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nstant House: Just Add Money ROBERT LINDSUY (C) W3 New York Times News Service LONG BEACH, Calif. The buyers at a new $100 million waterfront housing complex here called Marina Pacifica won't need to pick out furniture before moving into their new homes. They won't have to choose dishes, place mats, silverware, ashtrays, flower arrangements or paintings for the walls either. The staff of the development will select all of the furnishings for the buyers, producing what the complex's decorators call an "instant home," and what some outsiders may call "instant tastes." The average price of the 1,500 homes in the condominium complex is $55,000, and the most expensive will sell for $98,000. Buyers of the smallest size units, which cost $30,000 to $40,000, are retired to buy, for $3,500 up, one of eight ''packages" of interior furnishings, down to the place mats, lamps, paintings and a coffee pot.

The plan is optional but encouraged for buyers of larger units. So far almost one- third of these buyers have indicated they will sign up, according to officials of the development. The builders predict more than half the buyers will do so after seeing decorated model units that are to open this fall. They also pre- dicted a i the concept of pre- selected interior furnishings will spread to other large housing developments. To outsiders who suggest that the look-alike, cooky-cutter sameness of subdivision tract architecture is being transferred into the interiors of homes, the developers have an answer: a computer will be employed to avoid the kind of embarrassment that occurs when two women arrive at a ball wearing the same gown.

"We'll feed all of the information about each individual unit into a computer," said Bea Cuthbertson, who is director of the project's interior decorating program. "In the event that Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith are next door neighbors and they have carbon-copy interiors, we'll go to one of them and say, 'hey, let's change t's a very exciting concept," Miss Cuthbertson said. "The owners won't have to do anything.

They'll just turn the key and everything will be there. All they need to bring is a toothbrush and their clothing." Miss Cuthbertson, who is credited with originating the concept at Marina Pacifica, first tried out the idea of prepackaged complete interiors while decorating a number of homes built at the La Costa Country Club near San Diego. "There we only gave them a choice of colors blue, brown Miss Pamela J. Harless Marries Joseph A. Lewis In Baptist Church The First Baptist Church of Beckley was the setting for the Saturday afternoon wedding of Miss Pamela J.

Harless and Joseph A. Lewis. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dewey Harless of 221 Crawford St.

and the groom is a son of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Martin Lewis of 223 George St. The double-ring ceremony was performed by the pastor, Dr. Kenneth L.

Swank at two o'clock. The Rev. Otis T. Clyburn of MacArthur read a selection from the Bible. Wedding music was played by Mrs.

J. W. Woods and soloist was Mrs. Denise Hollandsworth Lewis, sister-in-law of the groom. The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Miss Beth Anderson of Washington, D. C. was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Barbara Callahan of Chariottesville, Miss Jennifer Lewis, sister of the groom; Miss Kathy Jarrell of Whitesville, cousin of the bride, and Miss Lesa Maloney of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Christa Lewis, niece of the groom, was flower girl. Dr. Lewis served as his son's best man while ushers were Richard Lewis of Marietta, Ga. and Andrew Lewis of Beckley, both brothers of the groom; Jon DeVetter of Covington, and Michael Brentano of New Canaan, Conn. A reception followed at the Ramada Inn.

After a honeymoon at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, the couple will reside at Tahoe Club Apartments, 4560 E. Ponce de Leon Apt. 6-D, Clarkston, Ga. The former Miss Harless is a 1968 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. She received a bachelor of science degree from West Virginia University in 1972 and currently is employed as a speech therapist by the Clayton County Board of Education in Atlanta, Ga.

Her husband is a 1967 graduate of Greenbrier Military School. He obtained a bachelor orange and gold everything from and we took there," she said. "Here we decided to give people more choices such as in the types of fabrics." Choices will be limited however. Buyers will have a choice of four basic styles furniture: "contemporary in chrome and glass," "farmhous contemporary," which is fur niture of natural oak; a com bination of the two, and a design in walnut and oak. Most Californians seem have an inherited or adopts obsession to live on or nea the water, and this obsessio has meant brisk sales so fa on this 102 acre tidewater site Even though no model home are on display, and the firs units won't be completed unti October, more than 200 of th condominium units have bee sold since June 1.

The project includes con struction of 2.5 miles of inlan waterways which the multistor condominiums will ac restaurants, a shopping center and boat slips for tenants. One buyer at a in Pacifica, Robert Davis, i aerospace industry designer, said he didn't mind having to accept the decorating Post-Herald and "Lots of people have the ame kinds of cars and they hink nothing of it," he pointed ul. "The world is so cornmer- ialized that you're bound to ee identical things." Norman Danoff, the development's marketing director said lany buyers like the idea of reaking completely with the ast. Many people, he added, ike the idea of a professional ecorator's guidance, "because can coordinate everything iown to the last bit," while )thers, buying the unit as a econd home for weekend use, fjould need furniture in any case. "They say everybody should decorate his own home; I say Miss Presley M.

Merritt Is Wed To Joel Wagoner Of North Carolina hat is a bunch of some people are lousy at Danoff insisted. If a buyer doesn't want something in the package, can reject it? "No," Danoff said, It's all ordered by computer trom a central warehouse. People ask me what to do if they don't like a painting. I tell them we have to deliver and that they should live with it for a while and maybe they will learn to like it. If they don't, I say give it away.

We may end up with a room here filled with paintings that people don't like." St. Stephen's i a Church in Beckley was the setr ting for the Saturday evening wedding of Miss Presley McDonald Merritt of Beckley to Joel Morris Wagoner of Liberty, N. C. The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

Charles Wesley Merritt of Beckley and the granddaughter of Curtis E. Presley of Clarksdale, and the late Mrs. Presley and the late Dr. and Mrs. Walter M.

Merritt of Boyle, Miss. Parents of the groom are Mr. land Mrs. Alger Loyce Wagoner Liberty, N. C.

His grand- arents are Mrs. J. 0. Vagoner of Lexington, N. C.

nd the late Mr. Wagoner and he late Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth 'rotter of Charlotte, N.C. The ceremony was performed 8:30 by the Rev.

David C. ones, assisted by the Rev. The Internal Revenue Code now permits a wide range of tax deductions for the care of dependents, both in and out of the home, says First National City Bank. This is taste of someone studio unit. else in his important to the working wife who reaps the benefits when she itemizes on her tax return The maximum deduction allowable is $400 a month no matter how many dependents, for both inside And outside services Another limitation: The ful is available only i idjusted gross income is uncle 18,000 per year.

For incomes between $18,000 and $27,600 reduced deductions are allowed MRS. JOSEPH A. LEWIS Private-Grant Foundations of science mathematics degree in from University in Atlanta in 1971 and now is employed by National Service Industries in Atlanta as a data controller. Opening Doors To Women By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor NEW YORK (UPI) There is an area of careers for women of which little is heard, about which much is being done, and where even greater progress still is urged. The Career: Executive post in the nation's estimated 26,000 private-grant foundations which last year gave away $2.2 billion for various causes.

"We figure that almost 30 per cent of various foundation officers are women," said Dr. Robert F. Goheen, the former president of Princeton University who since last October has been chairman and chici executive officer of the Counci! on Foundations. "The figure is rather higher than I'd expected," he said. "It's higher at the executive Miss Margaret McFillin Engaged To Lt.

Calisch at banks or women are evel than say colleges. Some )laying quite an effective role. Opening More Doors He mentioned among others: Jane Lee Eddy, executive director, the Taconic Foundation; Martha Wallace, executive director, the Henry Luce foundation; Jane Dustan, program director, the Foundation 'or Child Development, and Sheila A. McLean, assistant counsel, the huge Ford Foundation. Goheen for 15 years was Princeton's president and it was during his administration that the university in 1968 decided to go coeducational, admitting the first women students in 1969.

Now, as head of the nonprofit Council on Foundations, Inc. his role is to improve the operations of its membership including the opening of more doors to women and minority groups. In an interview, Dr. Goheen conceded many problems in so is no organized Massey-Webb Wedding Told Mr. and Mrs.

Pete Webb of Masseyville have announced the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Diana Lynn, to Stephen Dwayne Massey, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Massey of Dorothy. The couple will exchange vows in an open-church wedding at 5:30 p. m.

Aug. 24 in the First Baptist Church Whitesville. What to do with the last bit etchup in a bottle? Pour in oi and-vinegar. You'll get a smal amount of delicious salac dressing. Howard Backus.

Acolytes for he service were Scott Hedrick VIcCulloch and Mark Starr of Seckley. Dr. Merritt gave his daughter marriage. Ann Whitten Merritt, jister of the bride, was maid of honor, and Mrs. C.

Daniel Brennan of San Diego, matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Lissa VIohler of Beckley a Washington, D. Miss Mary Jrawnlee Presley, Clarksdale, cousin of the bride; Miss Martha Fite of Muskogee, Okla, cousin of the bride; Mrs. John Hardy of Richmond, Mrs. Robert 0.

House of North Augusta, S. Mrs. G. Curtis Weaver of Greensboro, N. MRS.

JOEL MORRIS WAGONER (Earl's Studio) Mrs. Daniel G. Downer of Laurel, and Mrs. A. Dwayne Aaron of Spring Lake, N.

C. Junior bridesmaids were Miss Lunne Germany and Miss Lucie Germany of Houston, cousins 'of the bride. Jennifer Payne of Beckley was the flower girl. The groom's father served as best man. Groomsmen were Charles W.

Merritt Jr. Beckley, brother of the bride; Charles R. Kuhn Jr. of Liberty N. Arby L.

Frost of Roanoke BECKLEY-OAK HILL AND Reunion Slated The annual reunion of persons from the Paint Creek area will be held August 12 at Maxwell Hill Community Park. The affair will begin at 10:30 a. m. Those attending are asked to bring a picnic lunch. Of the 460 foundations (85 per cent of the council's membership responding), these statistics emerged: Relatively few grants were reported that were directed specifically to women's or women's $5.7 million were so directed as compared organizations and MARGARET McFILLIN Miss Margaret Mary Ann McFillin of Philadelphia, Pa.

i the bride-elect of Lt. (j.g.) Louis Herman Calisch soi of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Herman Calisch of Danville, Va. and grandson of Mr.

and Mrs. Irving Goldstein of Beckley. Miss McFillin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kirk McFillin of Philadelphia.

She is a student at Holy Family College in Philadelphia majoring in elementary education. Calisch is a graduate of the University of Virginia and presently is a pilot in the U. S. Navy stationed in Puerto Rico. An October wedding is planned.

placement foundation service the field. Often placement is a personal causes, although more in grants to men activities. Rather, the grants went to organizations where both sexes bcnefitted. Some 17.68 per cent of the board of trustees or directors were women; 28 per cent of the somebody knows somebody, officers and non- You can't turn over personnel at will." Both Sexes Benefit But encouraging, he said, were the findings in a current council study, instigated at the of Congresswoman Martha W. Griffiths, for the House Ways and Means Committee.

Baldwin Brass Candle Stick, Sconces, Candelabra, and Door Knockers Rivers 1. Varn, A.I.D., Ownor 219 N. Kanawha St. Opposite Post Office 252-3864 clerical staff were women; and women holding major responsi blities in foundations added up to 19 chairmen of boards, five vice-chairmen, 38 presidents, 5 vice-presidents, 33 secretaries 12 treasurers, 12 committee chairmen, and eight executiv directors. One out of fiv trustees are women.

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