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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1950
Page
2
HAL BOYLE profiles Walter Kiernan a radio humorist of 48 who says humor cannot be taught by formula but comes from attitude and reflex. Kiernan writes with caution avoiding risky topics and keeps a card file of jokes while stressing the need to discard worn lines. His best loved gag involves an electric blanket from an old toaster and marmalade toast eruptions.
The Loudoun Street Presbyterian Senior Choir under Mrs. Gilbert Tillotson will perform Buxtehude's Rejoice Beloved Christians on Palm Sunday April 2 at 4:30 p m at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church Winchester. Soloists Nanalee Miller Eunice Schneider and Gilbert Tillotson will participate.
Air Force officials blamed static electricity for a crash in which eight men were injured aboard the XC-99. The explosion occurred yesterday during work on left inboard engines as technicians sprayed carbon dioxide gas.
Hollywood column traces the Oscar statuette from Cedric Gibbons sketch to George Stanley casting. It notes 387 Oscars since 1929, height ten inches, weight seven pounds, bronze with two gold platings, cost 66 dollars each. It recounts Herrick’s Uncle Oscar quip and the name Oscar becoming common usage.
Suffering from paralysis and fearing revolution, Henri Christophe killed himself with a gold bullet handmade by his own craft. He is buried at the central court of the Citadel of La Ferriere in Cap Haitien, Maui, where he once reigned.
Apples and other fruits quoted with steady to 2% inch up moves. Pa. and N J bins include registered USIs, 64s to 88s. Potatoes steady with Katahdins in 100 Ib sacks. Poultry eggs butter and receipts noted. Cattle hogs and sheep prices mixed with steady to varied bidding across Chicago markets. top hogs around 16.60 and cattle to 31.50 on select grades.
A letter to the Detroit Jewish editor quotes J B L Roosevelt citing the Roosevelts as possibly of Dutch origin from Claes Martenssen Van Roosevelt who arrived before 1648. The author notes uncertainty about the full lineage but emphasizes being good citizens and believers in God as the main concern.
The New York stock market stayed largely steady with minor fluctuations. Missouri Pacific preferred weakened after recent strength tied to a senate probe of the railroad’s reorganization plan, while several other issues edged up or down with a mixed showing.
Chicago grains opened with a lively session as wheat mixed and deferreds slipping about 1-2 cents. May prices stood at 2.22 half, corn May 1.33 1-4, oats May 73 1-8, rye May 1.31 1-8, soybeans around 2.56 3-4. Lard contracts edged higher with May at 10.97.
A report of local market pricing shows corn meal in 5 and 10 pound bags at various rates, plus 25 and 100 pound bags. Also listed are seeds, egg mash, barley, bran, broiler mash, cracked corn, and butter products with per unit prices and scattered notes.
The article notes Carlotta, Empress of Mexico, spent time in confinement after the execution of her husband. She was first taken to the Chateau of Laeken and later to the Chateau de Bouchoute near Brussels, Belgium, where she lived in seclusion until her death on January 19, 1927.
A narrator recalls a near fatal duel in Russia and a later encounter in Paris with a published tale about a cavalryman, linking fate death and memory. The discussion notes a readable translation and cites Diamond Shoals off North Carolina as the sailors call thegraveyard of the Atlantic.
A series of public auctions listed from March 22 to April 8 includes farm implements tools household goods livestock machinery and real estate. Items appear at multiple venues including near Avilla Reynolds Store Cedar Creek Grade Winchester Frederick County Court House and Stephens City with estates represented by A B Crosen C Alabaugh Wm C Miller H K Benham and J Fred Larrick among others.
A weekly Scout Leaders Training Course starts at 7 30 tonight at First Baptist Church. Assistant scoutmasters and troop committeemen are urged to attend as Basil Starkey notes the council has prepared films on Patrol Method and related topics for sessions through April 25 including meetings hiking camping and helping the individual boy to grow.
Local bankers who attended the Clearing House Association meeting in New Market last night included W. Nelson Page Harold G. Brown Robert D. Glaize John C. Blackburn Howard Holland of Shenandoah Valley National Bank Mrs Mary Hershberger Miss Goldie Brown Harry Ridgeway Frank Loy Willard Slonaker of Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Herbert S Larrick H R Edwards and J William Hollis of Commercial and Savings Bank
For sale a 6 room house with bath, well water, chicken house and garage on over 1 acre. Short distance to Vis cose bus route from Front Royal to Winchester. Price 5000 dollars. Contact Tommy D Lockhart at phone 7470.
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