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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1965
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star reports daily circulation surpassing 55,000 with editions seven days but Sunday excluded. Editorial staff led by Eugene P. Miller and Jack F. Davis note subscription levels and carrier distribution details.
A 1965 column denounces President Johnson's voting rights bill as a bid to win the Negro vote by federalizing registration in seven Southern states. It argues illiterates will be registered and lists alleged past discrimination in Virginia, Chicago, and New York while portraying the move as anti Southern. The piece questions Johnson's motives and warns of federal agents controlling state elections.
A discussion notes that voting qualifications are described in five constitutional places including Article I Fifteenth Amendment Seventeenth Nineteenth and Twenty Fourth Amendment. It discusses the impact of these provisions on modern voting rights and the federal role in enforcement.
The column explains senile keratoses are common on exposed skin in people over 50, usually harmless and not requiring treatment unless a lesion changes to a crusted ulcer. Soft flesh-colored moles are typically harmless unless irritated, may be removed if inflamed.
A humorous column by Walter Parkes features light quips about doctors prescribing exercise, a golfer distracted by ducks on the green failing to birdie, and a joke about Dad buying top soil not being dirt cheap. The tone stays playful with everyday foibles.
Daily questions rate you by score thresholds from memory genius to good. Page 2 provides the correct answers. Questions cover state nicknames biblical trades Near Far East tailess breeds and more with a mix of general knowledge and history.
The quote notes President Johnson surpassing Franklin D Roosevelt's early legislative record and mocks him for pursuing an abolition of the Republican Party, while seeming conservative in rhetoric but radical in action. The remark highlights political theater surrounding Johnson and Roosevelt.
The Star Files notes a birthday party and weiner roast for Miss Mae Ritter with Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Ritter hosting. Eva and Marie Bledsoe from East Cork street vacationing with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Gardner at Tall Chester Beach and Baltimore. Carlton Hawkins hosted Fred Baldauf of Binghampton. A French air squadron bombarded Saarbruck stations, while Rome claimed Austrian gains and Paris claimed Congo advances and French inroads into German territory.
A meditation on self control and the costs of indulgence. Indulgence in anger worry or alcohol leaves headache or heartache and harms the doer as well as others. The piece urges restraint to avoid bitterness envy and curses echoing back to the user.
Excerpt quotes J Edgar Hoover criticizing lenient courts and excessive protection of suspects. He urges tougher sentences, tougher handling of teen offenders, stricter gun controls, and lowering juvenile age to 16 for violent crimes, arguing to protect public from crime and restore respect for law.
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