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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1961
Page
14
Dorothy Dix column by Helen Worden Erskine presents reader questions and Helen's guidance on privacy family trust and romance. The items include a widow upset by a opened mail a carnival romance and a fiancée facing parental disapproval with Army service upcoming. The tone blends moral guidance with practical counsel.
Readers share practical tips from household hacks. Marcia Thornton explains replacing pillow ticking by soaking in water then sewing into new cases and drying, preventing down loss. The column also covers repurposing detergent bottles into vases, shaping plastic jugs, drying herbs, and easy fixes for drapery hooks and pet dishes.
Great Lakes naval center reports Lacey's Spring teen John D. Crawford will complete nine weeks of recruit training December 24. Trainees learn seafaring skills, gunnery and military etiquette before a 14 day home leave and reassignment to ships and stations worldwide.
The record notes a man entered the Army in February 1960 with basic training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri and arrival overseas in January of the current year. He was last stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina and attended Elkmont High School.
Japanese television industry reports sales reaching about a million sets per year. Manufacturers cite growing demand from urban households and rising affordability driving the high volume.
Birmingham residents planned to call on Mayor Art Hanes tonight to urge preservation of park and recreation facilities after the City Commission last Friday voted a sharp slash in the budget.
Seventy six Priceville High School students earned A or B honor roll status for the current six weeks. A list includes 18 in A and 58 in B with multiple names across grade levels including Watha Summerford, Linda Turner, Kenneth Champion, and Gail Allen among others.
The draft parks budget would effectively eliminate the city's recreation program. The city also faces a federal court order to integrate the facilities next month.
Most members of the 279th Signal Battalion from the areaActivated with the National Guard will receive Christmas leave from December 20 to January Champion Larry Henderson and Johnny Williams 3 according to Ft Hood Texas where the unit is stationed An estimated 75 percent will have home leave while the rest get three day passes Ft Hood prescribes three hour duty days with no duty on Christmas New Year’s Day and Sundays.
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