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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1962
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists its staff and mailing information for Chester, Virginia, dated Monday October 15, 1962. It includes editors H D Koontz Jack F Davis Eugene Miller and postal details for subscriptions and national representation.
The piece contrasts televised debates as modern duels among politicians with a French crisis under De Gaulle. It notes De Gaulle seeks popular vote for president, Assembly opposition, and a plebiscite on Oct 28 risking November elections and possible retirement if rejected. Charles J. Murphy advocates early driver education in kindergarten.
Vincent A Catarella was chosen chairman of the board of O S Sullivan Rubber to succeed R J Funkhouser who had held the post for 20 years Mrs Charles J Enders Jr of Berryville was named chairman of Clarke County 1953 March of Dimes drive
1937 report notes British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden delivering a forceful speech at Llandudno warning Italy that British patience is almost exhausted over proclaimed intervention in Spain. The piece also lists attendees for a Harvard Navy game in Baltimore including Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick and others.
Fifty years ago Theodore Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee by John Schrank a New York crank. The bullet was to be removed in a Chicago hospital. Roosevelt quipped I feel bully from the hospital. Ruth and Winnie Cole returned to Grafton West Virginia after visiting the Misses Boehm and Mrs J C Newman with granddaughter returned home after summer abroad.
Daily meditation by Earl L. Douglas argues that true faith requires daily action. Sound theology must be seriously used against personal faults and sins, not merely professed, since Jesus valued both belief and righteous deeds.
Henry J. Taylor argues the US founders designed a federal system to protect liberty. They anticipated ethnic tensions and regional interests, emphasizing separation of powers to curb central power and preserve national unity amid a growing, diverse nation.
President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower spar mildly in public as they urge party gains. Kennedy pushes for more Democrats in Congress while praising the Democratic-run session, and Eisenhower attacks youth and boasts eight years of work, yet their personal rapport dulls the clash.
Pauline Liggett of Route Middletown Virginia argues for a strengthened dog control system including a full time warden stricter enforcement of kennel tags vaccinations and responsible ownership. She opposes forced rabies shots as unfair and urges owner education and humane pet welfare while noting lax local enforcement and the harms of abandoning animals.
A humorous piece frames Congress as a wife in Washington wielding bills and budgets. It notes battles over trade, debt, education, unemployment measures, and foreign aid, with fiscal clashes, veto threats, and looming costs as the session ends and a new one looms in January.
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