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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1968
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star provides contact numbers for news and advertising and lists executive and editorial staff including JACK F. DAVIS as General Manager and Executive Editor EUGENE P. MILLER as News Editor and DOUGLAS B. O'CONNELL as Managing Editor. Subscription rates are shown for city carrier weekly monthly and yearly plans.
AP features recount the 1968 presidential contest with candidates Nixon Wallace Kennedy Humphrey and Reagan among surge of primaries. It notes Johnson’s surprise withdrawal and Kennedy assassination altering the race as the Democratic and Republican conventions unfold.
Read guidance by Wayne Brandstadt M D on preventing hangnails and managing thick toenails. Advice covers cutting hangnails with scissors, keeping nails clean, using thimerosal to ward off infection, and alternatives when toenails resist trimming. Also discusses causes of nail discoloration and general nail health precautions.
Lawyers in a joint county bar and state department program spend eight hours in four jails. They are to advise arrestees of constitutional rights inform them of services and verify police practices. The executive director cites lack of brutality reports and growing understanding of police pressures.
Want advertising has expanded beyond its old narrow columns and now fills sizable sections in daily papers. Postwar growth reflects demand for brief sales messages from individuals and businesses for services and goods. Readers increasingly notice these ads, though American papers keep news on the inside pages.
The annual Miss America contest in Atlantic City crowns a winner who combines beauty with talent. The new Miss America is described as graceful with appealing looks while balancing performance arts, though the piece notes beauty and brains remain a debated pairing.
In the new censorship regime reporters must avoid using the word occupation to describe 600,000 Soviet Bulgarian Polish and Hungarian troops in Czechoslovakia. Journalists are urged to present a positive tone and even harmless tourism gains are suggested as examples of favorable coverage.
City of Winchester and Frederick and Clarke counties report receipt of ABC profits totaling 62 188 05 for the past year from alcoholic beverage sales in the state. Lt William Bennett Jr stationed at Godman Field Fort Knox Ky assigned to Army Air Corps unit. Charles J Summers succeeds LEER as Union Bank cashier after board election. Society girls pick apples in Melvin Green orchard. Virginia Land Army declares five divisions with Col Charlotte Noland in charge, wearing uniforms and living in barracks.
The writer reflects on biblical promises of a new heavens and new earth with righteousness. Though two thousand years pass without Christ’s return, believers are urged to live faithfully day by day. The ultimate future, he says, is light and joy for those who love neighbors as themselves.
A reader letter thanks Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr for taking a patriotic stand against the U S Supreme Court and Abe Fortas. The sender forwards the original letter with signatures endorsing Byrd and agrees with Winchester Evening Star coverage. It objects to Fortas nomination Earl Warren and a Court perceived as pushing decisions onto the American people.
A letter praising Senator Byrd for opposing the Abe Fortas nomination to be Chief Justice. The writer lauds his stance against what they call power grabbing attempts by the Supreme Court and hails Byrd as a true voice for American citizens in Congress.
Joy Stilley humorously evaluates dishwashing methods as she jokes about preparing for the china cup races. She compares practice to a championship, laments slow progress, and imagines future utopian tableware finally solved yet remains determined to improve.
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