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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1962
Page
12
Chicago AP USDA summary reports week hog cattle and sheep prices. Prices shown for a wide range of weights and grades including No 1 2 barrows and gilts 16.25 to 16.50, steers 23.00 to 29.75, beef cows 12.00 to 16.75, veal and lambs 18.25 to 36.75 with weekly totals and per head figures.
Local stock quotations list several issues with bid prices including American Furniture at $1 par 5% Bank of Clarke County at 10 par Commonwealth Natural Gas at 5% First Va. Corp at 616% George Washington Hotel at $100 Life Insurance Co. of Virginia at 137 Middletown State Bank at 56% O Sullivanne Corp. preferred $20 par Potomac Edison $3.60 preferred.
Washington reports the United States detonated its fourth atmospheric nuclear test in the Pacific near Christmas Island. The device yielded 100 000 to 500 000 tons of TNT and occurred at 2 pm EST. Foreign reaction ranged from mild to concern over a continuing arms race.
London report from the Mental Health Research Fund says more than 5,000 men and women die by self harm each year in Britain, about equal to traffic deaths. London with nine million people records three suicides daily, highlighting undiagnosed depressive illness as a major cause and urging new biochemical and radioactive techniques and better management of low mood.
Farmers Livestock Market reports hog sales for April 30 with 543 hogs sold. Top barrows and gilts bring 16.50 to 16.75, heavy butcher 14.95 to 16.05, light butcher 15.25 to 16.40, butcher sows 12.00 to 13.25, feeder shoats 19.25 to 21.00.
Next week's film lineup opens with Sophia Loren in Two Women at local theatres from Sunday to Thursday. Friday features Home from color with Troy Donahue Angie Dickinson Susanne Pleshette Rossano Brazzi. Palace runs Up stairs and Downstairs color with Mylene Demongeot Michael Craig James Robertson Justice Sunday to Tuesday. Wednesday brings Sweet Bird of Youth color with Paul Newman Geraldine Page Shirley Knight Ed Begley and Rip Torn. Akoyal Drive In shows Sink the Bismarck with Kenneth Moore and Diana Wynter Tomorrow to Tuesday. Also Twiest Around the Clock with Chubby Checker and Gunmen Walk with Van Heflin Tab Hunter Wednesday to Saturday. Family Drive In presents Parrish color with Troy Donahue Connie Stevens this weekend along with The Hoodlum Priest starring Don Murray.
Sobha Cass Nelson of Bisbee, class of ’37, earned a University of Arizona degree after a grueling routine. He rode 200 miles daily to Tuscon for classes, logged about 80 000 miles and used 5 000 gallons of gas, often getting only four hours of sleep on school days.
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