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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1968
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows pricing lines for a City Carrier service with amounts like 10.00 and 5.50 and references to monthly and yearly terms. Personnel names or clear entities are not provided. The text also includes garbled segments and stray letters, obscuring full meaning.
The F-111 program splits opinion with the Air Force praising the F-111A as a fine craft while the Navy doubts the two service model. General Dynamics argues for patience as flaws and delays sap the promised common parts savings, suggesting separate planes might have been cheaper.
The Treasury plans to reduce half dollar production after June 30 from 360 million to 100 million, prompting questions on where the coins are going. The piece notes 1964 Kennedy halves as collectables and suggests removing silver or reissuing copper nickel coins. It adds census data showing a majority of adults over 25 now have four years of high school, up from 32.6 percent in 1947.
The Star Files notes Frederick County farmers expect large acreage increases in three key crops while a meat shortage persists locally. Frank Armstrong Jr of National Fruit Product Co joins Virginia and North Carolina manufacturers on a regional food advisory board, as Leslie D. Kline and Shirley Carter lead county food administration. The northern lights were seen distinctly for the first time in about 20 years in this latitude. MR and Mrs H C Sheetz hosted a supper for Commercial and Savings Bank directors on its second anniversary.
The meditation explains addiction as a power over the person from Latin roots and discusses its forms from overeating to drinking. It warns of alcohol impairing self control and contributing to accidents and raises alarm about drugs becoming a teenage problem.
Henry J. Taylor argues World War II parallels with Vietnam, blaming mismanagement and false assurances. He cites British leadership under Baldwin and compares Dunkirk to Saigon, urging decisive U.S. leadership to avoid defeat.
A pithy essay questions common beliefs and clichés that shape American life. It lists items like home cooking, miniskirts, sports heroes, motherhood, fashion ads, and political slogans as possibly overrated while urging readers to reexamine values and assumptions.
A quirky column opens with jokes about starting the day with breakfast and being late for work. It calls an old-timer a veteran who recalls the past at every chance, and jokes about a busy assistant shrinking to fit.
A physician answers reader questions on spine bone spurs pressing nerves with fusion as a surgical option for relief. Heel bone spurs are caused by factors like arthritis age and footwear and usually improve with reducing causative factors and padding. removal is rare and may recur if causes persist. Aspergillosis is a non hereditary fungal infection from inhaled spores treated with amphotericin B or lung surgery. apical tuberculosis affects the lung apex. A memory quiz section follows with sample questions.
The Open Housing proposal would bar owners from selling or renting property through agents to anyone, potentially affecting single family homes via brokers. Real estate brokers warn it could erode professional services and depress values in neighborhoods, while opponents fear government overreach into private property.
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