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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1964
Page
12
A dense TV schedule page lists hourly blocks across channels with show titles such as The Deputy Lawman Amos n Andy Captain Kangaroo Today Queen For A Day General Hospital The FBI and more. It includes morning to late night slots, educational programs, cartoons, game shows, and news broadcasts.
Listing shows station broadcast times from 4:55 AM to midnight with varied sunrise to sunset intervals and morning start at 6 AM to 11 PM across different entries. Included are references to sunrise to sunset windows and a 7 AM to 10 PM span.
A column mocks book reviews of Earl Wilson’s New York volume and highlights Hollywood gossip. Notes include Liz Taylor, Stanley Baker, Joyce Mathews, Selig Adler, Ann Margaret, Eartha Kitt, Xavier Cugat, Paul Anka, Bob Merrill, and Greta Keller. Highlights cover theater, film plans, marriages, and showbiz moves ahead of the World's Fair.
Under a Morgan County Probate Court decree, parcels listed to Virgil Bailey, Leland Beck, Homer Borden and others will be sold at public outcry on Friday June 12 1964. Tax totals include state county and city amounts, with specific lot lines descriptions for each property and the combined totals shown opposite each parcel.
The television industry handed out statuettes with CBS taking 13 awards led by The Dick Van Dyke Show. NBC earned nine and ABC five, while The Making of the President 1960 won Program of the Year. CBS plans a live transatlantic discussion on Kennedy’s legacy with notable leaders on Kennedy’s birthday.
The timetable lists events at multiple sites: Priceville with Trotman 9:00 to 9:30, Shoal Creek Baptist Church 9:45 to 10:30, Plainview School 11:00 to 12:00, Plainview Sullivan’s 12:30 to 1:00, Plainview Wigginton’s 1:30 to 2:00, Edwards Cafe 2:45, Brooksville Blankenship’s 13:00 to 3:30.
Mobile Bay and the eastern Mississippi Sound show a severe oyster kill-off, with freshwater floods causing mortality up to 90 percent in some areas. No large oysters survived on reefs checked near Cedar Point in the sound and in Mobile Bay, says George Allen of the state Conservation Department.
Switzerland can mobilize its trained armed forces within 721 hours, according to military readiness assessments. The figure highlights rapid deployment capacity and readiness timelines for national defense.
The record shows state and county tax plus costs totaling 14.36 dollars and City of Decatur tax with costs 13.00 dollars, overall 27.36 dollars. It lists the two parties Ella Jordan and J Brown with Westerly noted in association.
Herb Bridges offers a $100 reward for the arrest and conviction of anyone who entered his home atop Priceville Mountain and stole various items. The notice includes his address 1124 4th Ave SE and invites tips. A separate ad promotes plants at The Garden Center and an astrologer palm reader ad near Murphree's Store.
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