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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1952
Page
12
Fragmentary OCR text mentions iron mining topics with unclear phrasing. The readable pieces indicate an item about bog ores and secondary ores, possibly a mining-related note or report without clear names, dates, or locations. The fragment lacks concrete events or entities to fully identify.
Tuesday listing shows broadcast segments including News & Comment at 6:45 and Daily Commments at 7:16. The schedule closes with 11:00 News & Variety summarizing the day’s events from the Santon station lineup.
Local listings show Movietone News at 11 00 Nite Ow Theater at 11 16 Modern Woman at 3 30 Miss Ruth Anne's at 4 00 United Or Not HS Ladies Wrestling at 8 30 Mark Evans Show at 7 00 The Music Hall at 1 45 The City Hospital 30 Suspense at 8 00 Telenews at 11 00 The Late Show at 11 15 Feature Film City Hospital 30 includes.
The Second District GOP convention declined to nominate a challenger to Rep. Porter Hardy for November. They sent the decision to the district committee to determine whether to field a candidate against the Democrat favored incumbent.
The article advises enjoying summer by planning and sharing chores to beat the heat. Winifred Carter of Procter & Gamble recommends close windows, using early washing, and dividing tasks among capable family members to keep the home cool and manageable.
A court deemed Clark's $25 monthly fines for illegal California slot machines a sham. He deducted them as taxes and licenses, but the city had not issued permits, and the machines were illegal. The case noted Clark paid $32,225 in fines from 1944 to 1946, with records supporting payment.
Norfolk reports a Navy chief petty officer drowned at Assateague Beach Sunday afternoon while trying to rescue an unidentified woman swimmer. Chief Aviation Ordnanceman George R. King USN, attached to Utility Squadron Four at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station Chincoteague, perished. The woman was rescued by others as Coast Guard and Navy personnel search for King’s body. He served 12 years and lived at Chincoteague with his wife Vera Elizabeth King.
The report notes that black widow spider bites are deadly for about five percent of those affected, indicating significant risk though most victims survive.
Oliver Succeeds Hickman as Yale grid coach. Jordan Olivar, recently added to the staff, becomes acting head football coach for the 1952 season, with Herman Hickman resigning to enter private business. Olivar, 37, comes from Villanova and Loyola of Los Angeles, and will meet Hickman and staff this week in New Haven.
A vacuum apple picker will be demonstrated at Rosemont No 2 orchard by H F Byrd Inc at 10 am Thursday. Horace Brown of Lupton Orchard Service sponsors the exhibition with a New York State factory representative in charge. The machine reportedly picks up to 300 bushels per day and could ease labor needs by replacing three workers per operator.
The article honors Lynde Dupuy McCormick born August 12 1895 in Annapolis Maryland son of a rear admiral. He is described as Supreme Allied Commander of the Atlantic and holds a NATO post parallel to General Ridgway on land. Veteran of two wars he commanded battleships and 80th Marines and was appointed to the Naval service by President Taft in 1911. He commanded the U S Atlantic Fleet last year.
G O Wenner four miles north of Purcellville found another Shenandoah Valley National Bank Open House balloon and returned it on Saturday claiming his reward. Twenty eight of one hundred balloons accounted for. A yard twelve to a hole more than twenty thousand feet deep has been drilled in a search for oil.
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