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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1969
Page
5
Washington reports that the Nixon administration asserts broad new powers to use wiretaps against groups and individuals believed to foment violence without court approval in domestic cases. The Justice Department cites wiretaps as legal under presidential authority to gather intelligence and protect national security.
William P. Bland, age 96, became a rarity in insurance by collecting the policy’s face value. The contract, issued March 1873, matured under later mortality tables moved maturity to age 100.
Ace Brookes promotes a 1969 Needlecraft Catalog with over 200 designs for home sewing and embroidery. Patterns 7435 feature six 41 percent by 8 inch motifs priced 50 cents each with 15 cent mailing, offered via Alice Brooks at the Winchester Evening Star Needle Craft Dept. Box 163 Old Chelsea Station NY 10011.
Readers share small kitchen tips and home hacks. Aunt Jeri suggests saving plain spaghetti to scour sauce pans and mix into sauces for cleaner pans and easier cleanup. Other tips include planter fireplaces, gift treasure hunts, homemade greeting cards, and hot car steering wheel pot holders.
Newsmen hear candidates including Lt. Gov. Pollard and Sen. Howell in Blacksburg as Siam Battle promotes community mental health centers, expanded staff training, and separation of geriatric patients from the mentally ill. A third debate follows at Abingdon dinner amid sharp exchanges over experience and polling costs.
James Earl Stokes 22 of Newport News was arrested by the FBI in South Carolina for the $28,000 Pembroke Avenue bank robbery on March 26. He joins Ivan O. McCoy who pleaded guilty and Herman Lee McCray awaiting trial. all suspects, three or four men, tied up four employees and escaped with cash.
A 30-year-old Denver man told police he was battered on the head by a woman acquaintance. Police questioned the woman and confiscated her spike-heeled shoes as evidence.
Tricia Nixon says the President will get a unique Father’s Day gift from the family, pooled imagination and funds, for the new San Clemente house. It is described as unusual and something he has never had before.
A description notes that Grand Canyon National Park contains about 300 miles of canyon corridors. The figure emphasizes the park’s expansive geological features and visitor landscape.
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