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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1955
Page
10
Broadcasting grid lists daytime and prime time programs for WRC channel 4 and WTTG channel 5. Entries include news, game shows, dramas, variety hours, children's segments, and sports with specific start times from 4:00 PM to 11:15 PM.
A day’s broadcasting slate lists programs from 6:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. including Today with Garroway Kitchen Cupboard Way of the World D. C. Schools Feature Playhouse Hayloft Hoedown Greatest Gift One Man's Family and Miss Marlowe with various news and children's shows mixed in.
A listing of daily broadcast times for WMAL Channel 17 and WTOP channels with programs from 4:00 PM to 3:30 PM the following morning including news, drama, game shows, talk shows, soap operas, and entertainment segments showcasing a variety of sponsors and performers.
The lineup lists programs from 1:50 sign on to 3:30 Modern Woman with shows including Cover to Cover Paul Dixon Cartoon Capers Breakfast Club Movie Club Teletours Cartoon Concert and 1 O Clock Theater plus Hollywood Matinese Just for Fun and 2:00 3:00 blocks for audience entertainment.
The schedule lists hourly radio programming from 6:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. featuring News Weather Music and ABC shows. Notable entries include George Hicks Quincy Howe Bill Stern Sammy Kaye Ed Canham John McVane Breakfast Club and Paul Harvey ABC. The lineup mixes news segments with music programs and special features across multiple stations.
Program grid lists varied shows across stations CBS NBC ABC and more. Entries include News, Sports, Dramas, and Music with hosts such as Tennessee Ernie, Eddie Fisher, Bing Crosby, Sammy Kaye, and Jack Gregson. Archives reflect mid 20th century network scheduling.
Employees of the Farmers Bank in Nicholasville Kentucky sift debris from an explosion to recover about forty thousand dollars of bank funds. The vault held around eighty thousand dollars. burglars entered early yesterday and an explosion caused by nitroglycerin damaged the building. FBI notes possible culprits buried under debris, but bank officials doubt that theory.
Market News Service reports a modest uptick in apple demand on Monday, the best since before Christmas but not a full rebound. Yorks and Staymans showed weakness on price while other varieties held. U S Fancy and related grades sold up to 2.90 a bushel FOB Appalachian points amid mixed quality stock. December cold storage in Appalachian states was heavier than last year, with Pennsylvania down about 900000 bushels, Virginia and West Virginia up or similar to prior levels.
The Business and Professional Women of Winchester announce the Annual March of Dimes Dance to raise funds against polio. The event is set for January 29 at 9 p.m. in the George Washington Hotel ballroom with Ray Rogers orchestra. Admission is $5 per couple. reservations via Snellings Florist or phone numbers 4589 day or 5531 night. Campaign Chairman H A Lowry praises community support for polio vaccine efforts in 1955.
Shenandoah Production Credit and National Farm Loan directors will attend a January conference in Baltimore with districtwide representation from Virginia West Virginia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. The two day program includes the Federal Land Bank stockholders meeting and talks on improving farmer credit services.
E. D. A. notes that the 1954 nationwide trial of the Salk polio vaccine has not published results yet and will not be announced until April 1955. The statement clarifies publication timing for the large field test.
William H. Pryor was elected president of the Men’s Council of the Presbyterian Church at its annual meeting. Officers include Robert Wheeler secretary treasurer and Denver Doyle past president. Plans were made to honor Boy Scouts and their fathers on February 24 with various committee chairs named for events and attendance at upcoming rallies and conferences.
Miss Amy East and Miss Nell East won north south first at the Monday Contract Bridge group gathering last night. Mrs Harold Anderson and Mrs John Wolf took east west first, with Schenck Kane second and Evans Kline Berry third in north south. Griffiths second and Perry Newcome third in east west. The beginners group meets Mondays at 8 pm and welcomes new players.
Five Clarke County residents were appointed by Judge Elliott Marshall as Jury Commissioners for the year ending February 15 1958. The group includes C C Funkhouser Elsie C Olcott Richard B Smith Jr Mary R Hardesty and Garland M Canter. They will meet January 25 to prepare and submit to the court clerk lists of 100 to 300 qualified inhabitants not exempt by law.
Richard Larry Mays a former Winchester resident and polio survivor who is now at 19 Burch Road Fort Campbell Kentucky sent a Christmas card to J Frank Loy treasurer of the Winchester Chapter of the American Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He thanked the local chapter for aid received five years ago and said he is doing well and not crippled.
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