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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1963
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists telephone numbers for newspaper operations and shows subscription pricing by mail and carrier. Rates include one year in advance at 8.50, six months at 4.76, and one month options, with additional postage outside Virginia and West Virginia.
In a 1963 column the Leif Erikson Association advocates an Erikson Day to honor Leif Erikson’s voyage to North America around the year 1000. Senators Magnuson and Humphrey push a Norse memorial in Congress while critics worry about eclipsing Columbus. The piece also notes evolving on screen era attitudes and a fading era of dramatic film acting.
The style note discusses a trend toward slightly fuller lapels in new men's suits without bulky excess. Some reminisce about the generously wide lapels of mid-century cinema and the postwar era, contrasting with current trim lines and fashion expectations.
Robert Baily of the CIO said a strike had been called against the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of Virginia but would not reveal the strike's effective date or hour. Preston Christjohn Jr and his wife visited Dr. and Mrs. Walter H. Hough after returning from two years in Venezuela where Christjohn worked as a petroleum engineer. Shirley Ann Hulver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Hulver, began as a freshman at Madison College.
Twenty five years ago in 1938 Averett College in Danville welcomed back Miss Alice McCormick of the senior class. Miss Virginia Whisson returned home after attending the Great Council of the United States Improved Order of Red Men and the Past Great Pocahontas' National League in Indianapolis. A birthday luncheon for Mr. B. B. Jones of Audley drew Mrs. R. E. K. Byrd and Thomas B. Byrd of Winchester, with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the former president, also present.
Secretary Bryan named Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, former Jamestown Exposition president, to head a Panama Pacific Exposition commission and visit China and Japan. In Richmond, Miss Ethel Robinson was fined fifty dollars for a skirt deemed too short, only an inch below her knees and tightly worn.
The piece contrasts naive Greek views of salvation with modern progress and evolution. It argues that life must be organized around God not self and that true life comes through death of self and unselfish service, citing Jesus about a seed dying to bear fruit.
The United States educates about 51.5 million students across 126 thousand institutions with 2.06 million teachers and 183.7 thousand school and college boards. Dr James B Conant notes a new book on teacher education, while Cosmopolitan’s education issue analyzes public school challenges and mass quality education. Local library talk highlights new education titles and library improvements.
Dr Lester L Coleman details cystic fibrosis affecting the pancreas lungs and sweat glands. He notes early recognition improves survival and antibiotics aid repeated lung infections. The piece also covers blood storage challenges and the development of LMD as a blood substitute tested at Deborah Hospital and LSU.
A quiz guide presents ten day scoring with daily results ranging from memory genius to good. It lists sample questions including capital of Nevada, sea borders, numismatics, James presidents, triangle angles, gravity, Pacific Ocean naming, first U S vice president, Esau selling birthright, and basketball hoop height.
Henry J. Taylor argues NASA budgets soar toward 10 to 15 billion annually by 1970, comparing wartime and nuclear project costs to moon efforts. He cites taxburden figures and criticizes escalations in upper stages, engines, and center relocations, questioning fairness to American taxpayers.
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