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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1949
Page
10
Roland Mitchell of Clarke is expected to attend the eastern stad ram show and sale at Staunton. C C Punkhouser of Post, Lodge Bowles of Yee likely to attend. Clarke county breeders have previously had animals in the Staunton sale.
Report notes farmers increasingly sell directly from the farm this year, a shift described as enabling better prices and closer buyer connections. Strong entities and local context implied by the source text.
Trial notes show Carl B. Shickle Jr. of 1210 Valley Ave. fined $19.25 for improper muffler and speeding. Calvin Noble Messick of Clearbrook cited $24.25 for improper lights, crakes and parking.
A detailed listing of TV and radio programming across CBS ABC and MBS networks featuring news, dramas, comedies, variety shows, and kiddies time from 6:15 to 12:00 with hosts Fulton Lewis Jr Gabriel Heatter Jack Smith and Bob Hope among others.
Funeral services for Mrs Annie McKinney will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church with Rev J S Ducknall officiating. Friends meet 1:30 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home. Burial is in Mount Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers are Albert Brill, Charles Cain, Dennis Lamp, George Higgs, Russell Potts and William Brill.
Virginia C and P officials told the State Corporation Commission that a rate hike is needed to yield a fair return on property. Chief engineer A. P. Compf estimated reproduction costs for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia between 150.9 and 156.8 million dollars. Attorney T. Austin Moore said the proposed rates would raise gross revenues by about 4 million dollars and after tax earnings by roughly 2.3 million dollars, with ongoing plant expansion to meet growing demand. The company notes inflation and added plant work as pressures while facing public opposition and a lengthy evidentiary period.
National Fruit Product Company, Incorporated sets a June 27 1949 stockholders meeting in Winchester Virginia to vote on adopting a June 8 1949 merger agreement with Armstrong and Company Incorporated and approve related actions. Only holders of record at June 10 1949 may vote. proxies will not be solicited.
Television schedule snippet lists daytime and evening programs across channels with titles such as Judy Splinter Mary Kay and Johnny Roberta Quinlan News Caravan Milton Berle Show Fireside Theater Believe It Or Not Song and Dance Nature of Things and several newsreels. It also shows sports programming including Washington vs St Louis and baseball interviews with various game times and show names.
Trapwell testified on the company's operations and finances noting a 7.2 percent average return on net original cost from 1935 to 1939, dropping to 5.2 percent in 1943 45, with 1940 45 averaging two points below pre war levels. He said wartime profits were absent and 1946 saw further decline prompting emergency rate increases in December 1946.
The increases were granted and the company's rate of earnings improved to between five and six per cent. By the fall of 19 earnings were down again to almost four per cent and the company again had to ask for increases. The principal agricultural products of Spairs are wheat, barley, oats, rye, olives and fruit.
Trustees Bernard Smith Albert McDonald John Sibert Lee Bean Vernon Barton elected to Loudoun Street Church of Christ board. The report notes an earlier item about Sweden's 1947 population estimate of 6 803 000.
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