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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1952
Page
8
Classified display ads from Leesburg to Winchester list items for sale including threshing machines, furniture, motors, farms with 160 acres, plants, and rental apartments. Wording notes general public notices and job wants with contact details and street addresses.
Classified ad offers a 30 gas hot water heater and a Bucket-A-Day stove for sale. Contact call 3028 Winchester. Auction or sale details appear in local listings.
France has been testing television since 1934 but only a small circle near Paris and Lille can view. The state funds TV with no commercial sponsorships and imposes a 10 franc tax on sets. Prices start at 90 000 francs with many homes lacking receivers.
Market notes from Baltimore and Chicago show steady to weaker prices across produce and livestock. Apples, potatoes, and sweet potatoes face light offerings and slow demand, while poultry shows modest gains and hogs and cattle trade fluctuates with regional conditions. Cattle, hogs, and sheep quotes from USDA and local markets reflect mixed demand, with several price ranges noted for feeders, calves, and sows.
The New York Stock Market edged higher with rails and steel firms posting gains. American Telephone opened a 2000-share block up 1 eighth at 151 shakes, adding later. American Power and Light started 3300 shares off 1 eighth at 273 and held. Higher movers included Northern Pacific Southern Railway Dow Chemical Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Douglas Aircraft.
Soybeans open firm on the Board of Trade with July at 3.31 high near the OPS ceiling. Wheat July at 2.317 8, Sep 2.343 4, Dec 2.39 to 391 4. Corn July 1.833 4, Sep 1.831 2, Dec 1.745 8, Mar 1.775 8. Oats July 771 2, Sep 80, Dec 837 8, Mar 871 8. Rye July 2.15, Sep 2.14, Dec 2.16. Prices listed for soybeans and other grains.
Local market items corrected daily include flour, corn meal in 5 10 and 25 pound bags, yellow and white corn meal, grain FOB mill wheat per bushel, No 2 yellow corn, white corn, barley, 36 pound oats, feeds at retail such as egg mash and bran, broiler mash, mixed feed, cracked corn, and butter products including 100 pound bags of butterfat.
In Winchester area markets prices for U S Grade A eggs range from 31 to 37 cents per dozen by size with Grade B at 31 cents. Live poultry prices show Heavy Breed Hens and Leghorn Hens around 16 to 22 cents per pound, Rocks and Cross Broilers about 24 cents, Leghorn Broilers 21 to 22 cents, Heavy Cocks and Leghorn Cocks around 20 cents, and Beltsville White Broilers 7 to 9 pounds at 35 cents with White Bronze birds at 23 to 30 cents.
Notice states Mr. Raymond Rice is not associated with United Sign Advertising Company located at 508 S. Loudoun as of June 11.
Norfolk's Redevelopment Project No One has razed 780 structures in six months to clear 127 acres of downtown slums. By year end 300 more will fall, with 752 low rent housing units planned alongside a new 8 acre elementary school. The project boosts Tidewater Drive and Monticello Avenue, while funds total 4.675 million dollars from city state and federal sources. Approximately 950 families, mostly African American, relocated to other housing.
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