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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1963
Page
3
Traveling with babies prompts Heloise to suggest plastic lined disposable diapers secured with cellophane tape to avoid pins in motion. Readers share tips on bulletin boards for hints, toy bags to re-spark interest for toddlers, and checking garbage disposals with a flashlight for safety. Various readers praise practical home hacks and caution testing fabrics before ammonia use.
A collage of celebrity gossip, quotes, and old showbiz anecdotes from 1963. It covers Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and family reflections, party tributes to Tex O’Rourke, Kennedy-era witticisms, hotel robbing of an Italian film executive, and notes on Ruth Clay’s wedding plans, with jokes about politics and fame. The piece blends humorous lines, remembered quotes, and social scene tidbits from New York and Hollywood.
The conspiracy and conflict of interest trial of former Congressmen Thomas F. Johnson of Maryland and Frank W. Boykin of Alabama enters its 10th week. Judge Roszel C. Thomson recessed for Memorial Day weekend as Boykin's attorney argues a 250000 payment was a legitimate land deal, not influence peddling, with co-defendants J Kenneth Edlin and William L. Robinson from Miami. The government alleges payments were meant to secure a mail fraud indictment against Edlin. The land parcels include an 8000 acre tract in Charles County Maryland and a 5000 acre tract nearby.
A look at how teens are urged to pursue imag inative training for a changing world. It notes schools and big firms like IBM and Remington Rand partnering on Career Day programs, advances in microwave cooking and nuclear power, and the need for vocational education to raise living standards amid rapid automation. It also humorously shifts to fashion and entertainment trends and a string of pop culture vignettes.
Auburn Extension agronomist S. C. Lowery, a celebrated Alabama farm research expert, died at 66 in a Montgomery hospital. A Cullman County native, he graduated from Auburn University in 1923 and served in Jefferson, DeKalb, Geneva, and Walker counties before joining extension work in 1928. He also taught school in Cullman.
In Stafford County Virginia Boykin owned acres later controlled by Edlin firms and finally bought by Francis J Finneran of Connecticut. When sold to Edlin his firms paid Boykin's Timber Company 250000 dollars. Johnson argues any money from Edlin was for legal services.
Efforts to promote higher yields per acre have led Alabama to notable progress in corn production, reflecting targeted farming improvements and supportive programs boosting output and efficiency.
The United States has never recognized Estonia's 1940 incorporation into the Soviet Union. The status of the annexation remains disputed in U.S. policy and historical accounts.
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