Markets at a Glance Beat Downtick on Light Trade
Markets show a slight decline with trading volume light and demand weak. Prices for cash trades are nominally steady across sectors, while the overall tone remains cautious amid thin activity.
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1951
Page
4
Markets show a slight decline with trading volume light and demand weak. Prices for cash trades are nominally steady across sectors, while the overall tone remains cautious amid thin activity.
Chicago grain prices held near prior closes in a quiet session on the Board of Trade. Wheat slipped 53 to 4 high on July contracts, corn fell about 5 to 146, oats down about 5 to 10 1 2, rye steady to higher near July, soybeans rose around 11 1 2 with July, and lard rose up to 10 cents per hundred pounds for July.
Prices at F. O. B. Farm for today enumerate broilers and fryers by weight with ranges from under 4 pounds to over 4 pounds. Hens whites heavies four pounds and up quoted. reds heavies also listed. Delivery to dressing plant noted with price per unit and varying weights. Disponible details include under 4 pounds and multiple weight categories.
Czechoslovakia reports two missing jet fighters from the American zone in Germany landed in Czech territory with both pilots unhurt. An American and a Norwegian trainee are involved. authorities in Prague and Washington are seeking their release from Communist authorities. The State Department says cooperation has been lacking and declines further details.
A Worcester Trust Company branch in Fitchburg Massachusetts was found with its front door unlocked by a patrolman during rounds. No cash or securities were reported missing after a check of the premises. Authorities warned robbers about the unsecure access.
A brief entry notes two specified times 6 53 p m and 8 57 p m only for an event or schedule in Bainbridge. The fragment implies a timetable or window without further details.
Hog prices climbed about one dollar per hundred pounds at Chicago and southern markets including Atlanta Nashville Memphis Louisville and Richmond. Cattle and calves priced higher in Nashville and north Georgia while Florida markets held steady to higher. Broiler prices edged up with gains across North Georgia central North Carolina and other regions. Georgia watermelon harvest begins as tomatoes and peppers move to market with fruit and vegetable prices mixed. Maryland tobacco growers move higher quality leaf to market with 12.2 million pounds sold by June 3 averaging $51.04 per hundred.
Leslie Seaward a 56 year old retired Savannah fireman pedals toward Los Angeles intent on shaving at least five days from the Transcontinental bicycle record. He reached Indio after 18 days on the road signaling arrival around 3 p m today. He aims to beat the 21 days 11 hours set in 1949 under Amateur Bicycle League of America oversight.
In Tuscaloosa Alabama on June 16 police pursued three of five Draper prison escapees after an attack on a housewife and child. The men, armed and elusive, abducted a car and a 40 year old woman, then bound her and her 10 year old son. Authorities describe a wide manhunt with about 40 officers.
Federal war impact grants totaling 2,116,606 were approved for 18 Georgia school systems, with about 242,277 expected for 14 others. Claude Purcell of the state education department said funds will cover at least 75 percent of approved amounts. Systems named include Dublin, Glynn County, Bibb County Orphanage, Floyd County, Moultrie, Savannah, Chatham, Muscogee County, and Albany.
Howard Kriegbaum, 26, granted an annulment on grounds his wife Joan refused to have children and would not permit him to try out with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds in 1948. He says he has decided to pursue a baseball career.
List of local service numbers includes city police sheriff s office fire department ambulance hospital post office state patrol and city offices Whiddon Archbold Hospital referenced with local emergency contacts for Thomasville.
Want ad rates listed per line per day with three and six day options and minimum charges. Ads before 11 A M appear that afternoon. Also includes a moving service pitch by Vann Transfer Storage and a low cost auto loan offer from Bank of Thomas County.
In an encyclical dated June 2 1951 Pope Pius reports Catholics in mission lands have grown from under 15 million in 1926 to about 28 million. He cites martyrdom in the Far East and urges native clergy training while warning of vast darkness affecting nearly one billion people. The document titled Evangel Praecones.
Former wife Katherine F Dosier sues producer Oneee Dozier in Los Angeles over alimony back pay totaling thirteen thousand four hundred sixty dollars. The filing follows their 16 June date and names Joan Fontaine in related actions.
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