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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1956
Page
3
Hog prices by grade range from 10.25 to 15.55 per cwt with feeder and butcher categories. Veal and lamb values cited, with slaughter cattle by class and quality. Stock feeder cattle shown with price bands. other livestock includes 4 H Club steers selling from 20 to 51 dollars.
Market notes on apples by box and grade for eastern markets, US Fancy Golden Delicious and Romes with prices. Virginia and Maine potato offerings with weights and sacks. sweet potatoes and Porto Ricans with price ranges. poultry demand and sales. Baltimore cattle, hogs, and sheep bid ranges for various weights and grades. few sales to report. overall quiet market with mixed lots and scattered prime items.
The market opened higher with several leading issues up one to nine points and losses limited. Royal Dutch Petroleum rose two points to 111 while Standard Oil of California gained 1 5 8 to 114 1 2. Superior Steel slid 13 8 to 27 after reporting first quarter profits of 57 cents a share versus $1.10 a year ago. Other steel stocks rose alongside major names like 0 8 Steel Chrysler Boeing Philco International Nickel DuPont Long Bell Lumber Union Pacific Johns Manville while RCA American Cyanamid General Electric and Goodrich fell.
Agriculture Department notes unsettled market conditions with good demand and adequate supplies as receipts run heavy.
Grain and livestock quotes show subdued activity at Chicago on open with May wheat at 2.28 3-4 and nearby corn around 1.53 1-2. Oats rye and soybeans also listed with May lambs priced around 20.00 to 23.00 and light odd lots noted.
A dense listing of TV programs across hours with shows like Pinky Lee Howdy Doody Footlight Theater Little Rascals Caesar's Hour Medic Jack Be Nimble Mr District Attorney Tonight Steve Allen Lone entries include boxing baseball highlights and late news Weather Featurama and various dramas and comedies featuring actors such as Raymond Massey Alec Guinness and Judy Canova Schedule spans 5:00 PM to 11:15 PM with multiple channels and boxing and baseball highlights.
A dense listing of Channel 4 daytime programming includes classics such as Tennessee Ernie Ford Show Feather Your Nest Afternoon Playhouse Susie Queen for a Day and Brighter Day. Evening slots feature The Edge of the Night The Guiding Light and Talk show host installments.
Local markets list daily price readings for animal feeds grains and staples. Items include mixed feed, bran egg mash broiler mash and flour with Rail Rockingham Augusta markets showing varied prices for corn barley wheat and butter in wholesale and retail settings.
Fletcher Day faces disorderly conduct six months and costs 4.75. Gilbert Leach appears for drunk 14.75, John Campbell for drunk 25.75 and 30 days. Madison Crowser drunk 15.25. Bruce Lee Miller drunk 10.25. Paul Ashby Foreman drunk in public 15.25. A homicide squad is a city police unit led by a sergeant or lieutenant with specialists such as a photographer and fingerprint expert.
Randolph Macon sits atop the state baseball standings as Hampden-Sydney and other rivals shape the race. New key week begins with a home clash against Hampden-Sydney, while Washington and Lee, Richmond, VMI and others chase top spots in the Big Six and Little Eight races.
A fast finishing mare owned by Warrenton causes a surprise victory in the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase at Warrenton Broadview course. Gillian, ridden by Grover Stephens, overtakes rivals over the last two fences and wins by eight lengths, the first mare to take the crown in six years.
In a two horse contest between Star Soard ridden by T S Nichols and Star Salome with George Weymouth, Randolph Rouse’s Ricadhe fell at the fifth fence and its rider Padds Smithwick was unseated.
Community health initiative urges residents to schedule cancer screenings and donate to the annual research fund. Local hospitals and clinics participate, inviting volunteers to support awareness events and fundraising drives this month.
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