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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1949
Page
6
NTERTAIN Questers plan a family picnic at Hatfield Lake Thursday evening August 4 at six o'clock with a note that location changed from Seneca Springs to Hatfields. Rainey's Beauty shops staff also to hold their annual Hatfields picnic Thursday at five thirty.
Local social column lists visits and trips of numerous area residents. Mr and Mrs Paul Robinson and child ren spent the weekend in Jackson and McKenzie Tennessee with relatives. Several families plan or have taken trips to Anniston Montgomery and other points in the south.
In Corinth Mrs Fred Hunt and Miss Amanda Hunt visit relatives in Gulfport. Little Dickie Frank, son of Mr and Mrs Frank, is ill on Somerville Road. The Petteys and their son Bill from Sarasota Florida visit relatives in Decatur and Birmingham. Merit Clements HI stays with grandparents Dr and Mrs M D Clements. The Shankles host Henry Hazelwood and sons Tommy and Hank from Detroit. Several relatives plan visits to Birmingham and Nashville with trips to Miami.
Dorothy Dix answers two readers on family duties and choosing between marriage for companionship or staying single for career. She criticizes self centered parents who burden their children and counsels careful matching on values, priorities, and shared interests to avoid loneliness.
Sandra Lane of Baltimore extols Arrid with Creamogen deodorant offering up to 48 hours protection and odor kill on contact. The ad guarantees no crystallization or drying in the jar and offers a full refund if customers are not convinced it is the finest cream deodorant, with a price of 39 cents plus tax and the company address on every package.
Mr and Mrs Howard B Berryhill returned Tuesday from Memphis where Mr Berryhill underwent medical treatment at Kennedy General Hospital. Henry Hazlewood and sons of Detroit Michigan spent Monday in the Tri-Cities.
The regular monthly singing will be held Thursday night at 7 30 oclock at Midway four miles North of Five Points. This will be the best sing yet with several out of county singers promised, said J F Nunn chairman.
Washington reports Georgia is allotted 2,315,262 and Alabama 2,290,495 for the next school year under the national school lunch program. Both states must match the federal funds unless their per capita income is below the national average.
P H D candidate in psychology at the University of California spends a monthlong vacation at his Belle Mina home. He holds the Balfour medal from Riverside High School class of 1934 and earned degrees from Emory University and UNC with honors. WWII service, then two years teaching psychology at Emory, before returning to Berkeley for his PhD. Bobby Cushen of St Petersburg, visiting grandmother Mrs J N Cunningham of Landersville, now seen with Wayne Vaughan. Wayne Vaughan returns from a Pensacola Florida trip. Carolyn and Linda Bingham of Spartanburg are guests at Mr and Mrs W C Vaughan’s home.
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