Personal News From Bloodworth and Friends Weekend Guests
Mr and Mrs F A Bloodworth Jr and daughter Ann hosted relatives over the weekend. Mrs Kimball Jones visits her brother and sister Ben and Mrs Bloodworth and will return to Jacksonville. San Francisco guests include Mr and Mrs S M Thompson and niece Mrs Jay Cowle, who joined friends in Florence for dinner. Mrs Jay Cowle left for San Francisco after visiting her uncle and aunt. Mrs Ely Brandes of Boston visits two weeks with her parents, greeted by Carolyn Ellner and Mrs Ellner after arriving by plane from Boston to Birmingham.
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Betty Jean Ay
Jack Thomason
Central Baptist Church
Cheri Chandler
Mary Jean Sittason
Miss Sittason
Dorothy Fitzpatrick
Betty Simmons
Miss Chandler
Miss Gasoway
James Arthur Gasoway
William Rex Sittason
Betty Ware Wyatt
Marian Chandler
Miss Payne
Paul Jones
Bobbie Winton
M. R. Stone
Edna Earl Payne
John T. Wallace
Stone
Canal Street
Betty Jane Stone
Earl Payne
Jones
Miss Winton
Betty Jean Wallace
R. L. Roland
Sarah Stockton
F. A. Bloodworth Jr
Ann
Kimball Jones
Ben Bloodworth
Jacksonville
Fla. SF
S. M. Thompson
Jay Cowle
San Francisco
Cal
Florence
Ely Brandes
Boston
Mass
W. A. Ellner
Service Officers To Handle Claims In Alabama
Alabama veterans will apply for GI terminal leave pay and revised national service life insurance through the State Department of Veterans Affairs. Lawrence May announced forms will be available soon and accepted by service commissioners in all 67 counties with veterans notified when ready.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Department of Veterans Affairs
Lawrence May
State Service
May
Truman signs bill to pay estate of Alabama man
President Truman directed the Treasury to pay the estate of William Edward Oates of Birmingham six thousand four hundred fifty three dollars for his death when an Army truck collided with a motorcycle on U S highway 31 near Montgomery Alabama on December 2 1948.
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Washington
Truman
Treasury
William Edward Oates
Birmingham
Ala
Montgomery
Crochet Sunburst Square Pattern 12 Inch Tutorial
CAA offers a crochet sunburst square using petal stitches, 12 inch KH, no 30 cotton. Pattern 930 directions included. Send twenty cents to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept to receive pattern and name address. Add fifteen cents for the 1946 Needlecraft Catalog with 112 illustrations and a free cuddle toy pattern.
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Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Waistline trends and at home exercise advice
A fashion note discusses possible waistline increases in formats and references Empire gowns and 19th century style. It contrasts high waists with camouflage for fuller hips, urges reducing fats and sugars, and offers floor and bicycle exercises for overall slimming. It ends by saying normal proportions reassure fashion prospects.
Elephant brain and coal use in 1945 noted
An adult elephant brain weighs about eight pounds. U S railroads consumed 124 114000 tons of bituminous coal in 1945.
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U. S
FEMININE SCALLOPS Pattern 4712 Dress Invitation
Swing into the new season with a slenderizing scalloped dress pattern 4712 by Anne Adams. Includes bow and soft sleeves, sizes 34 to 48, yardage 318 for size 36, plus offer for the pattern book and free fabric flower directions. Send 25 cents to The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept. 243 West 17th St New York NY.
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Anne Adams
Decatur Daily
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Veterans Attend On Site War Surplus Sale In Alabama
War veterans lined up for Alabama's first on site surplus sale at the Montgomery redistribution center where goods costing the government 300000 dollars were offered. Veterans bought wire fence electrical fixtures and other items for personal use or business needs including playgrounds fields and lighting equipment for sports venues.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Montgomery Engineers Redistribution Center
Lex Fullbright
Birmingham
Brookley Field
Mobile
New Dental Office Opens in Decatur
Dr. R. H. Parks announces a new dental office at 504-12 Second Avenue in Decatur. The office opens this week. Parks trained at the University of Alabama and Atlanta Southern Dental College, graduated 1944, then served as a naval lieutenant for two years. Dr. Parks and his wife and their one year old son reside in Decatur.
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Decatur
Second Avenue
R. H. Parks
Parks
University of Alabama
Atlanta Southern Dental College
Atlanta
U.S. Navy
Dorothy DIX
Sweater Boy
All-American Strip Tease Brings Bare Beach Fashion
The Fourth of July fashion wave features minimal swimwear from diaper to romper styles. Midriffs and bras appear widely as women of all sizes embrace the bare brown look. AP artist Sylvia Robbin sketches possible directions while noting designers should observe the law.
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Sylvia Robbin
Sylvia Robbins
Proportionized dress sizes change fashion standards
The AP News feature notes ready to wear clothing now uses proportionized sizing. It explains the system links weight and height to dress size with short medium and tall versions. It outlines junior miss misses and women's sizes with adjusted busts waists and hips for proper proportion.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Home Economics
Dear Miss Dix Solves Postwar Dating Clash and Henpecked Husbands
A Bel Syndicate advice column features Dorothy Dix addressing ex GIs dating woes. A veteran laments dating younger women while seeking mature companionship, while readers discuss postwar maturity, family dynamics, and the henpecked husband stereotype in America.
Rodeo brings Los Angeles man to Dauphin Island
Pi Ray Wood of Los Angeles said he just happened into the Alabama deep sea fishing rodeo at Dauphin Island. He described a long voyage starting Aug 13, 1940, in a 16 foot canoe from Los Angeles via the Pacific coast Panama Canal and East Coast to New Orleans, then along the gulf to Mobile. He plans to go to St Petersburg and then up the Amazon to study an abori tribe, doing photography and lectures to support his travels.
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Dauphin Island
Ala
Pi—Ray Wood
Los Angeles
Wood
Pacific Coast
Panama
Carnal
New York
Washington, D. C
St. Louis
Mississippi
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Mobile
St. Petersburg
Fla
Amazon River
America
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Caddell Sct
Helen Follett
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Ann Lee
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Mary Belle
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G. I
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Rainey’s Beauty Academy
2Nd Ave
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