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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1967

Page

4

Subscription Rates and Postal Details for Winchester Edition

The notice lists subscription pricing by carriage type and region, including by mail in Virginia and West Virginia. It mentions second class postage paid at Winchester Virginia and provides addresses for Ottinelli and Gallagher Inc. in New York and various rate figures. It includes motor carrier and by mail options with annual and monthly charges and shows distinct figures for local and outside Virginia prices.

Winchester Ottinelli and Gallagher, Inc East 41St St New York N.Y Omemond cc FAS SISO

The Expanding Globe And The Growing Reach Of News

The article notes a world grown smaller in time via rapid news, travel, and communication since World War II. It cites places from the Marshalls to Dakar, Saigon to Hanoi, and Africa to Asia, highlighting how editors interpret this expanding globe through daily front pages and satellite television.

Pearl Harbor Pacific Marshalls Carolines Ryukyu Okinawa Bataan Dakar Africa Recife Brazil Coral Sea Saigon Hanoi Conrad Central Africa Ruanda Nigeria Angola Tanganyika Rhodesia China Asia United States Pound Daily Press

Harbingers Of New Year 1968 Calendars

A reflection on 1968 calendars as cultural artifacts. The piece traces calendar origins from ancient Egypt to modern society, noting calendars free as a blessing and their role in marking days more accurately than primitive notches. It contrasts pyramidal time-keeping with contemporary calendar convenience.

Egypt Treasury Europe U.S Defense Department Korea West Germany Italy Spain England Canada Rio de Janeir Bermuda Garden of Eden

Germans Strafe as Allies Press Buna Bay Relief

Allied air forces bombed a Japanese air field near Buna Bay while repelling a seventh attempt to reinforce trapped garrisons. The Star notes wartime actions as German strafing continues and U S aviation targets Japanese positions.

Buna Bay

Transformation by faith powers lasting personal change

The meditation argues that overcoming weaknesses requires a transformed life rather than patched up habits. It credits religious faith and conversion as the enduring agent of fundamental change, often sparked by crisis or turbulence, with psychiatry offering partial help. Faith makes the transformation possible.

Gold crisis policy cure urged by Henry J. Taylor

Henry J. Taylor argues bold corrective steps are needed to reverse the gold drain. He cites Johnson and Kennedy administrations as failing to take decisive action and calls for marshaling foreign assets, aggressive debt collection, and tapping $2.8 billion in counterpart funds abroad to stabilize the U.S. gold reserve.

Alfred Hitchcock Johnson Kennedy Washington U.S

Virginia Tragedy Sparks Blackout Reflection on Highway Safety

A Blackstone man Randolph Shell died in a 1968 crash after his car hit a utility pole cutting power to Blackstone and 4,000 residents. The piece argues highway deaths rise, urges safer driving, and critiques energy and defense spending amid a broader critique of public policy and national debt.

Blackstone Camp Pickett Virginia Randolph Shell

Preventive measures for hepatitis and common cold transmission

Wayne Brandstadt MD outlines home and community practices to prevent hepatitis infection, emphasizing hand washing with hexachlorophene soap, keeping dirty objects away from mouths, boiling drinking water during floods, and reviewing gamma globulin effectiveness. He also answers questions on cold transmission through droplets or surfaces and treating nocturnal leg cramps with quinine sulfate under medical supervision.

George Kirby the first Negro comic with a microphone

HAL BOYLE profiles George Kirby 16 in Chicago who became a leading Negro comedian on the supper club circuit. He describes early work as a towel puller and porter, wartime service, and ascent to stardom with impersonations, tv ads, and collaborations with legends like Ellington and Horne. He recalls paying tribute to pioneers who opened doors for Black entertainers.

New York George Kirby Chicago Kirby Royal Box George Mimic Europe Philippines Duke Ellington Sophie Tucker Cab Calloway Lena Horne Count Basie Nat King Cole Zazu Pitts Bette Davis Charles Boyer Jimmy Durante Peggy Lee Stepin Fetchit Bill Robinson

Gentleness as Strength in Civic Conduct

The excerpt urges submission to rulers, obedience, readiness for honest work, avoidance of evil speaking, and gentleness toward all. It frames gentleness as divine strength, citing Titus 3 1 2 and Ralph W Sockman on gentleness and real strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

How to Score Memory Genius Test Questions

Based on 100 questions over 10 days the scoring shows daily accuracy categories from Memory Genius to Good. It asks readers to correct sample questions about space, geography, and common knowledge and then directs to page two for core answers.

Corerect Alan B. Shepherd Jr New York U.S

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