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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1952
Page
12
A dense late 1940s style schedule lists programs by time and network from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM. It includes news, sports, dramas, comedies, and variety shows with many named programs and performers across multiple stations.
A listing of daily programs for WNEW Channel 4 WTTG Channel 3 WMAL Channel 3 and WTOP Channel 4 detailing 3:00 to 11:15 time slots with talk shows news dramas and entertainment features across the evening lineup.
A reader overview lists 6:00 news and weather blocks, 6:15 Ridge White and 6:30 Evening Reveries, 7:00 Headline Edition, 7:15 Elmer Davis, 7:30 Dave Dennis Orchestra, 8:00 Defense Attorney, 9:00 Americas Town Meeting, 10:00 John Daly News, 10:15 Dream Harbor, ending with 11:00 News Sports Weather. Wednesday lineup includes ABC programs, Betty Crocker segments, music and talk shows through the afternoon.
Beavers in Davenport Iowa try to dam the Mississippi River at Credit Island Park. Naturalists note the animals have felled several large trees into the water, some up to three feet in diameter. Park workers have daubed tree trunks with tasting- deterring substance to protect remaining timber.
In Ocean View yesterday a 34 year old woman with a nervous disorder shot and killed her husband Essay E. Gallop 30 a tugboat engineer and then killed herself after reloading a 20 gauge shotgun. Their daughter Barbara Jean 12 tried to intervene but was unsuccessful.
Huntsville Texas. Al Paris a 60 year old African American man was executed in the electric chair for killing state wildlife biologist Gus Engeling who had caught him hunting on a game preserve near Palestine. Paris admitted he shot Engeling on December 13. He said he fired the gun after the biologist threw his ducks up in the air.
Rome reports Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, famed as Italy's premier of victory and last Versailles Big Four survivor, died after a stroke. He will be buried between WWI land and sea commanders with a state funeral announced by Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi. Orlando led Italy in World War I and opposed the Versailles pact over Fiume.
High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer told resettled squatters at Temerloh in Pahang state that the battle against Communist guerrillas is turning. He said fewer civilians are murdered, more arms are captured, buses are less often burned, rail interference is down, and rubber tires are not being slashed.
The text explains that weight is the earths attraction and notes that the polar diameter is shorter than the equatorial diameter. A body weighs less toward the equator and at higher altitudes above sea level.
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