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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1957
Page
5
New York market opens with aircraft and missile stocks strong as government statements boost defense spending hopes. North American Aviation rises to 25 4, Boeing to 35 1/? and Lockheed to 35 with notable early volume.
USDA market quotes show cattle, hogs, and sheep movement with bids and loads across Baltimore and Chicago. Prices cover steers, heifers, cows, bulls, calves, hogs, sows, and lambs from choice to utility grades, with weights and regional comparisons for apples, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
Agriculture Department notes demand for broilers and fryers remains very light with adequate supplies. Processors operate only part time due to sickness. Turkeys show steady demand with good prices paid at the farm at 11 a.m. today.
Report from Farmers Livestock Exchange shows hogs sold 554 with stakes across heavy, butcher, feeder and sow classes. Feal lot lists prime to good grades, calves and lambs, while slaughter cattle record totals for steers heifers cows bulls and feeder stock, with price ranges for each class.
The Stephenson church youth group met with 17 members present Tuesday evening. Dorothy Martin hosted with Ruth Elliot assisting. Services at the Methodist Church will start at 9 30 each Sunday for the next month. Local social notes include visits by Charles Diets to Baltimore for his mother's 75th birthday and various family visits across Gore Aberdeen Md Winchester and Northwestern Grade.
Jack Benner, 42, blinded by shrapnel on a French battlefield on Independence Day in 1944, was selected for the September term of the Scioto County grand jury. He refused to be excused by disability saying he wants to prove blind people can work when given a chance.
Local markets section notes corrections may occur and that the Star does not assume responsibility for typographical errors. It underscores routine updates and the ongoing effort to provide accurate market listings.
Chicago grain futures start mixed amid quiet trading with opening quotes across wheat corn oats rye soybeans and lard. Highlights include Wheat Dec 2.17 and Mar 2.22, soybeans Nov 2.264 and Jan 2.31525, and corn around 1.17 to 1.25.
A historical note states that the Chinese language and its dialects are spoken by about 500 million people. It highlights regional varieties and broad usage across different communities.
Treasury officials say they plan to stay within the 275 billion dollar national debt limit barring emergencies and do not expect Congress to boost defense spending. Debt sits about 900 million under the cap with cash reserves at four billion dollars and tax payments shaping the outlook for spring.
The Bell GAM-63 Rascal air to ground missile entered operation with the Air Force at Pinecastle Air Force Base Florida. A BAe jet bomber delivered one of the 32 foot long missiles for formal assignment to the Strategic Air Command amid successful firing tests.
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