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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1948
Page
7
Chicago May 3 grains open weaker with rains in Kansas. Wheat May 41 5 8 40 3 4. July 2.29 28 3 4. Sept 2.28 1 2 1 4. Dec 2.29 1 2. Corn May 2.18 17 3 4. July 2.05 1 2 05. Sept 1.87 7 8 88. Dec 1.68. Oats May 1.08 08 1 2. July 88 88 1 8. Sept 81 3 4. Dec 82 3 8. Lard May 21.90. July 22.25.
Local market page lists wholesale and city delivered prices for corn meal, grain, and feeds. No. 2 red winter wheat 2.25 per bushel in city delivery. No. 2 yellow corn 2.20 per bushel delivered in city with a 5 cent rise noted. Barley 1.65 per bushel. soybeans 2.40 per bushel.
A condensed crossword puzzle list with across and down clues covering topics from uprising and inlaid work to celestial bodies and Persian terms. Includes clues for Italian cities, nautical terms, and currency related hints.
A cryptic puzzle segment lists clues for 40 to 44 across a Saturday page. Items include a harness trace fastening, a shortened elevated train term, the Seine, and Chinese silk, inviting solvers to deduce each answer from cross‑references.
Leading stocks shifted along a somewhat uneven path with slow early activity in New York. Central Railway of New Jersey reached a 1948 high while leaders included Northern Pacific Chrysler U S Rubber Boeing American Telephone American Woolen and J C Penney, with declines seen in General Motors Schenley Anaconda Westinghouse Electric Pepsi Cola Owens Illinois General Electric NY Central Chesapeake and Ohio Union Pacific Illinois Central Standard Oil NJ and Gulf Oil. Cotton futures moved lower.
Agriculture Department markets division reports prices paid in Winchester for F O B grade A and standards poultry. Grade A extra large to pullets. live poultry prices include heavy breed hens and ghorn hens. young hens turkeys and ducks listed with per pound and per piece figures for No 1 quality producers and dressing plants.
The Carmagnole was a jacket adopted by revolutionists that became the name of a song and a wild dance performed at executions in 1792, popular in France during the Revolution era.
Baltimore market notes show apples and pears steady to firm with various sizes and crates. poultry and eggs near steady with wholesale price ranges and receipts. Cattle and hog markets are mixed to steady, with slaughter steers 27 to 31 dollars, cows 19 to 26, stocker steers 26 to 29, calves 16 to 30, hogs around 40s to 50s per hundredweight.
Washington May 3. James Marlow reports on three main points in Congress over armed forces expanding the Air Force drafting men for service and universal military training. The Air Force expansion to 70 groups appears likely. draft and UMT bills are still being debated with House and Senate committees drafting separate versions. Congress remains divided and slow in final action.
May 1 market data shows salable hogs 16 500 with good and choice weights 170 230 lb at 20.50 21.50 and 240 260 lb 18.75 20.25. Cattle and calves: salable cattle 14 090 calves 800 with good and choice 28 31.50. steers 1440 lb 21.50. heifers 27 31. cows steady to 25 higher. Sheep 4000 with best woolskins 25.50 26 quotable.
New tenants occupy a four story brick house at 60 Morning Side Drive as General and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower arrive in New York. About 200 neighbors greet them, Ike noting a soldier in the crowd and mentioning his son in the outfit. Ike has left the Army and will assume presidency of Columbia University on June 7.
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