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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1966
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription options with motor carriage and annual pricing. Rates show one month at 1.10 dollars and one year at 13.00 dollars, reflecting standard local pricing. The note cites Gallagher-Delisser, Inc. as advertising representatives.
The article argues that U S food aid, totaling 17 billion dollars, often reaches recipients like India on giveaway terms. It criticizes past aid for lacking strings, noting stockpiles dwindling, severe shortages in India, and limited long term relief. It contends reconstruction requirements could reform aid and curb dependence.
In Moscow literary circles Baeret Sinyavsky and Yull Daniel face trial for publishing under pseudonyms. Izvestia condemns them as renegades while limited Western protest offers a chance to avoid prison as with Pasternak.
President Roosevelt nominates former New Hampshire governor John G. Winant as ambassador to Great Britain succeeding Joseph P. Kennedy. Italian forces retreat as Mussolini’s North Africa campaign weakens with fascist columns pulling back toward east Libyan front. Evy Tucker Shields engagement to Dr MacClellan Fellows announced in Shanghai. Clarke County Lions Club elects C. Funkhouser as first president. Frederick County to receive back state aid funds under Byrd Steck pact. Marvin Smithey buys stock in News-Record Publishing Co.. Showalter leaves for National Geographic editor post.
The piece urges learning basic English grammar for clear speech. It argues correct grammar and pronunciation project culture, with examples like avoiding double negatives and aligning subject, verb, and object. It claims anyone can master proper talk in a few years without high education.
An editorial argues English is essential amid technology and mass communication. It cites experts like Conant Drucker Keppel and Squire, notes English’s central role in thinking and cultural transmission, and suggests improved instruction through more writing, note-taking, and research.
Henry J. Taylor argues the public lacks full truth about Vietnam. He criticizes Defense Department reporting, cites low casualty counts and evasive ratios, and accuses officials of deception. He urges transparent, accountable information to sustain national resolve.
HAL BOYLE argues Americans lack patience and pride to excel in pickpocketing and other pursuits noting paradoxes in culture. He jokes that truth to lawyers exceeds truth to ministers and cites quirks from medicine color trends to social conformance at cocktail parties.
The column comments on winter’s grip as store windows showcase spring styles and warns in playful fashion that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Wayne Brandstadt M D advises parents to teach children to recognize dangerous speeds on sleds and to brake by dragging feet or steering into a snow bank. He warns against hitching sleds to vehicles and notes dangers from icy surfaces and traffic. He suggests rope-off streets in daylight and avoiding coasting on icy runs.
A vintage quiz feature lists 10 daily questions with scoring bands from Memory Genius to Good. It asks about a two family arts house, the capital of Iraq, Castel Gandolfo’s resident, iron symbol, a famous fable author, where Thomas A Edison was born, Muscle Shoals state, the nursery rhyme character, 1999 House GOP leader Charles Halleck, and U.S. states starting with New.
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