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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1950
Page
3
Market reports show mixed gains across cattle hogs and sheep with weekly comparisons. Prices for slaughter steers and yearlings rise, cows and bulls steady to higher. hogs and sows advance, calves up, sheep and lambs mostly unchanged with some highs noted in fed lambs and prime lots.
Degas started his famous corps de ballet of the Paris Opera in 1872. In the following year 1873 the Opera House was destroyed by fire.
The New York stock market showed little movement with price changes under a dollar for most shares. Gains and losses remained balanced as traders absorbed year end readjustments and ignored new economic control announcements while several names traded up or down.
Local markets are corrected daily by The Star but the paper does not assume responsibility for typographical errors. The disclaimer notes potential mistakes in pricing and listings.
U S Grade A Extra Large eggs quoted 60 cents per dozen for tomorrow by Frederick County Farm Bureau. Large 57, Medium 53, and B Large 53. Live poultry prices in Winchester area for No 1 quality FOB producers farms show heavy breed hens 22 cents, leghorn hens, rock and cross broilers 22, white hens 10 to 36 cents, bronze hens 28 cents, bronze toms 28 cents. The cooks trade union question asks how long cooks have had a trade union with history noting a Paris origin in 1270.
Washington reports a year end tally showing 1,000,000 rent increases approved for 1950 with 4,000,000 dwellings still under rent ceilings. The housing expediter Tighe E. Woods notes 18.2 percent average boosts and 7,500,000 units remain under federal ceilings.
Funeral services for J Baxter White 77 of Whitacre who died after a ten day illness will be held tomorrow after noon at Fairview Lutheran Church. Rev A Hayne Boozer will officiate with interment in the church yard. He was a Sunday School superintendent for 60 years and a bank director. Survivors include his widow two daughters and ten grandchildren.
Financial and commodity exchanges across the United States will be closed Monday for New Year's Day. The observance affects trading hours nationwide as firms pause operations and market activity stalls.
Roosevelt Evins 22, a Navy stewardman attached to the USS Waxsaw, is to face a preliminary hearing today on murder charges for the December 12 beating of Albert Perkins in Norfolk. Police say Evins admitted being in the taxi at the time, with bloody clothes recovered from a naval base cleaner. Perkins died later in a local hospital.
Funeral services Sunday for Mary Williams 73 a Negro midwife who died Christmas Day. She is reputed to have participated in 1058 births and may attract a sizeable turnout of those she aided into the world across her career.
Funeral services for James Abraham Lincoln Sutphin aged 88, former Virginia General Assembly member, will be held Sunday at Mayberry Funeral Home. Sutphin, a farmer, served in 1910 and 1912, taught school 32 years, and will be buried in Topeco Church Cemetery.
Fire destroyed most of the McCrory's five and ten cent store in Staunton, leaving only brick walls of the three story building. Firefighters from Staunton Waynesboro and Augusta County battled the blaze two and a half hours, preventing spread to nearby shops. No injuries reported, roof collapsed, damages not yet estimated.
Police hunt two men who slugged grocery owner Henry Seigel and escaped with 50 to 60 dollars. The unmasked pair attacked him as he leaned over a counter to pick up an item at the store yesterday.
Circuit Judge Leon M. Bazile will rule Tuesday on if the Potomac River pier at Fairview Beach lies in Virginia or Maryland waters. Ida L. Sonnenberg, owner, was tried in King George County for selling beer without a Virginia license. Morrison argues the 1875 boundary award places the shoreline under Virginia jurisdiction.
First Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue will hold a watch night service tomorrow evening from 9 to midnight. The program includes a worship service, baptis mal service, singspiration, a Marion Brill message, testimonies, special music, and remarks by Rev. Paul E. Dick inviting all to attend.
Washington AP Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle said firms handling food products were included in the Dec 19 voluntary price freeze appeal. He clarified distributors may raise prices only on actual costs paid not on market or replacement orders, meaning warehoused foods should be sold at current levels and raises occur only when replacement costs rise.
A question about a seven year old wearing black as mourning. the response notes that a child eight years or younger does not properly wear black for mourning purposes.
A huge electronic computer at IBM calculated exact orbits of Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto from 1653 to 2060. The device corrected past errors, made 12 million computations to 15 decimal places, and will publish 300 pages of planetary tables for navigators and scientists.
A seven year old boy in Falls Church fell nine feet on an icy porch and died. Weather caused road and air travel disruptions with buses and planes largely returning to normal, though low ceilings forced flight cancellations in Richmond and Bristol until last night.
New admissions at Winchester Memorial Hospital include Mrs. William E. White Route, Mrs. Frank Johnson Route 2, Mrs. Ceci Link 450 N. Cameron St, Miss Reva L Funkhouser Lost Rover W Va.
The answer explains rhubarb is usually classified as a vegetable because the edible part is the leaf stalk rather than the fruit.
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