Kostel Promotes People Over Governor in Virginia Race
The Winchester Evening Star editorial notes three Democratic lieutenant governor candidates led by George Kostel of Clifton Forge. It argues Kostel campaigns as a right‑of‑center alternative who favors Virginia’s right‑to‑work and represents the people, contrasting him with Shafran and Howell as November approaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Howell
George Kostel
Clifton Forge
Democratic Party
Howell
Peg
Shafran
Kostel
Hopewell
Gov. Holton
Del
George Mason Green
Arlington
Virginia House of Delegates
Afl-Cio
Virginia
Weather Service's Growth From Humble Beginnings to Major Agency
The Weather Bureau established in 1870 started with a $20 000 appropriation and grew into a large federal agency within the Commerce Department with about 7 500 employees and a wide budget. It now warns on wildfires and aids aviation and marine safety as satellites enter use, while pondering future weather control and the unending blame on the weatherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Weather Bureau
United States Weather Service
Agriculture Eut
Commerce Department
Department
Congress
Carla Hurricane Strikes Louisiana Texas With 173 MPH Winds
The Star Files reports Carla as the century’s most intense Texas coast hurricane, slam ming Louisiana and Texas with 173 mile per hour winds and 11 foot tides while the eye remains offshore. UAW members strike GM plants signaling possible full plant shutdown. The Soviet Union detonates two new nuclear blasts far exceeding earlier tests. Joseph Curran leads 90,000 CIO Seamen in backing a nationwide AFL seamen wage stabilization strike and seeks a matching raise. UNRRA states steel rails for China sent to Yugoslavia due to embargo on Chinese relief shipments except food.
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Carla
Texas
Louisiana
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Soviet Union
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union (Cio
AFL
Wage Stabilization Board
UNRRA
China
Yugoslavia
Worry as Self Torture and a Call to Joy
Daily Meditation reflects on worry rooted in ancient words meaning to strangle. It condemns self-torture, notes worry yields no progress, and urges turning from anxiety to wholesome living while quoting Robert Louis Stevenson on happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worrer
Robert Stevenson
Democrats target pocketbook issue in congressional push
Democrats in Congress aim to recapture political momentum by framing the economy as a pocketbook issue. They criticize Nixon's price and wage controls and pursue a “percolate up” approach promoted by Muskie and Humphrey to put more money in consumers’ hands and curb big corporate flows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Edmund S. Muskie
D-Maine
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Cuba Under Fire: Soviet Buildup and US Response
The piece details Soviet military expansion near Cuba including bases at Cienfuegos Seguanea Bay and Havana Province air cover. It notes U.S. reconnaissance reductions, the SOUSUS underwater microphone network gap off Cuba, and debates in Congress on pay raises taxes and defense funding amid Cold War tensions.
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Adm
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr
Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Nixon
Red China
Castro
Caribbean
Florida
Cienfuegos
Isle of Pines
Seguanea Bay
Havana Province
Caverna de Santo
Caverna del Suisenor
Escaleras de Jaruco
Caguanes Caves
Memory Garden Of Happier Times And A Quiz
A nostalgic HAL BOYLE piece recalls simple 1950s life and prices plus a 100 question memory quiz. It laments youth and outlines common scenes from Manhattan lunches to barber shops and TV jokes, ending with a page two quiz.
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New York
Soviet Union proposes universal conference to ban nuclear arms
Washington reports Andrei Gromyko asks UN General Assembly to agenda a world disarmament conference. He envisions wide participation including both Koreas, Germanys, Vietnams and Taiwan, with inspections to verify destruction and prevent secret production. The move aims to shift debate to all governments with nuclear capability.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
General Assembly of the United Nations
U.N
United States
Russia
Red China
France
Great Britain
General Assembly of the
United Nations
Gromyko
United Nation
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Winchester Evening Star
Kent St
Winchester
Advertising and Business
Jack F. Davis
Eugene P. Miller
Douglas B. O'Connell
Connally
Henry J. Taylor
By Jack Bell
Gannett
Democratic Congress
White House
Remedios
San Antonio de Los Banos
San Julian
Havana
Mexican
Ensenada
U.S.S.R
Murmansk
Norway
U.S
Gulf of Mexico
Iceland
House
Vietnam
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House Armed Services Committee
Senate
National Cancer Research Agency
Hal Boyle
Manhattan
Sissy
Milton Berle
I.Q
Potters Fields
Sperry
U.S. Supreme Court
Boston
Cape Cod
Mary Todd
Dorthea Dix
By David Lawrence
Geneva
Peking
Moscow
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