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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1952
Page
12
A. C. Halvosa will be speaker at Layman's Day Services on Sunday at 11:15 am at the Methodist Church Middleway West Virginia. His topic will be First Men, Builders of the Kingdom as used by laymen nationwide for the occasion.
The Handley School Art Gallery presents 31 large watercolors from the National Association of Women Artists in a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibit sponsored by the local AAUW chapter. The show runs until October 25 with public hours daily except Sundays 2 to 6 p.m. All works are for sale and education coordinator Miss Katherine Pannill calls it among Handley’s largest art displays.
The term pot boiler stems from Sabberian origins and is likely tied to writers needing to produce work to keep the domestic pot boiling. The exact origin remains conjectural.
A dense list outlines stations CBS ABC and others broadcasting news shows, dramas, comedies, and specials from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. including News Broadcasts, The Jack Smith Show, One Man's Family, Mister Chameleon and more with interspersed weather and public affairs segments.
A compiled listing of daily shows across channels WNEW Channel 4 WTTG Channel 5 WMAL Channel 3 and WTOP Channel 4 including program times such as The Big Payoff Welcome Travelers Kate Smith Hawkins Falls Gabby Hayes Howdy Doody Star Theater Fireside Theater Circle Theater Two For the Money Bob and Ray Bob Considine Dinah Shore News and more with film and news segments noted.
Clarke County judge sentenced Mrs. Jane Bowles Persson and Lacy Pierce to one year in the State penitentiary for burning an automobile to obtain insurance but placed them on two years probation after reports from the probation and parole officer.
Louise Anderson Patten, a veteran stage director, will helm the Little Theatre Group production of Goodbye My Fancy at James Wood School on November 20. Patten, tied to Winchester by local civic work, has a rich background from Emerson College to Paris theater, including work with Sarah Bernhardt and Margaret Anglin. Tickets are available from Little Theatre Group or Quota Club members supporting the Child Welfare Fund.
Virginia arrives in Richmond after three openers with three sharp wins and 119 points. VMI coach Tom Nugent hopes a healthy George Chumbley and improved pass defense help his Keydets score a touchdown or more while Duke waits next.
Petersburg police chief W. E. Traylor reports no traffic fatalities in ten consecutive months. Since the last death in November 1951, traffic accidents total 320 with 10 injuries, compared with 346 accidents, six deaths, and eight injuries in the prior year.
Thomas Kremer chairs a local Oil Progress Week committee joined by P B Wright Clyde F Hartman C P Lowman and others. The article notes the oil industry employs about 2 million workers and has invested billions since World War I with this year’s plan to spend over four billion dollars on exploration refineries pipelines tankers and facilities.
A 19 year old man, Charles Edward Barns of Roxbury, fell from a lumber truck bound for Williamsburg on Route 5 near Jamestown Road. The accident marks the Peninsula area 40th traffic fatality of 1952 and the seventh in the first half of October.
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