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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists staff roles and contact numbers including General Manager and Executive Editor Jack F. Davis and News Editor Eugene P. Miller. It provides subscription rates for city, in state, and out of state, plus mailing details and publication notes.
The piece discusses rising U.S. and Soviet pressure in the Middle East over Israeli Arab tensions and Palestinian refugees. It notes Scranton’s mission to Israel and Arab states advocating a balanced stance, warns against expansionist narratives, and highlights oil interests and the unresolved refugee crisis under UN aid.
A Whitney Museum show in New York surveys contemporary sculpture by 137 artists with works that move light or sound. Notable pieces include a 24 by 15 foot structure with 10 foot beams and a floor Earth sculpture. The piece recalls a European living sculpture from about a year earlier.
The Star Files reports nine players and the team manager of Stonewall sixeman football received letters: Robert Driver, Alson Smith, Howard Carper, Robert Gibbs, Harold Dawson, William Castleman, Alfred Armel, Briggs Everson and Wayne DeHaven, who also acts as manager. John C. Cather and George Branner bought registered Shorthorn cattle at Dr Crickenburger's sale near New Market. Plans are being perfected for a farmers institute in Winchester.
Daily Meditation by Earl L. Douglas reflects on the 586 B.C. exile of the Jews, noting their sin as cause, and describes how exile led to humility, language shift to Aramaic, and renewed national life under God. It contrasts the fate of the Northern Kingdom with the Southern Kingdom’s return to service.
Henry J. Adams recalls Istanbul holidays and Christian and Muslim customs, notes Soviet Christmas absence with Lenin balloon, and praises Winchester Volunteer Fire Department for aiding Schrafft's factory fire response delaying only two hours of production.
AP reports a British medical study found babies of smoking mothers weigh six ounces less on average than those of nonsmokers. If mothers quit early in pregnancy, babies tend to be normal weight. The piece also shares various light observations and quotes on health and daily life.
Analysis of official 1968 results shows Nixon with 302 electoral votes, Humphrey 191, Wallace 45, highlighting plurality versus majority outcomes. The piece advocates congressional district units and presidential primary reforms to curb three way race distortions and suggests districting plus nationwide presidential-preference primaries.
Florida citrus trees show defoliation rarely as blossoms fruit and green leaves appear together. The unusual synchronization highlights a perpetual renewal cycle in groves across the state.
Wayne Brandstadt M D urges protective equipment for hockey players and outlines mouth guards face masks chest and shoulder protection shin and elbow guards padded pants hip guard genital protection and heavy gloves. He stresses conditioning and a basic concussion check plus medical evaluation after injury and invites readers to send questions for future columns.
A fragment lists ten trivia prompts covering grammar, biology, geography, canine classification, botany, and history. It asks about the assertion in a sentence, heartbeat frequency, Doberman dog class, cashew growth, Argentina’s coast, Morocco’s adjacent topographical features, Roentgen’s discovery, a movie title completion, soiree usage, and bee young terms.
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