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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1944
Page
6
Classified ad fragment shows Frank B. Davis Agency SP listing salesman Hering for male 3A status and job reference 712 10rh Bt with phone 3. The unreadable text mentions Totowa and Raton and hay track terms without full context. This appears as a sparse staffing or employment notice with partial addresses and job codes.
Feed price listings from Greeley show rolled barley and related grains with shipments slated for Friday, plus routes from Denver and California. Reports mention miscellaneous commodities with prices around 3.30 and notes of market activity across states, including Arizona and Utah.
Corrected as of June 24 the market notes wheat hard winter and oats opening prices. Read as a local farmers prices list with references to new crop and old crop implied by the warehousing terms.
The Denver market shows steady to mixed movement across cattle hogs and sheep with top fat cattle near 2.60 and veal prices softening. Feeder steers weak to steady while hogs trade around steady with selective gains and lambs showing pressure from last week as receipts remain lightly stocked.
Market notes show wheat futures trading with mixed signals amid expectations of a record harvest. Prices drifted through the day as traders weighed rail congestion and crop progress while oats and rye moved lower and corn futures held firm in a choppy session.
Wall Street activity weakened with few gains amid a cautious mood over potential weekend war developments. Major issues such as Philadelphia, Atomennt Rosch, Armoni, Wilson, and General Motors faced limited advance while many prominent shares hovered near the close. Investors kept a cautious stance as penny stocks dominated trade and market turnover hovered around 600,000 shares in a neighborhood session.
A Marine corporal reports on a medical lecture given to Marines on a Pacific island. He describes threats from disease, parasites, and wildlife, plus cautions to avoid local flora and fauna. A private asks why they do not eat Japanese corpses, reflecting wartime attitudes.
Two Western GIs, Sixth Army men Araby Povees and Roger Comstock, endured 16 days behind Japanese lines on Biak Island. They hid in caves, sustained on scarce water and biscuits, reported artillery fire, and evaded enemy patrols amid bombardment until rescue near Tarai village.
A damaged text describes a so called Sea Mule used by British forces for invasion. It notes odd features, such as compact maneuverability and deep design, assembled in ports for crossing the channel with a two foot fin and crew of several men.
An officer from a federal works agency laments insufficient postwar public works planning in the United States. He cites a lack of site acquisition, drawings, plans, specifications, and contract documents, urging real, detailed action beyond mere proposals.
The Macmillan Company publishes the fourth volume in the Cross anthology series edited by Dr. E A Cross. Types for Literature aims at tenth grade, with Dr Neal M Crom and B F Gross coauthored work. Other volumes include Heritage of American and World Literature and sections on learning and prose forms.
A speaker urged federal members to commence postwar planning with the governor and all local leaders. The call emphasized immediate conferences with each mayor and every county board of supervisors to align governance and recovery efforts.
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