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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1968
Page
4
The notice lists editorial and business staff with contact numbers for Winchester Evening Star. It provides subscription rates and mailing options including rates for different durations and outside Virginia addresses. It also mentions national representation and the physical mailing address.
Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal argues in a three volume, 2500 page work that Southeast Asia’s troubles stem from Asian attitudes rather than resources or history. He cites low discipline and adaptability, superstition, and weak cooperation as primary causes, suggesting Western plans often fail for lack of readiness to change.
Chicago essayist Karl Shapiro proposes returning the country to adults by suppressing adolescent influence. He suggests cutting youth funding, limiting higher education to the able, and removing free travel for children while restoring parental authority and redirecting colleges toward teaching.
The piece rails at a FAA ruling banning instruments larger than a seat from cabins. Musicians must pay full fare for violins violas and cellos and hope for domestic compassion. A New York cello star notes meals for instruments fail to satisfy the food needs of his cello.
Students at Boyce High School have saved enough War Saving Stamps and Bonds to cover one jeep at $900. Their semester goal is three jeeps. Miss Helen Dooley resigned as Home Economics Teacher to become a cafe teria hostess at the new Army Air Base at Richmond.
In 1918 hundreds lined Winchester streets as army planes on a trial trip to Washington flew overhead. Five women in an automobile backed down Kent Street toward Milwood Pike and crashed into a tree. All were rescued without injury, and the tree had to be cut to free the car.
The piece urges daily spiritual and personal inventory. It compares business stock checks to reflecting on life, mistakes, gains, and lessons, urging readers to stop, look, and listen as a path to better direction.
Column argues that primaries do not decide the presidency under the electoral college. It notes 11 states produce 149 electoral votes, less than 26 percent, and cites 1936 Landon and 1912 Wilson as examples of popular votes not matching electoral outcomes. It discusses public opinion polling limits and reform ideas including nationwide primaries or district-based electoral votes.
HAL BOYLE suggests a playful youth quiz measuring spirit rather than calendar age. The piece lists signs of staying young at heart, from enjoying life to imagining space travel and lively social scenes, ending with encouragement to keep pitching and stay nimble.
Facts from today past note several events on March 29 across centuries. The Treaty of St Germain divided French and English claims in America in 1632. John Tyler was born in 1790. Vera Cruz fell to U S forces in 1847. The Dominion of Canada was created in 1867. Meat rationing began in 1943. Jack Benny debuted on Ed Sullivan in 1982. Khrushchev consolidated power in 1958.
Dr. Wayne Brandstadt outlines breast cancer types scirrhous and medullary and classifies by age as type A fast growing under 40 and type B slow growing over 40. He discusses symptoms early detection methods, post mastectomy swelling treatments, bladder and kidney issues, and brief quiz scoring notes.
WASHINGTON Sen Eugene McCarthy ends his joint anti Johnson push with Robert Kennedy in the District of Columbia. The vacating of the alliance reveals Kennedy aims to use McCarthy then push him aside while casting a wider strategy to topple Johnson and perhaps damage the Democratic Party. Kennedy seeks to claim a provisional win via McCarthy then present a combined front to win the nomination, while McCarthy warns Kennedy risks party destruction and bolt threats loom if he fails at the convention.
A World Almanac wind chill table equates 25 F with 20 mph wind to 4 F with no wind. It also shows 35 F with 40 mph wind matches 1 F above zero, and minus 45 F with 40 mph wind feels like 128 F below zero.
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