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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1949
Page
12
A 1946 Volta study compiled by V M A shows figures on U S residents wearing hearing aids. The source notes approximate totals and highlights the scope of aid adoption in that period.
At the Herman Rudolph farm near Star Tannery 30 members of the Woodstock veterans training class joined to cut and shock six acres of corn. Rudolph, a fellow student, had fallen and broken his leg two weeks earlier and farm work had piled up.
The report shows U.S. forest fires declined by 13 percent in 1948. Officials attribute the drop to improved suppression methods and weather conditions, noting fewer large fires and lower acreage burned across the country.
Three men from Davie report finding an abandoned Everglades village on a high hammock. The site once held about a dozen buildings including a sugar mill with bones scattered among rotted structures and debris.
In Dover Delaware a three judge court admitted the oral confession of 16 year old Robert Brennan over defense objections that it was obtained under duress. The State contends Brennan admitted the shotgun killing of Wade N Wooldridge 67 a carpenter from Stone Mountain Virginia.
A dense list of radio program timings and show titles for multiple networks. Including news broadcasts, sinatra songs, Beulah skits, detective dramas, comedies such as Fibber and Molly, and late night variety segments. Distinct programs feature Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Martin and Lewis, and It Pays to Be Ignorant among others.
Frederick county farmers will soon receive cards asking for acreage of harvested or expected crops. The data, collected by Virginia and United States Department of Agriculture, helps estimate total cropped areas and production for farm planning and marketing. County agent IL. Fred Stine urges prompt completion and return via rural mail carrier.
A scrambled listing shows programs across channels with times and titles such as Kukla Fran and Ollie Roberta Quinlan News Caravan Milton Berle Show Fireside Theater Herson in Person and sports and news segments. The page concludes with a trivia line noting James Buchanan as the only bachelor to become U.S. president.
Plans for November 15 mark the enlarged Washington County Museum of Fine Arts opening in Hagerstown. Two new wings, gifted by Mrs. Anna Brugh Singer, will near completion. Mrs. Singer, a Hagerstown native, arrives November 6 from Olden Norway. The museum earns the distinction of having the world’s most extensive Singer painting collection. Paintings head to Hagerstown after a Memorial Exhibition in Holland next January. The museum was gifted to the county and city in 1931 by Mr and Mrs Singer.
Newton North Carolina September 20 A railroad fireman Herman Bishop 51 of West Asheville died after his passenger train jumped the rails early yesterday Three other railroad men remain in critical condition and about 50 passengers were injured The fireman was buried beneath the diesel locomotive as rescuers freed him from the wreckage at the scene Bishop died at 2 15 a m at Catawba hospital where thirty injured passengers and crewmen are being treated
The Cumberland Valley artists exhibition is held each February at the museum and is open to artists resident in the area bounded by Harrisburg to the north, Winchester to the south, Frederick to the east, and Cumberland to the west, supported by Hagerstown and Washington county taxation.
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