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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 06, 1964

Page

5

Southeast Decatur Home Demonstration Club Leaders Named

Mrs. L. W. Rodgers announced new leaders at the January Southeast Decatur Home Demonstration Club meeting in East Acres recreation room. Officers include Mrs. Thomas Holland devotional leader and Mrs. Millard Compton song, with other assignments listed. A leadership school is set for January 23 in Hartselle with all officers to attend.

L. W. Rodgers Southeast Home Demonstration Club East Acres Recreation Room Thomas Holland Millard Compton John Butler William Wallace Walter Kurz E. I. Hartselle Lynn Dozier Jesse Pickett Ocie Lawrence Tarace Kirby Troy Avery Rodgers Marvin Yarbrough James Davis Rogers Salvation Army American Red Cross Morgan County R. L. Johnson Lucille Hawkins Hartselle R. E. Stanton Pennylane

Printed Pattern 4557 Misses' Sizes 10 to 18

Sleek bodice with curved seams and box pleats described for making a versatile dress or casual top. Pattern 4557 offers sizes 10 through 18 with fabric yardage noted for size 16 and price guidance for ordering and postage.

Heloise Tips Pressed Ribbons and Freezing Tomatoes

Hints from Heloise advise wrapping ribbons around empty spools to keep them pressed and sorted while drying. It notes tomatoes can be frozen whole for use in homemade soup after defrosting. Also warns readers to read zipper labels before ironing and shares jar organization and clothespin cleaning ideas.

Heloise Ben Weisz

The Child Worshipers and the Status Seeking Parent

Martha Weinman Lear examines how some parents treat children as status symbols driving competitive parenting. The book draws on research in schooling camps pediatrics and social settings to show pressure can harm children with ulcers and anxiety while parents seek personal validation through their kids.

Joy Miller New York Martha Weinman Lear Martha Weinman The New York Times Martha the Times Harold Lear

Farm Lime and Fertilizer Bill Tops 1.5 Billion Dollars

The annual bill for lime and fertilizer for United States farms reaches 1.5 billion dollars, highlighting the weight of soil inputs in U S agricultural costs.

United States

Goren On Bridge Quiz Answers From 1964 Tribune

A Chicago Tribune bridge quiz presents sample hands and solutions. It covers bids from one heart to game contracts and explains rationale for responses like three hearts, four spades, two spades, and four spades depending on hand specific strengths.

Charles H. Goren The Chicago Tribune

Spring-Summer Catalog Offer for Free Pattern Ideas

Mailing instruction directs to Anne Adams at The Decature Daily pattern department. Request prints NAME ADDRESS with ZONE SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Advertisement promotes free pattern ideas, offering a 50 cent order for catalog and a coupon for one of 250 designs.

Anne Adams Decature Daily Pattern Dept West 17Th St New York 11 N.Y

House Buying Dilemmas Old Versus New Neighborhoods

When buying a home families often choose the neighborhood first for old houses or settle near new developments for newer homes. Personal comfort varies with quiet or noisy surroundings and past experience. Talking to current residents helps, but individual needs differ and opinions may mislead.

Neighborhood notes and visits plus local obit mention

Territory locals share travel and visiting updates including Lawrence Bailey from the University of Kentucky visiting relatives in Indiana and New York. A death notice reports John Eich of Fort Davis Alabama passing after a long illness with daughter Elizabeth Eich a former Decatur teacher. Dean Jones and his California family were set to visit, with Dean appearing on the morning TV show Object Is Dick Clark.

John Eich Fort Davis Ala Elizabeth Eich Decatur Montgomery Guy Jones Dean Jones California Dean Dick Clark

Burial Insurance Sold By Mail

An advertisement for Central Security Life Insurance Co offers burial and life policy coverage by mail. No medical exam or agent contact, targeting ages 40 to 90 with a $1,000 life benefit and free information. Send name, address, and year of birth to the Fort Worth Texas address.

Legal Reserve Life Insurance Central Security Life Insurance Co Dept West Rosedale Fort Worth 4 Texas

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Southeast Decatur HD Club Carrell Supply Company Dial 6Th Ave Pickens How Joe Blow Decatur Daily King Features Syndicate, Inc Mur-Kay Alabama Goren Andy Lang Lawrence Bailey University of Kentucky A. J. Coleman A. T. Hanson Henry Hanson New York City Overton Harris Gallatin, Tenn Forrest Anderson J. E. Reynolds Grayson Mrs. King Oklahoma Miami Redus Collier Bo Davis Leonard Hudson P. C. Goforth Harold Wallace Jack Higginbotham Noles Butt Moulton FDIC
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