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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1957
Page
5
Prices for broilers and fryers range from 2 1/2 to 34 cents per pound with steady demand for turkeys. Heavy hens and breeder hens show varied rates while market listings include Winchester and Harrisonburg egg prices with Grade A large at 45 cents and Grade A small around 20 cents.
Chicago grains edge higher with soybeans leading gains on the Board of Trade. Wheat, corn and oats firm in early trading as futures show renewed bullish tones. Soybeans set July and September quotes around 2.54 and 2.52 respectively, with other months near 2.48 to 2.55. Lard futures mixed with autumn positions around 13.95 to 14.02 per hundredweight.
New York stocks opened irregularly with oils and steels up narrowly while rails held steady or slipped. Sunshine Mining led activity with a solid rise, while International Paper fell about a point. Major names such as Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Douglas Aircraft and Chrysler posted small gains or losses.
Baltimore and Chicago USDA summaries list fruit, vegetables, and meats with prices. Apples, cantaloupes, tomatoes, beans, and potatoes show varied local values. cattle, hogs, and sheep markets document ranges for steers, heifers, cows, calves, hogs, and lambs across regions and weights.
Local markets list feed prices for 100 lb bags and wholesale grains in Mill Valley and Rockingham. Entries include mixed feed 100 lb at 3.40 and egg mash 20 percent at 4.45, with wheat, corn, flour, and butterfat prices shown.
A dense listing of daily programs across Channels 4 1 5 7 and 11 detailing time slots for news weather sports films and variety shows. Notable entries include Ellery Queen Twenty One Sam and Friends Great Gildersleeve I Spy Burns and Allen and The Cisco Kid among others with late night Talk and Soap Opera segments.
The hurricane Audrey toll stands at 534 dead or missing with damage over 40 million dollars. Cameron Parish recovered 328 bodies, 190 remain missing. Louisiana losses include 26 million crop damage and 2 million livestock. Texas reports 11 deaths and six million dollars in property losses. Insured losses total 11 million in Louisiana and 1.5 million in Texas.
BLOCK ISLAND Rhode Island four men close friends and business associates died when their four seater Stinson 150 crashed shortly after takeoff. Edward Schnoor 31 pilot and co owner Lucien Claire 39 Joseph Farese 29 Allaire's brother in law and George Darling 33 perished. Firefighters needed bulldozers to reach the wreck in heavy brush.
Nine local high school students were elected to offices at Virginia Girls State and Old Dominion Boys State at VPI last week. Mary Welzel won the American Legion Auxiliary Citizenship Award and was elected mayor of her city. Ellen Eschell was elected a delegate and Patsy Oates also attended from James Wood High School along with Handley’s Crabill and Thomas Greas.
Becky Lee, a Dunn, North Carolina native now living in Roanoke, won Miss Virginia 1957, capping three tries after runner up finishes in Miss North Carolina. Judges from North Carolina praised her move to Virginia as boosting her beauty, while Miss Tri Cities Patricia Ferguson placed second and Barbara Turner of Williamsburg third.
Coast Guard units and a rescue plane hunted an area near Cape Hatteras for a mysterious distress signal heard by three ships. The call letters CLFH suggested a Cuban registry but Coast Guard records show no vessel with that ID. A restricted distress channel was lifted after no ship in danger was located.
Two Korean men, Pak Yol Keun and Choi Ki Eop, were sentenced to death in Utsunomiya Japan for a mass murder committed May 3 1946 in Nikko. They broke into a store, killed six sleeping family members, stole money and clothing, and burned the store and six nearby houses.
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