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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1963
Page
6
Women increasingly walk to shop and travel, prompted by a Kennedy era call to take a walk. National Shoe Institute notes affordable, fashionable city and country walking shoes with low heels, flexible unlined options, T straps, and wide insteps compatible with street and park outings.
A Rainey’s Beauty Academy director urges would be cosmetologists to master conversation along with technical skill. The ad promises that small talk, rapid learning, and a license can be achieved in months, with guidance on finances and finding work.
An 18 foot Lone Star cabin cruiser docks at Decatur Boat Harbor as Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Rogers, longtime General Dynamics employee and his wife, plan to settle where water for boating and fishing is abundant. They travel by trailer to varied spots, log trips, and savor meals from their travels, while noting world rice production in 1961 62 and India as the top producer.
The advice emphasizes a gentle steady gait, relaxed posture with a flattened pelvis, chest out, and hip driven stride to avoid waddling. Arms swing freely, grooming matters including leg and shoe appearance, daily bath, weekly pedicure, and routine ankle and leg exercises to tone muscles between expeditions.
Around The Valley notes visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmer Blackburn and family including Mrs. J C Birdsong of Oneonta and Becky Mott of Selma. Local families welcome relatives from Hartselle and Atlanta while a Decatur General Hospital birth adds to community milestones.
Anne Adams promotes a printed sewing pattern 4644 for Daisy fresh outfits in bright cottons for women with several size options. The ad details fabric yardage, pricing at fifty cents per pattern plus postage, and requests name address zone size and style number for mailing. It also advertises a spring summer pattern catalog with 304 design ideas and a coupon for a free pattern.
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