Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 10

BENTON COPIES AVTTniNG NIXON BLUE PRINT CO rnONE 8-2551 Triplets Certain 9 To liring Luck CAMBRIDGE MASS Sept 30 i'P) Mr and Mrs Edward are confident their newly ar-i ived triplets will bring them luck Their housing problem became much more acute yesterday with the birth of the two boys and a girl at Cambridge hospital Recently evicted from their apartment the couple and their 19 months old son Edward Jr have been living with Mrs mother because they get into a house they bought until present occupants find a replacement "With triplets you raid the optimistic father a former Air Force Captain 10 CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Wednesday Oct 1 1947 NEWS EMERGENCY' MOTHERS Local Baby-Sitter Service Boon to Harried Parents By MIMI MERRITT Mrs Joy Simmins 1714 Tarlton has turned what most women think of as strictly a part-time occupation into a profitable full-time business Mrs Simmons operates a baby-sitter service The business is not a new idea She just happened to be the first to recognize a need in Corpus Christi and turn it inta a profitable occupation not only for herself but also for the sitters who work through her a 1 ONE CANDLE Robert Martinez son of A Martinez Lily Cisnero 2413 Marguerite cedebrated his fourth birthday yesterday His four-year-old sister Olga also was hon-eretf at the party given for him Forty children were guesU Robert is the' grandson of Mr and Mrs Ben Martinez of thia city Start each day off right hear the over K-S-I-X 1230 on your radio dial! (Adv) CAGE'S The Store Beautiful" HEAR BING CROSBY on Philco Hour over KSIX tonight at 9 Sponsored by all Cage Stores CAGE'S 309 Chaparral ACTIVITIES WtlaMlir CABDZMA Garden Club 1 Lhtntin Auditorium AAUW and League of Women Voter YMCAtUdy 16 Club IS a Lich- Nywca Cub SENIOR' High Y-Teena a CMcL Auditorium Cen- tennlal Museum Bwh 1 temple annex Club 12:30 House Of CSlftlo CHAPTER AV PEO 12 3a WmiMnJv Wlndlfc 139 Naples DAY CIub- P- nv Club Slnunlon Country LA RETAMA Club 12:30 w- 10X Cafo- COTERIE Club 2-43 Ocean Drive Unit SI American Le- Tbe radar Organisation 2 Urael Srnaaugue 1 CORPUS CHRISTI No 12 lOOr a AAUW0 TOrar jSTmv d-vw emv Word Acad- "SFISft aarss: CUb 7a Navarro FURMAN P-TA night 7:3 1Pn hou fathers EVANS P-TA 2 CROSS LEY pta ELIZABETH pLta1JP' seek ist tlon a open hou Mid subscribers want sitters for an entire week-end while they go out of town One sitter has been hired for two weeks The average subscriber has two children but one has five Sitters charge for extra children Mrs Simmons said she is getting more and more calls from Navy personnel living on the bases Sometimes the Navy subscribers send in a car especially to pick up a carful of sitters Airs Sirpmons who has a son in college and a married daughter both in Colorado calls Colorado home although she has worked in Wyoming and Washington state She moved to Corpus Christi two 'years ago and liked it so well she bought a house and settled down She did office work for "a long before finally going into business for herself "The business has grown so soon need some help I ask my subscribers not to call before 10:30 in tbe morning but my phone starts ringing at 8 So far no subscribers have complained about their sitters Mrs Simmons said Nearly all of them ask for the same sitter time after time If the sitter is to stay overnight Mrs Simmons tries to arrange a meeting between subscriber and sitter beforehand Dependability is the watchword of the baby-sitter service Even if a subscriber calls only 10 minutes before a sitter is needed Mrs Simmons can almost always produce one herself if necessary One woman has asked for someone to walk her dog Mrs Simmons Mid get her a dog walker maybe the red-headed Polish Women Urged To 0 Ad just to Need WARSAW Sept 30 IP The newspaper Zycie Warszawy addressed this appeal to Polish women today: "Women do not surrender blindly to the demand of fashion which as it apears is propagating not only much longer but also luxurious dressesThese are in disproportion to wages and put an extra strain on production Styles should be adjusted to needs comfort and conditions of life PMOKtas NOW CAN BE BEATEN Tba miarrfae af Pie-Worm have We foe eeaturica and millinaa ef vm-tuna have aouxkt a was to deal with tkm Peat that livae iaauia I ha hum a bade Today thaaka to a aporiat an ad reeoxmaod drn a hixhly effective traal Jssheea made poaaibte Thu drax r-W the Pia-Werm tablets dceehmed ia the labwateriaa ef Dr X-Jayno A Soa The email P-W teUete ad wst to remove Pis-Warma So Iob suffer with the embarraasia racial Iteb eauaed bv this ualv peat Anh pose drwKiat far JATNI'S P-W aad follew lha difvetiosa P-W maaaa Pla-Warm aoliefl (Adv) The best known home remedy you can use to relieve miseries is TO BE Mr and Mrs Townsend of Rock-port announce the betrothal of their daughter Dixie to Charles Roe Jr son of Mr and Mrs Charles of Rockport The wedding will take place in December Miss Townsend was graduated from Texas State College for Women and has bean teaching in Rockport this year Mr Roe is to be graduated from Texas Technological College at Lubbock this semester A barbecue supper was served Drill work was featured at the night meeting and the Portland Lodge presented the memorial service About 200 attended from Kingsville Beevitle Rockport Sinton Aransas Pass Ingleside and Corpus Christi lodges CAUODSES To Nlim painful rallnums biira-iC or tfladrraoM on bottom of feat oad remove pat thma thi Boot bins auabhming pads Odd Felloics9 Rehekahs Hold District Meet PORTLAND (Sp) A district meeting bf the Bluebonnet Asso-iation of Odd Fellow and Rebekah Lodges was held in Portland during the week end meeting look place in the morning with Claude Carter past master of Texas and grand representative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge giving the main address A picnic lunch was served at noon and competitive degree work was held in the afternoon (tmhomnsmm Use Classified Ads The possibilities of operating a successful baby-sitter service occurred to Mr Simmon when ahe continually heard men women aay "I would have been there but I couldn't find anybody to keep the baby" "When I heard ot and observed some of the really distressing thing aome baby Bitter do I thought could do Corpus Christi parent a real service in providing them with reliable sitter" Mrs Simmons aid "I've known of litters who held children over an unlit gas jet until they were drowsy and other sitters who gave chilren sleeping pills so they will go to sleep right away" 'I never register a sitter until I have talked to her personaly and have talked to three references" Mrs Simmons said Most of the women registered with Mrs Simmons as sitters are housewives or retired women She wants women who can meet any emergency from changing diapers to calling a doctor or the fire department "Eifiergency mothers is what my sitters are" "Some girls are just as capable as older women but my subscribers are definitely prefer older women Another trouble with girls is that when you need them most you can't get them" Mrs Simmons has one male sit ter a redheaded 17-year-old boy who has worked through baby-sitter service in several other cities The service started Aug 1 has steadily grown until today between 40 and 50 sitters are registered This is' not quite enough to meet the demand Mrs Simmons said "Lots of the sitters have assignments months ahead On the average each sitter goes it twice a week but I try to give them an equal number of jobs" Mrs Simmons operates her service in her home Subscribers to the service pay her $2 a month hich entitled them to eight calls a month All the subscriber has to do is call the service Mrs Simmons notifies the sitter who receives SI minimum After the first two hours the sitter receives 40 cents an hour until 12:30 after which the rate is 60 cents an hour There is a flat rate for overnight sitting The service is supposed to be available to subscribers only but Mrs Simmons rarely turns anyone down in an emergency There is a map on the W'all by Mrs Simmons desk with all homes of subscribers and sitters marked so that sitters can be assigned as close to their own neighborhoods as possible The average subscriber Mrs Simmons said wants a baby sitter twice a week She has had some subscribers call four and five tmes a week however The most popular time for sitters is on the weekend Since tte opening of the football sea-fon Friday night has meant lobs for practically all of the sitters on that one night Mrs Simmons Mid The sitters also do quite a bit of overnight work "Lots of my will believe a son in high ttantarou Princess Elizabeth Nervous 9 as Godmother WORPLESDON ENG Sept 30 Princess Elizabeth held a jmll baby today and said later she "was nervous terribly afraid of the child The Princess accompanied by her fiance Lt Philip Mountbat-ten served as godmother in the Worplesdon village church for the christening of the infant daughter of the Hon Mrs Andrew El-phinstone one of her ladies in waiting ENGAGED The marriage of Miss Leona Anna Haven of Tacoma Wash and CpL Willis Morrow of Flour Bluff will take place Sunday Corporal Morrow is stationed at McChord Field Tacoma The bride-elect is a graduate of St Leos High School The son of Mr and Mrs Morrow Corporal Morrow at- tended Flour Bluff High School I Golden Key to Loveliness The Eloisc Special a a a different scien- Sio WAVE Ufle lreatet! 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