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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 27, 1963

Page

10

Cotaco Scouting Has Big Night and First Eagle Honors

Bruce Sammy Thomas, a 14 year old Cotaco High School ninth grader, becomes Eagle Scout the first in 22 years for Troop 80. He receives certificates and patches from George Award and honors from Rev. Jack H. Warner Jr. The event includes multiple Troop 80 and Troop 90 awardees, with Scoutmaster Joe Willis praising Sammy’s achievement.

Cotaco High School Bruce Cotaco Boy Scout District George Award Hinckley Jack H. Warner, Jr Warner Say Bruce Sammy Thomas Joe Willis Willis Sammy Troop 80 Troop 90 Tennessee Valley Boy Scout Council Conner R. Lundy Jack H. Warren, Jr Jerry Fielder J. D. McCutcheon Tommy Willis Larry Shaw Cotaco Bruce Sammy

Breaking Point to Expand TV Drama Hours

ABC launches Breaking Point on September 16 offering 10 network hours weekly focused on the sick and disabled. The hour includes four returning dramas Dr Kil Dare Ben Casey The Eleventh Hour and The Nurses plus daytime Doctors and General Hospital. Producer George Lefferts defends a second series on mental and emotional illness amid questions of others’ proliferation.

Cynthia Lowry Hollywood ABC Ben Casey Eleventh Hour General Hospital George Lefferts Lefferts Social Service

Broadcast Frequencies and Attack Warning Schedule

The notice lists radio station call signs WAJF 1490 WJMW AM 730 and WJIOF FM 104.3 with tune times. It provides time windows from 4:55 A.M. to Midnight and from Sunrise to Sunset and from Sunset to 10:30 P.M. in case of enemy attack.

WJMW WJIOF

Blast Near Negro Coed’s Home Aims at U of S C Entry

A midnight dynamite blast 200 yards from Henri Monteith’s home damaged a window and created a crater. The 19 year old plans to enter the all white University of South Carolina next month by court order. Deputies chased a late model car speeding over 100 mph after the blast. no intercept possible.

Columbia, S.C University of South Carolina Henri Monteith Fairfield County

Television drama tackles mental health issues openly

NBC executives defend Breaking Point and Eleventh Hour as powerful explorations of unhappiness and public interest. The shows are reviewed by AMA committees and psychiatrists to ensure responsible portrayal while exposing troubling dynamics.

NBC Eleventh Hour American Medical Association Los Angeles AMA

Stratford on Avon Sees 229269 Visitors in 1963

A record 229269 sightseers visited the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon in the year ended March 31 1963 with more than half coming from overseas.

William Shakespeare Stratford - On - Avon

Freeman urges unified farm policy for stable abundance

Secretary Orville L Freeman presses a new comprehensive national farm policy to ensure abundant food at fair prices with reserves for emergencies. He notes higher cash receipts in 1963 from livestock output and calls for measures to raise rural incomes and address submarginal lands and poverty through education and sociological as well as economic actions.

Associated Press Washington Orville L. Freeman Kennedy Freeman America

Typhoid Traced to Creek in Birmingham Neighbourhood

Three typhoid cases involve Negro children aged five nine and eleven in Birmingham's western area. Dr J Carroll Chambers of the Jefferson County health office links the illness to swimming in Village Creek polluted by raw sewage. He notes funds exist to fix the problem but work is not yet underway.

Birmingham J. Carroll Chambers Jefferson County Health Office Chambers Village

Pittsburgh University to receive donated Fox Chapel home

Avery C. Adams of Jones & Laughlin Steel sells his Fox Chapel house to the University of Pittsburgh for $1. The French Norman chateau, built in 1925 at a cost of $250,000 and now valued at $110,000, contains 18 rooms and will be used by Pitt for faculty housing next fall.

Pittsburgh Avery C. Adams Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp Fox Chapel University of Pittsburgh Pitt Univer

The Heated Wire Friction Demonstration

A science puzzle describes pulling a straight bare wire through the hand to generate heat by friction. It contrasts friction between hand and wire with molecular friction inside the wire, illustrating mechanical energy conversion to heat.

Science Circus General Features Corp

Birmingham Bayonets Bought For Riot Control

Jefferson County Commission approves purchase of 44 bayonets to accompany 44 riot guns. Sheriff Melvin Bailey aims to have riot squads ready for action as quickly as possible after 44 deputies finished a two week riot and crowd control course.

Birmingham Jefferson County Commission Melvin Bailey

Canine heart disease and heritability in puppies

Reader asks if a studdog with heart failure can pass the condition to offspring. Answer: heart disease is usually not inherited, though breeding should be avoided to prevent strain. Suggest rest, proper diet, and veterinary guidance on heart medication. Dr Moller offers care books to readers.

Joe M. Rich Tampa Fla. A

Spices Imports Grow Fast as U S Food Demand Rises

United States imports of spices have doubled from 83 million to 170 million pounds in 15 years, outpacing processed food product growth and exceeding the overall food import gain in the period.

United States

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