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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1968
Page
14
In the December 14 1968 Winchester Evening Star Heloise shares ideas from readers and herself on packing pies in margarine containers, lining chairs with terry cloth tablecloths, emergency phone dimes, nylon stocking repairs, lemon fudge flavoring, coloring bulbs, and durable cemetery bows.
Design agricultural machinery from concept to production for fruit and vegetable packinghouse equipment. Requires BS in age or ME or equivalent experience. Senior draftsmen with proven design ability considered. Based in Shenandoah County Virginia. Send letter of interest to P O Box 448 Woodstock VA 22664. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Chicago AP reports Flat Nose, a 20 year old cat, died leaving owner William J. Fields about 15000 dollars richer. Fields plans a Monday funeral and will keep the money in his bank until needed as he has few friends and no imminent plans to die. The cats were left to Fields by Mrs. Margaret Montgomery in 1960 and buried in the building yard after a long life of companionship.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, famed pediatrician and antiwar leader, is honored with the Thomas Paine Award by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee at a 177th Bill of Rights anniversary dinner. About 1,700 attend at the Hotel Americana as a citation lauds his defense of human rights and common sense.
Lincoln Nebraska AP Clif ford M Hardin the University of Nebraska chancellor and future secretary of agriculture plans a month long cram course on agriculture problems. He will visit farm groups meet with Ag department officials and discuss programs. He seeks a one year leave to decide if he will stay as acting chancellor Merkur Hobson named acting leader.
The Virginia Department of Highways will readvertise two Frederick County projects after unsatisfactory bids. One covers extending Rt 7 as a divided highway 3.15 miles east of the county line near Winchester Berryville, the other adds an information center along I 81 with a parking lot and rest area four miles south of the West Virginia line. Bids will be reissued separately for parking and for building water and sewer systems.
Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown will become president of California Institute of Technology, succeeding Lee A. DuBridge who leaves to join President-elect Nixon's science advisory team. Brown, 41, has led defense research and engineering since 1961 after a UC Berkeley Radiation Laboratory career.
The article highlights youths in Winchester improving FM reception with high gain antennas and Jeanne Hammer’s amateur carbon dating of artifacts using charcoal and bone. Miss Carson notes the lab work was done quickly to avoid contamination and that the local archaeological society may use the results, illustrating youthful scientific initiative and potential future benefits.
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