Pampa Daily News from Pampa, Texas • Page 4

A fc A Kl 5., 1944. SEW YORK WALL STREET 'NEW YORK. May 3fctoo.lt favorites nnccessfully contested pro- kit taking In today's market but many Senders were forced to slightly lower levels, began to slip In most departments laftcr moderately active nnd firm open- 'IStJ. Fractional recessions, however, were Ithe rule nnd these were erased in "iHlmber of esses near the close. Den ings -ilnckened appreciably on the mild retreat transfers for the full proceedings around 650,000 shares.

'Park Tilford. continuing its response ha hopM ot a whisky dividend, registered i 1844 peak with jump of nbout 3 at the best. In the plus column and then were Bethlehem, Great WeDtinghousc nnd C. Penney. Laggards most of the time were U.

'8. Steel, Texas Santa Fe, Southern Chrysler, General Motors. Good- 'ycar, Scars Roebuck and Douglas Aircraft. In the curb ndvnncing tendencies were 'displayed by Creole Petroleum Interna- itlbnal Petroleum, N. Zinc and Cuban -Atlantic Sugar.

Intermittent stumblers bwere American Light. Glen Alden if Cities Service and Pugot Sound Power. NEW YORK STOCK WST By The Associated Press Airl 1 62 sAm 12 157'i (Am Woolen 3 7Vi Anacondn 15 A SF 12 6.1'J', 63'K Avlat Corp 8 31', Beth Steel 23 60 ''Branlff 12 14'4 Chrysler 14 831s I Cont Mot 3 Oil Del 4 8 UO Curtiss Wright 17 Frecport Sulph 1 31'A 5 Gen El 23 any, Gen El A 6 Gen Mot 5-1 BSli Goodrich IS 467', Greyhound 9 Gulf Oil 44H 44 Houston Oil 10 Int Harv 14 1 1 Lockheed 16 1 'Montgom Ward 14 43 Am Aviat 3 Ohio Oil 19 I Packard 10 4 Pan Am Alrw 25 30 Penney 2 Pet 7 44W Pure Oil 13 1616 Bndio 50 9H ST's 'HcpubSteel 13 i Sears 90 Sinclair 72 12y 3 Socony Vac 12 Sou Pac 44 2SH SO Cnl 27 35T Ind 22 3.1% 33 i NJ 26 I Tex Co 16 Tex Gulf Sulph 9 33 i Tex Pac 0 18'i 18 Tide Wat A Oil 4 Rubber 6 45 '4 Steel 28 52'A 61'Xi Vf Tel A 2 40 West El MFG SS Woolworth 3 157 It GO sati 20'A 44 V4 10 71 any, 4414 16 0 IG 00 36 33V, 33 18V 46 FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK FORT WOUTH, May Cuttle 1,400: calves 400: steady: (rood to choice steers and yearlings 14.00-16.00; beef cows 8.50-10.25 with one loutl oC flit cows at 11.75; Rood nnd choice fnt calves 13.0014.BO: stocker calves and yearlings 9.0013.00; older replacement cattle scarce. Hogs 3.000; steady to 25 lower; most good and choice 200-270 II) butcher IIOKS 13.BB; 280-350 Ib averages 11.50-12.25; BOWB 10.25 down. Sheep 16.000; slow; killing classes Bcarce; early sales nhorn lambs mostly 25 lower; medium grade spring 13.50 down common to good shorn lambs with No.

2 pelts 10.00-13.00 shorn ewes 5.256.50; good fresh shorn aped wethers 6.50. CHICAGO GRAIN TABLE OPEN HIGH LOW CLOSM May 1.73% 1.73% 1.73% 1.73% Jly 1.70',f, 1.70V, 1.70 1.70'A Sep 1.G6V, 1.66% l.dd 1.60% 1.65% 1.65% 1.65 Vi l.G5% FORT WOR1TI GRAIN TABLE FORT WORTH. May No. 1 hard 1.71'/.j-77. Sorghums No.

2 yellow milo nr No. 2 white kafir 100 Ibs 2.40-47. Oats, corn and barley ut uorfherti ship- Pine point ceiling price, plus freight. KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK KANSAS CITY, May Hogs fairly active; good nnd choice 200-270 Ibs 13.60; 170-190 Ibs 10.90-12.00; Bows 10.25-50; few 10.00. Cattle 1,80 calves 400 steady on slaughter steers and yearlings; lai'Kely steady on all classes of cattle; but weaker on cows; vealcrs opened steady but later bids lower on most vealers and calves; good slaughter steers M.ZIi-lfi.ZG few choice held above 16.00; good and choice mixed yearlings 14.00-15.00.

Sheep 7.500; slow; wooled Iambs qualify mostly medium to good: curly trade limit. cd to odd lots truck in Bpring lambs; steady to weak at IG.25 down. I CHICAGO IMtOIHlCU CHICAGO, May WKAI-Polu. 1 1 1 RuMct l) US No. 1, £S8-8G: Minnesota and North Dakota llllsi Triumphs Commercials 2.50-GO; Cobblers Commercials 2.25 Alabama liliss Triumphs CHICAGO CHICAGO, May 4 advance of more tli GRAIN by mivancc or more than a cent in May rye, which moved to a new high for the past Jllico months, grains exhibited a firm tone on the board of trade today.

Part of the buying of May rye represented flhort-coverins: and the contract was I th by a scarcity of offerings. May wheat, oats and barley held at ceilings Active wheat futures closed unchanged to higher, July active oata unchanged to higher, July 791.5 and active barley higher. July $1.25. Eye closed higher. May BUY BONDS- ij Production of Wool Progressing COLLEGE STATION, May 5.

(IP) Texas A. and M. college extension service announces its farm 1 labor trouble shooters are currently focusing attention on helping get Texas' estimated 10,223,000 sheen and 3,200,000 goats sheared. A survey made by county agricultural agents shows that most of the goats already have been sheared, and about one-third of the sheep. O.

Holm, assistant state agent, says some progress is being made in locating shearing crews and shifting them from community to community as efficiently as possible. D. D. Steele, formerly Coleman county agricultural and J. B.

Kidd, former Val Verde agent, tem- 1 porarily assigned to the shearing 'program, Holm said. Kidd is maln- headquarters at San Angela 'and'Steele is at extention headquarters here. The extension service said its workers already were preparing for labor pinches when small grains harvest, begins in earnest in North Texas in about 30 days, and thai harvesting of grain sorghums in the nueces-San Patricio area would begin before oats and wheat are gathered. BUY Ploinview Has 'Best- Drove' KANSAS CITY, May 1 sell Ward, chairman of the calf club committee of the Kansas City stock yavds, described one hundred calves exhibited by a 4-H club at Plainview, Texas, as the best drove ever to come up from that Texas sec- tton. The calvee sold for $13 tc $16.50 a hundred here Wednesday With very lew hitting under $15.50..