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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
2
ARMOUR STOCKYARDS HURON and SIOUX FALLS report a steady hog market with receipts of 380, cattle and hogs mixed, hogs up to 10 cents higher in some lots. Cattle see varied grades from good to prime with modest gains, hogs including 180-250 lb at 8.25-8.40, 250-290 lb at 8.00-9.25, sows around 7.35-7.40, lambs firm with strong supply and feeder quotes above 1.25.
Sioux City and Sioux Falls markets list hens leghorn and heavy broilers with prices for butterfat No 1 No 2 butter fat and creamery butter. Chicago New York reports milk butterfat prices and live poultry prices by freight and express with several grade distinctions and weights.
Hogs rise toward 3.85 top amid steady cattle tone and light direct sales. In St Paul and Sioux City reports, slaughter steers and yearlings hold around steady to firm, with calves weak to lower and hogs showing gains on most weights, while spring lambs move higher on limited offerings.
Chicago wheat prices edged higher after talk of a large 1938 domestic harvest. North American exports reached about 400000 bushels helping pace the late advance. U.S. hard winter wheat traded to England Belgium and Holland with futures up from yesterday.
New York June 2 late buying in utilities lifted a list of stocks with gains in fractions to about a point. The market showed a mixed tone as early profit selling trimmed advances. volume approached 540,000 shares with many leaders pared back by cautious offerings.
New York curb close reports and a Huron gathering as bankers convene. South Dakota members host business sessions led by Don W. De Vey with talks on savings interest and futures. Banquet ends day with Dr. Gur W. Dyer addressing economics. Friday features officer elections and committee appointments.
A dense, period-voice market brief covering New York and Chicago trading, foreign exchange, cotton, sugar, coffee, and clubbed notes on wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, and flax. Reports include Huron grain, Minneapolis carlot ranges, and Duluth cash prices with various No. 1 and No. 2 grade classifications and percentages.
Evelyn Thielfeldt of Iroquoia won the sweepstakes show ticket for best coloring in the Saturday Evening Huronite contest. Nine runners up were awarded free show tickets for coloring comic pages, including Patricia Carpenter, Huron Iona Mos vold, Dolly Gunderson, Thomas Carroll, Robert Ingle, Maury Hammon, Max lorie Hoffman, Wanda Carpenter, and Jay Anderson. Entries must reach the newspaper office before 5 o'clock the following Wednesday.
In anticipation of a large number of visitors for the annual VFW encampment in the last week of June the Chamber of Commerce announced plans to set up a rooming bureau. People with rooms available should notify the Chamber of Commerce secretary’s office by telephone.
A Senate debate on Public Works Administration funds for utilities discussed restricting new municipal projects to aid private systems. President Roosevelt reportedly will not fund public systems unless private plants are offered for purchase at a fair price. Other items included wage hour committee planning and federal housing authority capital increase. Congress approved a compromise highway program and a federal drug law update.
Admissions list includes WM J Hall of Doland and Albert Sackett of Huron for medical and surgical cases. Other patients: Frank Schroe der De Smet, Mrs George Dex shirer Wessington, and Theresa Forbes Bancroft. Dismissals: Theresa Forbes, J I Pasch, Roy Neunaeth, Mrs F Stewart, Mrs A C Raddy, Mrs Lloyd Tennen.
Farmers in Huron area invited Friday for a field trip showing grass and alfalfa seeding, tilling and pasture improvement practices. County Agent Leonard Ladd and project agronomist J T Paulson will lead visiting stops at ten farms including Paul Maass, Leonhardt, Kori, Hughes, Bush, Schwartz, Stevenson, Buckley, Foster township, and Madsen Brothers near Carpenter. Attendees bring meals for a noon picnic at the fair grounds Dairy building.
Due to baccalaureate events the Messiah chorus schedule shifts from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night. Pallediuh and Hallelujah choruses will be rehearsed at the M E Church with directors, starting June 4 at 7 30 for the soloists. A second session follows at 8 for other choruses. Additional singers and directors are being added to ensure full finale readiness. An extra Sunday rehearsal is planned for June 5 at 5 PM at the Methodist Church.
The Miami FBI took Braxton, a Princeton neighbor of the Cash family, into custody after discussions with the wary parents. Reports link others taken to Miami including a truck driver and a nightclub operator. the Miami Herald questioned several individuals. Braxton remains in custody in Miami as the investigation broadens.
President Roosevelt told Annapolis graduates they must gain broad knowledge beyond naval duties to rise in the profession. He recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation fight and mused that a constitutional amendment could require visiting all 48 states for Congress. He also noted he once slept through war-time academy drills.
Minneapolis June 2 The state launched its final assault on defense evidence in Kenneth Palmer’s murder trial of Mra Goldie Rosen. County Attorney Elioff called Palmer a hoodlum on the loose and urged the defense to produce one witness to account for Palmer’s whereabouts from 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. the night of the murder. The state argued a Rosen witness could place Palmer at the scene and Dr. J. C. Michael testified memory could recall the man who killed her and another to death the night of January 12.
Huron Camera Club invites all photographers to a guest night at 8 PM in the Chamber of Commerce offices on the second floor of the First National Bank building. A. D. Shepersky of Wuren High School will present a science talk and there will be a roundtable critiquing prints from the hobby show.
Jose Aguirre, ex Basque leader, arrived in Paris saying outside powers may mediate in the war. He expects to issue a statement in five or six days after fleeing Bilbao and Santander last June and July.
Federal Judge Patrick T Stone ordered fines of 360000 and 5000 costs against major oil firms and officials over illegally fixing profit margins for independents in the Midwest. Eight other firms and equal number of officials face trial in September after pleading not guilty. Each convicted defendant faces 15000 fines and 25000 in costs.
J I Pasek treasurer of Huron Conene was dismissed from a Huron hospital after nine weeks of treatment for injuries from a fall. He is now confined to bed at 780 Winds Avenue Southwest and suffered a fractured fourth vertebra when he fell from a platform while unloading an item in the college gymnasium basement.
Classified brief notes list a newly decorated storage space near bath facilities at 205 Northwest, a modern two room furnished apartment at 523 Idaho Ave, and several local sale and farming notices including white proso millet seed and dairy cows with contact names in Huron Mills and Cavour areas.
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