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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1969
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star provides subscription and contact details for readers including telephone numbers, management names, office addresses in New York, and various rate plans. Printed rates cover motor carrier and mail subscriptions with monthly and yearly options for Virginia and West Virginia audiences.
Lawmakers scrutinize the Federal Reserve's record and powers as they seek steadier monetary policy. Critics cite past deflations after 1929 and wartime assisted borrowing, urging caution against overreaction while resisting attempts to assign blame.
The piece argues the top hat is obsolete in modern society noting Nixon wore one only once and modern obstacles like revolving doors and crowded elevators block daily use. It traces historical terms to Lincoln and gaslight eras, suggesting the hat survives only in rare public performances as fashion shifts.
Planning engineers warn cities suffer aging ills while suburban shopping centers and new industries encroach. They argue decay is not fatal and propose that the only real substitute for big cities is bigger cities.
The Star Files notes PVT. B. Beverley Byrd, son of Senator and Mrs. Harry F. Byrd, has arrived safely overseas. Selden G. O’Bryan is re-elected chief of Berryville’s John H. Enders Fire Company, with Roy O. Locke elected secretary-treasurer. Howard Stotler of Double Tollgate buys 265 acres near Gerrardstown, W Va, including 15 acres of orchard, for under $10,000. He reports visiting the Bishop family aged 74, 79, and 81 around an old fireplace where meals were cooked in years past.
A Daily Meditation reflects on the Negro spiritual Were You There and the response of Tagore, noting crucifixion as a universal theme. It links human suffering and loss with divine resurrection, asserting that suffering under God leads to glory and life beyond death.
James Reston weighs whether Richard Nixon rode a streak of luck or earned his success through skill. The piece compares Nixon to Truman Eisenhower and Johnson, noting chance breaks, timing, and key career moments shaping his rise from a newspaper ad to the vice presidency and beyond.
HAL BOYLE argues inflation now terrifies the public more than a hydrogen bomb and notes the stubborn neglect of atomic risk. He muses on social quirks, old cars, and a culture obsessed with appearances, while reflecting on generational shifts and common grievances.
The piece weighs Nixon’s career against Cold War dynamics and a dawning possibility of U S Soviet arms talks. It links Nixon’s persistence and timing to a potential White House moment while noting Soviet openness and domestic pressures shaping defense budgets and policy.
Wayne Brandstadt M D explains that coronary heart disease is preventable if risk factors are avoided early in life. He lists nine risk factors including high blood pressure cholesterol and smoking, notes the more factors present the higher the heart attack risk, and invites general questions for future columns.
A short quiz offers 100 questions over 10 days with scoring tiers from Memory Genius to Good. It lists ten sample questions including cube faces, nursery rhyme, pear cider, trade winds, chess, fencing, Mohammed’s death, mercury, Isle of Man waters, and wood types for campfire coals.
Reporter Jack F. Davis recalls a near four o clock crash on North Loudoun Street where a boy was struck by a car in a likely hit and run that turned out false. Rescue Squad volunteers responded swiftly as a grandmother steadied her grandson through the emergency. The driver explained the incident and police examined skid marks while bystanders dispersed. The piece ends with the author praising the grandmother’s grit and offering her anonymity.
The World Almanac notes the 148 mile river runs from the Berkshires through Connecticut to Long Island Sound with little trade value yet immense cultural importance. It lies near New York and Boston and serves as a recreation and recreation source for many artists and writers.
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