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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1957
Page
5
Local markets list feed items and grain prices with ranges for various districts including Rockingham Augusta and Luray. Items include mixed feed 100 lb bran starter and grower mash wheat corn barley butter and wholesale butter with per bushel and per hundredweight prices.
Market report for September 9 details hogs veal lamb slaughter cattle and stocker activity. Prices listed by grade and weight for hogs veal lambs steers heifers cows bulls and calves with quantities sold across categories.
Camden police hunt a prolific thief dubbed the leg man after he smashed a lingerie shop window and stole four nylon leg prostheses. Earlier a similar theft occurred at a nearby lingerie shop with one leg stolen.
New York stocks opened quietly with a generally lower trend. Sinclair slipped about a point while Illinois Central inched ahead, major steels barely moved, U S Steel eased, Chrysler gained slightly, Ford lagged, and nonferrous metals firmed modestly. Anaconda American Smelting rose a touch. International Nickel fell. GE and NY Central among losers.
Chicago grains and soybeans fell sharply at the Board of Trade after a government report signaled lower 1957 crop production. Prices for Wheat Corn Oats Rye and Lard moved lower across Sep Dec Mar and May contracts in light trading.
Agriculture Department notes demand for broilers and fryers fair to adequate with quiet trading and adequate supply. Turkeys hold steady as demand remains good. Farm price quotes show broilers 2 to 3% pounds, heavy hens and turkey fryers at various grades, eggs in Winchester and Harrisonburg markets with Grade A and B levels and assorted weights.
Baltimore notes mixed fruit and vegetable markets with modest gains for Jonathan apples and McIntosh apples in various carton sizes. Cantaloupes and peaches show weaker undertone with light demand. potatoes and sweet potatoes near steady. Chicago and Baltimore USDA reports list cattle hogs sheep and steer prices across classes with varied ranges and several large lots traded.
Winchester Lions Club plans a city wide broom sale Tuesday evening with 138 members canvassing every block. Brooms produced at Charlottesville's Workshop for the Blind will fund the Light Conservation Program. Carter Baker urged support and announced a September 24 sale in the county.
Baseball leaders list includes Stan Musial of St Louis 340 runs, Hank Aaron Milwaukee 109 runs, 120 hits by Schoendienst Milwaukee, 35 doubles Hoak Cincinnati, 20 triples Mays New York, 40 homers Aaron Milwaukee, 37 stolen bases Mays New York, pitching Sanford Philadelphia 174 wins and .739, 170 strikeouts. In the American League Williams Boston 376 batting, Mantle New York 115 runs, Sievers Washington 101 RBIs and 173 hits Fox Chicago, 32 doubles Gardner Baltimore 32, McDougald New York 9 triples Sievers Washington 36 homers Aparicio Chicago 25 stolen bases Donovan Chicago 152.750 Stakeouts Wynn Cleveland 174.
Republican Ted Dalton and Democrat J Lindsay Almond Jr campaigned in Tidewater Virginia with Dalton addressing Norfolk business leaders and Almond attending a Waverly fish fry. Almond framed Dalton's pupil assignment plan as a step toward racial amalgamation while defending segregationist policies.
Three Rotary members will address the club at the weekly luncheon tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel. Speakers are Roy Bayliss W. W. Robertson and Frederick Hale.
An Akron county prisoner facing breaking and entering charges leaped from a second story dental office window after complaining of a toothache while in jail. He was last seen fleeing down an Akron street.
The second of eight Army enlisted men charged with mistreating basic trainees was acquitted by a special court martial yesterday. Jack Riley 27 of Brunswick Ga was cleared of charges that he withheld trainees mail called an 11 p m formation which was drunk and punished two trainees for refusing to buy company stationery. Two more enlisted men have yet to stand trial on similar charges. Four others have been convicted.
A fragment notes shopping in Winchester occurring on Saturday nights with opening hours unspecified up to a certain time. The readable text hints at a nocturnal shopping window but lacks exact times and dates. Entities include Winchester and Saturday nights.
The Singing Class for teen-age girls led by Prof Harold Reeves Yarrell resumes Saturday September 14 at 11 am in the Church of Christ at Valley Ave and Lambden Ave Winchester. It teaches voice placement tone production and musicianship with two public appearances per season. Private singing piano and organ lessons available plus speech correction.
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