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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 12

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The Beei
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Danville, Virginia
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12
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7'y Z'j''Z'7 Iu'' 4" The Bee: Danville Va Saturday November 26 1955 1 ADVERTISEMENT WHAT'S NEW AT 'WDVAXjr Th Chrismas season arrived of ficially in Danville riday with a glamorous Christmas parade down holiday bedecked streets The RETAIL MER CHANTS ASSOCIATION and ev ery participating organization de 1 serves a pat on the back for the colorful parade that gave every spectator "the Christmas 8th Annual Penny Pa rade is now underwav backed by the DANVILLE JUNIOR CHAM BER COMMERCE DANVILLE RECREATION DEPARTMNT and DANVILLE POLICE DEPART MENT! The two fold purpose of this yearly drive is to secure funds 3 for the big Community Christmas Party for all children which will be resumed this year and to fi nance Christmas gifts for all un derprivileged children in this city! Once a year we ask you to dig into your pockets for this most worthy project Milk bottles are new being distributed to numerous business establishments by the DANVILLE POLICE on their own time Drop your spare change into thesa or bring your contributions to WDVA Give3 it feels good! One of the greatest GRAND OLE OPRY SHOWS ever to hit this part of the country will be seen Tuesday evening at 8:00 in the WDVA Barn Danville air grounds! On hand will be beauti ful MARTHA CARSON singer of foiks and spiritual songs for Capi 4 tol Records THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN GEORGE Me CORMICK famous MGM Record ing star EARL AND GEORGE reknown for their Mercury discz: and a host of others from the GRAND OLE OPRY! Immedi ately following the show there will be round and square dancing to the music of CLYDE MOODY and i all the BARN DANCE GANG! Sorry tickets will not be sold in advance but you jnay obtain yours as early as 700 Tuesday at the WDVA Barn Admission an unbelievably low $100 Okay youngsters time to get busy and let SANTA CLAUS know just you want for Christmas! When you get that letter written just take it down 7 to and drop it jn the big box see back in the Toy Lepartment or mail that let ter direct to WDVA Then 1 listen In every Saturday morning at 10:00 when SANTA'S helpers NADINE WRIGHT and RALPH HESS will read these letters over the air "Letters to is spon sored by WELCOME BACK: To BILL HOWARD Sports Direc tor who has returned to air duty 1 following a brief sojourn at ME 1 MORIAL HOSPITAL Highway accidents for this area during the first 11 days of 7 intense HIGHWAY SAETY CAMPAIGN are far less than during the same period last year! We can proudly report 13 less accidents $375750 less damage and 1 less injury! Since our last listing WADDILL PRINT ING LITHOGRAPHING COM ANY has joined the 16 local in dustries who each present 38 safety announcements for one day's time! Sincerest thanks to all those co operative industries whose only goal in this campaign is your safety! We particularly like the slogan used on the safety messages of ROWE COMPANY INCOR PORATED designers and manu facturers of monuments "Drive Safely and Live We can CAPTAIN McCAIN of the DAN VILLE POLICE ORCE is in studios each afternoon from 4:00 to 5:00 to answer those questions on highway safety that are mailed in The clarity with which he explains some of these knotty problems would make a New York lawyer jealous The great highway safety drive 2 over WDVA will be climaxed on December 1st with the Nationwide Safe Driving Day Cam paign! or 24 hours straight from midnight Wednesday Novem ber 30 'til midnight Thursday De cember 1st WDVA will remain on the air with a constant barrage of safety reminders! All safety messages and safety programs will be under the sponsorship of SMITH DOUGLAS COMPANY INCORPORATED! CONGRATULATIONS: To CLARENCE HARVILLE on the new NASH for now in the showroom of HARVILLE MOTOR COMPANY! ERNIE HAMLIN and BUCK THOMAS arc holding the official 1 opening of their new OTO MART at the DANVILLE PHOTO IN ISHING COMPANY this weekend! 'Should be a big success with this combined know how! arm wagons for Christmas floats were scarce as hen's teeth this week Thanks to WINIRED and HAROLD TERRY for lending WDVA thi lr wagon for our float which carried a safety theme! A SALUTE: To MRS AUDREY REAGAN who won the $2 CORN I VALLEY Jackpot on Wednesday! I A duplicate prise goes to her gro I cer CAT IDDLE SUPER MAR KET NUMBER The aplrlt of Christmas Ilves Seo that you do Drive safely dvteellr re' WDVA DwrMe Vifimio Arfrsrihn RADIO AND TV PROGRAMS Barry Nelson Holds Wake or TV Show first of to PLAN TO WED Telephone 194 iBgAHKERpi TODAY! AT 12:30 PLUS: COLOR CARTOON NOW VIRGINIA SHOWING 2 BIG HITS IN COLOR RETURNS TO JAIL COLOR CARTOON end SERIAL Cartoon Alto New Color Show Starts STOLEN LOVEIntimate as a secret diary! Allieo A1TISU' nOMCTION fteleit thru UNITED artists Head Of Secret Police Now ull Cabinet Minister Judy Holliday Jack Carson Kim Novak Jack Lemmon irst Casualty Of New Season Ozark Jubilee Lawrence Welk ootball Scoreboard Damon Runyon Late News Big Surprise Perry Como Show Max Liebman Your Hit Parade Your Hit Parade Homecraft Spray Set Movie Black Book News inal Rhythm Roundup avorite Boatride Scoreboard Beat the Clock Stage Show The Honeymooners ootball Scores Mr Wizard Cartoon Comics Salad Tips Melody Boys Sherlock Holmes PNIIEI SHOE'S Immstlsl (letiitl News Weather Sports Local News Sammy Kaye Show Danville Dairy Standby for Music to Vets Air Reserve Virginia Barn Dance THE MOST ABULOUS CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY THE WESTI SANTA MONICA Calif Wedding bells ring today for Ac tress Jacqueline Beer 23 former Miss rance and a runnerup In the 1954 Miss Universe contest Miss Beer and Accountant Jean Antonio Garcia Roady 28 obtain ed a marriage license yesterday They met six months ago Children Under 12 REE Big Picture Disneyland Stars of the Grand Old Opry Beat the Clock Ethel Barrymore Theatre Studio 57 Stage Show HARLAN Ky Green Bailey ields was enjoying the green fields around Harlan Coun ty jail again yesterday Two weeks ago ields and two other prisoners overpowered Jailer Jay Barlow and fled taking a taxicab to nearby Leggett and re turning the keys by the driver Thanksgiving ields return ed voluntarily just in time for Thanksgiving dinner and a foot ball game on the jail's television set Little Theatre of Danville Adults 50c Children 20c LAMING SAGA TRI SAVAGE WEST! INEST THEATRE Telephone 7250 DANVILLE'S NEWEST THEATRE TELEPHONE 1S30 MOQAMIMM STARRING JOANNE DRU JOHN IRELAND BERLIN Communist East Germany today boosted its secret police organization to ministry level The East German cabinet ele vated Ernst Wollweber boss of the secret police to the rank of a full cabinet minister He previously held the title of secretary within th interior ministry The move cleared the way for an expansion of force estimated to already have a strength of more than 100000 The action was reported by the official East German news agency ADN which announced a cabinet reshuffle designed to "strengthen and the government The cabinet decided to create special cabinet commissions to im prove industry and traffic con sumer goods production and agri cultural production "I know replied Barry "There is some that it wasn't meant to last that the spon sor accepted the show somewhat reluctantly "It was a shame because the show did have promise at the first It was brightly written and direct ed Later the original viewpoint was clouded This year we had 10 new writers on the show "That might be ail right on a show like Eve or Lucy where the characters are clearly defined But when you have dif ferent writers working on the char acters we played you end up with only' an outer The demise of the show ended an ironic footnote in TV history At the end of last season Nelson stated publicly that he wanted off the show As it turned out his co star Joan Caulfield made the escape and Nelson remained It was just as well that one of them left since tension had developed between them What are plans now? got some things coming up in TV and a couple of plays to he said look ing for is a medium hit I think I could take another long run I was two and a half years in Moon is on Broadway and another two and a half years in avorite significant that his plans include movies "I think a lot of actors make a mistake in rushing from the stage and TV into he explained "Un less you do something really im portant you caai hurt yourself in the other two WLVA TV Lynchburg Channel SATURDAY 4:15 Star Theatre 6:00 Bill and Mary Reid 6:30 Lucy Show 7:00 Wrestling Workouta 7:30 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 4:00 4:15 4:30 5:00 5:30 Lawrence Welk 6:30 Big Town 7:00 Badge 714 7:30 8:00 9:00 10:30 11:00 Texas Rasslln 11:30 Cinema Playhouse WSJS TV Roanoke Channel 10 SATURDAY ilm eature Joanne Lantz Your College Time ilm eature WBTM RADIO ABC Dial 1330 SATURDAY 4:30 After the Game 5:00 News After the Game 5:50 Meet the olks At 5:55 Tobacco Market Report 6:00 News 6:05 Rhythm and Reason 6:15 Everyday Health Problems 6:30 Serenade in Blue 6:45 to Vets 7:00 News TruUties of Sports 7:15 Guest Star 7:30 As We See It 7:45 This Week in Washington 8:00 News 8:05 Hal's Hayride 9:00 News Hayride 11:00 Turn 12:30 Sign Off the End THE Affair WDBJ TV Channel 7 SATURDAY 5:00 The Big Picture 5:30 Western Playhouse 6:30 7:00 7:15 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 Two for the Money 9:30 It's Always Jan 10:00 Gunsmoke 10:30 eature Movie Church Urged To Give Guidance In Sex Problems RADIO HIGHLIGHTS SATURDAY NOV 26 Ivanina Make Way for ba John lynn mbs Martin Block abc News Comment nbo World Traveler mba Young ebs Washington mbs Commentary mbs 7:00 Juke Box cbe Pop the Question mbs Jack Wyrtzen aba Magic of Music mbs 1:00 News ebs News: Music abc Wheel of Chance mba Country ebs :00 ws ebs News Music abo Hawaii Calls mbs Philadelphia cbe 1:30 Grand Ole nbc Guy Lombardo mbs National Jukebox abo 10:00 mbs News Music abc 10:30 Dance cba News Music abc News al! nets WDVA RADIO Mutual Dial 1130 SATURDAY 5:00 Teenage USA 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:15 7:30 8:00 9:00 Night Train 12:00 News Sign Off EDMUND GRAINGER RORY i SHELLEY GILBERT CALHOUN WINTERS THE TREASURE PANCHO VILLA WTVD TV Winston Channel 12 SATURDAY 4:00 ootbaU Scoreboard 4:15 ilm eature 4:30 The Christophers 5:00 5:05 5:35 5:50 6:00 7:00 7:30 The Big Surprise 8:00 Perry Como Show 9:00 Dearest Enemy 10:30 11:00 11:15 12:30 Arrow INJHEM DUSTJ Among the Edmund Purdom with Linda Christian Ed Tav ern) Gardner Don Taylor Mary Shipp and Vanessa Brown co star on the show Conversation naturally got around to the late It did wonderfully well as a live show (with Barry and Joan Caul field) in its first year so so the second After 13 weeks this year as a filmed show with Nelson and Miss Brown it was cancelled How come? HOLLYWOOD The casualty of the new TV season is avorite and this week Barry Nelson held a wake for it Well it really a wake Barry and his beauteous wife Teresa gave a party at their hill side home to fete the friends they've scarcely had time to see during his two and a Half years with guests: nvvl 2 hits NOW PLAYING AUDIE MURPHY "BADBOY AST ACTION THRILLS "DEATH TIDE" WSLS TV Durham Channel 11 SATURDAY 4:00 Big Picture 4:30 The Christophera 5:00 Saturday Round up 6:00 Scoreboard 6:15 World We Live In 6:30 Duke Medical Town Hall 7:00 Star Tonight 7:30 Dateline Europe 8:00 Perry Como 9:00 Spectacular "Dearest 10:30 Hit Parade 11:00 Country Style 12:00 Late News inal 12:05 WTVD Previews and Sign Off LONDON A Church England publication says the church "is bypassing one of its most imperative if it fails to give Christian guidance on prob lems involving sex The publication a report by the Rev Wylie on the work of the church moral welfare board was issued yesterday It warned that "it is of no use for the church to play in regard to sex The Rev Mr Wylie wrote that it is the care that sex should be rightly used and guided Only the Christian religion can put sex in its proper and God given place and only the Christian religion can provide the grace to live out in practice what it im The report added: and when faith decays its place as the main driving force of conventional so ciety must inevitably be taken by sex for sex is the great natural means of fulfillment of completion and of union for men and Part of the work of the moral welfare board assists clergymen in giving moral guidance parishioners qcn DRIVE IN THEATRE On Route 360 Hwf ONT PROMO ima IT mm lorrinfl SterfingHAYDtH CoteMGRAY WMY TV Channel 2 SATURDAY 4:00 Lassie 4:30 5:00 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 The Honeymooners 9:00 Two for the Money 9:30 Always Jan 10:00 My avorite Husband 11:00 Red Skelton 11:30 Jamboree 12:30 Sports Weather and Newt eWPfPSCOPC KCMMICOLOR Cartoon Novelty Tha Newa JOHN Wayne They called him MO in Color Presents Comedy in 3 Acts Averett College December 1 and 2 8:15 PM SCHOOLIELD OPENS TODAY Worths Thousand MihsOf Roaring nCITEMENTlXH THAT YESTERDAY" GIRL Htw She's funnier Cuter und Mere liveable Than leer! km xA SSfc I ft A UBII Li i I I 11 I mi fl 1 pn 4 51'1! TM z4 LiAahMAfrl rii Adults 35c Kids 10c Balcony 25c TELEPHONE 7 2 5 5 TODAY ONLY pjr YOUR BIGGEST SHOW! JUEjaTL GLENN MILLER X(jj I and hit Orchestra WILTON BERLE 1 LYNN BARI john JOAN DAVIS PAYNE fcU 1 NICHOLAS Bros S0NJA hen ie 2 TOP ATTRACTIONS Open 8:30 A WONDERUL MUSICAL wow 1 starts tomorrow 5 PRISON" with Ida Howard Duff Dana Andraws In "STRANGE LADY IN TOWN" OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoopla lb TM OLD PRE65L)Ee 6AD6E 16 WAY DP Setter Eime him Art EAROL gEOREtHE pOILER eosT Hurry Before me MAP UI6 CAP dash rr all? Why cArtw A MAN OMYMErtTAL ACUMEN DEDUCE WHAT 6ECRET6 AWRRI46EY READ IN THE MlrtD THAT ErtlEMA Me TWI665 LfcEb IH EARTHErt 6EES HIM AGAIN AND THEY ALL pUT KI65 AhiD NOT A WORD 4P0REN a a A 15t anew Ce Yz 'jPL II jr jtry ua MH li KsinlwJ SB H' '11 1zU Car ixa WM HL Gary Cooper Slated To Make Singing Debut Studio ears Disappearance Act HOLLYWOOD Gary Coop er is slaied to make his singing debut Sunday on nationwide tele vision and NBC officials are wor ried for fear he may turn out to be another Mario Lanza Not that singing voice sounds anything like the tenor's Coop and Lanza have something else in common both disappear when supposed to sing Cooper plays a Civil War Quak er in his current movie riendly The part calls for him to sing three songs all written by Dmitri Tiomkin Dmitri and other members of the movie company say sing ing voice is good but the lanky star thinks otherwise He told a friend that it sounds more like hogcalling than singing "Wide Wide show which skips around the country hopes to pick up the movie com pany Sunday afternoon and let the TV audience listen as Coop sings a song that goes like this: "Lead her like a pigeon Bed her like a dove Whisper when thee's near her By my only Coop agreed to the stunt even to posing for a 'photographer while singing ifteen minutes be fore the private audition a studio man confirmed the date with th actor who said he was ready But when time came for Coop to sing he be found any where Although the picture was in production and Director Wil liam Wyler wanted him too Coop er had disappeared Someone said: is not like Gary He's never done this be Someone else said: "He's never sung before An NBC executive commented: scared to sing in person he going to do when he has to sing before I waited around an hour be fore leaving but not without first checking with the cop on the gate He solved the mystery you turned up the drive way towards the sound the cop said "Mr Cooper got in his big foreign car still wearing his Quaker costume and drove off the lot He yelled: 'If anyone asks for me tell call in TO AUCTION GITS HAZARD Ky Gifts from Mamie Eisenhower Vice President Nixon and various movie and tele vision personalities will be auc tioned here riday The gifts were sent at the re quest of a committee for the SL Episcopal Church Christ mas bazaar Some of the stars sending gifts' included Jack Webb Ralph Ed wards Perry Como Dina Shore Walt Disney Jack Benncy Ida Lupino Gene Raymond Kather ine Cornell and Louella Parsons Use something dark something light something dull and some thing bright to make a room in teresting CLOSED ALL DAY EVERY MONDAY 1 CHILDREN'S PLATES 50c TONIGHT THE NEW RANCH Danville's inest Drive In Restaurant Curb Service EATURING TODAY AND SUNDAY AMILY DINNER Appetizer choice of meat or fish two vegetables drink and dessert $125 4 DINING ROOM or CURB SERVICE PHONE 8685 OR TAKE OUT ORDERS WDVA VIRGINIA BARN DANCE Presents CLYDE MOODY i and the WOODCHOPPERS PLUS HACK JOHNSON and his TENNESSEANS Radio Show 8:00 9:00 Sponsored by: Crowell Long Auto Co Barker Hamlin Tire Co ree Bui from ranklin Turnpike Bui Co at 8:00 to Danville airgrounds South Main Produce Adminin $100 ta included dost.

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