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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1964
Page
7
Junior Editors panels highlight PT boats with their torpedo role and high speed. The feature notes Ensign John F Kennedy directing rescue after a Japanese destroyer cut a PT boat, earning Navy and Marine Corps Medals and the Purple Heart.
A reader contest winner is announced as Jim Egan of Phoenix Arizona for the Tell Me Why feature. The page includes school jokes and a money lesson explaining money as a measure medium of exchange and store of value with history from shells to coins. Also notes another winner Laraine Chen of Jamaica and a health capsule teaser.
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