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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1955
Page
11
Mrs Annie Camphor Ross of Baltimore who was born into slavery and later heard Lincoln's Gettysburg Address died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 116. The obituary notes her long life and memories of the Civil War era.
Two years ago she joined her husband the Methodist preacher in Gettysburg for battlefield ceremonies recalling 1863. Mrs Emma K Jones, a great niece, said the elderly woman credited her longevity to a little gin now and then.
Mixed feed prices list 3.25 per hundredweight, egg mash 4.50, broiler mash 5.20, barley 0.85, wheat 0.75 to 0.95, corn 1.60 to 2.65, flour 6.90 retail, butter 0.59 wholesale, and regional notes for Harrisonburg, Rockingham and Augusta counties. Prices vary by grade and delivery location with several line items showing ranges.
Apples supplies quoted as insufficient. Strawberries slightly stronger. Mixed NJ crates 16 qt 5.50-6.50, Pacartons 12 qt 4.80-7.20. Potatoes varied with New SC Sebagoes weaker under tone. Cattle, calves, hogs, sheep prices across US markets with wide ranges. USDA bids show cattle 14-25.50 per cwt, hogs 11-22 per cwt, sheep 4-26 per cwt, with regional disparities and weight-based pricing.
Prices edged higher in early New York trading with small gains. United States Steel down 1-8 to 49 5-8, Kennecott Copper up 3-4 to 116 1-4, Apache Oil up 1-8 to 15. Boeing and Bell Aircraft rose on light volume while Lockheed gained 7-8 to 47 3-8. Strong activity tied to merger rumors.
Market reports show steady agricultural market with heavy receipts and strong demand. Farm price movements noted with live poultry and egg prices across Harrisonburg and Winchester, listing U S Grade A large white eggs at 39 cents and other grades varying. wholesale ranges include broilers and hens in the mid to high twenties with several small type turkeys and young hens also referenced.
Chicago grains opened on the easy side with soybeans leading slight gains in nearby contracts. Wheat, corn, oats and rye posted mixed beginnings as traders watched soy oil and meal steadiness.
New York City policeman Redmond L. O Hanlon, 39 and a ten year veteran, has earned $16000 on the CBS program The $64,000 Question. He doubled his previous $8000 prize by naming Isaac Jaggard and Ed Blunt as printers of the first collected Shakespeare edition in 1623. He may take $16000 or risk doubling it next week for a shot at $64000. a miss forfeits current winnings but nets a 1955 Cadillac.
Syracuse New York Roy M Cohn accuses the national press of a deliberate news blackout on Senator Joseph R McCarthy and others who he says are fighting communism. He says three months show only small paragraphs about McCarthy on the front pages. He calls it a policy to keep Americans from knowing what is happening.
An anonymous white man donated nearly two square feet of skin grafts to Margaret Rose Thomas a 5 year old Negro girl who was critically burned by a stove on March 2 in Oklahoma City.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth and read a translated message in support of lasting world peace and international cooperation. He would proceed to San Francisco for the 10th anniversary session of the United Nations, declining to answer questions on arrival.
Manuel Ramirez, 28, is recovering in a Philadelphia hospital after six days locked inside a pitch black refrigerated railroad car. He had jumped into the car in Chicago last Wednesday in an attempt to return to his family in Laredo, Texas before conditions worsened.
A car with sheep hides arrived at a Philadelphia leather processing plant where Ramirez was found nearly unable to move. He is being treated for malnutrition and dehydration and must still travel to Texas.
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