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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1948
Page
5
Hog prices move 1 to 1.50 higher with top loads 222-250 pounds at 26 and bulk 190-280 pounds at 26.00. Sows under 350 pounds 24-24.50, 375-450 pounds 22.50-23, heavier 21.50-22.50. Calves and fed steers weaker to mixed. top 40 for 1110 lb steers. good and choice steers 25-37.50. heifers 27-33. beef cows 16.50-19. bulls 17-22. weaners steady. Sheep 1,500. total 8,000. lambs 24 top. $22-23.50 for others.
Poultry futures show 24 trucks listed with hens firm and chickens unsettled. White rock fryers 38, broilers 37, young heavy ducks 34, ducklings 38. Eggs steady with 12 080 cases in browns and whites, extras 70 to 80 percent. Standards 42 to 50, current receipts 37 to 40, checks 34 to 35.
Open high and low figures for Wheat Corn Oats and Soybeans listed for various contracts in Chicago. The table includes Dec Mar May and Jul positions with percentages and price levels across Wheat Corn Soybeans and Oats reflecting market ranges and closes.
California Governor Earl Warren campaigns toward Wisconsin as Republican vice presidential hopeful with Dewey not touring the state. Truman Norman Thomas and Henry Wallace plan State tours later this month. Warren scheduled to stop at Janesville then Madison for an evening rally. He spoke in Chicago last night criticizing foreign policy as secret deals.
US Air Force investigators hunt through scattered fragments of a B-29 research bomber after it exploded in the air above Waycross Georgia killing nine of the 13 aboard. Witnesses described a thunderclap roar as the plane broke apart and wreckage spread over a 20 acre area. Four survivors parachuted to safety. nine bodies were recovered from the scene amid marshland debris. The bomber was on an experimental flight possibly tied to cosmic ray research and radar electronic studies. Colonel H A Moody led the investigation arriving with two officers to file a report.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey begins a nine state swing starting Oct 7 to back GOP senatorial hopefuls. He will appear at least 38 times in nine states including major speeches in Pittsburgh Kansas City and St. Paul with stops in Pennsylvania Kentucky Oklahoma Minnesota Indiana Michigan Illinois and New York. The campaign aims to bolster senate races amid an anticipated Dewey victory over Truman.
On October 11 at Kalona Sales Barn in Kalona Iowa the second annual purebred hereboard boar and gift sale opens at 1 00 PM presented by Monroe D Yoder with cattle and gifts featured for bidding and viewing.
Steam power fades as diesel electric locomotives become more efficient. The article notes gas turbine engines as the next major development in motive power. It also mentions the potential of an atomic energy powered locomotive before the railroad centennial.
Newsweek polled fifty top political writers who unanimously predicted Gov. Thomas I. Dewey would win the presidency and Republicans would hold the Senate and increase the House majority. They estimated Dewey would secure 376 electoral votes to Truman’s 116.
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