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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1960
Page
4
A Winchester Star column discusses crowd estimates for Lyndon B. Johnson’s Virginia whistle stop tour. It notes wide discrepancies among papers in Culpeper Charlottesville Lynchburg and Danville and cautions on betting trust in such crowd counts.
The Star Files notes that on October 13, 1950, a double hex was put on the date as 13 marriage licenses were issued, nine in the city and four in the county, with Lt Cmdr Norman E. Cooper Jr USNR ordered back to active duty reporting at Chincoteague Virginia.
The piece questions whether the Democratic National Committee and labor unions are rebroadcasting Senator Kennedy’s Houston address to keep the religious issue alive in the campaign. It notes North emphasis, Catholic voting fears, and Republican reactions as Nixon seeks to downplay religion in politics while Kennedy aides push the topic.
The passage describes the dread of an empty gas tank and the panic of stalling in traffic. It imagines horns, exasperated drivers, and a police question, then counsels recalling a kinship when safely back at home.
Earl L Douglass compares traffic problems to a deeper moral crisis, arguing some people lack inner motive power. He warns against emptiness of head heart or life and stresses the danger of letting oneself “run out of gas.”
A Middletown school administrator argues the nation faces real teacher shortages and crowded classrooms. He cites NEA data, local half day shifts, portable rooms, and 360000 students in over forty pupil classes, urging better funding for high quality public education.
A dialogue teaching mouth to mouth rescue, showing how to clear the mouth, tilt the head, pinch the nose, and blow for adults and children. It emphasizes keeping the airway open, delivering about 20 breaths per minute, and the ease of learning this method even for a layperson.
HAL BOYLE argues a few key volumes shape a reader more than many titles. He says the dictionary the Bible and Shakespeare suffice to make a learned person, while most libraries reflect postponed reading and unfulfilled plans.
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