24 Apr 1956
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1956
Page
1
Nation livestock market notes show steady to higher bids for cattle and hogs as receipts approach 1.67 million head. Prices for steers, heifers, and bulls edge up, with heavies and stockers shifting to active demand. Regional quotes from US markets reference New York and Chicago price levels and recent trading activity.
Temperatures today are forecast to be in the 50s with partly cloudy skies. Scattered showers were expected tonight in Fayetteville, Ripley, Walnut Ridge, Fort Smith, Rock, Pipe Bluff, Texarkana and nearby areas as a cold front passes.
House GOP Leader Martin urged Democrats to back a soil bank plan authorizing the President to begin 500 million dollars in advance payments to farmers this year. Democrats question authority under current law. Knowland says new authorization may be needed. Farm legislation remains a dominant campaign issue as Republicans defend high supports in an election year.
In Parkersburg West Virginia two gunmen Eddie Taylor 54 of Parkersburg and Deman Lott 44 of Palestine were killed and a third wounded in a predawn bakery ambush by police led by Lt J Norman Mehl with Detectives Radon Swain. A suspect crawled outside the lake location wounded and is reported in satisfactory condition. The raid followed tips of a safecracking ring targeting bakers.
Cloudy skies with occasional rain and thunderstorms through Wednesday. Heaviest activity in the extreme south of Louisiana this afternoon and tonight. Cooler inland tonight. East Texas mostly cloudy and cool with showers and thunderstorms through Wednesday, heaviest near the coast.
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