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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1955
Page
2
In 1952 the FTC ruled 12 percent of TV non profit and non commercial for education. Two hundred forty two channels were reserved across communities. The first educational station KWHT Houston began May 25 1953. Now 15 stations reach about 46 million people.
The annual Christmas Lighting Contest co sponsored by the Winchester Frederick County Chamber of Commerce and the Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce attracts many entries at the chamber office in the George Washington Hotel. Two divisions include homes and businesses with multiple prize classes and a $500 first prize in the residential division advancing to a national contest. Entries close December 24 at noon with judging by out of town officials on December 28.
A compiled list of quiz answers appears on page 4. The items include author Robert Barclay and Apology for the True Christian Divinity, New England, David Psalm 42 1, Kitty Hawk North Carolina, affirmation yes, number 128, a yes, a reference to his favorite wife, goose plural, and the year 1639.
Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons that Middle East leaders are playing with fire by engaging communism. He warned some governments risk serious harm, while stressing the peoples there will resist communist influence. He criticized Soviet meddling as a tactic to destabilize the region. He also commented on the Palestine crisis and Western efforts to seek peace.
The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the Atomic Energy Commission. The facility sits on a mesa of the Jemez/Pajarito area and comprises about 300 buildings with around 3,000 full time employees.
In Winchester and nearby areas several traffic incidents occurred. A car overturned on U.S. Route 340 after hitting a ditch, totaling the vehicle and knocking down a speed limit sign. Another head on left a tractor trailer and car with minor damage. A third collision on South Loudoun Street involved three cars. no injuries were reported. A sailor and a soldier crashed on U.S. Route 522 near Sunnyside with damages noted to both vehicles.
Monroney denounces Weeks and Rothschild for trying to seize czar like powers in civil aviation amid President's illness. He says Lee was fired for resisting Commerce Department dictates and cites blocking of Josh Lee’s C A B reappointment as part of a broader pattern. Ross Rizley is slated for federal judgeship and Weeks to fill another post in aviation control.
Federal subsidies total around 13 billion dollars each year, about one fifth of all government spending. A large share covers Post Office losses, which have only paid for about 13 of the last century. The remainder funds farmer aid, power production, aviation, merchant marine, roads, and other programs.
Baltimore police Lt Joseph Heming was critically wounded when Eugene McNeal, an East Baltimore tavern keeper, shot him at his locked tavern after killing his wife Madeline 37 and daughter Lydia 3 and decapitating Madeline with a Boy Scout ax. McNeal killed his mother-in-law Mary McNeal 80 before shooting himself.
A Columbia College special report finds about 200000 of the nation's brightest high school graduates are not entering college this year. The study signals shifts in higher education demand and potential impact on future workforce.
Listings detail multiple December and January auctions in Frederick County casting a wide net over livestock farm equipment real estate and household goods. James C Royston Leech Hereford Farm Pred D Maphis and Ernest Fletcher are among noted auctioneers with sales near Winchester Star Tannery Huffman's Market and Fairfax Lane.
Janet Coble a 14 year old from Washington died in Arlington hospital from injuries after a two vehicle crash at the intersection of Routes 50 221 and 236 in Fairfax County. Nellie F Otten 32 of Baltimore also died in the crash. Samuel Edward Coleman 51 of Green Bay died when his car was struck by a Norfolk and Western train at a grade crossing on Route 607 in Prince Edward County.
The article notes Andrew Jackson as the first U.S. president to travel by train, marking a historic moment in presidential mobility. It describes the journey's significance and the era’s evolving transportation options.
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