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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1964
Page
5
Reader hints cover care of bathing suits to prevent fading and deterioration from pool water and lotions. Tips include washing after use, rinsing milk glasses with cold water, protecting washer foot rests with paper towels, and repurposing oilcloth toy boxes for outdoor toy storage. multiple readers share small housekeeping ideas.
In Valley Forge Pennsylvania on July 15 6 am 120 Boy Scouts and leaders from Tennessee Valley Council including a Decatur Moulton and Athens troop flew to Philadelphia and bused to Valley Forge for the sixth National Jam Boree of the Boy Scouts of America. Crews set up camp and assigned duties. Activities include a skit Whistler by Steve Chenault Ellis Chenault Ronald Mathews Ronnie Rooks to be shown at Region Five campfire next Tuesday. Friday opening night ceremony drew 53 000 scouts and 20 000 visitors with Milton Hutson David Hume and Steve Wright in a scene on Freedom of Religion. The article notes years with death and birth rates per 10 000.
Ras Huger plans a risky approach to a Federal warship at Rum Head Inlet as dawn fog complicates navigation. The Johnston rides a rising current and heavy shell risk hangs over a narrow, tide driven ploy to board or sink the prize ship.
Fortunate battle end turns to rescue as Ras commands the damaged ship Johnston against a pursuing gunboat in fog. Men fight aboard and in the water, a drowning woman prompts a brave but perilous dive to save her, with the tale continuing tomorrow.
Alabama's two U S senators joined six others in opposing Senate confirmation of Leroy Collins as director of the Community Relations Service. The 53 to 8 vote came as President Johnson had nominated the former Florida governor to head the agency created to administer the new civil rights law.
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