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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1968
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription rates for city carrier and mail delivery and provides contact numbers for news and advertising. The paper notes staff roles including General Manager and Executive Editor Jack F. Davis and News Editor Eugene P. Miller with Managing Editor Douglas B. O Connell.
The passage discusses alcoholism as a major global health issue affecting work, marriages, and mortality. It notes progress in recognizing alcoholics as ill, contemplates future legal shifts toward treatment, and urges family support to help individuals confront their problem and seek recovery.
The plan reduces active callup time by at least five months and raises draft calls. Preparations include closing Ft. Dix and Ft. Bliss training centers. The Pueblo incident fuels debate on mobilization and political use of manpower in an election year.
MISS FARLEY MASSEY, a junior at Sargent College of Physical Education, Boston University, returns home for the Christmas holidays. City and county schools close early due to illness from colds and influenza. MRS KATE WOODWARD, recently retired from confectionary work, remodeled her store room into a large front parlor on S Loudoun St while continuing the family ice cream business started after the Civil War by her father.
The meditation discusses hunger as a harsh modern reality, noting immense famine in India despite global wealth and science. It contrasts physical hunger with deeper hungers for advancement knowledge and love, arguing society wastes food while people starve and urging understanding and fulfillment of hunger.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP three astronauts will launch Dec 21 aboard a Saturn 5 to travel a quarter of a million miles from Earth and enter lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. Commander Col Frank Borman says the flight will blaze a trail for future astronauts and aid safe lunar landings.
The Supreme Court refused to review the government's power to order ready reserve units to active duty in Vietnam, effectively upholding executive use of armed forces. The piece contrasts constitutional war powers, declarations of war, and longstanding precedents from Korea to Tonkin, noting congressional authorization and advice from government attorneys.
Joy Stilley notes the holiday list grows with oversized gifts from kitchen sets to a 6 foot Tyrannosaurus bone set. Wrapping humor about inflatable companions and nose warmers, featuring quirky mail order items and a playful warning about holiday loneliness.
Practical Q and A on Serax Stelazine Thorazine Valium Tofranil Librium Deprol and Triavis usage. Notes warn many tranquilizers are powerful drugs with possible withdrawal effects, drowsiness, dizziness, and other side effects. Also explains why mixing certain antidepressants and tranquilizers is discouraged and stresses regular doctor visits.
A mixed collection presents a biblical phrase and a literary quip. The first cites John 16 6 about sorrow, while the second offers a paradox on joys as wings and sorrows as burdens, attributed to Jean Paul Richter.
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