Dear Heloise hints on homemaking tips and family notes
Heloise shares candle fitting tricks with rubber glove fingers and sock pairing methods to keep laundry items neat. Readers offer humor about life with family and tips on organizing sewing patterns and mementos for special occasions.
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Heloise
Junking trips lead widower to a half century of signs
Charles M. Singleton of Kansas City for 25 years hunts junk piles and old shops for pre century signs. His exhibit Signs of the Times at Hallmark Gallery features about 2000 items with 400 insured for 150000. The collection includes a 30 inch carved eagle from New Hampshire and a cigar store Indian from Independence Missouri.
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Patricia McCormack
New York
UPI
Charles M. Singleton
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Yesteryear
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Hallmark Gallery
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Central Park
Jerry Smith
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Independence
Computer Checkout System Demonstrated for USDA
At College Station a first working trial of a computerized grocery checkout system was shown to the U S Department of Agriculture. Virginia Knauer demonstrated the scanner based system that reads item data and prints a detailed receipt while tracking inventory and automatic shelf reordering. It excludes fresh produce and promises time and money savings for customers and clerks, potentially lowering prices.
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College Station
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Gwendolyne Clyatt
Virginia Knauer
Agricultural Research Service
USDA
Household Employee Union urges neutral terms for domestic staff
Paris officials report the Household Employee Union asks French household workers to be called household employees. It proposes terms like hostesses and technicians for school staff and exterior employees for live in servants. Officials note fewer disputes when employers and workers are not cohabiting. Independence in smaller homes is emphasized.
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Paris
Wns
Sour Cream Fig Coffeecake by Cecily Brownstone
Popular coffeecake recipe features sour cream batter layered with a fig and nut filling. Method includes fluted tube pan, 350 degree oven, 1 and a half to two hours bake time, and cooling before serving.
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Cecily Brownstone
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