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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1948
Page
8
Market quotes show steady poultry eggs and dairy items with multiple grain and fruit prices. Cattle hogs and sheep values vary by weight and grade, with bulls and vealers noted. Chicago prices list hogs and cattle, showing top steers and aged cows at specific ranges.
In a very quiet trading session on Sept. 23, stock prices were mostly fractionally higher. Bethlehem Steel blocks sold above prior close while railroads lagged. several steel and chemical names edged up and others like Montgomery Ward and DuPont slipped.
Martinsburg area fruit prices show demand fair and market steady. Delicous US No 1 2 1/2 in up 3.25 to 3.50, Jonathan 2 1/2 in up 2.50 to 2.65, Yorks US No 1 2 1/2 in up to 2.25, Red Yorks 2.50, boxes 163s and larger 2.75 to 3.18, Golden Delicious 150s and larger around 3.10.
Daily corrected market page lists flour corn meal and grain prices including wheat at $2.00 per bushel and No 2 yellow corn at $1.95 delivered in city. Feeds such as egg mash cracked corn broiler mash turkey grower and starter are shown with unspecified weights.
Markets division of the Agriculture Department reports U S Grade A extra large eggs at 63 cents per dozen and large at 61 cents. Medium 62 cents. Standards 49 cents. Pullets 40 cents. Grade B large 52 cents. Cracks and checks 30 cents. Peewees 40 cents. No 1 quality dressed poultry prices in Winchester area include Young hen turkeys 48 cents and Young tom turkeys 45 cents. No 2 toms 33 cents No 2 hens 4 cents. Old and young guineas 35 cents. Leghorn cox Rock broilers 33 cents Red broilers 34 cents. Leghorn broilers up to 2 1 2 lb ae Leghorn hens 25 cents. Heavy breed hens 4 1 2 lbs up 32 cents Stags 25 cents.
Wheat rose fractionally at the Chicago open as mill buying supported against flour government sales. December wheat 2.25 1 8, May 2.17 3 8, July 2. Corn figures show Dec 1.41 5 8 42, May 1.44 7 8, July 1.45 1 2. Oats Dec 73, May 74 1 8. Soybeans Nov 2.45 Lard Oct 18.70 65, Dec 19.25 32, Mar 18.85.
Campus readers welcome The Evening Star on campus and offered daily delivery to students with a phone contact for orders.
County high schools will begin the first phase of the Driver Education and Training program this term under Superintendent Leslie D. Kline. The plan focuses on classroom instruction only.
Officials hope to develop actual behind the wheel training in time, with current plans focused on this year. The statement indicates progress toward hands on driving instruction in the coming period.
The Clarke AC Charles Town baseball game scheduled for Sunday is canceled per T J Grubbs.
The scheduled contest between Lefty Lawrence Buckner and Bobby Houghton was cancelled due to a misunderstanding over the All-Stars gate share, according to Clarke county business manager Grubbs.
Jefferson County grand jury indicts Neil C. Butler 47 of Shepherdstown for slaying his brother Harry Douglas Butler 45. The killing occurred August 31 at the Martha VanMetre farm near Shepherdstown after an argument over plowing. Trial set for October 12 by Judge D H Rodgers.
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