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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1960
Page
9
The page announces winners from the Britannica Junior contests, naming Marilyn Wallace, 11, Oklahoma City, and Candi Pederson, 12, La Mesa, with calls for entries and a puzzle about arranging and removing matches to form squares.
Dewey Allison received a life sentence after a first degree murder conviction for the knife slaying of Mrs Laura Blake in Jasper Alabama. He told Circuit Judge Alton Blanton he would appeal as his attorneys agreed to study costs.
Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama told the annual Alabama conference that medicine and medical professionals act as ambassadors of peace. He praised doctors nurses and researchers for creating friendship and laying foundations for trade and commercial relations globally.
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