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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1965
Page
1
Saigon officials predicted that if the Vietnam conflict persists, military activity will intensify in 1966. The forecast came as U.S. strength in South Vietnam rose to 181,000, with thousands more expected in the new year.
The Selective Service Agency weighs reviving Korean War deferment standards for college students to curb exemptions. About 2.2 million students hold deferments. officials say rewarding marginal students is unlikely. Draft meetings start Jan 9 in Georgia, Jan 19 in Washington, and Feb 7 in San Diego to discuss increasing inductions. The article also notes Viet Nam war casualties and enemy strength as 1965 ends.
The article notes a weekend full of football as Texas Tech faces Georgia Tech in the Gator Bowl starting today at 2 p.m. It highlights a spring-like mood in Mrs. Albert Taylor's Baker Street yard where snapdragons bloom despite a cold snap. many other plants died in the 14 degree freeze.
The city will collect Christmas trees only when placed on the curb with regular garbage in an open truck pickup from Monday January 3rd onward. Residents are advised to place trees at curbside as part of regular garbage collection.
A past necessity has become a white elephant on the Valley scene as grist mills along the riverbanks dwindle. One mill lies in the path of a new highway slated for graveled burial. others decay from neglect and time, with references to Old Mills in Valley Week.
Four of six city councilmen with terms expiring September 1 plan to run again H W Butler Jr Stewart Bell Jr Charles Dorton and Ralph Hardy. Eugene Dearing will not seek re election joining George Garber undecided Garber may run as independent. Democratic primary is April 5 with filing closing next Wednesday and general election June 14.
After four days of intensive bargaining 4200 workers at the Olin Mathieson gunpowder plant in East Alton Illinois reached a tentative agreement to resume powder stocks for rifles tracer bullets and 20mm shells. The unions prompted the restart with mediation support while Pentagon officials said no ammunition shortage in Vietnam has occurred.
January 1 holiday affects services. No garbage collection or bus operation on Saturday. Garbage for Saturday January 1 will be collected Wednesday January 3.
The Star will not publish tomorrow New Year's Day a national holiday.
Unseasonably warm conditions mark the close of 1965 as area residents plan Watch Night services and New Year revelries. Downtown stores close early amid a cloudy, rainy forecast with mild temperatures tonight and cooler, unsettled weather Sunday into next week.
The AP report says Communist forces attacked a U.S. enlisted men's barracks while a major New Year offensive loomed at a provincial capital. Polish diplomat Anatol Slavinski defected in Saigon seeking asylum, triggering a tense Bengali exchange as other Polish diplomats followed.
Bethlehem Steel Co, the nation s second largest producer, announced a five dollar per ton price rise in structural steel shapes and piling effective with shipments on Saturday. VP E B Bickford cited growing industry acceptance of lightweight higher strength steel and Bethlehem plans a revision downward in other structural sections. The firm will broaden its lightweight steel sections to lower construction costs and they are available immediately.
Lana Elaine Burnette 21 told a Warren County Circuit Court jury William Cody Smith threatened to kill her. The 13 hour trial heard 22 witnesses with the verdict reached at 11 p.m. Burnette testified the infant child belonged to Smith and that he was jealous and abusive. She said she feared returning home after staying with her parents Oct 23.
The Winchester area endures its third straight drought year in 1965 with 26.85 inches of rainfall at the Fruit Research Laboratory, far below the 52 year average of 36.75 inches. Dry conditions stress wells, cisterns, and fruit trees as November and December totals remain exceptionally low and March proves the wettest month.
Goldberg travels to Paris for peace talks seen as a test of North Viet Nam readiness for a true settlement. Vu Van Thai, South Viet Nam's ambassador to the United States, says the effort is sincere and not an ultimatum for surrender.
Arthur Goldberg the President's special envoy met with President Charles de Gaulle in Paris and stated the Vietnam conflict can be settled only at the conference table and without prior conditions. De Gaulle voiced his own view which Goldberg said he would report to President Johnson.
W Averell Harriman met Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki and Polish Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka at Brdo castle near Ljubljana and planned talks with Tito. Arthur Goldberg argued U S aims with France and Pope Paul VI while in Paris and Rome. De Gaulle urged neutrality for Indochina as Harriman prepared to return to the United States.
A broad warm air current over the eastern half of the country will push Virginia temperatures higher today than Thursday. Highs reached the 60s across most of the state yesterday.
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