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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1961
Page
3
The annual Chincoteague pony penning and auction begins Thursday through Saturday as ponies swim across Assateague Channel. Visitors bid on wild ponies to raise funds for the Chincoteague Firemen's Carnival, with prices typically 80 to 200 dollars.
Market quotations show fractions up and down with the Dow Jones at 683.84, as U.S. Steel and Jones & Laughlin gain about a point. In Chicago hogs and cattle prices shift with mixed demand while overall bids stay cautious before news on the Communist threat.
In Baltimore cattle and calves were limited with insufficient sales to test prices. Hogs were active and steady with scarce sows. barrows and gilts mostly US No 1 and 2 190-220 lbs at 19.50, mixed lots around 216 lbs at 19.25, 249 lbs at 18.50. Sheep offerings few and market not established.
Chicago Grain notes a mixed opening with September soybeans up five cents per bushel and wheat and corn modestly higher while oats vary. Prices show September futures near 1.97 to 1.98 for wheat and 1.15 to 1.15 for corn with soybeans at about 2.57 to 2.58.
Richmond area price report listing per bushel values for No. 1 Red Winter Wheat at 1.82 No. 2 Yellow Shelled Corn 1.19 No. 2 White Shelled Corn 1.29 No. 2 Oats 66 cents No. 3 barley 80 cents Abruzzi Seed Rye 1.40 All prices per bushel in effect today.
Mrs Harold G Brown and Mrs Peston Avery placed first in the weekly duplicate match of the Monday Contract Bridge Club last night at the George Washington.
Reynolds Metals Co. files a 7.8 million suit in federal court alleging confiscation of funds and property by the Cuban government. Reynolds International Inc. and Reynolds Foreign Sales Inc. are named as plaintiffs seeking to attach Cuban assets in the United States. The dispute centers on Havana area facilities for rolling laminating and printing aluminum foil packaging materials seized in October 1960.
Bentley Kinney and S H Reaves tied with Mrs R H Trumbo and W W Triplett of Warrenton for second. Mrs Ellis Ford and Mrs John Griffith placed fourth. The next meeting for all interested players is July 31 at 8 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel.
Reservists were mobilized to protect workers commuting to jobs as casualty figures were released. Initial reports said three deaths, with workers arriving in Salisbury under armored escort. Whitehead urged unity, saying Africans did not want the strike but faced intimidation from Joshua Nkomo’s ANDP. Nkomo denied backing the strike but the party called for a countrywide stay at home on the constitution vote day. The nationalist demand for majority rule follows a 15 seat count in a 69 member Parliament.
Two workmen fell from a scaffold at the new shopping center on wae around 9 am. They were taken to Memorial Hospital by the Winchester Volunteer group. No serious injuries were reported.
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