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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1947
Page
3
Market quotations list bids for steers and heifers by grade and weight, with prices for cows, bulls, veal calves, lambs, sheep, hogs, shoats, pigs, and dairy cattle. Regional ranges show good to choice levels, mid ranges, and discounted values for older or thinner stock.
At Virginia Tech agronomy plots 75,000 hybrid corn plants are hand pollinated under glassine bags and paper coverings to ensure controlled crosses. Dr C F Genter explains how silks and tassels are protected to produce hybrids with known parentage for precise yields.
The style features square houses with flat roofs that project beyond the walls and supporting brackets beneath the projection and also under window and door cornices. Brackets, first common on Hudson River homes after the Civil War, gave the style its name and popularity.
This 1947 piece explains hyperthyroidism or toxic goitre and its treatments from rest and iodine to X-ray therapy and especially the thiouracil drug. It notes symptom relief, possible long term improvement after drug use, and the role of surgery after medical prep. Also covers monitoring with blood counts and metabolism tests and cautions about drug reactions.
In Virginia on August 6 Democratic voters nominated candidates for county offices. At least nine incumbents failed to win renomination across 22 sheriff, 13 treasurer, 19 commonwealth's attorney, and 12 commissioner of revenue races. Some winners face little opposition in November with contests mainly in Pittsylvania and Augusta counties where incumbents lost renomination. others secure renomination or were unopposed.
In a four cornered contest Tearful Divorcee Iceman defeated Sheriff G M Gilkeson of Lone Fountain. Shaver led with 1 478 votes to 853 for Gilkeson a former Virginia Sheriff's Assn president with 16 years in office. William F Coyner Jr 508 and Bernard R Fauber 367 also listed. India irrigation question notes 55 million acres watered.
With new mechanical sheep shears, a single operator can clip as many as 200 animals in a day, marking a significant efficiency gain for modern wool production.
A 32 page children's entertainment book with stories verses riddles paper folding and scrambled names. Aimed at keeping children occupied on rainy days for ten cents postpaid with coupon to The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington DC.
Livestock and Produce Markets Chicago August 6 hogs salable 5 000 of 6 000 with gains on butchers 250 300 pounds and sows top 28 25. cattle salable 10 000 with fed steers and yearlings up to 33 25, best 33 50, cows down to 12 50, light stock cattle dull 18 50 to 22.
The Montague Avenue senior softball team defeated Cork Street Christians 16 to 6 last night. Clark pitched for the winners.
In Woodstock Virginia a 1941 Buick carrying John Raymond Long and Madeline Seward collided with a tractor trailer backing across a ramp. Long 39 and Seward 35, both of Brooklyn, were killed instantly. Driver John Brown of Blue Ridge Produce Company said he backed to check for falling cargo. authorities report two thirds of the car ended under the trailer. It took about 12 hours to remove the vehicles.
The White Hall second team will play Grimes at 8 p.m. tomorrow on the White Hall diamond. Friday night White Hall regulars will meet the Cork Street Christian softball team of this city at White Hall.
Coach Hunter Maddox issues a call for all football candidates for the 1947 team to report at 7 p.m. Junior and varsity players are summoned to join the squad.
Handley officials schedule an opening practice tomorrow and plan to screen several football films as part of the event. Moddex noted the film lineup and associated activities.
The article notes that the earliest and best wool clip can be produced from a lamb that is eight months old, suggesting age-related quality preferences for early lamb wool production.
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