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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1969
Page
10
A reader contest offers a book prize while explaining weather and climate. The column distinguishes weather as short term atmospheric conditions from climate as long term patterns, listing latitude altitude land water currents winds and mountains as key influences. It includes a sample question puzzle about weather vocabulary.
A playful Q A from The New Book of Knowledge Yearbook jokes about fowl language vanish and a punny hanging moustache question. It notes a winner, Vicki Gates age 10 from Indianapolis and asks for more riddles to be sent to a readers page.
Danville announces birth of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell. Mrs. William Sanford is a patient at Pineview Hospital after Friday surgery. Mrs. Leonard Heflin admitted to Hartselle Hospital. John Wade Tomlinson earned a BA at Athens College. Arthur Tomlinson, son of Mrs. Truitt Tomlinson, graduates from Florence State, married to Patsy Stephenson. Also noting Tech Sergeant Vernon Dingwell at Ent Air Force Base who has donated 70 pints of blood in 18 years, a rare A negative type.
A Havana ice cream creation blends strawberry pistachio and gelatin with marshmallow sauce costing 80 centavos. The sundae, named after Fidel Castro's 1953 date, honors the 26th of July movement and was renamed in a state parlor workers’ contest.
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