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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 05, 1940

Page

8

Radio Highlights Schedule Notes and Songline Mix

Radio highlights list stations WMAL WRC WISV air times from 6:15 to 10:15 with program notes. Engineers grumble earth size too small for waves to behave. Gracie campaigns fade as Georgie Burns seeks film work. Billy Rose Michael Bartlett duel in So You Think You Know Music and Alfred Wallenstein opens Firestone Symphony Chaikovski. CBS CBS Master Works of the Air may replace Victor show.

WMAL WRC Gracie Georgie Burns WISV Billy Rose Michael Bartlett Robert H. Jackson Pearson and Allen Alfred Wallenstein Firestone Symphony Chaikovski Columbia Victor Master's Orch Fred Waring Amos Andy Radio Magic Kerns’ Orch Blondie Hollywood Washington Wallenstein Orch Gen. Marshall T. R. Ybarra Guy Lombardo Orchestra Burns Reading Allen Arch McDonald Ray Heather E. C. Hill Jon

Americans Emphasize Guarding Democracy at Elks Meet

Delegates from Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia Elks Association opened their 20th district convention in Annapolis with an emphasis on safeguarding democracy. Governor O Connor Baltimore Mayor Howard Jackson and Rep. Lansdale Lasseer addressed the public session as speakers recalled Valley Forge Gettysburg and other historic tests of democracy.

Annapolis Maryland Delaware District of Columbia Elks’ Association Association Frank Hladky O'Conor Howard Jackson Baltimore Lansdale Lasseer D-Md Jackson America Valley Forge Gettysburg Appomatox

Garber Attacks New Deal Spending at Fishers Hill Picnic

Republican congressional candidate Jacob A. Garber denounces New Deal spending and reciprocal trade deals at a Strasburg Rotary Boy Scout event in Fishers Hill. He links rising debt and taxes to wartime prep and cites 1933 1939 spending growth and farm subsidy policies as failures.

Garber Willkie Fishers Hill Jacob A. Garber Congress Willkie and McNary Boy Scouts Meeting Strasburg Tom Jones Susie Smith Roosevelt Pittsburgh United States

Daily Crossword Clues Mixed for Puzzle Page

A dense crossword list presents across and down clues covering common words from metal container to sacred Hindu literature. The puzzle includes many short answers plus several long ones with varied definitions and wordplay.

Progress In Transmission

New York August 5 Progress toward a nation wide public service for frequency modulation on the 6 to 7 meter band hinges on a station and a receiver. Transmitters are rising while receivers must reach the public with affordable sets from 75 to 175 dollars for both regular and FM broadcasting. The band has 40 channels from 42 to 50 megacycles with educational use on 42 43 and commercial on 43 50.

New York Federal Communications Commission

Volunteers In Tuberculosis Fight Get Bonus Checks

Richmond officials say $13 044 in bonus checks are mailed to 107 local volunteer organizations affiliated with the Virginia Tuberculosis Association. The bonuses come from 1939 Christmas seal sales and have been distributed since 1933 to support local tuberculosis education and programs. Local units receive most of the income, with smaller portions for the state and national associations.

Richmond George W. Call Virginia Tuberculiosis Association National Tuberculosis Association Virginia Tuberculosis Association Call Virginia National Association State Association National Tuberculiosis Association

Whitacre Area Notes Revival Services and Visits

Aug 3 Whitacre VA Rev L C Messick holds nightly services at Mt Hebron Church. Visits span Cumberland Maryland and Hanging Rock West Virginia. Family gatherings include Phillips and Braithwaite relatives. A child, Grannis Pugh, underwent appendicitis surgery at Memorial Hospital.

Whitacre L. C. Messick Mt. Hebron S. V. Kimble George Kimble J. Rodgers Hanging Rock W. Va O. H. Phillips Roscoe Phillips Cumberland Lowell Brannon Washington, D. C M. E. Gardner Capon Bridge George Phillips Cumberland, Md Marvin Miller Jean Betty Braithwaite Cross Junction O. W. Dick Sis Blacksburg Landon Whitacre Raul Anderson Messick G. C George. .Whitacre John Omps Bloomery Omps Grannis Pugh Russell Pugh Memorial Hospital

Notable Chicago Expert to Demonstrate Rupture Shield

Rupture specialist H. M. Shevnan from Chicago will visit Shenandoah Hotel in Martinsburg on Wednesday August 7 from 9 AM to 6 PM. He touts the Zecstic Shield as a noninvasive, immediate-result device that strengthens and closes ruptures within about ten days without straps or medicines, with free demonstrations. Address: 6441 N. Richmond St., Chicago. Special invitation for large incisional hernias post-surgery.

H. M. Shevnan Chicago Shenandoah Hotel Martinsburg Shevnan Richmond St

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