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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 03, 1966

Page

8

Dear Folks Heloise Advice Columns On Everyday Tasks

A 1966 King Features Syndicate collection of Heloise columns offers practical tips. Topics include protecting floors from rocking horses with weather stripping, using paraffin on pins and threads, reheating fresh rolls, unsealing envelopes, repurposing sleeves to cover bandages, and clever steam ironing hints. Named contributors and readers share home solutions and humorous quips.

Heloise Helen King Features Syndicate, Inc

SUN COLORS For Basement Wood Paneling

Suggests sunny color base for basement rooms and favors champagne colored hemlock and silvery Idaho white pine for paneling and cabinet work.

Idaho

Dressy soffits with cedar boards for roofs

Uses tongue and groove western red cedar boards to dress up and strengthen roof soffits Cedar can be painted or stained For personal items or Around the Valley call 353 4655 If no answer call 353 4612

Needlecraft patterns and catalogs for 1966 sewing fans

An excerpt details Pattern 7159 with charts and five designs priced at 35 cents, plus 15 cents more for first class mailing. Includes Send 25 cents for three free patterns, plus catalog offers for Quilt collections and a 1966 Needlecraft Catalog note. Labor unions report 16,481,000 members or 28.9 percent of the non farm workforce.

Alice Brooks Decatur Daily Needlecraft Old Chelsea Station New York N. Y America New Museum

Valley BPW Meeting Highlights and Plans

Valley Business and Professional Women's Club met at Mrs. J C Claborn s home with co host Mrs Don Parker. Mrs Mack Vinson presided and welcomed Miss Lois Robertson B PW director of District II and others. Highlights from the Birmingham winter board meeting were shared and plans noted for the March 20 weekend district meeting at Holiday Inn Cullman and the Mobile May state convention. The Valley Club will send delegates to both meetings. The furnishings committee proposed buying four large tables for the American Legion Hall Courtland and was approved. Committee members were Mrs Roy Coffey Mrs James Stutts and Mrs J C Clabhorn. Mrs Fred Terry with Mrs Stanley Kracke and Mrs James Bradford arranged heat for the hall via a gas line. Mrs Stutts was nominated for district secretary at the spring meeting. Refreshments served to eleven members and three guests. Natural materials such as brick wood and ceramic tile are popular and low maintenance for the new natural look in decorating.

J. C. Claborn Wheeler Valley Business & Professional Women’s Club Don Parker Mack Vinson Lois Robertson B. P W District II C. H. Robertson Cullman Don Turner Robertson Birmingham Holiday Inn Mobile Valley Club American Legion Hall Courtland Roy Coffey James Stutts J. C. Clabhorn Fred Terry Stanley Kracke James Bradford Stutts

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