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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1962
Page
4
News-663-3878 Harry F Byrd Jr editor J D Koontz business manager Jack F Davis executive editor Eugene Miller managing editor
Single Copy Entered at the post office at Winchester Virginia as second class. National Representatives Gallagher DeLissers Inc. 11 East 14th St. Subscription rates listed for one year six months and one month in advance with outside Virginia and West Virginia ad.
Virginia continues the pay-as-you-go highway policy emphasizing user funding. In 1961 the state awarded over 116 million dollars in road contracts, the largest in its history, while other states borrowed for similar programs. Driver taxes fund road mileage with no new debt and a 400 million dollar next biennium budget anticipated.
The Cuban government has refused Red Cross access for over two years, denying medicine food and clothing to political prisoners. The Committee for the Defense of Cuban Political Prisoners accuses jailers of terrorizing inmates, framing Cuban development as a modern variant of totalitarian inhumanity.
The line notes that 1962 is not being hailed as a Year of Decision, suggesting no decisive turning point or manifesto change in public sentiment.
The Star Files recalls 1952 when Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, with many local ties, was named Supreme Allied Naval Commander of all nations in NATO. Master David Reed, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Reed, returned home after a stay in Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Twenty five years ago E. R. Branch was elected president to succeed Samuel C. Brooks. Mr and Mrs J C Oakes hosted their daughter Rosalie a Westhampton College student in Richmond as a guest. Mr and Mrs C Ridgeley White spent several days with Mr and Mrs Frank Hack on South Washington Street.
Fifty years ago M M Lynch a noted attorney and school superintendent fell at his home injuring his left leg as icy streets hindered walking throughout the city. Ella Compton from Atlantic City visited her mother on South Market Street. A horse pulling a Hagerstown Laundry wagon fell at Main and Water Streets but suffered no injuries and was soon righted.
Daily meditation quotes J Edgar Hoover praising law and order while warning against hysteria and extremism. He extols Hoover as a brave, far seeing man whose committed life is needed in a solemn hour of danger.
Art Buchwald imagines 1981 front pages from around the world. Predictions include Soviet US talks on China, a reshuffled Lenin replaced by Pasternak, a free ruble stock page, a Kennedy message to America, and dramatic headlines from Daily Express to Frankfurter Allgemeine.
James Marlow reports a world in churn as Kennedy shifts gears on civil rights and Cold War tensions. Khrushchev, Nehru, and de Gaulle clash with changing alliances while the U2 era sparks reprisals and covert moves. Domestic politics ripple through a Congress of dissension.
Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace for good shall come unto thee. The world seeks reality of God as its greatest need and source of all good. The verse declares God alone as the source of true good and peace.
The piece surveys postwar geopolitics with mentions of Republican self doubt, corporate mergers shrinking competition, China's upheaval and rapid communism, Castro’s paradoxical claims, Khrushchev’s sabre rattling, Molotov’s friction with Stalinists, Albania’s defiance, and the United Arab Republic’s rifts after Syria’s split from Egypt.
Dr Burton H Fern explains causes of bad breath from the lungs nose and throat. He notes tobacco alcohol garlic onions and poor oral care as sources and urges brushing rinsing and medical treatment for infections to stop the odor.
Crackerbarrel style quiz prompts readers to score 100 questions over 10 days with tiered results from Memory Genius to good based on daily correct answer counts. It lists ten sample questions covering chronology, Red Square, Waterloo, Helen of Troy, Naughty Marietta, the smallest hoofed animal, pygmies, a state with four A’s, Stone of Scone, and two Declaration signers who became presidents.
HAL BOYLE surveys TV trends and fears for safety at home noting harsher drinking depictions, subtler violence, and a rise in rudeness. He recalls a moment with his daughter and asks if television is reshaping male behavior and social norms.
The Khartoum government freed ten political prisoners including two ex-premiers. They were held at Juba in southern Sudan since July for criticizing the military regime. The ex-premiers are Ismail El Azbari and Abdalla Khalil, whose government was ousted by Gen Ibraham Abboud in November 1958 and parties were disbanded.
When people are wrong we should seek to learn their view and reasoning. The piece urges stepping back to understand others before action, noting limited options until perspectives are grasped.
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