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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1963
Page
11
An AP report notes Congress employs about 7 200 staffers across chambers and committees at a cost approaching 50 million dollars annually. Veteran lawmakers like Carl Vinson and Ellender defend or critique the expansion, arguing staff roles grow with complex modern governance while critics warn of bloated overhead and bureaucratic bloat.
The piece outlines the 1789 1791 first Congress with 268 bills and 108 public laws, notes staff pay rising from 1500 to 6500 by 1940, and cites total staff salaries at 8 million in an unspecified year and 6.5 million in 1940. It discusses reforms from the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and details staff distribution across Senate and House offices.
A long OCR fragment lists TV programs and air times across channels including Popeye Rocky and Friends The Lone Ranger The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster and Don Murray and Diane Varsi plus Legends like The Rifleman The Tonight Show and The Philidelphia Story. It suggests a busy evening lineup with news weather sports and various game shows.
AP reports Marilyn Monroe's death cast a shadow over a TV biography premiere that relied on old clips and a talky script. NBC offers the soaplike Diamond Fever about a jewel thief while Lassie renews for a 10th season and Rin Tin Tin remains a children's staple. Password moves to a new time slot.
A British press brief reports concerns over a travel sickness remedy marketed abroad and advised by Wellcome Foundation Ltd. to avoid use by pregnant women unless prescribed. Investigations in the British Medical Journal suggest laboratory findings indicating a very high-dose level raised safety questions.
The works Whistler's Mother and Saint Mary Magdalene were shown in Atlanta for five weeks. About 118000 visitors viewed the paintings. A Louvre curator in Paris will supervise their packing for shipment back to France early this week.
In Henrico County a child died after drinking kerosene found under a leaky stove. Cheryl and her younger sister had been playing in the kitchen when a can of kerosene spilled and was consumed.
Three power lines were knocked out by dynamite blasts on the new Interstate route. Mr. Kirk said the outage covered east of Ave and Kent Street for at least one hour and some sections up to four hours. Rocks from the blast were hurled and later removed.
Franklin seeks to persuade the Federal Administration to lift a ban on home loans in the area citing public water fluoride at 8.51 parts per million. Health authorities warn levels above 1.8 may damage teeth while officials argue the impact is cosmetic and has not harmed residents.
In ancient Egypt around 1450 B C Queen Hatshepsut dispatched a trading voyage that brought back living myrrh trees and other aromatic plants, signaling a strong exchange with distant lands.
The passage notes that to grasp the Old Testament one must understand Jewish tradition as a foundational context. It emphasizes the link between Jewish practices and scriptural interpretation.
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