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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1947
Page
2
Winchester White Sox travel to Middlebury Sunday to meet a club that beat them 7-3 earlier this season. Sam Purtlebaugh to pitch and the team must meet at Ensogna's shop by 12 30 p.m. The schedule also lists games at Idletown on July 4 and Clarke County All-Stars at Boyce on July 6.
Burnt Presbyterian church in Albin announces a vacation Bible school starting Monday with Rev. A. S. Gear of Kernstown and Miss Elva M. Dean from Kitzmiller in charge. Transportation will be provided for Sunnyside Albin Nain and Apple Pie Ridge.
Dr. Ronald S. Wilson returns from a West Coast Rotary convention and will be in the pulpit at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church this Sunday.
New York June 27 The New York Stock Exchange will investigate Gus Fusaro a $50 weekly elevator starter in Wall Street indicted yesterday for misappropriating 250000 from friends. District Attorney Frank Hogan says Fusaro claimed inside information and gambled away the funds in cats and dogs trades.
The Frederick County Virginia court refers the guardianship matter of infant respondents Dona, Peggy, and Osborne Miller to Master Commissioner Joseph A Massie Jr. for detailed accounting, sale feasibility, heirs, compensation, and other pertinent matters. A public notice sets 10:00 a.m. on July 11 1947 at 32 Rouss Avenue Winchester for attendance with relevant records.
A public sale will be held at the business location 142 miles east of Martinsburg on Route 9 Saturday June 28 at 1 p m. Items include a 1946 Dodge half ton truck a 1946 Cushing scooter a 1942 Chevrolet moving van a 1935 Plymouth two door sedan a 1936 Willy s panel truck a 1941 International 1 4 ton truck and tools and household goods with many other articles listed.
Aneita Douglass Peters 11 died at Memorial hospital at 3 45 a m after a week long illness. Born November 30 1935 in Winchester she was daughter of the late Charles D Peters of Bartonsville and Mrs Alice Cadwallader Peters of Shady Grove Pa. She attended Congregational Christian church and is survived by her mother a sister Janet Peters a brother Charles Edwin a half sister Gretta May Grim and grandmother Mrs Omar Haun. Services will be held at Omps funeral home.
Cleveland reports three deaths from scalding in three days at Cleveland State Hospital. Superintendent E H Crawfis blames insufficient funding from Ohio for unsafe conditions and underfunded operations.
The page presents the quiz answers: Ernie Pyle, Are harmless, Brother in law, Avocado, Secretary of the Treasury, Fortieth or Forty-fifth, All of them, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Eight years at hard labor, Anemometer. The quiz also defines genocide as per the United Nations as the denial of the right of existence of entire human groups.
Market notes from Baltimore dated June 27 show prices for apples Bubas and Eastern crates at 2.75 to 3.00 per box, Potatoes steady with NC cobblers at 3.50 to 3.75 per 100 pounds, sweet potatoes dull with Porto Ricans at 3.50 and 2.50 to 2.75 for fair quality. Poultry markets ease with light receipts. fryers and broilers 31 to 34 cents, fowls 30 to 32 cents, eggs stronger with A extras 53 to 55 cents and ungraded receipts 45 to 47 cents. Receipts listed: butter 39,064 pounds and eggs 961 cases.
New York June 27 Oils touched new highs amid a brightening earnings outlook while gains narrowed elsewhere. Idle coal mines spurred some selling as the market opened moderately active and then drifted. Leading issues included Standard Oil NJ Cal Shamrock Tex Pacific. gainers like Chrysler Montgomery Ward Woolworth Sperry Western Union Anaconda NY Central and B&O. Lagging were US Steel Bethlehem General Motors American Telephone US Rubber Dow Chemical JC Penney Philip Morris Santa Fe Phelps Dodge and Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Star lists corrected daily local market prices for wholesale and retail items including flour patents 10 lb at 6.95 and 25 lb at 6.75 per cwt, corn meal 5 lb at 4.85 and 10 lb at 4.65, and retail listings for corn meal 5 lb yellow 36 cents, 10 lb yellow 60, white 38 and 61 cents. Feeds show egg mash 20 percent at 4.70 and 18 percent at 4.55, cracked corn 100 lb at 4.15, broiler mash 4.75, turkey grower 4.65, turkey starter 5.10, with butterfat and wholesale butter prices also noted.
Jackson funeral rites were conducted at Cartwright funeral home this afternoon for William E. Jackson a colored employee of Memorial Hospital who died Tuesday. The Rev A T Gaskins officiated with interment at Millwood.
The daily vacation Bible school ended today with a picnic at Senseny grounds. Seventy eight people attended the event. Commencement service is scheduled at the Citadel at 8 p m.
The Agriculture Department markets division reports prices for eggs and live poultry in Winchester area markets. Egg grades list 55 per dozen for U S Grade A extra large, 53 large, 45 medium, 48 large Grade B, and pullets at 32 with trades at 39. Poultry prices cover No 1 quality dressed birds from 14 to 26 c per pound with heavy breeds and leghorn varieties, young turkeys around 22 c, and old birds from 21 to 25 c per pound. Locust trees and lightning question notes a belief of attraction due to height but with limited scientific basis.
Chicago grain quotations show all grains opening lower as wheat hedging and feed grain profit taking press prices down. July wheat 2.17 1 4, September 2.12 3 4 to 1 2, December 2.11 1 4, May 2.09. corn July 2.01 2 1 4, Sep 1.83 3 4 1 2, Dec 1.63 3 4 2 8, May 1.60 1 59 3 4. oats July 97, Sep 86 1 4, Dec 83 3 8, May 80 1 2. lard Sep 19.20-19.42.
By virtue of an attachment in Adams v Adams the Civil and Police Justice Court will sell in front of the Frederick County Courthouse Winchester on Monday July 7 1947 at twelve noon one 1940 Dodge four door sedan motor D 14 117189 for cash. G G Baker Sergeant City Winchester Va.
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