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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
2
Armour Stockyards reports steady hog prices on Thursday with hogs in the 200 to 270 pound range at 13 75 top, cattle and sheep steady. Hog shipments to Chicago declined while overall receipts around 9 000 hogs and 10 590 lambs were reported across markets in Sioux Falls and Watertown with varied prices for cattle calves and sheep.
Sioux City livestock marketThursday December 16 shows cattle salable 2,500 calves 100 beef steers and yearlings slow to easy, fat cows and stockers barely steady. Hogs around 15,000. top 209 to 270 lb butchers 13.45, 273 to 330 lb 13.00 to 13.60, a few 180 to 190 lb at 12.00 to 12.75. Sheep around 6,500. slaughter lambs steady with good and choice natives and fed westerns 14.00 to 14.50. yearlings 13.25. ewes 5.75 to 6.50.
South St. Paul livestock sale Thursday December 16 reports cattle at 3900 head above market for slaughter cattle with gains up to 25 cents over Wednesday. Prices include yearling steers to 16.50, heavies at 16.25, bulk medium and good types 12.50 to 13.50, and a few good heifers at some covered figures.
Markets at a glance show mixed activity with irregular stocks and resumed gains in some specialties, bonds uneven, rails recovering, cotton quiet with hedge selling offset by price support, wheat easier on profit taking, corn down with selling by eastern commission houses, hogs steady with high grades up to 13.75, cattle at 1800-pound yearlings around 16.60.
The record lists prices for leghorn roosters at 12 cents and ducks at 16 cents, geese at 17 cents, beans eggs at 42 cents, eggs number one at 35 cents, eggs number two at 31 cents, pullet eggs at 28 cents, butterfat numbers one and two at 50 and 48 cents, and wheat prices in dark northern grades with No 1 at 1.46 dollars, No 2 at 1.45 dollars, No 3 at 1. ae.
Cleveland December 16 Officials expressed belief a nationwide rail strike due in two weeks would not occur. Mediation in Chicago Monday aims to settle wage disputes for 350000 unionists as brotherhood leaders and railroad officials meet. Optimism from leaders contrasted by unresolved ballots from fifteen non operating unions and potential government seizure discussions.
Sergeant Donald Osland recounts oversea service with the 19th Bombardment Group in the Southwest Pacific. He outlines Air Corps Enlisted Reserves opportunities for youths, praises flying officers, and urges eligible students to pursue Aviation Cadet training. Lt Luther Evans details enlistment steps and tests. 50 Huron youths requested applications.
Minneapolis cash close details reports wheat receipts 321 today versus 203 last year with unchanged trading basis. Prices shown include dark northern and hard Montana varieties around 1.60 to 1.66 dollars, red durum and amber durum ranges, corn oats barley rye and flax values across several grades.
Chicago grain futures show prices in wheat oats barley and corn with mixed live cattle and hog quotes from Sioux City Ia and Minneapolis Minn on Thursday Dec 16. Contracts list bid and offer ranges with highs lows and closes for several futures and cash equivalents, reflecting market activity, including hogs beef steers cows and heifers, with midwestern price points and delivery months noted.
Market prices reported to the Evening turonite between 10:00 a.m. and noon show a wide range for heavy breed and light birds, eggs, butterfat, and poultry products with multiple firm quotations from various firms and brands, including AllisChalmers, Am Airlines, Ford, Boeing Air, GE, US Steel, and many others. The data lists closing quotations for butterfat and eggs, plus numerous company names and percentage quotes across categories.
Chicago reports firm butter receipts 374762 and unchanged market, eggs at 37 to 39 cents with steady receipts. Poultry prices steady with various classes quoted, leghorn chickens around 21 to 24 cents. New York notes live and dressed poultry firm with butter at 36 to 37 cents, cheese receipts 279499 and firm, Epes 17,619 firm, prices unchanged under government ceiling.
Mitchell produce report lists multiple poultry and egg prices with hens and roosters by weight and grade, turkeys ducks geese and butter fat also quoted. Leghorn hens 18 cents, old roasters 15 cents, heavy cocks 14 cents, young turkeys 30 cents, eggs 49 cents, eggs 37 cents, butter fat 6 cents.
Sioux Falls prices list heavy hens four pounds and over 27 cents, under four pounds 19 cents, leghorn hens 39 cents, heavy breed springs 24 cents, leghorn mone two pounds and over 20 cents, cocks 15 cents, eggs pamper one 41 cents, number two 36 cents, pullets 33 cents. Watertown produce shows springs two and a half pounds and over 23 cents, under two and a half pounds 21 cents, heavy roosters 34 cents.
War committee chairmen disclosed today that an army supply project linked to Canada oil was halted. The Senate War Investigating Committee heard that Somervell oversaw the project and that efforts to resume or reassess its viability were suspended pending review.
Washington December 16 Republicans foresew a chance to gain House control before the next general election in November. They have 208 members to 218 Democrats with 11 vacancies due to deaths and resignations. Leader Martin says a fighting chance exists to win four of five seats, potentially shifting the balance before 1944.
At the Rotmere Union Grain Terminal Association offices in Pennsylvania two directors who were impeached yesterday are set to name successors today. Brock elder and others were mentioned in discussions as replacements.
Mrs Ada Green Wintle, born in England October 25 1884, died after a long illness at Huron. Funeral Friday 2 30 PM at Welter Chapel with Dr C E Wilcox in charge and Riverside Cemetery burial. Pallbearers named. Surviving son John Wintle, father Fred Green England, sister and four brothers in England New Zealand and Milwaukee.
A four engined bomber from Gore Field Great Falls Montana crashed during a routine training flight half a mile north of the farmer army air base. One man was killed and two injured. Base commander Col Vernon Travellyan said names were not available.
The report notes new Russian offensives north and south of Nevel and near Gomel, with 60,000 troops and armor moving against rail hubs. It claims breaches around several locations, while Soviet infantry and tanks counterattack to hold the line northwest of Gomel as Moscow continues operations.
Edith Avery Hart died at a Huron hospital near noon on Wednesday after a long illness. Born August 12, 1911 in Hitchock she lived in Miller Redfield Eagle Grove and Beadle County before moving to Huron in 1943. Surviving are three children and several siblings. Funeral plans await word from relatives.
Paul J. Sewell 42 a farmhand who shot Jens Jensen Day County farmer and was sentenced to death in 1941 won a supreme court ruling vacating the judgment and ordering retrial after the court held the judge failed to inform him of his rights when he pleaded guilty. The ruling set Sewell to return to Day County for trial.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. returned from eight months in the Navy with the Atlantic and Sicilian campaigns. He described his shrapnel wounds as scratches and discounted credit for rescuing a wounded sailor from a warship’s bridge under air attack. He was entertained by Rear Admiral Jules James and left for Washington on naval business.
Chief A Goebel of the Huron fire department said an aero Shek Ferson called in eight false alarms about midnight Wednesday. Firemen found no blaze or anyone around the North Asnerean Creameries at 143 Dakota Avenue South on arrival.
In a December report from Wington the department announces temporary promotions and appointments of officers. The notice cites ongoing reassignments and the creation of short term posts, with details limited to the department and date of offer.
Allied heavy bombers hit rail facilities from Innsbruck to Bolzano and Trento, part of a broadly coordinated strike along the Brenner Pass main supply line. Aircrews reported safe return as British Eighth Army advances along the Adriatic coast and Fifth Army seizes a hill near Castel San Vincenzo. Canadian and Indian troops push across the Orsogna to Ortona corridor. Ortona port ablaze, likely set by retreating Germans. RAF Spitfires strike oil tanks near Kotor and attack Saseno, while Warhawks hit Zara airfield and MosTar airfield is bombed by Mitchells.
Girl Scouts will sing carols next Monday night in south business and residential districts of the city. Miss Helen Buchanan Teade will direct and requests notification to Mrs A Ness. Afterward the girls will gather at American Lutheran Church for refreshments. Mrs Roy Bramwell and Mrs Fred Schrager lead refreshments committee.
A Garry infant born Thursday to Mr and Mrs L T Garry at 540 Beach Avenue Southease Med shortly after birth will be buried Friday in the Catholic Cemetery here. Also listed are hospital admissions and dismissals along with local sale notices for vehicles and livestock from Huron and surrounding areas.
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