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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1941
Page
7
Federal agents in Chicago used an undercover decoy, going as Dopey, to trap a ring smuggling wildfowl. The unshaven agent received encoded deliveries and marked money as the operation progressed, revealing how sleuths obtain evidence to enforce wildlife laws.
A Lynchburg concessionaire submitted samples to the mayor and council to justify higher prices at the Virginia Tech Virginia Military game. The mayor approved a rise from ten to 15 cents for ham sandwiches.
Federal game agents, trained across 48 states, enforce federal and state game laws, gather evidence, and pursue arrests with court-backed success. The piece highlights their roles against bootleggers, their public talks to conservation groups, and a notable 1940-41 conviction rate near 95 percent.
Baltimore reports closing prices for grain and corn. Wheat No 2 red winter quoted at 1.15 1 2 per bushel for December. Corn 84 86 cents per bushel new. Old corn 80 cents. Barley 65 cents. Prices based on deliveries at mill amid rising demand for oils.
New York stock activity opened with promise but soon faced profit taking. Steel shares and other pivots slipped as traders weighed wage settlements, war reports, and tax fears, leaving the day only modestly positive or flat in parts amid a late mixed trend.
Receipts of cattle lighter though calves and hogs steady. Butcher steers active with some small high quality lots. feeders and fat cows and veal shows varied prices. Hog market tops at 10.25 with most weights 10.00 to 10.15. pigs and lambs mixed with limited demand and fresh cows and springers offered around 170 to 85 per head.
In Columbia Missouri educators at Stephens College have opened a clinic in the religious education department due to a flood of requests from students for advice on religion and philosophy. The go women are flocking to seek individual conferences.
Helena Montana December 3 court tested Montalman law requiring pedestrians to keep to the left side of the road. Patrolman C S Small testified arresting the defendant for walking on the right side who insisted he preferred the other side and saw no reason to switch sides.
Inwood West Virginia mourns the death of Raymond Shirley. Parents and wife express heartfelt sympathy while neighbors visit. Musselman Canning Plant recently closed after over three months of operation.
Pvt. Joshua D. Headley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Headley of Winchester, will begin training in airplane and engine mechanics December 9 at the California Fighter School of Aviation at Los Angeles municipal airport, Inglewood. He joined the Army Air Force in 1941 after two years with the National Guard and is a Berea College graduate with a B S in agriculture.
Stephens City Va December 3 Mr and Mrs Fred Ridings hosted a dinner in honor of their son and daughter in law Vernon Ridings married November 18 Attending were Rev and Mrs Roof and daughter Hilda Mr and Mrs Nelson Nichols parents of a bride Also notes on visitors and local affairs including choir plans and several moves and visits through the week.
An unclear fragment mentions Frances Miller in connection with a Virginia Synod meeting at St Pauls Church in Opequon. It also notes Mr and Mrs Raymond and son from Quinton Pennsylvania with the former's parents M K Sandy visiting recently. R W Ailes is confined at home with grippe.
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