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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 25, 1966

Page

17

Sheriff hunts hit and run driver after child injury near Baileyton

A child was struck by a red 1959 Ford on a farm to market road near Baileyton and taken to Cullman Hospital with head face jaw and limb injuries. Witnesses described the car. a search followed until the vehicle was spotted at an Arab filling station. The driver, Chaney, a married man with a family, was arrested at relatives’ home.

Cullman Hospital Ford Waldrop Baileyton Cullman Marshall Blount Arab Police Department Highway Patrol Arab Chaney

Groundbreaking ceremony turns to sand pile in Miami

Judges and attorneys staged a ceremonial ground breaking for a new Bar Association building on a paved lot. With no actual digging, a pile of sand was trucked in to give the workers something to dig in during the ceremony.

Miami Bar Association

Freeman warns famine threat requires global action in 1980s

Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman on Meet the Press says aid from less developed nations must rise in the next five years to prevent mass famine as the world population grows. Sargent Shriver advocates income maintenance to wipe out U S poverty, citing Social Security as an example.

Associated Press Washington Orville L. Freeman United States Freeman NBC Meet the Press Sargent Shriver Unite States Shriver CBS Face the Nation

Air Force tests balloon shaped satellite succeeds then decays

The Air Force reported its balloon shaped satellite inflated successfully before the plastic skin disintegrated in sunlight. The remaining skeleton orbits 620 miles above Earth as a grid of soft aluminum wire designed to reflect communications signals between Earth stations. Laboratory tests of smaller grid spheres showed signals emitted were five times stronger than prior bounces.

Washington Air Force Earth

Sensory Trick Reveals New Feelings From Touch

An experiment explores how rubbing fingers on familiar areas creates a surprising new sensation. It explains that habit shapes our sense of touch and that swapping touch patterns with another person reveals distinct neural feedback.

Commission urges overhaul of Washington police force

The President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia calls for a total reorganization and revitalization of the Washington police department and to improve relations with the Negro majority. The Office of Education notes handicapped participation in training programs rising from one in 16 in 1963 to about one in 11 in early 1964.

Associated Press President’s Commission On Crime District of Columbia Washington U.S. Office of Education

Rocks as prized decorative finds in Japan

A prosperous Japanese buyer may pay four thousand dollars for a rock with an interesting shape or color reflecting the value placed on natural stones for ornament.

Japan

Luci Johnson Seen Fatigued Amid Busy Schedule

In Washington Luci Baines Johnson appeared tired after a string of demanding days with her father. Mrs. Johnson’s press secretary said Luci is not ill and needs more sleep after two grueling days in New York for wedding preparations and a 13 hour trail through Indiana Kentucky and Illinois with the President.

Luci Elizabeth Carpenter

Primatene Tablets Promise Fast Asthma Relief

New York doctors tout Primatene Tablets as a safe over the counter bronchial formula that stops choking attacks in minutes. The drug opens bronchial tubes, releases trapped air, loosens phlegm, calms panic, and returns breathing to normal quickly enabling hours of relief.

New York N.Y

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Science By Bob Brown Gene Shelton Auburn University John C. Calhoun Jr. College S. W Decatur Mgr Shelton Home Furn. Co Pol Pol Adv Eugene P Shelton Decatur, Alo Westinghouse T.V EAL Craert Utd Waltham Atlantic Waltham Watch Jewel Waltham Watch Kroger Company Glendinning Enterprises, Inc Westport Connecticut Woo the Krogh CO NSF National Science Foundation George N. Greene Department of Zoology Alan Gadson Struth Paxon Senior High School Jackson, Fla Michael Dale Cox Hazlewood High School Town Creek Washington (Ap Luci Baines Johnson National City Christian Church
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