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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1966
Page
11
TV viewers say goodbye to long running series including Perry Mason My Favorite Martian Branded Wackiest Ship in the Army and To Tell the Truth as they shift to reruns and new slots ABC NBC and CBS prepare to launch about 34 new series over the next two weeks with roughly 30 predicted failures due to low Nielsen ratings.
President Charles de Gaulle lands in Port Vila on a round the world tour. He is greeted by officials including Jacques Mouradian and Sir Robert Foster and tours the New Hebrides ahead of a planned atomic test viewing from the cruiser De Grasse.
Prisoners at the San Francisco County Jail staged a roughly hour long riot with mattress fires and window breakage as about 200 inmates of 575 participated. Pickets outside protested conditions while reporter crews filmed the disturbance. Sheriff Carberry called it staged, denied discrimination, and noted a new cook and comparatively better food.
The U S Air Force reported a C130 transport with eight aboard missing on a flight from Saigon to Ching Chuan air base Formosa. A Chinese forest ranger reported a fire in a south Chiayi mountains area. A Chinese American search party was deployed but rough terrain may delay access until Wednesday.
A mass of cool air from Canada brought varied conditions from the northern plains to the upper Great Lakes with 40s in places. The eastern half saw light showers while Myrtle Beach recorded over an inch, Millville nearly a half inch, and Eglin Air Force Base about 3 inches in six hours. Temperatures ranged from 40s in northern California to 90s in the Gulf Coast and southwest. Washington hit 90 for a 59th time this year, the record. Early readings spanned 42 to 90 degrees.
Typhoon Cora's 190 mph winds destroyed one of two U.S. Air Force radar stations on Miyakojima in the Ryukyus. The Miyako weather station reported widespread crop and home damage with no deaths among 69,750 residents. Eleven boats were sunk and 11 damaged as the storm moved toward China.
Ulm Cathedral in Germany reaches a 528 foot high steeple claimed to be the world’s tallest church spire, marking a historic milestone in medieval architecture and urban skyline.
The Colville Washington mayor Eugene Scamahorn saw his airplane bricked up over Labor Day weekend and fail to takeoff after a car crashed through a fence into the craft causing about 5000 dollars in damage. The next night someone moved the plane 200 feet and pushed it over a 30 foot embankment.
A dense listing of daily TV programming across channels with show names including Rifleman Twilight Zone Batman and Johnny Carson, plus news weather sports and special features. The schedule also notes religious and educational programs and film segments throughout the day.
Jane Russell remains salaried under a Howard Hughes contract signed in 1956, with payments continuing for decades. She returns to film in New York Riverdale for The Honorable Frauds, playing a wealthy dame. shooting spans 13 weeks.
Miscellaneous radio call letters and schedule fragments appear, listing stations WAMS L Mutual WHOS AM WDRM WAJF JOF FM WIMW WKAC and others with unclear timing data from 4:57 AM to 11 PM and sunrise to sunset. The readable parts show station identifiers and partial hour ranges.
A historical note explains that the orbit of a celestial body is an ellipse. It highlights that planetary paths deviate from perfect circles, forming elongated ovals with the focal point at the attracting body. This description reflects early astronomical understanding of orbital mechanics.
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