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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1957
Page
5
Evangelist Billy Graham declares there is something desperately and tragically wrong with the American home today. He pins the problem on married couples' breaking and forgetting biblical marriage laws during a sermon to 18,500 at Madison Square Garden.
A three state hunt for commercial pilot Dewey Fisher 31 continues from Westover Air Force Base as Civil Air Patrol units in Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia join the search. The Coast Guard aids in locating Fisher who left Lockhaven Pa without a flight plan ferrying a Super Cub to Norfolk Va for Piedmont Aviation Co. Poor weather in PA and MD hampered yesterday’s search.
Wall Street opened higher as oil stocks surged on strong earnings and optimistic prospects. Boeing and General Dynamics fell, while American Dy namids Union Carbide Westinghouse Loew’s and Twentieth Century Fox rose. Goodyear Consolidated Edison and Paramount fell. Getty Oil led gains with a 1 point advance to 37. Standed Oil 64, U S Steel 66.
Produce and livestock prices from Baltimore and Chicago markets list fruits vegetables and meats. Apples strawberries asparagus potatoes sweet potatoes and onions feature with cattle hogs sheep and calves price ranges and notable loads across US regions.
The Agriculture Department reports adequate supply and good demand for live poultry. Prices for broilers range from 21 to 23 cents per pound, with heavy type turkey fryers around 26 cents and breeder hens at 18 cents. Egg markets in Winchester and Harrisonburg show Grade A Large 29 to 30 cents and Grade A Small around 14 to 16 cents.
Futures prices slide across wheat corn oats rye and soybeans in early session trading on the Chicago Board of Trade as July contracts lead declines and nearby months show lower quotes. Traders monitor supply demand factors and market momentum while old and new crop lines diverge.
Local markets show daily prices for feeds grain and staples. Listings include mixed feed egg mash corn meal flour wheat butter and butterfat with regional references to Rockingham Augusta and Washington wholesale figures and notes on possible typographical errors.
Senator Butler reports early poll returns from 27 of 48 governors on federal school aid. He notes states with most to gain oppose the measure while those likely to lose support it, calling the pattern a strange phenomenon. Six replies publicly disclosed include New York's Averell Harriman and Pennsylvania's George Leader.
Michigan headlines show opposing governors Victor Anderson of Nebraska Milward Simpson of Wyoming and Thomas B. Stanley of Virginia arguing over who pays more toward a federal school aid program. Butler contends New York and Pennsylvania taxpayers would fund more than their states receive, while Alaska Wyoming and Virginia would gain more.
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