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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1954
Page
3
The Associated Press reports home cooked Fourth of July dinners will cost less than last year. Prices for frying chickens and eggs have fallen, produce like peaches berries and melons are plentiful, and several holiday staples show sizable markdowns. Butter purchases rose after price supports were cut, with retail butter at about 66.6 cents a pound.
Mr Bailey outlines how students and graduates struggle to find preferred jobs and explains summer openings mainly in agriculture. Harvest work, cherry and peach processing, and apple season offer seasonal roles, with housing provided for incoming crews and recruitment from outside the area to meet labor needs.
The Appalachian Apple Service board seeks advertising funds from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania growers. A two cent per bushel fee on all apples would start with a $100000 minimum goal. Pledges total 1888000 bushels including Virginia directors and 19 others.
J Clayton Cochran Jr of Winchester News Co announces a public hearing before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on July 12, 1954. The firm seeks a license to retail beer above 3.2 percent for off premises consumption at 15 S Loudoun St Winchester Va.
In Guatemala City a line of mutilated bodies is shown in the morgue as the new military government accuses deposed President Jacobo Arbenz Guzm an’s backers. About 60 bodies are reported, with six from Villa Lobos displaying brutal torture marks including eye gouging and genital harm.
CHICAGO July 4 motorists began leaving cities early to beat the rush for the long weekend. Thousands packed grips with sports clothes and headed for trains planes and buses to summer resorts as the National Safety Council estimated about 40 million cars will be on the roads if good weather holds.
The article projects heavy traffic on highways Saturday through Monday with peak volumes Monday evening as tourists head home. Officials warn about as many as 430 highway travelers possibly killed in crashes from 6 p.m. today to midnight Monday, highlighting a deadly holiday pattern.
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