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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1949
Page
6
Present and past rainfall figures are shown for a 24 hour period ending 7 am with February and 1949 year totals. The document lists average monthly precipitation from 1913 to 1948 and notes the data courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
An analysis shows government loans and purchase agreements on last year’s wheat and other grains totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. It projects large carryovers in corn and cotton and discusses potential extensions on 1948 loans to ease storage and price pressures amid postwar readjustment effects.
Detroit reports the CIO United Auto Workers press Ford Motor Co to raise wages or provide an equivalent increase. UAW president Walter Reuther rebukes Ford vice president Bugas for claiming poverty and argues the company can meet 1949 demands amid competition in a buyers market.
Negotiations over the 1949 50 contract are expected to begin May 15 as the company and the union resume discussions after a prior cutback in talks.
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