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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1966
Page
3
National and state markets show gains and losses across key commodities. Cotton remains unchanged, Chicago wheat weak, corn mostly weak with September firm, oats weak, soybeans weak with active late liquidation, hogs up 25 cents to a top of 23.75, slaughter steers steady to 25 cents lower with top 27.50.
USDA reports wholesale egg offerings light with good demand. Whites and browns show varied prices by grade and weight, including extra fancy heavy, fancy medium, and peewees. Butter offerings remain light to adequate with fair to good demand. Bulk carton prices for creamery eggs range around 75 to 76 cents per dozen. Baltimore Livestock reports cattle conditions and prices.
Receipts show 1200 head with moderate activity. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady with supply around 30 percent. Prices range from 25.50 to 27.60 for various weights and grades, with standard and lower looser lots noted. Hog receipts about 1000, demand steady to higher on barrows and gilts, sows down 25 cents. Prices listed for US grades across weights, with several ranges in the low 20s to mid 24 dollars for hogs.
Baltimore grain market reports show wheat receipts 215771 bushels with 512100 shipments and 7624412 stocks. No. 2 red winter prices at 1.82 dollars per bushel. Corn receipts 4000, oats 0, barley 0, rye 0, soybeans 0 with various stocks. Flour receipts 164100 lb sacks.
Frederick Grains report shows active butcher hog market in Chicago with gains of 20 cents per hundredweight. Over 200 head topped at 23.75 dollars, up 25 cents from Friday, while most No 1 and 2 grades sold around 23.25 to 23.50, some at 23.65, Mixed 1-3 at 23 to 23.25.
Mixed 2 3 slaughter cattle brought 21.50 to 23.00 per hundredweight. Sows moved 18.50 to 21.50. High choice and prime slaughter steers sold 0.25 lower in parts, with the market mostly steady to weak. Average choice 25.50 to 26.50, mixed high choice and prime 26.25 to 27, strictly prime to 27.50. Spring slaughter lambs unchanged. Mixed good and choice to choice at 23.50 to 25.50.
AP reports grain futures closed sharply lower across most contracts after selling intensified late trade. Wheat fell 4 cents+ per bushel, corn and soybeans dropped, while September corn edged higher and September soybeans traded around 3.00 to 3.14.
New York AP reports the stock market slipped on Monday in a light trading session. The market retained its usual Blue Monday pattern with a modest loss as volume fell to about 4.93
The Dow fell to 810.85 after a brief rally, with 5.16 million shares traded and 677 declines among 1,399 issues. The Associated Press average slipped to 291.9 while industrials, rails, and utilities posted mixed moves amid weak durable goods orders and inflation debate.
Washington AP The Senate blocked debate limits on the open housing civil rights bill for a second time in a week as Vice President Humphrey reported the failure to curb talks. The cloture vote failed 52 to 41 with 42 Democrats and 10 Republicans for. 21 Democrats and 20 Republicans against. Mansfield urged racial peace after the setback.
Heinrich Harer, an Austrian anthropologist, departs Rio de Janeiro carrying 30 pounds of glass beads in blue, yellow, and white as gifts for interior Brazil tribes to study primitive communities.
Frederick local newspaper dated Tuesday September 20 1966 presents daily city news and events from the Maryland county. Sections likely include community notices, local reporting, and society briefs reflecting mid 1960s life.
Two U S Navy fliers Cmdr Bob Mandeville of Charleston West Virginia and Lt Bob Williams of Iowa City Iowa are credited with wrecking a main railroad bridge in North Viet Nam They flew AGS Intruders unloading more than 10 tons of bombs on the Ninh Binh bridge in strikes Photographs after the raid confirmed they had knocked out the bridge a major Hanoi link Also reported mechanized Mounties in Regina selling 30 horses as the force quits training riders.
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