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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1951
Page
3
Marietta Ohio reports the Ohio River eased allowing 11 colleges to practice for Saturdays Intercollegiate Rowing Championships. On Tuesday three mile course remained rough, with only Princeton and Stanford attempting time trials. Princeton posted a respectable time while California was faster.
Retail prices for feeds and grain shown include 30 and 25 pound bags of corn meal at 3.26 and 4.90 per hundredweight equivalents. Cracked corn sold by the 100 pound bag at 4.25 with other feeds and butterfat noted in listing.
A detailed market ledger shows cattle with varied bids from 20.00 to 41.00 for calves and stockers, hogs active yet weaker, with weights listed from 170 to over 300 pounds. Sheep limited sales, wholesale hog quotes from Chicago reflect good to prime dealer ranges, lambs around 31.00 with ewes averaging lower.
Agricultural Dept notes Grade B turkeys and assorted breeds including White alter turkeys and Bronze No. 1. Mentioned are eeeees and cocks, with emphasis on large scale production terms and color variants.
A bus tour went off course in northern Indiana and Michigan ending in South Bend. The driver wandered without a map stopping at a roadhouse and asking a truck driver before reconnecting with Michigan tourists and reaching South Bend.
Pvt. G. A. Ridings son of Mr and Mrs A C Ridings of Lee Hall formerly of Winchester was seriously wounded in action in Korea on May 29 and has been awarded the Purple Heart.
A slightly easier trend is noted in Chicago grains with opening prices for Wheat, Corn, and Soybeans showing minor gains. Futures quoted include Wheat in Sep and Dec levels, Corn contracts across Jul Sep and Dec, and Soybeans with several months listed. Lard futures also appear with July and other month quotes.
In Porthcawl Wales 8000 fans braved drizzle as Charles Humez defeated Eddie Thomas to take the European Welterweight title in a 15 round one sided decision. The British Boxing Board of Control now weighs whether to press for a similar claim for Humez against Kid Gavilan of Cuba.
John Quincy Adams served as a trustee and Andrew Jackson was a communicant. William Johnson Millard Fillmore Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt were frequent worshippers. Franklin Pierce was a devoted communicant who attended servites twice on Sundays and once entertained his Sunday School class at the White House.
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