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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1951
Page
12
Local interest grows for the Pennsylvania Farm Show set for January 8 to 12 in Harrisburg. A chartered bus may be arranged if sufficient turnout. events include livestock judging displays and evening programs with a horse pulling contest, horse shoe pitching, log sawing, sheep shearing, and sheep dog demonstrations on January 10 and 11.
The listing details a dense broadcast slate with multiple networks and times. Programs include News at 6 00 and 7 00, sports music time, dramas like Mr Chameleon and Great Gildersleeve, comedies with Jack Smith Show and Bob Crosby Club, plus crime and mystery titles such as District Attorney and Rogue's Gallery. Notable figures include Groucho Marx Harold Peary Steve Allen Perry Como and Louis in boxing match coverage.
TV listings show WNBW Channel 4 with Footlight Theatre Kukla Fran and Ollie The Show Room News Caravan 4-Star Review Danny Thomas Lisa Kirk TV Theatre Break the Bank Stars Over Hollywood Broadway Open House and more on WTTG Channel 5 WMAL Channel 7 with Frontier Theatre Telenews and Sports Reel plus Million Dollar Haul and Washington Capitals basketball at Uline Arena Wrestling from Chicago listed for the period.
A six member Border Patrol unit will operate from the quarantine station at Old Point Comfort to stop alien stowaways entering Hampton Roads. John L. Murff, district director of immigration and naturalization in Baltimore, announced the first Middle Atlantic powder patrol will widely search ships from foreign ports.
The Winchester American Legion Post No 21 launches Tide of Toys to aid European underprivileged children. Until January 20 non military toys are collected at multiple local sites including Farmers and Merchants Bank Shenandoah Valley Bank and A R Patton's Grocery with committee chair Charles A Dorton Jr and members Corrigan Whitmore Thompson Leatherman Zuckerman coordinating.
Sir Hubert Wilkins achieved the feat in 1931 becoming the first to take a submarine beneath the Arctic ice pack. He reached about 400 miles from the North Pole before turning back.
The Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce sets its Founder's Day banquet for Friday January 26 at the George Washington Hotel. Jack Ireland announces the event will feature the presentation of the 1950 outstanding young man and outstanding boss awards.
About 150 freight handlers and terminal checkers of the AFL International Longshoremen's Association refused to report for work at the Army base pier. They voted to halt duties until they receive a 15 cent hourly raise. If the stoppage lasts, ships due to arrive at the base pier will be affected.
Stevenson and Young, operators of the Army base piers, report 12 months of losses. A spokesman says approving an increase would add about $5 000 per month to the deficit.
V I N A St Alphege Archbishop of Canterbury refused to pay ransom to the Danes during their 1012 invasion of Britain. He declined to save himself and was killed, defending his people as Canterbury suffered Danish sack.
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