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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1964
Page
6
Donnalynn Perrin of Hull Quebec is named today as a winner. The article notes most people are right handed and explains brain function behind handedness. It ends with a puzzle section asking three questions with clever answers such as a loaf of bread and a screwdriver.
A playful page combines a number Nine puzzle challenge, TV and radio listings, game show hints, and trivia notes. It mentions Ruth Walker as a winner, beer consumption in Mexico, and a slate of 1950s and 1960s programs featuring stars like Steve Allen and Garry Moore.
NBC Sunday night offered Picasso quotes and private collectors in a feature on art collecting directed by Aline Saarinen. The evening included Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor performance by the NBC Opera Company and praised English diction. The Bob Hope Christmas Show, taped in Greece, Turkey, and Italy for servicemen, packaged holiday warmth. East Side West Side on CBS offered a light hearted clash between beatniks and politicians.
Old line legal reserve life insurance promotes a mail order plan for a $1,000 life policy aimed at ages 40 to 90 with no medical exam. No agent will call. free information available. Send name, address and year of birth to Central Security Life Insurance Co. Dept. B-102 Fort Worth Texas.
Governor Wallace helped raise over 12700 for the March of Dimes on WCOV-TV from 10 p.m. Saturday to 3 1/2 p.m. Sunday. Wallace stayed to 3 a.m. answering calls and collecting pledges. His son George Wallace Jr. urged donations including a $10 gift from the governor.
The OCR text lists multiple radio call signs and frequencies. It appears as a fragment from an old station directory with entries such as WMSL Mutual 1400 WHOS AM 800 WHOS FM 102.1 MC WHRT 860 WAJF 1490 WJOF FM 104.3 MC WJMW AM 730 and a stray “Teseeeeee” trailing.
Readers share house keeping tips from organizing kitchen drawers to storing cans laid flat and using drawers for quick view. Suggestions include preserving medicine labels with tape, saving greeting cards in drawers, snow brushing rugs outdoors, and a tobacco bag for windshield cleaning.
Alabama members of Congress voted on recent roll calls. On passage by 45 to 24, a bill authorizing U.S. participation in the Inter-American Development Bank with $500 million. Yor Hill and Sparkman. In the House, passage by 298 to 11 of a bill extending the Federal Airport Act through June 30, 1967 with $75 million annual appropriations. For: Andrews, Elliott, Grant, Huddleston, Jones Rains, Roberts and Selden.
Hoffa and five co defendants face jury tampering charges linked to Hoffa's 1962 Nashville conspiracy case. Opening day expected to focus on procedural matters as backgrounds of about 300 prospective jurors are reviewed before trial in Chattanooga. Hoffa, 50, has had four prior federal trials with two acquittals and two hung juries.
Farms in the United States rely on tractors trucks and stationary engines offering about 200 million horsepower nearly double the output used by conventional industries.
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