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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1973
Page
3
A historic TV grid lists programs across hours from 6:00 to 1:00 including Truth or Consequences Gunsmoke Hollywood Squares News and Johnny Carson with entries for CBS NBC and local segments. Adventure shows animal features religious programming and variety hours fill the schedule.
A dense listing shows TV and movie slots from CBS News specials to classic films including The Night and Bright Road. It notes program times across channels, with several dramas, westerns, comedies, and children's shows interleaved through the evening.
The Dow Jones average fell 1.28 to 1,046.21 at midday, after closing high Friday at 1,047.49. Volume cooled with little broad move, while Panhandle Eastern Pipeline traded 99,900 shares at 44 1 2. Mountain Fuel slid 3 percent to 8 7 1 4 2. Jefferson Stores rose 4 percent to 10, boosted by Marcor merger talks. NYSE index off .09 to 65.28. Amex up .02 to 26.70.
Your money gains safety from federal insurance and sound management. The bulk of investments are in individual and small unit dwellings, over 80 percent of loans in this secure field, offering a protected nest egg in Decatur Alabama. Dial 355 6011 for details at 215 Moulton St.
Decatur market notes show cotton middling at 20.45, cottonseed at 40 per ton, Grade A milk at 655 per hundred, four per cent milk prices at 3.20 per hundred, and various grain prices including No 2 soybeans 4.105, white shelled corn 2.06, oats 0.90, milling wheat 2.35, barley and other feeds listed, with wood and pulpwood rates also shown.
Quotations from the NASD reflect representative interdealer prices as of about 10 a m. The interdealer market changes throughout the day and prices exclude retail markup markdown or commissions.
Shelved note on groceries and cooling advice. Mentions Safeway stock names and prices with a reminder to refrigerate shelled nuts to prevent rancidity.
A reader contest winner Denise Mombourquette is announced. The article explains fossil formation from preserved hard parts to whole bodies and traces like footprints and worm trails, defining paleontology and noting mammoths found in Siberia.
A short reader puzzle asks players to write nine columns of digits without the bottom 2, then add the removed 2. It claims a prize in the New Book of Knowledge Yearbook and invites entries to Riddles Jokes Tell Me Why with a ZIP code included. Today's winner is Paul Bourque of Chicopee Massachusetts.
The Calhoun Northwest Junior College basketball game scheduled for tonight has been postponed due to inclement weather conditions disrupting the schedule.
High Sunday 35 then 30 today and 30 Tuesday with a low around 18. Cloudy and cold with a 50 percent chance of light snow and rain. Monday climate data show a high 35, low 31, average 34, 12 degrees below normal.
State of Alabama Morgan County Probate Court notices Sarah Velma Page petitions to probate Sidney Walker Page last will and testament. The court sets January 29 1973 at 10 AM for hearing. heirs may contest. Bryan McAfee J of Probate.
Doctors test hundreds of patients showing Preparation H provides prompt temporary relief from pain and itching and helps shrink swelling of hemorrhoidal tissues caused by inflammation. Many doctors use or recommend it for their families. Preparation H ointment or suppositories.
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