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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1952
Page
7
Classifieds in The Star use border boxes and larger type. Rates are 1.50 dollars per column inch per day. Closing hours require ads to reach The Star Office before 10 a.m. to appear in that date’s issue.
A set of classified ads seeks workers and sales staff in Winchester area. Listings include a warehouse clerk with typing, pin boys age 16, money-collection technician for vending machines with car and $600 capital, a building specialties salesman, an assistant farm foreman, an experienced cook at Howard Johnsons, and two young men for mechanical training with L C Smith & Corona Typewriters offering progressive wages.
A 13 man U S B 29 crew parachuted to safety just before the bomber blew up mid air over Tokyo The craft broke apart in a flash seen by thousands of workers survivors suffered minor injuries and scattered landings occurred across a wide area south of Tokyo
Market reports show steady to firm prices for apples and potatoes with varied quality. Poultry and turkeys list steady demand, while cattle, hogs, and calves move slowly with price ranges noted by USDA markets in Baltimore Chicago.
Grain prices ease at the Chicago Board of Trade with Mar wheat at 2.5844 and May 2.54, oats around 90, rye near 3.10, and soybeans mixed with March at 2.97, May 2.94, and July 2.90. lard futures quoted Mar 13.95 and May 13.75.
The Izaak Walton League will hold a dinner meeting at Tokes Inn on Friday evening at 6 30. Dr Ronald W ilson will be the guest speaker and the new officers will be installed at the event.
Stocks moved irregularly higher with most gains under a dollar. Foster Wheeler rose on news of a 100 percent stock dividend. Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron advanced on a 6 000 share block. Advancers included Santa Fe Southern Pacific Union Pacific Bethlehem Steel U S Steel and several others. Tennessee Coal opened down 1/8 on 10 000 shares. others fell such as J I Case American Tobacco American Smelting DuPont American Can and Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Agriculture Dept and market notes list U S Grade A eggs from extra large to medium and B sizes with prices from 38 to 44 cents. Live poultry in Winchester region reports No 1 fowl fob farm with heavy hens 24 cents per lb and various breeds and ages priced per pound or each, including Beltsville White and White and Bronze varieties.
The Star reports corrected daily market items for flour corn meal and oats with varied bag weights and prices. It lists feeds at retail like mash mixed feed cracked corn and standard grain futures including wheat and corn per bushel with color coded notes. It also includes a chemistry note about Vitallium alloy used in orthopedic surgery mentioning cobalt chromium and molybdenum among other elements.
A Davidson College graduate and Union Theological Seminary senior Mr Miller will speak at the Braddock Street Methodist Church Youth Mass Meeting in Charlotte on February 3. The event follows a 6 pm dinner and begins at 7 pm with active youth work and Fellowship involvement noted.
Berryville prepares for the Plantation Minstrel, sponsored by Lloyd Williams Post No 41. The two performances, directed by Charles G Skinner with Kenneth Levi as interlocutor, feature end men Iden Mallory Nat Mallory Eddie Lou Hart and Bill Boyce and solos by Gene Dunn Jack Enders Rozier Emmons Allen Cochran Libby Mallory.
On July 12, 1921 President Harding appeared in person before the Senate to present his case as he sought to defer the passage of a World War I Bonus Bill.
The text notes that the stallion Ranger, arriving in 1765, sired horses ridden by George Washington in the Revolutionary War. It also references a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and a Georgia judge, but the key event is Ranger’s 1765 arrival and its link to Washington.
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