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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1950
Page
7
Let us enlarge your summer snapshots for your Kodak Album. Bring a few negatives today to McDaniel Drug, where samples are shown. For sale, Purple raspberries, phone 356-W. Durst Feed Store advertises H B-20 growth and finish feeds and Try Geerling’s three step plan for sows and pigs.
Livestock sales in Chicago show hogs trading 25 to 50 cents higher with weights under 400 lbs leading gains, top cash at 25 dollars. Sheep and lambs steady with slaughter lambs 27 to 28 dollars. cattle sales mixed with slaughter steers 24.15 to 32.25, high-choice up to 2.75, and feeder ranges noted amid broad spreads.
The Chicago Grain Exchange table shows open high low and close figures for Wheat Corn Oats and Soybeans across July September December and March contracts. Data includes varied percentages and price points indicating bid and ask ranges and settlement values for each commodity and month.
Montgomery Clift, filming The Big Lift in Berlin, was approached by a photographer who offered clothing ad work after hearing him sing with two German men in a cafe. Clift declined, noting he did not need the job.
Washington predicted President Truman will nominate a permanent Atomic Energy Commission chairman soon after winning confirmation for Sumner Pike. A source said the selection may reach the Senate today or tomorrow and that the name will surprise but please. Pike welcomed the vote, calling it heartwarming and hoping it reduces backstage tensions.
Iowa cigarette tax receipts for June show a yearly increase with total collections of 480 825 surpassing June 1949 463 390. May receipts reached 425 104 and June 1923 revenues stood at 291 001, indicating ongoing growth in tobacco tax revenue.
Mr and Mrs Glenn Carlson expect their daughter Mrs Leo Manning and granddaughter Susan to arrive in Keokuk after reaching Suisan Air base Fairfield California They previously learned Manning remained at the front near Seoul Capt Leo Manning the son in law was with a US military delegation at Seoul The Manning family had escaped from Seoul to Japan aboard a crowded Norwegian ship and then flew to the United States from Japan.
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