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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1957
Page
12
The approximate cost to bring KUHT on air was 3 325 000. KUHT, licensed to the University of Houston, Texas, was dedicated June 8, 1953. Polo likely originated in Persia as The Game of the Stick and the Ball, with some authorities suggesting India.
A Virginia year in humor features the Queen of England ad libbing at a Williamsburg dinner, a Norfolk photographer's mishap with a radar flash, a fourth grader’s boiled down budget report, a Civil War veteran’s birthday quip, Fredericksburg's weed post, and an IRS cash note.
Dr Donald Michael, a psychologist, suggests semi-screwballs could be ideal spacemen due to the extreme psychological stresses of long space journeys. He cites Eskimos or Buddhist monks as traits suited to isolation, endurance, and detachment from time, with sex mixing potentially addressing some issues but adding new ones.
Laborer Gibson is charged with homicide in the street brawl death of Broadway actor Gerald Sarracini. Sarracini, 26, starred in Romanoff and Juliet with Peter Ustinov. his friend Tommy Bell, 34, was also involved. Police report a single punch knocked Sarracini unconscious outside a Broadway tavern near 64th Street on Christmas Eve. Bell claims they were attacked. The incident follows prior fights between Gibson and Sarracini, with toy gun used in the escape.
Winchester and Clarke County bond drives beat November targets with 1957 totals up to November. M B Clowe Jr reports $858,212 in E and H bonds sold in November for Winchester Frederick pushing year to date to $732,967 or 115 percent of the $640,000 target. Clarke County via L F Stolle records $4,425 in November and $74,521 through 11 months or 78 percent of its $95,000 goal. Statewide, November bond sales reach $6,722,078 with 11 month total of $75,171,557 or 87 percent of the 1957 goal.
Nationalist attacks across Algeria last night caused a farm guard to be killed and farm buildings worth 300000 dollars to burn. An off duty policeman was killed in an Oran assault with hand grenades as military authorities reported.
Three officials from state owned cooperative stores in Stara Zagora were reported to have been sentenced to death for stealing surplus goods and selling them on the black market.
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