Apple Growers Seek Higher Prices from Processors
In Kearneysville West Virginia 125 growers from Virginia West Virginia Pennsylvania and Maryland met at the University Experimental Farm to seek higher prices for apples from processors They aim for 385 per cwt for Yorks and Golden Delicious and 335 for other varieties up from last year The meeting featured J Kenneth Robinson of Eastern Fruit Marketers Inc urging balance between fresh and processing markets and noting a smaller national crop and lighter processing inventories.
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Kearneysville
W. Va
Eastern End Marketing Cooperative
Announ
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
University Experimental Farm
J. Kenneth Robinson
Eastern Fruit Marketers, Inc
Robinson
U.S
Yorks
Virginia Business Index up 18.2 in July statewide
The July 1960 Virginia Business Index shows total activity 18.2 percent above the 1956-58 base across 13 cities. Six of nine indicators rose from July 1959, led by building permits and electricity use, while bank debits and newspaper advertising fell.
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Williamsburg
Virginia
Bureau of Business Research
College of William and Mary
Algin B. King
William and Mary Bureau of Business Research
Virginia Business Index Re
Williams
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Virginia Automotive Trade Association
Calf Exhibit At Clarke Fair Shows Choice-Plus Grading
4 H member Conrad Devers of White Post presents a 840-pound calf graded choice plus. Safeway manager Robert Barfield assists with the exhibit as photographed at Clarke Fair.
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Conrad Devers
White Post
Robert Barfield
Safeway
Clarke Fair
Berryville
Virginia Monthly Economic Indicators Report Summary
The index uses statewide non agricultural employment data with a retail sales indicator drawn from 13 Virginia cities. Participating cities include Alexandria Bristol Charlottesville Danville Fredericksburg Lynchburg Newport News Norfolk Richmond Roanoke Staunton Williamsburg Winchester. The Gettysburg National Cemetery was dedicated on November 19 1863 forty months after the battle.
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Ies
Alexandria
Bristol
Charlottesville
Danville
Fredericksburg
Lynchburg
Newport News
Norfolk
Richmond
Roanoke
Staunton
Williamsburg
Winches
Gettysburg
Fighting Men To Train As Medics In Next War
Army training program tests nonmedical soldiers as potential battlefield medics. Reservists from three regiments trained at Brooke Army Medical Center to teach 100 hours of care, including first aid, trauma response, and battlefield casualty procedures.
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San Antonio
Tex
Army
Brooke Army Medical Center
104Th Regiment
Portland
Ore
320Th
Norfolk
Lexington
Brooke
Seamstress Leaves Money For Memorial To Honor Quilts
Miss Bertha A Meckstroth sister in law of Richard W Sears dies at 85 leaving 70000 to fund a memorial to exhibit her quilts and wall hangings. Executors debate dividing funds among 13 relatives with probate court hearing set for Tuesday. The article notes the 1947 creation of the Department of Defense joining War Navy and Air Force.
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Bertha A. Meckstroth
Richard W. Sears
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Continental Illinois Nation 1 Bank and Trust Co
Meckstroth
Department of Defense
Departments of War
The
Navy
Air Force
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