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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1957
Page
14
A Soviet team at the Western Electronics Show proposes a rocket based microwave timing wave to detect tiny chrono slowdowns predicted by Einstein relativity. Prof A M Prochorov notes ammonia molecule vibrations can be stabilized with added radiation, with progress but no final precision yet.
In Los Angeles Corinne Calvet is expected to testify as the defense’s first major witness in the Confidential magazine libel trial. Miss Calvet denies a Confidential story calling her untrue while Mae West and Joseline Dillon also deny related allegations.
Poison sumac Rhus vernix grows in marshy areas. It has light gray bark and drooping clusters of grayish yellow berries. It reaches up to 20 feet tall and is more poisonous than poison ivy. Nonpoisonous sumacs display large clusters of dark red berries at the outer tips of branches.
The Virginia Sportsmen, a newly formed local auto club, met Wednesday night and elected officers. President Donald Pearson, vice president and secretary James Cowley, and treasurer and business manager Lanny Twige lead a 12 member teenage group planning safety education, a drag strip, dances, bake sales, and car restoration with hopes for adult supervision and law enforcement speakers. Meetings are Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Lee-Jackson Restaurant.
Senator Magnuson of Washington proposed a special two month November December session to focus on federal budget legislation. His bill would set July 15 as budget submission and align the fiscal year with the calendar year, granting 39 months for discussion and two months for action. The plan allows emergencies to be handled in the late session while January’s session concentrates on legislation.
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