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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1948
Page
3
Manager FE L Keller has called practice for the American Legion post baseball team at 2 30 P M tomorrow at Park Diamond. George Boyd, business manager, says equipment will be issued and a probable starting team selected.
Reliance Virginia social items list weekend visitors including Mrs R E Weirich of Silver Springs Maryland. Hyattsville visits by Mr and Mrs I Grover and Miss Audrey Fuller. Mrs John Derr hosts HD club. meeting led due to home agent illness. Also noted are visitors Ce cil Haun Strasburg and a local eye injury at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Miss Myrtle Keener convalescing at home. Daisy Rinker hosted Burnette of New York. William Stickley party for daughter’s birthday. attendees include Grover family Ebersle and Ritenor.
Market notes from Baltimore and Chicago on April 17 show cattle mostly steady to higher with steers and bulls 1 to 2 up, cows up to 2, calves 4 to 4.50 higher, and hogs and sheep mildly varied. Slaughter steers top 30 to 31.25 per cwt in Baltimore, with calves light and hogs largely unchanged from week prior.
NEW YORK APRIL 17 Stocks edged upward selectively as light selling emerged and dealings slowed after a fairly active opening. Resistance appeared from Chrysler Bethlehem Steel N Y Central Southern Pacific Southern Railway Standard Oil Gulf Oil American Airlines U S Rubber Montgomery Ward Oliver Corp Sc h enley Eastman Kodak. Intermittent losers included U S Steel Packard Boeing Lockheed Curtiss Wright American Telephone Phelps Dodge Westinghouse Philip Morris American Woolen Twentieth Century Fox and Santa Fe.
Chicago grains open firm with wheat leading gains and oats steady while corn edges lower. Opening bids show May wheat at 2.48 1 2 49 1 4 and May corn at 2.25 3 4 with other months listed for soy and oats.
Prices reported paid in the Winchester area by the Agriculture Department Markets Division for Federal State grade eggs and live poultry. U S Grade A eggs range from .37 to .49 per dozen with various sizes. pullets and standards quoted. Live poultry prices include heavy breed hens at .32 to .33 per lb, leghorn hens and broilers around .24 to .25 per lb, young turkeys at .45 per lb, and other birds at defined rates.
Local markets list wholesale corn meal at 69 cents for 10 lb bags and 39 to 70 cent white bags. No. 2 red winter wheat, 2.25 per bushel in city, No. 2 yellow corn 2.20 per bushel, latest increase of 5 cents. Barley 1.65 per bushel and soybeans 2.40 per bushel. Feeds feature a week for cleanup and paint-up urging community involvement.
Norfolk April 17. N W Kelley of Roanoke is the new president of the Virginia state chamber of commerce. The group adopted several resolutions including a stand against governmental interference in business. A four point plan urged cost reductions and less government subsidies. A debate on natural gas pipeline extension was sponsored. Kelley heads Southern Varnish Co and belongs to NAM and US Chamber. Directors named for a three year term include Edward S Williams of Riverton and Robert C Harnsberger of Luray.
Mrs J Howard Cather of 3038 Washington St will attend the funeral in Pittsburgh Monday of Alexander P Lyon husband of her sister Mollie Tabb Lyon. Lyon died in Fort Pierce Florida where he lived with his family. he leaves two sons Alexander P Lyon IV of Fort Pierce and Harlan Page Tabb Lyon at home, and a sister Mrs W B Salsbury of Pittsburgh.
Shawnee district scouts stage a kite contest starting at 3 pm tomorrow on Handley grounds. Five divisions award prizes for biggest kite, best flying, highest flying, smallest kite, and best looking with five flashlights and five jack knives among the prizes. Doug Cather chairs the event funded by the Kiwanis club.
Reverend R McDonald pastor of Berryville Presbyterian will conduct Sunday services at 3 p m at Clearbrook Presbyterian church Mrs Huyett G Light of Stephenson reports the event.
The Inspirational quartet from Lynchburg will present a sacred music program at St. Luke Baptist Church Berryville at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The group will also sing at the 8:00 a.m. service.
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