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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1946
Page
5
Market quotations show cautious trading as brokers cite UNO Secure Council talks. Some profit taking persists while price fractions settle to two decimals. Bonds display mixed performance with overall slower pace after an active open.
Chicago March 27 grain futures drifted weak on light opening activity. Wheat May and July hovered around 83 cents, corn May near 1.21 and rye May about 2.17 with mixed reveals across other contracts.
Baltimore March 27 market notes show unchanged produce and eggs with light receipts. Cattle and calves at steady to higher values, vealers up 60 cents, hogs steady, lambs quoted higher in places, general activity described across representative classes. Chicago data incomplete in this segment.
Active sale volume with 10 000 salable cattle including 800 calves and yearlings. Steady to higher prices for fed cattle with steers 17.00 to 17.75 and heifers 17.25 while cows and bulls remain scarce missing higher bids. Sheep and lambs show firmness with loads of fed lambs 15.00 to 15.75 and slaughter ewes around 8.25, market notes indicate improved demand.
Tuesday March 26 1946 Steers Good 16 to 17.20 ice 14.50 to 15.75 Heifers Good 15 to 15.90 do 13 to 14 Plain one Good to choice 12 to 100 medium 9 to 10 75 cutter 6 50 to B50 Bull Good to choice 13 to 14.40 medium 12 thin 10 Veal Calves Good and choice ceiling 18.60 medium 14 to 17 cull 10 Butcher hogs 140 to 400 lbs ceiling 14.75 all weights ceiling 14 Pigs 5 to 9 per head Shoats 70 to 135 15.50 to 17.50 fat lambs Good 15 to 15.50 medium 13 Cull 9 fat sheep 4.50 to 6.00 per cwt
The Community Concert Association calls a Thursday afternoon meeting from 3 to 5 at G and M Appliance Center West Boscawen Street. Ethel B. Rinker leads the membership drive as Winchester eyes a likely sold out Handley High School series with past performers including Marina Svetlova Patricia Travers and Nino Martini. Memberships available at headquarters by dialing 3681 with a Saturday deadline for admission.
W. H. Harrison of the Bell System pledges rapid rural telephone expansion. The program aims to double farm telephones, spending over 100 million dollars, with 75,000 new lines added in 1945 and plans for a million new rural telephones in three to five years.
Provo teenager Colin Mackenzie posted a quirky notice on his Idaho cafe wall promising to marry any farmer’s daughter who owns a cow and can churn butter. The sign, dated March 27, draws attention for its playful boldness.
Congressman Willis Robertson of Virginia received Field and Stream’s Conservation Cup at the American Wildlife Conference banquet in New York on March 12. The lifetime sportsman and chairman of the House Select Committee on wildlife resources was honored amid remarks by Field and Stream’s Eltinge F. Warner.
A record of key figures and roles in major conservation organizations during 1941 to 1945. Dr. Ira N. Gabriel led the Fish and Wildlife Service, E. Herrick Low chaired Ducks Unlimited, Hon. Frederick C. Walcott led The American Wildlife Institute, and Alfred C. Glassell served as president of Ducks Unlimited.
Hedgesville West Virginia March 27 Mr and Mrs Hollis DeHaven have word their son Pvt Allen DeHaven of Lowery Field Denver Colorado is in the hospital with a throat infection. Mr and Mrs Cairmont Bartgis of Alexandria Virginia spent Sunday with his brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Granville Bartgis. Horace Mowyer recent returns from overseas and his wife visit her parents Mr and Mrs Walter Saville. Mrs Belle DeHaven visiting son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Elmer Murphy and children Kenneth Violet and Rosa lie, Mr and Mrs Elmer Murphy and children, Kenneth and Violet, and Mrs Belle DeHaven spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Calvin DeHaven Nolsville. Mr Calvin DeHaven leaves for the Army April 1. Mr and Mrs Lewis Allright and daughter spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs Harrison DeHaven.
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