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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1963
Page
12
A condensed list of stock quotes and percent changes includes firms across sectors such as Ford, Goodyear, Monsanto, Penney, Pepsi, Radio Corp, Sinclair, Texaco, and Union. The snippet records varied gains and declines, reflecting a volatile market snapshot with numerous corporate tickers and shorthand percent indicators.
The daily report lists violations and admissions including Harvey Allbee and James Duncan with restricted operator license issues, speeding for Michael Latw rence and Charles Burroughs, and various fines of five dollars and costs. It notes admissions of several individuals, dismissals, a drunken intoxication case for Louis Ascensio, and probate note Olive Eleanor Kile dying intestate with estate valued at 2250 dollars.
The report lists futures and basis items for corn and soybeans with grades and sample prices. No. 2 yellow corn and No. 3 yellow corn, various oat values, No. 2 white and heavy white oats, Soybeans No. 1 yellow at 2.64, soybean oil and barley pricing, and feed ranges given.
Wholesale buying prices remain unchanged as Chicago markets report steady demand. Notable items include waxed goods and car-related bits with varied quality grades. Prices cited include 54 and 89 in local units, with 70 per fent and 284 waxed mediums referenced amid a mix of standards and ditties.
Gov Hag rid Hughes signed a home rule act allowing cities and towns to govern locally with powers not prohibited by law. The measure requires explicit authorization before levying taxes, changing the previous rule that city power came only from specific designated powers.
The Omaha market shows hogs 3,500 head gaining to 25 higher with U S 120-350 lb at 15.25 to 15.51, and 2-3 300-400 lb at 13.25 to 14.00. Calves at 10,500 head rise 20, steers steady, heifers mostly steady to high choice 22.75, and lambs largely steady with best shorn at 22.00 to 33.30 for No 1 pelts and prime spring at 22.50 to 2. BS.
Excavations in Lone Tree streets reveal sewer main installations by John Sammons Construction of Keokuk. The $171,313 project digs sections in blacktop for mains and service laterals while a lagoon is planned northwest of town.
USDA estimates Wednesday receipts at 10,000 cattle 6,500 hogs and 200 sheep. Butcher hogs steady to 25 cents higher. top price unchanged at 16.35. Hog weights 190-225 lb and 1-2 grades moved at 16 to 16.35. cattle barons show mixed and prime steers 323.50 to 324, with various weights priced. Slaughter hogs 6,000 head and cattle 4,500 plus calves. prices vary across weight classes and grades with steady to higher trends. Sheep 200 head, markets light. lambs around 95 lb show limited movement.
USDA reports mixed potato supply and demand with moderate stock and slight weakness in long whites. California tong whites sell at 9,753,960 units while round reds bring 3.00 to 3.50 per unit. Arizona reds at 3.75 and Alabama reds at 2.75. Live poultry wholesale prices unchanged. breeders and scasters noted.
Lone Tree graveside rites were held for Michael Alan Walker eleven days old born May S who died May 18 at Mercy hospital Iowa City. Surviving are parents Don and Marlene Johnson and family in Lone Tree with grandparents and a great grandparent listed. Funeral home and Rev. Jerry Brown officiated. Regina Marolf 98 funeral services held in Wilton with interment Moscow Cemetery. Charles McConnell, 70, former West Liberty resident, died suddenly in Garden Grove California. Services May 22. Mrs George Holzhauer 77 of Muscatine dies after two weeks illness. services May 2 at Ralph J Witlich Funeral Home. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Cloyd Schofield a Muscatine button industry sales rep died of heart attack. Body at Jacqui Funeral Home Highland Park New Jersey. Funeral services planned at St Francis Church Metuchen New Jersey.
The first district meeting of the VFW and VFW Auxiliary convened in Keokuk Sunday with Helen Wulf presiding. Officers elected included Alice Moore as first district president and Lorraine Haden as department president. reports and gifts were shared as districts announced 100 percent membership as of February 28, 1963.
May wheat futures closed up 10 cents a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade as shorts covered. Rye and soybeans dropped more than three cents, oats fell over a cent, and corn edged lower. Estimates show receipts for wheat corn oats barley and soybeans all at or near indicated levels. May wheat settled around 2.27 to 2.28, May corn about 1.10, oats near 64 to 68, rye 1.24, soybeans around 2.50 to 2.56.
Five year old Harold Wayne Baker, unable to read or write, delivered 145 newspapers on his rural route after his father T. W. Baker, the regular Shreveport Journal carrier, was hospitalized from an automobile accident. Lonnie Wiggins enlisted Harold to guide the route, and no subscriber missed a paper.
Lucile Sywassink LeVerne Beatty Lois Schmidt and Jean Ternberry attended the Iowa state convention of Beta Sigma Phi in Davenport. A keynote event was the donation of over 2000 in playground equipment by Iowa Beta Sigma Phis for the children's hospital for the mentally ill at Iowa City. Dr. Paul Houston and Dr. Richard Jenkins gave acceptance speeches. Bill Ross son of the founder delivered the main address.
Official notice from the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America filed with the Iowa Commerce Commission seeks amendment of a permit to construct and operate natural gas pipelines across Muscatine County. The petition requests rights to route two parallel thirty inch pipelines twenty feet apart across public highways and private lands, beginning in the NW quarter of section 14, township 76, north range 2 west, Muscatine County.
Public notices detail a proposed pipeline in Muscatine County Iowa with a hearing set by the Iowa State Commerce Commission for July 10 1963 at 10 a.m. and offer five day written objections. Also probate notice for Fre a W Geter with hearing May 27 1963. Public notice of rezoning request for land south of Wallace Street and west of Stewart Road in Muscatine with a city council hearing scheduled June 6 193 at 7 00 p.m. Mayor Robert D Bosch presiding.
Classified page fragment lists sections such as Personal ads In Memoriam Lost and Found Lodges Professional services and various wanted and rental categories. The readable bits imply a mixed classifieds page with alerts and notices across sales housing and services. Entities named include JA and Ruminaze though full details are incomplete.
An old notice details farm animals, vehicles, and services for sale, with ad formatting rules. It explains first insertion corrections, word counts, and rates for ten word ads, plus multipliers for multiple insertions and blind ads, including a 12 point type surcharge. It also lists contact number 263 2331 for placing ads.
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