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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1965
Page
18
A children’s feature explains taste buds and their role in flavor with simple facts about tongue regions and animal variations. It includes a quick riddle box section with three questions and a challenge to transform a word over four moves. Readers are invited to send questions and jokes to the Tell Me Why column and winners are announced.
Boyle notes the war’s oddities in Da Nang Vietnam as he writes home to Frances and Tracy. He finds no enemy soldiers yet and jokes about battles with faulty hotel plumbing and persistent insects. He observes Vietnamese girls as graceful and notes local customs.
A Tucson AP dispatch describes Henry Ley crashing into a drugstore window and a display of colognes. The writer laments insect bites, a collapsing bathroom, and pestering bedbugs, pleading for a big bug bomb as war fatigue and union jokes color his letter home.
A large crowd attended church services and cemetery decorations Sunday in Morgan County Center Springs. Visitors included Mrs. Annie Mae Sivley from Birmingham and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Whitten and others. Tom Dunaway moved from the Veterans Hospital in Birmingham to his home. Janet Allen continues to improve after injuries from a recent Priceville auto accident.
Gallup reports 41 percent of Northern whites say the Johnson Administration is pushing integration too fast. The poll contrasts March measures and notes most whites favor not fast enough or the present pace, with Southern whites largely agreeing it is too fast. A Syracuse Freedom Ride North No 1 highlighted Northern awareness of civil rights.
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