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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1948
Page
4
Daily fresh seafood selection including lobsters red snapper pompano and more. Free dress and delivery available. Phone 648. Pricing listed: 89.95 99.95 129.95 179.95.
Multiple bu siness sale notices describe a small profitable venture netting about 75 dollars daily, a grocery store with stock and fixtures, a filling station with living quarters near the Tallahassee Highway outside city limits, and a shuttle block unit in Eldorendo Georgia with contact details for H D Dean and real estate inquiries.
In Washington mediator Cyri Ching conferred with John L. Lewis to resume collapsed contract talks before the June 30 expiry. Lewis offered to keep mines operating after July 1 if others accept his 100 dollar monthly pension plan, claimed illegal. Charles R. Ward in Pittsburgh sought to avert a strike of 18 300 production workers at ALCOA plants. ALCOA and CIO Steelworkers talks broke off with wages at issue. Ward urged resume talks before the strike deadline. ALCOA proposed a 10.4 cent per hour raise while the union seeks a 13 cent across the board boost. In Akron Ohio CIO Rubber workers authorized a strike at B F Goodrich Co where about 13 500 workers dispute wages.
New York stocks show uneven action with rails advancing and late demand noted. Corn and oats move on rain in Iowa, hogs firm, cattle mixed, while Georgia live poultry markets stay steady with light supplies and higher prices for some lots.
Receipts at major plants in Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Tifton Dothan and Tallahassee list cattle 500 calves 100 hogs 800 with market active and strong. Hog prices span 23.00 to 24.30 for 180 to 240 pounds with other weights 22.50 to 23.50 and 21.00 to 23.00 for heavier ranges. Cattle trade shows steadier prices with good slaughter steers 27.00 to 30.50 and beef cows 20.00 to 23.25. sausage bulls 20.50 to 23.00. Fruit and vegetable market notes from Atlanta include strawberries peaches and watermelons with varied prices. New Orleans cotton futures fall on favorable crop reports. Savannah turpentine and rosin quotes given for the period.
Chicago Livestock market report shows salable hogs at 7 000 head with 9 500 total, weights up to 350 pounds higher by 75 to 1.00 per cwt, top around 27.25 with good and choice weights 170 to 240 pounds at 26.75 to 27.00. Cattle and calves totals: 4 000 salable cattle and 500 calves, steers and heifers steady to firm with top steers at 38.75 for 1 206 pounds, bulk at 36.00 to 38.25, heifers mostly 35.90 to 35.50, cows 25.00 up, bulls weak to 25 lower at 25.50 down, wealers steady around 29.00 to 30.00.
Chicago market notes show cash wheat at about 2.35 dollars per bushel with No 1 yellow, No 2 yellow near 2.351, and No 3 yellow around 2.3514. Oats mix values range about 1.221 to 1.244 for various grades with barley malting around 2.10 to 2.43 and feed barley near 1.60 to 1.823. Soybeans sales unavailable in the report.
New York June 17 AP cot ton futures slipped in quiet trading as liquidations in July and selling by commission houses weighed on nearby contracts. Traders shifted from July to later months ahead of first notice day next Thursday while Congress debates foreign aid funds farm legislation and a revolving fund bill of 150000.09 for Army purchases. Late afternoon quotes show declines of 15 to 50 cents per bale with July at 36.28 Oct 32.99 and Dec 32.45.
The Weather Bureau reports cloudy to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change today and Friday. A chance of afternoon thunder showers through Saturday, with warmer conditions expected Saturday. Observations at 8 a.m. show 69 degrees, with a record high of 104 and a low of 49 for the period. Rainfall totals and normals are noted but incomplete in the fragment.
At the 1944 convention Dawsonville-backed figures carry support for Governor Thomas Deeney of New York. Whitla notes race recognition as an issue in both Mississippi and South Carolina races. South Carolina splits into two delegate groups led by J Bates Gerald of Charleston and by B L Hendrix of Estill with I S Leevy of Columbia.
Newnan Georgia June 17 AP John Wallace testified that the tenant farmer he is accused of murdering was making bootleg whiskey on the plantation and he suspected Turner of stealing about 3000 dollars worth of dairy cattle. Wallace said he hired Turner in 1945 and warned him against illicit whiskey making while facing murder charges.
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