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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1955
Page
5
Yes buggies including surreys are produced in the United States. One Indiana firm makes about 800 buggies yearly in nearly 50 models. Amish buyers in Pennsylvania and the Midwest still purchase them, with about half sold to Acadians in Louisiana.
Classified display ads outline rates and deadlines and list various sale items such as used furniture tarpaulins radios and televisions farm property wrought iron railings leghorn chicks and egg washers with contact details and locations in Haun's Store Sager's TV and Radio Service Dudley Farms Hatchery and other outlets dated May 16 1961 with multiple entries including addresses and phone numbers.
Multiple small ads list for sale items and job requests. Listings include a ranch style home on Molden Drive, night crawlers 25 cents a dozen at Charles Street, AKC Cocker Spaniel puppies, a 51 52 L190 International tractor, a brick home on Braddock Street, and two employment offers seeking drivers and aggressive salesmen in the Winchester area with specific age and pay details.
Mixed items include religious pamphlet claims by John Ray Hinkle of Dayton Virginia with free information. Terminix termite services advertising worth over a million dollars. Keeney Brothers fur services. Leddy Furriers coat restyling. and Lug All hoist business opportunity offering distributorship with initial stock investment.
Market report lists hogs veal lambs and slaughter cattle prices with ranges. Hogs include choice butcher 175 to 225, heavy 230 to 300, light 150 to 175, sow 200 to 550, feeder 100 to 140. Veal ranges from prime 155 to 255 at 22.00 to 24.10, to commercial 11.00 to 17.00. Lambs show prime blue circles 92, choice red circles 81, good red shoulders 73, commercial 61. Slaughter cattle note steers 20.00 to 21.70, heifers 18.00 to 20.00, cows 13.50 to 15.00, bulls 15.00 to 16.80. Stocker feeder steers 21.00 to 23.25, stocker goods 17.00 to 20.50. Other livestock includes dairy cows 150 to 199, medium 110 to 140, plain 60 to 105.
Wes Santee ran 4 05.5 in the featured mile at the 15th Los Angeles Coliseum Relays as the crowd of 56 173 watched. Ron Delaney of Villanova won the 880 in 1 50.5 after a disqualification. Tom Courtney led the half mile before judges penalized him for cutting in, handing victory to Delaney.
Moscow confirms a group of 10 to 12 Soviet farm experts will tour the U S to observe corn and hog raising, while readying visas for American agriculturalists to visit the USSR. The plan follows Khrushchev’s demand for higher Soviet corn and pork production.
USDA cattle prices show slaughter steers unevenly steady to 25 higher, heifers mostly steady while bulls up to 50. Prime steers scarce. bulk available good and choice 833-1311 lb at 22.50-24.50. Calves and stocker cattle mix. hogs and lambs with varied weekly shifts and demand noted.
Nassau County on Long Island was named the nation's fastest growing, with an estimated current population of 1,034,000 versus 672,765 in 1950.
Fourteen year old Joseph Thompson says he missed three weeks of classes after being forced to pay ten cents to an older student or face beating. Burgos, 16, is charged with petty larceny and third degree assault and held on $500 bail pending a Thursday hearing. The same high school houses Frank Santana, 17, indicted for last month's killing of 15 year old William Blankenship Jr. during a gang feud.
A Peiping radio report says V. K. Krishna Menon, top adviser to Indian Prime Minister Nehru, left Red China for India declaring hope for the future. His talks allegedly touched on the Formosa situation and US airmen imprisonment. Nehru said the mission would cover Bandung topics.
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