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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1960
Page
4
Rates listed for carrier or motor subscriptions in advance with one year six months and one month options. A line of scripture and reflective text appears, asserting honesty and trustworthiness in all published words.
San Francisco hosts 2000 longevity experts as Congress resumes on medical care for the aged. House bill 381 to 23 would fund federal grants for low income seniors, a Medicare like program. Senate hosts eight rival plans including McNamara proposal expanding coverage. Rising elderly population drives politics and markets.
The meditation notes how space feats dwarf human scale, with rockets racing miles per hour and a satellite surpassing eight million miles from Earth. It contrasts cosmic vastness with Earthly tyranny under communist regimes where individual rights are suppressed, highlighting a grim view of mankind’s place.
The piece argues that despite mass oppression in a communist system human life retains intrinsic worth. It emphasizes dignity as children of God and urges faith and trust in a divine Father amid a vast, impersonal world.
The article notes a $290 million blueprint to expand Washington by adding thirteen federal structures, including a $55 million State Department extension. It cites aims to modernize, house growing federal agencies, and give Washington a major face lift, with decentralization progress limited.
In Chicago a July 29 unrest drew 750 protesters against admitting African Americans to Bessemer Park pool. Two youths were fined 100 and 50 dollars among eight charged with disobeying police. The Tribune buried the report on page 20, illustrating regional press disparity.
Ralph White, winner of the local Soap Box Derby, leaves with his mother to compete in the National Soap Derby at Akron OH. Engagement announced for Colleen Ware to Ashby Dyke. Ensign Beverly Jakimier, a Naval Academy graduate, stationed aboard the USS Juneau.
25 years ago in 1935 Mr and Mrs Garland R Quarles welcomed a daughter. Mrs Quarles previously Miss Nancy Crisman. McKinley Turner returned to Winchester after visiting relatives in Charlottesville. Japan US friction was predicted over a law placing 80 percent of Japan automotive industry under strict government control.
In 1910 Winchester residents approved the local option regime by a 151 vote majority, continuing prohibition on intoxicating liquor sales. The piece notes Colonel Robert E. Lee Jr of Virginia accepting an invitation to address the annual Ex Confederates reunion in Burlington Hampshire County in September and Miss Ethel Warner hosting guest Miss Lena Symons of Gaylord Virginia.
An editorial argues Congress should remain in session until mid October to complete unfinished business cited by President Eisenhower. It urges bipartisan action to enact key measures, record members’ votes, and avoid campaign distractions, proposing a brief campaign period afterward.
Washington AP reports the renewed Senate session will test Lyndon Johnson as the Democratic leader and vice presidential candidate. Kennedy and Johnson face a tight three week schedule plus Eisenhower’s long wish list, while a crowded field of campaign players in the Senate raises partisan scrutiny ahead of November elections.
The Bahamas Islands have been elevated from missionary status to a diocese in the Roman Catholic Church by Pope John XXIII, the apostolic delegate disclosed here.
A short verse by Luther Markin reflects on companionship through hardship and the inevitability of death as a guiding force. The speaker contemplates laughter and tears shared together until death arrives as a patient nurse.
A letter from Evelyn Curl lauds the Junior Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for aiding the SPCA shelter fund with rummage sales movies calendars and brick sales. The group learns proper meeting procedures and contributes profits toward the $30,000 shelter cost with $6,000 already raised and city matching funds planned.
Joe Grapple brings a worried letter from his daughter Doris to a doctor. Doris writes of a happy summer at Camp Birchbark, learning crafts, making gifts, and missing home, with warm remarks about her parents and a loving, sincere tone. The doctor notes the contrast with other letters and tells Joe he is lucky.
A vintage quiz feature explains scoring for a 10 day I Q test with daily outcomes from Memory Genius to Good. It then poses ten questions on topics from history and literature to math and geography with Page 2 for answers. The questions cover days, vice presidents, multiplication, mascots, water content, court voting, Poe, Muscle Shoals, authors, and unit conversion.
The United States told the Soviet Union that threats will not stop arming with ballistic missiles or joint defense measures. Washington accused Moscow of unfounded claims about West Germany’s military aims and rejected Soviet protests against supplying European allies with Polaris missiles. The note blamed Soviet threats for world tensions and contrasted them with West Germany’s freely elected government.
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