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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1967
Page
14
The edition covers local news and events in Winchester with notes on community happenings, schedules, and brief notices from the area. Key names and institutions reflect the era's civic life.
Washington AP government confirms chest belts required in all new cars built after December 31 1968 for driver and right front passenger. Federal Highway Administrator Lowell Bridwell says combined chest and lap belts provide best protection though rear seats remain beltless. Some officials worried chest belts could cause neck injuries in collisions.
In Saigon, militant Buddhists and South Vietnam's government appear to settle the crisis over a rival sect's official status. Thich Tinh Khiet and Thieu reach a face-saving compromise. Tri Quang ends a 13 day protest after Khiet asks militants to return to An Quang pagoda.
AMERICAN music once banned in Cuba is broadcast on Havana radio in the program Panorama deli Jazz heard six nights a week. Disc jockey Reinerio Flores identifies each number and the orchestra with early 1950s records driving listeners, while Cuban refugees report residents pay up to 40 dollars per imperialist album on the black market.
Three James Wood FFA members and their Vocational Agriculture Instructor travel to Kansas City for the National FFA convention with 10,000 Future Farmers and instructors from the 50 states and Puerto Rico. Virginia sends representatives Roger Braithwaite, Robert Sutphin, Jerry Windle and A H Clark. the trip honors top Farm Mechanics judging team status. The group joins Virginia peers in a pageant Fifty Golden Years and marks the FFA 40th convention and 50 years of Vocational Agriculture.
The Legislative Branch Committee told Sen. Curran they likely will recommend a floor for General Assembly salaries, possibly around 6500 annual, with actual ranges set by the senators and delegates. They also discussed single member districts for one house, separate House districts, and limiting county guaranteed seats. The panel heard testimony on adding economic rights protections in the convention preamble.
Virginia Dean Thomson, 48, wept as an all male jury acquitted her of murder in Houston. CBS filmed the trial for a Foreman program with releases from lawyers, judge, jury, and defendants. Thomson said she regretted her husband’s death and hoped appeals would end the case.
In Richmond the Virginia Metropolis Areas Study Commission chair Dr. T Marshall Hahn countered charges that the long awaited report is being delayed for political reasons. He cited a heavy work schedule and suggested the commission may propose area wide government forms to Gov Godwin.
The speak period for tornadoes falls in April May and June, though twisters can occur any time of year.
Mrs. Earlene Napier sought a divorce claiming her husband John Niblack bought a $352 toupee two weeks after their remarriage and demanded she pay. They married in 1960, divorced in 1966, remarried in January, and the court granted the divorce citing insufficient income to cover the toupee and child support.
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