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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1973
Page
14
A scrambled listing shows time slots and programs across a dated broadcast grid including News To Tell The Truth Truth or Consequences Black Beauty This Is Your Life Wall Street Week Sanford and Son Mission Impossible Brady Bunch Focus Soul with channel blocks and durations.
A scrambled TV guide lists programs and times including Johnny Carson Dick Cavett and the Tonight equivalents. The fragment mentions The Story of G I Joe and Circle of Fear along with other shows like Midnight Special and Washington Week in Review.
Midnight special features Chubby Checker Little Anthony and the Imperials the Shirelles Danny and the Juniors Lloyd Price Jimmy Clanton the Ronettes Ben E King and the Skyliners. Also listed are film showings THE SERGEANT RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY THE STORY OF G I JOE with times and channels.
Walter Terry of World Magazine will direct Jacob's Pillow from July 3 to August 25. Opening week will showcase Dame Margot Fonteyn with a lineup including Hartford Ballet Twyla Tharp National Ballet of Washington D C Carlos Lavallade and many others from major companies. Also included is a food storage note from Texas A&M University stressing milk should be kept below 40 degrees Fahrenheit with 36 degrees ideal.
The Athens city council calls a 7 p.m. public hearing at Athens Junior High auditorium on a proposed increase from 7.47 to 9.47 per foot for sewer work tied to a 3 million renovation. About 600 property owners may object as bidding overrun raises costs.
River readings at Keller Memorial Bridge show 21.51 feet with sea level at 555.81. Thursday highs reached 71 projected to near 80 Friday into Saturday with mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies and a cooling night. Climate data note Thursday’s high 71 and low 49 with 0.02 inch precipitation. extended outlook calls for showers Sunday into Tuesday with highs in the 70s to low 80s and lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
Norcon Electronics installed two safety systems in New York City schools. At South Shore High School in Brooklyn a teacher uses a pocket sized ultrasonic pen device to trigger a silent alert to a central receiver if danger is sensed. Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx also received the system.
Funeral services are set across multiple Alabama towns. Zada Grissom 73 of Falkville will be buried Elmwood Cemetery with John Rideouts directing. Mildred Mundee 69 of Hartselle will lie in state at Mt Hope Church before burial. Nina Owens 84 who died Thursday in Decatur General Hospital will have services announced by Brown Service Funeral Home. Robert A. White 52 of Somerville will be buried at New Friendship Cemetery with Forest Hill Baptist Church clergy officiating. Survivors include children, siblings, and grandchildren across Decatur, Montgomery, Mobile, and Nashville.
Funeral services for Mrs H O Troup 82 who died today at her daughter's Nashville residence will be held Saturday at 2 p m in Brown Service Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Robert L Archibald officiating burial will be in Decatur Cemetery survivors include son Frank W Troup Decatur daughter Mrs Russell Brothers Nashville two sisters Mrs Kate W McCullough Mrs F P Eyman both of Chicago 111 seven grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren pallbearers will be grandsons Russell Brothers Jr Don Brothers Jack Pirrie Dr John C Frist Jr Randy Troup and James Blackburn
Daily admissions dismissals births and notices listing dozens of individuals by name and residence including Athens Limestone Hospital Danville Town Creek Moulton Cullman Arab Hanceville and other locales. The long list records names roles and places with several entries noting spouses and familial relations.
A cryptogram explains that each letter stands for another and notes how word length and punctuation guide solving. The sample shows A for L and X for O with apostrophes preserved.
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