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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1948
Page
3
Key West on March 4 reports President Truman will meet with his cabinet at the White House tomorrow at 4 p.m. He is expected to depart Boca Chica by air at 9 a.m. Friday, signaling the start of a calm vacation period.
Ruth Fallon, manager at an employment agency, offers Kit Marshall a chance at a high stakes secretarial post for Tracy Field, a famous but unpredictable heiress. The job includes varied duties, travel, and living at Field’s Connecticut home, with a monthly pay of 160 dollars and board. Kit accepts, seeking anonymity away from Washington and a painful past. The scene hints at future complications as Kit prepares to start.
Agriculture Dept Markets Division reports prices paid for poultry and eggs in Winchester. U S Grade A extra large fifty cents per dozen. Grade A large forty eight cents. standards forty five. pullets forty two. old roosters sixteen. rocks and cross broilers thirty four. red broilers thirty five. leghorn hens eighteen to nineteen per pound. guineas thirty five cents each. all hen turkeys forty five cents. young toms thirty five. cracks and checks forty two.
Chicago grains opened sharply higher as the Agriculture Department sought flour equivalents to 9.3 million bushels of wheat. May wheat surged toward the daily limit and other contracts listed include new opening quotes for corn oats and lard.
Middletown and Stephens City high school boxing teams split their six bouts at the Chester Armory before about 300 spectators. Clyde Brumback sealed the tie with a decisive win, as Kelly, Nicholson, Baughman, Cooley, Ritenour, and Dodson plus two earlier preliminaries shaped a night of close decisions and a knockout.
New York March 4 Ph effort to develop a definite trend continued unsuccessful in today's stock market. While a few oils utilities and industrials rose slightly most leaders slipped a shade with Sin clair Oil Mission Corp Standard Oil NJ American Telephone Consolidated Edison Bethlehem Steel Montgomery Ward and Phelps Dodge leading advances. Commonwealth Southern opened unchanged on a 12000 share block. Hesitant were US Steel General Motors Goodyear Boeing Distillers Corp Anaconda Kennicott Eastman Kodak Twentieth Century Fox Warner Bros Loews Ill Central and Southern Railway. Cotton futures were firm.
Market listing shows wholesale and retail prices for flour corn meal and feeds, with wheat and corn per bushel. Plus a note on boxing matches in Winchester area with judges Jim Foster and Bryan Harper, timer Donald Perrault, and Stephens City coach Chester Wedell planning more matches to raise about $65 per school for baseball equipment.
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia markets show weaker fruit prices with ample offerings and light demand. Poultry demand remains steady with moderate fryers, eggs soften, cattle and hog values vary by type, with steers generally steady to lower and hogs around 50 cents down from prior quotes. Chicago hogs firm at 23.75 to 22.75 for various weight ranges.
Market notes list salable cattle calves steers and heifers with price ranges from 15 to 29.50 and 18.25 to 28 for dealers. A coffee aroma query asks for the aroma substance in coffee, attributed to a caffeine related compound C8 H10O2 derived from roasting.
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