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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1957
Page
5
The Royal Flying Doctor Service in South Australia logged over 56 000 miles in 1956 to assist patients in remote areas. About 170 flights were flown in response to radio calls for urgent medical help.
Rails and steel rose early while nonferrous metals slid. Polaroid fell on profit taking after a color-print process announcement, Niagara Mohawk eased, U.S. Steel held firm, and Bethlehem and Republic Steel rose slightly. Virginia and Maryland fruit and vegetable prices edged higher with apples, staymans, and Golden Delicious noted. Virginia and North Carolina timber area noted with 200000 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Local markets list prices for feed grain flour corn meal and butter with corrected typographical errors. Entries include Wheat Mint Grain FOB and regional prices for corn and barley at Rockingham Augusta Luray and other locales with butter wholesale needs noted.
An employee at a Denver cleaner discovered five hundred dollars in a suit pocket left by a customer. He called the owner’s wife, who rushed to the shop and collected fifty nine dollars. Drive in service stations for cars began in 1905, with an annex to shoe horses.
Prices paid at farm 11 a.m. today show broilers and fryers fair with adequate supplies while turkeys demand improvement and offerings are liberal. Market listings include varied weights for broilers, fryers, heavy hens, light hens, turkey fryers, and hen turkeys, with regional egg market grades and prices noted for Winchester and Harrisonburg.
Chicago Board of Trade opens with mixed wheat futures as Wheat Dec 2.19, Mar 2.22, May 2.17, Jly 1.93, Sep 1.96. Corn Dec 1.17, Mar 1.20, May 1.23, Sep 1.25. Oats Dec 6.51, Mar 6.5, May 6.4, Jul 6.1, Sep 6.0.
December 10 cattle and calf receipts at Virginia Livestock Market meet good demand with prices steady to firm. Choice butcher steers bring 22.00 to 24.50 per cwt while good butcher steers sell around 20.00.
A detailed list of cattle hog and calf prices including steers heifers bulls cows and calves with ranges from 12.50 to 33.50 per unit. Notable items include stocker and feeder steers 19.00 to 25.00, choice to prime calves 30.00 to 33.50, and butcher hogs 19.25 to 19.85. There is no sale here Tuesday Dec 24 with sales on Dec 17 and Dec 31 as usual.
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