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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1957
Page
3
Daily market list shows feed and grain prices including Bran Egg Mash Barley Wheat No 2 Yellow Corn and Flour. Prices appear with misprints and scattered characters but indicate several regional locations such as Rockingham Augusta and Dee.
New York stocks opened irregularly higher with fractional gains for many names. Oils steels and chemicals showed slight strength while rails were flat to down. notable movers included Bethlehem Lukens Chrysler Boeing United Aircraft Texaco Jim Sinclair American Cyanamid and Du Pont with Anaconda and Kennecott among the losers. Royal Dutch and American Telephone were among early blocks showing little change or small declines.
Regional and national beef hog and cattle quotes show steady to firm trade. Maryland Baltimore market lists fed steers and heifers, utility cows, calves, and stockers with varied weights and prices. Chicago USDA reports slaughter hogs, steers, heifers, cows, and vealers with ranges and occasional high bids. Sheep market not yet established.
Market data for hogs veal lambs slaughter cattle stock feeder cattle includes price ranges by grade and weight. Hog categories show top barrows and gilts heavy butcher light butcher sows and feeders with per hundred weights. Veal lambs and cattle prices cover standard utility and better grades with weight-based figures.
Opening grains show wheat steady to firm with old and new contracts quoted, corn and oats firmer, soybeans slightly weak. The report lists early prices for July September and December contracts across wheat corn oats rye and lard with multiple dates and figures.
The Lions Club will hold a business session during its weekly luncheon tomorrow at 12 15 p m at the George Washington Hotel. Kenneth Patton announces tickets for the June 25 installation dinner at the War Memorial Building will go on sale at tomorrow's meeting.
A brief livestock notice lists choice shorn lambs at 19.00 per head and No 1 pelts, with calls to choice shorn slaughter ewes priced from 3.00 to 6.50, indicating offered lots and price ranges.
A 24 year old Petersburg Marine 1st Lt. Robert A McKenney III was killed in Japan by a missile wound. A Petersburg High and University of Virginia graduate, he was to transfer home on July 1, and no further details were released by the Defense Department.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture forecasts mixed price trends this week with broilers showing strength as June supplies match last year and July projected 1 to 3 percent above. Peaches may see a bigger crop this year, encouraging self service selling. the department offers to act as a clearing house for growers and buyers.
Committee chairmen for the Round Hill Community Fire Company's annual yard party were named at the June meeting. The yard party is set for July 19 at James Wood School with Garland Cuther in charge of tables and chairs. Jack Lillis resigned as president and board member after enlisting in the Navy. July elections will fill both posts. Mrs. Davis Gunn and Alson Hott were introduced as new members.
Staunton Judge William Terrell Sheehan 54, veteran jurist who led Augusta County Court for over two decades, died yesterday from a personal safety related wound. His body was found in his county office. police ruled the death a death by own action citing long illness.
Price listings show live poultry demand fair to good with morning farm prices at 11 a m. Broilers, heavy hens, turkey fryers and breeder hens listed with varied rates. Egg market reports from Winchester and Harrisonburg list Grade A Large and Medium at 32 and 31 cents respectively, Grade A Small at 16 cents, Grade B Large at 22 cents, and Grade C at 16 cents.
New York reports archeologist Jean Perrot has uncovered the complete workshop of an ivory carver dating to about 6000 years ago. The site was found near Beersheba in the Israeli desert.
Ben Cather received his tenth National Quality Service Award Wednesday night at the Winchester Association of Life Underwriters meeting during Ladies Night at Duffs. Gerald Goodman and Richard K. Eddy also received National Quality Service Awards.
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