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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1950
Page
12
The article cites Dr. Arthur Ruppin noting Jews worldwide rose from 10.6 to 16.7 million between 1900 and 1938. Before World War I about half the Jewish population lived in czarist Russia, where Jews formed a noticeable percentage of the population. In 1926 Russia accounted for 18 percent of the world total.
A dense sequence lists prime time channels and show titles across stations 4 5 7 9 8 with times from 6 30 PM to 11 30 PM including cartoons News Weather boxing and sports programs. Notable entries include Milton Berle News Caravan Captain Video Fireside Theater and Chicago Boxing across multiple hours and channels.
A crowded broadcast slate lists news, music, drama and variety programs. Featured items include Cavalcade of America, Count of Monte Cristo adaptations, Fibber and Molly, Philip Marlowe, and a range of news broadcasts, discussions, and dance band shows across CBS and mbs networks.
A Frederick County building permit is issued to Luther and Amy H Hart of Rt 2 Winchester for a two story eight room house to be built two miles south of Winchester on Paper Mill Road with an estimated cost of 12500 dollars. Mr and Mrs Arvil Dye of Winchester Rt 2 are approved to remodel their home at an estimated cost of 1500 dollars.
Census takers count transients tonight at the George Accington Hotel. Enumerators in hotels with 50 or more rooms aid in distributing forms, urging travelers to be counted either at the hotel or at home. Wallace P. Willson notes district census progress and farm operator responses speed enumeration.
Miss Kitty Shifflett visited Sonburg after spending a few days there. Mrs. Clara, a Madison College seller, and her daughter Mrs. Hunter Ritenour of Wheatfield visited Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller on Saturday. Mrs. Grace Hayden, a teacher near Charleston West Virginia, spent the weekend with her parents at Wateredge.
Frank M. Smith of Charles Town West Virginia was chosen winner from about 1500 visitors to the new stores since opening. Corpsion M. B. Clowe Jr selected the winner from the visitor pool.
Winchester and Frederick County are assigned a $100000 quota for the Independence Savings Bond Drive running May 15 to July 4. Clarke County and Shenandoah Warren Counties have lower targets. National goal is $653.95 million with Virginia at $10.5 million. City and county sales last month totaled $22368.75.
Mr and Mrs Walter Roberts visited Mr and Mrs Russell Miller Sunday. Mrs Roberts is the former Emma Moore daughter of the late Gordon Moore. Roy Lee and family move into the Lee Everly house from Winchester. James Patterson and son Ellis Lee are recovering from mumps. Mrs William Bly and daughter Peggy also had mumps. Leonard Williams is back to work on the farm. Tilden Snapp is convalescing. Juanita Elliott of Winchester visits her aunt Mrs Claude Shifflett and attends school here. Russell Shifflett, employed in Harrisonburg, spent Sunday with his parents.
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