Saturday News Briefs From Winchester Area
Local items from the Winchester Evening Star dated January 18 1969. Brief notes cover community happenings and notices in Winchester and surrounding areas.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1969
Page
4
Poverty funds stolen spark calls for OEO housecleaning
The federal Office of Economic Opportunity funded street gangs, including a $927,341 grant to the Blackstone Rangers, in schemes exposed by the Chicago Tribune and Senate investigators. Ghost salaries and forged time sheets showed fraud, with a jail warden warning the program trained kids for organized crime. Calls arise for top-to-bottom personnel purge and new goals for federal poverty aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OEO
Blackstone Rangers
Chicago South Side
Chicago Tribune
Senate
Woodlawn
Office of Economic Opportunity
Quiet but certain: coeducation spreads through elite colleges
The piece notes a quiet yet inexorable shift toward coeducation across prestigious schools once single sex. Institutions such as Yale, Harvard, Brown and Princeton face alumni resistance while adopting forms of coed study, including outright coeducation and coordinate systems, signaling a lasting change in higher education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Geé
Yale
Wesleyan
Vassar
Bennington
Radcliffe
Harvard
Pembroke
Brown
Williams
Trinity
Colgate
Skidmore
Miniskirt Safety Idea Sparks National Debate
Britain reports a study claiming miniskirts make women safer at night on highways due to visibility. The National Safety Council cites contractors using skirted women as flagwomen to grab drivers’ attention. If this trend grows, the miniskirt may be praised as a major safety advance. No one complains, a new twist in safety proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Winchester Memorial Hospital Receives ACS Recognition
The Star Files notes Winchester Memorial Hospital has gained full recognition and approval from the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Charles Bruce Harlowe has published a book titled The Harlow Kelso Genealogy printed by Pifer Printing Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Memorial Hospital
American College of Surgeons
Charles Bruce Harlowe
Pifer Printing Co
City Council Discusses Winchester Tax Rates
At a 1919 meeting, officials noted Winchester taxes are barely rising while the city maintains the state's lowest tax rate and lowest assessment, underscoring their financial frugality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
It’s Not What You Eat It’s What Eats You
A Daily Meditation piece notes that inner troubles envy worry jealousy resentment hate fear and guilt gnaw at us more than physical illness Psychiatrists warn that many sick people are harmed by bitter thoughts We can be as happy as we decide and should question What’s eating at me to stop gnawing and solve our problems
Farewell to Lyndon Johnson a paradoxical president
James Reston reflects on Lyndon Baines Johnson as a strong yet paradoxical leader. He notes Johnson aimed for grand goals from Vietnam to civil reform, overreached, and left a complex legacy. Reston expects future historians to weigh his education efforts and bold policy against public doubt and political cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilmark
Mass
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson
America
Vietnam
Jaws and Judgments Shape How We See Character
Wayne Brandstadt discusses how jaw shape influences people’s judgments of character, noting that square jaws imply toughness while receding chins suggest weakness. He cites media examples, notes genetic limits of jaw development, and encourages readers to question such biases in dental health discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacqueline Onassis
Dick Tracy
Popeye
Yokum
Lawrence
Home Economics In Schools Emphasizes Shopping Over Craft
New York says home economics now teaches girls to shop wisely and save time with convenience foods while still covering basic cooking and sewing. Classes compare methods from blender pancakes to boxed mixes and highlight cost, effort, and practicality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy O'Neil
Nixon plans mark shift to collective presidency style
President elect Nixon limits personal exposure and builds Cabinet to mirror a more corporate administration. He departs from Kennedy Johnson era by balancing strong leadership with shared authority, elevating Cabinet as a constitutional body and avoiding direct attention on minor decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Andy Jackson
United States
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Richard Nixon
Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Kennedy-Johnson
World Almanac Chronicles Wartime Acronyms and Slang
The World Almanac notes how World War II slang like snafu fu and fubar spread. H L Mencken documented forms such as susfu janfu and ee uu reflecting evolving military jargon and language changes during the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Mencken
Army
Navy
Barbs on money and memory and a fisherman's imagination
A witty reflection on budgeting and spending habits. It notes that pin money once funded different things, recalls a past vacation, and questions where funds disappeared. It ends with a thought on fish as brain food and its effect on a fisherman's imagination.
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By Wayne Brandstadt, M.D
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