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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1955
Page
3
Daylight saving time prompts a full slate across WRC and WTTG with afternoon baseball at 4, 4:30 and a lineup of features. Evening blocks include The Million Dollar Movie, Wrestling, Harness Racing, and popular series like People Are Funny Mr Peepers and Cummings Show.
A dense, ad hoc listing of daily program lineups across WMAL channel 4 and WTOP channel 9, detailing horse race, variety shows, dramas, news, movies, and religious programs with times from afternoon to late night. Includes titles such as Ozark Jubilee, International Police, Doctor Pope segments, and theater broadcasts.
The listing details WINC broadcast lineup across Saturday Sunday and Monday with music hours news programs religious talks and guest segments including bands such as Henry Jerome Lawrence Wilk and the Hotel Statler Orchestra plus ABC News Weather and discussion programs featuring Paul Harvey George Sokolsky and Winged aviation topics. Also lists specific times for Bible question box faith programs and church services.
A listing of daily programs on ABC from 9:30 morning to 5:45 evening includes Talk Shows News and Weather segments, music programs Betty Crocker segments, Rural Roundup and Band Wagon, Paul Harvey Ted Malone and Matinee Records, with Time slots and program names.
A detailed log of 1960s era broadcasts lists programs across CBS and ABC networks with times ranging from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. including news, drama Gunsmoke, quiz shows, country music, and variety programs. Key entities include John Flynn, Jack Wurtzen, Gunsmoke, Opry, Lombardo, and Chicago Theater among network affiliations CBS and Abe.
Sunday May 1 afternoon into night lists a dense slate of programs across CBS ABC and NBC including Billy Graham News broadcasts Jack Benny Amos and Andy Sherlock Holmes and Meet the Press. Notable guests include Gene Autry Abe Abe N. Y. Philharmonic and Rin Tin Tin with various music dramas and public affairs segments.
About 58 million people live in states with direct access to the Great Lakes and an additional 13 million in states economically linked to them. The five Great Lakes, though smaller in surface area than the Caspian Sea, are the world’s largest freshwater lake system and are visible from the moon, valued for transport, fisheries, and scenery.
Notice of a May 18 1955 meeting at 8:00 P M in Berryville Virginia for lot holders and members to consider amending transforming and recalling capital stock into a non stock non profit structure with voting and inactive memberships and other charter changes per a April 16 1955 board resolution Oscar Ramsburg secretary treasurer of Green Hill Cemetery Company Inc.
Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department sets June 22 for its annual bazaar at the Brakeblok Plant grounds. The event will include an auction refreshments games and pony rides for children. The May meeting endorsed traffic control and active fireman identification resolutions.
Hilda Clark Burner 40 died at home near Whitacre after a year of declining health. Born July 15, 1914 in Frederick County, she was married to Eugene Burner since 1931 and survived by children Paul Alfred Betty James Reva, five sisters and a brother. Funeral arrangements include visitation at the late home and a service at Redland Methodist Church with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. The body rests at Griffin Funeral Home Capon Bridge then moves to the late home Sunday afternoon.
In 1945 the British government turned over to Dwight D. Eisenhower for his lifetime use the top floor of Culzean Castle in southwestern Scotland. The transfer signaled a personal residence arrangement that benefited the future U.S. president during his tenure as Allied commander.
Market report from Front Royal Livestock Market shows hogs veal lambs slaughter cattle and stocker feeder cattle prices. Hogs cutters sows and feeders listed with ranges. veal prime and good. lambs prime and choice. cattle steers heifers cows bulls by grade. stocker feeder cattle values. dairy cows prices.
The Friendship ambulance will be out of service for two weeks while a new motor is installed and the interior equipment is inspected. The vehicle will be repainted in the same red color as the company fire truck.
There are no scholarships in the usual sense. Appointments to the Naval Academy are established by law, but after appointment midshipmen receive pay and a ration allowance sufficient to cover all necessary expenses while at the Academy.
The Frederick County Home Demonstration Agent announces events for May 14 to 21. Activities include Round Hill 4-H, Valley Mill HDC with Mrs. Stotler, Step hens City HDC, Mt Williams HDC with J R Alexander and H A Nelson on insurance and Social Security, Middletown 4-H at school, and a county committee meeting at Northern Virginia Power. Open public meeting noted.
Mrs. Mattie Ogden and son Melvin of Washington dined with Mr. and Mrs. Grafton Ogden for Mother's Day. Numerous relatives and friends from Warrenton Hampton Hyattsville Alexandria Winchester Washington and Miami joined local hosts for gatherings and weekend visits.
The federal government holds about 155 billion in government property in warehouses worldwide, excluding farm products or strategic stockpiles. The armed forces account for nearly 99 percent of goods bought and stocked by the government.
Two Preston County mine workers died when a 10 ton locomotive they operated plunged through a 30 foot trestle near Kingwood West Virginia yesterday. The incident occurred at a local mine and authorities began an investigation into the accident.
The piece argues that if Jesus instituted the Mass at the Last Supper it remains vital for Christians to participate. It contrasts critics who see it as mere ceremony with the belief that Christ commanded the Apostles to repeat the rite in remembrance of him and to express adoration, contrition, and petition.
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