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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1968
Page
4
Public notice lists subscription prices for city carrier and mail delivery with yearly and short-term options. Rates vary by location Virginia and West Virginia, and include motor carrier services and outside states pricing.
The Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures reports 3,026,376 federal civilian workers in June, up 95,350 in a month. Increases span most agencies, with Transportation and Veterans Affairs notable. Critics say spending emphasis contradicts budget discipline and a large peacetime deficit worsens the administration's record.
Dutch elm disease, first seen in 1921 in the Netherlands and nine years later in the United States, has decimated eastern elms and attacked the Midwest. Researchers fear the species could disappear from the United States without a cure, as transmission occurs via bark beetles and root grafts. Complete isolation and spraying appear the only protections, and survivors may lack the classic vase shape.
Lee Coble chair of the Traffic Committee says the city now runs signals on a 7 am to 11 pm schedule. Braddock and Piccadilly and Braddock and Boscawen stay on a 24 hour cycle. A 옅 dance was held at Hawthorne home in honor of Charles Edward Stuart Jr who leaves soon for Curtiss Bay Maryland to join the Coast Guard. A new compulsory education law now in force requires children aged eight to twelve to attend at least sixteen weeks per session with continuous attendance. Tourists from Pennsylvania were detained for failing to pay toll at the Martinsburg pike gate outside Winchester after claiming no sign indicated a tollgate and it is not in the Automobile Blue Book.
Earl L. Douglas reflects on global fear of the atomic bomb and air pollution while urging trust in honest public officials. He notes past leaders who were fine men and argues that each era faces its own challenges, urging focus on selecting capable leaders without excessive worry.
The March 1947 pivot in Greece launched U.S. interventionism abroad, leading to the Truman Doctrine, NATO, and global security commitments. It notes Greece's later military coup, Western frustrations, and Washington's cautious push toward democracy while maintaining strategic access in the region.
Commentary contrasts a chaotic Chicago convention scene featuring Mayor Daley with a riot of hippies in two downtown parks. The piece argues Daley’s response empowered the protesters, damaged America's image, and signals a political shift away from his era. It closes noting the last U.S. public execution occurred in 1936 and hangs are now rare.
Wayne Brandstadt M D explains compulsive gambling as a neurotic pattern tied to fragile marriages and denial. He urges recognition of loss of control and seeking psychiatric help or Gamblers Anonymous, with future general-interest Q A in the newspaper column.
Pamela R Plater of The Play Garden Boyce writes to The Star defending highway vistas and opposing more billboards. She cites interstate travel routes, gas stations, motels, and signage as enough information for travelers, urging Winchester citizens to support billboard eradication and condemn billboard proliferation on roadsides.
The World Almanac notes the Norman invasion of England in 1066 brought thousands of French words into English. After two World Wars Americans in vaded Europe the favor is being returned as Anglicization supplies words like baby gangster snob fair play drugstore pique nique and more. A professor denounced this trend in a book Do You Speak Frenglish.
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