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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1947
Page
9
Washington votes a bill authorizing a 2 million dollar emergency relief appropriation for Navajo and Hopi Indians of Arizona and New Mexico.
Secretary of State Marshall plans a showdown with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov at the earliest opportunity to decide if Russia is ready to negotiate a German settlement. American officials expect the talks to focus on reparations and a clear yes or no on agreement. Observers note shifts in relations amid Russia’s note to France and restrictions in its Austrian occupation zone affecting travel between zones.
The Markets Division lists U S Grade A extra large eggs at 66 cents, Grade A large 64, medium 52, Grade B large 51, pullets 42, cracks 42. Live poultry prices include No 1 quality f o b producer farms heavy breed hens four pounds 24 to 25 cents per pound, leghorn hens 17 to 18, broilers 32 to 34, old roosters 12 to 13, guinea young broilers 60 cents per pound, old guineas 35 cents each, all hen turkeys 40 cents, young toms under 20 pounds 32 cents per pound, over 20 pounds 30 cents per pound.
Local markets show corrected daily prices for flour corn meal grain and animal feeds. Items include No 2 red winter wheat corn and barley per bushel, soybeans at 2.40, egg mash at 5.50, cracked corn at 5.25 per 100 lb bag, various feeds for turkeys and mixing, and butter oleomargarine retail 0.30 to 0.36 while wholesale butter 0.74 and butterfat price appears incomplete.
James Marlow reports on the U N plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone including Jerusalem, with Arabs opposing the division and violence already rising as tensions mount toward 1948. The piece notes demographic counts, Zionist history, and Britain’s mandate ending.
Richmond Mayor Horace Edwards told a Virginia social workers conference that the Mitchell commission report lacks sufficient facts. He endorsed its recommendations but urged more data, especially on allocating general relief by need and transferring aid-to-the-blind administration to the Department of Public Welfare. The note also cites a rise in U S farm worker productivity from 1939 to 1944.
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