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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1948
Page
7
Wholesale and retail price quotes cover corn meal grain barley soybeans egg mash cracked corn and butter per 100 pound bags or per bushel. Prices shown include No 2 red winter wheat No 2 yellow ear corn and butterfat percentages for wholesale and retail buyers.
Baltimore March 23 apples dull with liberal offerings and varied prices for Delicious Stayman and Rome varieties. Poultry and fowl mostly steady to lower with roasters and fryers in mid thirties to low forties. Cattle calves hogs and sheep quotations listed with mixed declines and steady to higher buffalo? (note: standard market terms)
Consignment strong with prices up to two dollars per hundred for stock cattle. Steers and heifers command top quality ranges. cows and dairy cows mixed. bulls and weaners listed with varied values. Hogs and lambs show solid demand, stock ewes trading around twenty one per head.
In New York on March 23 profit taking restrained leaders after a recent upswing. Senate passage of a tax cut boosted bull sentiment for industry and prompted a cautious bid to curb overtrading. Investors trimmed accounts and waited for abroad and domestic developments. Leading issues showed uneven moves with some gains and notable setbacks among major names.
Chicago March 23 grain futures opened mixed with Wheat May at 2.34 1 2, July 2.24 1 4, Sept 2.21 3 4 1 4, Dec 2.22 1 8, Corn May 2.15 3 4 16, July 2. se 1 4 1 2, Sept 1.89, Dec 1.64, Oats May 1.11 1 4, July 91 1891, Sept 84 1 4, Dec 83 1 8, Lard May 21.75.
The Virginia law allows burning of brush and grass only from 4 P.M. to Midnight until May 15. The rule applies to restricted outdoor burning and enforcement may follow.
Twenty members including Frederick county council of churches officials a school board member and two religious education teachers met at Hand ley library to form a committee. The group will discuss the Supreme Court ruling banning Bible teaching in schools and report to the council on April 10. If the board does not object Bible instruction may continue this term in Frederick county. Strother noted Maryland differs from Illinois where courts limited school action and church approval guided instruction.
Strother summarizes a Warrenton meeting where Dr Minor Miller of the Virginia Council of Churches urged each county council to meet with its school board and draft a continuing program through year end. The group approved a nominating committee report naming officers including B F Strother president and R E Ayler vice president.
Open consignments for auction Friday March 26 1948. sale starts at 10 00 am location between White Hall and Greenspring eight miles from Winchester. For info contact George Hels ley Carlton Dyke or Hugh Crim phone 5086.
A committee led by secretary and P. E. Lineburg as treasurer will organize Rural Life Sunday in Shawnee district. Members include R. Ayler Mrs. Julian Larrick and another member to be chosen from Shawnee district.
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