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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1964
Page
3
The listing compiles dense programming blocks with numerous shows and times from Ruff and Reddy to Wagon Train and The Miracle Worker. It maps cartoons, sports, comedies, gospel hours, and classic dramas across afternoons and evenings.
The New York stock market rose on Friday with rails leading gains alongside industrials, both hitting new highs. Dow Jones rail average rose to 222.12, Dow industrials to 878.08, with overall volume up and more issues advancing than declining. Erie-Lackawanna drew attention on merger prospects, while steels motors and aerospace fluctuated amid a generally firm session.
In a New Products feature, Seiko Time Corp. introduces a compact quartz chronometer capable of up to a year of stable operation on two dry batteries, aimed at athletic timing and precision industrial use. Other items include a glass-blowing kit from Turner Corp and a space-saving wulpa parking tower from Spaceless Parking Systems.
In Chicago Friday, butcher hogs fell as much as 75 cents per hundredweight while sows declined 25 to 50 cents. Top butchers reached 16.75 dollars for 130 head of No 1 and 2 grades, with most between 16.25 and 16.50. Slaughter steers and heifers showed weakness, Prime steers hit 27.25, high choice and prime 26.25 to 27, with heifers at 24 and 22.75 to 23.75 for choice. Woolled lambs priced 22 to 22.50, choice lambs 21 to 22, and ewes 5 to 6.50.
Fire swept the British embassy in Moscow Friday night causing extensive damage to the east wing across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. An embassy spokesman said damage was confined mostly to the building’s structure.
Senator Hubert Humphrey credited Kennedy Johnson policies with 44 months of continuous economic expansion and rising profits wages and farm incomes as he campaigned through New Jersey and Philadelphia. He labeled opponents sick and tired Americans and predicted a decisive November victory. He spoke at a Camden labor rally and at Princeton University noting Johnson’s lineage to past presidents.
At Collier Seminole State Park 17 miles east of Naples on U S 41 a memorial honors the men who built the Tamia mi Trail in the 1920s. The memorial sits among dredges used to dig fill for the highway base.
Dow Jones closing averages show gains with the Industrials leading. Open high and low values are listed for major groups with upward moves across Rails Utilities and Stocks. Bond activity is noted with higher grade rails and utilities futures. Commodity index rises marginally.
Chance and Miles Magruder assemble sixteen men with carbines rifles and buffalo guns to march through the night toward the fort. They plan to alert for Indians and discuss pursuing Joel Oatman after questioning Shaughnessy for a drink incident.
In a tension filled sequence from Copusnctt 164 by Brian Garficid, Lena Murdock pressures Curt Lessing to dynamite a tunnel as he grapples with loyalty to Evernight and love. Chance and Magruder scout the camp while Lessing vanishes and the story teases a Monday continuation.
Wheat led gains on the Board of Trade while soybeans trimmed losses amid profit taking and hedge selling. Traders awaited the government crop report, with soybeans ending modestly lower to higher and corn and oats advancing sparingly in late trading.
Allied forces report six ships lost, while Japanese forces suffer 26 ships sunk in the Leyte Gulf engagement, marking a heavy loss for Japan and a strategic Allied advantage in the campaign.
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