Radio Highlights Schedule Headlines a Full Night on WRC
A dense listing outlines WRC program blocks from 6:00 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. including News, music, and drama features. Notable items feature Bing Crosby in Music Hall and Rudy Vallee with The First Line, plus series like Death Valley Days and Aldrich Family, with various orchestras and celebrity hosts.
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Bing Crosby
Green Was
My Vallee
Rudy Vallee
Sweet Dee Laecell News
Frazier Hunt
Good Neighbor
Bankhage
Vera Barton
the World Today
Fred Waring
Amos
N’ Andy
World News
Glenn Miller
al Pearce
Maudie
Frank Morgan
Death Valley
America
Major Bowes
Warner
Arch McDonald
Governor Darden to Speak at Virginia Bridge Dedication
Governor Darden will speak at a Pearlsburg bridge dedication in Giles county on Saturday June 20. He will then attend the Wise county citizenship day celebration in Big Stone Gap the following day.
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Norton
Darden
Pearlsburg
Giles County
Big Stone Gap
Wise County
Pro-British Eggs in West Virginia Farm
Farmer John A. Link of Charles Town reports his hens appear to favor Britain. A recent egg was shaped like an English walnut and another showed a clear V on its shell.
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Charles Town
W. Va
John A. Link
Socialite Flier Turns Parachute Packing Entrepreneur
Connie Wolf a noted socialite and aviatrix plans a parachute packing business with services for Gulf area plant customers. She assures safety and offers to demonstrate by packing a chute herself while recalling her adventurous career and publicity stunts.
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Philadelphia
Connie Wolf
Aviatrix
Constance Cann Wolf
Connie
Ancient Babylonian influence in Fahrenheit thermometer scale
Science Service reports Carl B. Boyer shows Babylonian roots in our thermometer scale. The Babylonians used sexagesimal counting and 360 degrees for circles influencing early thermometer divisions. Roemer and Fahrenheit adapted these degrees into the 212 degree boiling point and 240 degree early scales, later refined to 212.
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Science Service
New York
Carl B. Boyer
Brooklyn College
Science
Roemer
Fahrenheit
Present and Past Rainfall Averages and Totals
Rainfall data show none in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. June totals reach 0.24 inches, year to date 13.75 inches. The 29 year average is 35.55 inches with monthly means from 1.99 to 3.77 inches, courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Winchester Research la’ Oe
Aching Feet Relief Ad by Miller's Drug Store
Advertises Moone's Emerald Oil for tired feet with simple directions. Promises satisfaction or money back and points readers to Miller's Drug Store for purchase with a deod orant product noted as non greasy and stainless.
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Miller’s Drug Store
Giant Ground Sloth Bone Found North in Alaska Soil
A single Megalonyx bone from Cripple near Fairbanks, Alaska, is reported in a UC Berkeley study and held by the American Museum of Natural History. The discovery, the northernmost of its kind, may illuminate Pleistocene Alaska climate alongside other extinct mammals.
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Alaska
Science Service
Calif
Fairbanks
Chester Stock
University of California
Mexico
Washington
American Museum of Natural On
New York
North America
Thomas Jefferson
Plaintiff Seeks War Stamp Payment in Auto Suit
In Napa California on June 4 a justice court questions Mrs Louise Barmettler's payment of a court judgment totaling 14 31 in war savings stamps to satisfy an auto accident suit. The judge hopes the plaintiff will accept the stamps for the remaining 4 54 to reach 18 75 in the book.
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Napa
Calif
Louise Barmettler
Snake found in Hawaii challenges island boast
Honolulu reports a five foot bull snake killed on a roadway. A police officer took the animal to the bureau of agriculture and forestry for study, challenging the longstanding claim that Hawaii has no snakes.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry
Kelp Industry Hit By War In California
Kelp harvesting off the California coast near Port Hueneme faces wartime disruption. The seaweed, processed into cattle feed, represents a unique industry affected by supply shifts and maritime restrictions during the war.
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Port Hueneme
Calif
California
Nazis Go First Class, But Not Italians
El Pais reports the Spanish liner Cabo de Buena Esperanza fully booked in first class for Axis diplomats expelled to Europe, with Germans occupying all first class and Italians traveling in second class.
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Montevideo
el Pais
Cabo de Buena Esperanza
Europe
Uruguay
War Bond Drive Raises $143000 in Hawaii
A Japanese community in Hawaii has contributed $143 000 to the war bond campaign as of June 4. The effort reflects broad local support for wartime debt financing.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
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Aunt Clara
Alenie
Sio
Blondie
Patent Office
Cookie
the Story Hour
Chic Young
Peter Rabbit
Oke
Byles Forgrave
Beth
Igen'ral
Jexcuse
Wanda Waverley
BY Paul Robinson
Casanova
Secret Agent X-9
Robert Storm
Prince Caesar
Salem Gal
Ore Fonny
Sisters
Thomas
Mr. Keen
Etores Tollet
St. Patrick
Japs Bay War Bonds
Baker’s
Baker's Drug Store
Court House
Dial
Omps Funeral Home
C. B. Smalts & Son
Aomberlake’s
VEAL
Loin
Chuck Roast
Curas
Bologona
Doz
the Food Center
N. Main St
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