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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 06, 1946

Page

21

Market Leaders See Mixed Reverses In Trading Session

New York stocks opened lower but midday gains pared, with modest declines prevailing by close. Colgate Palmolive edged up 2 percent to 49 and Continental Baking plus 0.20, Dow Chemical up 3, Johns Manville up 2, while many majors slipped amid slow dealings and shifted volume.

New York Wall Street Colgate-Palmolive Continental Baking Dow Chemical Johns-Manville Engineers Public Service Woolworth Goodrich North American International Harvester Standard Oil (Nj Westinghouse Allied Chemical N. Y. Central U. S. Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler American Telehone Consolidated Edison Goodear Montgomery Ward Caterlar Tractor Douglas Aircraft Anada American Smelting

Market Summary Shows Mixed Rail Stocks and Bond Decline

Air Reduction General Electric Eastman Kodak Santa Fe Southern payin by Southern Railway and Great Northern. Adolf Gobel up 1% in initial disbursement. Laggards Cities Service Electric Bond & Share Barnum Steel Colonial Airlines Glen Alden Coal. Turnover 270,300 shares vs 390,000 yesterday. Rails gain up to 2 points amid overall bond softness. Sales $4,870,000 vs $5,160,000. U S governments rise 1-32 to 3-32 in dealer markets Victory Loan 2%5 of Dec 67-72 up 1-32 at 102.4 bid.

General Electric Eastman Kodak Santa Fe Southern Southern Railway Great Northern Adolf Gobel Cities Service Electric Bond & Share Barnum Steel Colonial Airlines Glen Alden Coal U. S

Chicago Livestock Market Summary Dec 5

Salable hogs 8,000 with total 15,000 and slow trade. meat prices mostly steady with hogs 24.00 to 24.25 for 180-300 lb, sows 21.50 to 22.00. Cattle: salable 6,000. steers steady to up 36.00 top. cows 25 cents lower. vealers 22.00 down. stock cattle 14.50–18.00. Sheep: 5,500 salable. lambs 24.25–24.40. shorn lambs scarce. slaughter ewes 8.25.

Chicago

New York Produce New York Prices Dec 5

Wholesale spot quotations for whites and butter in New York from receivers to jobbers and large retailers. Ex heavyweights Midwest prices 58.5 59 nearby 59 63. Exs 1 and 2 large Midwest 52 55.5 nearby 55.59 Exs 1 and 2 medium Midwest 46.5 47 nearby 49 butter 434 132 steady creamery premiums by quality AA 84.5 92 A 82 90 B 81 82 C 80 80.5 New tubs add a cent per pound over bulk car ton price.

New York Midwest

Wheat advances on strong foreign flour demand on the board

Chicago wheat futures rose as much as 2 1 4 cents on the Chicago Board of Trade as mills bought heavily amid rising foreign flour demand.

Chicago Board of Trade

Grain Prices and Hedging Update for Cash Wheat and Corn

The report notes hedges on flour sales with no cash wheat. Corn prices show No 2 yellow at 1.37 and No 3 yellow 1.31 1.35, No 4 yellow 1.24 1.304, No 5 yellow 1.18 1.23, sample grade yellow 1.0914 1.22, No 5 white 1.34. Oats list No 1 heavy white 89 90 and No 2 heavy white 89. Barley values include making 1.45 1.82 nominal, feed 1.20 1.32 nominal, field seed per cwt nominal, red clover 38.00 42.00, sweet clover 11.59 13.00, timothy 7.00 7.50.

Bonds by the Associated Press and Market Quotes

Bond figures from the Associated Press show net changes and daily quotes for U S Treasuries and rails Inds with values around 93.1 to 103.6 and 74.5 to 79.0, plus historical highs and lows from 1945 to 1946. Sales reach 4.87 million dollars with curb sales of 180 thousand dollars.

Rails Ind

In Loving Memory of Mrs Hallie Cardwell Wade

A memorial note honors Mrs Hallie Cardwell Wade who died December 6 1945. The children Charles Cardwell Anne Owens Bernard Cardwell Portia Moss express grief and gratitude to friends and neighbors and to Rev N J Dickerson and Dr T T for support during her illness and death.

Hallie Cardwell Wade God Charles Cardwell Anne Owens Bernard Cardwell Portia Moss Mrs. Bassett

Lewis and the Linkford funeral home notice

The fragment notes a funeral home sign off by Mr and Mrs Harry Brogdon and the Bassett family.

Lewis and the Linkford Funeral’ Home Harry Brogdon Bassett

Drive Against Gambling in Wheeling County

Ohio county sheriff Thomas Padden ordered the removal of city licensed punchboards tip boards and twenty six dice games from Wheeling store counters as part of a clean up drive that halted gambling in nightclubs last November 18. Tax stamps funded punch and tip boards and the city collected 50.50 annually from the dice game operators.

Wheeling W. Va Ohio County Thomas Padden

Former Resident Killed by Train Near Chariton Heights

Zeno C. Jennings, 50, of Charlton Heights and former Princeton resident, died after a New York Central freight train struck the car he rode in as it stalled on the tracks at the Chariton Heights crossing. His son William Elmo Jennings survived uninjured. Funeral set for Princeton Primitive Baptist church with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park.

Zeno C. Jennings Charlton Heights Princeton New York Central Jennings Chariton Heights Jack Milam Montgomery William Elmo Jennings Mr. Jennings The Electro-Metallurgical Co Bessie Crews Jennings Fred R. Jennings Minnie Rumburg Spanishburg Ivan Welch Kelly Otis Bluefield Clayton Primitive Baptist Church A. G. Nichols Resthaven Memorial Park

Bridge Supervisor Named In District Road Commission

J. C. Fanning has been named bridge supervisor in the district road commission organization. Fred Thomason, former county court member, has also been noted in the staffing changes.

Princeton Paragraphs J. C. Fanning District Road Commission Fred Thomason

Administratrix Named for W. O. Scruggs Estate

Maude Scruggs is named administratrix of W. O. Scruggs estate and posts a $4000 bond with C. K. Adams and Mrs. Adams as sureties. C. K. Adams, George Mays Jr., and Russell Mays are appointed appraisers. Devil Bat's Daughter, a melodrama with a psychiatrist as villain, plays Royal Theatre today starring Rosemary LaPlanche John James Molly Lamont Michael Hale and more.

Maude Scruggs W. O. Scruggs C. K. Adams Adams George Mays, Jr Russell Mays Devil Bat Royal Theatre Today Rosemary LaPlanche John James Molly Lamont Michael Hale

Specter of the Rose at Mercer Theatre

The Mercer Theatre shows Specter of the Rose a Ben Hecht tale of ballet madness. The exotic florid drama features Juth Anderson Michael Chekhov Ivan Kirov and Viola Essen in lead roles with a prolonged deathbed finale.

Mercer Theatre Ben Hecht Judith Anderson Michael Chekhov Ivan Kirov Viola Essen

Princeton Society News Thanksgiving Visits

Princeton residents note Thanksgiving reuniting with relatives. Mr and Mrs James Francis and Mr and Mrs Ralph Shraeder returned to Baltimore after visiting Mrs Francis's parents Mr and Mrs W L Broyles on Harrison Street. Clarence E Broyles of Miami Florida visited his parents the past week. Mrs Burns Wornal traveled to Charleston to visit her sister Mrs A L Bailey and then to Bowling Green Kentucky to see her parents Mr and Mrs C Holman.

James Francis Ralph Shhraeder Baltimore Francis W. L. Broyles Harrison Street Clarence E. Broyles Miami Pia Burns Wornal Charleston A. L. Bailey Bowling Green Mrs. C. Holman

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