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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1954
Page
6
Since 1941 Arkansas license plates have carried Land of Opportunity and in 1953 the legislature made it the official nickname, replacing the long standing Wonder State. The phrase gained wide popularity and remains the state tag on plates.
Classified display ads run at 1.75 per column inch per day. Closing hours require ads at The Star Office before 10 a m to appear in the same day issue.
Classified notice listing for sale items including a motel and gas station snack bar and grocery store, with seller H. E. Harris of Keezletown Virginia. Also includes furniture and home goods for sale and rental listings. Various contact points and dates noted for each item.
Hog prices range from 21.00 to 29.00 per hundredweight across various weights and classes. Veal and lamb values cited, with slaughter cattle and stocker feeder ranges for steers heifers and cows. Dairy cows also listed by quality and weight brackets.
Daily market listing shows flour corn meal egg mash broiler mash and grain prices. No. 2 Yellow Corn shelled ranges by Rockingham and Augusta counties with values around 1.75 to 2.20 per unit. Butterfat butter and wholesale butter listed at fractions of a dollar.
Agriculture Department reports steady farm market for No 1 fowl in Winchester with demand up and prices near 24 hours to noon. Broilers fryers over 3 lbs 19 20 cents per lb. heavy types 30 31. small turkey fryers 31 32. hens 40 41. Harrisonburg egg market lists US Grade A Large white 37, Grade A Large brown and other grades around 30 cents. Grade C eggs and crack and checks noted.
Quotations courtesy of White, Weld & Company Winchester office list bids for American Furniture Bank of Clarke County Commercial and Savings Bank Commonwealth National Gas Dan River Mills Farmers and Merchants National Bank George Washington Hotel preferred Green Chemical Company Life Insurance Company of Virginia N and W Industries common and preferred National Fruit Products O Sullivan Rubber Company Virginia storage Potomac Edison preferred stock Shenandoah Valley Apple Cider and Vinegar Victor Products Virginia Storage with prices and par values noted for each issuer.
In Richmond a diocese official said it is very probable that a few Negro seventh and eighth graders from Van de Vyver Catholic grade school will enter white high schools if credits warrant. Norfolk officials face decisions if St. Joseph's High School for Negroes is condemned for redevelopment. The bishop urged readiness to accept Supreme Court rulings against segregation and affirmed Catholic teaching that all men are equal before God.
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