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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1955
Page
2
Iowa drivers group urges pay-as-you-go funding and long range planning over stop gap biennial measures. They call for continuing current highway user taxation, fair distribution of road use, sufficiency rating standards, higher charges per use, and funding for highway research projects.
A 1955 discussion argues for state funds allocated on sufficiency and traffic warrants, highlighting a shift to highways and noting the Bureau of Public Roads projects Iowa requiring about two and a half billion dollars to modernize roads and streets.
One of two men sought in connection with the car trunk killing of a former St. Louis taxi driver has been arrested. The son of Louis Hunt Shoulders, reportedly a bartender near Fairmount Park race track run by Harvill, faces charges after police found a large bloodlike stain at a tavern during a thorough search by State's Attorney Fred P. Schuman.
A Burlington report notes two additional polio cases in the Donnellson area. A mother and her son, the Herold family, are described in fair to good condition as health officials monitor the cluster.
Mrs W R Carver of 6 Geneva Drive Muscatine is notified as winner in a Post cereals General Foods pony contest. She submitted the name for a pony and received a $250 award with a check.
An advertisement notes an affordable fungicidal product for athletes foot available at Henderson Drug Co with a price of 40c and claims rapid relief as old skin sloughs off.
Members of the Women of the Moose Bowling league gather at 7 30 p m Friday at the Moose hall to discuss bowling. Elks Chanter members meet at 6 45 p m Friday at Letts school for a 7 p m concert as part of the Letts Centennial.
Washington reports another set of credit curbs as four Federal Reserve banks raise their discount rates effective immediately. Chicago Boston and Atlanta each lift to 2 percent, Cleveland to 4 3/4 percent, the move aims to slow price gains and curb inflation by tightening bank lending.
Four-H girls from Muscatine county arrange a style show to be presented at the West Liberty fair. The event focuses on booth and exhibit preparations as officers meet at the extension office.
The antebellum U S senator Sam Houston traveled to Washington wearing a vest fashioned from a panther skin, a striking display that drew curiosity among lawmakers and onlookers during his Capitol visit.
During the Civil War Winchester Virginia changed hands repeatedly, captured and retaken 73 times with four exchanges occurring in a single day, highlighting the town’s strategic volatility and intense combat cycles.
Prices steady to higher on hogs over 200 pounds with some gains for butchers and sows, while lighter weights and corning trade show weakness. No. 1 to 3 hogs mostly 18.75 to 19.50 with several decks 210 to 230 pounds around 16.25 to 16.35. spring lambs and yearlings show mixed movement with lambs steady to higher.
Wheat prices show mixed bids with We. 2 red and Me. 1 mixed at 1.99 99 percent. Core items listed with yellow at 1.46 percent and No. 3 at 1.46 percent. Soybean meal noted at 3.50 and other feed prices appear nominal.
The report shows closing or late quotations for prominent New York stocks on Thursday August 4 1955. Traders reacted to market factors with varied price movements across the tape.
A weather forecast for showers across the Midwest drags grain futures down. Wheat closes 14 to 2 percent lower with September contracts down around 18 to 28 cents per hundred weight and sags in the $1.00 range.
Local markets report poultry trades with birds over four pounds valued at 17 cents per pound. Notes list breed types and weights including 126g items, while traders tag bens and various meat cuts for sale.
Chicago produce notes butter steady with receipts around 697 thousand and wholesale prices for cream unspecific. USDA live poultry section shows small shifts in hen and fryer values and a range for roosters, with many figures partially garbled but indicating modest activity and price bands.
Potatoes market report notes prices in Chicago on August 4 with EB bhy Megy nl est stock and track sales. Prices listed include Callforde song whites at 3.25 to 3.50 and gutstanding cars at 3.95. Texas.
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