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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1939
Page
9
Baltimore and Philadelphia market reports list cattle hogs and sheep prices with steady to good demand. Chicago and New York notes show hog and cattle activity, futures, and stock quotations across major exchanges.
Chicago firm wheat market with futures up 7 to 8 cents as Liverpool gains and rust fears boost domestic prices. July to Dec wheat shown, oats soybeans rye and fats listed. Kansas reports poor Galva yield. Baltimore notes wheat and corn quotes and mill delivery prices.
Prices listed for steers heifers fat cows bulls veal calves lambs fat sheep hogs pigs fat sows and stocker steers at the Va Livestock Market on N Kent St with weekly Tuesday extended sales. Top and average ranges include steer 8.85 7.25 heifer 9.10 7.00 5.75 fat cow 6.50 5.75 3.75 4.50 bull 5.85 6.75 veal calf 9.75 8.85 7.00 lamb 9.75 9.50 8.75 7.75 fat sheep 2.75 old sheep 1.00 hogs 6.60 6.45 7.00 pigs 1.50 3.00 fat sows 4.50 5.00 stocker steers 32.00 45.00 per head.
The Braddock Street Church will conduct its third quarterly conference tonight after a prayer service led by Rev. Dr. W. W. McIntyre. Rev. T. M. Swann announced a delegate for the annual conference will be chosen, and Swann will preach on The World Yesterday and Today.
A tablet honoring Revolutionary War veterans buried at Opequon Memorial Presbyterian Church near Kernstown was unveiled by 3 Junior Scouts and presented by Fort Loudoun Chapter. D. A. R. leader D. W. Glass spoke on local history from 1736 onward, with a full dedicatory program.
Word arrived from Gettysburg Pa of the death on Sunday afternoon of the mother of the Rev Dr H D Hoover who has supplied Grace Lutheran Church here for months He conducted morning services then learned of his mother's relapse and died before he could reach home He is a Gettysburg Theological Seminary faculty member
Hal Kemp and his nationally known band arrived in Winchester for the Summer Dance at the Apple Palace tonight at 9. Bob Riley and his orchestra join the program. The Apple Palace floor has been refinished after festival complaints. Ed Molden and Rev. B L Flickinger D D issued the order of exercises.
The U S District Court in the Northern District of New York ruled in favor of inventor Mr Leake, allowing damages claims against the New York Central and other railroads for alleged infringements. Leake’s method strengthens girders under load by welding a heated strengthening plate without interrupting traffic.
A proposed FCC plan urges federal authority to curb Bell System dominance. It calls for mandatory filings for consolidations, limits on intercompany stock acquisitions, licensing of Bell patents, and prohibiting interstate line abandonment. Officials accuse the Bell System of seeking favorable rates and subsidizing publications to sway regulators. The control network includes 21 associated telephone companies led by Western Electric.
Federal agents joined the investigation into the disappearance of a baby from the home of the grandparents Mr and Mrs Oran Baker. The mother and grandmother left at 10 pm returned an hour later to find the child missing. The father, a foundry worker, was in nearby Fremont all evening. The sheriff called it possibly the act of a maniac. The family was reportedly absolved.
The Rev C ee Lowe will deliver a sermon on Engineers for Christ during the weekly prayer service at the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour tonight. An important choir rehearsal follows. A special Sunday School Teachers Association meeting precedes the service and all members are urged to attend.
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