cial Markets jriMaH Th OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning. February 27. 1342 PAGE SIXTEEN Comic Farm I- J J ,1 iL h I: Stock Market Trading Even Selected Stocks Rise Slightly on Bidding For Industrials NEW YORK, Feb. 26-JP-Se- tected stocks attracted enough bidding to keep Thursday stock market fairly well balanced. t Rails were soft most of the time tait steadied at the last Santa Fe touched a new 1941-42 high with a gain of 1 and Union Pacific tacked on a point on a lew sales. Aircraft and specialties did mod erately well while Steels, Motors, Rubbers, Coppers and mail orders held to an exceptionally "slim groove. Recently weak oils and soft drink issues revived on the thought these may have been ov ersold notwithstanding tanker sinkings, dwindling of private gasoline consumption and the sugar shortage. Modest come- . backs here were staged by Stand ard (NJ), Texas Co., and Coca Cola. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks managed to post a net advance of .1 of a point at S6.7. Of 644 issues traded, 263 were up, 189 down and 192 un changed .Dealings were sluggish throughout but picked up a bit in the final hour. Transfers to taled 353,200 shares compared with 339,130 Wednesday. Douglas Aircraft was up 1 in further reflection of its record earnings figures. Johns-Manville and US Gypsum were ahead about a point each. Minor improvement as shown by NY Central, South em Pacific, Great Northern, Gen eral Motors, Chrysler, Western Union, Westinghouse, Boeing, United Aircraft and International Nickel. On the offside were Consoli dated Edison, International Har vester, Union Carbide, Eastman Kodak, Dow Chemical and Amer lean Smelting. Hop Supplies Topic at Meet Members of the hop growers' committee, Pacific -coast firms handling hop supplies and Peter G. Schmidt, Olympia, representa tive of the brewers, are scheduled to meet in Portland this morning to consider burlap needs and oth er problems of the hop industry. Included in the group will be Dean Walker, Independence, E. ' H. Peterson, Santa Rosa, Calif., and W. E. Rivard, Yakima, repre : eenting the growers, and C. -W. Paulus, Salem, managing agent of the hop control board. "Strictly Private" By Quinn Hall U. S -4-RVCr CAMP UTX DEAR MOM:- (T LOOKS LIKE I'M GOING TO K. KEPT H0Z AS PART OF THE. WOES.. I SUfttSE ms TO SHOW W3JU SOLDCES WAT 10 BE- U& THE SAB3B SA& R5 MORE. UfflV VICE MERSL RS-AWD "WE. AWT WO GUY TO &fc CWPUMBHS. AP Futurf Closing Quotations "Women Register In Scio Area SCIO Voluntary registration of women in the two Scio pre cincts to date totals approxi mately 125, according to Mrs. P. ,W. Schrunk, committee chairman. Questionnaires have been exe cuted at the home of Mrs. W. P. Goulding. Registration should be completed not later than February 28, the chairman announces. , Scio auxiliary hospital funds re cently have been augmented by $20.55 contributed by the Jordan Farm Union. A Red Cross Sew ing class is making surgical gowns and envelopes for rubber cloves. Compresses and gauze dressings .numbering 250 have been com pleted and sterilized and have been stored for emergency use. Dr. A. G. Prill heads the hos pital staff and stresses that while hospital equipment is being do nated, the institution still needs several articles. NEW YORK, Feb. Air Reduction ... 33 V4 Alaska Juneau ...2Ys Al Chem & Dye 129 Allis Chalmers ....28 American Can ....61 Am Car & Fdy ..31 Am Rd & Std Stn 4 Am Roll Mills Uhk Am Smelt & Rf ..38 Am Tel Tel ..127 Amer Tobacco B 474 Am Water Wks ....2 Am Zinc & Lead ..4 Anaconda 267s Armour Illinois ..3 Atchison 36 Aviation Corp ....3 Baldwin Loco ....13 Bendix A via 35 Beth Steel 6(H Boeing Air ..... 17 Borden 20 Borg Warner 23 Calif Pack 17 Callahan Z & L .. Calumet Hec 6 Canada Dry 12 Canadian Pacific .4 Caterpillar Trac 34 Vi Celanese 19 Chesa & Ohio ... 33 Chrysler 50 Commer Solvent 8 k Common & Sou Ya Consolid Aircraft 17 Consolid Edison 12 Consolidated Oil ..5Ys Continental Can 25 Ya Corn Prod 52 26-(P)-Today's closing Crown Zeller ......10 Curtiss Wright .7 Doug Aircraft ....63 Du Pont de N ..117 Eastman Kodak 130 Elec Pow & Lt ....1 Gen Electric 25 Gen Foods 32 Gen Motors - 3378 Goodrich ..... 14 Goodyear 12 Great North .25 Greyhound 11 Illinois Central ....7 Insp Copper 11 Inter Harvester 47 Int Nickel Can 27 Int P & P Pfd ... 57 Ya Int Tel & Tel .. .2 Johns-Manville ..61 Kennecott -.34 Libbey-O-Ford ..21 Lockheed 20 Lowe's 40 Monty 'Ward 26 Nash Kelvinator ..4 Nat Biscuit 15 Nat Dairy Prod ..14 Nat Distillers 21 Nat Lead 14 N Y Central ........9y4 N American Av 12 N American Co ....9 North Pacific 6 Ohio Oil Otis Steel 5 Pac Gas St Elec ..18 Pac Tel & Tel ..88 Packard 2 quotations: Pan-Amer Air 15 Paramount Pic ..14 J C Penney : 67 Penn RR 23 Ya Phelps Dodge .29 Phillips Pet .36 Proc & .Gamble 44 Pub Serv NJ ......13 Pullman 2414 Radio 2 Rayonier Pfd 25 Republic Steel ....17 Richfield OU 7 Safeway Stores ..39 Sears Roe .. 50 Shell Union 12 Socony Vacuum ..7 Sou Cal Edison ..18 South Pacific ..13 Sperry Corp 26 Stan Oil Calif ....20 Stan Oil Indiana 21 Stan Oil NJ 35 Stone & Webster 4 Studebaker 5 Sunshine Mining ..4 Texas Corp ......34 Union Carbide ..63 Union Oil Calif ..12 Union Pacific . .75 United Airlines ..10 United Aircraft ..30 United Corp .... 516 US Rubber Pfd, ..61 US Steel .....L 51 Warner Pictures .3Ya Western Union 25 Westing Elec 75 Woolworth 25 Dairy Output Shows Gain Oregon creameries manufac tured 17,110,000 pounds of butter, highest' to that time, in 'the first six months of 1941, says a report ssued Jointly, by the agricultural marketing service and the state department of agriculture. - Output of dairy products for the entire year has not been compiled, but presumably the last six months will show ever larger gains. In Jhe six-months period, Ched dar, cheese production increased 16 per cent and Swiss cheese, 10 per cent over the first half of 1940. Cheddar cheese output in this state was 12,482,000 pounds; Swiss cheese, 103,000 pounds, but manufacture of cottage cheese dropped almost 50 per cent, indi cating the war-time diversion. Considerable shift was noted in the output of condensed products, which showed gains on the whole. Plants turned out U, 377,000 pounds of sweetened condensed whole milk (case goods), all pure gain over the previous period; but there was a 25 per cent drop in production of unsweetened evap orated whole milk, figure for which was 15,337,000 pounds. Bulk goods skimmed, unsweeten ed condensed milk was greater. Declines were found in the pro duction of dried skim milk for human food and in dried whey production, respective figures be ing 2,229,000 and 5,005,000 pounds. Dried skimmed milk for animal food, dried buttermilk and dried casein production all increased. A 45,000-gallon gain was noted in the production of ice cream made in regular ice cream plants, Total from January to June was ,049,000 gallons. Salem Market Quotations lo- The prices below supplied by a cal erocer are Indicative of the market prices paid to grcwers Dy 6a lem buyers but are not guaranteed by The Statesman : VEGETABLES Cabbage B dailjffQuarters FGGS Carrots, orange box Cauliflower, crate Celery, green Garlic, lb Onions. SO lbs. Onion, green Parsnips, orange box Potatoes, 10 lbs.. No. t new Potatoes. No. 2, 50 lb bag Radishes, doz. Rutabagas, orange box Rhubarb Tomatoes, fancy hot house, lb. - 4.00 1.75 ISO 3.23 18 3.0Q .65 1.75 3.00 1 00 .60 1.60 .09 .18 GRAIN, HAT AND SEEDS (Buying Prices) Oats, No. 1 35 00 to 38.00 Feed barley, ton 33.00 to 3500 Clover hay, ton 13.00 Alfalfa hay, ton 16.00 to 18.00 Dairy feed, 80-lb. bag 1.75 Hen scratch feed -2 25 Cracked corn 2.40 Wheat .90 EGGS AND POULTRY (Buying Price of Andresea's) (Subject to Chang Without Notice) BUTTERPAT Premium .41',i No. 1 .40i No. 3 .37 'a BUTTER PRINTS. (Buying Prices) A 92 U -Boats Widen Caribbean Raids lit V 4 , X L .40Vx 5 5 2A 3 .16 .16 .19 an J3 M (Buying Prices or Marlon Creamery) (Subject to Chance Without Notice) BUTT ERF AT Premium .41 4 No. 1 , .40',, No. 2 EGGS Large A Extra large white Extra large brown Medium Standard Pullets Cracks Colored hens Colored f rys White Leghorn Old roosters Laree B . Medium A Medium B Pullets -5 OA .24 32 .17 XI 47 J7 J6 J5 J3 JB9 Checks and under grades Colored hens Colored fryer Leghorn fryers Leghorn hens SUg Old roosters -No 3 poultry JD5 Usa. UVESTOCk. (Buying prices for No. 1 stock, based on conditions and sales reported up to p. in. i . Top lambs ' 11.50 Ewes 4.00 to 5.00 Hogs. top. 160-225 bs. ; 12.90 Sows . 9.00 to 9.50 Veal, top r 13.50 Dairy type cows Beef cows . Bulls Heifers 6 00 to 7.00 Dressed veal HOPS (Buying Prices) Seeded 1942 contract . 7.50 to 00 to 6.50 to 8-00 JS 8.50 9.50 6 - Air view of Port ! Spain, rt&kl4 . .". ", Aria submarines hava Increased their activity in the Caribbean, widening their range of attacks. While new mibmarino attacks were reported at 'Aruba, la the Dutch West Indies Curacao colony, two chips were damaged by explosions, apparently caused by U-boats, eff Port of Spain, Trteidad, British possession off the north coast of Venezuela. U. S. acquired a base on Trinidad in the destroyer swap of 1940, Port of Spain a City of apprcocunately 35,000 poputatton. It la COO Bilea eajt of Aruba. Southward Flight of Geese Noted by Croup UNIONVAIE Several lare flocks of wild geese winging south were seen by local residents Tues day. Eleven women attended the all day weekly quilting held Tuesday at the Ladies Aid room. Mrs. Charles Andrews, the Red Cross instructor was unable to attend because she is ill with mirmn. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Magness and four children of Newbere. were guests Tuesday at the home or tneir parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Withee comolimentinff Wi- thee whose birthday was Wednes- aay. Stocks and Bonds February 26 . -r SO IB i v.: m a . ladus Rails UU1 Stks e L.nangc vnen a J Uncn Thursday 52.0 17JI 25.7 Prev. Day 52.0 16.9 25 7 Month Ago 54.2 17.0 26.1 Year Ago . 58 0 ' 18.3 : 334 1941-43- High 63.9 . 19.0 35.5 194143 Low 11.7 U.4 UJS 1 36.1 36.6 37a 41.3 6 33.4 BOND AVERAGES ' r 20 10 10 10 Nef Change Vnch Unch Unch Unch mursoay 64 J 103.1 99.3 44 TV. MJ 64 3 103.1 ni Month Ago 64.1 103.2 100 J 46 Year Ago . 61.3 104.4 - 99.5 - 42 1941-43 High 66.5 105.4.102. SI Quotations at Portland Produce Exchange nVM A XTT"I r- Vh 9H API X-vmAn.f w.... ' Butter prints: A grade 39 'is in parch ment wrappers. 40', c in cartons; B rrade c in parchment wrappers. 40e in carton. ' ' Birttertat First quaniy. maximum iandi S81i-40c lb.: - premium quality (nuuiuuuin UL Ui y ; ui 40'4-41c lb., valley routes and country quality 2 cents under first or 36'i-38c. KgKS ' 1 1VCB 19 .ln 1 1 Wfi, 28c; B large 27c; A medium 17c; med-i.i-i n 97r R-1 to retailers 4c hiKher for cases; cartons 5c higher. - - Uaeese -acui ag prrc r w n - UUJCl,. A IU4JU" . . . n ... 24c lb. Triplets to wholesalers 21c lb.; loaf 22c lb. 1 o. b. Tillamook. Portland Produce PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 26 (AP) Country meats Selling price to retail ers: Country killed hogs, best butchers. 129-148. 17-17c lb.; vealers, fancy 21i-22c; light, thin. 14-17c lb.; heavy, 14-16c; lb.; lambs, 19'i-20c; ewes 6 to 10c; good cutter cows, 13-14c; canner cows, 13-14c; bulls, 16-17c lb. Lambs, 19 20c lb.; ewes, 6-llc lb. Dressed turkeys Selling price: Hens 28-29c; toms, 2S-29C lb. Buying prices: Toms. 27-27,ic lb.: hens, 27-27 ,ic lb. Live pourcry Buy in prices: No. 1 grade Leghorn broilers, under Hi lbs. 18c: over 1,W lbs.. 18c: fryers 2'i-4 lbs., 22c: roasters, over 4 lbs., 22c; -aiored hens. 21c: Leghorns, under 2Vi lbs., 17; over 3'i lbs., 19c; old roosters, over 3'i lbs. lBc; oia roosters, oc id, Rabbits Average country killed, 27 29c; city kiUed, 29-30c. Onions Oregon 2.65-2.75 per 50-Ib. sack. Yakima 2.25-2.35: sets 12-13c lb. Potatoes. Old white locals, 2.50 cen tal; Deschutes Gems, 2.70-2.80 cental; Klamath Falls, 2.70-3.00 cental. Yakima No. 2 Gems, 1.15-1.25 per 50 lb. bag; Idaho Gems. 2.70-3.00. New Calif . white, 1.50 per 28-lb. bag. Florida red, 2.60- 2.75 per so-ib. Dag; Texas, z.do-z.73. Hav Selling price on tracks. Alxalta No. 1 23.00; oat-vetch, 15.00 ton valley prices; Willamette clover $12 tori, val ley points; timothy, eastern Oregon, 22.00 ton. Mohair 1941. 12-mon'Ji. 45c lb. Nuta Price to wholesaler: Filberts Barcelona, iumbo 21c laree 18,4c.'fancy 17c baby 16',4c 'b.; Duchilly, Jumbo 20c. large ibc tancy 'c id. -W a 1 n ut s Prices to wholesalers First grade Franquette, lumbo, 22c; large 20c; medium 18c: baby 15'ic; soft shell, lumbo ione; large 19c; medium 17c: Daoy I4c id. Mayeue lumbo none; large 20c lb.: second grade Franquette, large 18c; medium 17c; oaDy iac ro.; son sneu. targe lie; medium 16c: baby 14c lb Wool 1942 contracts, Oregon ranch, nominal. 34-37c lb. crossbred. 40-42c lb J uomesiio llour belling price, city delivery, 1 to 23 bbl. lots; family pat tents, 49c 7.35-7.95: 98c. 7.0-7.70 bbl.; oa-err , nam wneat net. . B.73-K); blended hard 1 wheat 5 85-6:30: soft wheat 50: bluestem 6 0O-6J0 . . Hops 1941. 40c; 1943 contracts. 37c. Cascara bark 1940 pL 10c lb : 1941 lOe lb. . Portland Livestock PORTLAND. Ore Feb. (USDA) Hogs: Salable 300, Barrows and gilts ' Gd-ch, 140-160 lbs. . gd-ch, 160-180 lbs. gdr-cn, 160-200 lbs.' gd-ch. 200-220 lbs. ' gd-ch, 220-240 lb. ; do 240-370 lbs. ; -do 270-300 lbs. ... Feeder pig., gd-n. 70-120- - Cattle: Salable and total salable 50. - total 75. -Steers good 900-1100 lbs, . do med, 750-1100 lbs. do com 750-1100 lbs. Heifers do med. 500-900 lbs. ' do com, 500-900 lbs. Cows, good, all wts. do med, all wts. do cut-corn, all wts. do canners, all wts. Bulla (yearlings excluded) oeex. good all wts. do sausage, good, all wts. do saus, med. all wts. do cut-corn, all wts. Vealers. gd-ch, all wts. do com-med all wts do cut, all wts. Calves, gd-ch, 400 lbs. dn all wts. do cull 40 lbs. dn. Sheep: Salable and total. Ewes (shorn) gd-ch ' do. com-med Lambs gd-ch do med-gd do common 8 (AP) total 1000. 12.00 12.85 12.5012.35 13.25 13.40 13.85 13.40 12.60 13.15 12.35 12.75 12.00 12.50 12.00 12 JO 150; calves 12' 00 13.00 10.50 12.00 8 JO 10.50 9.75 11.00 7 JO 9.73 9.00 9.50 8.00 9.00 6.25 8.00 5.25 6 9.75 10.25 9.50 10.00 8 9.50 6.50 8i 14.00 16.00 . 9.50 14.00 s.so 11.00 13.00 8.00 11.00 6.50 8.00 100. 5.50 6.00 3.50 5 .50 11J012.00 10.5011S 8J010 Portland Grain PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 28 (AP) Wheat: Open High Low Close May 1.04i,i 1.04','t 1.04 1.04. Cash grain: Oats No. 2. 38-lb. white 41.00; barley. No. 2, 43-lb. BW 32.00; flax. No. 1. 2.30i. Cash wheat bid: Soft white 1.03: soft white excluding Rex 1.06; white Club 1.06: western red 1.05ft. Hard red winter: Ordinary 1.03; 10 per cent 1.05; 11 per cent 1.11; 12 per cent 1.15. Hard white Baart: Ordinary ; 10 per cent 1.17'i: 11 per cent lUi; 12 per cent ljrc'.i- Today's car receipts: Wheat 18: bar ley 0; flour 3; corn 0; oats' 0; hay 3; millfeed 3; flaxseed 0. Grain Market .1 Rise Moderate CHIC AG O, Feb. 26-ff)-Be- cause of a threatened veto, senate passage of legislation which would check; the movement of govern ment-owned wheat and corn from the ; ever-nonnal v granary into commercial trade had only mod erate price supporting effect on the grain market Thursday. Prices of various cereals were up almost a cent, with corn and rye . snowing the most strengxn, but buying was on a small scale, coming mostly from dealers who had. sold short Wednesday after the . president came out flatly against the legislation. Wheat closed - cent higher than Wednesday. May $1.29-, July $1.30. Produce Mart Prices PORTLAND, Feb. 26-P)-Spin-ach and carrots were in meager supply, on the Farmers' Wholesale market Thursday and available supplies met ready sale. The small offering of spinach went at $1-25 orange box for mid Columbia and from $1.10 to $1.15 for local. Carrots had heavy demand at prices up to 50 cents lufe for the best. Turnips, In axnsul supply also, sold up to the ame price level. Parsnips and rujtabagas were priced for 45 to 50 cents lug. Onions held toeir own but de mand was not keen. Sales con tinued mostly at $2.25for Is while some of the largest solSTto $2.25 for 50s. Green onions were SO . cents dozen bunches. Cabbage prices were unchanged but supplies were limited and the same conditions prevailed for po tatoes. . - ' Brussels sprouts moved rapidly at 85 cents box mostly with some up to 90 cents. . Five tons of dried prunes, priced at -five cents per pound for 20 pound boxes, were offered. , The stock was small size 40s to 50s but quality was good. ! ' ( Apples were, priced j from 75 cents to $1.10 for jumble pack and from $1.25 to $1.35 for face fill. Wool in Boston BOSTON. Feb. 28 (AP) (USDA) Sales Of spot domestic wools Bos ton were very limited. Occasional small quantities of graded fine French combing territory wools were sold at $1.13-1.15. scoured basis fine combing Ohio Delaine were moved In limited volume at 46-47 cents, in the grease. There was a fair demand for Austral ian and South African Merino wools. Average to good topmktng Australian 64-70's wools brought mostlv $1.03 1.07, scoured basis, duty paid. III A HURRY There Is no personal or business emergency which we cannot help yon meet with a conveniently, speedily arranged loan! Drop into oar offices for fall details . . . 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