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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1951
Page
12
The Aztecs grew pop corn for centuries before Europeans arrived in America and Native Americans shared popped corn at early colonial feasts. The abbreviation COD meaning collect on delivery began in 1841 when a shipper asked the express company to collect payment from the consignee at delivery.
A packed lineup lists News for 15 minutes at 6:00 followed by Kiddies Hour. Sparta Music Time at 6:18, Newscast by Three at 6:45, and various News Commentary programs continue through the hour. The slate includes Jack Smith Show, Bob Crosby Club, Lone Ranger Drama, One Man's Family, Nero Wolfe, and Bandstand USA with late blocks of Monty Wooley Play and To Be Announced.
Television listings for WNEW WTTG WMAL and WTOP detail the nightly lineups from 6:00 pm to 9:15 pm including dramas news quiz shows and variety programs. Notable entries include Footlight Theater Kukla Fran and Ollie Space Cadet Captain Video Jackie Gleason and Perry Como among others.
Studio 8-H in Radio City NBC’s quarter acre three story room, once the world’s largest for radio, becomes a television studio after a million dollar rebuild. Return of Symphonies for Youth and Florida races highlight weekend radio items. Freddie Bartholomew shifts to TV directing for WIPX New York.
To Speak In County of Winona Lake Indiana chairman of the Prohibition National Committee and editor of the National Prohibitionist will speak at the Jubilee Church of the Brethren Front Royal Road on Monday at 730 o'clock His topic will be God Save America The public is invited to attend.
A one day TV schedule lists shows from 9:30 to 11:45 including Live Like A 9:45 Millionaire 10:00 Star of the 10:15 Family 10:30 Beat the Clock 11:00 News 11:15 Playhouse Nine 11:30 Baby-face 11:45 Morgan.
On Monday at 8 p m the Blue Ridge Players hold tryouts for the forthcoming production Ten Little Indians in Boyce Parish House director Mrs Richard E Byrd invites non members to attend and audition for parts in this year’s play.
Cedar Rapids couple Ralph Langenheim and Jean Langenheim will receive doctorates from the University of Minnesota after summers spent in Colorado Rockies fieldwork. Ralph, an assistant geology professor at Coe College, mapped rock formations while Jean studied plant distribution for her PhD project during their field surveys. The pair began their dual research on their honeymoon.
A black spaniel clipped by an auto limped into Presbyterian Hospital ward in Philadelphia and waited beside human patients for treatment. Dr. H Newton Spencer dressed the paw and sent for the SPCA after the dog settled on a pillow in a corner.
The chewing gum industry dates from about 1860 when an American inventor, attempting to vulcanise sapota sap for rubber, discovered chicle's similarity to spruce and cherry gums, which had been the main chewing gums known.
Baltimore fire officials say a wartime water sprinkler system at a pier and the liner George Washington could have saved the structure from a $15 million fire. The system installed for ammunition loading in World War II was allowed to rot since 1947 after the Army left the pier, with valves and pipes reportedly stolen.
The Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island is made of bronze and weighs 225 tons.
Large vacuum-type machines are used on some oyster boats to haul oysters from the depths to the surface, aiding harvest operations and efficiency. The implement resembles industrial cleaners and is mounted on deck for rapid dredge processing.
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