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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1965
Page
7
Ann Landers answers reader questions on a draft homosexual disclosure and potential charges, a stepfamily visit issue, and a dating dilemma. The column advises about psychiatric examination for the draft and clarifies stance on couples’ social boundaries.
Styled to slim print pattern ad invites readers to sew a slender dress in silk linen or cotton with front pleat and button trim. Size 161-2 requires 2 5 8 yards of fabric. order via The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept New York. Includes offer for free pattern with catalog and coupon.
Mr and Mrs Barrett Shelton Jr hosted a Friday dinner for Mr and Mrs Gilbert Key Jr who plan to move to Huntsville. Guests from Courtland included Mr and Mrs James Blythe and Mr and Mrs James Blythe Jr and Mr and Mrs Sykes Martin and Mr and Mrs John Davis Jr.
The marriage of Bonnie Gaye Mathews daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Mathews to J Wilson Dinsmore son of Mrs Greenhill Dinsmore and C Lloyd Dinsmore was announced with dates and grandparent names. After a Florida honeymoon the couple returned to Auburn University to resume studies.
A golden wedding anniversary reception for Mr. and Mrs Ben Campbell was held at the First Federal Penthouse. Mrs 8 N Campbell kept the guest register and Gerald R Campbell provided piano music. The Daily ran an erroneous photo placement relating the Campbell story to the Grishams of Hartsel as shown.
An essay on cleanliness as essential to health welfare and morale in the modern era. It argues that a clean body clothes and environment mark national progress and civilization.
The piece notes bubble play by ancient children seen on an Etruscan Louvre vase and cites Sir Charles Vernon Boys on bubble science. It mentions Liebig’s view that soap consumption signals national wealth and civilization in an era centuries before modern chemistry.
Rochester reports a field test stack of copies 30 stories high from a Xerox Corp machine capable of 2400 copies per hour. Officials describe the device as too fast to be a and too simple to use to be anything else.
Instructions for Pattern 7370 detail transfer motifs from 16 to 3 by 10 inches for linens lingerie and children's clothing. Price thirty five cents per pattern plus 15 cents for first class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks Decature Daily Needlecraft Dept Box 163 Old Chelsea Sta. Also Ann Landers accepts readers questions in care of the paper with stamped envelope.
Article notes Washington Wash workers clean the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel weekly April through November using 2 500 gallons of detergent and 30 000 gallons of water. It also mentions a dairy farm in upstate New York where a computer controls cow feeding rest and breeding, plus an unrelated Needlecraft catalog ad.
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