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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1963
Page
4
Winchester Evening Star reports a daily circulation surpassing 50,000 via telephones. Publication details list Jack F. Davis as general manager and executive editor, H. D. Koontz as business manager, and Eugene Miller as managing editor. Regional and national representation and subscription rates are provided.
The piece questions the Soviet claim of a deadly accurate anti missile system and compares it to U S Nike programs, noting reliance on favorable conditions and battlefield uncertainties. It also surveys Franco German relations and the France de Gaulle nuclear capability while praising the whooping cranes migration effort and wildlife funding.
The Star files note a Virginia program for public school construction totaling nearly ten million dollars, funded by State Literary Fund loans and PWA grants, aimed to finish within a year. Mr and Mrs Stewart Castleman of Chambersville hosted a party for their daughter Pauline celebrating her 18th birthday.
1913 report notes Irwin Arnold of Friendship Fire Company recovering from a kneecap injury after hay tong point. Dr. W A Bell provided medical care. Nobel prize for literature awarded to Rabindranath Tagore, per Stockholm announcement. Schurzmeister and two passengers stay aloft in a Friedrichshafen aeroplane for over six hours, setting a new aviation record.
Commentary urges resilience after mistaken judgment and loss. It notes that those who harm you may suffer more, and compares troubling experiences to luminaries that emit light. The piece closes with the admonition not to eat your heart out.
Davis Lawrencc analyzes how resegregation grows in Washington and other cities as black students fill public schools while white families move to suburbs. The piece details shifts since 1954 Court rulings, enrollment changes in Washington schools, and comparable patterns in New York City and Boston with implications for desegregation.
Washington tastemakers note the Harvard alum turnout factors in 1964 politics. The piece weaves Kennedy and Keppel speeches with Green’s Oregon stop and Goldwater’s quip at the Women’s Press Club. It ends by recalling Taft lineage and a Taft IV golf anecdote.
Long Arm of U S Guards Against Food Impurities details frequent FDA seizures of contaminated items including mercury laden wheat caviar with boron crotalaria tainted soybeans Caraway seeds with sharp shavings infected turkey rolls paratyphoid outbreak rats insects parasites and sewage contaminated seafood The piece notes labeling weight and ingredient rules and a mink ranch fraud attempt related to insect infected beef.
Lucille Ball credits happiness to partaking in show business and a steady work routine. She recalls poverty as a model in New York, values personal conviction over billing or money, and stresses independence and gratitude as keys to success.
Fred Korth, while recovering at Bethesda Navy Hospital, jokes he will "play it by ear" about future plans after resigning as secretary of the Navy. Postmaster General Gronouski notes letter carriers anticipated events, citing a centennial dinner for free city mail delivery and his own birthday.
Richmond AP reports the former office manager of a defunct Baltimore financial company identified correspondence tied to a fraud scheme. Katherine Boulay hired by Security Financial Insurance Corp identified letters by D Spencer Grow of Provo Utah and others in federal court on mail fraud charges linked to investment advertising.
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