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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1943
Page
2
Swine price gains led the market at Armour Stockyards Huron on Thursday with hogs 1Q-15 cents higher and top at 14.25. Long haul hogs remain 5-10 cents higher. Cattle and sheep held steady as lamb prices varied from good to choice at around 14.00 to 15.00, with weaker ranges noted.
Live hog receipts halved from estimates as prices rose to a top of 15.50. Cattle top reached 16.95 with many grades up 50 cents. Hog and cattle bids varied across St Paul Sioux City Sioux Falls and Watertown markets with mixed gains and steadys in calves and sows. Lambs traded around 5.00 while western lambs and wool prices showed uneven gains.
livestock market roundup shows cattle and beef steer lots with price averages and sale counts. Beef steers and yearlings commanded mixed prices around 14 to 18 per hundredweight, with cows and heifers trading nearer 12.25 to 14.90 in various lots and counts reflected in the sale ledger.
Daily price ranges from the Huron produce market reported to the Evening Huronite. Butterfat No 1 and No 2, Hennery eggs, No 1 eggs, and new York market levels noted. Dressed poultry and live poultry futures in Chicago also listed with firm prices and unchanged bids.
Boston and Chicago market notes show lambs wool grease price at 40 cents delivered, mohair bids from Texas at 80 cents for adult and 70 cents for kid. Watertown listings give various live poultry weights and prices, eggs and butterfat quotes, reflecting a busy farm product market.
Sioux Falls market notes list heavy hens over 5 lbs at 20 cents, under 5 lbs at 18, leghorn hens 16, spring chickens over 5 lbs at 23, 4 to 5 lbs at 21, light and leghorn spring 18, roosters 12, leghorn roosters 10, ducks and geese 14. Also prices for hennery run, butterfat 60, eggs No 1 33 No 2 27, butterfat No 1 50 No 2 48, cream 50, 4 No 1 grade cream 50 No 2 48.
Persistent demand from flour mills pushed wheat futures higher in Chicago trading. Gains spread to related grains with rye leading the bounce, and rumors of stronger flour demand emerged as a large bakery chain reportedly purchased 200000 barrels. May wheat rose about half a cent, with other contracts and grains showing modest advances.
Minneapolis cash close notes February 4 with Wheat receipts at 227 and year age 127. Quotations show 1% higher for cash Nos. 1 heavy dark northern at 136 and 137 4, dark northern Nos. 1A 158 and No. 2 132 136, No. 3 123 13314, No. 1 hard Montana 196 140 4%. Minnesota spring dark hard winter 132 133, hard amber durum Levelt No. 1 red durum fs.
Market roundup from New York showing Chicago wheat gains on stronger demand, hogs and cattle up with receipts modest. Corn oats barley rye flax futures listed with May July Sep contracts and price ranges across wheat corn oats soybeans and rye. Cattle top at 16.75, hogs near 25.50, and grain futures fluctuating on open high low close figures.
Mild recoveries appeared in the New York stock market as leaders traded near lower levels at the session start. Buying surfaced around favorites with fractional gains while selling urgency remained absent, and the final hour saw a firmer tone though losses persisted near the close. Transfers totaled about 800000 shares with several stocks hitting 1942-43 highs including Chic Oil, Pullman, Budd Mfg, Warner Bros., and Omnibus Corp.
John P D Waldner of Carpenter dies in Yankton hospital. Body arrives in Huron tonight at 9 05 then goes to Welter Funeral Home. Funeral at Ebenezer Church Saturday at 2 pm with burial in Ebenezer Cemetery north of Bloomfield. Survived by widow 3 sons 5 daughters 22 grandchildren and numerous relatives. Burial details and survivors listed.
Washington, Feb 4. Senate moves to coordinate manpower investigations while the Ways and Means Committee resumes work on a pay as you go tax plan. VP Wallace prompts a possible war mobilization agency study. Senate expected to confirm Judge Wiley Rutledge to the Supreme Court. Steel production in 1943 projected as enough for major war needs with little for civilian needs. WPB and steel industry leaders clash over wartime allocations and a new scrap drive urged.
Chicago February report states M B McBain aged 40 has taken over as president of Marshall Field and Company succeeding Frederick D. Corley who resigned. Corley began with the firm in 1900 as a stock boy earning four dollars a week and rose to presidency in 1936.
Secretary Stimson praised the Russian army and warned that if Kursk Kharkov and Rostov fall the Nazis could be pushed back to their June 1941 starting line. He credited growing lend-lease shipments via northern convoys and Iran for the advances, with southern routes speeding through Iran. Agriculture Secretary Wickard warned that halting American food to Russia would force a pause in fighting.
Congress heard a plan to reform the income tax to current collection and reduce unpaid debts. Ruml warned that 39,000,000 taxpayers and their families faced tax debt. He proposed deferring part of 1942 liability while collecting 1943 income, turning to a pay-as-you-go system beginning in 1943.
Pierre February reports Governor Sharpe outlining plans to exclude game wardens from a proposed state constabulary while having the Game and Fish Department fund policing of game laws. He minds a bill to split audits from other departments and study merging tax and fee collecting agencies, plus a travel coordination bureau and potential teacher pension funding.
Watertown reports the edge of a winter storm snarled traffic across eastern South Dakota, with drifts blocking main routes to Sioux Falls. High winds and snow caused noon dismissals in schools, three people hospitalized for broken arms, and several officials treated for injuries while highways remained open but slick.
Today the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad cancelled all trains into Watertown due to drifts. Plows were expected to restore service by night while other trains ran hours off schedule. County and state crews worked on blocked roads as drifting eased and weather varied across Minnesota and South Dakota.
Rev Ren Walz told Huron College students that science and religion must work together for the world’s future. The last lecture of a religious emphasis week covered questions on science and faith, with forums held by students and a Friday evening communion led by Dr Walz.
Admitted: James Emster Woonsocket. William A. Ss Gross Carpenter. Sam Ser Bick Huron. Mrs Glenn Daboig Wolsey surgicals Emmett Minske Huron. Holiver Olson Woonsocket. Palma Thompson Huron. Dismissed: Miz Edne Baron Melv Biron Melvis Oestrich Virgil Luton Doris Hoppers Fred Oles and baby.
A clumsy fragment notes Ickes favoring a ban on pleasure travel nationwide. The snippet mentions administrative remarks and locations, suggesting a broader wartime transport policy debate. The source is incomplete and lacks clear names, dates, and places.
Weather data summarizes high and low temperatures for today and this date, plus precipitation and sunrise sunset times for Huron and vicinity. Forecast mentions slight temp changes, light snow in South Dakota, and wind diminishing. Rummage sale at Methodist Church, stray Hereford cow near Huron, Ford coupe for sale, jobs and rentals listed with brief details and contact notes.
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