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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1968
Page
6
Dear readers share a repair tip for dull light brown ebonite handles on expensive knives. A reader recounts using a grain-scoured soap pad with no water followed by facial tissue rubbed with salad oil to revive the finish. The method swiftly restores color.
Practical hints cover shower shoes to prevent slips in rain gear, preserving stuffed toys with double bows, reheating mashed potatoes in foil, and avoiding pillow slips by using beach batch rests.
A collage of reader questions and responses from Ann Landers covers social missteps in compliments toward adopted children, teen chastity and guilt, and a man puzzled by a girlfriend who brings her eight year old nephew on dates. The column offers light advice on handling social faux pas.
The AP News profile follows Angela M of Augusta Georgia a four year old girl with thalassemia major kept alive by repeated blood transfusions. Doctors and her Indian parents face heredity risk as Angela remains brave amid ongoing treatment and hopeful research into bone marrow transplants and future cures.
Little John McBride son of Mr and Mrs William Blanton McBride is in the hospital in Birmingham for corrective surgery. Visiting Mrs Margret Ramensee from Germany is her mother. Mr and Mrs Hugh Looney attended the Men's Hairstyling Convention in Chattanooga Tennessee last weekend.
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