Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • Page 57

KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS JJ HOME AND FAMILY KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE, 37660, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1967 Holy Haircut! A Facial, Too Take a little off the sides and straighten ihe top 'I hope He was cute when he walked in (he shop a typical 17- year-old with long, unruly hair. But when he walked out he was handsome, sporting a new European hair style. Ronnie Kabool a a thought styling shops were for women, and he din't believe the advertisement saying: "Men's hair styling, hair coloring, hair straightening, skin care and face lifts." HE DIDNT believe it either when he found out he couldn't just walk into Homer Allen's shop on Ft. Henry and say "fake a little off the sides." Allen works by appointment only. So Ronnie, who had never A new look after the comb-out had a facial, manicure, straightening job, style, or corrective cut, got himsolf an appointment for the work.

"I DON'T know what I'm in for," he said, "but whatever is, I've probably been through worse." Perhaps; but it must have been painful for him to sit and watch long strands of hair fall on his shoulders, after carefully nurturing it through more than a month's growth. Oh well, Allen said it had to go, and he's been in barbering for 21 years and styling for three. RONNIE WAS a lilfte embarrassed about the facial and manicure, but Allen assured him "everybody does this," so he just settled back to watch and enjoy himself. After he watched his hair fall little by little, he saw the straightening lotion "looks like vanilla icing" being applied, then a face mask, "I'm cracking up." and then, most embarrassing of all, a hair net covering his head while he sat under the dryer. "I-ONLY hope my friends forget this by (he lime school starts again." Almost finished, except for the long, agonizing "comb-out." Allen combed and brushed and sprayed, and Ronnie looked better with every flick of the wrist.

Finally, Allen asked, "How do you like it? It's finished." And Ronnie looked and looked at himself and said "Gosh," Which ineans he like it very much. "MY PARENTS (Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kabool, 1622 E. Center St.) wiM love it.

It's so short!" "Well," Allen said, "you really should have had it cut about three more inches, Ronnie." Ronnie looked a skeptically, looked back in the mirror, and asked slowly, "You mean like all over?" ITS A ROUGH LIFE BUT 'Such Good Feeling When Challenges Are Conquered' By ANNA GILREATH Times-News Womn'i -Writer. At 3 a.m. of almost any morning, while everything except the crickets and frogs outside her window, Mrs. Claire Heermans can be found in front her typewriter. The keys i a steadily, and filled sheets mount on the table.

When her work is finished, and only then, will Mrs. 'Heermans carefully replace the cover on her machine and join the world of the SHE'S 71 years oW and beginning to feel it. She can't run here and there carrying out various missions as she once did, bid she can still get there. Slowly and carefully, her work Ss finished. Mrs.

Heermans was recent- ly the Suffivan. County a Association of America for the ninth year in a row, and for the ninth straight year she's accepted the work that's getting to be too mucli for her. SHE DID FT because "it's a challenge; and I'm a sucker for challenges. You have such a good feeling when conquered them." Staying. up until- the.

eariy hours: of Use up reports, doing research on muscular dystrophy to be used In fund Heermans is facing another challenge -one which wUl be more difficult ic conquer. SHE HAS TO work by artificial, light, a sunlight "blinds" her. Another disease dominates her life in Mrs. Heermans does her work in ewly morning hours. a more personal way than her work with MD.

Mrs. a has glaucoma, a disease of the eyes which causes progressive loss of vision. Perhaps that's why she uses so much of the energy she still has 'on the fight against a disease with no known somewhere, someone else may be still up at 3 a.m., searching for an answer to glaucoma. A FEW YEARS ago, Mrs. was active in almost every service dub fa town.

She atiended a meeting of tome such group every night, "and sometimes two or three In one evening." "But I've given up everything now except my work with MD, Women of the and the Charles DeWitt Byrd Post 3382, VFW Auxiliary. "I WOULDN'T belong to a bridge club or any other kind of social club. My time is too valuable. I plan to give of myself as long as I have something to contribute." So she continues to accept the work that other, younger people kave to her. The challenge now is to keep going.

Sometimes. she'd like to sit down and just sit there, never to move again. "BUT NOBODY who can move has a right to sit still for very long. There are so many people who can't, who need the assistance we able- bodied people can give." At 3 a.m. this morning, Mrs.

Claire Heermans sat in her study at 140 Archdale Dr. She was tired, her back hurt, and she wanted to go to bed. But there were reports to send out, appeals for help to be typed and mailed, and somebody had to do it. Mrs. Heermans had a herself "George" of "let George do it." MBS.

STANLEY BURGIN stfflknes Scotland MRS. J. STONE-KAMINSKI Kingsport's the best MRS. DANNY GEYER misses shops MRS. CHARLES KEILY people warm, polite FOREIGN-BORN RESIDENTS COMPARE Their Native Land Versus Kingsport By ANNA GILREATH Times-News Wwnem's Writer "I'd go back for a visit, but I'd have to have my return ticket with me before I left here." That's the way Mrs.

Charles Keily feels about her new country, arid she says it with a pure Alabama accent. Mrs. Keily, wife of an American engineer, came to this country from Germany 13 years ago, settling first ki Alabama. She's moved several times since throughout the South, and now lives In Colonial Acres. NOW A NATURALIZED citizen, Mrs.

Keily praised her new home recently in a "gathering of the nations," when she and three other foreign- born Kingsport area residents compared the old with the new, their native tend to the United States and Kingsport. Tliere was Mrs. Joseph Stone Kaminski, 2128 Ft. Henry an intensely patriotic citizen, who came to the United States from Poland more than 50 years ago, and says "There's no better country than America." And Mrs. Danny Geyer, a naturalized citizen who came here from Japan ten years ago, and whose only complain is "the telephone system.

Something's always messed up." She and her husband, station manager for Southern Airlines, live in Indian Springs. THE ONLY MEMBER of the panel not a citizen was Mrs. Stanley Burgin, 317 Wuodcrest whose husband is a business consultant to physicians and dentists. She came here from Scotland about ten years ago, and still misses "A little place to 50 for a race tea with your friends." A common observation by foreigtvbom people living in the United States has been the lack of interest in cutiure. It's been said American women are more interested in a new washing machine than the threatre or good music.

Not so, Mrs. Keiiy said. "It might have been lacking in former years, but it's different-now. Education is being stressed more, and people have more leisure lime wim which to enjoy music and literature." "AMERICA IS SUCH a young country," Mrs. Geyer said.

"There's no comparison between the culture here and in the Tokyo, for instance. But Tokyo is the largest city in the world, and an old city. They've had more time to advance." "Kingsport's a boom town now," Mrs. Burgin says. "But, for such a cosmopolitan place, it's stilt hard to mix.

There's nothing here to encourage gelling to know everybody, and you won't meet any of your neighbors unless you belong to a lot of dubs." "ON THE OTHER hand, those people you meet are very friendly," Keily said. "I've found everyone in the South to be very warm and polite," At fault in the lack communication between neighbors in the United States is the oar, the ladies said. Here, "you hop in your car and run downtown, or to UK supermarket, or to the pool. Nobody moves leisurely." "In Japan," Mrs. Geyer said, "anywhere you go 1 there's a tea shop with music.

If downtown and want to rest a minute or talk to a friend you've run into, you can go in any of these shops. That's what I miss." From tea shops to television was a short hop for the ladies, and they proved their Americanism by complaining about commercials. "THERE IS A government-owned station in Japan," Mrs. Geyer said, "which has commercials oniy at the beginning and end of the show, with no interruptions during the program. It's much better." "That the way it is with the BBC," Mrs.

Burgin said. "There are no commercials, and the standards of the programs are much higher." Mrs. Geyer said many US-produced shows are presented in Japan, with Japanese dubbed in. "It to see Matt Mlon talking in Japanese," she laughed. WOULD THEY LIKE to return to their native lands? "No!" Mrs.

Stone said. "This is my home, I would not leave it. I can travel anywhere I wish here -without a passport. I can buy anything I want. Why should I leave?" "I go home sometimes to see my family," Mrs; Geyer said.

"But I'm a United States citizen no? srd I always relurn." "My children are Americans," Mrs. Keily said. "They don't even speak German." "I still love Scotland," Mrs. Burgin said. "I haven't decided yet whether or not to be naturalized.

Scolland is really my home.".