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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
2
Hog prices remained steady to strong on January 5 with top price at 7.20 and receipts around 10 802. Cattle and sheep listings show varied quotes. hogs led with persistent demand while lighter consignments and mixed cattle values persisted across the yard.
Market prices from Huron Sioux Falls Mitchell and other towns show live poultry eggs and butterfat rates, with hens, leghorns, springs and cocks quoted across weight classes, plus hogs cattle and sheep trading notes and Chicago and New York price signals. Includes specific figures for heavy and light hens, leghorn and spring chickens, ducks, geese, eggs, butterfat, and cattle and hog market tendencies.
Markets show firm tone with strong buying in futures and spot, led by wheat and hogs. Chicago wheat firm, corn steady, hogs 10-20 higher early, cattle active 10-15 higher. Canadian dollar hedge ceiling noted.
Wheat markets showed fractional gains driven by scattered buying attributed to mills. Prices closed higher for May and July contracts with oats also up, while some figures remained unchanged or modestly higher amid short selling.
Chicago futures show high and low prices for batter, egg, and refrigeration markets with January figures. New York government bonds list Treasury 4s and 3s, with figures around 113.6 and 157.20, plus small notes on Farm and Loans securities.
Stock prices gained support as selective buying propped up the market, with fractions adding up to about two points at the close. Leading issues showed limited progress while some minor losses appeared. Steels, metals, and specialties led the gains in the morning, aircraft joined after midday as turnover hovered near 800,000 shares.
Closing quotations list shows diverse percentages for AlleghCorp MarshField AliedChor Allis-ChMfz AmCan AmInternak AmTobB AmWatWks AmWoolPf Anaconda BaldenLoco Bali&Chin Barnshall BendixAvia BorgWarner BridgesMfg BuddMig NatDairyPro NatPow&Lt NYCentral with several entries around mid range. Several firms display modest gains while others are mixed or unchanged in the period.
Digest of bills introduced in the South Dakota legislature. Delinquent real estate tax adjustments and a 10 year payment plan. Civil service examinations. Sales tax reduction from three to two percent except amusements and athletic tickets. County warrant interest rate cut from six to four percent.
Merriman Nebraska police captured a bandit after the Anchor Bank robbery in Merriman. About $500 stolen and recovered within half an hour. Bandit fled in a car. captured by Marshal E W Ware Keith McCray and L H Fairhead who chased him. The man remained unnamed.
The Ellerman Wilson freighter Bassano, 4,843 tons, reported being torpedoed about 600 miles northwest of Ireland. The 401-foot British vessel, built for Arctic service, was en route from New York to Canada and England, having last departed New York.
Vice President-elect Wallace met with Vice President Garner and said he hopes to visit all Latin American countries during his four years in office. He shrugged off questions about spending more time traveling than presiding over the Senate and said such plans depend on how things work out after returning from a good will mission to Mexico.
Funeral services for Mrs Catherine Jungemann of Wolsey who died yesterday will be held Friday at 1 at the home and 2:30 at St John Lutheran Wolsey with Rev F W Leyhe officiating. Burial will be in the Wolsey cemetery family lot. Hospital notes list several admissions and discharges from Huron Wolsey and nearby towns.
Fragmented OCR list of company names and percentages with unclear context. Entities include Celanese CelCorp DuPont Greyhound US Steel United Airlines and United Aircraft. No coherent news event or outcome determined.
The seventh annual meeting of the Credit Association at the Marvin Hughitt Hotel drew nearly 130 farmers and stockmen from Beadle and six other Central South Dakota counties. Edwin Fawcett and other officers spoke on the year’s progress and future activities, with B J Petrik and L Birch representing key lending institutions. Officers were to be elected at the close of the program.
Funeral services for Mrs Orla Jacobsen who died at 637 California Avenue Southwest will be held at 3 PM Sunday in the Presbyterian Church with Dr Hubert Ketelle officiating. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery. The body remains at the home from 10 AM Saturday. Survived by husband and daughter Irene Jacobsen of Huron two sisters and three brothers. Mrs Jacobsen was a Presbyterian member.
London reports the 1400-ton Narval, the first French navy unit with General de Gaulle’s forces, sunk by enemy action after distinguishing itself in operations with Allied forces. The 15-year-old submarine was announced today by Free French headquarters.
Scott Allen ends 16 years at a Socony station in Wessin and takes over the Socony bulk station at 380 Nel ane Avenue Southwest in Huron. He assumed management early this month from former operator P A Hook, who has not announced future plans.
The body debates smaller committee sizes to boost cooperation and cut night meetings. Rules changes in 1939 aim to ease debate and allow bills to move from committees more readily. Senate tightens speaking times and signature requirements to advance measures amid party balance. Harry Howkins, Roosevelt aide, arrives in England for ongoing talks.
Mrs. Imo gene Cranston an employee of the Sportsmen Bar at 65 Third Street Southwest displays a 16 pound bale of tinfoil made from cigarette pack wrappers. A statistician figures 3584 sheets of foil weigh 16 pounds and laid end to end would stretch about 1 792 feet, suggesting if the hobby spread nationwide it could help stockpile bullets for Uncle Sam.
County board of commissioners toured the county sanitarium this morning for an inventory and annual inspection. They completed appointments for the next year naming Mrs. John Boyle wife of the county sheriff jailer at the county jail George Kinsman county shop foreman and Lester Fulton maintenance foreman. Paul Bittner retained as manager of the county food stamp office at 100 dollars per month plus five cents per mile mileage up to 25 dollars monthly.
Joyce Dener won a sweepstake prize this week for using water colors on Boots page and earned eligibility for a show ticket at the Huron Theatre box office. Names of others who may call the box office include Arnold Anderson Lee Johnston Frankie Halter Edward Brinkman Rosemary Fitzgerald Carolyn Koppert Marilyn Van Olst Beverly Ann Meyer Edward Anderson Howard Stevens. Interest grows in the contest, a weekly event, requiring color submissions from any pre page of the Saturday comic section of the Evening Harvoke and delivery before 5 o'clock the following Wednesday.
Relatives and friends attended the funeral of Dr E E Burdick a Huron veterinary surgeon who died suddenly Saturday at 1114 Idaho Avenue Southeast. The service conducted by Dr Hubert Ketelle of First Presbyterian included active pallbearers Don Wdtka H J Thedorif L W Butz G Lanpe O Bales and Dr R Whitney with honorary pallbearers Sherman Davis John Evang W C Herrick W D Conrad George Schroeder and J H Geiger. Loftus H Ward and Mrs Sam Van Voorhis sang with Margaret Van Voorhis at the piano. Burial followed in Riverside Cemetery.
Mrs F O Steadry spoke and led a quiz during an open house for the college YW at the Hale home yesterday. Miss Margaret Lampe organized the arrangements. After four social hours eight refreshments were served.
Congress wrestles with war funding plans and a two year lure for contracts amid budget talks. Senator Byrnes warns of danger in raising the debt limit while approving bonds and appropriations steps. Gettysburg game notes highlight defensive play by Avar guards Kenneth Bandy in a ragged contest.
Campaign in Huron area reports donations near $7700 with about half of the $15000 goal met. Fund drive urges liberal gifts and direct delivery to treasurer George Fullinweider at Northwest Security National Bank, avoiding residential solicitation.
Fourteen women will regain U S citizenship in a circuit court ceremony Saturday morning before Circuit Judge Rod M Benson at 108 m. They were born citizens who lost citizenship by marriage to aliens before Sept 22 1922 and will repatriate by taking an oath of allegiance under the 1926 act. Afterward they must follow the regular naturalization process for new citizens.
Governor Bushfield praised Commissioner Earl Hammerquist at a Department of School and Public Lands dinner in Pierre. He noted broad support for the department’s record and hinted at possible exceptions to term limits. Attendees included state leaders and Mrs. W. W. Warner. Harmon of Selle Fourche spoke after the dinner.
British forces on the Nile front press their desert offensive against Tobruk and Sidi Barrani after reducing Bardia. Western patrols report no Italian reinforcements to Tobruk as limited local fighting persists along the Libyan coast. In Washington the agriculture department notes limited chance of Berlin’s Danube strategy succeeding, citing wartime shortages and insufficient peacetime surpluses.
Huron Seed and Second offers a well built three bedroom rental in a fine neighborhood near Lincoln School. Insulated weather stripping hot air furnace water heater and water softener double garage pavement. Appointment line 3796. Chester White hogs for sale breeding stock outstanding at De Smet South Dakota by A Anderson and Son on Saturday January 11.
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