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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1942
Page
2
Hog prices rose 15 to 20 cents with top at 13.25 as long pigs stay well conditioned. Cattle and sheep held firm with steady feeder demand. stock steers and yearlings range 9.50 to 12.25, cows 8.25 to 10.00, sows around 12.75 to 13.25 for good lots, lambs above 11.90. Market moderately active with early action slow.
Daily price range reported in Evening Huronite lists heavy hens over 5 lbs at 16 cents, heavy hens 4 to 5 lbs at 14 cents, light and Leghorn hens at 3 cents, roosters and Leghorn roosters at 0.5 cents, butterfat No 1 at 34, No 2 at 32, and Hennery eggs No 1 at 38, No 2 at 0.
Hogs 16,000 head active and firm at up to 13.60. cattle and calves steady to strong with top around 15.35 for steers and yearlings. Lambs firm, fat lambs 12.15 to 12.25. Watertown reports similar steady to higher tone across hogs, lambs, and cattle with prices outlined for packers and feeders.
Cattle at 4200 head with steady sales ground yet weak undertone. steers and yearlings slow with medium quality. Hogs 8500 head strong to mostly higher. early top 13.35 with good and choice weights around 13.50. Calves 1800 reported with vealers unchanged. bulls and dairy cows steady. sheep 500 with no early trading.
Sioux Falls livestock sale on Thursday shows hogs 2,000 head up 10 to 15 cents, top at 48.35, bulls around 13.35, butchers 12.99 to 13.35, sows 12.85 to 13.00. Cattle at Sioux Falls steady, 600 head quoted. Sioux City sale notes 2,010 cattle salable, calves 75, trade moderately active, slaughter steers steady.
The Sioux City report lists prices for hens over 5 pounds at 15 to 15.45 cents per pound and lighter weights, heavy breed cocks at 85 cents, Leghorn cocks at 7 to 9 cents, eggs graded up to 25 cents, and various butter values. Sioux Falls shows poultry prices by weight class and egg and butterfat values with No. 1 butter at 35 and No. 2 at 33.
The record compiles recent poultry and dairy quotes from Mitchell Watertown and Chicago markets on March 19. It lists weights, breeds, and price levels for hens, turkeys, ducks, geese, eggs, butter, and creamery butter with varied adjustments by weight class and product.
Markets show uneven action with stocks irregular. Bonds steady as rails and communications improve. Wheat weak on liquidation while corn trends lower alongside wheat. Hogs active with top around 13.60 for dressed pork, cattle steady to firm amid light arrivals.
There was fair demand in Boston for fine combing territory wools at 2.15 1.18 on a scoured basis. Fine clothing territory wools sold around 1.05 1.08 scoured. Graded three-eighths blood combing territory wools moved at 1.02 scoured. Fleece wools were quiet with quotes about 52 53 cents. In grease, bright three-eighths and one quarter blood combing wools were noted.
Grain futures sagged in early trade with wheat down 1% to 1 and soybeans off 2 to 1 percent. Markets were slow and narrowly ranged as liquidating selling appeared for wheat while rye and oats also declined.
A tepid session sees shares unable to gain traction as traders weigh bank results and economic signals. Market majors drift with limited gains despite some optimism on financials and consumer demand.
A dense OCR style list of company names and percentages, resembling a stock or merger index. It includes AT&T AmTobB Boeing and many other firms, with percent figures interleaved, but lacks clear narrative or events.
The War Cabinet orders compulsory civilian defense service for Australians aged 16 to 60 not in military, police, fire, or voluntary corps. No pay beyond meals and travel. active duty limited to 48 hours per month.
Proofs show Burns contracted June 16, 1941 to deliver 27 state veterans bonds and received a state draft for 27794.06. He allegedly billed April 22 for 15422.02 and failed to deliver or return funds. He repaid 27494.06 by personal check on August 14 1941, but the lesser amount remains unpaid.
Reuters on dispatch from Perth notes fifty four crew members of the British destroyer Electra sunk in the Java battle were rescued by United States submarines. The report lists hospital admissions in several towns including Huron Wolsey Wessington Springs and Bonilla with medical and surgical cases.
Mrs. Gerald Myers died Sunday at the farm home after a brief illness with pneumonia and chronic asthma. She was 40, formerly Ruth Odegeara, daughter of Mr and Mrs Chis Odegeara, pioneer residents. She leaves four children. eldest John studies at Highmore High School. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Sedgwick Church in northern Hyde County.
A British Burma headquarters communique says American volunteers and British pilots destroyed 25 Japanese planes in attacks on Japanese held airfields in southern Burma. Japanese bombers struck a town in north Burma, while land fighting near Ywathi on the Sittang River involved Chinese forces on the British Chinese left flank and Thai troops under Japanese command.
Four production chiefs led by Lieut. Gen. William S. Knudsen urged against revoking the 40 hour week law in Senate appropriations testimony. They favored addressing Sunday double time pay amid layoffs, while reporting improved production. Vice President Wallace delivered President a report of broad wartime discontent from Iowa, noting public concerns but noting strikes remain rare since Pearl Harbor.
North Dakota Senator Langer faces ongoing scrutiny over land sales to attorney-broker Gregory Brunk and alleged bond profits by the Brewer Company. Senator Murdock disputes the majority report amid outcry of moral turpitude while urging dismissal only on the clearest evidence. The split committee contemplates a possible Senate vote as early as next week with Langer seated since January 3, 1941.
Clarence Arters a 53 year old said to be known as Jack Mitchell was captured in Philadelphia after escaping from a Towa prison. He claimed innocence and asked to return to his family while being held on local charges. He said he had worked as a chef in Washington and on an oil tanker.
London reports Richard Casey chosen as minister to Washington and member of the home government to coordinate the Middle East war effort. Churchill offered no explanation for the move, triggering mixed reactions in Australia and Britain. Casey to conclude duties in Washington, then travel to London for consultations before Cairo. He replaces Oliver Lyttelton, who leads wartime production.
Four defendants including Wadeline Webb a 28 year old model and dancer from Stillwater Oklahoma and Shonbrun her suspected partner were indicted for first degree murder in the strangulation slaying of Mrs Susan Flora Reich 52 wife of a New Jersey wax processor in an East Side hotel suite on March 5. The crime involved a missing diamond ring and a 7 watch and chain. Police described the Leopold hotel suite as an alibi for Webb and Shonbrun.
George W. Cantty, president of Northwest College of Commerce, will give the principal address at the Jackson Day dinner tonight. He will be accompanied by Carl Weir and A. R. Barnes, with the event previously postponed due to weather.
Mrs Byrne S Griffith of the Huron College Pi Alpha Phi Society will present a short harp concert at 9 45 Friday morning in the raul for the student body. The event is hosted by the Pi Alpha Phi Society at the college.
Fragmentary classifieds list unfurnished and furnished rental offerings. One entry notes a furnished floor duplex with four rooms for $25, contact via phone 20356. Additional items reference loan associations and local entities.
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