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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
9
Area churches announce plans for Christmas programs open to the public. Clearbrook Presbyterian will present a Christmas pageant "Until the Day Dawn" at its church, and Berryville Baptist will feature an 11 a.m. worship service with adult and junior choirs performing Christmas music.
The Commission adopts regulations including wall eyed pike perch season and 8 fish daily limit east and west of the Blue Ridge, declares chain pickerel a game fish with bass-aligned seasons, and bans hedging with dip nets except in Richmond County. Trot lines or set poles face statewide bans with bait except minnows, with Shenandoah and trout-stocked streams excluded. Effective February 1, 1957. Beverley W. Stras Jr., Chairman.
Local churches schedule multiple Christmas programs this weekend. Bethlehem sung by Noel Benson with pantomime, Opequon Memorial Sunday School cast in Until the Day Dawn, and Life is in the Blood at 8 pm. Highland Presbyterian and Cedar Cliff Presbyterian host pageants and concerts with staff including Mrs Hershman and Richard Wine. First Evangelical United Brethren collects canned goods for Christmas baskets. Calvary Baptist and Reiter Church plan children led programs and pageants Thou Shalt Call His Name Jesus.
A dense schedule lists nightly TV programs across channels with start times, host names, and featured guests. Highlights include Tonight with Steve Allen, Desi Arnaz programs, Lucy Ball film, and late-night news segments plus Theater and Westerns.
Channel 6 and Channel 4 schedule a mix of theater, cartoons, sports, and Westerns. Notable items include Butch Minds the Baby with Virginia Bruce and Broderick Crawford, Pro Basketball Bt Louis vs Boston, Rogues Gallery, One Big Affair, and The Lone Ranger. St Joseph's College vs Montana State appears among sports listings.
The tally rises to 783 as two men die in separate crashes. Jonas Lloyd Crook, 34, of Arlington, died after a non collision wreck on U S 17 north of Tappahannock. Charlie Odell Sigman, of Ferrum, died in a curve crash on State Route 767 near Ferrum. A Camp Pickett accident adds one more fatality, not counted in toll. Adrian P. Taylor died later from injuries at Portsmouth naval hospital after a collision of two military trucks at the Army base.
Ten year old Bobby Brockwell went home from the hospital today minus that three inch hat pin in his right lung. Bobby, a blowpipe sharpshooter, had been shooting his mother's pearl handled hat pin.
Germany approves a one year draft period to arm 500000 West German troops for the Atlantic Alliance. The Bundesrat backed the bill 98-12 and the lower house approved it in December. First draftees would be called in April 1957 with 10000 to 15000 entering service then.
In Ohio near Vandalia the collision of two cars on US 40 left two dead and six injured. Victims were Marie Asher 38 and Rosario Medina 21. others hurt include Mark Asher 45 and James 17, Evelyn Gibson 19, Elizabeth Ireland 18, Maretta Mendies 19. Weather cited rain and fog as factors.
A boy sucked in a hat pin through a soft drink bottle and was taken to a hospital where a doctor removed the pin with a bronchoscope. His mother, Mrs Edward Brockwell, said she will keep the pin as a souvenir and the bean shoot er was destroyed.
Virginia voters must pay poll taxes by May 4 to participate in the July 9 primary and May 5 general election next year. The State Board of Elections released deadlines for 1957 elections including registration dates of March 2 for city primaries and May 11 for town elections. The earlier April and June primary deadlines have passed.
The text states that one should eat pie with a fork, regardless of juice liquidity, and never use a spoon to finish the juice. It implies spoons are inappropriate for pie consumption.
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