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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1950
Page
12
A fragmented listing shows various TV and radio programs with times and sponsor notes. Entries include news broadcasts, comedies, dramas, game shows, and musical variety across CBS Dumont and related networks with host and show names partially visible.
Television evening schedule lists programs on WNEW Channel 4 including Footlight Theater Kukla Fran Ollie Little Show News Caravan Texaco Star Theater and more with late night Broadway and theater blocks. Channel 5 features Shop video game room Hopkins Current Issues and a mix of musical variety Western and news segments.
Richmond reports the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools enters day two with two volatile items on the docket. Officials expect Thursday to see a recommendation to deny Negro institution membership despite some members favoring admission. Georgia high schools may be accredited for 1950 51 after a reviewing committee decision.
The death of Mrs. Carmelite Smith 42 found November 21 in Stafford County is not being investigated further by local police. State medical examiner Dr Geoffrey T Mann says she died of sleeping pill overdose, confirmed by Stafford coroner Dr L F Lee. Russell Smith identifies the body and notes she had been missing since October 27.
Accomac Virginia Norwood Somers 47 a former postmaster faces a murder trial next Monday for the fatal beating of his wife Pauline Somers 47 mother of two. Her body was found at the couple’s home on October 29 after an Accomac County grand jury indicted Somers yesterday.
Roanoke officer R. M. Shropshire was charged with murder in the September 2 death of Curtis Andrew Simmons 48 of Roanoke County after a scuffle outside a restaurant during an arrest attempt. The grand jury returned no true bill against Shropshire.
Emporia man Alvester Powell, 26, faced a U S commissioner in Richmond on a case alleging intercepting forging and attempting to cash a $90 Treasury check payable to John L Barnes Powell used a Barnes ID and draft registration to steal the funds he was recognized by merchants and arrested at a bank before being handed to the Secret Service
Funeral services for J Wilmer Nail will be held Wednesday at 2 p m from Jones Funeral Home with Rev A J Barrett officiating. Burial follows in Mount Olive cemetery. Pallbearers are six nephews: Robert White Vernon White Ralph Bageant Theodore Nail Melvin Nail and Loring Nail.
Welba Walter Whitacre of Berkley Springs is ordered held for grand jury on the charge of attempted felonious assault against police officers. Whitacre allegedly fired a rifle on Berryville Avenue Sunday and resisted arrest by Sgt. Rodgers and Pvt. Lester Shide.
George Sanders was elected president of the Wesleyan Men's Bible Class at Market Street Methodist Church after Sunday morning services. Other officers elected were W. A. Argenbright vice president H. H. Willis secretary and Joseph Stretchburg treasurer. Thomas W. Mathews remains the class teacher.
Inwood West Virginia a car driven by David W. Silvey was struck by a train. The driver escaped injury and the incident prompted emergency responders to the scene.
A Winchester resident was struck by a train at the Baker siding of Route 11 near here on Friday around 7 p.m. and suffered heavy damage to the vehicle.
A southbound car driven by Silvey was struck by the tail car of a train backing down the siding. No injuries were reported.
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