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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1971
Page
10
A dense schedule of what aired on a Tuesday including Jeannie Bewitched Perry Mason and Carson across CBS NBC and local slots. The guide lists show titles times and channel numbers with daytime soap operas cartoons game shows and news segments.
A collection of playful questions with punchlines, followed by a word ladder puzzle asking to change the first word Left to Rose in four moves. The page notes tomorrow’s answer and invites readers to submit riddles and jokes to the Riddles Jokes Tell Me Why column with a zip code. The winner listed is Sue Hiragayashi, 11, Madison Wisconsin.
CBS News Special Reston on China features James Reston, six week China visit, interview leads with Premier Chou En-lai and Chinese leaders. Eric Sevareid conducts the discussion. Also lists film and program entries for the evening including westerns and dramas.
Sealed proposals for the Housing Authority of Decatur Alabama will be received for purchase of Project Notes Series Eleventh Series 1971. Also notice of mortgage foreclosure sale by The National Life and Accident Insurance Company on a Kendall property in Decatur with sale date September 23 1971.
Funeral services were held for Herbert Lindolph Ausley 59 of Athens at 2 p.m. at McConnell Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Legg Cemetery. James W. Carter 55 of Athens died at Decatur General Hospital and was buried at Athens Memory Garden. Ida Lee Jackson 83 of Athens died and was buried in Athens Cemetery with services at McConnell Funeral Chapel. Survivors and pallbearers listed for each, including family members in Athens and surrounding towns.
The article explains chewing gum composition and production from a gum base sugar corn syrup and flavoring. It covers chicle from sapodilla trees jelutong and serva tree gums, preparation melting sterilizing removing debris, mixing with flavoring and sugar, rolling into ribbons drying with powdered sugar, and cutting wrapping packaging.
Las Vegas EPA official Stanley Greenfield says industry mood shifts toward obeying laws and reducing pollution. He notes strong tendency to take necessary steps, with occasional guidance needed, after an EPA symposium on environmental protection.
Funeral services for 87 year old Rev Vance Burrough Ross of Morgan County died Sunday at Albertville Boaz Hospital were to be at Little Branch Primitive Baptist Church with burial at the adjoining cemetery Adams-Brown Funeral Home. He pastored Morgan County churches in the early 1920s while a ministerial student at Howard College in Birmingham. A Tennessee native he leaves four sons Jack Ross Tampa H Cleveland Ross Palm Bay James Eugene Ross Albertville Bruce Ross Hartselle three daughters Mrs Bernard Allen Oceanside Calif Mrs Gordon G Sibley Albertville Mrs Henry Clemons Hartselle a half sister Mrs Will Mance Huntsville 11 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Funeral services for Frances Raye Slaton 42 of Anderson held Sunday at McConnell Funeral Chapel with Rev. Jack Bailey officiating and burial at New Salem Cemetery. Survivors include widower E C Slaton three daughters Mothentias Townsend Lester 1 Tony Hamley Athens Monania I Slaton Anderson 1 three sons Michael Ira Slaton Athens 3 Mark Slaton Casey Slaton Boyd Anderson 1 parents Mr and Mrs Ira Hunt Harrisburg Ark three sisters Mrs David Adams Harrisburg Mrs Sim Dunlap Marked Tree Ark Mrs William Arnold Planedanling La three brothers Billy Hunt Vietnam Bobby Hunt Harrisburg Lonnie Hunt Marked Tree and one grandchild.
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