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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1966
Page
7
A school contest announces a winner Michael Long aged 9 of Provo Utah for a question submission in the Tell Me Why feature. The notice asks for name age address and Zip Code and mentions duplicate questions are decided by the author.
A non American expert estimates China will take a decade to field a delivery system for the continental United States while medium missiles appear first. Analysts describe China’s growing air and missile capabilities, two secret cities Lanchow and Paotow, and a PLA force of about 2.5 to 2.6 million with heavy emphasis on manpower.
A Morgan County grand jury met in seclusion to consider six first degree murder charges since last spring. The panel, charged by Circuit Judge Newton B. Powell, includes Huey Roden, Wallace and Dean Steelman, James Columbus Williams, and Robert Boykin. Roden faces two second degree counts in a June hit and run deaths case. the Steelman brothers are tied to a May rifle slaying. Williams is charged in a shotgun death. Boykin is free on bond after a Trinity shotgun killing. A second grand jury report is not expected for days.
Cotton in Decatur loan marked at middling inch 30.40 with cottonseed at 40 dollars per ton. Milk Grade A at 6.55 per hundred, manufactured milk 3.20 per hundred. Wood prices 65, 45 and 35. Pulpwood 13.50 per cord. No. 2 Yellow and White Corn and Oats quoted with No. 2 Milling Wheat at 1.63 and 2.05 per hundred. Poultry Wheat 1.13 and No. 2 Barley 0.95.
In Atlanta Georgia price reports show demand for live broilers and fryers steady. Trading limited with offerings adequate to short on hens. Farm prices list heavy type at 13 percent and light type at 4 percent.
Wall Street declined though airlines led a late rally as news of a possible agreement to end the strike circulated. Volume was about 5.1 million shares, with Northwest up 3, TWA 2, and National Eastern American up 1, while Xerox fell 3 and Zenith and Itek dropped 2.
Penn, a 1959 Air Force Academy graduate, served in Viet Nam since December and is due back this month. He and his wife and five year old son live in Cranford New Jersey. Penn was recognized earlier this month for meritorious achievement during military flights and received the Air Medal.
A spacecraft achieved lunar capture Sunday as a braking rocket slowed its approach, allowing lunar gravity to hold it in an initial orbit around the Moon.
A July 31 briefing notes that unions rejected the White House accord as not forced and covering major strike issues across United Eastern National Northwest and Trans World Airlines plus local line concerns. The pact includes orderly return to work procedures and no reprisals guarantees by the carriers.
In 1908 James J. Jeffries defeated James J. Corbett by knockout in the 10th round in San Francisco, delivering a historic victory in a famed boxing bout.
New York doctors endorse Primatene tablets as a safe fast acting bronchial dilator. The formula reportedly stops choking attacks within minutes, eases breathing, loosens phlegm, calms panic, and leaves asthmatics free to breathe for hours with regular use and no prescription in most states.
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