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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1964
Page
5
A reader asks how to handle cheating on an honor system and suggests organizing trustworthy students or going alone to talk with a teacher. Additional tips cover hair styling to look thicker, matchmaking for a shy friend, and budgeting for birthday gifts with a homemade tissue box cover craft idea.
At a June 29 meeting the new Altrusa president Mrs Ruby Nash outlined projects and duties for officers and committees. Fifteen members attended and the club voted to cooperate with a beautification program. A wheelchair was delivered June 18 to a child injured in November. A member who assisted a woman in refresher business studies secured a job. Board meetings will be the first regular meeting night each month at 6 30 at the president home. Regular meetings stay in members homes and an attendance prize is awarded monthly.
The article promotes hosting a tropical luau for summer fun with indoor or outdoor setups. It advises abundant flowers like orchids, gardenias, anthurium, and bird of paradise, plus decorative netting and fern tops. Use coconut cups, float gardenias, and dress in Hawaiian muumuus for women and white duck pants for men.
East West vulnerability and a tricky four spades contract lead to a deceptive defense. West ruffs clubs, South misreads hearts, and East sabotages by signaling a heart shortage. Declarer later loses to a heart queen, giving West a rare defensive edge.
The American Ballet Theater begins a Latin American tour in August under the State Department cultural exchange program. The trip runs through November 6 and visits Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Mexico. After returning, the company starts a cross country tour ending with a 25th anniversary engagement at Lincoln Center's State Theater.
The guide covers crafting leis from flowers with stems removed and crowns from sword fern, storing them in wet newspaper in a cool place. It describes centerpiece setup for a serving table, edible hand foods, and a main dish such as roast suckling pig or barbecued chicken, with other Hawaiian dishes and a flexible, self-serve dining rhythm.
Vintage needlecraft ad offers Pattern 7042 Grandmother's Fan style scrap quilt instructions charts and yardage for single and double beds. Price 35 cents plus 15 cents for mailing. Includes mailing address for Alice Brooks at The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept. Old Chelsea Station New York. Also promotes 206 Handicraft Hits 1964 catalog and a deluxe quilt book with 16 patterns available by mail for 25 and 50 cents respectively.
A gardener demonstrates tomato cultivation thrives in a sunny Alaska village comparable to equatorial conditions. The piece notes adaptable growing, suggesting climate-friendly horticulture for northern communities.
Calendar items must be submitted by Thursday for Sunday publication. For general women’s interests, call 353 4612 8 30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The department is closed Saturdays. Wedding stories and pictures must be five days before the wedding. late items are shortened or rejected if over three weeks late. Pictures must be glossy. snapshots are excluded. Engagement notices less than a month before the wedding will not run.
Dr and Mrs Robert Rauni kar and children Austin and Jane travel from Griffin Georgia to visit Mr and Mrs Whitten in Center Springs. E L Nicholas Cullman visits daughter Mrs Bobby Osborne and family. Virgil Nance Gadsden visits John Halbrooks in Hopewell. Birmingham couple stay with N E Halbrooks. Wayne R Gilchrist foreign service officer and sons Gregory and Stephen arrive for visits before posting to Seville Spain then Washington and New York for the World's Fair ending with a voyage aboard the S S Independence on August 14.
The coldest site on earth averages 76 degrees below zero annually and lies about 260 miles from the South Pole toward India.
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