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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1956
Page
24
William Glover reports Ringling Bros Barnum Bailey executive director Michael Burke defends the circus as an adult show. He notes 60 percent of audiences are grown-ups while vowing to preserve the traditional format with added spectacles.
The note ponders circus traditions with lines about multiple rings and why parades have faded due to heavy traffic and police restrictions. It closes by claiming want ads get results.
Chicago public schools will offer three or four college credit courses funded by a $165,000 Ford Foundation grant. Superintendent Benjamin Willis said the home viewer can earn a two year junior college education over three years by watching and studying from home.
Lawrence Kansas scientists uncover a 12 to 15 foot armored dinosaur fossil from the Dakota formation in an urban farm pond. Researchers led by Dr Robert Wilson and Russell Camp transport the specimen to KU for identification. The rock shows a likely new species dating 100 to 85 million years ago and may take a year to classify.
National Salvation Army Week highlighted by posters in Decatur stores. Captain Edward Bowman reports the local corps delivered services and thanked Army supporters while noting two and a half million transient people aided nationally last year and 859 assisted on the local DAV Ridge lodge.
A large rear end collision chain on a parkway in Trumbull Connecticut involved nine vehicles. Only a state police car from Connecticut was registered locally. The wrecked cars originated in Massachusetts Rhode Island New York New Jersey and Maryland. Limestone is described as accumulated skeletons of marine animals.
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