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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1956
Page
4
Baltimore market report shows mixed fruit and vegetable prices with apples and cantaloupes uneven, peaches firm, and potatoes weaker. Livestock prices list cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep with ranges for steer yearlings, heifers, canners, and sausage balls, plus wholesale poultry prices for fryers and hens.
Daily market snapshot lists prices for feed, grain, flour and butter. Entries include mixed feed 100 lb at 3.30, egg mash 20 per cent 4.75, broiler mash 5.30, wheat and barley prices, corn meat 5 lb bag 36, flour 100 lbs 6.90, butterfat wholesale and regional entries for Rockingham Luray Augusta Taos and similar places.
Agriculture Department market summary notes weak prices for broilers or fryers with good demand and steady turkey prices. Farm prices over the 24 hours ending at noon show live poultry ranges for broilers 0.934 to 0.31 dollars per pound, heavy hens 0.17 to 0.18, turkey fryers 0.2614 to 0.2728, and heavy hen turkeys 0.28 to 0.282. Egg grades listed as Winchester and Harrison markets include Grade A large and medium, Grade B large, with assortments and weights implied.
Wall Street in early trading shows a mixed pattern with cents moves around a point. International Oils lead gains as Gulf Oil moves up 1 3 4, Royal Dutch 1 3 8, while Sinclair and Standard Oil New Jersey slip slightly. Steel shares gain modestly with U S Steel and Republic rising a small amount. Bethlehem initially higher, then returns to start.
Chicago grain futures opened mixed on the Board of Trade with wheat firm while corn and soybeans eased. Oats held steady as opening prices were listed for September through May contracts across wheat corn oats rye soybeans and lard futures.
Receipts of cattle heavy with good demand across classes. Steers up to 22.90, choice heifers to 22.50, grass fed steers 22.00 to 22.90, heifers 20.00 to 22.50, bulls 15.00 to 15.75, cows 10.50 to 14.00, stockers 16.00 to 22.00. Calves 13.0 to 25.50, lambs 17.25 to 24.50, sheep 2.00 to 5.25, hogs 10.00 to 17.75, shoats 17.50, pigs 10.25 down, boars 6.75 down.
Emanuel Welch, 29, of Detroit, arrested in Albuquerque and charged with drunk driving. He told police he sometimes used the alias Sebastian Bogankinzen ellengkinzinskiyork, and could pronounce it correctly three times.
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