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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 17, 1957

Page

5

Market Quotions Wall Street Irregular Trading

Wall Street opened irregularly lower in moderate activity. General Tire rose about a point, United Aircraft gained a point, while Revlon Gulf Oil and Du Pont slipped. Steels motors chemicals and oils led declines with small losses. Rails were mixed with small gains for Pennsylvania Railroad and Southern Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Baltimore and Ohio fell by fractions.

General Tire United Aircraft Revlon Gulf Oil DuPont Pennsylvania Railroad Southern Railway Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio

Wheat futures rise slightly on Chicago Board of Trade

Chicago grain markets open fractionally higher with Wheat leading gains on old and new contracts. Corn and Soybeans show modest climbs while Oats and Rye post varied early prices. Lard futures also advance with mixed quotations across months.

Chicago Board of Trade Jly

Market Report: Produce Prices and Livestock Steady to Weak

Fruit and vegetables show mixed movement with apples and peaches up to 2 inches higher in Md and Va. Tomatoes firm to barely steady. beans and potatoes show weaker undertones across several regions. Cattle and calves mix of utility, commercial, and good grades reported with slight gains in calves. cows and bulls mixed by class.

Baltimore Bkt Usis & Usis del. Cobblers MD Cobblers NJ Cobblers Cobblers MD & Va Bkts & Hors USDA

Gas Makes Heating Clean and Cheap Across Many Areas

The message argues natural gas is the best heating fuel for homes, citing lower costs in many communities, space savings from no coal storage, and cleanliness. It notes gas delivery is handled by the local gas company, no fuel billing until use, and that a furnace conversion can be done without buying a new unit. Shenandoah Gas Co offers Janitrol gas conversion burners with sales engineers available. Call MO 2-3483.

Shenandoah Gas Co

Livestock Sale Notes for Barrows Gilts Sows and Sheep

The sale lists 17.00 head for 400 lb barrows and gilts, Geileans Nos 2 and 3 around 300 lb, 19.50 for similar grade about 350 lb, 18.50 for not established sows. No sheep on sale.

Local Market Prices From Rockingham And Augusta

Market list shows prices for feed grains and commodities including egg mash flour corn meal and barley with locations Rockingham Augusta Luray and Taray. Butterfat and wholesale butter are also listed. Prices vary by item and location with some entries incomplete or uncertain due to OCR errors.

Rockingham Augusta

Poultry and Egg Market Notes at Winchester and Harrisonburg

Agriculture department report shows steady supply but limited outlets for poultry processing. Live poultry prices list broilers fryers heavy hens and turkey grades while Winchester and Harrisonburg egg markets report Grade A prices for various sizes and grades with small fluctuations noted.

Cas Winchester Egg Market Qrade Watves Ontee Harrisonburg

Cigarette Ignites Sofa Fire on Braddock Street

Firefighters from Reuss and South End responded at 9 30 last night to a second floor apartment owned by Edith Fletcher at Braddock Street where a hot cigarette ash caused a small sofa fire. A six inch hole in the upholstery was the only damage reported in the RalphKeister residence.

Piremen Braddock St Reuss South End Ralph Keister Edith Fletcher

Birth Certificate Mix Up at County Courthouse

A man visiting Huntington West Virginia sought a birth certificate but asked for the birth control department. He appeared confused while at the county statistics office in the courthouse.

Huntington W. Va Vital Statstics

Evening TV Listings for Channels Five and Seven

Channel 5 offers daily lineup from 5:00 PM to 11:30 PM including News, sports, and drama such as The Last of the Mohicans, Masquerade Party, and Kraft Theater The Big Break with Col and This is Your Life Also shown are Billy Johnson Show Weather Long John Silver Top Secret Dugout Chatter and Wash. Movietime Hooray for Love Starring Ann Sothern Channel 7 presents Town & Country Time Disneyland Navy Log Ozzie and Harriet Moment of Decision Boxing Giardello Vejar Sports Reel Night Show Timber Queen Vic Damone Show U S Steel Hour Victim with Dean Stockwell and Walter Matthau Then News and Late Show No Place for a Lady

B. Rash Gibbons Sam Last of the Mohicans Helen O'Connell NBC News Kraft Theater Harkness Ward Wea Wash Cleveland Ann Sothern John Daly Giardello Vejar D. Edwards Richard Carlson Spike Jones Vic Damone Dean Stockwell Walter Mathau Wm. Gargan Margaret Lindsay

Television Channel 4 Daytime Primetime Schedule

A dense listing shows programs across Channel 4 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m and into late evening with soap operas game shows movies and variety hours featuring Tic Tac Dough It Could Be You Tex and Jinx Club 60 Bride and Groom Mat Theater The Last Hour Queen for a Day Mod Romances Comedy Time Susie Florian Zabach Catherine the Great and more with film features and star guests across the day and late night slots

Channel 4

NAACP Groups Ordered to Answer Five Questions

In Richmond a federal three judge panel ordered the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to answer five of 100 interrogatories. The court held objections valid but required responses to the five questions supporting claims of damages over 3000 if the so called NAACP laws are enforced. The case resumes September 16 in Richmond.

NAACP Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund Morris A. Soper 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals Sterling Hutcheson Walter E. Hoffman General Assembly Richmond Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Court reduces death sentences for seven in Hungary riot case

In Budapest the People’s Supreme Court commuted seven death penalties to prison terms for individuals linked to the October riots in Miskolc. Four life terms were upheld or increased for others, and Nona Pinczel’s life term was cut to 15 years. The appeals were heard at Fo- uted Prison before a five‑member panel.

Budapest Hungary People’s Supreme Court Nona Pinczel Miskolc Foe- Utea

Unemployment Peaks in Winchester Area as Seasonal Rise Ties

Unemployment reached a mid-June seasonal peak in the Winchester area, including Winchester, and Frederick and Clarke Counties, totaling about 1,200 to 1,300 above February. The labor force is ~18,250 with 43,000 population, 6.5 percent jobless in food processing, and 739 job applications on file at the Winchester Employment Service.

Winchester Frederick Clarke Counties Winchester Employment Service Doubleday Company, Inc Ashworth Brothers, Inc Winchester Vses

Massachusetts seeks aid as eight week drought bites farms

Massachusetts faces eight week drought causing millions in losses for dairy and farm operators. Governor Furcolo reviews cloud seeding with Dr Wallace Howell while federal aid potential and state finance limits are discussed. Rhode Island declares disaster and considers joining Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Boston Massachusetts Foster Furcolo Lexington Wallace E. Howell Rhode Island John L. Rego Connecticut Niels Borholm Agriculture Department

Shawnee Auxiliary Plans Yard Party Fundraiser

The Shawnee Auxiliary to the Volunteer Fire Department meets at 7:30 p.m. in the fire hall to plan a yard party dinner and July 27 fundraiser starting at 5 p.m. Donations will be canvassed by listed residents across Frederick County with food donations accepted at the fire hall.

Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department Vance Whittaker Frederick County

Crosby Acquitted of Conspiracy in Portland Case

Clyde C. Crosby head of the Oregon Teamsters was found not guilty of conspiring to take a bribe while serving on a Portland city commission. A seven woman five man jury delivered a unanimous verdict after 2 hours 48 minutes of deliberation in the continued vice investigation era.

Portland Ore.p Teamsters Union Oregon Clyde C. Crosby Vice Crosby Teamsters’ International

Missing C47 Traced No Trace Found In Taipei Search

An air sea and ground search failed to locate a U S Air Force C47 missing with 16 aboard as it neared Taipei from Clark Field Philippines. Radio contact was lost Tuesday night and authorities in Taipei reported no substantiation of crash reports in the mountains between Taipei and Formosa Strait.

Taipei U.S. Air Force Clark Field Philippines U. S. Air Force Formosa Strait

Explosion and Fire Reported Over Myé Chiaopeng During Transport

A Tuesday night explosion and flames were sighted near Myé Chiaopeng as a missing C47, attached to the U S air task force in For mosa, disappeared while returning to Taipei on a Pie administrative support flight per headquarters.

Myé, Chiaopeng U.S. Air Task Force Formosa Taipei

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