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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1951
Page
9
Wholesale food prices edge down slowly while retail stores show few general price cuts. In red meat, only temporary specials appeared, with one chain cutting prime rib roasts and another trimming sirloin in one city but raising it nearby. Produce sees abundant vegetables and new arrivals hinting lower prices by weekend.
A bureau report notes the continued normal seasonal pattern for farm chickens as boiler chicks placed since May emerge toward marketing age. New York’s City Department of Markets finds eggs up 31 percent year over year, milk up 23 percent, butter up 18 percent, with most surveyed foods higher and pork-center cut work chops about 10 percent cheaper. Wholesale food prices hit the year’s low so far at 6.92, near last week’s 6.92, with the year’s high 7.31 on Feb. 20, reflecting 31 foods in the Dan Bradstreet index.
Cpl. Joseph D. Edwards of Berryville and Cpl. Roger E. Thomas of Bluemont were among military personnel arriving in Seattle yesterday from Korea on rotation leaves and reassignment.
The Campa Brothers 3 Ring Circus comes to Winchester with 2:30 and 8 p.m. shows on Tuesday. The program features a large wild animal menagerie, over a hundred horses and ponies, and an 18 elephant contingent led by a famed five ton elephant. Children and schools are invited to visit the tent city early Tuesday to watch operations begin.
Mrs. Annie Virginia Emmart 86 died at her Gainesboro home. Funeral set for 2 p.m. at Ompy Funeral Home with Rev. Claude Barrick and Rev. Grover Jenkins officiating. She had been ill since January 26 1951 and two daughters and a sister survive.
Virginia Superintendent Dowell J. Howard praised localities for equalizing Negro and white school facilities. He noted Negro construction totals 13,965,228 of 40,496,212 spent in current projects and that Negro pupils are 26 percent of enrollment. New four year construction totals 229,357,912 with Negro projects 68,723,891 and white 160,634,021. He cited loan fund shortfall as an obstacle.
J H Brill of Opequon reports seeing a brown bear while plowing corn this morning. The bear stood on hind legs about five and a half feet high and weighed roughly 150 pounds. The game warden has been notified to protect nearby lambs.
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