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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1968
Page
5
FBI Uniform Crime Reports show serious crime in cities over 100000 rising 17 percent in early 1968 from 1967. Robbery leads with 24 percent growth. murder 16 percent. forcible rape 19. aggravated assault 13. burglary 15. auto theft 17. larceny 19. Also notes gains across suburban and rural areas.
Boston organizers invite all to a health-in on Boston Common with calisthenics classes jogging and karate and a talk by heart specialist Paul Dudley White on the need for fitness as part of battling an epidemic of physical lethargy.
Santa Monica California AP reports municipal employees strike for fifth day causing debris on beaches and street litter. Bus service disrupted with 20 000 riders left without transport as 750 of 1000 workers stay home. Court order limits strikes but unions say enforcement is unclear.
The United States moves to a gold free currency system with only federal reserve notes in circulation. Silver certificates can still be used as money but are valued as collectibles, while gold backing ends freeing $10 billion in gold for defense of the dollar overseas. Assay offices handled thousands of redemptions at $1.29 an ounce. outstanding silver certificates total about $252.2 million.
In Tacoma Washington Donald Whitwell spent four hours fishing then faced $200 in tire damage and towing after hoodlums slashed his station wagon. His $150 outboard motor was stolen and six trout spoiled on the trip.
Sharon and Karen DeHaven from Winchester will perform with the Plum Beach Incident at the Front Royal Youth Center on Saturday at 8 p.m. The sisters, raised in Winchester and raised by their grandparents, attended James Wood High School and modeling school in Washington, D C, while working at Garfinkel's in Seven Corners. They were Calendar Girls for The Star in fall 1965.
A Winchester event launches a state wide "fight litter" drive led by B L Guy of the U S Brewers Assn. and Kenneth C Patton. The plan includes 10 000 retailer litter posters and thousands of decals and bags. Mayors and schools back the effort as Virginia groups partner with Keep Virginia Beautiful.
The dialogue notes no difference between quail and partridge, with regional naming: quail in the north and partridge in the south. It identifies the richest horse race as the $430,600 All American Quarter Horse Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, and notes Saturday is the only weekday named after the Roman god Saturn.
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