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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1948
Page
9
The House passed a bill to raise pensions for widows and orphans of World War I and World War II veterans, sending the measure to the Senate. The bill targets dependents of veterans whose deaths were caused by their war service, with an estimated annual cost of about 100 million dollars.
Baltimore and Chicago market notes show prices for apples including Delicious and Romes in the 2 to 2.75 dollar range, poultry and eggs prices steady, and wholesale butter and egg receipts. Cattle, hogs, and calves trade reports reflect steady demand with steers 21 to 26.50, hogs 22 to 26.25, and lambs up to 31, with regional price variations across markets.
Daily market list shows prices for corn meal and grains, including corn meal white 5 lb 38 cents and 10 lb 70 cents, No 2 red winter wheat 2.30 a bushel, No 2 yellow corn 2.35 a bushel, barley 1.65 a bushel, soybeans 2.49 a bushel. Feeds include egg mash 20 percent 5.45, egg mash 18 percent 4.18, cracked corn 109 lb bag, broiler mash 5.70, turkey starter 6.10, mixed feed 4.60, scratch feed 3..., butter retail and wholesale prices listed.
A Q and A on wedding gift acknowledgments suggesting personal notes show sincere appreciation to avoid wasting donors time. It also covers toasting etiquette by clarifying the toast drink and dinner table placement of the salad plate. The piece ends with a vocabulary note defining cynical as distrusting human motives.
June 15 reports show a lackadaisical trading day with most losses fractional. U S Steel US Rubber Montgomery Ward Douglas Aircraft Kennecott Copper Cerro De Pasco Owens Illinois Southern Railway Standard Oil (NJ) Pacific Western Oil Paramount Pictures eased while Caterpillar Tractor Du Pont and Twentieth Century Fox posted gains.
Agriculture Department Markets Division reports U S Grade A extra large eggs at 51 cents per dozen and large at 49 cents, medium 46, standards 46, pullets 37, old roosters 17. Live poultry prices paid to farms include heavy breed hens over 4 lbs at 32, Leghorn hens 12, Leghorn broilers up to 2.5 lbs at 30, young hen turkeys 45, young tom turkeys 38, No 2 hens and toms 5 cents less, guineas 35 each, rocks and cross broilers 2.5 lbs and over 37, red broilers 38.
Chicago grain prices opened steady as futures held near prior levels. Wheat marks were July 2.27 1/2, Sept. 2.21 1/2, Dec. 2.28 1/2, May 2.27. Corn July 2.18 1/2, Sept. 1.95 1/4, Dec 1.69 1/2. Oats July 94 3/8, Sept 85 3/4, Dec 86 5/8, May 95 1/2.
Read across clues cover Fellow to Insane and Down hints like Division of a sentence and First man Bib. The puzzle lists 89 and 40 as cross references, with entries ranging from Greek letter to Poem.
Learn the latest science based methods for elies jams preserves and pickles plus directions for canning meats chicken fruits and vegetables. Order in postpaid fifteen cents to The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau 316 Eye St NE Washington DC.
On Monday June 11 1948 the market was very active with consignments heavy and prices 50 cents to $1 higher than last week. Steers butcher medium to good 29 to 32.50, heifers best 39.32 to 29.25, cows good 22 to 24, dairy cows sale price 296, stocker cows up to 240, bulls medium 24 to 26, hogs choice 24 to 25.10 heavy 23.50 to 24.50, sows 16.50 to 19, lambs medium 26.25 and common 20 to 22.50.
Farmers curb markets will open at 7 a.m. Saturday in the City parking lot. Grover Schlack says the market will operate Saturday and Tuesday mornings through summer with participants selling produce. Last year ran from June to November. Expected offerings include new peas and possibly late strawberries. U.S. Steel production data noted: 1947 was 60 percent greater than 1949.
Employees at French wineries are given a bottle of wine each day at the workplace and a cask every two months for home use as part of their benefits.
The process to make a ton of pig iron uses 1.73 tons of iron ore 0.93 ton of coke 0.41 ton of limestone plus some cinder scale and scrap and 4.5 tons of air.
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