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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1955
Page
3
Grains opened with steady to firm bids as trading began on the Board of Trade. Wheat led with Mar near 2.31 and May around 2.27, while Corn, Oats and Soybeans showed modest initial ranges. Lard bids held at 12.65 for January and May contracts.
The Sperry family expresses gratitude to friends for sympathy shown after the death of Thomas M Sperry.
A shooting contest will be held at Bray's Esso Station in Middle Town on Saturday January 15 from 1 PM to 10 PM. Prizes include two quarters of beef and assorted holiday foods such as turkeys hams beef and chickens.
Mrs. Novick was named president of the Sisterhood of Beth El Congregation at its annual meeting in the Temple on Fairmont Ave. Other officers include Nat Pratt first vice president Ruben Kaplan second vice president Moe Schaffer secretary and Mike Hamburger treasurer. Five new members were introduced and a Israel goods sale is planned with displays at the Temple. The next meeting is February 9 at 8 p.m. with Vel Koman and Mrs. Jacobson hosting.
In Washington Senator Sparkman says no 100 percent insurance against Chiang Kai-shek dragging the U S into war, but he views the Dec 10 note signed by Dulles and Yeh as a solid promise. The agreement, tied to the U S Formosa Mutual Defense Treaty, is seen as the strongest safeguard against expansion beyond self defense. He spoke before a Senate Foreign Relations panel briefing by Dulles.
Eight youths escaped from the State Training School for boys in Boonville Missouri. Jesse Dean Wood 15 of Kansas City was killed when a stolen car hit a barricade on an unfinished Jefferson City bridge during a pursuit by Highway Patrolman Paul V Volker Windy snow reduced visibility and three youths surrendered while three were captured nearby in Columbia
The Treasury reported peacetime saving bond sales for 1954 reached 4.889 billion dollars in Series E and H. End year holdings of these bonds totaled 381/4 billion dollars, with total bonds outstanding about 57 1/2 billion. Net gains over redemptions reached 455 million, the largest since 1949.
Sunspots are not always present on the sun. They appear in varying numbers, from none for weeks to about a hundred at once. The quantity fluctuates in intervals of roughly 11.13 years, a cycle astronomers call the sunspot cycle.
Regularity observed since 1700 shows the lowest point in the latest cycle in April 1954. National Bureau of Standards radio specialists base this on studies of shortwave radio propagation affected by sunspots and their solar distances.
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