Market summary shows modest gains amid steady sectors
New York stocks rose mildly on light volume with steel and utility shares leading. Electric and Westinghouse futures edged higher while General Foods and California oil slipped. Agricultural commodities including wheat oats and beans fluctuated with cattle and sheep steady.
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Westinghouse Electric
Sears
Livestock Prices and Cattle Market Report
Live cattle prices steady with grain-fed load at 24.00 and 2 percent shrink. Cows 12.00 to 16.50, calves around 20.00. Slaughter steers 21.00 to 23.00, heifers 23.50. Butchers 18.25 to 18.75 for 240 260 lb ranges, lighter and heavier weights varied. Sows 12.00 to 14.00, lambs around 29.00, western shipments arriving. ewes about 10.00.
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Minnesota
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Alabama
California
Texas
Bliss Triumphs
Bliss
Michigan
Ogden
California Lambs
Rye futures surge on Board of Trade led by government crop report
Rye futures closed up 5 to 4 1/4 cents a bushel as May and July gains sparked by commission buying. Wheat rose about 1% with most deliveries higher, corn mixed, oats steady to up, and soybeans up over 1 cent amid bullish sentiment from the 1949 rye harvest forecast and larger winter wheat acreage.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Commission House
Produce Bah 20 trucks
Hens stead ie Rock 38 gre goon Ducks Ducklings 25 heavy ducks 24 small ducks 18 Geese 20
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Car Mishap Injures Girl in Rupert
Special to the Post. In Rupert at 1 a.m. Sunday Delores Rodriegues suffered minor injuries after a car driven by 16 year old Phil Hawks lost control on cemetery road. The 1948 sedan rolled one and a half times and landed on its top. the vehicle was badly damaged.
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Rupert —Delores Rodriegues
Cemetery Road
Phil Hawks
Ron Hawks
Flights Past the Sound Barrier Cited by Symington
Air secretary W Stuart Symington told the Senate armed services committee that American pilots have flown hundreds of miles per hour beyond the speed of sound. He sought a 300 million dollar program to fund supersonic wind tunnels and an air engineering development center. He compared the sonic barrier breakthrough to the Wright brothers flight.
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W. Stuart Symington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Air Force
Symington
Valuable Gems Talk at Kappa Chapter Meeting
Parry Harrison will speak on Valuable Gems at the Kappa chapter Beta Sigma Phi Thursday 8 p.m. at the Parish hall with officer installations and a social hour with refreshments. The same day the Pocatello Theater Guild meets at 8 p.m. in the Bonnevile branch library for a group pantomime demonstration led by Richard Iknsey. Ralph Metcalfe is named to the Illinois Athletic Commission by Gov. Adlai Stevenson.
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Parry Harrison
Beta Sigma Phi
Theater Guild
Pocatello Theater Guild
Bonneville
Public Library
Richard iKnsey
Metcalfe
Milwaukee
Wis
Ralph Metcalfe
Marquette
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois Athletic Commission
Florida and Texas Citrus Crop Outlook In 1948 49
The agriculture department reports favorable conditions for Florida citrus with an expected 1948-49 lime crop of 200000 boxes and a new crop of 250000 boxes. Texas shows a very short crop due to January freezes, with slow recovery projected for three years. California trees largely recovered from winter freezes.
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Florida
Texas
Agriculture Department
California
Long history of cultivating staple crops
The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that wheat, barley, rice, dates, figs, olives, apples, grapes, flax, and hemp have been cultivated for at least 4000 years, reflecting ancient agricultural continuity.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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