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Newspaper
Hayward Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
3
San Francisco markets report lists fruits including apples and cantaloupes with local and Sonoma County origins and unchanged broker prices. Dairy prices show butter at various scores and 90 score at 4244 for Grade A, cheese at wholesale levels, eggs varied by grade, and poultry with live weights and dressed meat price ranges.
The notice details egg market items with grade classifications including Grade A, Grade 4, and a reference to small eggs. It notes large quantities and medium listings, and mentions a castle term unclear in context. The fragmentary text suggests pricing or quality labeling for AO and AY grades.
San Francisco poultry market held steady with light receipts and large carry-overs among distributors. Prices ranged for Broilers and Leghorns across weight classes from 20 to 32 cents per pound with fryers and roasters in the 29 to 31 cent range. Leghorn hens under four pounds also noted in the day’s market.
Salable cattle 200 steady to lower with good cars. Calves 15. Hogs 300 slow with bids 25 to 50 cents lower. Sheep 700 salable with six decks good lambs 13.25 to 13.50 and other grades 10.26 to 12.50. ewes 1.00 to 4.50. Strong regional demand noted for several classes.
Markets at a glance show stocks higher and bonds up with U S governments quiet. Cotton steady and wheat down about four percent to 34 cents a bushel.
New York traders rallied as utility shares surged to yearly highs on renewed investment demand. Prospects for peacetime power use, stronger household demand for appliances, and Budd Manufacturing's planned financing lifting sentiment. Dow averages rise with active volume. utilities lead a broad gain while curbs show steady turnover.
Western Union announces construction of five new telegraph links to ease Pacific Coast traffic amid war activity. The $499,000 project connects Chicago with St. Louis, Los Angeles with San Diego, Oakland with Los Angeles, Oakland with Portland, and Seattle with Portland, with Chicago to St. Louis slated for completion this year.
Imperial and Coachella Valley grapefruit growers reached a pact to advertise to combat price pressure from Florida and Texas. The plan, endorsed at a state department hearing, will be put to a referendum for grapefruit men and tied to a parallel Arizona program.
The OPA regional office names Chi Jes W Williams of Oakland as regional compliance officer. He will lead a campaign to secure business and industry cooperation in price ration and rent control compliance across Oregon Washington Northern California Nevada and Arizona, coordinating trade conferences to form compliance committees.
At the District Six meeting in San Jose no definite action was taken on the Pullorum disease prevention program. Dr. J. H. Harr, director of the agricultural extension division program, said District Six covering Alameda Santa Clara Contra Costa San Mateo Santa Cruz and northern Monterey counties had not implemented the state program. Representatives from the district included John Perry P. H. Dexter Mr and Mrs P. H. Dexter Al Short P. T. Meyers Harry E. Scott B Lamb Al Barnes Walker Tilton and G. E. Mitchell.
The Office of Price Administration plans to reinstate pork and canned seafood on ration lists starting Sunday due to high demand. Beef and lamb utility grades become point free while cheese and farm type butter points rise. pork cuts will carry four to eight points per pound for loins and two to nine for hams with whole hams averaging five points.
In Bakersfield, 28-year-old How ard Williams shot and mortally wounded his estranged wife Mary Jane, 25, at her parents’ home after a violent quarrel. Williams then killed himself as police reported. The couple had separated, leaving three children with the wife five weeks earlier. Mary Jane was not expected to survive.
W. E. Humann left Hay to visit her parents in Mississippi and will return soon to await her husband Wilbur’s homecoming. Wilbur serves as aviation machinist’s mate third class, stationed aboard. Humann is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Humann of 20691 Lowell Ave Pattern 4655.
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