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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1969
Page
3
A dense grid of prime time programs lists Zane Grey Theater Dark Shadows My World and Welcome to It Gunsmoke Laugh-In and The Beverly Hillbillies among many entries. The schedule covers 6:00 to 9:45 PM with news weather and talk shows interspersed.
Best Bets include The Stooge 1953 with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at 8 p.m. Also Pancho Villa 1950 at 10:30 p.m. Ready Willing and Able 1937 at 11:30 p.m. The Golden Eye 1948 at 3:30 p.m. Reunion in Reno 1951 also shown at 3:30 p.m. Casts listed for each title.
River readings at Keller Memorial Bridge show 16.60 feet with sea level 550.9. TVA lake stages include Chickamauga 675.3 Pickwick 408.6 Guntersville 593.4 Whitesburg 552.3 Wheeler 550.9 Wilson 506.4. Sunday high 57 and low 52. Forecast: today cloudy with rain, 80 percent today, 60 percent Tuesday. High today 60, low 42, Tuesday high 54.
A long OCR fragment lists hospital dismissals and resident names across Hillsboro Decatur Athens Moulton Danville Somerville Belle Mina Elkmont and other locales. It includes numerous individuals with street addresses and family relations, plus infant mentions and a few named households.
A concise history of Mobile opens the lineup as Mrs Burchfield presents early growth. Education plans for the 1970s are discussed by Gordon Tucker and guests. Dr James Salem hosts a perspective interview with a notable guest. World Press analyzes current world headlines with Roger Boas and a rotating panel.
The forecast covers Tuesday through Saturday with average temperatures 5 to 9 degrees below normal. Highs range from 52 to 62, with normal lows from 33 to 42. The period starts wet with 1 to 2 inches of rain, then dries and warms toward the end.
Dale R. Limbaugh BA3 US Navy Seabees is home on leave before depart for the Caribbean in January. Limbaugh is with Amphibious Construction Battalion Two at Little Creek Virginia. Army Pte Donald A Wilson son of Mr and Mrs Robert C Wilson 1115 Ninth Ave SE was assigned Nov 27 to the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam as an artilleryman.
Airman Thomas G. Veazey son of Mr and Mrs Thomas M Veazey of 2026 Woodland Street Decatur completed basic training at Lackland AFB Texas He is assigned to Sheppard AFB Texas for training in wire maintenance He is a 1966 Decatur High School graduate who attended Georgia Tech and has ties to Hartselle Courtland and Moulton communities through family and friends
Multiple obituaries recount deaths in Limestone County Alabama including Clifford Johns 63 of Athens ruled a self inflicted .22 caliber head wound and funeral set at New Garden Pentecostal Church with Spry Funeral Home in charge. Survivors listed include wife Christine and children.
Births announced for families of Willie Joe Knowles J W Quick Albert Twitty and Harold Little at Cullman and Lawrence County Hospitals. Classifieds include real estate 40 acres near Somerville, autos a 1960 Chevrolet wagon 75, 1962 Ford Fairlane 325 and a 1966 used sedan 1000, plus pets and a 3 room apartment for rent.
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