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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1965
Page
4
Local rates listed for city carrier and mail delivery in and outside Virginia. The column shows weekly and monthly prices, including six month and one year options, for readers within Virginia and West Virginia as well as outside the state.
A 1965 column contrasts Soviet plans for consumer goods with a stagnant market, notes higher prices and black markets, and mocks shortages. It then examines Britain's credit stance, UK discount rate rise to 7 percent, effects on borrowers and government, and speculates on Bank of England rate cuts amid French withdrawal from SEATO and NATO discussions.
Major W. H. Beardsworth, veteran bandmaster, leads the Apple Blossom Festival parade with the Greenbrier Military School cadet band. Allies resist Germany's Norway move as troops reach the Dombas Storen rail link. Miss Mattie Clark attends State Nurses Association convention in Roanoke. An optimistic Wheat outlook notes global supply except war zones. Miss Brent Holland visits Gainesboro. A runabout owned by Harry Brown caught fire near North Kent Street. fire burned out before firefighters arrived.
President Johnson used a televised press conference to stress the United States desire for peace negotiations to end the Vietnam war. He argued against appeasement, defended bombing of North Vietnamese bridges, and called for international pressure on Red China and the Soviet Union to withdraw guerrilla fighters from South Vietnam.
The piece argues beauty is a social asset but not a guarantee of happiness. It notes many happily married people are not the most beautiful and that handsome men can be vain. It advises gratitude for one’s face and values like cheerful personality, discerning mind, and good character as true sources of happiness.
In Saigon, pedestrians are fair game on sidewalks and streets with curfew hours the only calm. Motorists brush walkers aside to avoid hospital or funeral costs while traffic levels rival a $100,000 handicap race. The social pecking order climbs from cycle rider to government chauffeur as riders cram riders and families into crowded vehicles.
Milan doctor Alessando Beltramini is jailed in Caracas charged with smuggling $300,000 from Rome to fund plotters against Venezuela. The piece traces a hidden global web of gold, banks, and intermediaries linking Moscow, Zurich, Paris, Havana, and Latin American operatives, including Castro's DGI and a Panama contact, Thelma King.
Outdoor shelter measures during storms include staying indoors avoiding beach umbrellas lone trees and high points in groves lie flat in a ditch and avoid metal fences or tall trees. In open water head to shore while grounding boats and indoors avoid electrical appliances and phone calls until the storm ends.
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