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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1957
Page
5
French biologists inject after birth to induce radical changes in 12 ducks within 12 hours. Professor Jacques Benoit of the College of France notes potential human applications but warns changes could be harmful. Eggs from altered ducks are being incubated to test heredity and whether sex cells can be modified.
Benoit reports injections caused duck offspring to show varied size and shape. Changes appeared in head and body proportions, gait, and coloration of beaks and feathers across generations.
Dr Frederick H Olert resigns from Richmond Second Presbyterian Church and accepts a pastorate at Central Presbyterian Church in Kansas City Missouri with about 1800 members. He likely begins duties September first. Olert also serves as president of the Virginia Council of Churches.
Television programs listed in local time are one hour earlier due to DST. The change moves usual 6 p.m. slots to 5 p.m. as shown in the schedule.
Tonight’s prime time slate covers NBC CBS and channel 4 with movies news and talk. Programs include Last of the Mohicans Masquerade Party Father Knows Best Drummer Man This Is Your Life Sherlock Holmes and boxing at 9 PM.
Detailed Thursday daytime into evening listings for stations including 11:00 Tic Tac Dough and 12:00 Close-Up, with programs on Channel 7 and Channel 8. Highlights include Queen for a Day, Modern Romances, The Milt Grant Show, Mickey Mouse, and Amos n Andy among many others.
Red haired actress Arlene Dahl testifies in a $1 million damage suit against Columbia Pictures alleging promotional ads for Wick ed as They Come used her image on another woman's body. She objects to the shots as obscene and invasive while noting she would not pose nude. Her husband Fernando Lamas watched in court. The judge cautions Dahl about attempting to reform the industry.
The state asks two NAACP lawsuits challenging Virginia laws be dismissed, arguing constitutionality and lack of jurisdiction. A three judge federal panel will hear June 26 arguments, with NAACP claiming officials seek to evade the May 17 1945 Supreme Court ruling ending school segregation.
Local 511 URCLWPA will meet Friday at 8 p m at the Teamsters Hall on N Cameron St to hear reports from delegates to the district conference in Buffalo New York A U S Savings Bond will be given as a prize The Women's Auxiliary to Local 511 will meet May 7 at the Teamsters Hall
Eighth graders at Story School planned a party for their teacher Evelyn Fiebelkorn after peeking at her desk calendar. The surprise included decorations gifts and a dance program but revealed the date marked was actually for the sister-in-law Evelyn Fiebelkorn of Waterford Wisconsin.
In Washington a New York congressman's daughter, 27, shot herself in a hotel abdomen with a .22 rifle and remained in critical condition. Mrs Williams said the young woman had been in poor spirits under medical care for months and recently married Malcolm Hurn of Utica, an advertising man.
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