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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1950
Page
10
The first lightning rod was placed on Benjamin Franklin's house on Market Street in Philadelphia in 1749, marking a pivotal step in electrical safety history.
A dense listing outlines CBS and NBC programming from 6:45 PM through late night. It includes news casts, Sinatra and Davis segments, game shows, dramas, talk segments like News Commentary and Meet the Press, and sports segments, with multiple show timings and host names across networks.
Channel era schedule lists shows across Ch 4 5 7 9 with programs from 6:00 to 10:00 including news, cartoons, dramas, game shows, and regional features. Notable entries include Cactus Jim The Muppet Shop Frontier Theater Captain Video Sketchaquiz Capitol Closeups Televised news and crime drama lines.
A new iron lung for treating pulmonary tuberculosis has been patented by Jan Leyenaar of Lexington Massachusetts. The device aims to provide smooth even chest and diaphragm pressure and uses a reciprocating mechanism without spring loaded valves. Patent number 2494712 assigned to J H Emerson Company Cambridge.
Gen. Henry H. Hap Arnold was buried at Arlington National Cemetery as snow fell and a 100 plane canopy was grounded. President Truman led dignitaries who attended the funeral in an open amphitheatre under steady snowfall.
Cloverdale Farm Inc is granted a charter with Henry W Boyd of Berryville as president and Robert S Boyd and Fred S Boyd of Winchester as officers. Principal offices listed at 2 S Loudoun St with $50,000 capital stock. Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club incorporation papers filed with the City Clerk. Directors include Bradford Bennett, Clarence Haga, J E Williams, Ira C Sirbaugh, M C Wagner.
Howard L. Tiger of Hewlett Long Island and the Permutit Company of New York hold a patent for a briquette containing silver alumino silicate cation exchanger. The briquette is pressed into a small shape for air plane life rafts and requires a disintegrating additive to work. Tiger adds 2 to 5 percent wilhinite to enable disintegration within three minutes for desalting sea water. Cambridge inventors receive patents for a quick print camera. The Polaroid trio are O E Wolff Millard T Gannon and Edwin H Land assigned to Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge.
Senators were invited to the Pentagon by Secretary of Defense Johnson to discuss the ouster of Adm. Louis E. Denfeld. Denfeld announced retirement after a 40 year naval career amid public criticism of Navy treatment by defense chiefs. Some senators suggested retirement could free Denfeld to share his account of the dismissal.
A horse is aged from January 1 of the year it is foaled. For example a colt born in June 1948 has its official birthday set as January 1, 1948.
The National Association of the Pur Industry notes Sealine is a trade name applied to Australian rapdit snearea and dyed seal color. Alaska seal refers to the fur of the fur seal. Hudson seal is the trade name for seal-area Muskrat or nutria.
Taylor Barr Winchester commissioner of revenue and fire chief has been reelected president of the Firemen's Executive Assn. Vicers are captains of the four city fire companies Loryn Crabill Raymond Campbell Robert Legge and H M Layman. John Hawse remains secretary and Frank Loy re elected treasurer. A committee was formed to study county fire alarms and will meet February 1 with the board of supervisors.
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