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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1968
Page
8
The article describes a Herman H. York design featuring corner boards battens and dormers, a two story foyer and a rear facing living dining and family rooms. The plan includes five bedrooms two stories plus a two car garage with laundry and mud room and large kitchen.
The Decatur Daily Building Editor notes an enclosure of 50 cents and 3 cents sales tax for baby blueprints of Design No. 724.
Decatur High School focuses on exams and basketball this week. The Red Raiders have played 11 games, 6 wins, with sophomores and juniors forming the varsity. The B team is 6-0 and the junior team 8-0.
York architect designed two garage doors to maintain proportional balance with the house. The large single door would overwhelm key facade elements, and the dual doors reflect the careful, detail oriented approach applied to the project.
Army Pvt Bennie H Drinkard 20 completed field communications crewman course Jan 12 at Ft Huachuca Ariz wife Roberta lives at 1006 8th Ave SW Army Pvt Donald R Chambers 19 finished nine weeks of advanced infantry training Jan 12 at Ft Polk La last week included guerrilla warfare exercises wife Rita lives at Holly Pond 2 Marine Pfc Clarence E Jarrett son of C D Jarrett Lacey s Spring reported for duty with Head quarters Battalion First Marine Division near Da Nang Viet Nam Marine Cpl Joe R Collins son Horace Collins 1005 7th Ave SE serving at US Marine Corps Supply Center Albany Ga Lance Cpl George E Putman son George E Putman Sr Athens in Vietnam with First Battalion First Marine Regiment a unit of First Marine Division Want ads get results The average human body contains eight to 10 pints of blood.
The article traces medical knowledge from primitive cures to ancient Egyptian and Hindu practices, then Greek medicine. It highlights discoveries by Hippocrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius, Harvey, Leeuwenhoek, and Jenner, noting evolving understanding of anatomy, circulation, and vaccination.
Brazil plans an educational television network to teach reading and writing in the impoverished Northeast. The Education Ministry and Pernambuco State University collaborate to use public sets in squares for broadcasts, aiming to cover the region at an estimated cost of $200,000. A Rio de Janeiro program already serves about 200,000 viewers.
The text notes a transition in the 19th century as medicine moved from belief-based practice toward a foundation built on scientific knowledge, signaling the rise of evidence and systematic study in medical treatment.
A light hearted trio of child friendly jokes. A bull asleep becomes a bulldozer a pony cannot speak because he is a little horse and the elephant on a fence signals time to replace the fence with a new one.
Readers are urged to finish a drawing for a New Book of Knowledge Yearbook prize. Entrants must address entries to Drawing Tell Me Why with name age and full address including zip code. Today's winner is Catherine Rudy from Braddock New Jersey.
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