Pigs Average $21.87 Per Hundred At Tri-City Sale
The Tel-O-Auction Feeder Pig Sale at the Farmers' Livestock Exchange in Winchester sold 583 pigs weighing 67 pounds on average and bringing $21.87 per hundredweight. The average price per head was $14.65. Four buyers purchased Winchester pigs, with 79 percent graded number one. The Richmond led auction reported 443 hogs sold, totaling 39,065 pounds and $8,542.87.
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Tri-City
Farmers’ Livestock Exchange
Winchester
VPI Receives Major Grants for Engineering and Sciences
Virginia Tech reports three large grants totaling 155 918 dollars plus five smaller awards. Ford Foundation provides 75 000 for forgivable loans aiding engineering doctoral students. NSF adds 49 180 for 10 graduate traineeships across chemical, civil, mechanical, and metallurgical engineering. Additional 21 538 from the Surgeon General funds a cooperative study on irradiated shrimp in dogs. other gifts support poultry science, fellowship programs, and distributive education curriculum development.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
T. Marshall Hahn Jr
VPI
Ford Foundation
Ford
Foundation
National Science Foundation
W.G. Worcester
Surgeon General
Veterinary Science
Merck & Co
Ciba Pharmaceutical Co
Poultry Science Department
E.O. Essary
Reynolds Metals Co
Universal Oil Products
Sears- Roebuck Foundation
Lucy Crawford
Guardsmen Must Get Duty Leave For Summer Training
John M. Powers of the U S Labor Department reminded employers that Virginia and West Virginia National Guardsmen and Reservists must receive leave of absence for military training tours this summer. Guardsmen may take active or inactive duty training with two week encampments. Employers cannot require use of earned vacation time for training and job rights extend after summer training with prompt return to work.
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Virginia
West Virginia
John M. Powers
U.S. Labor Dept
Office of Veterans
Powers
Pennsylvania Germans in the Shenandoah Valley Book
Madison College and Bridgewater College authors unveil The Pennsylvania Germans in the Shenandoah Valley, a four part study based on four years of field research in nine counties. The 26th year book is dedicated to Dr. John M. Wayland and includes folklore beliefs arts crafts language with numerous illustrations.
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Elmer L. Smith
John G. Stewart
Madison College
M. Ellsworth Kyger
Bridgewater College
Pennsylvania
John M. Wayland
Wayland
Virginia
West Virginia
Preston A. Barba
Allentown
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Publications
Shenandoah Valley
Summer Session Enrollments Rise at Mary Washington College
Enroll ment for Mary Washington College's 1964 summer session began June 15 and was reported at 377 students by registrar A R Merchant. Late registrations may raise the total to about 385, topping the postwar high of 354 set in 1950.
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Fredericksburg
Mary Washington College
A.R. Merchant
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