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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1969
Page
6
Readers share clever quick fixes. A reader describes using a garter supporter as a substitute for broken bra eyes and hooks. Another outlines folding adhesive tape flaps to ease bandage removal. Others offer time balance on travel and storage hacks for empty cottage cheese cartons and tension curtain rods.
Larry Alan Nave, son of Mr and Mrs Alan Larry Nave, marks his third birthday today at 1011 8th St SW. He is grandson of Leon Art Sharp of Muscle Shoals and Albert Nave of Decatur, with great grandparents J W Sharp of Hillsboro and HL Puckett. Photo by Olan Mills.
The earliest U S potato planting occurred in New Hampshire in 1719 marking a colonial era milestone for staple crop agriculture.
The speaker notes home equity is money that can be invested. Seaboard can now provide big money loans on real estate, offering up to fifty thousand dollars for property ventures.
Miss Diane Faye Lockwell daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman M Sockwell of Decatur and Mark Thomas Sanders son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Mark Sanders of Edison N J were married at 11 am Saturday in the parlor of Central United Methodist Church by Dr W J Cunningham The bride wore a peau de soie and Old English lace street length gown with illusion veil and carried white miniature carnations with an orchid. Miss Phyllis Kaye Lockwell twin sister of the bride was honor attendant Best man was David Myers Florence Ushers were Fred Roberts Eva and John Tomlinson Florence The couple will live in Florence where the groom is a Florence State University senior and the bride is employed by South Central Bell Telephone Co. The rehearsal party was at Decatur Country Club.
In 1969 New York fashion notes crosses as bold accessories. Consuelo Crespi and Halston describe crosses as stylish substitutes for diamonds. Thomas Robbins, 20, designs large crosses, noting Paris youth influence and rising U.S. demand.
Bridge experts recount a Chicago national tournament where Bill Root and Harry Fishbein used a signaling sequence to defeat a contract. Root’s queen of clubs at the second trick warned Fishbein of the spade shift, allowing a winning defense with a precise ruff.
USDA guidance turns turkey scraps into a Creamed Turkey dish served over rice. The simple sauce uses fat flour milk and chopped turkey with optional peas, yielding about six servings. A snack idea wraps bacon around prunes with cheese spread for party bites.
The notices recall Thanksgiving gatherings in Birmingham Danville Hartselle Lawton and Lawrence County with extended family guests and travelers. Names include Black Childers McCloskey Nelson Ghrigsby brewington Letson and Griffis among others with multiple twin births weddings and out of town attendees listed.
Brenda Dianne Farley and Kenneth Butler married November 14 at New Hope North Baptist Church with Rev. Aubra Gable officiating. The bride wore an Empire gown and carried white carnations with a white orchid. attendants included Sandra Butler and Linda Farley.
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