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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1951
Page
10
During August Rouss Park Playground and Pool open 10 00 AM to 6 00 PM weekdays and 1 00 PM to 5 00 PM Saturdays 2 00 PM to 5 00 PM Sundays Special groups may contact the Recreation Office at 4946 for after hours permission.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Walker Johnson, wife of Lemon Johnson of Clarke County, will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at the Gildfield Church in Millwood. The Rev Ralph Laws will officiate with interment in Little Chapel, Clarke County. Pallbearers are Ed Anderson Will Peyton George Monroe Russell Wood Nora Johnson and Will Ash.
A radio schedule lists programs from 6:00 to 11:00 with acts by Harmony Rangers Desi Arias Gene Autry and others followed by a Police Court update. Judge John W. Rice reports fines for six offenders including reckless driving and improper muffler with amounts ranging from 9.25 to 54.25 dollars.
A dense listing of daytime and Sunday television lineups across several stations. Programs include WNBW channel 4 Fate schedule with Footlight Theater and O dies Weaver Safeway Theater, WTTG channel 5 Cartoon Theater and Washington baseball, WMAL channel 7 Frontier Theater and World News, WNEW channel 4 Sunday reels, WTTG and WMAL various dramas, sports and variety shows, plus more on WMAL channel 11 and WIOF channel 10 with news and entertainment blocks.
Staunton police examine possible gambling connections of Elmer Higgins after he was shot while found unconscious in an office apartment above one of his three restaurants. Higgins, 45, remains in critical condition in Charlottesville hospital with a head wound. Police hold a robbery motive as plausible but are also pursuing a possible out of town job. One good suspect identified after questioning about a dozen people. no arrests yet. A bullet fragment was found. weapon not recovered. Higgins reportedly carried large sums of money. Charles F. Speck of Waynesboro discovered him yesterday afternoon.
A Sunday lineup lists NBC 8:30 Recital Hall concert in a New York theater, CBS 9:45 Keyboard Concerts with Grace Castagnetti, CBS 8:00 p.m. Jeanette MacDonald as guest MC, ABC 5 p.m. Chautauqua Symphony conducted by Frank Auteri, plus Fiesta and Fiesta related telecasts.
There is no known disease limited to any group of mankind. No transmissible disease cannot be acquired by any group. Many diseases were unknown among Pacific peoples until introduced by Europeans, a geographic, not hereditary, matter.
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control board rejected the Virginia Malt Beverage Association plea to use throw away beer bottles for the second time in a year. Board Secretary W B Wilkinson cited an ABC survey showing municipal officials overwhelmingly opposed and a slight majority of citizens objecting to the containers.
Experiments with smoke jumpers began in 1939 in Washington’s Chelan Forest. Buster Derry helped develop a steerable parachute with openings in opposite panels allowing air to slip through. Closing one aperture enables the jumper to steer and reach remote fire scenes.
A feature marks Queen Elizabeth II born August 4 1900 in England as the country’s first commoner queen since 1543. It notes her accessibility to ordinary people and interest in homes, recipes, and baby feeding formulas with anecdotes about her childhood play.
An act of Congress is necessary, passed by both Houses, and signed by the President to admit a new state to the Union. This outlines the constitutional process for statehood and the roles of Congress and the President in approving new states.
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