Winchester Post Office Second Class Matter Notation
A brief line noting the Winchester Virginia post office is designated as second class matter for mailing purposes.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1961
Page
4
A brief line noting the Winchester Virginia post office is designated as second class matter for mailing purposes.
President Kennedy presses for a national decision on a manned moon program with estimates over 25 to 40 billion dollars, while scientists and officials argue feasibility. Separately, a Detroit safety belt push finds drivers resistant but data show meaningful injury reductions and fatalities prevented.
The piece notes children frequently ask questions, and adults may grow impatient. It argues learning by questions drives discovery and progress, citing Columbus as an example of curiosity pushing beyond known boundaries.
By Earl L. Douglas the horizon, astronomers search the skies with their telescopes. They want to know. In thousands of laboratories today men are working hard on ex ac and in the back of their minds are speculative questions which will never be answered. Perhaps they do not need to be answered. But we can be sure that all the questions which need to be answered will be answered. Our great international questions will be answered if we keep on asking them hard enough. Our spiritual questions will be answered not perhaps the way we request that they be answered, but answered after God's.
The Star Files for 1951 report Dr and Mrs Benjamin M Knight announcing the engagement of their daughter Susan Drysdale to Joseph Victor Arthur Jr. The Exchange Club re elected all officers at a luncheon at the George Washington Hotel with Lewis Hyde Jr as president James March as vice president Carl Haines as secretary and Irvine Cather as treasurer.
In 1936 Mr. and Mrs. G W Riley and children traveled through Rocky Mount Bay View and other North Carolina points. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland nominated Gov Alfred M Landon for president and Frank Knox of Illinois for vice president. The Police Department planned strict enforcement of the city sewer connection ordinance.
Fifty years ago in 1911 Major Robert Hunter and his daughter Carrie Hunter attended a wedding in King George county. Horses arrived at the new Remount Station at Front Royal, with 100 plus animals and more expected from Kentucky. Harry St George Tucker of Lexington was discharged from a Washington hospital after eye observation.
An AP analysis compares Kennedy and Eisenhower on work style and decisionmaking. It notes Kennedy’s intensive schedule, reliance on aides, and bold foreign policy steps including Laos cease-fire efforts and the Cuban invasion decision, contrasted with Eisenhower’s more staff-driven approach and Dulles’s hectic travel.
An AP dispatch examines Sino Soviet ties under Khrushchev and Mao, noting risks and shifting alignments. It cites Albania Mongolia and Vietnam as flashpoints and argues China and the Soviet Union act as rivals yet still back the United States against common foes. The piece reflects Cold War uncertainties and expert views from a Moscow-based correspondent.
Dear Doctor column describes TOPS Take Off Pounds Sensibly with weight loss success stories. It notes weekly weigh ins, classifications like TOPS KOPS and Turtles, and guest speakers. includes contact details for TOPS Clubs in Milwaukee and mentions Calories Anonymous meetings in Chicago area YMCAs.
A reading quiz page lists a 10 day scoring method with daily correct rate bands from Memory Genius to Good. It then presents ten multiple choice trivia items with unclear OCR style questions about baseball keystone sack, Benedict, Atomic Energy Commission, necropolis, cranberry quality, Zion National Park, tailless dogs, Babe Ruth’s denomination, phobias, and a Quaker president.
AHAL BOYLE column surveys aging trends 65 plus rising from 8.1 to 15.4 percent over 40 years with a million over 85 and a 920 percent rise since 1920. It adds whimsical facts on longevity gender gaps mortality car ownership bowling, laws, famous quotes, and trivia about whales, hearts, jumps, presidents, caves, elevators, and golf.
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