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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1976
Page
24
Telephone installer Ken Odom tests an extension phone in an outhouse at Joe Conyers residence in Havana Florida The local phone company had responded to Conyers request for two phones and offered three for the price of two The installer quipped about placing one in the privy and Conyers agreed.
Brookfield Zoo's Bengal tigers Chuma and Prem have had 19 and 25 cubs respectively, while male lions are vasectomized. Overcrowding and federal red tape hinder transfer of cubs to other facilities, highlighting a paradox where captive big cats thrive unlike their wild counterparts.
Aquaculture advocates see farming can supply a significant share of protein as salmon and other species are bred in U.S. operations. Oregon Aqua Foods and similar farms aim to revive depleted runs, with early returns of juvenile coho promising larger harvests in a decade while global demand for shrimp, salmon, and catfish expands.
Britain funds a two year, one million pound program to test four wave energy schemes as a nonpolluting power source. Salter Duck and Contouring Rafts lead candidates from UK and Japan, plus Air Pressure Ring Buoy and Russel Rectifier. Each concept uses wave motion to drive pumps or generate power with potential to meet substantial coastal electricity needs.
Airman First Class Sheila J. Wilbourn daughter of Mr and Mrs Billy J Wilbourn of Rt 2 Lacey s Spring Ala has graduated at Sheppard AFB Tex from the U S Air Force technical training course for communications specialists She is assigned to Spangdahlem AB Germany to serve with a unit of the Air Force Communications Service Completion of the course provides academic credits through the Community College of the Air Force Shelburn is a 1975 graduate of A P Brewer High School Florette Ala
Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga on January 10, 1775, gaining a strategic victory early in the American Revolutionary conflict. The capture involved small force surprise operations and secured artillery used in subsequent campaigns.
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