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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1957
Page
10
An old advertisement promotes a printed dress pattern for a two piece outfit. It notes size details, fabric yardage, and easy directions, with a request to mail 35 cents plus name and address to the Pattern Bureau at The Daily Review in New York for ordering.
Birth notices list newborns at Eden Hospital with names and addresses in Castro Valley Hayward Oakland San Leandro San Lorenzo and other area locales. Entries include parents Castro Valley James Letteer Paul Green and others with dates December 19 to December 30 noting boys and girls.
SACRAMENTO UP Samuel Baylor Evans 4 a security officer at nearby McClallan Air Force Base committed death by own action Sunday while his wife and three children were in Sunday School. The coroner's office reported Evans smorted a length of rubber tubing around his neck. He died of strangulation. Mrs Evans said her husband had been ill for several years.
In Seattle a girl playing in a basement was entangled when her long blonde curls were caught in a furnace blower fan. Her cousins freed her by cutting more hair. She was treated at Group Health Hospital and sustained a bruised scalp.
Dorothy Dix counsels two readers torn between love and duty. A part time church worker questions marrying a missionary versus a fiancé she truly loves. Dix argues for choosing love and a stable home over a difficult mission life and urges letting the distant fiancé go.
The Central Selling Organization reports South Africa and other producers sold about 165.4 million dollars worth of diamonds in the first nine months of 1957, up from about 153.4 million dollars in the same period of 1956.
Northern California musicians ages 17 to 28 may apply by next Monday for auditions with the San Francisco Symphony. Conductor Enrique Jorda will select a winner on January 13 and 14 to perform as a soloist with the orchestra. Applicants must have appeared in public recital or as soloists with a professional symphony orchestra.
Medical memos advise that expectant mothers can continue many activities with periodic exams and doctor consent. Light work and sport may be allowed, and mental health benefits come from staying engaged, unless pregnancy complications or threatened miscarriage require rest.
Parents asked why a 22 year old child eats dirt. The guide says dirt eating is common in ages 2 to 3 and usually subsides, often with toilet training and sometimes linked to anemia or mineral deficiencies. Advise supervising, avoiding punishment, offering chewing alternatives like raw carrots crackers apples, and ensuring iron and minerals in diet. If persistent or risky, consult a physician or child care column.
An event listing fragment notes daily mailings with time date place required for sending, includes sender name and phone, indicates items accepted no earlier than three weeks before the event, references January 2 and a program at Castro Valley High School with a 7:20 to 10 p.m. session in a room.
Two teenage suspects aged 17 and 15 were caught in a failed burglary at a Burbank gun shop after the owner fired, hitting one youth in the leg. Police said the pair were en route to St Joseph's Hospital for treatment. Incident tied to local liquor purchase by adults.
Washington reports the government will start January 1 forwarding Veterans Administration benefit checks to recipients who filed valid change of address notices with their post offices. A 1936 law blocking forwarding was replaced by new legislation.
SAN FRANCISCO. Walter T. Redman, livestock superintendent of the Cow Palace and the Grand National Livestock Exposition, was named manager of the California Beef Council. The first manager of the new state agency created by the 1957 Legislature, Redman, of Burlingame, will lead a consumer education, research and advertising program to promote wider use of California beef.
Advertisement notes a colorful quilt pattern 7236 with two patches and diamond designs. It advertises sending 35 cents for pattern plus 5 cents per additional pattern to Daily Review Household Arts Dept. and offers an Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue for 25 cents more. It encourages plain handwriting of name and address and provides mailing details.
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