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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1951
Page
9
Baltimore reports steady to dull produce demand with prices for apples and potatoes flat or rising slightly. Cattle, hogs, and sheep totals show active trade at varied prices, with small supply and occasional higher bids for prime cuts. Chicago and other markets mirror modest declines and selective strength in select weight classes.
The session saw broad demand with leaders advancing about a dollar per share. Radio Corp rose on heavy volume of 7,000 shares and hit the years high near 21. Anderson Clayton jumped over 5 on news of a 100 percent stock dividend. Several names led a rebound from multi week lows as Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Gulf Oil and other firms posted gains.
Opening prices show wheat mixed with gains in feed grains while corn and soybeans move. Wheat July at 2.33 and 2.37 for September reflect modest strength. corn July near 1.68 with soybeans July about 3.06 indicating cautious buying as markets digest supply.
U S High Commissioner John J McCloy flew Miss Vonceil Clements from Vivian Louisiana to Germany in his private plane to marry Lt Willie R Sprawberry of Mira Louisiana The couple plan a July 14 ceremony at McCloys Bad Homberg villa with McCloy to give the bride away.
Market notes show best quality slaughter ewes offered at 16.00 to 17.50 with lighter weights at the higher end. Heavy ewes quoted 14.00 to 15.00, indicating price spread by weight and quality.
The article states fireworks are legal in Frederick County outside Winchester city limits from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on July 4, correcting a prior misquote. Fireworks may not be used in Winchester at any time or in the County from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. outside the Christmas New Year period.
Readable prices show various grains and feed items with per bag and per hundredweight figures. Entries include flour corn meal white and yellow varieties, milling wheat moisture content, No 2 yellow corn, white corn, old barley mash, and mixed mash. Prices listed for retail and wholesale markets.
Agricultural Department reports prices for poultry eggs and live birds in Frederick County. Grades A and B eggs, live hen and rooster categories, broilers and breeder stock listed with per pound or per item figures. Eggs and poultry market summary reflects current posted values for local producers and buyers.
AP reporters Sam Summerlin and George Sweers flew over Kaesong Korea, the former capital near the 38th parallel now in no man’s land. The town showed scarce sign of troops or fortifications with three civilians observed on the empty main street.
Clarke County Commissioner of Revenue David H. Allen reports the Office of Price Stabilization has supplied free distribution forms from Berryville. Forms inform the public of business responsibilities and obligations under price controls in the county.
When the census work ends December 31, 1952 the aggregate cost will total a little under $90 million. The per capita cost for the population census was about 33 cents.
Pittsburgh report says a rookie patrolman, Regis O Malley, 28, was shot in the hip but survived. He killed Marion Williams, 26, of Washington D C, in a service station gun battle after catching Williams inside the station and seeing him crawl out the rear window.
Carlyle attributes the words I want to meet my God awake to Maria Theresa of Austria who refused to take a drug at death. Other historians quote variations about her final moments.
A woman declared death was near and that she would meet it while awake. She died in November 1780, as recorded in the period text.
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