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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1964
Page
8
Red Newell of Graham Texas, fourteen, is announced as today’s winner of the Britannica Junior Encyclopedia prize. The item blends a contest notice with a short educational excerpt on turtles explaining turtle tortoise and terrapin distinctions and shell anatomy.
Chicago officials credit ZIP codes with speeding Christmas mail. The Chicago parcel post hub, largest in the nation, handled 47 million pieces last year amid a backlog that left gifts arriving in January. Officials say routine clearance improved this year with no sacks of mail left.
The excerpt notes turtles can protrude head neck tail and legs, their old seeming pace, and that some live to 200 years. It describes their eyes ears senses and diet, mentions leatherback as the largest about 1000 pounds, and a 1500 pound record. Green turtles provide turtle soup, with other playful classroom bits.
In North Chatham New York Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas recalls the Santa Claus question first raised in 1906. The former New York City schoolteacher now 75 reflects on editor Francis Church s enduring reply and the flood of Christmas cards she has received.
An Arkansas company tests a Stockton area well six miles north of town to confirm commercial viability after swabbing about 50 barrels of low gravity crude. Early output appears 30 to 40 barrels daily, casting doubt on the discovery and marking Alabama's fifth potential field with initial production from the Washita Fredericksburg formation.
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