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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1948
Page
3
Chicago market reports grains opening slightly lower with wheat showing most easing. Prices listed include Wheat Sept 2.21 3-8 Dec 2.24 3-4 May 2.15-14 3-4 Soybeans Nov 2.48 1-2 Oats Sept 73-73 1-8 Dec 74 73 7-8 May 75 1-4 Corn Sept 1.61 1-2 Dec 1-2 May 1.42 34 43 Jul 1.43 Lard Sept 17.65 Dec 19-30.
Daily corrected market list shows prices for corn meal yellow and white in 5 and 10 lb bags, new wheat under 14 percent moisture at 2.00 per bu, barley 1.35 per bu, No 4 yellow ak livered in city per bu 1.95, soybeans 24 per unit mixed feed blends and mash for poultry with various price points, butter and butterfat values listed.
Cattle and hog prices show uneven movement with steers and heifers mostly steady to down a bit on medium and low grades. Week's top steer price hits a new record, calves and heifers mixed, hogs down for most weights, but some top loads reach near 30 dollars. Also notes Chicago snap reflects higher top for prime 1160 lb steers and lighter declines across sheep and lambs.
Agriculture Department Markets Division lists U S Grade A eggs at 58 for extra large, 56 large, 49 medium. standards 49, cracks and checks 30, Peewees 40. Live poultry prices from Winchester area dressers include Young hens 45, Young toms 38, No 2 toms 33, No 2 hens 4, Old and young guineas 35, Leghorn cox 14, old roosters and stags variable.
Berlin dispatch reports Russians preparing technical measures to end the 72 day blockade of Berlin. Rail and canal traffic remain halted though officials say reopening will wait on talks in Moscow and Berlin. Currency talks surface with a Russian backed East German mark eyed by Soviets and Western powers.
Fifteen disgruntled passengers staged a sitdown inside a New York bound Constellation at Shannon Airport to protest unloading. They refused to leave for seven and a half hours while the aircraft, arriving from Prague Frankfurt and Brussels with 34 aboard, continued to Nehten.
Rapid City, S D Sept 4 In a reunion Tron Hawk 98 oldest of six speaks for Sioux survivors of the 1876 Custer massacre. They say they would reclaim their Black Hills hunting grounds if strong enough. Iron Hawk is Sit ting Bull's nephew.
A compact listing of morning worship times and programs across multiple churches including Centenary Reformed, Christ Episcopal, Congregational Christian, First Baptist, Grace Lutheran, Church of Christ, and Winchester Presbyterian. It notes sermon times, Bible schools, vesper services, communion and prayers, with occasional weeknight events and a note on contributions to a relief program.
The first assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam closes as delegates condemn both capitalism and communism as means to guarantee freedom and justice, urging alternative paths for global peace.
Winchester Brown Bombers have no home games over the holiday but will play at Woodstock on Monday. The squad will leave at noon, officials stated.
Mrs Pearl Taylor Pulliam wife of Beverley Pulliam of Washington died yesterday in Washington. She was a former resident of Berryville where burial will be made at Green Hill Cemetery Monday at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time following funeral services in Washington at 11 a.m. DST.
Fragmentary poultry terms list weights for various broiler classes. Mentions Rock and cross broilers Red broilers Leghorn broilers up to 2 1 2 pounds Leghorn hens by heavy breed hens 4 2 pounds up.
Charles P Taft brother of Senator Robert A Taft Ohio and Episcopal lay delegate to the assembly proposed revising the creed to condemn laissez faire capitalism while noting capitalism varies by country and ideology of communism exists alongside.
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