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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1961
Page
11
Listings show hogs with top barrows and gilts at 18.70 and various butcher and sows prices. sheep and lambs priced from 13.10 to 19.25. slaughter cattle including steers and heifers with top values around 22.75 and 21.50. cows and bulls priced from 12.00 to 22.40. stocker and feeder cattle with yearling steers quoted up to 28.80 and 25.50 with ranges for other grades.
Five Illinois farmers drove to Washington in a Chevrolet with a protest sign opposing William T. Smith of New York for bragging about not planting 104 acres of corn to collect government grain subsidies. They pressed Secretary Freeman and Senator Douglas to expose the disparity between Smith’s gains and Illinois farmers’ subsidies, while noting their own smaller payments and urging fact setting.
Fifteen persons attended the hearing on road rights of way held by the town council. No action was taken to align town ordinances with state requirements for 50 foot rights of way. The proposal was explained but no protests followed.
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