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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1966
Page
8
HAL BOYLE surveys lay readers in New York AP. A humorous look at why husbands find their wives perplexing as they near their 50th anniversary. quotes reveal quirky habits from shoe removal at parties to choosing candlelit dinners and balancing household routines. The piece ends with the line that wives may wonder why they chose him at all.
Penney's presents a broad fall catalog featuring afghan kits to tractors among 99,853 items. It touts products for home, family, pets, hobbies, and personal use, including clothing, appliances, tools, and recreational gear.
Hollywood reporting notes that catch phrases from advertising and TV are fading as public chatter lifts new lines like Get Smart s I hope I m not out of line and Missed it by that much The piece also mentions NBC postponing series reruns for a crime-focused white paper and confirms a CBS contract signing for a star while discussing tech gag devices in the media era.
Rumors circulate about Andy Griffith leaving television for film work, a talk that mirrors long standing gossip around Danny Thomas’ retirement from weekly TV appearances. The column notes these chatterings as unfounded entertainment speculation rather than confirmed career moves.
Hollywood producer Ivan Tors, born in Budapest, pursues family audience success similar to Disney with TV series Flipper and Daktari and films like Around the World Under the Sea and Namu the Killer Whale. He runs a four stage Miami studio and an underwater Bahamas set, trains 500 wild animals for movies, and aims to train a tiger and a police dog to work together in a future project.
Hampton AP reports Lunar Orbiter has a busy day with the transmission of an Earth picture captured Tuesday and the fifth of nine potential astronaut landing site photos on the Moon. NASA says the Earth image will reach Goldstone California to display the terminator with gradual shading from light to dark. The spacecraft has exposed 114 film frames, half with high resolution lens and half with standard.
Three persons were injured in separate crashes investigated by the Highway Patrol in a four county area. James Lamon Way, 19, of Danville. Alma Jean Harris, 17, of Moulton. and Frank Bates, 31, of Hartselle sustained injuries but none were reported in serious condition. Way’s 1964 Ford wrecked on Alabama 36 about 7.2 miles east of Moulton in Lawrence County at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Harris’s 1963 Mercury collided with a 1965 MGB driven by James Henderson, 20, of Moulton, near Alabama 33 south of Moulton at 8:50 p.m. Wednesday. Bates’s 1963 Mercury wrecked 5.7 miles south of Decatur on Alabama 67 at 12:45 a.m. today.
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