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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1948
Page
3
Relief Virginia notes Betty Vaughan summering with Mr and Mrs Edward Master Lanny Branner spent time in the area with the Masters and associated residents.
Several days were spent with his grandmother Mrs. Katie Branner. Mrs. Junior Vaughan was in Washington on Monday. The Crim reunion drew Mr. and Mrs. John Crim and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Snapp along with Mrs. Bertie Snapp. Ridings and family visited Massanetta, and Mrs. Fred Ridings returned home after Bible school meetings there. Mr. and Mrs. Donna Leigh dined with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Branner.
Heavy rains slow threshing in Opequon Virginia as early apples and peaches are being picked. Nancy Malone visited her sister Mrs Tresa Sousa Washington. Guests include Mr and Mrs Fred Young Mrs May Waterman and Mr Rufus Rinker from Washington DC and Mr and Mrs Ben Rinker of Screphens City. Everly of Edinburg Mrs Lucy visited Mr and Mrs Harry Claggett.
The passage notes that most birds in temperate regions shed and regrow a fresh feather coat twice each year.
Virginia extension service specialists credit widespread use of DDT for controlling flies ticks and other insects with reducing anaplasmosis outbreaks in cattle across the state. They report no major outbreaks in the past year though the disease still appears in scattered localities. The illness is caused by a parasite living in cattle blood.
Agriculture Department Markets Division lists U S Grade A eggs at 58.0 to 0.8 per dozen and various grades for large medium and standards. Live poultry prices in Winchester area include young hen turkeys 45 and No 2 toms 33 with other fowl and broilers priced by type and weight.
Daily corrected prices list for wheat barley corn soybeans and various feeds. Includes New wheat under 14 moisture $2.15 per bushel New barley $1.35 per bushel No 2 yellow corn $2.30 per bushel delivered in city Soy beans $2.49 per bushel Egg mash 20% $5.45 18% $4.20 Cracked corn 10 lb bag 0.67 Butter retail 19 cents wholesale 7 66 Butterfat priced per unit.
Chicago grains open firm with short covering lifting September corn by a cent and lifting wheat and soybeans futures. Sept wheat at 2.24, Dec 2.27, corn Sept 1.65, oats Sept 0.743, rye Dec 1.73, soybeans Nov 2.64. Lard Oct 20.40. Prices shown for futures contracts.
Chicago reports a fatal gas explosion killing a housewife while detailing hog and cattle markets. Hog prices ease with heavies down and sows mixed. cattle under pressure with weakness in common grades and modest declines on beef cuts.
Faint signs of a rally appeared after an early down swing in New York trading today as volume remained light. Leaders included WS Steel Republic Steel Goodyear J I Case American Telephone Consolidated Edison Philip Morris Santa Fe Southern Railway and Transcontinental and Western Air. Laggards featured Chrysler Distillers Corp International Telephone Anaconda Copper General Electric U S Gypsum American Woolen Standard New Jersey and Texas Company. Shorter term government bonds slipped slightly while listed railway issues moved higher.
Baltimore dated August 13 shows produce prices for apples and eggs with specifics on varieties and sizes, poultry and fowl prices, butter and egg receipts, and cattle calves hogs receipts and sale notes. Cattle today include 450 head expected for Monday with steady slaughter cow prices, calves quoted 20 31, hogs 450 receipts with early sales good and choice barrows.
Martinsburg and Roanoke Crozet sections list peach basket prices and sizes. Elberta peaches rise to 4.50 to 4.75 per basket while Hale havens show 3.50 to 3.75 per basket as noontime market report notes demand.
Roanoke August 13 Frank Talbott Jr of Danville is elected president as the Virginia State Bar completes its 10th annual meeting in Roanoke.
The will of Charles Maxfield dated June 1832 witnessed by Robert C. Whitacre Charles Fries and J George Baetjer has been probated in Corporation court. Under its terms the wife is the main beneficiary.
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