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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1969
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists contact numbers for News and Advertising and provides staff roles including Jack F. Davis as General Manager and Executive Editor Eugene P. Miller as News Editor and Douglas B. O Connell as Managing Editor. Subscription rates are shown for VA and WV residents with annual and six month options.
Rising costs of home ownership push a housing market metamorphosis. Mobile home sales rose to 316000 last year while apartment starts reached 608000. Single family starts fell from 1,066000 in January to 785000 in April.
Space adventurers show adaptability for two weeks but the first U S physician in space warns there is still much to learn about medical problems on long missions. Commander Joseph P Kerwan mentions artificial gravity could help counter weightlessness. He warns an unprepared astronaut might return as a 98 pound weakling. NASA plans longer orbital flights with a physician aboard for repeated tests before any manned flight to Mars.
James A. Perkins asks Cornell's board of trustees to begin search for his replacement following the armed campus occupation. A professor called Perkins a weather vane amid campus politics as faculty divisions deepen, with guns banned only after student gun use became front page news.
The Star Files An Original War Bond Poster by Miss Dorothy Hawthorne is used to promote the 5th War Loan drive in Winchester and Frederick County. The article notes local civic activity and connections to war effort leaders and residents.
A meditation on Jesus teaching that the kingdom of God is an inner state of spiritual power. It contrasts worldly calls for a new social order with Jesus saying the kingdom of heaven is within you and comes from surrender to God.
Washington dispatch outlines how the Nixon administration seeks to blunt punitive college riot legislation. Robert Finch, HEW secretary, leads a cautious middle road to avoid sweeping cuts while balancing integration goals and Southern politics amid a tense race issue.
Henry J. Taylor reports on Jeno Fock's Vienna visit as a failed bridge to the West. He describes secret police, executions, and pressure on Hungarian refugees, while noting U.S. embassies suffer surveillance and staff harassment under communism and graft helping red regimes.
HAL BOYLE notes how home life, not the office, can be more stressful with wives using tranquilizers, families with children spending less or more on education, litterbugs among young men, and quirks from popular culture. The piece mixes social observation with trivia on ice, popcorn, and psychology.
A physician notes most children recover fully from acute nephritis with bed rest and a low protein salt poor diet and stresses prompt antibiotic or sulfa therapy to prevent recurrence. He answers questions on ear wax removal with mineral oil and on congenital hypospadias surgery, detailing treatment expectations and outcomes.
The page lists a ten day IQ test scoring guide with daily results and top categories Memory Expert Very Superior Excellent Good. It includes ten sample questions covering music history color mixing wedding timelines cherry blossoms U S capitals beef cuts grammar and common sense.
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