Market Booms as Bethlehem, Chrysler Trade Ahead of Reports
Wall Street opened strong with gains across key stocks. Bethlehem Steel held at 46 1/2 on 20 000 shares while Chrysler rose 1 percent to 79 1/2 on 12 000 shares. Lukens Steel jumped to a new high at 103, up 3 on 7 500 shares as Gulf Oil neared a 2 point rise. Broadly, most pivotal stocks advanced by fractions to more than a point.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
Bethlehem
Lukens Steel
Gulf Oil
Postwar baby boom swells schools and tasks funeral service
The article notes a surge of postwar births crowding schools including mortuary programs. Dr Oto Margolis of the American Academy of Funeral Service in New York says about 1,200 will graduate this year, down from prewar averages around 1,800.
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Lichmond
I.i
Oto
Margolis
American Academy of Funeral Service
New York
Printed Pattern 4639 Misses Dress Offers Breeze
Pattern 4639 for Misses sizes 12 to 42 features a cool scoop neck and slim front, with face-gore skirt. Printed directions accompany parts, pattern number 4639, fabric 39 inches wide. Send 50 cents plus 5 cents postage for additional copies to Anne Adams in New York.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
Baltimore Apples and Livestock Prices in USDA Report
A detailed USDA market summary reports Baltimore fruit prices for apples and potatoes with regional notes from New Jersey to Maine, and vigorous livestock quotes for cattle calves hogs and sheep across Baltimore and Chicago. It lists grades, sizes, weights, and price ranges for apples Delicious and Winesap, potatoes Usis and Sebagoes, sweet potatoes, and regional cattle hog and sheep quotations with practical price bands.
Chicago Grain futures steady in quiet early trading
Board of Trade opens with fractional moves across corn oats and soybeans as old and new wheat contracts show marginal changes. Prices list small gains and declines in May July September and December maturities across several grains.
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Board of Trade
Jly
Vily Crossword Across and Down Clues Puzzle Note
A fragmented crossword clue list with across and down entries including names, animals, objects, and places. Phrases reference Girl’s name Tree Wall Stancomedian Agarlane and other scattered hints across multiple numbered slots. The text mixes foreign terms and archaic words with cryptic style indicators and partial answers.
Local Market Prices and Grain Feed Rates
Local markets list daily retail feed prices including 100 tb mixed feed, egg mash 20 percent 445, barley 1.2 per bu, yellow corn 1.40, brever mash 5.30, flour retail, corn meal 5 lb 0.30, wheat Rockingham 2.00-2.15, corn Rockingham 2.45-1.55, barley new Rockingham 1.25-1.30, butter wholesale 0.65, with regional notes for Augusta Rockingham Lake and Kinwa.
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Leo
Rockingham
Augusta
Lake Eedes
Agriculture Dept Report on Live Poultry and Egg Markets
The Agriculture Department notes balanced supply and demand for broilers and fryers with prices at the farm for the 24 hours ending today. Live poultry prices show ranges with AMS reports and various grades listed for Winchester and Harrisonburg egg markets including Grade A Large Medium Small and Grade B and C eggs.
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AMS
Winchester
Farmers Livestock Exchange Market Report April 22
The Farmers Livestock Exchange Market reports hogs sold 693 with price ranges for barrows and gilts 180-225 pounds at 18.50 to 19.40, 235-269 pounds at 18.50-19.40, light butcher 150-176 pounds at 17.00-19.10, butcher sows 190-559 pounds at 13.00-15.75, feeder shoats 60-135 pounds at 17.00-19.00. Veal catalog shows 145 head with various weights and prices from 24.00 to 28.25 per hundredweight. lambs and sheep include spring weights with prices from 15.00 to 26.10. Slaughter cattle lists steers 16.00-22.75. heifers 13.00-21.00. cows 9.00-17.25. stock- feeder yearlings and steer valuations noted.
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Baltimore
Maine
USDA
Chicago
Choice & Prime
Choice & Prime Light
West Virginia Forester Shows Two Films to County Firemen
Joseph Michael, forester for Hampshire and Mineral Counties, presented two films at the Frederick County Volunteer Firemen’s Association meeting held Monday at Capon Bridge High School. Plans were made to have a radio-equipped Forestry Service truck accompany fire trucks in the Apple Blossom Festival parade to maintain dispatcher contact. Tom Rosenberger arranged the truck, and eighteen fires were reported last month with various alarms and assists across Capon Bridge Round Hill Shawnee Clearbrook Gore Stephens City Middletown. Gore set a June 14 barbecue date and Shawnee announced May 16 for its Shawnee Varieties event.
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Joseph Michael
Hampshire
Mineral Counties
West Virginia
Frederick County Volunteer Firemen's Association
Capon Bridge High School
Capon Bridge Fire Company
Frederick County Forestry Service
Frederick County
Tom Rosenberger
Frederick County Forester
Clearbrook
Gore
Stephens City
Middletown
Gore Fire Company
Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department
Big Ten Lifts Ohio State Probation After Audit
The Big Ten lifted a one year probation on Ohio State for irregularities in aid to athletes. The move follows an April 26 1956 probation for job assistance to football players under Coach Woody Hayes. The Rose Bowl bid was unaffected as Iowa won the conference title.
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Chicago
Ohio State
Big Ten
Buckeyes
Woody Hayes
Iowa
Tug Wilson
Talent Festival Set for Thursday at Douglas School
The 7th District Teachers Association will present a talent festival at Douglas High School Thursday at 8 15 p m All District 7 schools will participate with a small admission fee charged.
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Douglas School
7Th District Teachers Association
Douglas High School
Calf and Heifer Market Pricing Report Summary
Auction market notes show steers and heifers with choice and fancy grades. Price ranges include 17.00 to 23.00 per hundredweight across mediums and good quality calves.
Parkway Motel Plans Face Uncertainty Over Racial Protest
National Park Service Director Wirth told Rep. Tuck that no motel concessions will be let on the Blue Ridge Parkway until reviewing the issue. The protest, led by Virginia Democrat Tuck, opposes any motor courts or integration on federal property and cites Virginia law and customs.
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Frank FE
Taylor Washington
Blue Ridge Parkway
Conrad L. Wirth
National Park Service
Rep
Tuck
D-Va
Virginia
Wirth
Parkway
Congress
North Carolina
Otter
Roanoke
Partway
Same Weems
Peaks of
Weems
Avors
Commonwealth of Virginia
Welcome Home Anyway Sign Spurs Budget Debate
A Spokane lawmaker returning from a 60 day session found a sign reading Welcome Home Anyway. The piece notes the U S educational system now handles 80 percent or more of eligible students, versus 11 and a half percent in 1900.
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Spokane
Wesh
United States
Gaunt Opens Own Insurance Agency in Winchester
Randolph Gaunt formerly with Allstate announces Winchester Insurance Agency offering all kinds of insurance. Gaunt, owner, has extensive experience and has qualified before the state Bureau of Insurance to write all classes. Edwin Arlington Robinson, major poet, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 1925 and 1928.
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Randolph Gaunt
Allstate Insurance Co
Winchester Insurance Agency
Mr. Gaunt
State Corporation Commission
Bureau of Insurance
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Singer
Singer Sewing Center
N. Loudoun
Lorne
Chicago Grain
Stan
Agarlane
Baries
Satan
George V Russell
Guido
Chin
Harrisonburg
Farmers Livestock Exchange Market
W. Va
Ohio St
HFC
America
Paymts
Household Finance Corporation of
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Flossie
Mohawk
Rhodes Drug CO
Gaunt
Harper
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Strong
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Information Centers
Eo. Weehington Hotel
Battletown Inn
Rams Head
M Scheidt Brewing Company
Norristown, PA
Valley Forge Beer
Prior Beer
Plymouth
Lawrence Welk
Ray Anthony
U.S.A
Plymsain
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