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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1955
Page
11
Television lineup lists channel 4 from 4:00 pm to 11:30 pm with Hawkins Falls and Tonight news. channel 5 from 4:00 pm to 11:15 pm features Brighter Day Secret Storm Romper Room Captain Video Million Dollar Movie and Chicago Symphony.
Morning lineup includes This Day 7 Tonight with Garroway at 7 40 News at 8 45 Kitchen Cupboard at 9 15 and Inga’s Angle at 9 30. Afternoon features Tennessee Ernie Ford at 12 00 and Hayloft Hoedown at 2 00 followed by One Man's Family and Miss Marlowe in early evening.
A dense, station by station guide lists daily programs for WMAL and WTOP across multiple channels. It shows times and titles such as Pirate Bill News Kukla Fran and Ollie Disneyland Front Page Detective Boxing The Millionaire Perry Como The Tonight Show lineup and dayparts through late evening, reflecting a crowded broadcast slate.
A compact listing of programs across the evening from news and weather to music, talk and soap eras. Notable entries include ABC and regional hosts such as George Hicks Quincy Howe and Eddie Fisher alongside daytime features like The Breakfast Club True Story and When A Girl Marries.
Broadcasters expand production tours to Chicago, San Francisco, Miami Beach and beyond to reach audiences outside New York and Hollywood. NBC CBS and ABC send hosts and casts to various cities while programs origin from new locales.
Colonel C W Woodson Jr, state police head and highway safety chair, set 807 as the tentative 1954 Virginia traffic death toll with possible minor upward revision. Deaths fell from prior years amid a 15 percent rise in traffic volume, with pedestrian and urban fatalities down but city gains limited. Fairfax topped counties with 32 deaths. Hampton led cities.
Shenandoah Area Poultry Auction, run by Irvin Williams since last June, reports weekly sales averaging 66 199 head and a total of 1 924 040 head sold. About 10 buyers attend each Tuesday sale held above the Golden Glow Restaurant. Prices have risen recently with December 28 at 23 ¼ to 24 cents, January 4 at 24 ½ to 25 ½ cents, and January 11 at 25 ½ to 27 ½ cents per pound.
CBS Hytron division announces start of mass production of the first 22 inch rectangular color television picture tube. Charles F. Stromeyer says the firm will cease 19 inch round tubes used in Motorola and CBS Columbia sets.
Richmond and Warwick reported 19 and 18 traffic deaths, Norfolk 12. Colonel Woodson urged treating the reduction as a favorable trend, not a victory, noting only 807 traffic dead as a basis for cautious optimism.
Millwood notes show the Blue Ridge Hunt held once last week at Red Gate with Alexandier Mackay-Smith and M F H in attendance. Guests included Mrs Roland Mitchell Miss Vaida Boy-Ed and several others from Millwood and nearby Hunt communities. Visitors from Rappahannock Hunt attended, and socials featured dinners, entertainments, and visits with notable guests including Brig Gen Pleas Rogers and Commodore John Magruder amid ongoing church services and Lent activities.
The pandemic was nearly universal and spread worldwide two to three times, reaching nearly all regions except a few isolated islands like St. Helena and Samoa. It caused an estimated 15 to 20 million deaths, including about 548,000 Americans.
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