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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. MAT 21. 1937. PAGE NINE y x Coast Foreign Trade Sets Record MARITIME STRIKE SLACK OVERCOME BY LATER UPSWING Oat. No. 3 whit 8330. gry 32.50. Barley. No. 2. 45-lb. bw 40.00. Corn, Argentine 43.00. Mlllrun .standard SI. 00. Today' cmr receipts: Wheat 15; flour 8. Portland Produce BAN FRANCISCO. May 51. (AP Pacific coast foreign trade hit ths highest volums In years during March. Export amounted to $37, 311,351. tho bureau of foreign and domestlo commeroa reported, and Importa were $33,117,043. i The Pacific coast figures contrast ed with national record! In showing a large export balance, characteris tic of the west coast. National fig urea showed an 'import balance of more than 50 millions. March export were up about 80 percent from last year and Imports around 17 percent. While March figures were swelled by release of business long restrained by the maritime atrlke that ended early In February, the Increase In trade more than made up for earlier alack business. Trade for the first quarter topped last year's showings both for exports and Importa, as shown here by customs districts. First quarter exports included: 1937 1938 Exports, Oregon 3.503.178 4.804,568 Imports, Oregon 3,664,343 1,973.431 Exporta for the quarter were up 24 percent over last year, and Imports up nine percent. While Oregon's exports were slow getting under way after the strike, movement In March surpassed that of last year. $1,718,765 to $1,408,778. Waahlngton's March exports were close to double those of last year. PORTLAND. May 31. (API BUT TER: Prints. A grade. 33c lb. In parchment wrappers, 34c lb. In car tons: B grade, parchment wrappers. 32'ic lb.: cartons 33'c lb. BUTTER PAT (Portland delivery, buying price) A grade. 32 32.c lb.; country stations; A grade 30 1 30c; B grade, lc less; C grade 6c leas. B GRADE CREAM FOR MARKET Price paid producer: butterfat basis. 55 3c lb.: milk. 63.7c lb.; sur plus. 45.9c. Price paid milk board 67c lb. EOGS Buying price by wholesal ers: extraa, 20c; atandard, 17c; med ium, 16c; medium firsts, 15c; under grade 15c dozen. Cheese, country meats and live poultry unchanged. HOPS Nominal, 1936. 35 40c lb. Potatoes, new potatoes, onions, cantaloupes, wool, hay, steady and unchanged. Oen. Elec. .. . Gen. Foods , Gen. Mot. Int. Harvest. I. T. & T... Johns-Man. Monty Ward - North Amer. Penney (J. C.) Phllllpe Pet Radio Sou. Pac. Std. Brands 188 64 39 'i 56 1084 10 H 131 81 '4 38 1 58 85 St. Oil Cal. at. on n. j Trans. Amer. Onion Carb. Unit. Aircraft . U. 8. Steel 48 68', 13. 100 281, MS San Franrlsce Butter SAN FRANCISCO. May 21 (API Butter, score (3, Jic: 91, 83c; 90. 31c; 89. 29e. SACRAMENTO. May 21. (API Butter, first grade, asc; second red 850. Chicago Wheat CHICAGO, May 21. (AP) Wheat: Open High Low Close May 1.31 1.31 1.28'i 1.284 July - 1.21 14 1.2214 1J0H 1.20 Sept. 1.19 1.3014 1.18 l.ioii Dec 1J0J4 1.21 1.20 K IJO'i Livestock Portland PORTLAND, May 21. (AP-TJSDA) HOGS: 350, Including 330 direct, market steady. 170-310 lb. driv-ln butchers $10.85 19 11, medium-good 10.fl0 10.75. heavy and light butch, ers 10 10.30, rough packing sows 8138.35, smooth young sows ae.fiOej .oo. CATTLE 75, calves 85, Including 37 direct, market steady, load good t90 lb. fed steers $0.65, odd lot cut ters $9.75(94.50, few up to $5.35. best vealers $10 10.50, heavy and graders cows $7 j 9. SHEEP 1400, including 1313 Call fornln lambs through and direct, market steady, trucked lot 80 lb. spring lambs $10.60, 60-71 lb. $1045, plain 59 lb. lambs $9, culls $7. NEW YORK, May 21. ff) Traders turned a cold shoulder to all but store shares In lat dealings today. For much of the session numerous leaders found lukewarm friends, but as trading progressed most groups wera allowed to shift for themselves and modest gains were erased. As the market came Into the final few minutes, losses of fractions to around a point predominated. Par ticularly neglected were rails, motors, metals and steels. ThA, street '5 appetite for merchan dising' Issues was said to have been whetted by estimates of well-sus tained consumer buying power. Today's closing prices for 32 select ed stocks follow: Al. Chem. St Dye. 330V4 Am. Can 98 Am. & Fgn. Pow - 1 T. fc T 1071-4 Anaconda 53 8011th San Frnnctnco . SOUTH BAN FRANCISCO, May 31. (AP-USDA HOQS: 125. direct 15. Supply light, undertone weak to 35c lower not enough good -choice hogs on sale to make a market; package. good 178 lb. butchers $11.25, few 157 lb. light-lights $10.76: load med ium around 160 lb. late arrivals $10.65 straight, package good light slaughter pigs $10; few packing sows $8.5099. Late Thursday: half-load local butchers $11. CATTLE 280, direct 200; holdovers 50. Nominally steady, half-load 1035 lb. California grass steers $8.50, sort ed 2 head $8; other steers absent; heifers and good grass cows absent: good grass cows quoted $6 .80; half- load medium 975 lb. holdover grass cows $5, sorted 4 head $4.38; part- load 776 lb. stock cows $4, low-cut ters -cutters $3 a 4; bulls quoted $6.35 down. Calves: 35, direct 30. Nominally steady, package medium light vealers $7, good quoted up to $8.79. SHEEP 50; nominally steady, email lot medium 65 lb. spring lambs $8. 50, strictly good quoted up $9.75; package medium-good 116 lb. shorn slaughter ewes $360,. sorted 7 head $2.50, choice quoted up to $4.50. Atch. T. & S. F....... 874 Bendlx Avla. .. 2014 Beth Steel 84 Vt Caterpillar Tract. .. 90 Chrysler 112Vi Coml. Solv 14 Curtlss-Wrlght , 8 Portland Wheat Wheat PORTLAND, May 21. (AP) Grain: Wheat Open High Low close May l.lT,i 1.171, 1.1514 UV4 July 1.08'i 1.08'4 IM 1.0 Sept. 1.08V4 1.08V4 1.08 ',4 1.08 14 Cash wheat: Big Bend Blueetem, hw 12 pet. 1.19: dark hard winter 13 pet. 1.38; 12 pet. 1.30; 11 pet. 1.22, aoft white, western white, hard winter and western red. 1.18. I ALWAYS SAY "KEllOGG'S" BEFORE I SAY "CORN FLAKES" Tt discovered that I never gsln anything by shopping for corn flak's. I Ju,l say 'Kellngg's.' Then I'm sure that I'm gelling the best." No Imitation nan ever equaled the flavor and qual ity of KellorK's Corn Flakes. They're made better. Taste better. Packed better. . Ready to serve. Always oven-fresh in the patented waxtite inner wrapper. At all grocers. Served in ho tels and rcs-taurantseverv-where. Made by Helloes: in Battle Creek. say 4&&ffi BEFORE YOU SAY "CORM FLAKES" CORN FLAKES f. Wall St. Report We lock in all its goodness- Thc key to SNOWDRIFT unlocks the freshest, creamiest, purest shortening that's made. 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