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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1950
Page
12
Ed L. Molden will be installed as president of the Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Winchester event next Friday. The ceremony will mark Molden’s leadership of the local Jaycees and the organization’s ongoing community service programs.
A 24 hour listing of radio programs with network notes and times. Entries include News for 15 minutes CBS NBC ABC and various entertainment shows such as One Man's Family Beulah's Sketch Bob Crosby Club Lone Ranger Drama I Love a Mystery Gordon MacRae Show Hollywood Playhouse and Murder by Experts among others.
Winchester and Frederick County bond purchases for the week ending June 10 totaled $7,500. Independence Drive sales reach $31,706 since May 15 with a local goal of $100,000 by July 4. Virginia reports Clarke County at $3,500 of $12,500, Shenandoah at $8,606 of $65,000, and Warren County at $16,068 of $45,000.
Channel schedules list prime time shows across WNEW Channel 4 WTTG Channel 5 WMAL Channel 7 and WOrLD Channel 9 including Footlight Theater Kukla Fran Ollie and News Caravan at 6 to 11 pm with variety programs and sports.
The International Home Furnishings Summer Market opened a 10 day run in Chicago attracting up to 20 000 buyers. Exhibits spanned the Merchandise Mart American Furniture Mart and Chicago Arena with early orders guiding 30 to 90 day deliveries. Wallace A Ollman and Lawrence H Whiting forecast heavy sales.
In Boulder Colorado the phrase gateway to the glaciers appears as a nickname reflecting the town's role as a starting point for alpine expeditions and glacier era routes.
A flash flood hit Harlowton Montana damaging more than twenty homes and washing out a 12 foot wall of water from a hillside cloudburst. The victim was 62 year old Mrs Ed Bacon who was trapped in her ranch home. The flood also destroyed a main highway bridge and 5500 feet of Milwaukee railroad tracks near the division point of the town population 2000. Harold Stearns publisher of the weekly newspaper described the area as a sea of mud.
Within a year after the city founded in 1889 the first drilling for oil began in what is now downtown Oklahoma City. Over 27 years more than 20 wells were drilled before December 4, 1928 when a single well finally produced enough oil to fulfill the pioneers dream.
Belmont County authorities hold George Doty of Bellaire for questioning in the beating death of 18 year old Alma Montag of Croft Run. No charge yet. Doty to take a voluntary lie detector test. Montag worked in a toy factory at Moundsville. Her body found in a farm field near Lover's Lane. Doty says Alma and friend Lova Pugh rode in his taxi Friday night. cab near the scene spotted by Joe Dyrdek. Doty claims he gave Pugh and Montag rides and had a flat tire on the Croft Run to Warnock trip.
A list of local citations includes Timothy Messick 23 W Cork St cited for drunk and disorderly with $14.25 fine Edward Fauver 7 W Piccadilly also cited for drunk and disorderly $14.25 Thomas Artie Stone Fairmont Ave extd drunk and disorderly $15.25 Grover Wesley Daugherty 958 Woodstock Lane driving under influence $105.25 and 30 days suspended Roger Elwood Thomas Marleb orro Rt released to U S Military Police after surrendering for being AWOL from the army nine days
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