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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1952
Page
12
The Rev G Raymond Womeldorf former missionary to Chin spoke at the Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. He discussed The Rise of Communist Power in China based on his observations while there.
A fragmented TV radio schedule lists several programs including News and Sport shows, the Steve Allen Show segment, a poetry feature, and a variety program. Several items appear as “To Be Announced” with channel notes and commentary segments.
A dense schedule lists daytime and evening programs including Westerns like Riding Avenger with Hoot Gibson, News segments from WTTG and WTOP, films such as Flirting with Fate and Federal Fugitive, interviews with Mark Evans, Eddy Arnold, and Ruth Crane, plus sports and variety shows across multiple channels and times.
The Kung Sheung Daily News reports that 86 officials from three villages east of Canton were executed in July for handicapping and obstructing military defenses. The article then notes a National Geographic claim about corn ears and borers among the Tztecs.
A Bombay AP report recalls cobras in baskets on a crowded Indian bus that broke loose and alarmed passengers. A British officer and wife argue bravely about courage, while a servant uses milk to reveal a hidden cobra near a hostess, illustrating cobra quirks and fear.
The American Legion delegates in Richmond push for a strong all out victory policy in Korea. Resolutions call for ending pus syfooting in Panmunjom and accuse political maneuvering of eroding US leadership. The package also favors top leadership removal at the State Department and boosts aid to Chinese Nationalists on Formosa.
In England the radiator ornament on an automobile is called the mascot. The notice mentions a dance event with Ken Windle and His Kings at Stephens City and a location five miles south on Rt. 522.
The body of Arthur H. Smith, 39, bridegroom of three weeks, who drowned after plunging from the deck of the Norfolk bound Delmarva ferry, was sent to Salisbury Maryland for funeral services. The Coast Guard recovered the body four miles off Cape Charles after being sighted by the Northampton. Identification was by Princess Anne County authorities. His wife Kathleen Smith, 18, was aboard but did not witness the incident.
Severe pain from a black widow venom is sometimes mistaken for appendicitis says the National Geographic Society. The first large scale coal mining operations in Spitsbergen were conducted in 1905 by American John M. Longyear.
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