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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1961
Page
3
A reader asks about remarrying an ex husband who left for another woman. Dorothy Dix advises caution, urging the 30 year old to stay free, view the marriage as experience, and pursue travel. In another letter a mother seeks driving lessons for her five children, but her husband resists funding lessons and supports babysitting work.
Call MCCULLOCH ES 5-1090 for service. Listing at 215 Ferry Street shows a daily schedule with Jack on air from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM and a 12:30 sign off.
A garbled entry from a local television log lists station call signs and frequencies WHOS-AM 800 WHOS-FM 102.1 MC WAJF 1490 and a string of stray characters. The readable portion indicates a schedule or log reference without clear program details.
Radio stations list daily hours from dawn to dusk with all band names and call letters. A note instructs listeners to tune to 640 or 1240 during enemy attack for continued coverage.
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians return to television for a Christmas Eve broadcast after years away. Waring recalls being dropped and the industry selling out to others, while his group helped invent TV spectaculars and will now reappear on air.
The piece notes Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians question television economics after 45 years in show business. He fears there may be insufficient funds for adequate rehearsals and predicts a challenging budget for his NBC Dec 24 hour show despite plans to feature memorable old songs and a possible sing along.
Police logged four traffic incidents from Saturday night to Sunday including two on city streets and two late Saturday. Drivers James Putman and Lester Cole collided on 6th Ave and Moulton St at 5 52 a.m. Putman from Athens and Cole from Hartselle. Margaret Thompson sustained a slight concussion after a 3 30 p.m. crash at 16th Ave SE and 7th St. A hit and run damaged a 1952 Dodge parked on Sherman St owned by J E Case. Wayne Smith and W E Edmondson collided on Highway 31 S, Edmondson swerved into a post. Lillard Compton was charged with reckless driving after spinning into a ditch on Danville Rd.
Critics note Mata Hari style not applicable as a sharp drama and preview a TV news special about President Kennedy's South America voyage airing at 88:30 EST on NBC.
A historical note describes the Lincoln Memorial in Washington with six columns, each representing a state of the Union in 1865 when Lincoln died, followed by a terse promo line.
Jacqueline Kennedy completes a 6,300 mile Latin American leg of the presidential tour, praised for grace and style in Colombia and Venezuela. She greets crowds in Bogota, visits a charity hospital, and changes outfits four times during receptions at San Carlos Palace.
A Sunday fire at 1231 W. Washington St Athens caused minor floor damage to a house occupied by Jim Smith and owned by Lefty Smith. Firefighters say water entering a gas furnace caused the blaze to ignite outside the unit at 7:36 p.m.
In Athens three vandalism incidents were reported over the weekend. A bottle shattered a 4 by 4 foot window at the A P Supermarket Saturday night. A bottle hit Frank Thompson's porch early Friday, sound like a shotgun blast after a car left. Two rocks broke a glass door at L and P Supermarket Friday night. Thompson, 903 W Pryor St, reported the porch damage and glass spread.
A new healing substance called Bio-Dyne, used as Preparation H, reportedly shrinks hemorrhoids, stops itching, and relieves pain without surgery. Case studies claim notable reduction and patients saying piles are no longer a problem.
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