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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1942
Page
2
Swine markets rose 5 to 10 cents with top price at 12.90 as Thursday activity showed 9,000 hogs traded and market slow. Cattle held steady while lambs and sheep eased. sow prices ranged 12.50 to 12.60 as hogs led regional gains with lighter trade reported in Boston wool market.
Daily price ranges for Huron Mitchell Sioux City and Sioux Falls markets compiled from telephone reports to the Evening Huronite. Poultry and eggs prices include heavy hens leghorn hens cocks stags and young turkeys with butterfat and egg grades listed for each market. Prices shown for hens weights ducks geese and butter as of March 12.
Chicago reports hogs advancing 5 to 7 cents after word of dress pork price ceilings. Traders cite smaller hog runs as the main upturn factor. cattle and lamb markets show mixed moves with fat lambs down and vealers up. Hogs, cattle, and calves traded with varying firmness as buyers and sellers adjusted to the new price environment.
Saint Paul market notes from March twelve show cattle at roughly steady to slower, calves weak, hogs trading higher bids, sows around 12.49 to 12. The sheep complex stays fully steady with slaughter lambs near 12.09, no early trades. Cattle weigh in mostly at 984 to 1042 pounds with medium to good grades around 9.50 to 13.00. Bulls weak, stock cattle steady, calves 1,600 head, heifers near 10.25 to 11.50 for good to choice.
Sioux Falls livestock closes Thursday with Haris 2,000 head trading 10 higher, top at 33.10. Bulk 12.90 to 13.10, butchers 12.50 to 13.10, sows 12.50 to 12.65. Cattle about 600 head steady, quotations unchanged.
Sioux City Iowa farm market notes cattle salable 2400 calves 60 with little change in slaughter classes. Quality mainly vacuum and good stockers scarce. Firm values for fed steers and yearlings 10.50 to 12.25, choice to 14.25. Heifers 9.25 to 11.65, cows 9.00 to 10.00. Bulls and cutters 6.25 to 7.15.
A multi city snapshot of March 12 poultry and dairy values. Watertown reports heavy hens and leghorn prices, hens by weight, and hens eggs with butterfat figures. New York shows butter, cheese, dressled poultry, and mixed color eggs with steady markets. Chicago and other regions list live poultry by breed and weight, with butter and egg receipts and price ranges.
Chicago notes a futures session on March 12 with quotes for butter and refrigeration goods. Prices show limited movement with small uplifts and declines across several items and suppliers.
Markets show uneven stocks with steels and motors improving, bonds under pressure, cotton quiet. Chicago wheat gains amid flour and milling trade activity, corn higher as House approves CCC grain sales restrictions. Hogs fairly active with 5-15 cent rises to top 13.65, cattle active with moderate receipts.
Wheat and other grains gain with milling and soybeans as buyers return to the market. House approves legislation to curb Commodity Credit Corporation sales below parity, signaling a sale withdrawal after Saturday. Minneapolis cash, futures, and price levels show modest upticks across No. 1 to No. 3 grades and related commodities.
New York stock market opened with signs of recovery though gains were uneven as many leaders remained in lower territory. Blue chips hit new multiyear lows while steels and motors moved higher and selected gainers rose 2 to 3 points. Trading volume totaled about 456000 shares with overall turnover broadly distributed.
Huron High School hosts the opening regional game as Tigers surge to a 21 to 14 halftime edge over Pierre at Huron College gym. Leo McGinty dominates inside while Pierre fights back to trim the gap. Afternoon winners advance to face afternoon losers in second round, with potential state tournament berth on March 30 and 21 depending on tonight results.
War Department briefed that fighting on the Bataan Peninsula remained inactive for the fourth straight day. In other items, E C Heiman will conduct services at Bethel Church in Milford Township March 16. Blunt Supt Wolvington resigns to take a Rock Island post. Elmer Pieney works in a Bohl store awaiting a successor. Mrs Edward Combs returns from San Haven Sanatorium North Dakota. Bismarck news notes the Yackley family moving to Hand farm northeast of Blunt. Masonic Lodge hosts a social evening with Onida guests.
Brazil confiscates up to 30 percent of funds held by Axis subjects, under a decree by President Getlio Vargas. The measure brands Germany, Italy, and Japan as aggressors and points to acts of war against the American continent. Diplomatic ties with the Axis powers were severed on January 28.
Washington March 12 The House examined controversial features of a 65 million dollar agriculture appropriations bill after farm leaders fended off a challenge to stop government held surpluses from selling below parity prices. A rider barred the Commodity Credit Corporation from spending its 3.5 million dollar allotment on surplus stock sales below parity though allowances for deteriorated corn and wheat fed livestock and for cotton under the new uses program remained. President Roosevelt warned that rising prices could fuel inflation as some lawmakers pressed for further cuts and restraints on surplus releases.
The National Association of Manufacturers urged Congress to adopt a 7.6 billion dollar tax program featuring a 4.4 billion dollar sales tax and modest rises in individual and corporate levies. J Cheever Cowdin presented the plan to the House Ways and Means Committee, proposing only one third of Morgenthau’s suggested rate hikes and offsetting the rest with a manufacturers or retail sales tax, which Morgenthau opposed.
Soviet forces claim 49,700 Germans killed and 161 villages retaken near Moscow as Soviet drive toward Archangel rail head sparks talk of a northern front. British and German actions include Tirpitz patrols, Bear Island losses, and Arctic operations shaping potential Allied spring offensives.
Ransom L. Gibbs 69, longtime Sioux Falls municipal court judge, died of a heart ailment Wednesday night. Known for sharp courtroom wit and memorable remarks, he often drew reporters with his high profile rulings, especially severe sentences for driving while intoxicated. He served 19 years on the municipal bench. death ends his bid for a further 20-year tenure. His widow survives.
Coroner Arthur Lundquist says no inquest will be held into a head on collision three miles west of Bristol that killed Nels Arness, Mrs. Walter Busacker, and Mrs. Carl Floto and seriously injured Sybil Jane Busacker. The crash occurred in snow and slush on a downgrade. Passengers included Glen Flote and others from Oregon and California en route to Minneapolis.
Pharmacists from Huron and nearby areas will hold a 630 p m dinner meeting at the Marvin Hughitt Hotel Friday. Dr J F Cook state health board superintendent will address the group and Dr J C Shirley will discuss Cooperation of the Pharmacist and Physician. Panel discussion to follow. Physicians and dentists invited. George W Lloyd will preside.
The Crowell Collier Publishing Company announced a price hike for Colliers weekly magazine. Single copy price rises from 5 to 10 cents and yearly subscriptions from 1 to 3 dollars, effective with the May issue. Curtis Publishing and McFadden Publications had announced similar increases due to rising paper costs.
British bombers based in central Burma conducted a second heavy raid within 48 hours on the Japanese occupied port of Moulmein. The strike targeted enemy positions near the port as reported by an RAF communique relayed by All India Radio. A Chungking dispatch said Japan is building trench networks north of Peru, 40 miles north of Rangoon, while Lieut. Gen. Stilwell heads to Burma for an inspection tour.
Washington reports the CAA training program will more than double in size as part of wartime air power expansion. Elementary pilot training rises from 25 000 to 45 000 annually, secondary flight training to 30 000, and ground technician training to 31 000. All trainees must serve in the Army Air Corps or contribute to aeronautics in the national interest.
SAN ANTONIO March 12 Five officers and one enlisted man died when a B 25 bomber crashed nine miles east of Yoakum at Duncan Field officials said tonight. The machine burned. First Lieut Angus M Johnston 23 Taft California wife Huddle Street Pineville Louisiana Second Lieut Dana W Bradford 24 pilot Townsend Montana Second Lieut Ronald C Hocking 22 co pilot father Atsarmmka North Dakota Master Sgt C G Frazier 37 wife San Rafael California Tech Sgt Bart F L Ricks 42 Bridgeport Connecticut Lt Stanley A Smith 23 Bison Montana
Mississippi lawmakers defeated the Sabbath movie bill in the House amid protests and enlistment pleas from two representatives. The measure would have allowed Sunday showings within 30 miles of army posts during the war, relaxing a 120 year old law for the duration of the conflict.
Mrs Floyd E Swartout of Mitchell dies after living in Huron period her husband served as Ideal supervisor of Adult Education, funeral planned in Mitchell Sunday at 2 pm with attendance from Adult Education staff and Huron friends. Pending word from son in California.
Classified snippet lists a furnished four room apartment for rent at 1029 Ohio. Mentions contact by phone 2803 or 3336 with incomplete additional rental details noted.
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