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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1948

Page

9

BAILY CROSSWORD Egypt Li Clock Face and More

Across clues include clock face, aloof, Seine, dart, excavate, a token, city Florida, not yet, equipment, confer knighthood, farm animal, stumble, cleansing agent, chills and fever, prong, printer s measures, cunning. Down clues include conical mass yamona spindle, Norse god, river German, unde veloped flower, regulation outfits, booth, quick, a kind of tree, shrub Jap, beverage, man s name, obtain, by way of, a sun room, writing implement, help, marsh, girl s name, sum up, feel as one s way, goddess of night, big, ejects, seethe, foot like organ, some.

Egypt Fla Booth

Market Quotations and Cattle Prices From Baltimore and Chicago

Market notes show apples steady to dull with varied crates and prices in Baltimore. Livestock quotes list salable cattle at 1700 head with higher steer prices and active trade, plus hogs and calves with price moves, and Chicago reflects broader gains in hogs and uneven cattle trade.

Baltimore Oda Chicago

Lesson In English by W. L. Gordon

A brief note by W. L. Gordon on proper usage explains prefer using intend over figure on for expressing plans. It advises readers to say I didn't intend to go to town today rather than I didn't figure on going to town today.

W. L. Gordon

Increasing Vocab Bid to Master One Word Daily

An instruction focused on improving vocabulary by learning one word each day. It explains susceptibility as the capability of receiving impressions and notes individual odor susceptibilities differ among people.

Open Season Proposal for Quail and Other Game

Virginia Commission considers an open season proposal for hunting quail rabbits grouse turkeys ring necked Mongolian and Chinese pheasants with a meeting in Richmond on May 22 1948. Seasons run November 20 to January 20 statewide with local end dates and closures on national forest lands west of the Blue Ridge. certain counties face earlier close dates and hunting bans.

Richmond Virginia Ee Ee Psal. Wereinafter Culpeper Fairfax Fauquier Loudoun Madison Prince William Rappahannock Stafford National Forest Blue Ridge Mountains Bland Buchanan Carroll Charles City Dickinson James City Floyd Franklin Giles Grayson Greene Henry Lancaster Lee Middlesex Montgomery New Kent Northumberland Fatrick Pulaski Roanoke Russell Scott Smyth Tazewell Washington Westmoreland Wise and Wythe Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries Beverley W. Stras, Jr

Market Hesitates As Government Rail Takeover Looms

New York stocks drifted as labor tensions weighed on sentiment while the government move to seize the nation’s railroads added caution. Commonwealth Southern stood at 3 unchanged on 80,000 shares with leaders including Southern Pacific Sinclair Oil Deere International Harvester GM Western Union and US Rubber advancing. Losses were seen in Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Goodrich Sears Roebuck Boeing Lockheed Schenley Anaconda MuPont Allied Chemical Radio Corp Standard Oil NJ B&O Great Northern Illinois Central and C&O.

New- York Wall Street Commonwealth É Southern Southern Pacific Sinclair Oil Deere International Harvester General Motors Western Union U.S. Rubber Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Goodrich Sears Roebuck Boeing Lockheed, Schenley Anaconda Mu Pont Allied Chemical Radio Corp Standard Oil (Nj Baltimore & Ohio Great Northern Railway Illinois Central Chesapeake & Ohio

Chicago Grains Opening Prices Steady May 10

Grains opened steady in Chicago with May wheat at 2.42 and 2.43, July at 2.30, corn May 2.18 and July 2.05, oats May 1.12, July 0.89, and January 22.60 for lord futures. The article notes about three million people left American farms for cities between 1940 and 1947.

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Open Season Proposed for Squirrel Hunting in Virginia

A 1948 proposal authorizes two squirrel seasons in Virginia with a first from September 15 to September 30 except several counties and National Forest lands closed, and a second from November 20 to January 20 with January 5 end date in specified counties and western areas. includes regulatory notes under Game and Inland Fisheries.

Appomattox Amelia Buckingham Charles City Chesterfield Cumberland Dinwiddie James City Powhatan Prince George Prince William Mathews New Kent Nottoway Orange Rockbridge York National Forest Culpeper Fairfax Fauquier Loudoun Madison Rappahannock Stafford Blue Ridge Mountains Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries Beverley W. Stras, Jr

Local Markets Daily Prices Feed and Grain Summary

Daily local market prices list wholesale and city delivered rates. No. 2 red winter wheat per bushel 2.25. No. 2 yellow corn 2.20. barley 1.65. soy beans 2.49. various feeds and butter prices included with retail and wholesale distinctions.

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Farmer Urges Soil Conservation as Base For Federal Aid

A West Virginia farmer urged soil conservation as the foundation for federal aid. He spoke in Washington on May 10, outlining conservation practices to ensure productive land and long term farm support.

Farmer Washington West Virginia

Proposal Fixing Open Season for Trapping Wildlife

A proposal sets open trapping seasons for mink from December 15 to January 31 and for muskrat and otter from December 15 to February 28, all dates inclusive, to be discussed at the March 19, 1948 meeting.

Richmond Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries Beverley W. Stras, Jr

Farmers urged to accept soil rules for government aid

Congress committee heard George R. Heidrich of Charles Town say farmers should not receive payments unless they follow soil conservation. The House agriculture panel studies a bill to establish a separate soil and water conservation agency. A reader joke asks when water glasses should be filled for dinner.

Congressional Geroge R. Heidrich Charles Town House Agriculture Committee Agriculture Department

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