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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1950
Page
10
A fragmented broadcast lineup lists shows across CBS ABC and NBC networks with times from evening into late night. Programs include news commentaries drama mystery theater music and orchestras, with several named titles and host segments scattered throughout the sequence.
Channel listings show WNEW four 6 00 to 11 15 lineup including Footlight Theater Ransom Sherman The Little Show News Caravan Cinema Playhouse Amateur Hour Broadway Open House and more on WNEW Channel 4 plus concurrent guides for WTTG Channel 5 and WMAL Channel 7 detailing films news sports and entertainment programs across the evening lineup.
Curtis Shedd a 30 year old former convict was turned over to North Carolina authorities after a day of killings sparked a 4000 strong mob at a Georgia jail. He confessed to shooting John Boyter near Clayton Georgia and later killing Boyter’s two daughters near Highlands North Carolina. He implicated Mrs Boyter who was questioned and released as investigators believed she was not with him that day.
A four engine B 29 from Barksdale Air Force Base crashed in a field near Fort Worth after noon. Four crewmen died and eight escaped with minor injuries as the bomber burst into flames near a cluster of frame houses while attempting to land at Carswell Air Force Base. Witnesses noted landing gear trouble and loss of control during the approach.
In San Francisco at the Disabled American Veterans convention, Fleet Admiral Nimitz warned that if the United Nations flouting in Korea continues other attacks could follow worldwide. Admiral Halsey supported firm action to avert further conflagration. The exchange framed the Korea crisis as a potential global tipping point.
In Caesar's time Rome reached about 1,300,000 residents. Roughly three fourths depended on the public treasury for support.
The article states Charles II of England was equally divided among four national origins, being a quarter Scottish a quarter Danish a quarter French and a quarter Italian.
Fernand Dumoulin, a Belgian industrialist and WWII resistance hero, swam the English Channel in 1949 with no intensive prior training, starting after a beach party. The ancient Hebrews were Semites, and modern Jews are often called Semites, but the term now carries no strict racial meaning due to intermixing.
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