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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1936
Page
7
Baltimore and Philadelphia price lists show cattle calves hogs sheep and butter on varied scales. Chicago reports livestock and hogs lower with mixed cattle demand while grains and feeds list prices for poultry and dairy mixes.
The page lists daily market quotes for patent flour bags in various sizes plus prices for corn, feeds, eggs, poultry, dairy products, meats, and live stock. Entries cover flour, corn meal, screenings, middlings, dairy feeds, baby chick feed, eggs, hens, broilers, turkeys, quail, ducks, butter, butter substitutes, cheese, pork, cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, and hogs with unit prices and weights.
New York buyers picked up chosen issues while avoiding leaders. Copper rose to recovery highs while rubber, grain, and cotton futures dipped. Fisher Body Co. sit down strike pressured sentiment. December store sales seen up at least 12 percent, November rail income up 38 percent, and bank lending up for the week. Exchange rates showed small gains.
Chicago and Winnipeg notes show wheat prices easing after bears driven by Canadian export activity. May wheat at 1.34 1/2, July 1.17 5/8, Sept 1.15. corn near 1.06 for May, oats around 50 7/8. Baltimore spot wheat at 1.44, Winchester wheat 1.40 per bushel.
WPA workers uncover petrified clams embedded in solid rock on a 500 foot hill near Tacoma. Geologists estimate the ancient bed dates back several million years offering a rare fossil find.
John W. Hunsicker died at the home of his daughter in Berryville at age 85. He was born in Clarke County on April 10 1851 and lived there before moving to West Virginia in 1907. He leaves two daughters two sisters a granddaughter and a great grandson. Funeral at 2 PM Thursday from the Price home with Rev Louis Tucker of Grace Episcopal Berryville.
A United Airlines plane lost in a Los Angeles area storm was found near Saugus after a Sunday crash. Victims include A. L. Markwell and Edward T. Ford Jr. along with pilots Edwin Blom and Robert McLean and stewardess Yvonne Trego.
Funeral tribute praises Frederick Miller Affleck known as Duke. Pastor E T Clark cites Jesus teaching comfort and courage, urges Christians to act, and recalls Affleck's ready aid to strangers and his cheerful, charitable nature. He lived to help others and never spoke ill of anyone.
Richmond news reports Governor Peery named William H. Rouse of Bristol and Rank Evans of Richmond to a new three man board to administer Virginia's Unemployment Compensation law. State Labor Commissioner John Hopkins Hall serves as the third member. Rouse is an attorney and Evans a statistician for the State Industrial Department.
Miss Trego, then a nurse at Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit, met Kelly who works on the construction of a new graduate school at the University of Michigan. No wedding date had been fixed.
An official cannot be named describes a note left by the kidnapper that had been folded and carried for weeks. He suggests the kidnapper scouted the Mattson residence for days or cruised the area seeking a victim, favoring the latter theory as the motive behind selecting Mattson.
Dr. Mattson denied contacts with kidnappers after an unexplained night trip. Police traced a ransom ad placed by the kidnapper in Seattle newspapers, a maneuver meant to start negotiations. Rumors circulated across several locations as the case unfolded.
Mary Lee Swann reports on Mrs Samuel Hoshour of Alabama now in North Carolina for Christmas guests. Her fragrance jars display dried flowers and blends using tonquil roses and attar oils, with recipes and bottles ranging from simple dried flowers to costly fragrances.
Plan Agenda Stine urges the cooperation of leading farmers to help run community discussion meetings. Officials say experience from last year enables simplifying the program and extending it over a longer period without too frequent meetings.
Frederick County Circuit Court orders C Maurice McDonald appointed administrator of Julian W McDonald presumed dead after seven years absence. Public notice to run weekly for four weeks in The Evening Star Winchester with a February 3 1936 hearing date to examine absence and circumstances. Clerk Brannon. Kern & Kern counsel.
The funeral for Mrs. Kurtz was conducted Wednesday afternoon at 3 from 21 South Loudoun street with Rev. Shipley Gilkeson and Rev. Jones presiding. Interment followed in Mount Hebron. Pallbearers were J William Stryker Grover Clevenger Arthur Ritter Roger Jones George K Headley and Richard K Eddy. Relatives from Cumberland Md Knoxville Tenn and Birmingham Ala attended.
Berryville Virginia December 29 engagement of Rebecca Jane Dutrow to William D Garvin Jr announced by their parents. Garvin formerly of Berryville now in Charles Town works at Standard Lime and Stone Co Millville West Virginia. No wedding date set. Local social notes include gatherings and visits from area residents.
Report describes a fatal crash scene where Bursick and Romans died as officials fought the blaze. A beer wagon and a car collided with a parked truck, injuring five aboard a wagon driven by Walter Strawder. Rollison, ejected and trapped, died after two hours.
Max Pincus aged 56, president of the Restaurant Workers Union Local 302, died after jumping six stories from a Bronx apartment house. He and twelve others faced trial January 14 on charges of threats violence and extortion via fake strikes against restaurant owners. He was free on $25,000 bail.
Robert Cuse, president of the Vimalert Company, Ltd., states that airplanes to be exported to Spain under State Department licenses are commercial planes not designed built or equipped for conversion into fighting planes.
The coroner reports list deaths from vehicle strikes near Martinsburg Winchester Turnpike and Winchester Virginia. Homer Hook died instantly and Affleck survived briefly after Memorial Hospital. I N Grubbs and Bayliss were named in related cases with Harrison directing actions against suspects.
Delaware's controlled Senate approved an unemployment insurance bill by 11 to 6 and sent it to the Democrat-controlled House for action. Governor Buck had called a special session to consider the legislation.
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