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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1956
Page
5
Market steady with good demand and heavy receipts across poultry items. Broilers and fryers quoted 2.34 to 3 percent, large and small turkey fryers weighted toward heavy types, with hens and toms in the heavy category. Winchester egg grades show varied ranges from large to small, with prices listed for each grade and size.
The stock market edged higher in early trading with many leading stocks up fractions. Youngstown Sheet & Tube rose a full point while Standard Oil New Jersey and Sperry Rand opened unchanged on blocks of 3,000 shares. U S Steel gained 1/4, General Dynamics up 3/8, and General Electric up 1/8, with gains extending later.
Soybeans start firm while the rest of the grain market holds steady at the Board of Trade opening. Wheat futures show July at 2.06 1-2 to 1-8, September 2.08, December 2.10 3-4 to 5-8, March 2.11. Corn July 1.52 1-4 to 4-2, September 1.52 1-2 to 5-8, December 1.37 5-8, March 1.40 3-4 to 41. Oats July 661-8 to 1 4, September 67 3-4, December 7d. Rye July 1.241-4, September 1.23 3-4 to 241-4, December 1.26 3-4 to 27. Lord July 12.80, September 13.07 to 10, November 12.80, December 13.50.
Baltimore dairy and meat market items show cattle, hogs, and sheep with tight supplies and varied grades. Apples and potatoes list mixed origins and sizes with steady or low price quotes. poultry demand steady for fryers and hens. regional notes include Maryland Delaware and Oklahoma entries with explicit weights and price ranges.
Thirteen Virginia hospitals will receive 350 600 in a second Ford Foundation mailing part of a 200 million program aiding non profit hospitals. Listed are Martha Jefferson Charlottesville 15 500 Memorial Danville 49 550 Raiford Franklin 18 400 Mary Washington Fredericksburg 31 550 and others including New Port News 29 000 DePaul Norfolk 61 400 Wytheville Hospital 6 200 and Sheltering Arms Richmond 16 650.
The market lists old crop shorn lambs 95-106 lb at 22.50 to 24.00 with No 1 and 2 pelts. Choice and prime spring lambs 80-95 lb bring 28.00 to 29.00 with culls 22.00 to 26.00. A 50 head lot of choice and prime wooled lamb at 108 lb fetches 25.50. slaughter ewes range 3.50 to 5.50.
Livestock sales at Farmers Livestock Exchange on May 21 1956 report hogs veal lambs and slaughter cattle. Hogs include barrows gilts sows and feeders with prices per hundredweight. veal lists prime good commercial and heavy calves. lambs show prime choice good and utility levels. slaughter cattle cover steers heifers cows and bulls with price ranges.
Clarence Brayton Cooper Jr., 52, a cashier and longtime director at the National Bank of South Carolina Sumter, is free on 10000 bond after FBI filed a complaint. He allegedly participated with late O B Nettles in taking small amounts from the U S government bond account over years. The bank audit uncovered the $300000 shortage.
Prices listed for stocker feeder cattle and calves show steers in the good to choice range from 18.00 to 19.00 per hundredweight, medium grades 16.50 to 17.50, with calves at 17.00 to 18.50 for good to choice and 12.00 to 14.00 for inferior and common. Commercial and utility categories appear at 13.25 to 14.50 for cattle.
The United States accounts for about 80 percent of the world’s natural gas output, highlighting its dominant role in global energy supply and the impact on markets and policy discussions.
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