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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1972
Page
3
The piece notes a foreign trade angle from a presidential trip as snow plow demand emerges in China. It mocks Chinese winter tools and tech stereotypes, observing sweepers with twig-like brooms and Mao-like uniforms. It questions the scope of Chinese industry and hints at medical technique myths.
A reflective column questions why business faces political attack while stressing its role as the economic base. It likens patience with errors to the saying Let er go Gallagher and ponders who the Gallagher of the proverb was and whether anyone knows.
The writer defends Virginia politicians amid jokes about public life. He says office holders risk money, endure long hours, and face cramped desks. He concludes they pursue better conditions for Virginians and notes the state's government is historically clean and conscientious.
Ebullient Sen. Hubert Humphrey in Florida shows a leaner, sharper 1972 campaign. He aims to finish among Wallace and Muskie, leveraging space program support and retiree backing while courting Jewish voters in Miami and countering Lindsay TV blitzes with open mike broadcasts.
Karen Lee Kline was chosen Honorary Fire Chief of the Friendship Fire Co. for the Apple Blossom Festival parade on May 3. Members of the South End Fire Company plan to buy a 1962 Seagrave pumper with 1000 gpm capacity and a 500 gallon booster tank amidst 1962 news from the Shenandoah Valley.
A meditation on the symbolic Round Table as a modern conference symbol. It compares medieval myth to present governance, warns of nuclear threat, cites noon sirens and world hunger, and urges unity over war while celebrating the era's comforts.
Governor Bill Waller seeks a racially mixed Mississippi delegation to Miami Beach, reconciling the Regular white faction with Loyalist black leaders. He aims to seat a unified slate at the July convention, hoping to maintain Mississippi's seven electoral votes for a Democratic nominee. State and national figures weigh the feasibility amid prior seating fights and party rules.
AP summary notes 30 American astronauts have flown in space for a total of 7,704 hours 51 minutes about 46 weeks. The column also touches aspirin’s effect on bleeding time and quotes Dickens Jefferson Morley and Jefferson on duty and language use.
In a Waterford Loudoun County letter to The Star residents thank the Winchester unit of the National Guard for February 21 and 22 aid during snowbound conditions. They credit Charles Lillis Norman Stickley William Stickley John Hoover and Jim Carwile with arranging and performing many helpful services that restored electricity and snow removal support.
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