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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1972
Page
3
A dense listing outlines a full day of TV programs across networks with titles including News 4 Branded Dramas Dragnet Gunsmoke and You Bet Your Life among many. The schedule runs from early morning offerings through late night with kid shows cooking segments and weather reports interspersed.
High today 71 degrees with a low of 39 tonight. Tuesday high 67 with a 50 percent chance of rain. Sunday climate data show high 41 low 55, 3.20 inches monthly total, year total 13.75 inches, below normal by .22 inches. Temperature readings throughout the day include 60 at 10 a.m. and 68 at 4 p.m. Sunrise 5:51 a.m., sunset 5:55 p.m.
Report from the four county area notes an accident on Keller Memorial Bridge at 4 p.m. injuring Gordon Lee Posey 25 of Hillsboro and Linda C Rowley 20 of Decatur in a one car collision. Names of hospitalized and transport details follow from ambulances.
Jazzed best bets show Jacques Cousteau visiting Monterey and the Aleutians. Airings include Banacek Capers of the Golden Bulls Doctor Youve Got to Be Kidding Fail Safe Gold Raiders and Drive a Crooked Road War of the Monsters with times listed for Monday and Tuesday offerings.
TV networks began spring cleanups with five pilot programs on Friday night. NBC aired Ghost Story and Movin On in feature slots while CBS offered three comedy pilots. Ghost Story centers on a couple moving home haunted by a buried girl’s spirit. Movin On follows a stock car driver and cyclist on the racing circuit. CBS pilots fared poorly overall, with The Living End about a veteran football player facing younger rivals and Oh Nurse a dormitory hijinks tale that stalled without a resolver.
The innovation in 1926 introduced paced racing as greyhounds chased a mechanical hare, transforming British speed events and setting a new era for dog racing.
Chou En Lai accused the United States of prolonging and intensifying its war of aggression in Southeast Asia and vowed continued support for Indochinese resistance. He spoke at a banquet for Prince Sihanouk in Peking, denouncing foreign plots to divide Cambodia and rejecting a negotiated settlement.
Cape Town archaeologists study vanished Bushmen and Strandlopers who inhabited western Cape Province before Europeans. They lived as hunter gatherers near Cape Town, using bone shell and pottery tools, painting cave walls and sustaining themselves off land and sea resources.
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