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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1951
Page
14
A grandmother aged four with a newborn son becomes uncle to her own grandson in a curious family note. The article explains the abbreviation C. W. after Chippawa and identifies C W as Canada West, the historic name for Upper Canada now Ontario.
Abilene based profile of Arthur Lee Wasson rancher oil man and philanthropist told in Adventuring with a Purpose by Dr. Rupert N Richardson president of Hardin-Simmons University Abilene. Book published by Naylor Co San Antonio notes Wasson and late wife donated 2500000 to southern Baptist institutions and lists his cattle and oil interests across Texas Montana Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma Colorado and northern Mexico.
Listings show WNEW WTTG WMAL and WTOP prime time lineups with film theater hours news shows and children programs. Notable titles include Overland Mail Ashes to the Wind School for Husbands Our Daily Bread and Stage Entrance plus sports and local news segments.
The quotation reveals Theodore Roosevelt telling friends he would much rather be a professor of history than vice president. The remark reflects his humorous, candid view on high political office.
Miss Kretzer of Martinsburg spent the week with Mr and Mrs Floyd Luttrell. The Luttrells hosted a birthday dinner for O E Kretzer in Martinsburg. Phillipa Ann Moulden injured her foot on a wire while playing last Friday. The Willing Workers Class meets September 13 at Ernest and Mrs Milburn's home.
Brucetown residents spent Sunday with Cumberland visitors. Lillian Carter of Summit Point visited her sister Marion Marshall. Rose Suter from Baltimore visited Mrs Raymond Boden. Charles Ruble of Nain and families visited Dennis and Whetzel returned to Huntington. Marion Marshall and I R Smith attended the Jones Hardesty wedding at Crums Church. Andy Whitacre and George Hildebrand visited Martinsburg. Paul Pasdrake and son from Port Clinton Ohio guest of Luther and Grantham Welsh.
Today's Birthday notes Adm Joel Thompson Boone born August 29 1889 in St Clair Pennsylvania served as Chief Medical Director of the Veterans Administration. He was physician to three presidents Harding Coolidge and Hoover and helped establish the Medicine Ball Cabinet during the Hoover administration. Boone served in World War I in France as assistant divisional surgeon of the Second Army Division and in World War II commanded the Naval Hospital Seattle Washington.
New York publicist Harry Conover names three tennis queens and a net umpire to his 1951 glamor team. Nancy Chaffee of Ventura is the repeat pick, joined by Joy Mottram Beverly Baker Aili Tesloff Katy Rudolph Catherine Fox Park Mary Freeman Diane Carlson, with tennis leading the list as the sport producing the prettiest women.
The lineup includes Alice Bauer in golf Vicki Draves in diving Brenda Hel ser in swimming Yvonne Sherman and Barbara Ann Scott in ice skating Phyllis Riggs in roller skating and Sarah Palfrey Cooke in tennis.
Dr S C Yin of 175 says Leslie Charteris author of The Saint will visit Singapore soon. Born in Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin, he adopted the name Leslie Charteris by 19 and later used it as his real name. Charteris, 44, resides in Beverly Hills and wrote his first book Esquire in Singapore.
Many birds migrate at elevations beyond human endurance for oxygen. Geese crossing the Himalayas have been photographed at about 29 000 feet, illustrating their high altitude flight capability.
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