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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1960

Page

3

Valley Stockyard Reports $69 610 Sale Total

Volume sale from 9803 head at Valley stockyard reached 69 610.67 dollars on Thursday led by a 335 pound top stock call sold by King Brothers to Leon Hill for 31.10. Multiple 4H clubs and local farms bought calves and stockers ranging from 27 to 30.25 per hundredweight with weights from 200 to 1,220 pounds and buyers including Walker County 4H, Jackson County 4H, Dutton Farm, Britnell, and Nashville area buyers.

Valley Stockyard King Brothers Leighton Leon Hill Massey Hidden Valley Ranch Elkmont Walker County Walker Jackson County Dutton Farm Moulton Britnell Ewell Gregg Decatur Ronald Sharp Tenn

Market prices for corn, beans, and grain

The market reports list prices for corn and soybeans, including No 2 Yellow Shelled Corn at 1.27 and No 2 Milling Wheat at 1.35. Other crops shown include No 3 Yellow Ear Corn 1.22 and No 2 White Shelled Corn 1.27 with assorted oats and pulpwood notes.

Woon & @ and & Pulpwood Tfeaf

Mixed cotton futures end week with small gains and losses

On the New York Cotton Exchange cotton futures closed mixed for the week with some contracts 65 cents per bale lower and others 65 cents higher. Reported exports for the season reached around 6.5 million bales, reflecting varied demand and market shifts.

NEW York New York Cotton Exchange Department

Market report notes hog sale prices and buyer

The report records hogs sold at 1 300 head weighing and priced at 20.70 to Gish Co in Athens. Top hogs at Decatur market fetched 15 50 per hundredweight.

Gish Co Athens Decatur

Slower Trading Causes Loss In Market Week

AP writer ED MORSE reports a 3 percent loss as trading slows. The market rundown shows 705 losers and 584 gainers, 145 new highs and 130 new lows for the year, with volume sliding to 15,975,965 shares from 19,725,300 the prior week and 26,373,100 a year earlier.

British Defense Minister In Canada

British Defense Minister visits Canada in Ottawa as part of diplomatic talks and defense discussions. The trip highlights measures on alliance coordination, defense spending, and security cooperation between the two countries.

Canada

Hog Prices Get Boost Across South With Mixed Week

Marketing in the South lifted hog prices through Friday with gains of 25 to 50 cents a hundred at most markets, though late declines pared lifts in the Georgia Florida Alabama belt to about 25 cents below a week ago. Slaughter cattle and calves showed mixed to weak changes across regions amid broader price shifts.

Atlanta South Agricultural Marketing Service Georgia-Florida-Alabama Upper South Deep South Nashville Georgia Memphis Carolinas Chicago Louisville Montgomery North Georgia Hastings Fla Alabama Florida Birmingham South Georgia Maryland

Consolidation Discussion Warns of Staffing at Ryan Neel Schools

The article notes insufficient seventh grade pupils at Ryan to justify a junior senior high. It cites a survey recommending transporting Ryan seventh graders to Neel six grade school, which has six classrooms a quonset auditorium and new lunchroom. It highlights urgent building needs at Neel and possible separate unit with science library facilities.

Ryan Neel Saff

Survey notes classroom needs at Hartselle area schools

Survey staff report four classrooms in good repair while Hartselle elementary requires new furniture and may add two classrooms to replace ground floor rooms. Morgan County High at Hartselle needs further study. Somerville School and Somerville Negro School show transfer and relocation considerations.

Hartselle Morgan County High

Quakes Hit Chile for Seventh Consecutive Day

The AP reports Chile endured a seventh consecutive day of powerful earthquakes in Santiago and surrounding regions as relief operations continued despite mounting damage and widespread injuries.

Santiago Chile

Lane County Tops Timber Stock in State Harvest

In Lane County a timber tally shows 97 billion board feet of unharvested timber, a level higher than all but three states. The figure underscores the region’s vast forest resources and potential future production.

Lane County

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