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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1967
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star provides contact numbers for news and advertising and lists subscription rates for in state and out of state readers. Rates include monthly and six month options with price details and a general manager and editors are named.
The piece contrasts now with 1937, noting a move from scarcity to abundance and a credit culture. Debts become social signals, and credit cards symbolize modern affluence. It questions whether easy money comes with a future payment.
The Wall Street Journal, the second largest daily in the U.S., will cost 15 cents per copy in 1968 as rising wages and production costs push prices up. Analysts expect many newspapers to follow by year end.
The American Medical Association shifts the Section on Laryngology Otology and Rhinology to Section on Otorhinolaryngology. Officials say the new title preserves meaning while sounding clearer to lay readers. Critics note the length and complexity remain challenging for non specialists.
The Star Files reports continued Allied pressure on the Russian front near deadlock while American air forces pound a new Japanese airfield and Rommel’s forces are being hotly pursued westward. The Winchester Auxiliary Police mark their first anniversary on December 16 under Captain Herman S. Barr. The Third snowstorm hits with a blizzard, county roads drifted, Sheriff Pannett rides to town and releases his horse. Temperatures stay near zero for a week.
A meditation warns against constant hurry and overactive nerves. It contrasts hurried talk and always-on energy with the need for faith in God and confidence in one’s powers, urging people to slow down and trust there will be time to complete duties.
William S. White argues anti Nixon Republicans face a near midnight in the GOP battle. Nixon holds a commanding lead for the presidential nomination even as governors falter. Romney struggles on Vietnam policy, Rockefeller stakes claim, but Nixon momentum dominates national security and foreign policy credibility.
Wayne Brandstadt M D explains viral hepatitis as a leading communicable disease spread through contaminated water food and hands. The piece notes underdiagnosis, rural prevalence, incubation about 25 days and spread potential via pools, with symptoms liver enlargement fever and fatigue. Recovery relies on rest high protein sugar diet and limited fat.
A quiz plan claims daily scores over ten days classify memory and reasoning as Memory Genius Very Superior Excellent or Good. It includes questions about geography painting language grammar history and military topics with answers on page two.
A Rockefeller Center 65-foot tree was lit and later raised upside down by 100 workers. Children cheer the inverted tree, and global reaction ranges from satire to praise as nations imitate and view the era as a symbol of youthful perspective.
Barbs notes a comment that puppet shows have probably been seen on television by more people in 20 years than in 2000 years of past audiences. The item ends with no comment on the claim.
Henry J. Taylor recalls Cardinal Spellman as a benevolent churchman who stayed rooted as a parish priest. A drizzly evening confession for a U.S. sailor reveals his humility, kindness, and spontaneous care beyond archbishop duties.
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