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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1944
Page
2
Market news notes mixed lamb and sheep quotes with weights 280 to 1330 pounds for butchers and 330 to 360 pounds for other grades. Prices range from 10.25 to 15.09 for various lambs and 6.00 to 7.00 for good to choice ewes, with feeding lambs absent and shoes salable at 500 units.
Hog prices were steady to 10 cents higher in Armour Stockyards Huron and Sioux Falls with mixed gains in Chicago and Watertown markets. Cattle and sheep varied with steers and yearlings up to 17.00 at Sioux Falls, while Chicago hogs and sows showed strength and numerous weights quoted across yards.
June livestock sale totals 2,400 slaughter cattle with steady to higher bids. Steers top around 16.50, cows 41.50 down to 9.00, calves 13.50 to 16.00, hogs 10,300 with steady prices, lambs scarce with general 12.75 to 14.50 for good grades and ewes 4.50 to 6.00. Breeds include native two and three year old blackfaced ewes in the mix.
Sioux City market figures show cattle mostly steady with calves 35 sales, cows steady, stockers and feeders down. Ib steers 16.90 with bulk fed at 14.75-16.00. cows 9.25-11.75, cutters 7.00-2.00. hogs 3,700 head active with good to choice 13.45 for 190-270 lb and heavier weights up about 10.
Daily price ranges from Huron market and New York dairy show firm butter and cheese prices. Poultry prices in Chicago remain steady with live birds and fowl costs listed plus various egg and butterfat figures.
Chicago dated June 22 reports butter and dairy receipts with varied scores. Entries include creamery butter at 93 AA 41 percent and 92 A 41 percent, plus other items and central carrot and egg receipts with numerical codes and standards.
New York June 22 live and dressed poultry firm reports wholesale prices with 21 percent allowance to cover distribution costs and commissions. Dressed poultry lists fresh and frozen items with weights and grade ranges for fowls ducks turkeys hens toms and young birds.
The fragment lists trading quotes for Montana and barley including No 2 and No 3 grades, flax No 1 prices, and ratios. Prices show unchanged trading basis for some items while others display ranges such as 1.09 to 1.11 percent for corn and 78 to 79 for white barley.
Chicago rush to mix rye in grain smash boosts rye prices after War Production Board directs 10 percent rye in alcohol production mix. Wheat and oats hold firm with some profit taking. near close rye up 3 to 3½ cents, gains 14 to 23 cents. Wheat futures supported by mill demand then ease. July prices differ. Grain quotes show rye and wheat movements with No 1 dark northern wheat at 1.98.
A chaotic OCR dump from the Chicago grain futures board shows prices for WHEAT OATS RYE and BARLEY with scattered high lows and closes across June through May contracts. The garbled text lists figures like 155 and 157 for Wheat, 43% for Oats, and around 106 to 113 for Rye and Barley with multiple December and May entries, but no coherent narrative or complete data set.
An appeal from USS Coos Bay crew members to Wright Aircraft Corporation workers asks them to end their strike and accept a $412 uang fund to help pay wage increases. The letter, dated June 10 and routed through the Fleet Post Office, urges production of war materiel and promises ongoing monthly contributions.
Flour unchanged as Minneapolis grain market reports steady prices across Wheat and Flour futures. Trading notes show diverse contract levels for Sep and Dec positions with marginal shifts and mixed percentage changes for nearby months. Shipments total 17 050.
New York June 22 markets showed a recovery tilt with small gains in several sectors. Industrials and some market leaders advanced while others lagged. autos traded in blocks as investors booked profits and activity paused late. Volume reached about 1.4 million shares.
London date June 22 reports a German officer death in the Cher sector. A separate dispatch notes Miss Helen Gardner of New York visiting her parents Judge and Mrs. Gardner for a couple of weeks.
The daylight Berlin raid involved more than 1 000 U S bombers and 1 260 escort fighters, marking the twelfth American attack on Berlin. Fourty six bombers were missing amid raids over Ruhr and Rhineland targets while German defenses claimed many fighters downed. Allied pressure extended to Pas de Calais and Cherbourg area as rail and road links suffered extensive damage.
Russian broadcasts report major Soviet thrusts along the Svir River and north of Lake Onega pushing toward Medvezhegorsk and Viipuri. More than 200 settlements reportedly occupied including Voznesenye as troops close on Helsinki, amid claims of rapid gains and potential Finnish collapse.
An Allied command diplomat reports a captured document indicating Benito Mussolini agreed to send 1,500,000 Italian troops or aid, details unclear, amid postwar messaging. The excerpt comes from a June 22 dispatch describing the alleged understanding and its implications.
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio said at a Chicago press conference he would not withdraw from consideration for the Republican presidential nomination and did not expect to be offered the vice presidential slot on the ticket.
Huron lags in the Fifth War Loan campaign as Wessington and Hitchcock surpass their quotas and Cavour reaches double its target. Local booster events featured band performances and speeches by Lt. J B Conlon and O D Dunbar, with plans for a traveling naval exhibit and navy band show next Tong day evening.
US forces push north along Magicienne Bay as fighting rages. MacArthur announces Liberators strike from the Admiralty region, with bombers hitting targets in the Carolines and Ponape while Truk remains without air defense.
Funeral services for Charles Sparks 68 were held at the Congregational Church Willow Lake. Sparks died in Portland Oregon June 14 from a heart attack while at work. He was born in Wisconsin and lived in Town before moving to South Dakota and later Portland. Surviving are his widow a daughter a son two granddaughters and two more children preceded him. Relatives attended from Minneapolis Clark Garden City and more.
Funeral services for Mary E. Buckley 73 who died in a Huron hospital will be held Friday at 9:30 AM in St. Martin’s Catholic Church with Rev. Father J. J. O’Neill officiating. Burial follows in St. Martin’s Cemetery. Rosary is planned for 8 PM tonight at Myeter’s home.
The article outlines a new bill signed by President Roosevelt promising broad civil rights and veteran benefits. It details wage, employment, and manufacturing policy aims, calls for orderly transition from wartime production, and emphasizes support for armed forces.
Three members of the Lunde family drowned when a fishing trip on Fish Lake capsized near the northeast of Astoria. Richard 11 and Heahens 31 of Asti and Wallace Lunde 4 of Sioux Falls were in the party. Sheriff Carl Wohler and coroner Maxwell investigated. The bodies were recovered late that night and the day after with funeral arrangements reported.
Headquaters in Kandy report the last Japanese force on the Kohima Imphal road in Manipur is near collapse. Clearing accelerates as Japanese artillery shells are largely duds and ammunition runs short, signaling an imminent withdrawal or defeat on the strategic route.
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