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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1955
Page
6
Washington government announces release of a map showing areas richest in uranium ore. For 50 cents, prospectors can purchase the map from government channels as Interior Secretary McKay makes it available to the public.
Lou Ann Simms wife of Loring Buzzell and a 23 year old performer on the Arthur Godfrey show welcomed her first child yesterday a girl named Cynthia Lee weighing seven pounds seven ounces The event took place in New York City with medical staff reports confirming the birth.
An article by John Robert Powers offers steps to improve leg shape for young teens. It promotes walking two miles daily or an hour on a bicycle, warns that daily effort matters, and recommends medium heels for shaping legs. It also advises posture correction, weight loss if overweight, and to request a booklet titled How Much Should You Weigh.
Local Winchester store promotes back to school necessities with complete stock and great values across school supplies notebooks backpacks and uniforms. Shoppers can find durable essentials at affordable prices during the promotion.
A roundup of TV programs and events including All-Star Theater with Louis Hayward and Rex Harrison, film entries Long Dark Hall and Prairie Schooners, news with John Daly, sports segments, Reader's Digest features, and Studio One The Pit among other items and hosts.
The Winchester Ground Observer Corps met at the George Washington Hotel to discuss expanding to a 24 hour observer post. A. Knowles presided with S/Sgt John T. Sinclair present, and plans included recruiting volunteer students from Handley High School with Robert Barney named to aid.
New York consultant Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith envisions a future where television symposia connect hospitals across the globe to form a superclinic. Televising rare disease cases could marshal experts from New Orleans to Singapore within seconds for rapid medical advice.
Harrisburg police seek a man observed with an unusual footwear claim, after a prowler dropped a shoe and fled on foot as officers approached following a break in. Chief Robert J. Heim noted the incident details.
A 1930s etiquette Q and A outlines dining courtesy with a young man. It covers who helps a guest on leaving, how to signal plate removal with a fork and knife, and whether a married woman should sign gifts to a bride with her husband’s name.
The piece notes the high lonely mood of High Lonesome in southern New Mexico. Operators of the bar and store acknowledge the place’s isolation and its name’s legend, stating the setting can feel especially desolate at times and also quite high.
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