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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1948
Page
3
Eleven members of a Maryland Negro orchestra were charged with narcotics after a fight at a dance where the group was performing. Police say the incident led to their arrest and federal charges bound them over for trial in November.
Report notes camels can drink 12 or 15 kallons of water in thirty minutes, showing wide variation in intake.
Mrs G Don Gray Jr national committeewoman for the Young Republicans of New Mexico may visit her husband s parents at 35 W Piccadilly Sr in connection with her attendance at the Republican National convention next week. She is the former Virginia Ann Guthrie and lived in Winchester ten years. She has been with her parents in Albuquerque during Gray s Army Signal Corps service in Japan. A letter from Staff Sergeant Gray to his parents says he will leave Sendai in about two months and join his wife in New Mexico before coming east. Her daughter Diana seven is acclaimed as a tap dancer. Another daughter Donna Gibson is aged two.
Stanley Elliott aged 27 faced charges after reportedly brandishing a razor at the Colored Recreation Center in Middletown. Police found the weapon hidden in his sock. Judge John Rice found him guilty of drunkenness and carrying a concealed weapon, ordering a $5 fine and a 60 day jail term.
Over the past twenty years Uncle Sam has invested about $526 million in flood control along the lower Mississippi River Valley, reflecting continued federal commitment to reducing flood risk in the region.
Baltimore market report shows April and June quotations for apples and pears, eggs, butter, and produce. Livestock includes cattle with varied prices for slaughter steers, cows, bulls, calves, hogs with ranges by weight, sows, and sheep with spring lambs and yearlings noted. Chicago quotes provide comparative hog and cattle ranges for mid-June.
New York June 14 The stock market cooled after a brisk opening with prices near Friday's highs. Non ferrous metals edged ahead with gains for Kennecott Copper American Smelting and International Nickel. Leaders included U S Steel Douglas Aircraft and Du Pont while Caterpillar United Aircraft Western Union International Paper Public Service of New Jersey and Southern Railway fell. Automobiles moved little despite weekend GM truck price boost and Chevrolet truck price increases.
Chicago markets opened lower as rain across the Midwest influenced selling. Wheat futures for July traded around 2.27 3/4 to 2.28 1/3, December 2.28 1/3, May 2.26 3/4. Corn July 2.136 2.15 3/4, September 1.93 3/4, December 1.67, May 1.66 4. Oats July 93, September 84 3/4 to 85, December 83 8. Soybeans July 4.14. Lard September 23.32.
Chairman Wendell Barney says local sales in Winchester and Frederic Counties reached 126793 through June but trail the 350000 state quota. Clarke 22200 of 80000, Warren 54412 of 164000, Shenandoah 79431 of 240000. Statewide progress about 30 percent amid rough weather in effort and sales.
A fragmented local market page lists wholesale prices for grains and feeds such as yellow corn per bushel at 2.35 and red winter wheat at 2.30, with barley 1.66 and soybeans 2.40 per bushel. It includes butter retail 19 and butterfat 68, plus a stray literary trivia question about John Galsworthy cruising the world with Joseph Conrad and writing at sea.
The article outlines U S export controls listing 400 scarce commodities requiring licenses for any shipment. Licenses limit what can be sent to Western Europe and the Soviet bloc, aiming to aid allies while preventing war materiel. It notes exemptions like locomotives versus nylons and restricts heavy machinery that could become tanks.
The document notes that only 400 scarce items require licenses and that Secretary of State Marshall has directed Latin authorities that Europe must be prioritized temporarily due to its peace importance. It mentions several special restrictions following this guidance.
The Atomic Energy Commission can deny sales related to the bomb to any nation. The Munitions Board determines weapons distribution. The Treasury controls who receives gold and narcotics.
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