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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1938
Page
2
Hog prices declined 5 to 10 cents to around 7.75 per hundredweight at Armour Stock Yards. Receipts totaled about 500 with calves and sheep holding steady. Representative sales list cattle and hog categories with varied weights and prices across Beal Steere, Yearling, cows and heifers, heavies, mediums, and lights.
Chicago market notes hogs generally strong to 10 higher with tops to 8.70. Bulk 160 to 200 pound hogs 2.50 to 4.55 per hundredweight, lighter and light weights 7.78 to 8.15. Cattle also listed with prime offerings up, feeders steady, vealers up to 12.00, sheep and lamb values mixed with fat lambs around 6.40 to globe range, market around steady to 25 lower for day’s lamb trade.
Livestock sale figures show 2,000 cattle with light supply and steady cows and cutters, 4, add weighty bulls and stock calves, 1,500 calves, hogs 10,000 with top 6.15 for 200-260 lb, sows 6.75 to 7.40, and 8,000 sheep with steady undertone and fat lambs at 7.75 or higher.
Sioux Falls market notes show cattle 600 head steady to strong with good to choice heavy cattle 11.00 to 13.00, yearlings and steers 5.60 to 9.00, canners 3.50 to 4.75. Hogs 1,000 steady to weak with top 7.85 and sows 3.50 to 6.00. Steers, butchers, and other classes largely unchanged across the day.
Sioux City stockyards report for Wednesday shows cattle numbers at 3090 head with calves 450 and varied sales. Yearlings and steers steady to higher, cows 5.00 to 8.50, hogs 3800 head with top at 8.00 and lighter weights mostly 7.75 to 8.00, sows easier, sheep around steady with little fat lamb activity.
Chicago and Sioux City markets list poultry and dairy prices for October 5 with live poultry, eggs, and butter rates. Hens, Leghorn varieties, and Springs show varied prices. butterfat and creamery butter move within standard ranges across regions.
Market reports list poultry eggs butterfat and price quotes from Mitchell Watertown Sioux Falls Minneapolis and Chicago for October 5. Prices cover hens roosters turkeys Leghorn breeds heavy bred springs geese ducks and eggs No 1 and No 2 with butterfat figures. Flour futures in Chicago show unchanged or mixed values with standard patent and shipper rates.
Chicago wheat rose about 1 percent from the day’s lows aided by securities gains and renewed speculative interest. Early losses were wiped out as futures closed higher from yesterday’s finish with December at 84 1/4, May at 64 1/2, and oats advancing. Minneapolis market notes marginally follow with receipts at 209 carloads.
Markets at a glance show New York stacks reaching new highs for the year with bonds higher and industrials improving. Foreign exchange steady as cotton and sugar rise modestly, coffee up on trading buying. Chicago wheat up on security firm sentiment, cattle steady to 10 higher, hogs up to 10.
Trading basis unchanged with slight gains in quotations as per grain market reports. No. 1 dark northern and hard Montana winter wheat values cited with varied protein premiums and mixed futures levels across corn oats barley rye and flax markets.
Wheat market report shows No 1 dark northern and No 2 dark northern prices unclear with no clear bid. No 3 dark northern and No 2 mixed readings are incomplete, leaving traders unsure on price direction for the day.
Market notes from Minneapolis and Chicago show grain quality readings for carrot and durum products plus rye and barley. Wheat futures soften with December at 68.25, May 63.34, while corn and oats post mixed moves.
The market rose as broad buying returned after Munich news with bonds and commodities up. Industrials led gains including Dupont Chrysler General Motors Westinghouse American Can Air Reduction U S Steel Bethlehem Santa Fe Montgomery Ward Kennecott copper. About 2,000,000 shares traded, largest since mid September. Government bonds quoted with various Treasury and Home Owners Loan issues listed.
Citizens of Huron will be invited to support the Central South Dakota Boy Scout program with a drive beginning Tuesday. The goal is a 6900 budget to sustain an extended year with 1200 boys served last year and 101000 boy hours logged in citizenship training. Tom Luby leads the effort with seven campaign teams and local office contributions encouraged for those not contacted.
A rundown of closing quotations lists numerous companies with percent changes, including AdamsExp 11% Loews 53 AirReduc 65 MackTruck 2B Alaska Jun 10 MaorshField and many more. Highlights include AirReduc 65% and AmPow&Li 5% among varied movers, with large industrials like USSteel 117% and GenMotors 50% shifting in broad market activity.
In a tense fifth and seventh inning exchange the Yankees and Cubs exchange blows with Gordon and DiMaggio delivering key hits. Ruffing, Hollingsworth style pitching, and defensive plays by Gehrig and Crosetti keep the score tight as Hartnett and Collins spark late Cubs rallies. Both teams battle through nine innings with extra questions about strikes and fumbles clouding the outcome.
About 150 attended the opening meeting of Huron Elks Lodge 444 as the group launched its fall and winter social program. The event outlined plans for special trains to Sioux Falls for all state night and listed committee members including Jane W. Olson as US Committee chair. Future events include E C McKenzie night on Nov 1 and a past exalted rulers night on July 17, with a report on the national convention expected at the Oct 18 meeting.
Denning Huron was elected president of the Swite Secretaries Association, a group of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial Clubs secretaries, at the annual session in Deadwood. Nell Perrigove of Deadwood became vice president, BR. J. Aldrich of Vermillion was re-elected secretary treasurer, as the convention closed with a dinner after a Black Hills tour.
The seven week strike by Gamble-Robinson Co. truck drivers and warehouse workers ended as workers returned to eight plants in the northwest. The settlement provides 10 percent wage increases at Grand Forks Aberdeen Thief River Falls Bemidji branches and 274 cents hourly boosts at Austin and Albert Lea plants. Waterloo Fort Dodge workers receive 25 dollars for a 48 hour week with seniority protections noted.
Negotiations involve Britain France and Italy as they meet German officials to shape the fifth occupation zone. Plebiscites must occur by November 30. Observers expect German pressure on reparations linked to Sudeten issues, with no repair amount or method yet disclosed.
Two hunters from Hammond Indiana flew a Stinson airplane into Huron for a hunting trip. The craft was piloted by Mr Hushmuit of Hammond. They were in the area Saturday Sunday and Monday for the hunt.
Anthony Ming of Aberdeen conducted a serial photography survey for the Soil Erosion Service in Huron yesterday. He piloted a Beechcraft plane and returned to Aberdeen this morning. Kansas City inspector James Douglas of the Civil Aeronautics Board was in Huron yesterday on business, returning to Kansas City this morning aboard a Howard aircraft.
In Sioux Falls circuit court, Kalb sues to appoint a receiver for House of Gurney Inc of Sam ton alleging she bought five shares of class A stock for 100 dollars with a refund option at seven percent interest. She claims the refund was blocked and the company coerced conversion to class A stock, then insolvency followed due to asset transfers by the corporation. She seeks 100 dollars plus interest and related relief.
Scout election activities followed by Huron High Select and Scoutocrats conducting campaigns in schools and downtown areas. Candidates urged support through posters and talks by groups led by figures such as Palinsaeset Trenerry Manolis Chandler Byars and others as voting approached. Winning commissioners to meet to organize city government, with results expected after Saturday events.
Attending physicians report renewed optimism for D. W. McDonell 67 after a hunting mishap Sunday. Despite ongoing danger, doctors note partial recovery and a reduction in critical status as pellets that penetrated the skull are addressed.
A fragment notes Budapest border areas and Czechoslovak fortifications, with Moscow dispatches predicting renewed communist activity in France following the recent crisis. Observers warn of rising international tensions as borders remain unsettled and political stirrings intensify.
Too Late To Classify FIFY POUNDS OF LAYING will be given away at October 15. Each farmer in cream or purchases any amu poultry remedy is eligible for drawing. West's Hatchery. Sniffles relieves catarrh and sinus trouble. 30 and 50 cents at Humphrey's. Call evenings. For sale 12 gauge Remington automatic shotgun. Owens at Huronite after 4:00 v 1.
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