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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1960
Page
5
Ronnie Kern James Hockman and Gary Ti singer unload light bulbs for the Kiwanis Key Club sale set to begin tonight and run all week. Proceeds support community and school projects of the junior civic organization.
American Legion commander Martin B. McKneally urged a get-tough Caribbean policy toward Cuba and Fidel Castro on the eve of the Legion’s 42nd annual convention. He called for breaking relations with Cuba and defending U S rights and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base against Communist influence.
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Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation officers for Frederick County were elected for 1961. E W Adams Jr chaired the election. Ira Campbell and James F Garret were tellers. District chairmen listed include Back Creek Ray Allamong and G W Hulver Jr, plus others in Gainesboro, Mt Falls, and Gore. Opequon chair Kenneth Staples with stephens City. Shawnee chair P S Hershman with Route 4 residents. Stonewall chair Walter Anderson and others.
The public is invited to hear an address on Confederate General Longstreet at Quarles School tomorrow night at 8 o clock. Dr James I Robertson Jr author historian and Civil War authority will address the Winchester Frederick County Civil War Round Table. President C F Staples issued the invitation.
Thirty one businesses in Winchester and Frederick County join the Community Chest drive by displaying Red Feather bumper strips on trucks and wagons. Jack E. Johnson, chairman of the bumper strip committee, invites more companies to call Community Chest headquarters at MO 20805.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture notes prices fluctuate with an adjusting period after a recent rise. Supply is below last year but peaks seasonally next week. demand remains strong though expected to ease as the peak passes. Prices should drift downward yet stay above 1960 levels into 1961 with hog and corn forecasts showing incremental increases and regional auction ranges reported from Richmond and Southeastern Virginia.
Beans expected to ease over the next weeks as harvest activity rises. The 1960 U S total supply is seen at 585 million bushels, down two percent from last year, with futures at 2 13 for November 2 17 for January and 2 21 for March. Local quotes include Richmond 1 98 last week with Nor thern Neck at 1 95 and Norfolk 2 0 to 2 10.
The Cobb Seamount 270 miles off the Washington coast will host a 9000 foot peak buoy to probe deep ocean conditions. University of Washington scientists receive 207100 dollars from NSF to measure salinity temperature and velocity by radio data and may transmit meteorological info. Dr. Robert G. Paquette leads the project and tests will occur in Puget Sound and the Straits of Juan de Fuca before deployment.
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