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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1948
Page
5
The local Marine Corps recruiting office announces that applications are being accepted through September 15 from former women reservists for enlistment in the regular Marine Corps. Application forms and information are available at the recruitment office in the post office building.
Market reports show uneven cattle values across sizes with 1500 head in good demand and steady pricing for steers heifers and cows while vealers slip. Baltimore prices list steady hogs and mixed weights with grain fed bars and gilts scarce and lambs and sheep at varying wholesale levels amid thin receipts for butter eggs and produce.
New York stock market gains broad but led by rail shares and steel issues. Southern Pacific rose after lifting its quarterly dividend to 1.25 and opened with 3000 shares traded. Other carriers and majors including Santa Fe, Illinois Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Central of New Jersey, and Southern Railway advanced, while Douglas Aircraft weakened.
Chicago grain futures opened mixed with no clear trend. Prices listed for Sep Dec May and July for corn oats soybeans and lard show modest moves with September corn at 1.64 and soybeans at 2.55 per bushel, lard futures at 19.35 to 20.00.
Agriculture Department Markets Division reports U S Grade A extra large eggs at 58 cents per dozen U S Grade A large 56 cents U S Grade A medium 49 cents standards 49 cents cracks and checks 30 cents Peewees 40 cents live poultry prices for No 1 quality fob producer farms Young hen turkeys 45 cents Young tom turkeys 38 cents No 2 toms 33 cents No 2 hen turkeys 40 cents Old and young guineas 35 cents Leghorn cox 14 cents Old roosters and stags heavy 17 cents mock and cross broilers 35 cents.
A partial poultry price listing notes red broilers and Leghorn stock with weights and per unit ranges. Mentions broilers up to 2 1 2 pounds and Leghorn hens with a 44 pound reference, but text is incomplete.
Daily corrected local market prices show flour corn meal grain and feed items with per bag and per bushel rates. Includes soybeans egg mash cracked corn broiler mash and various mixed feeds with retail and wholesale notes. Prices appear in dollars and cents with moisture and content notes where given.
Delegates arriving for the American Legion State convention in Roanoke include Mr and Mrs M B Clowe Jr Mr and Mrs Leroy Cahill Mr and Mrs Charles Zukerman Mr and Mrs Miller Fletcher Robert Pizzano Turner Sencindiver Garland Baptist William Glaize Ralph Grubbs L E Hill Henry Thompson William Louthan and Arthur Spaid arriving Sunday.
Reverend A Hayes Boozer has been certified as the new Lutheran pastor serving Stephens City. He succeeds prior clergy and will lead local worship, community outreach, and church programs at the Stephens City Lutheran congregation.
He has been authorized to perform rites of matrimony in Frederick county and posted a bond of $500 with circuit Clerk Lee N. Whitacre as required by law.
Among 27,000 fans at Griffith Stadium in Washington for Clark Griffith Night were Russell Potts and his son Russ Jr. from Winchester. Potts noted tributes to Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth and said the Babe Ruth references were especially moving.
The Graichen estate left to relatives in Germany is appraised at about $60,000 in corporation court records. Personal property valued at $7,145.81 and real estate at $53,800 include two Cameron Street apartments, three Boscawen business properties, and three other lots.
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