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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1955
Page
12
In Gainesville, engineers installed a new stop sign at the U S 441 State Road 20 junction to ease a traffic hazard. About thirty minutes later a truck driver Brake jammed and the vehicle overturned. He wasn’t hurt.
Market quotients in New York show mixed trading. Chance Vought rose after news of an initial 100 million dollar Navy production order for jet fighters, while Santa Fe fell on a 3 point drop following an extra dividend announcement. Most major names fluctuated with Bethlehem Steel Boeing United Aircraft RCA Texas Co rising, and GM Chrysler AT&T Du Pont Westinghouse American Can B&O Seaboard showing declines.
Chicago grain prices show wheat firm while corn oats rye and beans move irregularly on the Board of Trade. Opening quotes list softening or advancing futures across contracts for December through September maturities and soybeans with new and old meal contracts.
USDA prices for apples, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and poultry show mixed movements with apples inching up in several grades while potatoes steady to barely steady and poultry largely steady with modest gains for high quality stock. Cattle calves hogs sheep quotes listed for Baltimore and Chicago reflecting varied weights and grades.
In Lexington Virginia a 27 year old Rockbridge County man, Frank Baughman, was fatally stabbed Monday night. Minnie Chittum is detained in the local jail with no formal charge yet filed. The sheriff quoted her saying she stabbed after being slapped. she produced the knife from a pocketbook. The couple had recently lived together on McCorkle Drive.
Market note lists price ranges for steer calves and stockers with weights from 425 to 796 pounds. Good and choice grade cattle quoted at 17.75 to 21.25 per hundredweight, with range 10.00 to 19.00 for other categories.
Prices for mixed feed, Egg Mash, Broiler Mash, and various grains listed by region. Includes Wheat and Corn values for No 2 Yellow Corn New and No 2 Red Winter, with ranges for Rockingham and Augusta areas and notes on wholesale butter and butterfat.
Agriculture Dept market unsettled with fair demand for heavy turkeys and steady prices. Heavy type hens and Grade A eggs cited with various regional quotes including Harrisonburg and Winchester markets. Prices shown in fragmented OCR text for live poultry broilers eggs and turkey types.
The Federal State Market News Service reports improved demand for apples at Appalachian shipping points with heavy withdrawals from cold storage centered in Winchester. Stock, bought by truckers for Southern markets, remains bulk or cheaper packed, with Golden Delicious in strong demand and prices mostly steady or rising for larger sizes.
A total of 46 000 birds were sold from 57 500 offered in 26 lots at yesterday's Capon Valley Poultry Auction in Wardensville. Demand was fair with prices ranging from 17 to 1734 cents, mainly 17s to 1734.
Explosions on Woodward Avenue caused by leaking sewer gas and a short circuit in an underground electric line hurled manhole covers up to twenty feet and lit flames from open mouths. No injuries were reported as a passing car was struck and a streetcar narrowly avoided impact.
Lonnie Knott of Channel Master Corporation will present a film titled The Vital Link at the Rotary Club weekly luncheon tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel.
In the tropics bananas are not allowed to ripen fully on the plant as a rule. Some small varieties not sold commercially may ripen in a shady place after being cut green by natives for their own use.
A wealthy Houston man confessed to friends he always wanted to run a steam shovel. For a birthday present they rented one and left it on his lawn, a practical joke that drew attention and amusement in the neighborhood.
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