Price cuts and rises hit Labor Day food markets
Turkeys and smoked hams drop in price by as much as eight cents per pound while pork chops, frying chickens, and leg of lamb show mixed moves across the country. Egg prices rise up to four cents per dozen, and a baking company hikes bread by a penny. The heat lowers vegetable prices as cabbage edges up for slaw.
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Associated Press
Irge
New York
Boston
Pittsburgh
Chiago
Washington, D. C
Hiring Down Layoffs Up During July
The Labor Department reports factory hiring fell to 40 per thousand in July from 51 in June, the lowest for July since 1949, while layoffs rose from 9 to 12 per thousand. The bureau attributes the high firing rate to automobile plant shutdowns and reduced farm equipment output.
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Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Community club meetings and group gatherings scheduled Thursday
A list of meetings and events for Thursday includes Lions Club at 6 30 p m at Manchester Hotel Toastmasters Club at 7 15 p m with a semi annual election at Gardfier employment conference room Knights of Pythias Lafayette Lodge 37 at 7 30 p m Castle Hall Alpha Council 326 Jr QUAM 7 30 p m 19 North Broad St IOCF Lodge 7 30 p m hall Alcoholics Anonymous 7 45 p m Moose Lodge and officers 8 p m hall 9526 Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron 8 p m Legion Home Blythe Williams Post Auxilliary American Legion 8 p m Silver Leaf Social Club Tried Stone 83 Masonic Lodge 8 p m AFL Building Friday Optimist Club noon Manchester Unity Council 241 D of A 8 p m Malta Hall
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Lions Club
Manchester
Toastmasters Club
Gardfier
Knights of Pythias
Lafayette Lodge
Castle Hall
Alpha Council 326
Jr. Quam
North Broad St
Iocf Lodge
Hall
Alcoholics Anonymous
Moose Lodge
Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron
Legion Home
Blythe - Williams Post
American Legion
Silver Leaf
Stone
Masonic Lodge
AFL
Painter Fined For Smoking In Bed In Hotel Room
Sign painter Penny admitted smoking in bed and cited 50 painted signs warning against it. He was fined $25 after the Fire Department charged that his act started a hotel blaze. Also noted is a forecast that over two million Americans will live in mobile homes by end of 1953.
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Penny
Man Receives Second Life Term in Grigsby Killing
In Houston Jake Tate, age 53, was sentenced to life in prison for the May 11 shooting death of Dorotha Grigsby, 44, who was murdered while dining at the paper firm where she worked. Tate had previously received a life term in 1935 for a prior murder, later pardoned in 1944.
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Houston
Tex
Jake Tate
Tate
Dorotha Grigsby
Cement Crushes Man in Newark Truck Crash
Forrest Lenhart, 32, of Newark, was killed when a barrel of cement fell from a truck after a tow-chain broke. He was thrown from the cab in the Newark incident yesterday.
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Newark
Ohio
Forrest Lenehart
Councilman Pilloried During City Birthday Festivities
Martinsburg in West Virginia staged a mock pillory during its 175th birthday celebrations. Councilman W. H. Peery faced a trumped up bank robbery charge while Carlton B. Stuckey was also subjected to public ridicule in the staged event.
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Martinsburg
W.va
W. H. Peery
Carlton B. Stuckey
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