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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1963
Page
6
Sylvia Porter outlines how a high school diploma markedly raises lifetime earnings across trades from carpentry to bus driving. The Census Bureau estimates show high school graduates earning thousands more over a lifetime, with gaps widening by occupation and education level.
ABC presents an imaginative revival of 1775 and 1776 using camera work and sound effects to recreate battles and a British defeat. NBC offers Best on Record a star studded musical hour with Grammy awards and performances by Sinatra Crosby Dean Martin and others.
A White House physician accompanied President Johnson closely in New York on Sunday, after the Kennedy assassination prompted a new security procedure. In Dallas on November 22, 1963, Dr. George Barkley, then a Navy admiral, was four cars behind the presidential vehicle. Sunday Burkley rode in a po-
In Wichita a questionnaire for expectant parents yielded an unusual reply from a mother to be who answered the prompt what do you call classes with A less apprehensive huge band. The quirky response surprised participants and prompted bemused discussion.
A brief item notes a vehicle moving just in front of John Son's limousine during a public appearance or procession, with no further details on location or participants.
Flint City Shell Service Station on Highway $1 was broken into last night or early today. Manager O. E. McMurry reported missing four tires four cases of oil a box of tubes and one case of anti-freeze. He noted a possible theft of a spinner hub cap from a car under repair. The station closed at 8:45 p m and was found with a broken front window after 5:30 to 6 a m. Morgan County Sheriff's force is investigating.
Laster Hite lit a match to a water well during drilling for his dairy herd in Cadiz Kentucky. The blast caused a gas glow that he said provides illumination for milking as he faces potential loss of pure water for cows. The story also includes unrelated text about lifetime earnings by education level with figures from 1963.
In Dawson Georgia a second pre dawn attack on a residence linked to Negro voter registration injured Carolyn Daniels 33 a registration worker. A bomb damaged her bedroom while a prior 1962 wave involving churches and homes sparked federal interest led by the FBI and local police chief W B Cherry. Jack Chatfield of Trinity College Vermont was wounded in a related incident.
Witnesses described a lightning strike during the Chase Maryland crash involving Pan American Flight 214 from Puerto Rico to New York. The CAB noted extreme turbulence as a factor, while other witnesses reported no lightning near the Capital Air Lines turboprop crash with 31 aboard.
A fragment listing radio stations includes WHIO AM FM WHET WAIFa WOR FM WJMW AM 730 and several call letters with frequencies. It appears as a part of a larger broadcast guide page.
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