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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1952
Page
18
Dorothy Dix advises lonely widow Madeline to place a newspaper personal ad to find a compatible companion and shares tips on screening replies. Other letters discuss divorce, child support, and balancing family with a Korean-bound husband, with practical steps and resources.
Dorothy Dix tackles a common issue in every girl’s home by asking what age is appropriate for dating. The piece appears in leaflet D-15 and offers guidance for homesick girls and their husbands away from home. To obtain a copy, send a 3 cent stamped self addressed envelope to Miss Dix c/o this newspaper.
Sacramento reports inmates from San Quentin and Solidad State Prisons help replant California forest land scorched by last year’s fires. Crews planted 200,000 Ponderosa and Jeffrey pine trees in the Plumas National Forest.
Ralph Wilson Reid, 39, back in Wichita after a four months tour across ten states including Minnesota North Dakota Montana Utah Missouri Texas Mississippi California and Colorado. He showed Australia motion pictures and displayed native weapons while tossing boomerangs. Reid and family arrived in September 1948 for their oldest son John 10 who suffers encephalitis after measles and is making slow progress at the Institute of Logopedics.
In Vancouver the provincial pathologist Dr. J. C. Bankier says mass vaccination of poultry flocks will replace slow bird by bird methods. Fowls can be sprayed at about 10 000 per hour. The piece also notes a lingering belief that a glance can injure or kill.
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