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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1945
Page
7
The United Auto Workers used a Christmas truce to assemble data for a renewed push this week for a 30 percent wage increase from auto makers. Picket lines around about 100 GM plants will be abandoned briefly for holiday breaks as roughly 200000 workers idle since November 11 enter a major postwar labor walkout.
Richmond reports the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will keep January liquor ration at December levels two fifths of whiskey excluding Scotch and bottled in bond plus a bonus one fifth of selected brands and a pint of available stock. The Americal Division holds a Presidential Unit Citation for Guadalcanal fighting and name blends America with New Caledonia.
Lee Taylor of Williamsport Maryland and Mrs Lucille Kersey of 608 West Cork Street Winchester were acquitted this morning by Judge John Rice in Winchester Police Court on charges of reckless driving arising from a Martinsburg Pike traffic accident Wednesday morning.
U S and UK markets closed for Christmas with only a few livestock markets operating. The Winnipeg grain exchange stayed open as usual and all markets will reopen the day after Christmas.
Daily market listings show wholesale and retail prices for feeds, grains, and poultry goods. Includes patent brand bags, corn meal, eggs, hogs, cattle, and chickens with varied bag sizes and per cwt costs across wholesale and retail sections.
Funeral services for Thomas Branch Scott aged 80, a retired Richmond financier, were held at 3:30 p m from St Pauls Episcopal Church in Richmond Virginia. Burial followed at Hollywood Cemetery.
Baltimore livestock quotations report active trading across cattle hogs and sheep with mixed pricing. Slaughter steers steady to last week. hogs strong at ceiling. calves mixed. sheep and lambs steady with top bids around 16.00 for slaughter lambs. Chicago totals show increased cleared prices for fed steers and beef cows with limited vealer supply.
A brief promotional note for a 15 cent booklet detailing all U.S. presidents and their spouses. It promises bios on names, terms, politics, religion, education, birthplaces, burial places, family, and history, noting it as a quick essentials guide.
The United States cannot fully supply its own demand for coffee, tea, tin, tropical fruits, wood pulp, sugar, and certain other commodities. To use national resources most effectively, the country requires some strategic imports.
A reader encloses fifteen cents in paper for one of the booklet Presidents and. The brief note accompanies a request or offer related to the booklet order.
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