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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1966
Page
3
A widower describes a dryer humidity trick using a damp sponge to soften clothes and ease ironing. The letter inspires others and leads to a personal gift idea for a baby shower featuring the mother-to-be’s baby photo. Community readers respond with gratitude and humor about practical homemaking.
For those with some college education, two in five Black workers hold blue collar or farm jobs, twice the share found among white workers. The contrast highlights persistent occupational segregation and the impact of education on job types within racial groups.
A reader asks if she should have her signature removed from a cousin's altered painting. Ann Landers advises asking the mother-in-law to erase the signature since the work is no longer hers. A second letter urges teenage girls to heed parental warnings about marrying young, sharing regret over a hurried marriage and its impact on family involvement.
A community bookmobile schedule lists stops and times for Wednesday March 2. Routes include Priceville Trotman’s Store Shoal Creek Baptist Church Price School Lunch at Priceville School Plainview Sullivan’s Store Wiggin ton’s Store Somerville Old School.
A government study shows if Negro unemployment and productivity matched whites, GNP could rise by 27 billion dollars. Despite gains after 1964 Civil Rights Act, Negro median family income remains about half white, with higher unemployment and a large education gap contributing to the disparity.
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