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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1969
Page
4
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Harris and Comptroller General Staats warn that project oriented federal grants pull funds from core instruction and inflate department budgets. They urge a review of the entire grant program as colleges face growth, inflation, and financial strain.
Dr Willard F Libby urges a total war style crusade against air and water pollution, arguing piecemeal measures fail. He cites Lake Erie and the Potomac River as examples and says atomic energy could help clean the air. He stresses urgent public demand and citizen involvement to protect future existence.
The Senate Commerce Committee backed steam driven automobiles as a satisfactory alternative to the internal combustion engine and urged more HEW funding for low polluting propulsion research. It criticized the industry for delaying progress while noting electric and steam options already tested in Detroit.
The Frederick County Teachers Association reinstates James C. Gordon as president, Fred Braithwaite as vice president, and Ethel Cooper as secretary-treasurer for a second term. Ma Winchester recalls Apple Blossom Festivals and hopes for more as the war ends. Clean Up Week is set by the Civic League from April 28 to May 3 in Winchester. A 5000 foot feature film Price of Peace shows frontline France battles at Empire Theatre. Delmar Mellwee is elected president of the Girls and Boys Agricultural and Economics Club at Mountain View school house Hayfi.
Earl L. Douglas urges immediate destruction of blight in trees and applies the lesson to personal ethics. He argues that compromise is acceptable only where principle is not at stake and uses biblical imagery to insist on swift removal of wrongdoing.
William S. White argues the administration aims to redefine local bribery as a federal crime and curb Fifth Amendment immunity to informants. He warns the effort could broaden federal prosecuting power into gambling and local corruption while facing Supreme Court resistance.
Washington editorial argues postal rate hikes inflate consumer prices, noting equal postage for domestic letters and long-distance mail harms newspapers. It criticizes higher second class rates, TV and radio ad competition, and added costs from private delivery, rail cuts, and air transport driving inflation in publishing.
In Huntington's chorea purposeless involuntary movements appear with a peculiar gait and it is inherited as a dominant trait with onset often in the thirties or later. no reliable treatment exists. St Vitus dance is a rheumatic-fever complication in children ages five to fifteen, not hereditary, with jerky movements and emotional fits, treat underlying infection promptly. Xylene in paint poses inhalation hazards even if labeled nontoxic. ventilation or outdoor painting prevents symptoms like headache and dizziness. Penicillin helps infections but not asthma, and it may rarely suppress red blood cell production. sulfa drugs can affect red and white cells.
A New York AP column notes driving courses rise from 25 to 50 percent over a decade while traffic deaths increase from 24 to 28 per 100,000. It also highlights USC sex determination tests, dental cement from barnacles, and other trivia quotes.
A quip filled item notes aging men misreading menus and etiquette in eateries. It jokes about mail delays, a bunny club menu, a wallet touching consumer, and ambulance delays, with a nod to general restaurant behavior.
A quiz preview presents ten questions on intelligence testing and general knowledge. It asks about eagle mating, ear uses, fish hearing, Saar borders, Rome’s founders, Sacagawea, Taurus, first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, heliocentric or geocentric models, and ocean depths.
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