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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1947
Page
5
For sale building lot measuring 0 x 300 on Moultrie Road inside Boulevard. Contact L. C. Griffin at phone 1493 for details.
Today on The Packer Hog Market reports receipts at eight major plants in Georgia Alabama and Florida. Hogs active and steady with some spot gains to 50 cents. prices quoted for various weight ranges and quality levels. Cattle statements note strong live demand despite slower dressed meat channels with beef cows showing gains. total plant intake at 2,684 head for the first five days and calf receipts up 23 percent versus last week.
In Savannah Georgia on June 20 the turpentine market shows 59 percent offerings and 200 sales with receipts 559 and shipments 101, stocks 5346. Rosin results list offerings 200 and 200 sales with receipts 738 and stocks 10080. Price quotes include B through M range from 6.73 to 6.85 and WU WW at 7.04 to 7.21.
President Truman argues the proposed labor measure would cancel union security, limit welfare funds, and hinder safety rules. He says it could force endless litigation, restrict strikes and secondary boycotts, and clog the National Labor Relations Board with new restrictions, forecasting widespread disruption. He adds the country would face bitter disappointment if enacted.
New York stocks rose slowly as investors eyed a potential congressional override of the president’s Labor Bill veto. Motors, rails, and major manufacturers led the modest gains while corn futures hit a record high in Chicago. Railroad bonds advanced as other commodities showed mixed moves amid cautious trading.
Salable hogs 4 500 total 6 500 modestly active and steady across weights with top 25.00 for 190 220 lb hogs and most good and choice 170 250 lb at 24.25 25.00. Cattle 1 500 salable, calves 400, yearlings steady after a sharp weekly decline with some demand for heavier steers absent. Cows uneven, 35 cents lower on light weights. vealers weak. odd lots of good yearling steers and heifers 23.50 26.25. medium to low good 19.00 23.00.
Pinecliff Colorado June 20 AP a dragnet across the far west for Fred W Lundy 65 a retired teacher linked to the slaying of Emily Griffith 65 famed educator and her sister Florence 67. The bodies were found in their mountain cabin with single shots to the head. Lundy a former teacher at Denver's Emily Griffith Opportunity School helped build the cabin and guided the sisters on mountain rides. Police reconstruct the events and broadcast a statewide pickup for Lundy as they search the area.
James A. Farley says Roosevelt preferred Harold Ickes to Henry Wallace for president in 1940. He notes Ickes would be a fighter, while predicting Roosevelt later backed Wallace, with Farley resigning as Postmaster General and party chair. Farley cites purges of several senators tied to court reform opposition.
Chicago market report lists corn prices by grade with No 1 yellow at 2.25 and No 2 around 2.23 to 2.26, No 3 2.20 to 2.25, white and sample grades shown. Beef cows mostly 13.25 to 16.00, better stock cattle slow with a 50 cent weekly downturn.
Dried herbs are three to four times stronger than fresh, so use sparingly in seasoned foods.
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