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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 22, 1959

Page

11

Kovacs on Music TV Special Promises Star Power and Mystery

Television listings show Kovacs on Music a sixty minute NBC special written directed produced and starring Kovacs with music direction by Andre Previn. Details about guests including Edie Adams and others remain undisclosed. Additional prime time choices include Rawhide incident in the dry drive and Walt Disney Presents Wind in the Willows on ABC.

Bud Evans NBC Kovacs Starr Andre Previn Winie CBS Victor Jory Eric Fleming Clint Eastwood ABC Kenneth Grahame Willows Phil Silvers California Hering House War Ormerly Grove City Uso M-Squad Ballinger Tombstone Territory Desert Clay Hollister Tombstone Nora Sunset Strip Stu

Look, she schroons! A boy names schooner myth and Colombia cableways

A 1713 tale credits a boy who cried Look, she schroons! for the schooner’s name. Separately Colombia’s Andean zone uses 88 miles of aerial cableways to aid transport across rugged terrain.

Colombia South America Andes Mountains

Television Schedule Fragments and Classic Program Listings

A fragmented OCR listing of TV programs with times and titles from various channels and eras. Programs include news weather sports Sitcoms dramas and serials such as The Three Stooges Sky King Rin Tin Tin Rawhide The Lone Ranger The Thin Man and Harbor multiple movie and theatrical showcases with cast names and hosts from multiple blocks.

Hoffa Denies Threat of Nationwide Strike at Longshore Speech

James E. Hoffa, Teamsters president, gestures at a news conference in San Francisco. He denied threatening a nationwide strike in response to proposed restrictive labor laws during a Brownsville Texas convention speech before longshoremen.

James E. Hoffa Teamsters Union Fairmont Hotel San Francisco Calif Brownsville Texas

California Firm Opens Talks to Buy Smith's Transfer

Consolidated Freightways of Menlo Park California proposes to acquire Smith's Transfer and its N T Smith Express as a stock swap pending 90 percent share acceptance and regulatory approvals. The Staunton operation runs 26 terminals with 117 trucks 279 tractors and 470 trailers and employs 1000. The plan keeps Smith's Transfer autonomous with current staff.

Staunton Stock Exchange Consolidated Freightways, Inc Menlo Park Calif Smith Ada Corp J.L.S. Snead, Jr Consolidated R. R. Smith Staunton Company Interstate Commerce Commission Smith’s Transfer N. T. Smith Express Co., Inc Smith Companies Consolidated Freightways

Marconi Initials Believed Wireless Works Over Water

Early belief by Guglielmo Marconi the wireless system would operate only across water. He anticipated signal transmission would require sea distances before proving viable.

Guglielmo Marconi

Chamber Board Approves New Members and Proposals

Winchester Frederick County Chamber of Commerce board approves Eleanor Shop Peggy Weiner David Frye and Shirley White as new members. Proposals include restoring the city tag apple design, public forums, a Winchester Night at a Baltimore ball game, and further storytelling efforts.

Winchester-Frederick County Eleanor Shop N. Loudoun St Peggy Weiner David Frye Income Tax Saver, Inc Glaize Ave Shirley White Winchester Baltimore Phil N. Hunter William Battaile National Affairs Committee Chamber Henry Lowry T' Mery Richmond

Nine Governors Respond to Manassas Reenactment Invitations

Richmond AP reports invitations from Gov J Lindsay Almond Jr to send units for a First Manassas reenactment drew favorable replies from nine state leaders Maine Washington Connecticut Mississippi Alabama Kentucky Arkansas North Carolina and Louisiana. Most noted final participation would depend on successors for the 100th anniversary event set July 21 1961.

Richmond J. Lindsay Almond Jr First Manassas James J. Rector

Tony Curtis Undergoes Heel Surgery

Actor Tony Curtis undergoes surgery in Hollywood to repair a torn Achilles tendon from a tennis game with Kirk Douglas. Doctors say he will wear a leg cast for six weeks.

Hollywood Calif Tony Curtis Kirk Douglas Curtis

Boy rolls empty oil drum 17 miles in record time

Lawrence Kansas AP reports Gene Nau 21 boasted he could roll a 55 gallon drum 17 miles in under half a day. Thursday he accomplished it rolling the drum back to Lawrence in about five hours and twenty minutes.

Lawrence, Kan Gene Nau Lawrence

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