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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1947
Page
3
Produce prices steady with apples across varieties and crates. Poultry and eggs show steady demand with roasters, fryers, and fowl moving at light to fair sales, while butter and egg receipts rise. Cattle, hogs, and calves show mixed yet active trading with weights and grades affecting top prices in Chicago and Baltimore markets.
NEW YORK May 21 The stock market showed little buoyancy with few issues seeking further recovery while leaders held near prior levels. Dealings were active early then slowed as tax and labor legislation and foreign issues added uncertainty. Perre Marquette rose after the ICC set June 4 as the effective date for its order, while several issues advanced or retreated in uneven trading. Bond prices moved with high irregularity.
Chicago grain quotations show opening strength on the board of trade followed by selling pressure that pushed prices below the prior close. Trading remains active with May Wheat at 2.76 and July at 2.34 for nearby. corn and oats also posted firm early quotes across multiple delivery months.
Salable sheep 500, total 15.00, market steady. 100-lb red clipped lambs with mostly No 1 pelts around 21.75. Wooled lambs and springers absent. Small lots good and choice slaughter ewes 9.00 to 9.25, few fat wooled ewes 10.75.
Stephens City high school seniors depart Monday for a two day trip to Williamsburg Richmond Yorktown and Jamestown. The group of about 40 travels under chaperones Mrs Elsie Hovermaale and Donald Perault aboard a special chartered bus.
The Stephens City Athletic Association sponsors a fun festival and yard party at the school on Friday May 30 at 7 p.m. with games music and refreshments. All proceeds go to support the school athletic program.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah J. Larrick, who died at Cline's Nursing Home in Middletown yesterday, will be held tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. from Jones Funeral Home with Rev. Courtney Anderson officiating. Interment will follow at Mount Hebron Cemetery with grandsons serving as pallbearers.
Milwaukee court orders Dr John Lewis pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church to stand trial June 9 on arson charges after alienists deem him sane. State accuses him of starting a $150000 blaze at the church in January. Lewis pleads innocent and waives preliminary examination. Attorney Meissner seeks swift trial so he can vindicate himself.
Nationalist dispatches report Changchun, capital of Manchuria, fully encircled by Chinese Communist forces while government troops push from Kanchuling 36 miles southwest. Fighting erupts in the streets as Chiang Kai-shek’s troops dig trenches and machinegun positions. Information Director Tong cites 90,000 Communists, including 20,000 Korean members.
Police studied whether a body found in Ravenswood Cemetery after drowning in the Ohio River and then burned in a rough box is that of Oliver Calvert of near Belpre Ohio. Sheriff Bateman of Athens County identified a belt buckle initial C as a possible clue linking the victim to the missing Ohio resident.
Eight prize fights have drawn million dollar gates including Tunney Dempsey pairs, Dempsey fights with Carpenter Firpo and Sharkey, Louis Melting, Louis Baer, and Louis Com without restating source phrasing.
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