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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1949
Page
10
Secretary Brannan reports 1948 surplus potato sales to the government have cost nearly 200 million dollars and average payments exceed 20 thousand dollars per farm for Rhode Island growers. About 28,444 commercial producers were eligible, with Virginia and other states showing varied averages.
Norfolk reports AFL begins a drive to organize non union workers in Tidewater. Leaders Ben s and Robert D. Robertson push expansion from waterfront workers to all workers, men and women, in eight states served by the Allied Marine Workers Union and related Meatcutters local.
A dense list of radio programs across networks NBC CBS ABC and MBS detailing times 6:00 to 12:00 with music talk news and variety features including The Honey Dreamers Vic Damone Show Gene Autry and Grand Ole Opry among others. The schedule awards time slots to sports commentary news notes comedy drama and quiz segments across multiple stations.
TV schedule notes accommodations for WNBW WMAL and WMAL channels with 6:30 WMAL previews 6:45 WNBW NBC Presents 7:00 WNBW Yours Better Living WMAL News and Views 7:15 WMAL Wrens Nest 1:45 WNBW Leon Pearson 8:00 WNBW TV Magazine 8:30 WNBW Condons Floor Show WMAL Think Fast 9:00 WNBW Who Said That 9:30 WNBW Saturday Night Jamboree 10:00 WNBW Dave Garroway WMAL Roller Derby
A memorial service for Mrs. Rosa Butler an early Montague Avenue Methodist leader will be held at 3 p m tomorrow afternoon Rev Harry G Balthist former pastor now with an Arlington church charge will attend Mrs Gilbert Tillotson will sing The Lord's Prayer and there will be a piano solo Meditations by Miss Betty McFarland
Funeral services for Pvt. Roy F. Orndorff will be held at 2 30 p m Tuesday at St John s church with Rev E B Smith officiating. Interment will follow in St Johns cemetery. Friends and relatives may gather at Jones Funeral Home at 1 30 p m Tuesday before proceeding to the service.
Mayo clinic physician Dr. Walter C. Alvarez told a health day audience that women spend excessive energy on minor issues and try to remake husbands into idealized partners. He urged women to live more sensibly and comfortably.
Paris April 23 A labor leader from the United States told the world peace congress that American workers will refuse to lay down their lives for Wall Street Washington and the dollar He said workers will not be driven into a war against the Soviet Union The speaker Donald Henderson international president of the Tobacco Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America CIO affiliate received an ovation while accusing Washington of heading world imperialism The message came as the conference heard blessings from the Russian Orthodox patriarch Alexei Also included is a Q and A noting insects harmful to crops and beneficial insects that control pests with the honey bee and silkworm cited as domesticated profit sources
Leo R. Strosnider of Stephens City was convicted and fined in Police court for speeding instead of reckless driving as previously stated. The original charge reckless driving was reduced to exceeding the speed limit by W. Erle Bd bese easemallpenn to Tablas.
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