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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1969
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star dated Thursday May 15 1969 lists subscription rates and publication details. It notes readers in Virginia and West Virginia can subscribe by mail with varying monthly and yearly options. The page accompanies general manager and editors credits and price structure for newspaper delivery.
A columnist notes how words like allergy bottleneck sabotage and freeze enter everyday speech. The piece observes wage and credit freezes may spread, with reserves and surpluses also at risk, and predicts the era will demand a thawing word to replace or soften the trend.
The piece notes armed insurrectionists seizing campus buildings and rough factional clashes disrupting colleges. It argues faculties and administrations have acquiesced to hostility and urges legislatures in over a dozen states to enact conduct rules during summer.
The U S Public Health Service spent over a third of a million dollars to test if youth health wealth and mood determine happiness. Missouri sociologists studied 1716 seniors in 63 towns, while Puerto Rico received nearly 250000 for a parallel study. The main takeaway questions whether academia aligns with reality.
Convention and Visitors Bureau reports half of convention attendees in New York are accompanied by their wives. Companies invite the distaff side to boost turnout, while cities hosting conventions welcome the trend as wives shop and sightsee during events.
Wendell Barney, chairman of the Winchester Frederick County War Finance Committee, announced the local quota for the Fifth War Loan drive at 1 300 000 dollars. Handley High School won the class B division in the 29th track meet of the Virginia High School Literary and Athletic League at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Saturday, Tuesday evening at eight o'clock in the First Baptist Church lecture room, Rev. E T Clark will discuss his trip to Europe and Palestine.
Fifty years ago in 1919 Winchester and Frederick County residents planned to travel to Newport News to greet the transport Mastonia bringing the 116th Infantry. Judge Thomas W. Harrison, congressman from Virginia's Seventh District, was returning from Europe with a House committee on military affairs.
Earl L. Douglas reflects on a composer who misses a once in a lifetime symphony idea due to busyness and delayed action. The piece warns that postponement dulls resolve and makes future right action harder, illustrating how procrastination erodes opportunity.
President Nixon proposes a youngest-first draft with one-year exposure in the 19 to prime-age window. Deferments for students continue, graduate study postponements aim to limit education disruption, and the system would not fully shift until current calls are met and a random selection by lot is established.
Poem praising the Pughs for their kindness and neighborly acts. The speaker, Vivian W. Deaton, highlights their daily help sharing produce, tending gardens, opening their garage, and assisting late into the evening despite Mrs. Pugh’s age and health.
Residents of Route 4 Northwestern Grade Winchester celebrate the 52nd wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Pugh. The couple marked the day with family and neighbors in the local community.
Wayne G Brandstadt M D advises on tornado basics and warnings. The piece outlines how tornadoes form and when they occur, plus practical safety steps during storms such as taking shelter, turning off gas and electricity, remaining calm, and how to respond if outdoors or in a car. It also includes nutrition notes about Brewer's yeast and lecithin as vitamin sources and questions from readers.
A scanned quiz page presents ten true or false or short answer items from a memory test titled How's Your I Q Based on 100 questions over ten days. It asks historical facts and civic details like Solomon's Temple location, artichoke eating, bee buzzing, Paul virtues, century plant, stalactites versus stalagmites, prohibition amendment number, presidential salary, and concrete reinforcement.
President Nixon plans to renew and entrench his California political base as the Kennedy challenge sharpens. The move signals a showdown over the 1972 nomination with California as the main action center and George Murphy’s Senate race as the first battleground.
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