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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1964
Page
16
The Decatur Daily announces Tell Me Why winner Louis Trainor an eight year old from Tulsa Oklahoma for a Britannica Junior Encyclopedia drawing. The item explains ice formation at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and why water freezes expands and ice floats.
The excerpt explains why ice floats with most of it submerged and why ice can crack rocks as it expands. It notes freezing expands objects, damages pipes and engines, and that antifreeze and alcohol lower freezing points. Salt lowers freezing points of water and ice, enabling colder temperatures.
Earls buys adjoining blogs near Central Park and plans a large apartment house. Sammy Davis Jr and Barbra Streisand appear in fashion talk about pants, with restaurateurs critiquing women wearing them. Public figures like Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra, and Abbe Lane surface in a collage of social scene notes.
A collage of Hollywood gossip and stage notes spans injuries on stage, casting shifts, TV deals, and romance. Highlights include a leading lady cracking a rib but continuing performance, Judy Garland and Mark Herron reconsidering a TV play lead, Renata Boeck dating Walter Trautman, and Orson Welles exploring weight loss in Geneva. The item also touches CIA gossip about CBS’s publishing ambitions and Perry Como planning a Rome Christmas show.
Readable fragments show a list of times and titles including Wing and Prayer Cripple Creek and Steve Allen with entries for 11 30 5 6 8 13 29 23 tonight and a sign off segment.
A keyboard of station call signs WMSL WHOS WHOS F M WJOF WJMW WKAC appears with varying listed hours from early morning to late evening. The data shows ranges such as 6 AM to 11 PM and 7 AM to 10 PM with several odd time stamps like 4 55 AM and 10 30 PM.
On her maiden run from New York to Albany the Clermont carried 14 passengers paying 7 dollars per ticket. The historic steamboat maintained a speed of 5 miles an hour.
Cleveland, an iron ore shipping port and major industrial center, exhibits a population with about 45 distinct national origins.
A short test asks five statements to classify as true or false. It notes baseball base distance 60 feet 6 inches, some wingless birds, Buddha born before Christ, Harry S. Truman as the 34th U S president, and humans having 32 permanent teeth.
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