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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1968
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star dated Friday December 6 1968 reports local news and notices for Winchester Virginia with staff names and contact numbers. It lists subscription rates and sections for advertising and news management. The paper serves over 55 000 telephones and is published daily except Sunday.
Venice Florida hosts Ringling Bros clown school with room for 80 of 300 plus applicants in the first six week session. Enrollees include a California teacher a Tennessee hippie and a Michigan airman. Graduate clowns expect about 150 dollars weekly.
London resident Helen Cathcart aged 71 calls herself a real hellcat after a handbag snatching attempt. The attacker, aged 48, appeared in court with facial injuries and broken eyeglasses. Cathcart apologizes for breaking his spectacles and jokes about potential US travel.
Mrs B B Dutton congratulates Miss Evelyn Driver of Boyce upon her enlistment in the Women Army Corps. Dr E D Clark has been named president of the Winchester Ministerial Association.
In 1918 the Shenandoah Valley Apple Cider and Vinegar Co. suffered a major fire damaging its new plant and causing about $75,000 in losses. Local honey crop buyers are ready with demand as honey sells for 15 to 16 cents per cap, with caps weighing about a pound.
The piece reflects on Joseph as a storied dreamer and notes that dreamers shape history good and evil. It urges personal dreaming for a better future including peace and medical progress, arguing that dreams propel action and extend the mind beyond barriers.
Russell Baker argues that the favored idea of a golden yesterday is a widespread delusion used to criticize the present. He notes varying back-to-the-past yearnings, from desegregation to prewar eras, and explains childhood as a grim, restrictive period people romanticize only in memory.
Life today centers on a quest for identity as people ask are you really you. A light test suggests first asking what you are animal mineral vegetable or human and includes questions about perception, safety, honesty, and morality to reveal whether one is too normal to be inhuman.
The author muses on reviving vintage cars and early 1950s flavors while mocking nostalgia for pre desegregation times. They mock Cold War fears and call out past hardships from the 19th to 20th centuries, noting dangerous trends and social ills, ending with a bleak reflection on modern dissatisfaction.
Column offers safe use of 10 percent silver protein with cautions on skin deposits and four month age limit. Discusses causes of chronic sinusitis from dry air smog smoke and allergy plus need for specialist care. Also addresses intermittent claudication misattribution and tobacco cessation and vitamin therapy.
An old quiz asks ten questions covering unions dues channels and history. It rates memory genius to good based on correct answers and directs turning to page 2 for solutions. It includes true false, geography, UN charter, and invention order queries.
Henry J. Taylor argues the new Nixon administration should sell off surplus government land, focusing on Defense Department holdings and vast parcels nationwide. He cites high land values, government land hoarding, and projected deficits, urging swift action to recover taxpayer money.
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