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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1964
Page
4
Advert shows pricing and contact details for the Winchester Evening Star with rates for one month and a general manager listed. Reader notes include postal and circulation information and a national rep address in New York.
The piece cites Soviet patterns where emphasis on heavy industry or consumer goods signals public needs and discontent. It notes Khrushchev's 1960s push on living standards and later agriculture failures, drought, and bureaucratic mismanagement, suggesting future turbulence as officials who made promises retire.
The season tightens as shoppers flood streets and stores with lights and evergreen displays. Clerks endure fatigue while eager crowds browse, wrap, and mail gifts, with last minute tasks piling up.
A Berlin dispatch notes star Douglas Fairbanks died of a heart attack in Hollywood. The bulletin from Helsinki claims Finnish forces halted a large Russian offensive on the eastern front with Russian casualties left on the field as the Bremen steamed home to German waters.
Fifty years ago in 1914 reports said the German cruiser Dresden escaped a British squadron at the Falklands and took refuge in Santa Cruz Argentina where it would be interned till war's end. In Poland fierce hand to hand fighting raged in Lowicz for 14 hours as Germans controlled outskirts of a key railway center. Warsaw faced potential two front assault, signaling German expansion in western and north western Poland.
Earl L. Douglas reflects on Abraham's call from Ur to leave idolatry and follow God to a promised land. The piece links biblical command to later figures like Columbus and American frontiersmen, urging listeners to heed divine guidance in their own lives.
Washington reflection on Graham Wallas of 1864 and 50 years of debate about the Great Society. The piece traces hopes of security and happiness against persistent anxieties about production, wars, depressions, cohesion, and human fulfillment, noting continuity with today’s concerns.
HAL BOYLE surveys a future where automation frees people to work 10 hours or less per week. He argues shorter weeks enrich culture and health, reduce stress, and provide time for study, letters to lawmakers, and reflection, while noting moralists will fret about excess leisure.
Streptococcal vaccines have largely been replaced by antibiotics, especially penicillin. If a household has a rheumatic fever history or a strep carrier, all members should receive penicillin for at least 10 days.
A brief mental test guide offers a 10 day program with daily scores and rating categories from Memory Genius to Good. It lists ten sample questions on topics from sports teams and gambling terms to biblical wood, light speed, military ranks, medical history, naval vessels, human limits, city landmarks, and textile terminology.
The writer refutes a November 30, 1964 Star story about Robert X. Lee’s birth. They note Paul Harvey spread the tale in 1956 and argue records do not support it. They dispute Stratford vs Arlington birthplace, explain Lee’s lineage, and call the tale fictitious while dismissing any miracle-based praise.
Barbs note Southern resorts portray a perpetual Sunday atmosphere as local kids witness a movie theater sign labeled Adults only. The piece pokes at male behavior and shared shopping roles while a father’s curse slips from a roller skate mishap.
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