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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1949
Page
7
USDA cattle and hog market summary from Chicago on March 24 shows hogs mostly 50 cent lower with top at 21.50 and varied weights trading between 18.25 and 21.26 per cwt. Cattle and calves opened steady or weaker, with steers and slaughter classes weak to 25 cents lower and vealers commonly 27 to 29 dollars. sheep and lambs steady to higher, top lambs near 30 dollars while ewes sell around 14.26.
Chicago market rundown shows Wheat with May at 215, July 190, Sept 191, Dec 1895. Corn May 82, July 131, Sept 124, Dec 113. Oats May 69, July 25, Sept 61, Soybeans May 214, July 209, with varying highs and lows across contracts. Indicates grain price ranges and daily closings from Chicago exchanges.
The passage notes Japanese expansion of territory alongside a reflection on tying down trees and dwarfing pines and maples while planning farmstead wiring for REA lines. It urges considering all future electricity uses on the farm.
Four Czechoslovak delegates land at Idlewild as Eastern European groups begin arriving for a cultural and scientific conference on world peace. Delegations from Russia and Yugoslavia were expected to follow to the Waldorf Astoria, with U S officials calling the event a platform for Soviet propaganda.
Chief Justice H J Mantz of the Iowa Supreme Court, 71, suffered a broken leg in a fall on his home's rear steps in Des Moines. He was taken to Wilden Osteopathic Hospital where doctors diagnosed a single fracture of the upper leg. Mantz resides in Des Moines as his permanent home.
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