Market Quotations New York Stocks
Market early today shows limited progress with Columbia Pictures rising over a point after reporting 39 week earnings of 3.26 a share for the period ending March 27. Packard opens 41 1 4 on 2700 shares, Boeing gains 3 8 to 435 8 on 3500 shares. Other gainers include U S Steel Douglas Aircraft United Aircraft Commonwealth Edison Anaconda Copper Phelps Dodge Westinghouse American Cyanamid. Losses include Bethlehem Steel Studebaker Chrysler Radio Corp DuPont International Paper Paramount Pictures and American Can.
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New York
Columbia Pictures
Packard
Boeing
U.S. Steel
Douglas Aircraft
United Aircraft
Commonwealth Edison
Anaconda Copper
Phelps Dodge
Westinghouse Electric
American Cyanamid
Bethlehem Steel
Studebaker
Chrysler, Radio Corp
DuPont
International Paper
Paramount Pictures
American Can
Man 85 to Get His High School Diploma
Allen Smith, who began attending Wendell Phillips Evening School 15 years ago, will receive his high school diploma on June 9. He earned an eighth grade diploma in 1947 after years of night classes.
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Man
Chicago
Allen Smith
Smith
Wendell Phillips
Market notes on fruits vegetables poultry and livestock prices
Baltimore USDA market update shows strawberries and potatoes with mixed strength across regions. Prices for strawberries range 7.00 to 12.00 per crate, potatoes quoted for various sizes and origins, poultry steady with fryers at 29-30 cents per pound and hens 25-27, turkeys 38-40, and cattle hogs with Confidence limited, cattle 23.25 to 23.25 for slaughter heifers, calves 15 to 25, hogs 25 to 50 cents per pound.
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Baltimore
Eastern Shore
N. J
N. C
Usls
Usls & Usls
Live Hog and Cattle Markets Report from Chicago
Market prices for hogs show declines across weights with barrows and gilts 25.50 to 27.75 and over 300 lb at 23.25 down. Sows under 400 lb at 21.50, heavier sows 17.50 down. spring lambs 64-87 lb 22.00-25.00. Cattle and calves 16,000 salable. steers 25.75-27.00 prime, 23.25-25.50 choice, heifers 19.50-24.25, cows 11.50-15.00, bulls 14.00-16.75. Sheep 1,000 salable. spring lambs 24.00-27.75 with skins 20.00-21.00 for older lambs.
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Chicago
USDA
Chicago Grain prices buoyed by soy rally and routine trading
On the Chicago Board of Trade opening session July soybeans rose after yesterday’s 10 cent surge as funds cover shorts. Wheat corn oats rye and lard futures posted mixed early quotes with contracts for July through January maturities shown, while a North Pole geography quiz notes Hammerfest, Norway at 1,318 miles from the pole.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Jly
Local Market Prices for Flour Feed and Grain
Local markets list daily retail and wholesale prices for flour feeds and grains. Prices shown include flour 100 lb bags, mixed feed 100 lb, egg mash, broiler mash, No 2 yellow corn and shelled corn by county, barley, and wholesale butter. ranges indicate market variance.
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Rockingham Co
Augusta Co
Arista
Winchester Area Live Poultry and Egg Market Totals
Agriculture Dept reports prices paid in Winchester for No 1 fowl fob farm. Market steady for boilers and fryers. receipts moderate to heavy, demand fair to good. Turkeys meet fair demand. Farm prices posted for 24 hours ending noon today. Egg markets show U S Grade A large, B large, and medium across Winchester and Harrisonburg. Firefighter killed in Philadelphia when car hits fire engine. Everett Russell, 28, of Marshallton, dies. one firefighter injured.
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Winchester
Seavey
Harrisonburg
U. S
U.S
Tate, Oceans
Cirade
Acdesers
Philadelphia
Everett Russell
Marshallton
West Chester
Farmers Warned To Prevent Weed Flavors In Milk
Blacksburg Virginia dairy expert R G Connellley warns farmers to avoid onion tops and other weeds that taint milk flavor. He recommends milking after pasture removal, not feeding silage during milking, grazing onion infested pastures early, using sweet clover, and chemical weed control with county agent guidance to reduce contamination.
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Blacksburg
R. G. Connelly
VPI
Drugstore Prescriptions Reach One Billion In 1953
In 1953 total drugstore spending totaled 1 039 477 000 dollars with an average of 8 4 prescriptions per family. Weight reducing and heart disease were the two conditions most widely treated by prescriptions.
Security Risks Eliminated by HEW in Testimony
Washington reports that by April 30 the Department of Health Education and Welfare fired or eliminated 238 security risks including 114 suspected subversives. The total surpassed the Civil Service Commission’s prior tally of 78. The department noted about 40 percent of eliminated risks in one category were holdovers from Democratic administrations. Secretary Hobby said a new internal security office would screen about 1,000 sensitive jobs, requesting 285 thousand dollars as part of a 1.6 billion dollar HEW budget for the coming year.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Civil Service Commission
House Appropriations
Eisenhower
Hobby
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