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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1957
Page
7
Athens farmers should grade harvest and handle tomatoes carefully from picking to packing to preserve quality. W C Carter of the Agricultural Extension Service notes maturity stages mature green pink and ripe affect price and buyer decisions.
A fierce Colorado blizzard stranded five men in the Pike's Peak Summit House as foot deep snow halted the road. Local rescue teams worked through the storm to reach the trapped travelers.
The New York stock market showed a narrow upside bias in active early trading. Major issues moved fractionally higher with oils steels rails and chemicals in a mixed pattern and several names like Ford Chrysler GM among key movers.</s>
Estimated hog receipts at major plants in Albany Moultrie Thomasville Tifton Dougherty Jacksonville and Jacksonville Fla show mostly steady to slightly lower prices with mixed grades and weights. North Georgia cattle auctions report steadier slaughter steers and heifers with cows and bulls mostly steady to mixed. calves strong in places with good slaughter calf prices.
ATLANTA The 2 year old Albany man identified as A H K Simon received a 90 day medical reprieve from a 3 to 6 year term for receiving stolen pecans. The Pardon and Parole Board voted 2 to 1 to grant the reprieve and allow outside medical treatment for arthritis while he remains on release. Simon, former president of the Albany Lions Club, had pleaded guilty to $17500 in pecans and later made restitution to two Albany pecan firms. He began serving in Reidsville April 18 and was treated in the prison hospital.
Atlanta produce market receipts were liberal with trading on Friday. Georgia cabbage sold 1.00 to 1.50 per bag and sweet potatoes held at 5.50 to 5.75 per bush. Georgia beans ranged 1.50 to 2.50 with pole beans 1.50 to 3.59. Georgia bulk corn yellow mostly 40 to 45 per dozen and white 45 to 50. Field crops included purple hulls 2.00 and crowders 1.50 to 2.00. Incheyes mostly 1.00 to 1.25. Butter beans 30.0 to 3.75 per bushel.
In New York at 11 48 a m cot ton futures climbed five cents to as high as 1 per bale. July settled near 35 32 while October and December touched 34 65 and 34 63 respectively with other months around 34 77 to 34 36.
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey told a Senate House subcommittee that a tax cut this year is absolutely out of the question and predicted no reduction before 1959. He warned that planning for next year hinges on economic results and that inflation must be kept in check while a surplus is pursued.
North Ga Poultry notes mixed broiler and fryers prices by weight at farms and processing plants. Heavy type hens and light types also listed with farm and plant figures, though some numbers are too few to report.
The Atlas rocket reportedly showed success in its test but with a minor defect. An engine failure is blamed for a voluntary destruction after launch at Cape Canaveral. Observers noted a wobble and dip before explosion. two engines were built by Rocketdyne for Convair General Dynamics.
Two American Jesuit priests, Father Charles J. McCarthy and Father John Alexander Houle, were released after four years of imprisonment and house arrest in Shanghai. They planned to travel to Hong Kong within about ten days and noted the wider drop in U S custody in Communist China from a peak of 65 in 1961. Both reported fair health and expected to leave Shanghai soon.
Two Soviet leaders express liking for Secretary of State Dulles’s proposal to exchange television programs with the United States. First Deputy Premier A I say he had weight loss not seen in four years. They discuss priests released after sentences ended and arrested on spying charges.
Fragmentary note states that Jawis throws for the 48 states are being urged at the American Bar Association meeting. The text suggests a push related to uniform state laws or procedures discussed during the ABA gathering.
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