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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1969
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star issues a Monday July 21 1969 edition with standard staff and contact details. It lists circulation figures and subscription rates for in state and out of state mail and carrier delivery.
Viewers across the Valley, state, nation, and world watched Neil Armstrong disembark onto the moon at 10 56 p m local time and utter the famed one small step for man. President Nixon offered sobering thoughts about peace on earth and the need for wisdom alongside scientific achievement.
The piece notes how unemployed workers and unfilled positions waste talent when no one knows of the other. It cites computerized job banks in metropolitan areas, starting in Baltimore, with the Labor Department predicting 20 more within a year. It also discusses widespread electronic surveillance, bugging, and a demand for anti interloper security measures.
A meeting to complete organizational plans for Resactivation of Winchester's famed Civil War unit will be held at Clinton Ritter's home in Kernstown. The event aims to restore the historic company and its legacy.
The piece urges keeping eyes raised on dangerous edges be it a cliff or prompted by fear of height. It argues looking down heightens panic while focusing upward steadies the nerve and reduces perceived risk during perilous moments.
James Reston argues the moon program shows how disaster, challenge, and a clear objective rally American leadership and public will. He urges using the 200th anniversary of 1776 to mobilize White House action and community goals by July 1976, turning space success into social and economic progress.
Wayne G. Brandstandt M D outlines guidelines from the National Clearinghouse for Poison Control Centers on common household dangers to children. He covers aerosols, after shave, barbecue fluids, bath products, cigarettes, roach poisons, thermometer mercury, toothpaste, and other everyday items, plus safety measures and a Q A addressing talcum powder and uterine sterility.
The Apollo 11 moon landing is described as television’s greatest spectacular. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. walk on the moon, plant the flag, and share step by step moments with an immense audience. Nixon offers good wishes as the world watches in awe.
A AP analysis argues the space program costs 24 billion dollars but yields broad benefits through NASA spinoffs. Technologies reach production faster, with examples in medicine and industry. Noted gains include a eye controllable sight switch, optimization computer programs, an underwater pinger, and advanced plastics and insulators.
Readers are invited to send questions and comments to Wayne G Brandstadt M D in care of this paper. The doctor cannot answer individual letters but will address general interest in future columns.
A reader quiz outlines 10 daily days scoring. It lists memory expert to good ratings for correct answers and directs turning to page 2 for correct answers. Ten questions cover sports geography biblical figures chemistry wartime nicknames anatomy and narcotic lore.
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