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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1973
Page
3
A detailed schedule lists daytime and primetime programs with guests, sports, and films. Highlights include Gunsmoke involving a hidden death, Indy 500 taped at the speedway, and a Perry Mason era lineup featuring Lucille Ball and Johnny Bristol film notes.
Calendar items include Memorial Day branch closures at Wheeler Basin Regional era and a schedule of meetings for the South Morgan County Citizens Band Radio Club at Hartselle City Auditorium. Also listed are T.O.P.S. meetings, Vacation Bible School, library bookmobile changes, Headstart registration, Altrusa pot luck, Questers dinner, Red Cross Bloodmobile hours, Decatur Woman's Club luncheon, and church singings in Talucah and Falkville with Calvary Echoes.
Daily Records lists admissions and dismissals at Decatur General with names such as Miss Laura Eloise Fowler and Mrs. Barbara Ann Poff, and births noted for multiple couples at Decatur General Hospital. It also includes TV listings and a Lincoln quote.
Morning river readings at Keller Memorial Bridge show 21.75 feet and sea level at 556.05. Sunday high 75 at 1 pm, low 64 at 6 am. today near 80, tonight in the 60s, Tuesday near 80. Mostly partly cloudy with diminishing winds tonight and extended warm trend into Friday.
HARTSELLE Peck Funeral Home to announce funeral services for Betty Ann Clemons 22 formerly of Decatur Chicago resident killed in a Sandusky Michigan automobile accident Sunday. Miss Clemons daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene Clemons Starkey Rd Decatur.
A new concert hall on the lower slope of the Teton Mountains will be the permanent home of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The hall seats 800 with expansion to 1,200 and is set in an aspen grove donated by the Jackson Hole Ski Corp. The first season in the new Festival Hall begins July 24 and runs five weeks.
Fort Pierce Florida AP report: Jean Wallace Smith 38 shot her husband Ray mond Smith six times with a .22 pistol after he stayed out late. He then returned home and killed her with a single shot using his .22 rifle. He survived and was listed in satisfactory condition. Charges are pending.
A large crowd attended the annual decoration at Johnson's Chapel last Sunday. Mrs. Trudy Osborn has returned to Florida after visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Mitchell of Columbus Georgia were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. McLaughlin. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Douglas and Mrs. Calvin Brock of Athens were in the community Thursday. Rev. Charles Maples of Loretta Tennessee visited the McLaughlins Friday afternoon. Mrs. Grace Glasgow visited Jimmie Lake's family of Neel recently.
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