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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1964
Page
6
In a North South vulnerable bridge deal East opens three diamonds as a preempt. South bold cue bid in pursuit of slam leads to five spades by North and slam by South. Declarer crafts play to develop hearts and ruff in dummy, with favorable defenses and discards shaping the outcome.
Pattern 4863 offers a sheath dress and three jackets in checks dots and solids with an easy daisy applique on the cap sleeve version. Sizes 10 through 20 are listed and mail orders priced at fifty cents with extra for first class postage.
engagement of Shelby Jean Guthrie to Sandy Edward McMurry announced by Mrs Amerson Guthrie and O Clarence Guthrie of Detroit. Grandparents listed from Jasper Townley Russellville Ala. wedding details to be held at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church.
Local notes list many families visiting and returning home from trips to towns like Florence Hartselle and Decatur. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Gilbert Weaver and Elaine, plus Allen Beasley Horace Broom and more with several returning from trips to Tuscaloosa and New York World’s Fair. Medical updates mention Lillian Hughes Watson ill in Decatur General Hospital. Also referenced are luncheon attendees in the Red Room of the Country Club and the opening of First National Bank on Sixth Avenue.
The 1964 Needlecraft catalog promotes rose bedspread patterns and quilt blocks with mail order details. AP reports at Cape Kennedy in March 1964 the Space Center employed about 29,000, projected to rise to 48,000 as the Apollo program enters early test launches.
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