This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1967
Page
4
Publication header lists editorial staff and offices for Winchester Virginia daily paper. Contains pricing by mail rates and station contact numbers. Dated Thursday August 17, 1967 with distribution figures and national representation details.
Twenty five years after World War II Americans visit distant battle sites like Guadalcanal, showing continued remembrance besides famed Western front memorials. The piece contrasts prior war tourism with WWII sites and notes modest monuments and dispersed locales amid overall U.S. debt and consumer credit concerns.
The Soviet press intensifies anti American rhetoric amid celebrations of the 50th anniversary and Svetlana’s defection. Moscow seeks to portray US turmoil as a reason to pull back from Vietnam while pouring funds into North Vietnam. The Kremlin hopes US domestic strife leads to withdrawal.
A two year old boy of Mrs Ada Bolden, missing for twelve hours, was found asleep in a hay field three miles east of Millwood at 2 a.m. He is unharmed. Historic Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs has been chosen as an Army base hospital. Lawrence C Hollis is promoted to major and serves with forces in maneuvers in the South. Hog prices rise to 18 60, a record. Apple Pie Ridge fruit farms suffer hail damage. corn injured. A severe storm, the worst in this area in 25 years, hits the region. Five ships at sea are believed blown up by bombs placed aboard by German agents.
The meditation argues Solomon was one of history’s learned figures who built an empire and wrote proverbs yet ruined his country’s economy with slave labor. His son Rehoboam split the kingdom into the Northern and Southern realms,Judah and Benjamin, leaving a legacy of dissolution and suffering.
The article reports Havana backed guerrilla activity in five Latin American nations with leaders like Stokely Carmichael urging armed contest in the United States. It notes Bolivia as a focal point, outlines regional dangers, and cites Cuba’s influence in Ecuador Haiti and elsewhere. It also includes a Winchester letter urging Ditty Bag support for Vietnam soldiers.
The Senate voted 56 to 26 to deny Export-Import Bank financing to any country trading with North Vietnam. The defeated loan would have funded Fiat's Volga River automobile plant, supplying machine tools and trucks to the USSR for use in North Vietnam. Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. led the amendment, dealing a setback to the Johnson administration and signaling a tougher anti-Soviet stance.
Barbs by Walter C. Parkes ponders sunflowers and bird feeders. The column pokes fun at office staff and jokes about a dilapidated basement with leaks and sagging beams.
An argument proposes shifting the 26 billion dollars used for the Vietnam War into a comprehensive Asia reconstruction program. It calls for a multinational commission to fund development in Vietnam and neighboring nations, with North and South Vietnam disarming and focusing on education, agriculture, and industry. The plan leverages Asian Development Bank gains and a Mekong Delta power project as models, aiming to turn wartime expenditures into a lasting peace across the region.
Wayne Brandstadt, M.D. discusses LSD dangers and potential cures while warning of related hallucinogens like a banana peel hoax and STP. He notes hospital treatment and chlorpromazine as helpful, warns of self-harm risks, and critiques escape through drugs. The piece ends with a quiz on memory and general knowledge.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.