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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1973
Page
4
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak recount Spiro Agnew's secret October plea to DOJ, the failed counterattack, and the shift to renewed plea bargaining. They note internal advisement, public opinion limits, and the ultimate resignation as the path to avoid greater crisis for Nixon.
James J. Kilpatrick reflects on Spiro Agnew's confession and resignation. The column laments the loss of trust, wonders what Agnew could have done by seeking a trial, and invokes Browning’s line about “a handful of silver.” It condemns the motive and the damage to the Nixon administration and to the nation.
Conrath, divisional commander in Baltimore, Mrs Kinley and Brigadier Kinley join Bill Chapman, chairman of the Winchester Salvation Army Advisory Board, in a noted local gathering.
Brigadier and Mrs. James Kinley become the Salvation Army commanding officers in Winchester after nearly 35 years of service. Their assignments spanned Richmond, Hopewell, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Williamson, Charleston, Huntington, Princeton W Va, Memphis, Jonesboro, Ark, then Texas, Arizona, California, and Kentucky. They last resided in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mrs. Kinley, born in Dayton, is granddaughter of Aldine S. Kieffer, the valley poet of Virginia. Kinley was born near Terre Haute in New Goshen. He trained in Atlanta and worked in wholesale groceries and soft drinks. The couple has two children. a son serving as an officer in Longview, Texas, and a daughter in Bowling Green studying to be a Surgical Technician.
Alson H. Smith cuts the ribbon at his campaign headquarters on Braddock and Piccadilly Streets with John D. Hardesty and James S. Whetzel nearby. Representatives from the 17th Legislative District attend the opening.
14 year old ventriloquist Michael Shirley from Charles Town W Va entertained members of the Winchester Senior Citizens Club at a Tuesday evening meeting held in the War Memorial Building.
A quiz feature lists ten questions with topics from literature to civics and science. The text notes Michael Shirley, George Yeakley, and a Galilee Church group event with a Men’s Choir providing music. The next meeting, Nov 13 at 6 p.m. at the War Memorial Building, includes a covered dish supper with furnished meat and drinks.
The First Presbyterian Church celebrated its 175th anniversary dating back to 1788. Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower turned 73. Mr and Mrs William Fauver and son Gregory enjoyed a day in Hagerstown Maryland. Winchester's city touch football league started before about 200 spectators.
The piece recalls Ptolemy I asking Euclid for a shortcut to geometry and the reply that there is no royal road to understanding. It extols hard work as the path to success in art, engineering, farming, or any meaningful achievement.
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