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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1965
Page
13
Ford Editor Cecily Brownstone shares a recipe for open eggplant sandwiches. Slice and bread eggplant, fry in oil, toast bread, and top with heated pizza sauce. Serve with a crisp salad featuring greens and thin turnip slices for contrast. Makes three servings of two portions each.
A pantry shelf style shrimp salad blends canned shrimp green beans and corn with apples scallions and celery. The vinaigrette dressing adds a sharp finish while the bowl edge is garnished with scallion tops. Makes six servings and offers versatile serving ideas for shrimp.
A literacy contest awards the 15 volume Britannica Junior Encyclopedia to school and home readers. Patricia Griswold of Oxford Connecticut is named today’s winner. The article explains stellar twinkling caused by atmospheric disturbances and how astronomers use instruments like spectrographs to study star colors temperatures and chemical compositions.
Francis Corrado of Mount Vernon New York wins a Britannica World Atlas for this cross word puzzle. Readers are invited to submit a puzzle with name age and address. Across clues include tranquil calm and feline, down clues cover swift and a tall tree.
Judge James N. Bloodworth ended a two week session as four defendants pleaded guilty and one case was pressed. James Coffee and Herman Coburn received sentences for burglary while James Hanvey and William Posey were jailed for grand larceny. A murder case involving Ophelia Johnson was not pressed.
A Lorain Ohio entrant Lynn Ward, aged 12, is named today’s winner in the yearbook event for riddles and jokes.
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