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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1950
Page
10
Four influential American and Filipino businessmen in Manila have formed the Philippine Association to counter negative publicity about the Philippines in the United States. They aim to improve business conditions and hire a top public relations organization in the U.S. to tell the other side of the Philippine story.
A fragmented listing shows July evening broadcasts across networks CBS ABC and NBC. Programs include news casts music drama and variety shows with a mix of daytime and nighttime time slots and multiple repeats and cross listings.
Television listings show nightly lineups for WNEW Channel 4 WTTG Channel 5 WMAL Channel 7 and WWolf Channel 9 with programs from 6:00 PM to 11:15 PM. Highlights include Captain Video Newsreels Western Theater sports and a Susan Hayward film Young and Willing alongside Hollywood Movie Hits and sports updates.
A 68 year old man Temple Allen of Richmond survived a 40 foot fall from the belt line railroad bridge on Monument Avenue around 9 this morning. He was treated at Medical College Hospital and said to be not seriously hurt. He landed near a concrete drain wall by the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac tracks and was moved by hand car to a nearby roundhouse before ambulance transport.
The Arizona state capital at Phoenix stands as one of the few public buildings in the nation lacking a cornerstone. The omission marks an unusual architectural note for a major government edifice.
Commonwealth's Attorney Horace T. Morrison refutes claims he sought to keep patrons off the pier and vows he will not. He cites a remark at a Friday dance by Salkeld Stamper, clerk of Stafford County Court, about patrons going to the pier for refreshments. Morrison also accuses Ida Sonnenberg, pier owner, of illegal slot machines and beer sales without a Virginia license, arguing the pier lies under Virginia jurisdiction though Maryland licenses cover it.
Political caucuses underway as citizens of Boys' and Girls' state debate for statewide offices. Girls' State conducts a reballot for House of Delegates after run overs. Both states proceed to elect city officials.
Polio in Virginia climbs to 70 confirmed cases with Wythe County contributing a large share. Seven new infections were added yesterday, boosting the year’s count 47 cases higher than the same point in 1949. Wytheville reports 21 cases while Wythe County totals 29 per the Health Department.
Attorneys for Old Dominion Electric Co operative resumed cross examination in the State Corporation Commission hearing on its 14.32 million federal REA loan. VEPCO opposes the loan as the coop plans its own transmission and generation system for eleven member co operatives and their counties by 1958.
Governor Bat tle outlines a six point military leave policy for state workers to rejoin duties after service while preserving seniority merit ratings and retirement credits. He also announced ongoing work on a Virginia civilian defense system with plans expected soon.
Paul Ernest Johnson, a Clover Creamery driver from Roanoke, said he stopped to help two men and two girls with a stalled car on Route 501. He was punched in the stomach and knocked unconscious, then robbed of about $125. Police reported the incident yesterday with two men as suspects.
Bond of 2500 posted in Federal Court for French S. Browner, Dumfries postmaster, indicted on 60 counts of forgery and altering government papers. He allegedly forged and altered 26 checks totaling 1281.45 between 1946 and 1949 and embezzled letters. Indictment returned last week in Newport News. no hearing date set.
City council authorizes construction of a white high school and municipal auditorium at an estimated cost near 4.5 million dollars. Goode Construction Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, wins the $4,491,301.88 contract to build the project, expected for completion by fall 1952.
Roanoke hosts the sixty-eighth annual Virginia Press Association meeting with round table discussions speeches and a golf tournament. Delegates will tour the Roanoke Times and World News plant and attend a banquet and dance as well as bridge and canasta events for women guests. Rep Burr P Harrison will discuss HUAC findings at a Saturday breakfast.
Carter Lindsey 27 a Cole Brothers Circus performer weighing 674 pounds was reported resting well at his South Norfolk home after arriving from Washington. His 103 degree fever and pneumonia were noted but doctors said he could use a home bed unless oxygen is needed and hospitalization would follow.
Virginia Maryland National Guard units staged a Civil War era exercise over 46000 acres at Camp Pickett with an aggressor force targeting Richmond Petersburg and Norfolk. Cadre from the 29th Division led a 12 to 15 mile march to the bivouac as medical pairs treated two heat exhaustion cases.
Dr E T Clark of Winchester led the ordination service at Front Royal First Baptist Church for Quinton Ivy who was ordained to the Christian ministry. Ivy served as associate pastor of the church during the summer after recent examination by the Shenandoah Baptist Association ordination council.
The article lists council members Reverend Paul R. Stagg Fred A. Babbitt of Front Royal Reverend Arthur Brown of Berryville and Reverend B Gale Tichenell of Bentonville. It notes a standard reader can finish the Constitution in about thirty minutes and the Amendments in about fifteen minutes.
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