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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1963
Page
2
A Britannica inspired lesson describes the Great Wall built by Shih Huang Ti around 221 B.C. to defend China. It notes the wall’s purpose and limits, its length over 1 500 miles, construction of earth stone and brick, and watch towers and a roadway along the crest of mountain ranges.
Sunset at 5 51 p m and sunrise at 6 05 a m mark the day. Moonrise occurs at 6 19 p m with Last Quarter on March 18. Venus rises about 45 minutes before Saturn and next month Saturn will rise before Venus.
The Friday night reading reached 20.23 feet, up 0.31 feet in 12 hours from a sea level of 554.52 feet. Forecast calls for cloudy, windy, cooler conditions with scattered showers tonight and a partly cloudy cool Sunday with a high near 60. At 7 30 p.m. Friday the temperature was 61 degrees.
Funeral services for 10 month old George Stumbo the son of Mr and Mrs Jack Stumbo 916 3rd Ave SE will be held today at 2 p m at Northside Baptist Church with Rev Leon Dawson officiating Burial will follow at Reunion Cemetery under direction of Gunthorp Brown Service Funeral Home
Most national parks function as wildlife sanctuaries with Grand Teton as a notable exception. The piece highlights how the parks preserve fauna and habitats while allowing limited human use in various forms.
A light exchange unfolds with Jane explaining her nickname then family banter about phone calls and last minute timing. The couple repeats a joke about the phone not ringing and hesitation in answering.
In a Florida milestone the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse is touted as the brightest in the United States with five and a half million candlepower. A daily puzzle notes Turkey as the answer to yesterday's location query and invites more riddles for a Britannica prize.
The Ladies Aid of Willoughby Presbyterian Church met at Mrs. Edwin Little's home for the third monthly gathering. Mrs. Frank Richards delivered the devotion Power For God's Work. Eleven members attended and were served refreshments by Mrs. Buddy Reed and Mrs. John Copeland.
A wartime style list shows radio station callsigns WMSL Mutual WHOS AM FM WHOS FM WHRT WAJF WIMW WJOF and others with broadcast windows 6 AM to 5 PM and sunrise to sunset. Additional times 7 AM to 10 PM and 4:55 AM to midnight appear, plus a note to tune to 646 or 1240.
Two three vehicle crashes reported by the Decatur Post of the Alabama Highway Patrol in four counties. The first crash near Falkville involved a Plymouth sedan a Dodge pickup and a Cadillac with no injuries. The second crash near Moulton on Highway 24 involved a Chevrolet a International pickup and a Plymouth with about 950 dollars of damage and no injuries. A third note states diners in the nations restaurants eat 34 percent more beet than 15 years ago.
A readout lists multiple names and addresses under dismissals and related notes. Entries include Mrs S A Hill 1615 Grant St SE Mrs Bobby Joe Martin Court land 1 Archie Morgan Baugher Athens Mrs Lester E Thrasher 823 7th Ave SE Bolan Jr 116 Pine St Mrs Minor B Prater Decatur Mrs Leon Braswell Decatur H W Carden Decatur Elmo Tolbert Courtland Waldo Pickens Mount Hope Patsy Diane Nelson Hart selle 2 Master Phillip Wyane Blach 918 17th Ave SE Master Gene Norwood Minor Hill Tenn.
Admissions roll lists Frances Collier of 609 West Moulton Leslie NeSmith from Trinity 1 C P Buttram of 417 Lafayette Street Master Loyce Sparkman of Hart and Master Freddie Sparkman of Hartselle 4 Sales Henderson of 1504 Phillips Avenue SW William Ayers of 910 Carridale Street SW with various affiliations listed.
CofC sales manager Roy McAlister WMSL TV and Dinah Smith Chemstrand community relations manager join Huntsville Chamber along with receptionist Bill Chilton Garner named on this page.
About 30 officials from Hancock and Harrison counties visited NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to view a Saturn I booster static test and discuss the space boom. NASA is planning a space center at Gainesville and advancing test operations for a larger Saturn rocket booster.
The seventy first anniversary of Central Baptist Church will be observed as Homecoming Day on March 17. Activities begin with Sunday School at 9 30 a m attendance goal 1200 for the occasion. Dr Gilbert Guffin of Howard College will speak at 11 a m. Dr A H Reid will give the dedicatory message at 3 p m in the auditorium for the Sivley Building named for W E Sivley. An informal tea follows at 4 with tours of the new building. Dr Paul Roberts former Central Baptist pastor now at First Baptist Little Rock Ark will speak at the 7 30 p m evening service. Public invited to participate in these events especially the dedicatory service.
First National Bank of Decatur sues Lurene Merrill in Morgan County Circuit Court and holds an attachment on her Decatur property Lot 3 Block 19 Brookhaven. non resident Lurene Merrill of Albany Georgia must appear within 30 days. Security Mutual Finance Corp announces public sale of a 1956 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight at 714 Bank Street Decatur at 10:00 AM on March 14 1963.
Athens firefighters reported a grass fire Friday at 4 40 p m on vacant land Yarborough Road owned by Will Compton with no damage.
Athens police hunted a drunk driving driver after a Chevrolet pickup struck a parked car on Highway 72 near Smiths Salvage Co. The Madison County plate was noted and the car owner remained unknown at about 6 15 p m. Police were alerted at 5 25 p m.
Cullman Fire Department responded to three blazes on Friday. A 1956 Chevrolet owned by Ray Parsons suffered total loss at 8:09 a.m. A grass fire on Convent Rd caused no damage at 1:26 p.m. A separate Eva Road grass fire at 3:28 p.m. also caused no damage.
A small jar or two of a tarnish retardant mixture will save you time and energy, keep the jars in your flat silver drawer.
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