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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1952
Page
14
An early morning visitor found a hand and foot in West Frankfort dump. Deputies determined a hospital amputation had occurred and the discarded limb was dumped with medical waste. The case was resolved by authorities.
Broadcast listing for August 22 shows a packed schedule from 6:00 p.m. including Silent Hour and Kiddies Hour. Evening lineup continues with newscasts, commentary, dramas, and a final 7:48 to 10:46 block of programs ending with Pro and Con and a 19:00 news and variety finale.
A dense list of WNEW channel 4 programs across day segments from 3:00 to 11:15 including The Big Payoff Johnny Dugan Matinee in New York Hawkins Falls Howdy Doody Footlight Theater Those Two News Caravan Captain Video and more.
Report describes electronic highway scales used to weigh fast-moving trucks. Systems on a road platform capture gross weight, axle data, and speed with electric strain gauges and oscillographs. Researchers cite accuracy comparable to static scales and note a six-man crew can weigh about 200 trucks per day at some cost.
Cloyd Heck Marvin born August 22 1889 in Findlay Ohio is profiled as the fifth president of George Washington University. The biographical note recalls his Thayer Fellow time at Harvard and his long career in aviation prestige dating from World War II era.
A fragmented report notes that electronic weighing could speed truck movement but cause traffic tie ups. It mentions Indonesia’s untapped treasures including rubber oil sugar spices minerals and fibers highlighted by the National Geographic Society.
The Mutual Security Agency accuses Standard Oil of New Jersey Standard Oil of California Gulf Oil Company Socony Vacuum Oil Company and The Texas Company of inflating oil prices for profit.
About 50 Israeli industrial workers will travel to Yugoslavia, France and Sweden for training in local industries under an exchange program funded by the United Nations ILO. The ILO will also dispatch experts to Israel to teach job analysis.
The department sues five companies at the request of MSA to recover pegs thing charged on bills paid with foreign aid funds. Output per man day for American coal miners up 32 percent since 1939.
The Egyptian village of Farsk Spitsbergen was visited by Norse Vikings around 1194 who named the area Svalbard meaning Land of the Cold Coasts.
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