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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1963
Page
14
Junior Editors Quiz on Soap Bubbles explains surface tension and cohesion with a playful family scene. It describes why bubbles keep shape, how they burst if stretched, and suggests a safe close look by placing a bubble on wool. Kay Campbell of E St Louis wins $10. postcards for future prizes are invited.
The Birmingham Zoo reports rising births with Simsotty the hippo leading the new cubs. Other newborns include Nina the baboon Bullet elk Gina the miniature donkey and various monkeys deer and antelope. Siberian Tigers may welcome a new litter in February as the zoo maintains one of the nation's few pairs.
A. W. Moller D.V.M argues that tail-set training provides a humane alternative to the illegal practice of cutting leaders to make a horse's foil stand. By harnessing leather and metal to guide the tail, early-taught positioning can meet show standards and match surgical results. Readers may mail care of the paper for pet care books.
A Boston secretary described a premonition of a strangler that became reality when her nearly nude body was found strangled. An autopsy shows she was killed about 24 hours earlier and raped, with multiple knot ties around her blouse. She was one month pregnant, and the eighth strangling in Greater Boston in six months, with no arrests.
A 39 year old truck driver Wilton Edwards and his nephew Robert Edwards 19 were charged with murder in the knife slaying of a Pennsylvania College student after a car bump incident. They were held in a secret location in Georgia to prevent trouble and were moved to another county jail. The warrants were sworn by a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent.
A mixed newspaper item blends a horoscope for ESTRELLITA with a tragic road incident near Baxley. It notes hopeful relationships and future gains for the reader born today, then reports Cascario’s death after a collision on U.S. 1 and pending grand jury action for Dan Fiorot and relatives.
Edwards confessed to slashing 19 year old Nicholas Matthew Cascanio of Bangor Pennsylvania with a pocketknife. He insisted his nephew had nothing to do with the incident and the sheriff quoted Edwards as saying the college student cursed.
In Philadelphia at Jefferson Hospital a baby boy under two pounds and the second child among quadruplets continues in critical condition. Doctors will consider him stable only when he weighs five pounds as the Spectors welcome their first children born 11 weeks early.
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