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5b SUPER SAVER The Cedar Rapids Gazette: March 27, 1983 Many consumers are sold on their lodal markets Jan Leasure mk Universal Press i Syndicate YT cents-off coupons. 4) Fair prices. 5) Advertisements in the Best Food Day pages of the newspaper that allow consumers to comparison shop. 6) The availability of rain-checks when sale items do not come in on time or When they sell out early. 7) The availability of coupon-exchange bins.

8) Fair display and distribution of refund forms. 9)' No limit on advertised specials and non-advertised specials. 10) Clean, well-lit stores. 11) Individual item pricing. 12) Grocery carts that are kept in good working condition with no sharp or dangerous metal parts.

coupons, quantity and value. Once I get into the store this method enables me to tell at a glance if the coupon will give me a greater savings than a different brand. This method is speedy, accurate and easy. It is. especially helpful in markets that offer double-value coupons." Ms.

Weidenbach will receive a copy of "Inflation-Proof Recipes" for having her hint chosen. (Send any questions or problems regarding coupons and refunding to Super Saver, along with a self-addressed stamped envelope, in care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Box 639, Libertyville, 111. 60048.) Dear Super Saver: We see so many negative remarks from your readers about their local retail merchants. Do you really think that all retailers are out to soak their customers of their hard-earned dollars? 1 My husband and I own and run a small independent grocery store. Of course, like any other business people, we are working to make a profit.

However, we value our customers and their business and do what we can to bring them good service and fair prices. What do your readers say in favor of their retailers, or do they only write when they have a problem? Name withheld, San Antonio, Texas i Dear Merchant: Because Super Saver does so much "troubleshooting" in the name of consumers, it is true that most readers wait to write until they have a problem. However, many readers do write in support of programs sponsored by their local really appreciate this service." Mary Jane Craylor of North Hollywood, writes, "I used to shop around from store to store until Albertson's Supermarket began offering double-coupons on a regular basis. Since that time I now regularly shop at Albertson's, even though it means that I must travel a little farther to do my grocery shopping. I try to shop bi-weekly now rather than once a week.

I make as many staple purchases as I can on doubling days, and I even give Albertson's my business on days when I cannot get double value for my coupons." Many letters have come in from readers praising local retailers who occasionally offer double-value coupon promotions. But what other features do Super Saver readers appreciate about their local retail; ers? Here's a list: 1) Consistent store policies. 2) Courteous store' employees. 3) Ready acceptance of manufacturers' retailer to supply this kind of information to customers. However, taking the 'time to provide extra services like this pays off in the long run; by developing good customer relations and customer loyalty.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Beiritz, who live in a senior citizen's apartment complex in Long Beach, write: Our local food store really caters to senior citizens, even though we spend less at the store than younger people with large Each Sunday, at the expense of the store, a bus arrives at the door of our residence to take us to the market. The bus comes at 1 p.m. and delivers us back to our residence at 3 p.m.

The transportation is free. "The store also keeps a large coupon exchange bin in the lobby of our residence, from which we may take or exchange any cents-off coupons for products that we wish to buy. The best thing is that the store's prices are reasonable. We all merchants. Here are some examples: Mrs.

Ruth Bloss of Kalamazoo, sent me an U-by-17-inch flyer available at the Meijer store where she shops, which lists 114 current small appliance refunds. These flyers are made available on a regular basis to Meijer customers and list the name of the refund, the expiration dates and the value of the rebate. The Meijer store carries all of the refundable items and has refund forms available for the products in question. It takes time and extra effort for a CEDAR RAPIDS MARION FIRE POLICE RESCUE AMBULANCE TODAY'S SUPER SAVER HINT comes from Sophie Weidenbach, from Walled Lake, who writes: "As you know, coupons do not always mean that you are getting the best buy possible, since it depends upon where and when you shop. I use an envelope to hold my coupons.

On the back I list the CALLS ONLY EMERGENCY dial 911 1 LT1 TTgl i i i Super Saver lists money-saving offers STARTS MARCH 27 FOB Today's offers are worth $20.50. All offers might not be available locally. Up to $3.50 Hair CareAnti-Perspl-rant Refund: To receive a refund, send proof of purchase and cash-register receipt showing store name. Receive $3.50 for five products, $2.50 for four products, $1.50 for three products. Products and proofs of purchase are: Silkience shampoo copy sentence from back label which begins, "Now there's Silkience." Silkience conditioner copy sentence from back label which begins, "Now there's Silkience." Mink Difference hair spray copy first sentence from back label.

Dry Idea anti-perspirant clip Universal Product Code seal from package bottom. Soft Dri anti perspirant clip UPC from package bottom. Aapri Apricot Facial Scrub clip UPC seam from package bottom. Store form required. Expires: 5-15-83.

$4 Chew-eez Dog Stamps Offer: Six different varieties of dogs are featured on this colorful set of stamps from Mozambique. All six are genuine postage stamps and have a catalog value of receive a $2 refund, send 12 toy surprise paper wrappers from Cracker Jack. To receive a $1.50 refund, send nine. To receive a $1 refund, send six. To receive a 50-cent refund, send three.

Store form required. Expires: 6-30-83. $3 Dalwa Strike Rod Refund: To receive a $3 refund, send rod tag model from Strike rod with dated, store-identified and circled cash-register tape. Write rod model number on form. Store form required.

Expires: 6-30-83. (Your children can learn how to start their own business and earn money at the same time with Jan Leasure's new book, "Big Bucks for Kids." This 160-page paperback contains over 50 practical job ideas with easy step-by-step instructions and suggestions. Job ideas range from making leather belts to being clowns for hire at parties to writing cards and letters for senior citizens. To order, send $5.95 plus $1 for postage and handling to "Big Bucks for Kids," in care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, 4400 Johnson Drive, airway, Kan. 66205.

Make checks payable to Universal Press Syndicate.) $4. To receive these stamps, send 25 cents for postage arid handling and the Chew-eez name from front of box. You will also receive other postage stamps for a free 10-day examination. Buy any or none, return the balance and cancel service anytime, but keep the set of dog stamps as a gift. Specially marked package.

No expiration date given. Up to $6 Post Refund and Coupon Offer: To receive a refund you must send letters and (one from each of four categories). For $3 refund plus 12 25-cent coupons, spell Post three times (12 proofsthree from each category). For $2 and six 25-cent coupons, spell Post twice (8 proofstwo from each category). For $1 and two 25-cent coupons, spell Post once (4 proofsone from each category).

Newspaper insert form required. Expires: 6-30-83. Up to $2 Comfort Stride Coupon or Refund Offer: To receive four 50-cent coupons or a $1 refund, send one front from any Comfort Stride package. Newspaper insert form required. Expires: 7-31-83.

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But, outside the camps, women often assumed the most dangerous roles. Women often served as couriers, bringing food, money, documents, instructions to those in hiding. Vladka Meed, who smuggled weapons across the Warsaw ghetto wall, helped Jews escape and aided survivors in labor camps and forests, said: "If a man in the underground went on a mission, he could be recognized as a Jew by his circumcision," she said. "A woman's body might be searched, but it could not give that information." AT TIMES, women appeared to be more resilient physically than men. Suzanne Donner Vromen recalled walking from Belgium to northern France.

"My father and brother had bloody feet; my mother and I encouraged them," she said. Sybil Milton, director of archives at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, an organization that preserves material on German-speaking Jews, said, "Women were better able to survive starvation than men. They had better strategies for sharing and extending food." The fate of children seems to have been linked more tightly to their mothers than to their fathers. Henry Friedlander, professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, said: "Children were to be with their mothers; that was normal and natural. If they were to be killed, their mothers would be killed, too.

For most of the war, there was an unlimited labor supply, so it was not necessary to save the women." For some women, salvation meant keeping children, for others it meant relinquishing them. Dr. March said, "I always knew that so long as my mother held my hand, no one could harm me." By contrast, Vera Sharav, who went from Romania to a camp in the Ukraine, said, "My mother gave me away so that I could survive." Relationships with other women were critical. "Bonding with other women was of supreme importance," said Susan Cernyak-Spatz, who was in three concentration camps, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Ravensbruck. "Without a support group you couldn't survive.

Relationships were totally dependent on one's work situation, for there was no visiting after hours." Her co-workers saved her life, she said, by dragging her out of the barracks for roll call when she was too sick to walk on her own. tyadlne Brozan New York Times Service NEW YORK Jolly Zeleny was being transported by train from Hamburg, Germany, to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen when the railroad tracks were bombed. She was in a car containing only female prisoners; on another track she could see a train carrying men. Four decades later, she remembered the contrast vividly. "Both men and women were skeletons, in identical stripes, yet there was such a difference," she said.

"The men's bodies reflected so much more pessimism than did ours. We reached for our little morsels of bread and threw them to the men." Survivor of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and three smaller Nazi concentration camps in World War II, Jolly Zeleny was in the crowd of 400 that packed Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University here; for a two-day conference this week entitled "Women Surviving: The Holocaust." It was sponsored by the Institute for Research in History with a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. Though interest in the Holocaust has intensified in the last few years, the experiences of women involved in it have remained unexplored. "We're trying to open a new dimension, but it is difficult to separate the women's issues out of the Holocaust in general," said Joan M. Ringelheim, director of the conference and a scholar on the subject at Wesleyan University.

"There are no statistics on how many women were selected for survival and on how many died." ORGANIZERS OF THE conference were anxious that it be held before the passage of time and the generation of survivors makes the extrapolation of women's experiences even more difficult. Numerous questions were posed: How were women treated differently from men and how did they respond? What kind of work did they do in concentration and labor camps, in ghettos, resistance movements and rescue missions? What risks did they take? To what medical experiments were they subjected? What kinds of relationships did they form with one another? Did they ever laugh? What did they talk about? To that last question, Susan Cernyak-Spatz, now associate professor of foreign languages at the University of North Carolina, responded, "Food! I never cooked as well as I did with my mouth in. Some of the tasks performed by women were simply practical. Gertrude Schneider recalled that when she was in the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Latvia, "We hammered batteries to get at the usable wires for electricity. Women had more sensitive fingers for small tasks." Regularly $4.98 a yard.

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IOWA CITY, IOWA 354-3961 Monday-Friday Saturday Sunday Phone 377-8607 1260 35th Street The Roosevelt Senior High School class of June 1943 is planning a 40th reunion Sept. 16 and 17 at the Longbraneh Supper Club. Addresses are needed for the following people. Information may be sent to Mary A. Upah, 930 16th Ave.

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