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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1950
Page
12
Charlies and Mildred Ward of 408 Diehl Ave receive a building permit for a six room semi bungalow costing 5000 dollars. The house will stand about half a mile from Rt 11 on the Welltown Pike.
The tailor-bird of Asia uses its bill as a needle to sew leaves into a sack with fibers or grass. It then fills the structure with wool fibers and hair to form a nest.
A listing of nightly schedules across WNEW Channel 4 and partner stations detailing programs from 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM including Moppet Shop Frontier Theater Kukla Fran Ollie News Caravan Quiz Kids and Dateline with corresponding air times and channel numbers. The page compiles a dense lineup of children's programs talk shows dramas and news features across multiple channels.
The will of Jacob A. Shenk directs that 90 percent of Shenk Hatchery profits for 11 years be donated to charitable, educational, religious and humanitarian causes if the federal tax exemption is allowed. The hatchery, Virginia's largest, will operate as an estate through 1961 with Lucy W. Shenk as widow and co owner. The plan can be abandoned before 1961 by a five member committee if conditions create undue hardship.
The Berkeley County Isaak Walton League Chapter entertained members at its clubhouse near Bedington to honor Eugene Surber. Surber, superintendent of the Leetown Federal fish hatchery and chief of the eastern fish culture investigation division for the U S Fish and Wildlife Service, will soon depart to become Health Service chief biologist for a large Midwestern area with Chicago headquarters.
A dense listing of programs across networks NBC CBS and ABC for Friday evening including The Show Goes On Fat Man Detective Bandstand We the People and Meet the Press with Broadway's M Beat and Ozzie and Harriet Also scheduled are Life of Riley Escape Drama Rex Allen Show and Newsreel indicating two hours of News and Dance Band programming with various air times and segments across channels
Miss Corrine Lee of Stephenson received a perfect attendance pin from Sunday School teacher Mrs. William Carlise. Lee has attended Burnt Factory Church at Brucetown Meth Church.
Funeral services for Charles E. Mowery were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Stover Funeral Home in Strasburg with Rev. E. G. Hill officiating. Interment followed in Mt. Carmel Cemetery Middletown. Pallbearers were Byron Bruneback Hershel Lineburg Ward Jenkins Harry DeHaven Benjamin Rinker and Turner Polk.
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson spoke at the University of Virginia Founders Day exercises marking the 125th anniversary. He said the United States will win the cold war through democratic strength, ingenuity, and spirit, not by arms alone or regimentation.
There are approximately forty thousand Negro churches in the United States today, more in proportion to population than among whites, especially in the South.
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