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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1961
Page
3
A gray haired woman, self supporting for 24 years, tends a garden with a hand pushed plow and hoe. She cooks, cleans, and raises 55 chickens while growing potatoes cabbage onions radishes English peas corn and other vegetables that feed her. She has used the same plow ten years and suffers a spring heart condition but remains active to stay happy.
Chicago report shows nearly 60 companies and foundations continuing to back the 4-H program at a record pace despite the national economic slowdown in 1960-61. The item notes ongoing corporate and philanthropic support fueling 4-H Clubs and related activities.
Letters from Decatur Daily readers discuss highway billboards and scenic highways. Garden clubs plan to urge senators and representatives to vote for or against related measures. The note mentions Arkansas symbols and Emperor Haile Selassie’s coronation anniversary in November 1960.
Decatur Lions Club heard color slides from Jim Snider at Hotel Lyons of Wheeler Dam. He showed a lock wall collapse at the dam and a boating trip near Chattanooga. Snider, a Wolverine production supervisor, noted Bowling Green in New York City as the city’s oldest park with historic uses.
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