Market Quotations N Y Stocks Slump Amid Cautious Trading
New York trading opened cautiously with the market drifting lower. Texas Pacific Land Trust rose to 170 on 1,700 shares before retreating. Notable declines appeared in U S Steel Bethlehem Steel General Motors Standard Oil New Jersey Anaconda Copper Goodyear Allied Chemical and Chrysler. Rubber plant yields noted as four to five pounds per tree annually.
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Texas Pacific Land Trust
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Standard Oi! NJ
Anaconda Copper
Goodyear
Allied Chemical, Boring
International Paper
Chrysler Goodrich
Sinclair Oi
Us Gypsum
Straw vote ballot asks for single presidential choice
The Star conducts a local presidential preference straw poll with one vote per ballot and daily front-page results announced through March 31. Mark your choice and mail or send your ballot to participate.
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Star
the Star
Livestock Prices From Baltimore Market Report
Baltimore market shows apples steady with various sizes and types priced from 2.50 to 4.00 per box. Potatoes and sweet potatoes listed with regional prices. poultry market steady with fryers and hens noted. Cattle calves hogs and sheep prices provided for Baltimore and Chicago with ranges for prime and utility grades.
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Bu Bkts
Usis
Romes
Staymans
N. J. Romes
Staymans U. S
Bubkts & Hers
MD Goldens
N. J. Goldens
USDA
Chicago
Choice
World War I influenza compared with historic plagues
The 1918 influenza epidemic is ranked with the plague of A.D. 542 and the Black Death of the 14th century for its violence. Total deaths were about 21,642,280, with nearly 16 million in Asia.
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Asia
2500 Turkey Poults Perish in Farm Fire Near Broadway
Fire destroyed a Broaway area farm house under Preston Movers, killing about 2500 three week old turkeys worth 1.50 each. Firemen estimated total damages at 100000, but prevented spread to other large poultry buildings five miles north of Broadway.
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Harrisonburgh
Preston Movers
Broaway
Broadway
Local Markets Adjusted Daily by The Star
The Star lists corrected local market items with prices for corn meal yellow mash bran mixed feed cracked corn oats and wheat per bag or per bushel. Retail feed items include 60 to 70 cent ranges and butterfat prices appear in the listing.
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Fleer
Igedoa
WMD SI Eeeveteneis Co
Agriculture Dept. Today Egg Market and Local Poultry Prices
Winchester area prices for No 1 fowl FOB grower’s farm list Heavy Breed Hens 4% and over 26c Leghorn Hens 18c Rocks and Cross Broilers 28c Red Broilers 28c Leghorn Broilers 18c Heavy cocks 10c Beltsville White Broilers 80c Beltsville White Hens 38c Beltsville White Toms 34c White and Bronze Breed Hens 32c Young guineas 25c Ducks per lb (price not fully shown).
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Ce & Beverage
U. S
Winchester
Lee Coombs
Beltsville
Grain prices drift lower at Chicago open
Feed grains and soybeans fell early as the Board of Trade started. Wheat showed mixed moves with May wheat at 2 51 1 4 and July at 243 4, corn May 1.85 34, July 147 4, soybeans May 2.93 5 and July 2.89, lard futures higher across May July and September.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Business Leaders Confident Despite Slumps Across Nation
An Associated Press survey finds most business and industrial leaders optimistic about 1952 despite sales drops and production slowdowns. Economists note rising defense spending and high personal incomes support demand while textiles, shoes, autos, and coal lag, with retailers facing consumer resistance but expecting buyers later in the year.
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Associated Press
Washington
Stor
Mote
West
Deep South
Aijter
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Kansas
North Dakota
Wyoming
Arizona
West Virginia
Charlottesville Boxer Bat Masterson Granted Leave for Olympic Tryouts
Grover Bat Masterson, former University of Virginia boxing star, was granted leave from Army duty in Alaska to participate in the Olympic boxing tryouts, the Daily Progress learned today.
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Charlottesville
Grover ‘Bat! Masterson
University of Virginia
Alaska
Newark Airport To Reopen For Military Planes
Newark Airport will reopen on a limited basis for military planes after being closed as a safety precaution due to three nearby crashes that caused 119 deaths.
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New York
Newark
Truck Demolishes House Near Harrisonburg Injures N/A
A tractor trailer veered off a road near Lacey Spring and demolished a two story house. Mrs. Owen Alders 88 and her daughter were asleep inside. they were tossed to the first floor, while granddaughter Patricia Brown 19 survived the fall into the yard. The driver was trapped for hours before freeing. No serious injuries reported.
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Harrisonburg
Lacey Spring
Owen Alders
Alders
Winona Alders
Local Man to Lead Hog Breeder Meet
Nelson Carpenter will preside at the annual Virginia Purebred Swine Breeders Association meeting at Havel's Restaurant in Verona near Staunton. The board meets in the morning, a noon diner session, and an afternoon address by Parker Brinkley, with officers to be elected. Two purebred swine sales occur in Winchester each year, in February and August.
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Parker Brinkley
Virgin
Ariculture
Brinklew
Virginia Swine Jury
Sesson
Winchester
Roanoke Driver Plunges Into Heat Crisis With Yarn Truck
Marvin I. Hines 94 was taken to a hospital for heat injuries while his relief driver Lewin Ho Kine 30 escaped unharmed. The 26,000 pounds of nylon yarn truck had been acting up since leaving Roanoke Sunday night and the cause of the incident remained unknown.
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Marvin I. Hines
Roanoke
Hines
Lewin Ho Kine
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