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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 16, 1957

Page

7

15 year old admits killing schoolmate in argument

A 15 year old Montgomery Blair High student, David Vernon Hall, confessed to slaying Georgette Anne Hentgen during an argument at a wooded area in Silver Spring. He admitted striking her with a tree branch and reenacted the incident in a 30 minute demonstration for police.

Boy Silver Spring Georgette Anne Hentgen Montgomery County David Vernon Hall Thomas Hall Young Hall Montgomery Blair High

Georgette Found Dead in Sligo Creek Park Sledding Area

The body of Georgette was found by her mother and a neighbor in Sligo Creek Park on Monday. Police say a heavy blow behind the right ear caused the death and a suspect named Hall confessed after police contacted him a third time.

Georgette Sligo Creek Park Hall Highland View Elementary School

Expensive Experiment Thaws Truck Engine

Pueblo Corp. worker Rudy Cruz tried to thaw a frozen pickup engine by building a fire beneath it. The blaze thawed the engine but caused about $40 in damage, according to firemen.

Market Quotation Report From Baltimore and Chicago Trading

Market notes show light trading due to cold weather and bad roads. Prices across fruits vegetables and livestock inch upward with specific bids for apples potatoes sweet potatoes and hogs cattle and calves in Baltimore and Chicago markets amid limited sales and variable weights.

Chicago Grain Opening Steady to Firm on Board of Trade

Grains start mixed in active trade with wheat corn oats rye and soybeans showing varied early prices. Contracts list for March May July and September reflect modest gains and declines across wheat corn oats rye and soybeans while lard futures also appear.

Chicago Board of Trade Jly

Stocks Edge Higher at Open with Steel Shares Leading

Steels and motors recovered to lift the stock market in early trading. Bethlehem and Youngstown gained over a point each while Republic Steel rose about a point and U S Steel a fraction. General Motors Chrysler and Ford held steady to higher as rails showed fractional advances led by Southern Pacific and New York Central.

New York Bethlehem Youngstown Republic Steel U. S. Steel General Motors Chrysler Ford Southern Pacific New York Central

Local Market Prices and Feed Goods Listing

Daily market snapshot lists feed and grain prices with items such as Bran Egg Mash Flour Corn Rockingham and Augusta barley and corn rates. Includes wholesale and retail quotes for butter and miscellaneous commodities with notes on possible typographical errors.

Rockingham Augusta San Pecsescesenses SE

Virginia Livestock Market Receipts and Prices

The Virginia Livestock Market reports strong demand across cattle and hog classes. Top lambs reached 24 dollars and top shoats 21.25, with cattle grades from choice butcher steers 18 to 19.25 and heifers 17 to 18.25, while cows sold 12 to 14 per hundredweight and calves from 20 to 32.

Farmers Livestock Exchange Market Sale Highlights

January 14 report shows strong demand across categories with top hogs at 19.25 and calves up to 32.00. Prices span cattle and sheep, including choice butcher steers 19.00–20.50 and heavy slaughter calves 15.00–21.00, hogs 17.50–19.25 per hundredweight, and cows per head 59.00–165.00.

Meat and egg market data from Agriculture Dept shows steady broilers and varying egg prices

Market report lists farm prices for live poultry with broilers and fryers steady, turkeys and breeders priced, and egg market by grade with multiple stations including Winchester and Harrisonburg. Prices span 18 to 35 cents for eggs and 23 to 26 cents for certain poultry, with mixed demand described as fair to good.

Winchester

Nasser Orders Foreign Firms Egyptianized Across Egypt

Nasser's government orders all foreign banks, insurers, and traders in Egypt to convert to Egyptian management or be classified as enemy property. British and French firms are Egyptianized. others have five years to form Egyptian joint stock companies. Government control emerges through an economic body receiving shares, potentially crippling Western investment and US cooperation with the regime.

Cairo Nasser Egypt U. S United States

All Poultry Sold At Weekly Auction Capon Valley Sale

A total of 25 400 birds offered in 11 lots were sold at the Capon Valley Poultry Auction yesterday in Wardensville West Virginia. Prices ranged across the board with bidders active throughout the sale.

Capon Valley Ares Wardensville W. Va

Average price and demand data snippet

The record shows price data with a rate around 17.84 cents and demand noted as improving. Details are fragmentary, but the figures suggest variation around the 17 to 181 percent range and indicate an uptick in demand.

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