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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1961
Page
10
USDA estimated Saturday receipts: 100 cattle, 100 hogs, no sheep. Market rose by 25 to 50 cents to a hog peak of 18.25, active trade for about 4,000 head, 60 head mixed No 1 and 2 grades around 218 pounds sold. Cattle market reported limited sales with no slaughter calves listed. other weights ranged from 16.75 to 18.25 dollars per hundredweight.
Merrill Lynch data shows mixed trading with Gen Foods at 83 percent and Pepsi Cola at 413?. Key names include Am Mot 11 percent Goodrich 64 34, Philco 22 54, AT & T Uw, Goodyear 42 44, Int Paper 30 7, Sears rock, Anaconda 38, Boeing 161 2, Chrysler 43 35, DuPont 21 3, Eastman 106 percent, Westinghouse 45 44, and Ford, General Electric 2 percent. Reported by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith, Davenport Iowa.
Readable items show utility and commercial cows 15.50 to 18, utility bulls 17 to 20.50, sheep, spring lambs 18.50 to 20, 100 lb shorn lambs 15.30, cull to choice ewes 3 to 4. Chicago wholesale prices steady with mixed grades and live poultry prices not reported due to insufficient records.
Grain markets showed a steady to firm range with slow trading on the Board of Trade. Cash grain receipts were estimated with corn ledgers at 169, oats 10, barley 11, soybeans 3, while futures closed mixed with soybeans up and wheat, corn, oats higher in July. Louisiana named from Louis XIV of France.
Muscatine Amateur Radio Club and 25 members from Muscatine and nearby towns will set up receivers transmitters and a portable generator at Union School No 5 Lake Township to simulate emergency communications during ARRL Field Day. The 24 hour event involves 15 000 hams across the United States and Canada in a contacts contest with public invited to visit the site.
Ralph Sanderson Willis, 78, of 1617 Mulberry avenue, died at 6 p m Thursday in his Trout Pavilion room on Lake George N Y of a heart attack. Born March 4, 1883 in Brooklyn, he graduated from Cornell as an electrical engineer and led the Vienna and Pennant Button Co. as president after 1938. He married Winifred Scoville in 1908 and Neva Smith in 1918. Surviving are a son Edwin A. Willis, a daughter Mrs John Stevens, a sister Mrs Helen Perkins, and five grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Monday at George M Whitieh Funeral Home. burial Greenwood Cemetery. The body arrives in Muscatine Sunday. friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday.
Meigs M Hays 77 of 109 West Sixth street dies at 6 40 p m at home of a heart ailment He born Nov 17 1883 in Rock Island county son of John Frew and Mary Schmelzer Hays He had been a Muscatine resident 43 years He married Hazel M Dietrich in Muscatine in 1923 He was a Methodist and a member of Iowa lodge No 2 AF A M He worked as a teacher at Andalusia before becoming an automobile salesman in Muscatine Surviving are a brother Cheeter K Hays of Drury township four sisters Hazel L Hays Olive N Hays Audrey M Hays and Mrs Marie Bremer nine great nieces and nephews He was preceded in death by his parents wife a son two brothers and a sister Funeral services are set for 2 30 p m Saturday at the George M Witlich Funeral Home officiated by Rev Caleb Larson Burial will be at Greenwood cemetery The body will remain at the funeral home pending services
Charles Sterner pleaded guilty in district court to illegally selling beer. Judge Matthew Westvale fined him 300 with costs after a true information filed by County Attorney Robert Wilson. Sterner was arrested at his Wilton home on Sunday.
Police report arrests for speeding and license violations across several motorists headed by Frank H. Holcomb and Darrell Gavin with fines and costs. Legal actions include multiple judgments against debtors and a divorce petition by Linda R Adams of Muscatine citing cruelty and seeking custody, home furnishings. Additional notices cover foreclosure action, a beer sale permit, intoxicated driving penalties, and hospital admissions and dismissals from Davenport area facilities.
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Classifieds note deadlines close the day of publication. Call AM 2332 for ad placement and guidance. Saddle Club announces a horse show Saturday night, June 24 at 7 30 p m daylight time, at Dean Garvin Farm eight miles east of Muscatine on 61.
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