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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1966
Page
4
Daily newspaper in Winchester Virginia with a circulation over 55 000 announces Tuesday October 25 1966. News editor Eugene P Miller managing editor Douglas B O Connell and general manager Jack F Davis listed. Subscription rates shown for city carrier and mail.
A government study blamed consumers for rising prices but the National Commission on Food Marketing urged shoppers to act. Denver housewives led a supermarket boycott with spreads to other cities while the Ottawa started strike widened across Canada. The Supermarket Institute criticized the protests while citing labor shortages and higher costs as explanations.
Warnings about unvented heaters and unsafe furnaces rising as cold snaps arrive. A sports expert cites better equipment behind golf and baseball power while an old joke about swimming records mocks water manipulation. The piece blends safety advice with light satire on performance myths.
A reader to The Star argues for printing a local letter about government farm aid programs. The writer urges citizens to learn how subsidies influence farming and warns that supply and demand should govern crop production rather than overstocked programs.
A reader questions progress as he writes to the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation service opposing government handouts. The letter blends criticism of federal aid with praise for Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and ends with sympathy for the Byrd family.
Washington column argues Congress rush adjournment produced a flawed campaign finance bill that would allow taxpayer money to fund party activities but lacks safeguards and a proper financing system. It warns the measure risks corruption and suggests a true, studied reform is needed. The piece cites Micah 4 4 and Calvin Coolidge quotes to underscore restraint and prudence.
MASSES OF TANK-LEADED German troops launch a new offensive along the Moscow front while Hitler’s high command reports the capture of Kharkov. Nine Winchester electr officers depart Nov 6 for induction. The Norfolk and Western Railway plans a new freight station at Luray between Hagerstown and Roanoke. Civilians flee Trieste as Prussia fights in Volhynia.
The essay questions whether the world is improving or deteriorating, arguing that despite wars and misuse of science, the world is not hopeless. It critiques modern life for becoming unbalanced as tools outpace ideals, calling for readjustment and a return to right paths, with war seen as a price for collective errors.
Wayne Brandstadt answers reader questions on prostate enlargement treatment options including Stilbestrol and hydroxyprogesterone caproate, the role of Gantanol, potential surgery, and indefinite drug use. He notes hydatid mole risks, postmole pregnancy considerations, and the rarely successful untie of tubal ligation. He invites public questions for future columns.
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