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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1968
Page
13
Pentagon tallies show 3,487 U S helicopters and planes destroyed in Vietnam, with fixed wing losses at 2,007 and helicopters at 1,480. WW II losses reached 27,137 aircraft. Korea totaled 3,001. Costs cited place Vietnam air losses around 4 billion dollars.
The founder of the Nobel prizes for peace physics chemistry physiology or medicine and literature is Alfred Bernard Nobel, inventor of dynamite and nitroglycerin. He created a legacy linking science and awards across multiple fields.
Heloise shares marble stain remedies from Don A. Hagerich of the Marble Institute of America using poultices with white tissue, whiting, and water to lift coffee rust and oil stains. Tea and coffee stains may fade after stain removal. rinse and polish with tin oxide. Also includes milk improvisations, porch light advice, and handy kitchen tricks.
About 1000 welfare mothers with dependent children will be trained for jobs under a 1968 General Assembly program. Otis Brown notes only those with job potential will be chosen and participation is tied to continued welfare benefits. Day care centers will be provided to assist the mothers. The program starts with about 610000 dollars and targets heavy welfare areas including Richmond Tidewater and Northern Virginia.
Episcopal bishop C Edward Crowther of Santa Barbara urges clergy to seek political office. He notes no bishops have served in Congress in U S history but says the church is moving toward broad social involvement and this step may be logical.
Dr. William Knox, a York County veterinarian, was chosen as a delegate and backs Richard M. Nixon. He and David Montague, a Hampton attorney, were selected as the first Republican delegates for the convention.
A sequence of fatal crashes across Virginia claimed several lives. Wayne Bordeaux and Janie Bordeaux, both 26 from Charlottesville, died when their car collided with a truck on U S 250 east of Afton Mountain in Albemarle County. Clifford Eugene Rhody, 19, of Damascus, was killed when struck by a car on Virginia 91. Delia Bell Cameron, 56, of Coeburn, died after being hit on Virginia 652 near Coeburn. James Calvin Walker, 24, of Buchanan, died from injuries suffered March 6 in Roanoke County on Virginia 601. Edmund William Quirk, 26, of Woodbridge, died in a noncollision accident on U S 1 in Fairfax County. Virginia highway deaths tally 208 for the year, down from 219 at this time last year.
In Memphis the widow of Otis Redding admires a gold record of Dock of the Bay. The late singer died in a Madison Wisconsin plane crash on December 10 1967. The song topped Billboard as No 1 and has sold over a million copies.
Science finds a medication that promptly stops itching and relieves pain while shrinking hemorrhoids. Doctor tests show reduction of inflamed tissues in case after case. The formula, Preparation H, soothes irritation and helps prevent infection. Available as ointment or suppository.
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