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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1952
Page
14
A Wednesday August 27 listing shows a 11:00 time slot for a New Variety program calling for acts. The notice references multiple performers and a routine format in a local broadcast system.
WNEW Channel 4 offers The Big Payoff at 3 00 followed by Johnny Dugan at 3 30 and Matinee in New York Goodwin at 4 00. Doody at 5 30 ne Theater at 6 00 and Film News at 6 45 precede Up To Parr at 7 00 and Moon Your Match at 7 15. WMAL Channel 3 presents Modern Woman at 3 30 Miss Ruth Annes at 4 00 boxing at 10 50 with Telenews Sports at 11 00 and The Late Show at 11 15.
Local social items include Diane Watts Evelyn Lofton and families at a Friday drive in Mrs M J Billmyer H C Clagett and Lou Everly at a Sunday camp meeting Pat Lofton and kin to Elizabeth Furnace for a Saturday picnic Annie Everly visiting Wateredge William E Fisher Jr and Norman Windle working in Hagerstown Billy Kingree reports a good peach crop A R Funk visited friends in the past week.
Eleven year old Edward Wettach edits a weekly Nutley News on his father’s mimeograph. The paper, selling for 2 cents, collects neighborhood news and has a circulation of 37 with a staff of five reporters and circulation men. The idea came from a comic book he read while recovering from a foot injury.
In a long running pairing at MGM Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson headline My Mother and Mr McChesney as their eighth collaboration in 13 years. Pidgeon recalls past films from Blossoms in the Dust to The Miniver Story and praises Garson's humor and temperament while noting their on screen chemistry and past London blitz scenes.
The Virginia State Employment Service says seasonal harvest labor demand will hit its low point this week as peaches and tomatoes end a shortened season. Declining prices and extreme July heat curtailed harvests, with limited peach picking in Winchester and Roanoke regions and spot picking in the East and Tidewater areas. Workers released from tomatoes may shift to the seafood industry.
The text discusses melting ice on payments by soluble materials in water and heat via embedded pipes in concrete. It also defines ss as the Latin abbreviation scilicet meaning it is permitted to know, used to specify more particularly such as the venue.
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