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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1963
Page
8
The article outlines the photographer engraver process from shot to plate including the screen negative, zinc plate preparation, nitric acid etching, and the one hour production. It also notes the 1965 start of the International Biological Program with 30 to 60 nations participating to study humankind.
The Decatur Daily highlights photographers Billy Smith Rayburn Sparks and Tommy King as on duty around the clock covering fires wrecks and other events. The piece explains the 504 hours weekly workload the photographers endure and outlines steps from soup to slop to prints in their workflow.
Eisenhower voiced support for all Republicans under consideration for the presidential nomination. Goldwater, after a Gettysburg talk with the former president, indicated he would present his full views if he officially enters the race. Eisenhower emphasized not narrowing the field despite differing views among leaders.
Edwin Q. White portrays a Viet Nam outpost deep in the Mekong Delta where a two way radio is embedded in a concrete wall and a four foot baby boa sits as a pet. The unit patrols nightly against Viet Cong while villagers and military share the scene around barbed wire and sharpened bamboo. Diem era images line the walls as workers, merchants, and a watchtower overlook the marshy delta.
A total of 432 was collected in payment of fines in Recorder's Court Tuesday afternoon. The list includes five for public drunkenness, two for driving while intoxicated, one for over parking and violating city ordinance, one for running a stop sign, and two for violation of the prohibition law.
Descendants and relatives of Perry and Sally Ryan Williams plan a family reunion at George Williams home near Hebron Church on October 20. An old fashioned dinner will be served around 1 p.m. after a brief church visit, with several siblings and spouses expected from Morgan, Cullman and Morgan counties.
In Andalusia Alabama a mother of two 30 year old Mrs Wesley Reeves was shot and killed in a rural tavern Tuesday night. Sheriff P R Gantt said the shooting followed an argument between her husband and a second man J R Findley a Red Level pulpwood operator was slightly wounded with buckshot and booked as a material witness Reeves denied firing the shot.
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