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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1955
Page
2
Tot Tommy Frac wandered from home in Plainville seeking choo-choo trains. He was found asleep on a railroad tie after a seven hour search by police and volunteers. He rested at Bradley Memorial Hospital under observation.
Detroit tale of Lillian Chalak, 17, who wore a large glass ring found in a bag with earrings at a Hamtramck store. The shop later reported a $1,200 diamond ring missing. she returned the glass ring and received $50 worth of costume pieces as a reward.
Oklahoma City expert Russell Collins promotes a home treatment for restoring hair with private demonstrations in Winchester Virginia on January 29 1955 at the George Washington Hotel and offers a 30 day money back guarantee for progress. Examinations are free and private with no appointment needed.
The Coast Guard cutter Coos Bay met a four engine Air Transport Service plane about 840 miles east of Bermuda after it ditched in a storm. All six crewmen and two passengers aboard the aircraft were rescued in a 12 minute operation with no injuries reported. The cutter remained on station awaiting a possible tow to Bermuda.
John Sebastian harmonica virtuoso and Dorothy Jarnac dance humorist present a joint recital Monday at 8 15 p m at Handley Auditorium as the second in the current series of Community Concerts Sebastian has given hundreds of recitals and soloed with major North American orchestras since World War II Jarnac known for narrative dance rose to stardom in Bloomer Girl and Tickets Please both bring a varied program including Bach Boccherini Mozart Ponchielli Vaughn Williams Debussy Rachmaninoff Shostakovich and Gershwin
An international agreement now defines a curie as the activity producing 3.7 x 10 minus 10 disintegrations per second. In effect, one curie equals 37 billion atoms decaying each second, so one gram of radium disintegrates at this rate.
Merchants approve December extended hours and year round 9 am to 5 pm on weekdays with Saturday 9 am to 8 pm. Special closings include Christmas Eve 6 pm and major holidays. June to August Wednesday afternoons close at 12 noon. A Washington's Birthday promotional sale is planned. A parade float and promotional materials were authorized.
Serge Tse won an earlier deportation battle over entering the United States with an illegal Portuguese passport. Emanuel Lester, 31, of the Bronx, is indicted for trying to extort 535000 from Rubinstein, claiming to collect a debt and facing a 750000 lawsuit. Lester, described as an automobile smuggler, is free on 7500 bail.
Virginia Thompson and her husband Lawrence 32 were jailed after authorities say Thompson severely beat her 5-year-old nephew Lloyd George Stanley with a heavy belt for moaning. Lloyd lies near death at University Hospital with 19 rib fractures. younger brother James Edward 3 suffers a severe but not serious injury.
Reports say B47s under SAC at Guam move closer to Formosa with possible Okinawa positioning. Nationalists may evacuate 15 000 troops and 15 000 civilians from the Tachens under US sea and air cover as Communist forces shell Yikiangshan. Peiping claims Essex Yorktown Kearsarge Wasp carriers and fleet escorts maneuver off China coast to back Taiwan liberation effort.
The Midwest experienced bone chilling cold with temperatures 30 degrees below zero in Minnesota as an arctic air mass moved from Canada. The deep freeze spread across the north central region with clear skies, strong winds and widespread subzero readings, while the South saw a warming trend though Florida and nearby states remained cool.
The circled U on many packaged foods denotes kosher approval by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. This symbol indicates the product meets kosher standards and has been certified for Jewish consumption.
A series of auction listings and sale notices across Hampshire and Frederick counties. Buses, real estate, estate sales, household goods, school equipment, hog stock, farm machinery, livestock and farm implements are scheduled from January 28 to February 18 with various auctioneers. Many sales require front courthouse locations and include specific farm names and routes.
City firemen were called at noon today to the home of J. R. White 115 W Leicester St where a chimney fire was reported. Rouss and South End Fire Companies answered the alarm and firemen reported that the fire burned itself out and that no damage was done.
Clark calls for public campaigns by Rotary and local groups to raise safety awareness and for formal driver education in county high schools to mold teen attitudes before licensing. He notes driver ed is now common in U.S. high schools with about 8,000 schools teaching it to 750,000 students last year.
The page lists quiz responses: 1) 2 240 Ibs. 2) Adopted unanimously. 3) Italy. 4) Abraham Lincoln. 5) Georgia. 6) Luxemburg. Yes. There were no paratroopers in world War I. 9) Yes. 10) Beggar.
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