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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1948
Page
8
Athens couple announces the engagement of Lyle Blair to Roy Vansant of Douglasville Georgia with a wedding planned for Saturday August 7 at the bride's parents home in Athens. The event marks a family union and local social notice of forthcoming marriage.
Mrs. Irwin Rhuel and son Charles have returned to Atlanta after a two week visit with Mrs. C. H. Chunn. Athens visitors Lawson Drape accompany them home for a few days. Others plan trips to Hot Springs and Fort Walton while families resume daily life after vacations and visits.
Local society notes report travels to Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. Residents visit relatives, attend family events, and seek treatment at Jefferson Hospital Birmingham. Several couples and individuals plan trips to New York, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Birmingham with family notices and weekend visits.
A guide urges busy career women to fit half an hour of muscle training daily. It promotes a goosestep routine to improve posture and leg strength, plus a standing arc stretch, with gradual increases to a 15 to 20 minute workout for better health and looks.
A 1947 column advises girls to be friendly and unpretentious to attract boys. Charm lies in simple, pleasant manners, not showiness. A lively, talkative girl who can converse easily is valued, while passive clinging is outdated.
The piece advises young women to be honest and sincere, shunning fake aristocratic airs and Paris fashions. It argues boys value cleanliness, gentility, and gentle manners and suggest that true appeal lies in being properly feminine, down to voice and dress. It closes with a final appeal to remember these lessons.
State Highway Director Ward McFarland announced that the public roads administration has advanced the state $500000 on already let federal aid contracts. He said the move will allow earlier start on other road projects without waiting for the current work to finish for federal contribution. McFarland did not specify which projects will benefit.
O T Mason of Mobile was named acting manager of the Veterans Administration's Birmingham office succeeding the late William M Weston who died last week Mason joined the VA staff in Montgomery in 1946.
A columnist notes flattery as a universal weakness from birth to death and suggests generous praise as a path to popularity, urging readers to wield flattering words to win favor.
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