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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1942
Page
2
Hog prices rose Thursday with top at 14.19 as buyers stayed away on Christmas Day at Armour Stockyards Huron. cattle and sheep held steady while long haul hogs remained at 5 to 6 per hundred. Representative sales in Sioux City show heavies around 14.40 to 14.50 and medium weights near 14.25 to 14.40 with lighter cattle mixed values.
Huron produce prices reported to the Evening Huronite list heavy springs and heavy hens by weight, leghorn and butterfat prices, and henery eggs. Chicago market notes show butter and eggs steady with futures activity and receipts reported for the week, along with December and January price ranges.
Hogs opened steady to 10 cents higher with late sales steady to 19 cents lower. Cattle and calves showed steady to higher prices in active trading. hogs saw mixed results with extreme top around 14.95 and most sales near 14.70. Cows and heifers mostly steady to higher. vealers firm near 14.00 to 15.50. Sheep remained fully steady to stronger on fat lambs and yearlings.
St Paul market reports show cattle salable at 1,500 head with varied classes and prices including steers at 15.40 and 15.50 for selected weights, hogs bid around 14.25 for good and choice over 160 pounds, and calves and sheep activity mixed. Sioux Falls lists hogs around 14.10 to 14.25, cattle about steady with top hogs at 14.25 and sows near 13.75 to 14.25, reflecting secondary market shifts the day after.
Sioux City market notes show cattle salable totals around 1,000 with calves 50. Prices mix from two loads of choice to prime steers near 7260 pounds at 15.90, fed steers and yearlings 12.75 to 14.25, cows 9.50 to 8.75, canners 6.75 to 8.75, and hogs around 15 to 15.45 with top bids in the mid teens. Sheep supply 2,000 with no early action and modest late demand continues.
Graded territory quarter blood wool sold today at 49 cents grease price for wools shrinking 48 percent. Texas mohair fetched 0 cents for adult and 70 cents for Kid in the South Central Texas sale. Scoured South American wools arrived and sold at unchanged prices as British controlled wools remained quiet.
Watertown prices list various poultry and eggs with weights. white rock and leghorn hens and roosters, heavy hens, ducks and geese, hen eggs and butterfat grades. Sioux Falls shows heavy hens and cocks, leghorn springs and eggs prices, with butterfat grade ranges.
New York market data shows Butter at 418 200 with 92 score premiums at 464 48, Creamery prices firm. Cheese at 457 888 with steady bids, mixed colors and grading. Refrigerators report fancy to extra fancy with varied weights and checks. Dressed poultry prices unchanged as live poultry remains firm.
Grain futures rose briefly near multi month highs as buyers from industries and traders covered short positions before Christmas. Dealers expect a higher price ceiling soon while wheat and corn showed modest gains before the close with some slippage from intraday highs.
The market shows No 1 dark northern wheat at 1.11 and No 2 dark northern at 1.10 to 1.35 per unit. Prices reflect the latest trading bids for grain delivery.
Markets at a Glance reports mixed stocks with peace stocks favored and bonds steady. Rail loans advance, action even, and trade and mill price fixing noted. Chicago wheat and corn rise on short covering, hogs steady to 10 lower after $14.95 high. Cattle and yearlings steady to 25 down amid active selling.
Chicago markets show wheat May 13534 to 137, corn May 92 to 93, oats May 153 to 54, soybeans and rye noted with mixed values. Minneapolis cash close lists wheat receipts, No 1 heavy dark northern bids, corn 79¼ 67, oats 48 50, rye 69¾ 72, flax 259% 265% for May and July.
New York trading on the pre Christmas session showed a mild market with strength in select sectors. Quiet gains across fractional moves appeared in oils rubber air transports and farm implements as transfers neared 750000 shares with investors rotating into firms viewed as having good prospects after the war.
OX ORD., O. Lee 24 4 Edward Cladek driver of a car that police said plowed into a marching detail of 14 sailors, killed one and injured five. Fatally injured was J Thomas Malik, 22, of Minneapolis. Malik hurled into the windshield and dragged over 750 feet. Injured included Thihnan Eddie Halverson of Grygia, Mion., and Dale Nelson-Gill indy of Piette.
SIOUX FALLS December 24. Gov Harlan J Bushfeld issued pardons and sentence suspensions for four penitentary inmates and suspended another third degree burglary sentence. Recipients include Frank Bame Bon Homme County grand larceny one year Fred Sheetz Lincoln County two years Caris Holst Pennington County two years for adultery John W Smith Brown County two years for obtaining money under false pretenses Donald Hisel Sioux Falls three year burglary suspended for unserved portion Shisel was promoted last summer.
Lt. J. Lowell Greene arrived yesterday from Quonset Point to spend a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Greene. His wife, living in Fargo North Dakota since he joined the navy, is also visiting. They will leave Monday for San Francisco. Lt. Greene has been transferred.
The Office of War Information lays out five rules to combat rumors. Do not repeat rumors, deny them verbally if necessary, cite sources promptly, seek facts when unsure, and never give a rumor any relief or credibility.
The Agriculture Department expects butterfat prices paid to farmers to be 15 to 20 percent higher in 1943, with whole milk at wholesale up 5 to 10 percent. A milk supply shortage and Lend-Lease demand drive civilian cutbacks, while milking cows thrice daily could lift output 10 to 25 percent if fed adequately.
Thomas Henry Durfee 80 longtime railroad worker and Haron resident died Wednesday evening in Rhinelander Wisconsin. He lived with his daughter Mrs Edwin Miller for four years and spent his career in railroad construction supervision for the Chicago and Northwestern with Antigo headquarters. Born October 28 1862 in Oshkosh Wisconsin.
President Roosevelt signed a temporary pay raise bill covering about 1.5 million federal workers and abolishing the Saturday half holiday. Overtime pay applies to the first 2,900 in salary with increases of 10.8 percent for 44 hours and 21.6 percent for 48 hours weekly. Some groups are excluded from overtime. a 10 percent base rise up to 2,905 is provided for legislative and judicial staff. The act is retroactive to December 1 and runs to April 30, 1943.
Hospitals admit Edward Dietz Wes sington Lila Hein Wolsey James Crandall Mrs Clifford Coleman. Dismissed Mrs John Hamilton and baby boy Huron Fred Olander Sioux Falls Mrs Fred Miedema Huron A L Jencks Huron.
The treasury said the Victory Loan campaign exceeded targets, with preliminary reports showing subscriptions possibly totaling $12 billion and not less than $14.2 billion. The drive opened December 1 with a $9 billion goal and may postpone further public fundraising until next spring.
Attorney General Biddle directed the FBI to turn over 174 586.62 dollars seized in June from eight Nazi saboteurs to the Treasury, calling it a Christmas present for Hitler and noting the money was brought to the United States.
Floyd E Peck former head of the printing department at Huron College departs for Richmond California to work in Kaiser shipyards. He will be joined by his daughter Elaine and later by his wife and children Barney and Ethel Marie. The party also includes Sam Wierschke and Butler Skiles.
Two Huron service members have been promoted to corporals. Marvin C. Peek at Geiger Field Spokane is a corporal after earlier private first class status. James E. Morrissey at Camp Grant Illinois is corporal in Company B 26th Medical Training Battalion. Don G. Gross completed aviation mechanics training at Sheppard Field near Wichita. Marvin A. Andersen at Great Lakes begins a 16 week gunners mates course. Also listed are Ralph Laverne Tomlinson and Harold Thaine Lyman selected for specialist fire control training and Clement Lorenzo Blacksmith starting boot camp at Great Lakes.
The Illinois State Federation of Labor urged the legislature to levy a 50 percent state tax on federal farm benefit payments under the soil conservation program. President Reuben G. Soderstrom argued the tax would create balance between farmers and wage earners in wartime contributions. He said workers fund the war through wages while farmers receive soil program payments without working the soil.
Three South Dakota students honored for per capita scrap drive left Mobridge for ship launching ceremonies in Portland Oregon. The group included Eugene Lenerville Cash 24 John Sutton Jr 11 and Ailen Towne Midland 16 guided by Woodrow Hall Card teacher.
Mrs. Ted Paulson has word that her nephew Wayne Randall of Cedar Rapids Iowa was killed in action somewhere in the Pacific. Randall, 23, joined the navy January 10 1942 and served as a second class fireman on a U S destroyer.
General MacArthur notes the hard fought Papuan jungle campaign is near its end as many enemy dead are buried by Allied troops. British air and ground forces shell Rathedaung on the Mayu River as Wavell’s columns push from India toward Japanese positions near Alkyab and Alethang-Yow along the Bay of Bengal coast.
The Pope delivered Christmas blessings stressing the church’s opposition to Marxism and Nazism. He urged a return to human dignity, family and work, and urged collaboration for social harmony within a lawful order. The broadcast echoed condemnation of Communism and National Socialism as contrary to God’s will and urged internal peace through unity and love.
A Christmas service at Amer Lutheran Church tonight at 41 o'clock under Mrs. Walter J. Matson. Candles will light the dim church as the choir, assisted by Henry Dienslake and H men Karstens, performs carols and festive solos. The program includes carols, solos, and the benediction, with a recessional by trumpeters Arlene Williams and De Jores Forbagd.
John Koerner of Alpena died about 11 10 this morning in a hospital after a short illness. The obituary notes multiple hospital admissions and dismissals, listing names such as Robert Bender Mrs. Fred Schiebe Henry Bates Mrs Lars Larson Mrs Harold Scheele and others.
Listings note a well located heated apartment offered for rent. Strong features include a desirable area and modern amenities. Contact details and exact terms are not fully disclosed in the fragment.
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