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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1973

Page

3

Areaervice Men In News Areaervice Men In News

Airmen from Alabama and nearby states receive postings and duties at bases in Alaska Idaho Philippines and Mississippi. Notables include M Sgt Clifford B Bailey of Mathias West Virginia retiring after 20 years at Elmendorf AFB and others assigned to Mountain Home Clark and Keesler AFBs with various training and unit citations.

Anchorage Alaska Calvin Bailey Mathias W. Va Air Force Elmendorf Afb Bailey Alaskan Air Command Elmendorf Mathias High School Virginia A. L. Williams Cullman Mountain Home Idaho Bennie C. Spinks Walter T. Spinks Hanceville 5 Mountain Home Afb Spinks Tactical Air Command Robins Afb Hanceville High School Bobbie Edith Hammonds Frankfort Robert Rucker Defoe San Antonio Deborah Harris Oneida E. Burch Virginia Ave Montgomery Keesler Afb Miss Keesler Harris Sidney Lanier High School Melvin Harris Town Creek 2 Billy W Fain Samuel D. Fain Coleman Ave Athens Fain Athens High School Calhoun Jr. College

Tuna Fish Deficiency? Oddities and a Housewife

A collage of whimsical items spans from a tuna fish deficiency to a square eggshed, a one martini lunch, an ostrich with its head in sand, a pension-ditching politician, a talking dog, and a fortune cookie guiding life. It also mentions Watergate figures, a teenager with an inferiority complex, a showering hippie, grandparents babysitting five grandchildren, sermons copied from others, a flea circus Wagnerian, Mil ton Berle humor, a Playboy centerfold, a cheap private hospital, and a Chanute AFB assignment for an airman’s training path.

Hal Boyle New York Mount Rushmore Milton Berle Playboy Magazine Margaret Mead Hilton

Weather summary for Decatur and vicinity

This morning Keller Memorial Bridge river reading 20.30 with sea level at 554.60. Sunday record highs reached 90 and 88 today with 88 at 2 pm. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy with thundershowers possible today 70 percent, tonight 40 percent, Tuesday 40 percent. Extended outlook through Friday shows a cooling trend and scattered thundershowers with highs in the mid to upper 80s.

Decatur and Vicinity Keller Memorial Bridge

Invisible wages on the unseen servant

Poem fragment by Mattie Anders reflecting monthly bills for electricity as an unseen force. The speaker laments pay for an invisible service and imagines beauty as reward while acknowledging life’s influence on others and self-perception.

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