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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1976
Page
6
Dear Heloise describes a practical tip for messy cooks. She clips recipe cards to the side of a tall glass with a clip-clothespin, using a bobby pin to secure the note and keep pages flour-free while cooking.
Readers share clever kitchen and home hints from a column. Advice covers lifting a glass card to toast cleverly, preserving cleanliness, rewrapping meat with labels for freezer clarity, tidying cabinets while dishwashing, drying metal trash cans with paraffin to prevent rust, and making fruit syrup from canned juices for pancakes and waffles.
Agnes Scott College in suburban Atlanta granted Bachelor of Arts degrees to two Decatur High School graduates. Gay Isley Blackburn earned honors and Phi Beta Kappa with English and art majors. Sue Francis Diseker, daughter of Frances S. Diseker, majored in English.
A 1976 column excerpt presents readers' personal issues: a wife unable to call her husband by name, a friend’s six week plant-sitting and vacation plan, a teen asks if parental infidelity is a sickness, and guidance from Ann Landers on these moral conflicts. The piece closes with submission details and copyright note.
Horoscope notes a birthday gateway to new experiences and changing relationships. Natives trust luck and accurate figures, with those born today set to pioneer unknown sciences. Aries to Scorpio sections offer health tips, caution on routine, curiosity gains, and modest home or life changes.
Bridge column analyzes a North South hand with two stoppers in the enemy suit and explains why refusing the first spade can cost the contract. It covers lead choices, defensive cascades, and the resulting endgame, plus a Daily Question about a spade opening bid.
Lois McGwier, a Morgan City native now living in Grove Hill, has a painting of a sailing vessel used in the Hawaii film hanging in Judson College library in Marion. The work ties to her art class at Grove Hill and to Neena Skipper, a Judson student. The piece was gifted by Mrs. Paul Wolfer of Decatur.
Elvin Dewayne Childers son of Mr and Mrs Tommy Childers of Decatur 2 celebrated his third birthday on Thursday. He is grandson of Grady Boldin and Armon Childers, and great grandson of Henry Boldin Addie Brown and Lee Mitchell. Great great grandson of Alva Johnson Somerville 2 and Mildridge Childers Canyon Country Calif. The item also references a vessel 11 missionary couples from Massachusetts traveling to a Pacific island.
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