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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1955
Page
2
A Fortune survey of the 500 biggest industrial companies names 21 firms in the United States with annual sales of one billion dollars or more.
Weekend and weekday line up lists numerous programs across daytime and evening hours. Notable entries include Just Music News Church Service at noon and Washington at Boston doubleheader followed by Billy Graham and Paul Harvey segments. The schedule also features ABC Weather and various music and talk shows through Monday.
Thomas Mann, 80, famed German born author and 1929 Nobel Prize winner, died of a heart attack in Zurich after a period of ill health. He left Germany after Hitler rose to power, became a U.S. citizen in 1944, and returned to Europe in 1953 seeking ties to his European roots with his wife Katja and daughter Ericka in a lakeside house.
A 51 year old laborer who cannot swim fell into the Arkansas River on a dredge boat and walked 25 feet under water to reach the bank. He sank 18 feet then surfaced after two minutes. Recovers and resumes work after a rest.
A public notice urges motorists and residents to refrain from littering as trash accumulates on highways. Authorities remind drivers to dispose of waste properly and support cleanup campaigns to maintain clean roadsides.
A storm battered Chesapeake Bay near North Beach Maryland sank the Levin J Marvel leaving ten dead and four missing. Thirteen survivors were rescued by firemen police National Guardsmen and volunteers after the schooner broke up off the Maryland coast.
An F84F jet struck power lines and a four unit Albany apartment building. Army Sgt. Harry Vereen of Thomasville died in the blaze. Pilot 1st Lt. Charles H. Dudley from Birmingham survived with critical injuries. Mrs. Nannie Mae Barry, the resident, suffered critical burns. The crash occurred at 1 44 p m during a Turner Air Force Base training flight. cause undetermined but likely power failure.
State beverage agents halted at a home in Bartow Florida seeking a suspected moonshiner. A young boy told them you can’t see my daddy now as he had just left with some shine.
Instructions state to contact four physicians in emergencies using phone number 3670. Keep this directive as a quick reference for urgent medical contact.
The unanimous election of Stuart M. Perry, Inc. of Winchester to membership in the Ayrshire Breeders' Association is announced by National Secretary Chester C. Putney of Brandon, Vermont. The Perry herd traces to County Ayr Scotland, origin of the breed, with over 20 000 Ayrshire herds now in the United States.
Grand Rapids resident J Kirby at the bottom of a hill recalls three run ins by cars. The latest vehicle with failed brakes jumped his driveway and wrecked the garage door and rose garden, causing about 1000 dollars in damage.
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