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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1950
Page
12
Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer writer of Dorothy Dix column lives in New Orleans and will turn 80 on November 18, 1950.
A 75 member Shenandoah County band will march in the Torchlight Parade and the Grand Feature Parade The Trail of the Pink Petals They will perform Virginia Square Dancing and wear blue jeans white shirts red kerchiefs and straw hats A jeep drawn wagon with 16 square dancers will follow directly behind the marching unit.
Daily broadcast list detailing radio programs on ABC CBS NBC and local stations with times from 6:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. Includes news, music, variety shows and dramas plus television channel lineups for WNEW WTTG WMAL and others with hourly program blocks and channel names.
The American Cancer Society reports a growth stimulating substance in nerves that drives cell division five to six times the normal rate. Dr. Paul Weiss of the University of Chicago and Dr. Jane Overton study this substance in tadpoles, using tissue cultures to induce organized or disorganized growth and to explore both promotion and inhibition of growth.
Sergeant Harry P. Hoover son of Mrs Marie Hoover of 15 East Cecil Street temporarily relieved of duty at Wiesbaden Germany to attend the Quartermaster Training School in Darmstadt Germany. After a five week course he will qualify as a technical supply clerk able to issue and requisition technical items used by the Air Force.
New admissions list includes Mrs. Marion Campbell Route 1 and Mrs. Pete Kern 223 E Boscawen St along with Mrs. Joan Grove 813 S Kent St Mrs. Douglas Hardesty 137 Amherst St Mrs. Raymond Webber 521 N Cameron St Mrs. Carson Cave Gainesboro and others from Capon Bridge West Virginia Berryville Great Cacapon and Front Royal.
Harry B. MacRae of Dallas spoke in Winchester under the Mother Church Lectureship. He described Christian Science healing with a tale of a tuberculosis patient cured after treatment by a practitioner, asserting healing proofs are available to all through divine Mind and Christ in Christian Science.
Nine U S Marines and three Bermudians were saved after two days at sea in a 32 foot fishing boat. An Air Force search plane located the vessel and a tug was sent, but the British cutter HMS Bigbury Bay arrived first and brought all survivors to hospital arrangements were made for urgent care in Bermuda.
The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America first appeared on December 15, 1820 in Latin and English in Boston. It became the standard for the United States under the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 and has guided medical and pharmaceutical professions since.
The 1949 Department of Agriculture report places Wisconsin first, New York second, Minnesota third. Iowa ranks fourth. California is fifth in 1948 and 1949, shifting between fifth and fourth.
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