Market Quotations N Y Stocks Rise in Quiet Trading
New York market quietly advanced after reaching its yearly high, with the AP 60-stock average up 80 cents to 125.80 the best since October 25 1929. General Electric led with a 15 percent gain and 4000 shares traded, while U S Steel Chrysler Boeing Consolidated Natural Gas Union Carbide Westinghouse Electric Santa Fe and Standard Oil ( NJ ) also moved higher.
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New York
Associated Press
General Electric
U. S. Lettl
Chrysler
Boeing
Consolidated Natural Gas
Union Carbide
Westinghouse Electric
Santa Fe
Standard Oil
Farmers Livestock Exchange Market Winchester June sale results
At Winchester Virginia the Farmers Livestock Exchange Market reported hogs sold 302 with prices from 22.80 to 25.50 per hundredweight across categories. Veal and lambs also posted varied prices, alongside slaughter cattle stockers and other livestock values and head counts. Reg Hereford bulls ranged 165.00 to 252.50 per head.
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Choice
Choice and Prime
Baltimore Market Report Prices for Produce and Livestock
Produce and livestock prices from Baltimore show asparagus and beans with firm to fair quality ranges, potatoes with washed and unwashed sizes listed, sweet potatoes from New Jersey, and poultry trends with demand and stock quality described. Cattle and hog markets in Baltimore include slaughter steer and heifer values, cows, calves, hogs by weight, and scattered prices for sows and heavy weights.
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Baltimore
USDA
Winchester Area Poultry and Egg Prices Report
Agriculture Department price data show market activity in Winchester with broilers steady to firm, turkeys weak across classes, heavy hens near steady, breeder hens higher. Farm prices end at noon show broilers under three pounds 21 to 24 cents, over three pounds 24 to 25, small turkey fryers 29 to 30, heavy young hens 30 to 31, eggs across U S grades in Winchester and Harrisonburg markets with Grade A large white 38 cents and Grade A medium 30 cents, various others.
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Baltimore
Bu Hor
N. C
N. C. Cobblers Usis
S. C. Sebagoes
Usis
Eastern Shore Cobblers
N. J. Bu Bkts
Her Goldens
Winchester
Harrisonburg
U. S
Winchester Egg Market
Local Markets and Market Prices Summary
Local markets list daily retail prices for flour corn meal and feeds with regional notes. Prices shown include flour 100 lb and 50 lb bags, mixed feed 100 lb, and No 2 yellow corn per bushel. regions cited include Rockingham and Augusta counties and Luray. A reader asks about painting worn fiber porch rugs, with guidance to use canvas paint or exterior stain and to avoid staining severely discolored rugs.
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Rockingham Co
Augusta Co
Harrisonburg
Luray
Vias Geaty's
SR Luray
Raatek Wholesale
Clarke Delegates Named to Red Cross Leadership Course
Dorothy Holmes of Berryville and Benjamin Jones of Millwood will represent Clarke County at the Junior Red Cross Leadership Training Course at Hood College from June 27 to July 3. High school students from the area have attended this center for three years. The delegates are juniors at Johnson-Williams School.
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Dorothy Holmes
Berryville
Benjamin Jones
Millwood
Clarke County
Red Cross
Hood College
Johnson-Williams School
Man withdraws suit over smoking cancer claims
Ira C. Lowe of Festus Missouri withdrew a 250000 damage suit in federal court naming four tobacco firms and a supermarket chain. The action was filed last March and withdrawn yesterday without explanation. Lowe had alleged heavy cigarette smoking caused his lung cancer which led to removal of his right lung in 1952.
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St, Louis
Ira C. Lowe
Festus
Lowe
Donald Siegel
Richnond C. Coburn
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
American Tobacco Co
P. Lorillard Co
Brown and Williams Tobacco Corp
Great Atlantic and
Opening grains on Chicago Board little changed
Chicago grains mostly steadier at the open with wheat dipping slightly. Prices for July through March contracts listed across wheat corn oats rye soybeans and fats with minor shifts noted from prior values.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Jly
East to Have Hot Weather To Mid-July
The Weather Bureau forecasts a 30 day period from mid June to mid July with temperatures above normal across the eastern half of the nation and the Southern Plains. The Ohio Valley and middle Atlantic states show the largest temperature departures while the West and Northern Plains may stay cooler. Precipitation is expected to exceed normal in the Central and Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest, with below normal rainfall east of the Ohio and lower Mississippi Valleys and in the far Southwest.
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Science Service
Washington
Plains
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
Continental Divide
Northern Plains
Central
Pacific Northwest
Ohio
Mississippi Valleys
Rainiest and Driest Regions in the United States
West region analysis identifies Washington as the rainiest area in the United States. Death Valley in California is noted as the driest and hottest location.
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United States
B. A
Northwest
Washington
Death Valley
Calif
Chief State Highway Engineer Retiring
C Mullen chief engineer for the State Highway Department since 1924 will retire July 1 and be succeeded by Burton Marye Jr who will also become deputy commissioner Archibald H Bell location and design engineer since 1930 will leave July 1 with chief assistant David Nicholas Huddle filling Bell’s position The retirements reflect a department policy retiring employees at age 70 Mullen is the oldest employee in years of service
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Richmond
Mullen
State Highway Department
Burton Marye Jr
Marye
General Assembly
Archibald H Bell
Bell
David Nicholas Huddle
When to mail wedding invitations
O R D A advises sending invitations three weeks before the wedding ceremony. Announcements should be issued as soon as possible after the ceremony, ideally the same day.
Cinecitta Rome film city origins and current status
Cinecitta in Rome, created under Mussolini, sustained WW II damage, now restored as Europe’s leading motion picture center. It hosts Italian, American, British, and French film productions with twelve movies possible simultaneously on its 125 acre state owned property.
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Rome
Cinecitte
Mussolini
Europe
Molly King to Compete in Blacksburg Contest
Molly King of Clarke County will twirl a baton in the state 4 H Short Course contest at Blacksburg during the week of July 21 26 Miss King the Clarke County 4 H Share the Fun program winner will compete with others for state honors.
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Molly King
Blacksburg
Clarke County
Miss King
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U.S.A
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