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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1962
Page
6
Reading shows varied daily time ranges from 6 AM to 11 PM and 7 AM to 10 PM with 4 55 AM opening and midnight closing followed by sunset times. An emergency clause mentions sunset to 10 30 PM in case of enemy attack.
Mobile AP authorities plan to question Roy W. Shiver 24 of Denham Springs Eugene W. Tillman 22 and Muncy McAlister 25 of Baton Rouge after police seized 30000 in blank postal money orders and a post office stamp. Detectives say McAlister had some money orders on arrest and the rest were found in a car spare tire.
Pat Fontaine, a divorced mother of five, juggles a 5:30 a.m. NBC Today Show role with home life in a seven bedroom New York area house. She commutes from predawn, rehearses in midtown, and returns by afternoon to be with her children. Weekend plans include skiing with the kids.
Dr. David W. Mullins former Auburn executive vice president spoke at Auburn University to deliver the commencement address before graduates. Mullins now serves as president of the University of Arkansas.
Earl Wilson reports on Shelley Berman and other celebrities amid TV crew intrusions in New York. The piece quotes Berman defending the Golden Rule and recalls recent actor tempers, marriages, and industry parties with notes on Connie Francis, Rita Hayworth, Sam Levine, and Eddie Fisher amid a busy 1962-63 show business scene.
Theodore Stanley, 13, of Washington DC wins Britannica Junior encyclopedia question contest. Historic rockets are traced from China in 1232 to 1256 in Europe. The text notes rockets in warfare, signaling, and the Fort McHenry bombardment inspiring the national anthem.
The feature covers the German V-2 rocket's 190 mile range and mixes light items from a joke exchange to a word puzzle. It notes a jail reference over a pig theft and includes a riddle about forming a cross with 25 dots. Readers are invited to send in riddles and jokes with a prize mention.
During a regular meeting of the Eva High School FHA Mrs Bert McClung and Mrs Christine Patton were elected mothers of the chapter. The club also voted to sponsor a needy family and send a Christmas food box with a committee appointed to choose the family.
Ninety unemployed Alabamians will be trained as corrent lathe operators at the Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School under an $85,280 grant from the Kennedy Act Program. The 26 week course, taught by two new full time teachers, runs 8 am to 2 40 pm and 4 30 pm to 10 30 pm, with tuition paid by the grant and additional aid for eligible heads of families.
Kelley states the Employment Agency will manage all screening and testing for those interested in the program.
The article notes Congress expanded from 65 members in 1789 to its current total of 437, reflecting the institution's changing size over more than two centuries.
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