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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
16
The article notes Sweden uses the telephone more than any other country, while New Zealand ranks just after the United States in auto ownership per capita.
A dense listing of 1940s network radio programming across CBS NBC and ABC detailing show titles hosts and time slots from 6:00 pm to midnight. Highlights include News and Commentary segments with Kaltenborn and Davis, drama and variety programs such as Lum and Abner, Red Barber sports, and evening music blocks with Nelson Eddy and America's Town Meeting.
Oscar L. Chapman announces Clarence R. Bradshaw of Herndon Virginia as chief of the adjudication branch of the bureau of land management in Washington. He succeeds Thomas C. Havell, recently named assistant director of the bureau.
The wanderoo is identified as a monkey species native to Ceylon. Researchers note its distinctive traits and habitat within the island's forest regions.
In The Hollow hosted by Lucy Angkatell and Dr John Christow, a tense mix of guests from the Angkatell clan gathers for a weekend. Henrietta Savernake sculpts Nausicaa while Christow contemplates life, death, and personal duties as he wrestles with weariness and unspoken tensions.
Officials tentatively blame a lightning strike on a chimney of a former army barracks prison building. The blaze in a third story room of the women's prison caused the death of 22 inmates after igniting celluloid and other combustibles.
Inflammable materials ignited in a workroom used by 260 women for cheap jewelry making. Multiple fatalities occurred as the trapped workers suffocated under choking fumes. one survivor died later in hospital. The barracks annex housed minor offenders from the Pete Roquette prison.
Made Church Trustee B H Hamman has been elected trustee of the Grace Lutheran church in place A D Henkel, deceased. Other current trustees are Eugene Cooper and Harry A Schmidt.
The mother deer stays quiet about scent and adopts an extra odor to mislead predators, keeping her hidden fawns safe.
Gov Tuck appoints Notary Lewis N Barton as rotary public official for four years from July 14 Barton qualifies at the city clerk's office. A wild goose was photographed flying at about 5 1 2 miles high.
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