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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1968
Page
4
The page lists the paper’s managing editor Douglas B. O’Connell and postal details. It shows national representatives Bottinelli and Gallagher Inc. with an address in New York. Subscription rates are given: 25 and 1.10 and 13.00.
The piece argues men pursue hairpieces and transplants at high cost while small towns face decline without change. It notes rising wealth in vanity items, a shift in beauty culture, and calls for towns to adopt culture and livability to survive. It links monetary upheaval to policy shifts and gold debates shaping 1968 context.
Alan Peery, a City Council member since last September, has been called to active duty with the U.S. Army. Frederick County School Board votes to sell Greenwood and Hayfield school properties no longer in use. E. W. Fansler, serving in f rar, announces enlistment in the tank corps. The Mineral Ridge Manganese Corp plans 700 acres near Star Tannery with ore-rich ground and will raise mine output from about 20 tons daily to 50 or 60.
An Earl L. Douglas meditation highlights Joseph as Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's favored heir. It praises his resilience from slavery to royal counsel, notes his business acumen, and calls him forgiving and adaptable across ages. Joseph’s legacy ends with enduring remarks carried into the Hebrew exodus.
Washington observers state Senator Robert Kennedy faces an insoluble dilemma as Eugene McCarthy rises as the New Left hero. Kennedy’s aim to control the liberal wing falters as anti-Johnson sentiment shifts, leaving Kennedy boxed between a shrinking base and a party leaning toward McCarthy.
Dr Wayne Brandstadt answers readers on angina treatment clarifying that pink or white tablets often share the same drug, but individual conditions vary and only the effect on preventing attacks matters. The column covers adhesions after gallbladder surgery, anxiety neurosis symptoms, butibel uses and risks, chorymycin dangers with brief cautions, and causes of cold sensitivity in youth.
Quiz offers a 10 day score scheme with daily results and page 2 for answers. Sample questions cover outdoor activities, British peerage ranks, geography, naval hero quote, McKinley assassination location, Nod reference, Civil War allegiances, dairy product water content, polytheism, and oyster sex reversal.
HAL BOYLE notes in New York that in troubled times it helps to pause and count one’s marbles. He offers a humorous NQ norm quiz asking about composure, reliability, generosity, math, finances, manners, and forgiveness to gauge personal steadiness.
The column notes the scarcity of places accepting the new sandwich quarters and opines that the wise man learns from mistakes while the honest man admits fault and the foolish man blames others.
A reader letter condemns five months of brutal persecution of Jehovahs Witnesses in Malawi under President Banda. Homes stores and places of worship burned. many beaten and some killed. over a thousand women raped. The writer cites global respect for Witnesses and urges Americans to speak out for religious freedom.
Today marks the 79th day of 1968 with notable events listed from 1920 Versailles Treaty rejection by the U S Senate to a 1959 exile of the Dalai Lama. Other entries include Livingstone born 1813 and Bryan born 1860 with war era and political milestones through recent years.
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