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Jean Kappell 3 DAYTON DAILY NEWS Home Family Section Three Page 37 Wednesday, November 6, 1974 a-K I I 1 -vv Family Proud of Its Candy Selling ft. ft 1i Ci 1 11 it I 4 JK By JO ANN KNOUT Daily News Staff Writer Helping out the Campfire Girls is a family project at the Dan Pimentel household in Fairborn. And the man of the house, Capt. Pimentel of Wright Patterson Air Force Base is perhaps the hardest working and most enthusiastic. The fact he is outnumbered by females doesn't bother this Air Force captain at all.

Right now he is in the middle of the candy sales project, serving as the only male among some 40 adult "Candy Well" volunteers. AS A volunteer Capt. Pimentel helps store and distribute the candy that's being sold now until Dec. 1. His wife, Pat, juggles night shift work at Grandview hospital and classes toward a masters degree in health with duties as a Campfire Girls leader.

Pimentel says one result of working in candy sales is that the family feels pressured to outsell everyone and they usually do. The entire family often stands together in front of banks and downtown businesses hawking their wares. iftittrillifl HiTMin n'lDfliTirWiWlfl Willi THE SHINE IS ON THE HANDBAG FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON Skinny Chain Strap Can Be Tucked Inside at Will Traditional Evening Bags Get a New Art Deco Look "Two years ago we, as a family, sold 1,200 boxes," recalls Pimentel proudly. "That was the highest family sales in the council." The Pimentels belong to the Shawnee Council which covers a nine-county area. Daughter Therese, 11, was the top seller in District four last year.

The district covers east Dayton, Belmont, and all of Greene county except Xenia. Claire, 12, was a high seller a previous year. "WE FOUND this was a way, as a family, we could work with the girls," Pimentel explains. In addition to earning scholarships for camp fees, both Claire and Therese have earned camp money by initiating their own sales jobs: Therese collected paper and Claire sold address labels. Now the youngest, Denise, 9, is involved in Campfire Girls and has also established a work routine.

She delivers a weekly paper. "Campfire candy sales have also helped the girls meet people and has let them try new projects, such as crocheting and horseback riding," Pimentel says. Pimentel became active in Campfire Girls three years ago when his daughters first became interested." Having all girls I felt a need to participate," he explains." I got into district four, where four other fathers were involved, and served as district chairman. I'm now camp chairman. Ordinarily not many men become involved in Campfire Girls but it is not because they are not welcome." ONE OF the biggest disadvantages of working in the candy sales is filling up the living room and garage with candy boxes.

"The first year my wife was flabbergasted when the boxes almost filled our front room," he recalls. However, the Pimentels feel a slight inconvenience now is worth the profits received. Proceeds help finance camping, trips, arts and crafts supplies and educational opportunities. But for the Pimentels the most valuable experience is the memories of working, laughing and learning together as a family. Other men dedicated to this principal include Robert Laing, 1974 candy sale chairman (and board member) and Vic Cassano, honorary chairman.

A New Contest On Old Courthouse Plaza As any parking lot attendant can tell you, absentminde-ditis is epidemic in downtown Dayton just now. So epidemic, in fact, that a few of us are planning a contest on the Old Court House Plaza to choose the Fastest Coathanger East of the Pecos. I'll let you know when the date is set. What's happened is the dispossession of three generations of pampered parkcrs. First by the closing of the Second Street Garage so that Mead Tower may rise from its ashes.

Next by the closing of Huber's Garage on Fourth Street to public parking. E. F. MacDonald has taken over that. The patrons of these conveniences, shoppers and wage-earners, have been delighted over the years to pay a little extra for the luxury of heading home in a warm car in winter and a cool car in summer, and of having an attendant save them the trouble of nicking their own doors.

Now, however, hundreds of dazed customers have been banished to face the traumas and brave the winds and weathers of the cruel outside world of park-it-yourself. (You think it isn't all that cruel? Interview me. I'd been coddled by Huber's since Lohrey was mayor, Truman was president and the Board of Education reigned at Old Steele High.) SO IT'S a whole new ball game. You have to break down years of rote-behavior to the old pattern and bend your will to constructing a strange and unfamiliar routine. In anxiety alone, the first month takes a terrible toll.

But you keep telling yourself: Concentrate, chum. You can do it. Think of Pavlov's dog, trained seals, bears on bicycles, husbands that clean the oven, rats that learn to push buttons and ring bells. Next clear a long week end, write out the new procedures and all their variations, and repeat them over and over as you go to sleep. Lesson When the parking lot barrier is down and the gate box window is red and spells F-U-L-L, there's no room.

Go away. Lesson II: If the barrier is up you may enter, but slowly. Read the directions. The gate box may say, "Push Button for Ticket." Can't reach the button? Back up and try again. Left window stuck? Back up, dismount, and operate device from a standing position.

A sinister looking passerby, readily identified by his wig and dark glasses as a white slaver and heroin smuggler, will probably gibe, "Dumb woman driver!" Do not be distracted. Remember that the least tension will throw you out of phase. Keep cool. Lesson III: Gripping the ticket, between your teeth (otherwise you'll lose it) cruise the lot slowly looking for a space. It is usually found between two arrogant Cadillacs, both of which are over the yellow line on your side.

But since it is the only slot in the lot, slither in. Lesson IV: Since you will not be able to open the door on your side more than half an inch, collect your wits. Also your purse, papers, reading glasses, lunch box, city shoes and the sack of apples for the night watchman. Now slide rapidly across the seat to the opposite door. Your petticoat will torque and you will undoubtedly snap a bra strap, but keep wriggling your way to freedom.

After a few isometric exercises in the ladies' room when you get to the office, scarcely anyone will notice that you're carrying that wrenched left shoulder a little high. Lesson Check clothing I ni i a 1 for fender smudges. of them will brush out with the spot remover you keep in your desk. But if the Cadillac on your right has been sitting for several hours on a day when incinerator and fallout is particularly heavy, better head straight for the short-order cleaners in the Arcade. They've a little room where you can wait undressed while they clean your duds.

Lesson VI: Before you leave the lot, look back to make sure you locked both doors. You did? Good girl. Remember what happened to your friend Virginia. She left the office late one night and found a man in a pumpkin mask in her back seat. Lesson VII: Take the ticket out of your mouth, give it to whoever's in the little booth, "and pay in advance.

(You'll get a refund if you get back early.) This saves worrying about the ticket all day. Lesson VIII; If you leave the office after the parking lot attendant is off duty, remember to take a coathanger with you because you've probably locked your keys in the car again. No coathangers left in the cloakroom except wooden ones? Hmmm. That's the way it's been going lately, all over downtown. If it's before 9 p.m., however, and you're really desperate, you may be able to borrow the Huber's Garage fly swatter.

It has a twisted wire handle with a long loop on the end and works about as well as a if you know just where to bend it. But you'd better make some other contingency arrangements right away, such as taping a spare coathanger under your hood, Charlie doesn't lend that fly swatter to just anybody. Only old friends. 1 1 i i -li ariHiiiiimiimi mil 1 A I Evening dressing this winter is a matter of many moods from the soft and sensuous to the well-turned out combo in elegant fabrics. So comes a collection of evening handbags designed by Hilde Wal-borg recognizing that the Art Deco influence is strong on the fashion scene this year.

It's a collection of beaded bags, ranging from the slim elongated envelope to pouches, both pouffy and sleek, and in a melange cf colors. Sometimes they're deliberately contrasting, other times almost ombred in their blending of tones. TYPICAL OF the intricate designs cleverly interpreted in fine small beads are architectural column-like patternings, geometric treatments, flowing interwoven scrolls and wavy stripes in combination with vari-sized blocks. Exaggerating the Art Deco influence deliberately is the interplay of such colors as deep winey red with black, bronze with black or such high shades as jade, orange and brilliant pink accented with white, gilt or even on occasion the unexpected lineage of black. Silk and velvet late-day bigs gain new impoitance, too, this season since they are perfectly attuned to the theater suit and the mid-calf dress that shows up everywhere after-five now.

A LEAN elongated envelope that shows up in two sizes longer and longest is mock-buckled in tortoise. Another silk of simple shape that swings jauntly on a slim shoulder strap, features fine pleating across the front, while in a completely different mood is the satin beauty with just a hint of glitter via a strip of rhinestones across its flap. Snake-patterning 1 i on clutches, sometimes in a checkerboard effect of silver and gold together, and also is translated into mini-vagabonds, unusual silhouette for evening but so right as it is done here. And looking like gilded or silvered leather are a group of sleek young nifties, generally designed to convert from shoulder slingers to bags-in-the-hand. Particularly effective in relationship to the pleats and ruffles of CAPT.

PIMENTEL, DAUGHTERS He's a Campfire Girls Volunteer Make-It-Yourself Yule ART DECO FOR HOLIDAYS At Rikes, Elder-Beerman classes planned for Monday and Wednesday nights Nov. 11, 13, 18 and 20 and Dec. 2 and 4. They will run from 7 to 9 p.m. in the old Arnold home on Shull Road.

Instructors Maude Lawson and Donna Purnhagen promise a warm fire in the kitchen of the pioneer homestead and a friendly atmosphere for learning about economical Christmas decorations. November will be a busy month in other ways at Carriage Hill Farm, too. Monday through Friday evenings from Nov. 11 to 22, 7:30 to 9:30, Mrs. Elsie Bentley and her daughter Barb Daily will be teaching bobbin lace.

This class is for beginners and those who have already learned something about the Belgium craft. The novices will be learning basic techniques, and the intermediates will be making lace pillows. To register, or for more information on fees, call Carriage Hill Farm at 879-0461. Carriage Hill and its environs are operated as a nature reserve and historical site by the Dayton Montgomery County Park District. Even at Christmas, farm families in the early and middle 19th century were economical folks.

Their thrifty ways were partly from necessity. You couldn't buy a lot of fancy decorations they weren't available, and anyway, why buy what you could make? Today, again, economy is the -w d. That's why classes in "Old Fashioned Christmas Crafts" will appeal to many people in Dayton and Montgomery County. You can learn to make a beautiful, rustic wreath from cornhusks or ornaments from bread dough, milkweed pods and calico. There are six many of the late day clothes is a gleaming envelope gentled with cartridge pleating for a special soft touch.

LONG FAMED for her fabulous interpretations of the beaded handbag, this year Hilde gives them a specially sassy appearance. Drawstrings, mini-mail-pouches, clutches, poufs and boxy shapes all are interpreted in beads, the beads themselves translated into deliciously fragile and designs. HERE'S IIOW TO: Get the Paint Job You Want She's Gol the Basic Principle Don't: Use a different color on the woodwork and trim in a small room unless you want it to look smaller; use glossy paints on walls or ceilings of living areas unless you like to live with a perpetual glare; use small brushes on large surfaces where a roller or spray gun can give an attractive finish with less work. Good Fathering 1 1 I 1 1 I By DR. CHARLIE SHEDD My phone rang at 2 a.m.

It was Lucy. Lucy is not the kind of girl who gets in trouble at 2 a.m. She isn't the kind of girl who gets in trouble any time. But she had to see me right away. Didn't want anyone to know she was calling.

So she came. You'd like Lucy. She's somebody special. Beautiful even when she's been crying at 2 in the morning. She and Johnny had been out for a fun evening.

Johnny was her steady. On their way home they stopped at the high road overlooking the lake. From this vantage point, the city lights and the moon do wonderful things to the water. Then all of a sudden Johnny got carried away. YOU'D LIKE Johnny, too.

Big boy. All-conference line-backer, The fine kind you'd want your daughter dating. But even this kind gets super tumed-on sometimes. And that's what happened. Lucy is loving.

Responsive. Warm. So as Johnny turned on, she turned on with him. Then something happened inside Lucy. Way down inside.

From somewhere a whisper, then a voice, then an inside shouter shouting "NO." So she called it off. But after she'd gone home, she got to crying, scared. She felt like talking to somebody and that's when she thought of me. So we Knight News Wirt With the slowdown in home-building and home-buying, maintenance of the homes we have become increasingly important. Not only because well-maintained rooms are essential to the quality of family life, but also because well-maitained rooms protect the family budget in the long run by reducing repairs and that's essential to the quality of family life, also.

If you hire a painter: Know the difference between the types of jobs offered. Premium means the most excellent finish possible and maximum durability. Standard means "well painted" with "usual" durability. Minimum means just what it says: durability and an acceptable appearance over whatever flaws are in the present surface. Tell the painter exactly what paints you want, and what areas are to be painted.

Before signing a contract, the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer association recommends that the consumer make sure the following are clearly indicated in the contract: Specific price; listing of all areas to be painted; listing of types and brands of paint to be used; the number of coats to be applied. Comparison-shop by getting quotations from several painting contractors. For the do-it-yourselfers, the association has some suggestions on what and what not to do to paint your rooms in ways that will be as pleasing to your pocketbook as to your eye. Do: buy the best paints you can afford; study color swatches in both daylight and nightlight they often change under artificial light. If the area to be painted is large, the color sample should be lighter than the final result you want.

If your ceilings are high, paint them a deeper color than the walls. Cover all hardware with masking tape, paper or cloth; dust all rooms of your home thoroughly except the bathroom and kitchen, where the walls should be washed with household cleansers to remove grease or steamed-on dirt. This budget feature will save you the price of the paper. COMMON CENTS By KATE MacQUEEN Daily News Staff Writer THIS YEAR most of us can replace broken storm door windows without the cost of a repairman's labor. Pittsburg Plate Glass has new safety tempered-glass bordered in sturdy plastic.

The frame has scored lines that can be cut with wire cutters to the size needed up to a 32 41 window. Besides saving the expense of labor and a service call, these do-it-yourself replacements cost less than acrylic sheeting it's been the least expensive "glass" to fill a storm door's frame. An average size window, 27 29, of acrylic costs $13.50. That's about 60 cents more than PPG's new replacement windows. Any glass store can get these replacements.

Did you know that "free installation and a lifetime guarantee" apply only to a new muffler and its installation? This doesn't include a new tailpipe or its installation. Tailpipes usually have a limited guarantee or none at all. (C) Kate MocOuetit talked and when we put it where it belonged, she went on home. ONLY BEFORE she left, I said, "Lucy, I think you're terrific. Where did you get this something extra? I mean whatever it takes to stop like that." When she had gone home, I wrote down her answer because I wanted to share it.

And this is what she said: "All of a sudden I remembered how I want my marriage to be just like my mom's and dad's. And it came to me so clear right then that what we were about to do isn't the way to a marriage like theirs. That's why I told Johnny we had to stop." So here it is again a basic principle in sex education. The best possible background for a child to understand sex is a mother and father who love each other. '4.