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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1961
Page
3
A distraught mother seeks peace after adopting out her daughter's baby following an unapproved steady relationship. Helen Wordsworth Erskine counsels forgiveness citing the Bible and urges reading the New Testament. Other letters urge mending rifts between siblings and a mother and her daughter's partner.
A reader, now 18, confesses trouble with her mother over marrying a reforming former troublemaker who is now a policeman. Advice urges independence, honest talk with her mother, securing a job, and not running away, ending with sending problems to Helen Worden Erskine for guidance.
Graduation exercises are scheduled this month for about 390 students across Limestone County eight high schools. Ceremonies begin last night for 239 graduates in six county high schools. Athens High School hosts 130 seniors May 30 with Konrad K Dannenberg as speaker. Dannenberg, deputy director at NASA Marshall, was among 120 German scientists who arrived in 1945. Baccalaureate May 28 features Rev. Bobby Cook. Athens Bible School graduates 21. Mack Wayne Craig of David Lipscomb College speaks May 26. East Limestone Elkmont and Tanner hold events May 26 or 27. West Limestone and Ardmore hold ceremonies tonight with Judge James N Bloodworth and George Johnson respectively. Clements High School seniors graduate Thursday with Joe W Henry Jr of Pulaski as speaker.
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