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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1952
Page
3
Prices for U S Fancy apples rose. 2 1 2 inch Red Delicious sold mostly 3 75 to 4 00 per bushel with some 3 50. Regular Delicious about 25 cents lower. Top grade Jonathans steady near 2 75 with 3 00 or higher for 24 percent inch ups. Most quotes based on fancy pack though brokers note 95 percent moved in bulk with some deals as low as 1 25 per bushel depending on size.
Prices range from 75 cents to $1.00 for pack inghouse fruit with Red Delicious 2 pounds at 29 cents and Grimes at 23 cents in better markets. Yorks are plentiful this year as Virginia Fruit Co and National Fruit Product Co stockpile large quantities amid weather-dented stays. Bulk sales rise after Thanksgiving with 216,000 bushels expected from York stockpile.
James Wood Colonels host Manassas High at 2 p m as they seek a first win aided by improved defense. Quarterback Boyd Swartz is out with a fractured arm from the Fairfax game. Starting lineup lists Cather, Knee, Lockhart, Jenkins, Layman, Stotler, Smith, Donald or Symons.
Growers face mixed prospects as processing varieties expand and fresh markets tighten. H W Butler Jr reports most processors expect normal packing in 1952 after 1950 overages while stored apples fill Virginia Storage 300000 bushel capacity nearly full and shipments shift toward processing.
Winchester officials honored 11 local leaders with Community Chest citations at a dinner as Red Feather Month began. Recipients included past Chest presidents and campaign chairs from 1946 to 1952, acknowledged for long service to the city and county Chest. The drive runs Oct 13-20 with a goal of 41,225 dollars benefiting seven agencies serving youth, children of working mothers, the aged, and the disadvantaged.
The obituary notes pastor Claude Grim Edgar G Hill of Market Street Methodist Church will be buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery. The body rests at Omps Funeral Home until Friday afternoon and will be moved to his home, then returned to the funeral home for Saturday services.
The United Lutheran Hour features Rev. William E. Eisenberg of Grace Lutheran Church this Sunday at 9 30 a m on WINC. A Staunton native and Roanoke College Philadelphia Seminary graduate he served in Greenville Pa lem Salem before joining Winchester in 1944 and authored The First Hundred Years Roanoke College 1842 1942.
The Veterans Administration allowed hundreds of personnel costs and tens of millions for training. Additional tens of millions were spent on courses deemed worthless, with waste highlighted in the report.
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