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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1964
Page
3
New York stocks listed with late quotations show mixed moves Monday. General Motors, Ford, and Bethlehem Steel appear among leading names with varied percentages, while Allied Chemical and AT and T show modest gains or losses in a turbulent session.
USDA estimates Tuesday receipts 3,100 cattle 7,000 hogs 700 sheep. Hog market fairly active with butchers and sows mostly 25 cents higher. 190-220 lb hogs 16.50 to 16.75, some to 17.00. Slaughter steers and heifers traded firm to 25 cents lower for steers and steady for heifers. prime steers averaging 1,318 lb brought 25.50 top. Cattle, calves also listed with varied prices. slaughter lambs weak to 25 lower. wooled slaughter lambs 21.00-21.25, others 19.00-20.50.
Soybean and grain futures showed little change as postponement of a potential national railroad strike and progress in East Coast longshoremen talks supported buying. Rye and oats held steady. estimates of receipts for wheat corn oats barley and soybeans were given with futures finishing higher for soybeans and wheat while corn and oats rose modestly.
New York stocks moved irregularly as the market slackened late in the session. Volume was about 4.2 million shares, down from 4.54 million on Friday, with gains and losses among major issues fluctuating around small point moves.
Chicago potato arrivals total 120 with Friday 1538 Saturday 209 Sunday 6 shipments. Moderate demand for russets and round reds with slightly stronger prices. Red River Valley round reds 0.80 0.15 per unit. Maine potatoes at 4.05 per unit.
Omaha market report shows hogs 16 500 head steady to mixed with barrows and gilts 190 to 240 pounds steady to 26 lower, sows 11.76 to 15.25, cattle 17 000 head calves about 1 200 with steers and heifers steady, veal calves and hog averages, and sheep 2 200 with woolly lambs steady to prime wool lambs 19.25 to 20.28.
Chicago wholesale prices hold steady as butter and Exiga show unchanged bids with minor percent shifts. Pork and poultry markets list roasters and white rock futures. grain quotations at 1 a.m. show No 2 corn at 1164 and soybeans at 2751 with moisture discounts applied.
Cedar Grange met Saturday evening with Elsie Coder presiding. Mrs. Black reported home economics dresses to be made of all cotton. Trene Blowmquist installed as lecturer by Marvin Coder. Program featured Bible reading Irene Bloomquist, Christmas songs, poems, and a Santa visit for children. Lunch committee includes Wanda Harvey and Marie Hurley.
Wapello high school chorus will perform at the student assembly on Wednesday afternoon December 28. The school will dismiss at 3 00 p m December 23 and reconvene January 4. Mrs Blanche Pantel is a patient in Burlington hospital.
Wilton Presbyterian Women hosted a Christus dinner December 1 with 60 attendees. Mrs Pauline Mourer sang and 1965 officers were installed, including Grayce Nicolaus as president and Patty Sorgentry as vice president, with circle leaders named for Martha and Mary Circles. The event featured carols, group singing, and the theme Let Your Crown Be Lighted With Stars, with plans for 1966 officers and committees.
Fulton Township Farm Bureau Women held a regular session at Mrs. Robert Bockwoldt s home with 24 members and five children attending. Mrs. Henry Franzen opened with a prayer and led by Mrs. Virgil Ihms in carol singing. poems were read and decorations displayed. A report on the Des Moines convention noted Muscatine County placed second in their book of events and earned an achievement award among 27 counties. A December 18 credit meeting at the Muscatine Farm Bureau office was announced, and a silent bake auction raised funds for the organization. Prizes were won in games, and entertainment was organized by Mrs. Henry Brus and Mrs. Myron Lensch. Hostesses were Mrs. Leroy Mortensen, Mrs. Kenneth Koberg, Mrs. Revert Bockwoldt and Mrs. Allen Mumm.
Wapello School Board met at Oakville Elementary to accept resignations of Dale Lake and Hoyt Carol. They reviewed custodian and bus driver job apps with no action. The plan regrades science to seventh and eighth, with earth science ninth, biology tenth, chemistry eleventh, physics twelfth, plus a senior general math class and extended English. Feb 11 set to consider a new bus. TB testing nearly complete. mobile X ray unit to visit Wapello and Oskville on Dec 17.
A Columbus Junction FFA meeting and Green Hand initiation were held at Columbus Community high school. Ten new members joined, including Paul Morgan, Bill Wellington, Craig Edmondson, Glen Leinbach, Ivan Arthur, Ron McCormick, Bob Utter, Mike Massey, Larry Hixson, and Dave Parsons. The group voted to sell garden seeds to raise money. Afterward, the boys played volleyball against their fathers, who attended as guests. Bill Greene is the vocational ag director.
Anvil City on the Seward Peninsula transformed into Nome within a year as gold was found nearby, turning a remote settlement into a bustling community with swift growth and influx of prospectors.
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