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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1949
Page
7
Cattle prices show steers and heifers mostly steady to lower with varied classifications. Hogs gains and losses spread by weight, lambs steady to higher. numbers and grades dense, including bulls, stock cattle, calves, and canners across Baltimore and Chicago reports.
New York traders steadied the market as they paid higher prices for firms including Republic Steel Chrysler Sears Roebuck Lockheed Emerson Radio Consolidated Edison Union Carbide American Tobacco Union Pacific and Transamerica. Losses were seen in U S Steel Studebaker U S Rubber J I Case Consolidated Natural Gas American Smelting Westinghouse Electric Southern Railway Baltimore and Ohio Nickel Plate Standard Oil NJ and Eastern Air Lines. Bond market saw selective buying in railway issues.
The Agriculture Department lists paid prices for various egg grades in Winchester area markets. Grade A extra large 0.42, Grade A large 0.40, Grade A medium 0.37, Grade B large 0.38. small and pullets 0.20. cracks and checks 0.27. Also notes on heavy breed hens and other poultry products. The piece ends with a human anatomy note about bones, mentioning about 200 bones in the human body and the middle ear bone.
In a London dispatch, observers say Cominform backed purges across Poland to Bulgaria to crush nationalist sentiment and tighten Moscow aligned discipline. Trials in Hungary and Bulgaria target Tito sympathizers, with Rajk and Rostov cited as signals of a broader anti Tito, anti Western alignment campaign.
Chicago grain prices opened with slow dealings and modest moves on December 17. Futures shown include Dec, Mar, May, and July for wheat, with Corn, Oats, Soybeans, and Lard also listed in limited activity.
Churches on the Montague Avenue Methodist charge led by Pastor B W Coe present Christmas programs this week. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. pan tomines recitations and Christmas carols at Round Hill. Macedonia offers its ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Friday at 7:30 p.m. the Montague Ave church stages the pageant The Great Light.
Lindsay Ontario resident Lawrence C. Sprung aged 65 died after his car crashed into a ditch and was struck by a passing truck while awaiting wreckers. The incident occurred yesterday as he stood beside the vehicle.
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