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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
2
ARMOUR STOCKY ADS Huron October 1 hog market down 10 cents with extreme top at 14.60. Long-nawl hogs stay 3 to 10 cents per hundred higher. Cattle and sheep steady. Watertown Livestock October 1 hogs steady to 5 higher with butchers at 14.85 and packing sows 14.10 to 14.65.
Daily price range for Huron produce markets given to Evening Avenue by telephone between 10 a.m. and noon. Listing includes heavy hens over 5 lbs, heavy hens 4 to 5 lbs, heavy springs over 5 lbs, springs 4 to 5 lbs, leghorns, light and leghorn hens, heavy breed seesteig, butterfat varieties, No 1 and No 2 hennery eggs, and related dairy and egg product terms. New York market notes show butter and egg prices, creamery and cheese prices, and refrigerated product ranges with standard grade distinctions.
Hog prices recovered today hitting 15.40, tying a year high as shipments noted after yesterday's drop. Slaughter hogs up 10 to 20, sows mixed, cattle receipts down, calves light. Slaughter steers and heifers up 15 to 28 cents, bulls down 10 to 15. Sheep classes steady with Western cattle strong but natives lag.
Sioux City market data show cattle and calves in limited supply with mixed demand, hogs mostly steady to down, and sheep strong at even higher quotes. Steers and yearlings traded around 12.75 to 14.25 for medium quality cattle, cows at 9.25 to 10.25, stock cattle 7.00 to 8.75, hog top at 14.80 with lighter weights near 14.65, and spring lambs around 13.75 as sales proceed Thursday.
Sioux Falls market report shows hogs mostly 10 lower with top 14.76 and bulk 4.65 to 4.75, butchers 14.25 75, sows 14.30 65. Cattle around 800 head, steady to strong with quotations unchanged. The note is dated October 1.
Cattle sale to 4,200 head with no market change amid scant supply. Steers and heifers ranged from 10.00 to 13.25 for common to good. canners and cutters 6.00 to 8.50. stock cattle and feeders about 9.50 to 11.00. Cows to 12.00 for good western. vealers steady. calves salable 1,500. hogs 7,000 head with bids around 4.80.
The daily market notes show mostly small wool sales in Boston with unchanged prices, while Texas fall wools fetch around 38 to 40 cents grease and 12 months wools at 46 to 47 cents FOB. Across Mitchell Sioux Falls Watertown Sioux City and Chicago, varied poultry eggs and butter prices are listed, with detailed weight brackets and regional quotes for hens, roosters, springs, turkeys, and creamery products.
Markets show firm rails and load recovery with bonds advancing. Cotton weak as trade sells. Shipping active. produce fittings and storage prices noted. Evening prices list highs and lows for various items including butter futures with November contracts referenced.
SHILAGO Oct. 1 A grain market advance surged on Senate passage of anti inflation legislation raising government commodity loans to producers but late profit taking erased the gains. Wheat prices touched highs since early summer before the drop. Uncertainty over loan-rate requirements for 1942 production and applicability influenced selling. December and May futures edged higher to around 1.29 and 1.31 1/4, with corn oats and soybeans mixed. A first corn shipment from eastern Iowa arrived locally with 26.14 percent moisture and 13.3 percent damage. Market quotes from Chicago futures and Minneapolis cash show varied movement, with cash wheat and futures reacting to the policy news.
Stock market activity showed bulls driving rails and steam issues higher as averages moved into new year high territory. Airlines and select industrials led gains amid thinning volume while profit-taking trimmed some quotations. Wall Street remained inflation-minded after the wage price bill passage. Transfer volume was about 600000 shares.
The Associated Press market note lists varied closing quotes for numerous issue codes and companies. Trading activity yields modest gains for some names like MackTruck and MontWard, while others show mixed or lower percentages amid broad market fluctuations.
MGM Show Builder, a traveling advertising unit, will visit Huron tomorrow to support motion picture exhibitors in drawing larger audiences. The unit, called Metra-Golawyn inspection alert, will showcase a projector and trailers for upcoming releases and highlight points of interest inside the mobile unit.
M W Thatcher of the National Farmers Union praised the Senate for approving anti inflation legislation while urging swift passage of a strong anti inflation bill for presidential signing. He said maintaining the present parity method could restore agriculture’s prestige and dignity after the past month. He stressed the real issue is manpower and machinery needed to sustain farm operations during wartime.
Lieut Gordon Tueller of Wold Chamberlain Field Minneapolis outlined the Elks Grand Lodge Naval Cadet enlistment program at a special Elks meeting to recruit boys ages 18 to 27 as naval aviators. H R Stone and PF Otto joined in. About 35 boys attended and Navy Recruiter Richard Simmons reported growing enlistment interest. H C Whaley called the program beneficial to boys who join, noting the postwar value for flyers.
Funeral services for Earl J Zeigler of Huron, killed Tuesday by contact with a high voltage wire at a Sioux City defense plant, will be held Friday at 2:30 PM at the Methodist Church. Rev Paull Miller will officiate. burial in Riverside Cemetery. Pallbearers named. casket open tonight 7 to 9 at Welter Funeral Home.
The Huron Municipal Band conducted by Hans Christensen performed an afternoon concert at 5 o clock and a second set later for the Mitchell Corn Palace audience, after which they were guests at the Corn Palace show. Civil Air Patrol meets at the airport tomorrow night at 9 o'clock with Walter Bowling showing Army Signal Corps sound pictures and a regular lecture period. The British eighth army reported capturing Axis positions in central Egypt yesterday and repelling counterattacks near Cairo.
A fragmented OCR list shows various corporate names with percentage figures listed beside them. The text includes Boeing Air, NorPac, Briggs Mfg, Otis Elev, Pepsi Cola, Calumet Hee, Phel Dodge, Dewz, Radio Cor Am, Ferro De Pas, Rep Motor, Chryslec Corp, Rep Steel, Tolgat Pal, Sears Roe, Garn Proa, Stand Brand, Curtiss Wrt, Deere Co, Douglas Aire, Stewart Warn, Dupont De N, Gen Elec, Tony Traer, Gen Foade, Unit Aire, Us Gypsum, US Steel, US Steel etc.
Washington reports that farm leaders in the House will accept the Senate wage and price control bill, clearing the path for Congressional action on anti inflation measures. The House delay on the Senate version aims to finalize differences through a joint committee. The bill shifts parity standards and includes labor costs, prompting varied views from Brown and Thomas.
Reported mass arrests in the occupied zone include prominent American women such as Mrs. Elizabeth Carman Mrs. Gertrude Hamilton Mrs Dorothy Bliss and Mrs Charles Bedaux. The U S embassy seeks a full picture as authorities deny knowledge of details. Dutch authorities cooperate with assessments from travelers arriving from France.
London observers say Hitler plans to hold existing gains this winter, with aims toward the battered city of London and a push on the Grozny oil fields in the Caucasus. Air base sites along the Caspian Sea could disrupt Russian shipping as winter defenses firm up.
Governor Bushfield urged South Dakotans to observe the 35 mile per hour national speed limit for motor vehicles. He said transportation is vital and drivers should keep vehicles in usable condition. Superintendent Goetz of the State Motor Patrol said officers would stop excess war-speed drivers and seek cooperation in the war effort.
Wartime regulation sets a 35 mph limit for private cars nationwide. Enforcement varies by state with penalties in some areas and appeals to patriotism in others. The Office of Defense Transportation cites voluntary driver cooperation and local authority action. Governors have already set the 35 mph limit.
DES MOINES October 12 Officials refused comment on two Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members who were taken into custody by Fort Leavenworth military police for being AWOL. The pair, picked up at Atchison, returned to Des Moines Tuesday night as Fort Des Moines public relations warned no statement would be issued.
Almanac style report lists temperatures and precipitation totals with normal figures, and a brief forecast noting no major temperature changes for today and tonight. South Dakota may see cooler conditions west and south tonight and Friday with scattered light showers in eastern areas this afternoon and early tonight. Earth shocks section mentions a vague Vichy broadcast heard with slight damage.
Listings include sale items such as a 15 HP diesel engine and various shop fixtures, a Davenport bed set, stoves and counters, hardware and farm equipment for sale, a lost bulldog and terrier, a sacrificed home at 566 Fourth Street S.W., trade offer for a Chevrolet, a farm auction by Willis Patton, a bicycle ad, and a three room apartment for rent in Huron with contact details.
Washington October 1 Director Joseph B Eastman of the Office of Defense Transportation ordered the freezing of all railway passenger schedules and barred special trains to football games and other events. The order takes effect October 4 and preserves Sept 26 schedules, allowing only trains used by railroad officials on business. Baseball World Series travel may require regular tickets if the series extends and only limited special permits are possible.
Beadle County's twenty selected inductees depart from the Great Northern Depot at noon, joined by the Huron Municipal Band in a sendoff sponsored by the United Commercial Travelers and Women's Auxiliary. The group includes Verne Woodworth, Lyle Windherst, Orval Larson, Helge Moeller and others. several were transferred or enlisted in the Navy. Seventeen more inductees sail from the depot Friday noon, with a long list of names noted and some transfers or navy enlistees.
Soviet workers stack fuel logs in Moscow as the Red Army holds line and Hitler admits a third winter of fighting. He says Nazi arms will keep conquering until final victory, but United Nations capitals react with muted caution.
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