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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1951
Page
2
Baltimore and regional markets report mixed vegetable fruit and potato prices with notes on produce quality and various regional listings. Cattle hog and sheep trading described with price ranges. New York stock market subdued after early gains with several leaders cited.
Estate of Frank H. Clark lists farming tools and antiques at 344 miles east of Winchester Route 50. Ida Anderson sale halves mile east of Front Royal offers valuable real estate and personal property.
Chicago grains opened steady amid very slow trading as light cash grain arrivals weighed on sentiment. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and soybeans showed mixed early prices with several contracts quoted and lard futures listed in the session.
Daily corrected market notes list flour and corn meal in various bag sizes, yellow and white corn, cracked corn, bran, and mill grain prices. Includes wheat No 2 yellow and broiler mash, mixed feed, and butterfat wholesale pricing for the local market.
Prices for tomorrow in Frederick County Park Bureau district list U S Grade A eggs at 60c to 68c and various medium large and small egg grades. Winchester area quotes No 1 fowl, heavy breed hens, leghorn hens, broilers, and ducks with per pound prices. cattle, sheep, and hogs priced by weight with ranges for steers, yearlings, cows, bulls, and lambs.
A New York report notes the baseball commissioner election faces a tough agenda. The eventual czar must handle congressional probes into game mon y the reserve clause legal challenges television radio policy with minors attendance Pacific Coast League status and major league relations. Top contenders include General Douglas MacArthur James Farley Ford Frick Warren Giles and George Trautman.
Ralph Kiner of the Pirates and Gil Hodges of the Dodgers each hit their 31st homers to lead the National League as Kiner also moved ahead of his 1949 pace. The Pirates split a doubleheader with Philadelphia, with the Phils winning 5-1 and 12-7. Monte Irvin leads NL RBIs with 79.
City of Winchester transfers list several deeds. Wycliffe T Moreland and wife to E B Estes and wife convert a Berryville vein area lot. Boyd A Grayson and wife to W T Moreland and wife two lots in Shannon Hill Addition. C E Holsinger and wife to Holmes A Bucher and wife land and improvements on Purcell Ave. Orville L Bloom and wife to Carl Dewey Judd Jr land on Shawnee Ave. Linwood E Patton and wife to Arthur E Lewis and wife property on Grey stone Terrace. Frederick Paul Nelson Jr and wife to F P Nelson for land and improvements on West St.
A series of land transfers are recorded in Frederick County. Marguerite Madigan and husband transfer property southeast of Stephens City to Merton A. Madigan. F H Swimsley Jr and others transfer two lots at Brucetown to James V. Sarver. Clara J. Burner transfers 210 acres near Wardensville Grade to Roy C. Lamp. J W Hartley transfers two acres near Va State Secondary Highway 636 to Dallas R Hartley. Gerald Russell Bowen transfers a Kernstown lot on U S Route 11 to David E Lowery. Levender B Williams transfers 26 acres near Nain Post Office on State Highway 654 to C L Fletcher. Hunter H Carver transfers land in Shawnee District near Kernstown to Frances Smith.
A New York mayor suggests a law banning hiring reporters who fail intelligence tests. The piece mocks the idea and contrasts it with tests for politicians, noting the mayor’s focus on reporters and the vagueness of which tests would be used. It ends with the author joking about applying for the mayor’s job.
New York report by Metropolitan Life statisticians finds the lifetime risk of accidental death for a child born today exceeds the combined risk of pneumonia influenza and tuberculosis. Heart and circulatory diseases and cancer show rising mortality trends, while longer survival shifts impact ages.
West Point faces upheaval as Col. Farr Blaik's future as Army head coach is debated after an order dismissing 90 cadets for exam cheating. Reported to include 40 or more football players, the purge hits top players Loehlein Reich and others while families deny involvement for some cadets.
On August 10, 1951 at 1:00 PM at 1055 Orchard Avenue Winchester Virginia a public cash sale will allege to satisfy a judgment on attachment in Farmers and Merchants National Bank versus C L Glover. Property includes a 1939 Dodge truck and household goods. Sale overseen by City of Winchester sergeant G G Baker.
Mrs. William H. Dickin son of Spotsylvania County will head the State Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs for 1951 52 after being elected at the Institute of Rural Affairs in Blacksburg last week. The federation reports a 33 000 rural women membership.
A Brooklyn patrolman spotted a bizarre betting scheme where bettors handed slips to a man on the sidewalk, who stuffed them into a rubber ball and passed it to a second man with a net. Both men were arrested as book makers. Magistrate Masterson quipped that bookies play among themselves.
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