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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1951
Page
7
Notice states ads must reach the Star Office before 16 a.m. to be included in that date’s issue. It sets the cutoff time for submissions and indicates how to ensure placement.
Multiple small ads offer a five room brick house at Clearbrook financing available a playpen electric bottle sterilizer baby scales a seven inch circular saw priced at 20 call numbers and a diamond pin Box 711 Winchester Va plus farming and rental notices Box 59 Box 68 care Star and other brief notices for a spring occupancy home rental and wanted listings including a grazing farm and an orchard job and miscellaneous sale items from the Winchester area.
Brief help wanted notes from a Winchester Virginia paper seek a young woman for stenography and a experienced white lady or nurse to care for two children on a country estate with pay offered. Also an at home sewing job listing from Hollywood California offering work sewing ready cut items.
Notices warn of rewards for return of a ruby and diamond bracelet and a 7 karat platinum piece with baguette diamonds, lost December 26 or 28 near Berryville or Millwood Virginia. A separate loss on January 4 near West Clifford Street offers cash reward. Also missing small set of keys with contact numbers provided.
Immediate delivery Ford Chevrolet Dodge and Plymouth motors and other makes to order with installation arranged. Montgomery Ward Co in Winchester Virginia advertises cars from $9 monthly and sewing machines with buying selling repairing and trading options.
Ike Williams stopped Jose Gatica at 2 06 of the first round in a non title bout at Madison Square Garden. Williams landed four hooks and a right to end the fight after Gatica maneuvered aggressively. Referee Ray Miller halted the bout after the third knockdown with Williams poised for a March defense in California.
USDA livestock prices show slaughter steers up to 50 cents higher, with highs for high choice and prime cattle at 34.00-35.00 per cwt and up to 41.00 top for odd head. Hogs rise modestly with barrows and gilts up to 0.75, top 21.50. Sheep tight supply with fed lambs 32.00-33.50, ewes 16.00-18.50 and bucks around 15.00.
A modest downward tilt marked the New York market with leaders fluctuating between gains and losses. Steel, motors, rails drew most attention with a downside bias while several issues stayed higher or unchanged, led by companies like Goodrich and General Electric amid mixed sector moves.
Open prices show wheat at Mar 2.47 1 4, May 2.46, corn near 1.78, oats around 98 1 8, rye about 1.78, soybeans near 3.12. Futures for March through July show small declines across wheat corn oats rye and soybeans with values varying by contract.
In Huntington West Virginia two men were convicted of driving the same automobile while drunk. Troopers spotted the car on Route 60 twice with different drivers. Magistrate Harold Kitchen fined Dillard Moore fifty dollars and costs with license suspension. Cecil Thacker received one hundred dollars and costs, six months in jail, and ten years license suspension for a second offense.
The United States ended planting restrictions on corn and wheat yesterday. Secretary Bran man said the move reflects national emergency conditions and the country’s partial mobilization, allowing farmers to plant and grow as they wish.
Sam Snead fired a four under par 67 to hold a one stroke lead at the 25th Los Angeles Open at Riviera. Marty Furgol stood second after a 33 36 68 while Snead complained of a sore hand and eyed a third title in the $15 000 tournament.
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