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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1950
Page
21
Chicago reports a lively upturn in wheat lifting the grain market with the May contract gaining over three cents and late-session activity showing strength. Soybeans advanced several cents while July beans surged toward the close. oats rye and lard firmed as corn lagged.
Hog bids run to 20.00 for 180-240 lb range with steady to higher values on lighter weights. 250-270 lb mostly 19.65. 270-330 lb range 17.75-19.25. cattle and calves show steady demand with cows 18.50-21.00 and good bulls 22.00-23.25. sheep at 25.50-26.50 for native lambs and shorn ewes 5.00-9.00.
Salable hogs 4 000 with gains 25 to 50 cents higher for both butchers and sows. Top at 20.25, many lots 180 to 230 pounds 19.85 to 20.15, heavier weights 17.75 to 19.00. Sows under 375 pounds up to 18.00, 400 to 450 pounds 15.25 to 16.25, 475 to 600 pounds 14.00 to 15.25. Calves 300 head recorded. steers and heifers scarce as receipts rise. cows steady to weak. Bulls weak to 50 cents lower. Birth notices from Carbondale Colp Herrin Murphysboro with newborns listed.
Obituaries note Emma Caroline Brandon 91 of Carbondale dies Friday with services planned at South County Line church and burial at South County Line cemetery. Eisenhauer 75 of Du Quoin dies, funeral Monday at St Andrew's with burial at Rosary. Indianapolis market reports 6,000 salable hogs with higher prices, 800 cattle and 50 sheep. varied weights and price ranges across categories.
Butter remained steady with receipts of 1,291,434 pounds and wholesale prices unchanged. Eggs held firm with 15,423 receipts and U S extras at 34-33 percent, standards 27-29. Live poultry unsettled with receipts of 26 loads, prices changing slightly. heavy hens 21-22 cents, fryers 27-31, old roosters 16 cents. Storage eggs quoted Sept 37.55, Oct 37.55-60, Nov 37.50.
New York June 16 AP Traders took it easy in a plodding market. Prices barely stirred with a close balance of gains and losses. Higher prices were paid for U S Steel Republic Steel Studebaker U S Rubber and Caterpillar Tractor while Chrysler Goodyear Distillers and American Telephone were bulkier. Convertible bonds backed down after recent demand.
A livestock market listing shows 1,086 lb weights at 30.00 and 1,050 lb grassers at 25.50. Cows, steers, heifers and vealers are priced across ranges with salable sheep at 20.00 to 27.50 for lambs and ewes noted as steady to weak. Estimated salable receipts: 500 hogs, 300 cattle, 100 sheep.
Weather bulletin from the U S Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy and cooler conditions in northern Illinois with scattered thunder showers in the south tonight. Saturday brings fair, cooler weather. Low tonight 56 to 62, high 70 to 75. Southern Illinois sees local thunder showers tonight and cooler conditions, Cairo area with scattered storms, low 65 to 70, high about 80. Indiana faces occasional thunder showers and cooling tonight with northern lows 60 to 65 and southern 65 to 70, high values not specified. Missouri expects scattered thunder storms coolness in extreme north and northwest tonight, Saturday mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms in the north, much cooler west and central Saturday.
Temperature will average normal in the north and 2 to 5 degrees above normal in the south. Cooler Saturday with a little below normal Sunday then warming Monday and Tuesday. Precipitation averaged one half to one and one half inches as scattered thundershowers south tonight. Showers likely late Monday to Wednesday. Normal highs 82 north 88 south. lows 59 north 62 south.
Syracuse chemist Alfred Dean Slack, 44, admitted passing samples of a secret high explosive to Harry Gold of Philadelphia as part of the Klaus Fuchs spy ring. Slack is held on $100,000 bail in Utica awaiting transfer to Knoxville. Gold awaits trial on espionage charges.
Mrs. Fred van Hoof of Necedah Wisconsin claimed five visions of the Blessed Virgin since last November and awaited a noon appearance in a yard ash tree clump. A crowd gathered as the La Crosse diocese said the claims were under investigation.
Chicago cash grain prices show wheat and soybeans unavailable. Corn values listed for No 2 yellow at 1.43 and No 3 at 1.43, with No 1 yellow at 1.44 and No 1 white at 1.95. Oats range from No 1 heavy mixed 91 to No 1 white atl 7.72, barley malting 1.50-1.65 and feed 1.15-1.25. Soybeans unavailable.
Mrs. Violet Labash aged 35 was charged by Hyde Park police with four traffic violations after a semi-trailer collision with a car driven by William Kelly. She claimed she cannot drive a car and police said she was behind the wheel. Charges include improper turn driving while intoxicated leaving the scene and no driver's license.
Federal Judge George B. Harris revoked the naturalization of Harry Bridges, C I O longshore leader, after his perjury conviction over a 1945 hearing statement he was not a Communist. Bridges, Australian-born, is sentenced to five years and has appealed.
An assistant state's attorney reported exhumations of six elderly burials showed noncompliance with public aid rules. The bodies were found in pine boxes without coffins or embalming, despite affidavits from undertakers claiming proper arrangements and payments of 100 to 120 dollars each. If post mortems confirm no embalming, a grand jury action may follow.
Monroe ap report says Bill Barney a garageman misplaced a valuable key four months ago while traveling from Monroe Louisiana to Jacksonville Florida. Otto Cash arrived at the garage recently to have a flat tire repaired.
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