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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1957
Page
7
Valley TV Radio Service advertises a guaranteed TV and radio service call with contact MO 2 8865. It lists 141 S Loudoun Wirchester and manager John P Nail.
A Staunton man, 30, Malcolm Miller Sipe, was indicted in absentia for the murder of Mrs. Viola Berry Graham, 44, who was killed in a May 25 shooting. Sipe disappeared after the incident and is the subject of a nationwide manhunt by local police and the FBI.
Channel four to nine air a mix of dramas comedies and variety shows headlined by Perry Como Jerry Lewis The Marriage Show and Gunsmoke plus The Jackie Gleason Show Lawrence Welk and Ozark Jubilee Also noted are Sports Time Not for Nervous People and The Late Show with Fort Algiers as the concluding programs for the night
A dense list of programs spans from 11 a.m. to 12:00 weather with titles including Wide Wide World Loretta Young Sherlock Holmes You Asked for It and Alfred Hitchcock among many others. The day features cinema game shows news sports and a late-night weather forecast with classic network offerings.
The incident began after an argument involving Sipe and his wife and ended with Mrs. Berry fatally shot. She died on arrival at a Staunton hospital from a .32 caliber pistol wound. Sources say the FBI has joined the case with a warrant charging Sipe with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder.
A Weather Bureau scientist Dr Harry Wexler urged development of inexpensive solid propulsion rockets to reach 200000 feet for meteorological instruments to study radioactive debris in the stratosphere. He spoke to a Senate Atomic Energy Subcommittee noting more research is needed on biological effects of atomic radiation.
The University of Virginia board approves a northern Virginia extension college to open next fall in Fairfax County at the Old Bailey School near Bailey's Cross Roads. Dr. J N C Finley says all degree courses will be offered in the two year branch.
Agriculture Department reports 58,258 Virginia acres under soil bank this year from 11,691 agreements. Totals include tobacco 3,982 acres and payments up to 3,262,171 dollars. cotton 3,552 acres and 211,632 dollars. corn 15,496 acres and 661,518 dollars. wheat 31,382 acres and 840,130 dollars. 325 farmers joined conservation reserve contracts for 7,648 acres, qualifying for 144,000 dollars in total payments.
A children’s service will be held this Sunday evening at Round Hill Methodist Church at 8 o clock. The program includes songs recitations and dramatizations. Sunday School meets at 9 30 Sunday morning and will replace the preaching service.
Pope Pius XII told ACLI delegates automation cannot erase the Bible's warning that man earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. He warned automation brings both promise and menace and urged considering sociology and Christian spiritual values alongside material gains. He said automation will remain a limited factor, not dominant or constructive on its own.
Dr Oscar A Sauer aged 68, longtime pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Richmond, died at his home yesterday after serving the congregation for 36 years.
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