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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1970
Page
5
A humorous guide to preparing for a party from the day before to the day after. It covers hiring a sitter, checking outfits, grooming, tidying the house, locating cuff links and tie tacks, and coping with the chaos of last minute fixes. Enduring punchlines reveal the narrator’s exaggerated stress and need for psychiatric help.
Joyce Gabriel profiles Nancy Cherry and Judy Shackelford who swap art teaching for a business making inflatable boot trees and mannequins. They built Inflat-A Industries from a tiny toy kit idea to a Hong Kong plant with talks for Japan expansion, showing grit, smart bargaining, and rapid growth.
Dear Polly suggests using plastic bread bags as makeshift winter boots for kids. To increase durability and reduce slipperiness, cover bags with old nylon stockings and pull up over coats sleeves to keep snow out. For mittens, wet hands go in warm socks then bags, with nylons pulled up over sleeves. Dry mittens by inserting wire hanger ends and hanging to dry.
Dear Polly asks how to provide a dog entrance when the home has a wood front door removed in the past and a shared wall with sliding glass doors. She seeks a safe, DIY solution to let a dog enter and exit alone without compromising security.
Dear Polly answers include advice to remove mud from white satin shoes with careful brushing then cleaning fluid and white dye to restore them. Another reader shares a straw-in-a-jar solution for an elderly person who struggles to drink from a glass using a tightly fitting lid to prevent leaks.
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