' Furriers sent another fur shipment to the Seamen's west project today. The consignment includes both their own furs and donations from Elmer Twiddy, H Thetcher and Mrs G OQ, Mrs W A T Yrs, John Schwab and Mrs Ruddy of Wessington, plus several other items.
A fragment lists requests and ads including a WANTED ride for four to Minneapolis and back for Christmas with a contact number 3380. Also mentions room for rent near Kansas City and a sale of used hot water heater, plus a lost brown leather palm mitten with phone 4024.
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