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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
7
For sale in field, clover hay available. Seller Karl Marr of Ainsworth offers the crop for waiting buyers. Contact 9813 for details and pickup arrangements.
Markets show hogs 10 000 head steady to 100 higher with top 14.10 and 180 to 360 lb range 13.90 to 14.10. Cattle 4500 head calves 700. Steers and yearlings firm to up slightly top 16.60 while fed heifers dip after Wednesday 25 cent decline. Sheep 3000 head fat lambs active with choice clipped offerings above 15.50 and native spring lambs 16.26 to 16.25. Estimates for tomorrow HogS 4 000 cattle 1 000 sheep 1 000.
Chicago cash grain prices show corn at 107 for 2 yellow and 106 for 4 yellow, 2 white at 123. oats at 3 white. soybeans at 165 for 4 yellow. Market roundup from June 10.
Egg receipts reach 22 085 cases with firm market and unchanged price levels. Ex tra firsts 39 firsts 38 Current receipts 3714 dirties 36 M4 checks 384 Poultry receipts 20 trucks firm market and unchanged.
Amana society announces immediate reconstruction of the Middle Amana refrigeration plant destroyed by Monday fire. George Foerstner says the loss exceeds a quarter of a million dollars and the War Production Board has granted priorities. origin of the blaze remains under investigation.
Irvin E. Rosa 38, Rochester Minns longtime schools superintendent since 1941, was chosen as Davenport public schools superintendent. Henry H. Jebens announced the appointment Wednesday and said it will be confirmed at the board meeting next Monday. Rosa succeeds Irvin H. Schmitt, who led Davenport for eight years and faced controversy over his progressive theories after April board votes not to renew his contract.
The report lists scrap totals and quotas by county: Henry 0 of 933 tons, Iowa 97 of 1028, Jefferson 0 of 891, Keokuk 250 of 1266, Louisa 0 of 653, Mahaska 240 of 1364, Muscatine 353 of 672, and Wapello 0 of 1004. State chairman notes ongoing drive and shortfalls.
The RAF idle for the 11th straight night as 15 Liberator bombers of the U S air force attacked Axis airfields in Gerbine and Capania Sicily. Northwest African forces then pounded Fantelliaria and Italian targets while Rommel led Axis defenses into Tunisia. Berlin warned of invasion urgency as Mussolini’s regime faces a shifting stance amid heavy Russian air battles near Moscow.
Iowa extension economists urge calm, prudent use of feed reserves to sustain livestock production through 1943. They project record feed needs, outline hog, cattle, dairy, sheep, poultry trends, and note prices at ceilings under CPA controls amid high production and expanding acreages.
Robert Crowell age 7 of Davenport drowned in about five feet of water at Davenport Park lagoon after stumbling on a tree stump. His body was recovered within ten minutes but resuscitation efforts failed.
Reading text describes part time help for farmers with a Sioux City firm hiring one man daily, and a volunteer firesome among readers chosen by locals to assist with hay and grain tasks. Ministers bankers and attorneys have driven tractors, boosting neighborly cooperation and planned use of labor saving equipment.
Film comedian Charlie Chaplin and Joan Barry announced a settlement of their paternity suit in Hollywood. Barry sought to establish Chaplin as the father of her unborn child.
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