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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1950
Page
5
Event notice invites Rain bow and DeMolays and dates to a country club gathering on July 6 with a $1.00 per couple charge and a 12:50 p.m. start. Also appears to promote DuPont paint and Kodak color film offerings with local store contacts.
J. C. Holbert of Washington leads Iowa Beef Producers at a Chicago hearing proposing revised federal beef grades. The plan fuses Prime and Choice into a single top grade while preserving other classifications to protect producers and consumers amid industry debate.
Chicago grain table notes plan to relabel third grade to two parts good and commercial while keeping canner and cutter grades. It also recalls Andrew Jackson riding a Baltimore and Ohio train on June 6 1833 between Ellicott's Mills and Baltimore. Grain figures for wheat corn and soybeans show daily ranges and closing prices across July through May contracts.
Hogs sold 8 000 head with prices 50 75 cents higher on butcher weights over 250 pounds, tops to 21.50, 24 1/2 loads at 21 75. Sows under 675 pounds 7 25 18 73, cows 14 50 17 00, calves 19 50 to 21 00. Cattle 3 000 salable with steers and heifers up 50 75 cents, good fed cattle 29 75 32 00, medium to low good 26 00 29 50, cows 18 75 22 00, vealers 95.00 to 200.00.
General Carlos Romulo arrives in San Francisco for a UN birthday event and declares the Security Council mandate to halt warfare in Korea must be obeyed immediately.
Hungary faces a ransom demand tied to the Crown of St Stefan, believed linked to the 15 year espionage sentence of American executive Robert Vogeler by the Communist government. The crown, once seized by Nazis, figures in the dispute.
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