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Page 2-E San Antonio Sunday, July 11, 1965 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Lemonade Stands Hit a Sour Note? By SUZANNE DIEHL Attention dubw'omen; Has anyone thought of organizing a Society for the tion of Lemonade Perhaps noticed! Like the curbstone wild flowers, straw fans and lacy parasols of bygone summers, lemonade stands are in obvious danger of becoming extinct in San Antonio. Of course, even under the most favorable of conditions, a lemonade stand is a sometime thing. Like wild flowers, soft drink stands tend to spring up in unlikely places during the hot as quickly wilt and disappear. Generally constructed during suddcr. summertime of enthusiasm, the longevity of any stand is apt to be dependent on the household sugar supply and.

a endurance as an ice cube mothers and summer boredom changed much. Where are the lemonade stands? THEY USED TO BE EVERYWHERE sometimes more than one to a block during the hottest weather. Most of these stalls were cmistruot- ed of card tables and wooden the commercial excitement was (aily a 24 hour one exposure generally guaranteeing immunity for the remainder of the summer. But some of the stands were sturdy and elaborate affairs, maintained for weeks at a time. Refresirment Center During the 1930s, for example, William and Jim by assorted Mengers, Holmgreens and George Monkhouse maintained a neighborhood refreshment center on the front lawn at the comer of Verbena and Terrell road.

was a good stand we Jim Colglazler remembers. lasted us for two or three managed to get a lot of my summer allowance when I was 11 or says Dr. Edwin M. Sykes Jr. With lemonade from the Colglazler kitchen augmented by bottled soft drinks, delivered weekly by truck, the Colglazier boys kept themselves in pocket money all summer.

DIDNT STOP with lemonade and Cokes, in those depression days the trucks were only too happy to stop by and deliver candy, gum and novelties for our stand. The Coca-Cola people even loaned us a cooler. We were real Today, the few stands which pop up around tmvn from time to time are pretty simple by comparison. Hugh, Mason and Betsy Matthews their friend Pipi a which comes and goes whimsically in the 500 block of Nottingham. going, fruit grape sells for three cents a cup, or a nickel for two cups.

is no says Mason earnestly. A mid-June Sunday found Use and Kathleen Garrett charging five cents a cup for a choice of rooten- tooten cherry, frcckel face and other creatively spelled delights in the front yard (rf their Castano Ave. home between Sunday school and dinner. In spite of a colorful advertisement, drawn with laundry marking pwicils on a bed-sheet, theiK; was not a particularly profitable venture. They only made 35 cents-induding the business pick-up when their grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Tom Frost arrived for dinner. Arithmetic In order to really come out ahead, you have to make 45 cents on each pitcher of according to Jimmy and Kent Griffin, who operate a consistently successful business we feel like in the front yard of their home on Northridge. The Griffin boys sell a tasty drink, but the real secret of their success seems to lie in their location at a bus stop close to the end of the Broadway line. between about 3:30 and 5 when is going home iram work you can sell Just about gloated Ken Griffin as he disposed of the last of the chocolate er bunnies he had been saving in the freezer.

THE GRIFFIN only problem lies in the rival business which their good friends, the McAllister boys run on a site catty-comer across the street. Mothers McAllister and Griffin have gotten together and agreed that the boys ought to pay five cents for mix, five cents for sugar and two cents for each of the eight paper cups which a careful stand-keeper can fill from one pitcher. Free ice is one of the fringe benefits of having a mother. Despite the warm friendship which exists between the two families, price wars are not uncommon. If you stick to five cents a cup, there is a 25 cent profit in every pitcher of you sell, but David McAllister has been known to sell lemonade recklessly for three cents a cup to friend.s—and Kent Griffin is loudly suspected of selling his left-over Halloween candy at a to attract business.

Bankrupt OTHER LEMONADE BUSINESSES this year have been less stable. A fledgling stand on Cave lane shut down in disgust after a woman slipped to ask directions, bought a glass of lemonade, and then wanted her money back after she tasted it. There was a glorious set of signs remine scent of Stuckey's or the Wonder Cave Wiltshire for a few days, but admirers of both the enterprise and the art work claim that the actual soft drink stand never materialized. Though there are few lemonade tycoons in the city, there are other interesting commercial ventures thriving in a 1 0 neighborhoods: Kim and Barry Moos do a tremendous trade in homed toads from their home on Pike Road: the 12 children of Dr. and Mrs.

John Walsh gather honeycombed rocks ones with holes in on their five acres at the junction of Babcock and Hollyhock and sell them for five, 10 and 15 cents. TAB ALESSANDRO does a SCHOOL AND YOU The Headache Of Homework By SUSAN LIGHT DEAR MRS. LIGHT: been reading your column for some time and especially interested in the letters with complaints about the homework our teachers pile on the children. This homework headache not only upsets the children and depriv'es them of their rest, it even deprives them of some of their meals. As for my family, our nerves are a wreck.

We enjoy a decent evening meal, go anywhere on weekends. Sometimes we even have company. always piles of homework the children have to do. I called my teacher and asked why they consider that children have some things to do besides homework. She informed me that housework and dishes were not a education comes first.

Certainly all parents want their children to be well-educated, but they also expect them to have a little responsibility toward their home. The teacher also told me that one hour of preparation for each subject is expected. So, if they have five subjects, they spend five hours each evening on homework. After they spend all day in school, this is Every parent talked to has the same what to do about it? No one seems to know except to stock up on tranquilizers. READER ANSWER: Believe me.

trying to help by publishing letters like yours, I hope the teachers who read my column will take some of these homework complaints to heart and resolve to do better next year. In all fairness to them, however, I must point out that teachers are being pressured, too, by administrators, supervisors and college entrance requirements. Many of them are required to give an homework in each subject. I know of at least one case where homework was cut in half after a group of aroused parents complained to the guidance counselor. Have you tried a united appeal? You might gather your forces this summer for an early fall assault.

Never underestimate the power of a group of parents working for a just cause. But remember, Mother, this, too, will your children do. If you beat the homework headache, perhaps be better off next year just to grin and bear it. Acceptance is sometimes the most effective tranquilizer. ENTERPRISING BUSINESS WOMAN yourvg business men and women of today ore straying away from the lemonade stand that once was so popular.

Helene Fischer, daughter of Mr. ond Mrs. Kenneth' J. Fischer, is opened for business with her Playhouse Sole. This sale helped cleon unused items from her playhouse and added spending money to her pocket.

brisk business in polliwogs, which he snares in the William pond on Garraty and Susan and Martha Ford with Melody Dossett and Virginia students at Terrell Wells Junior High a mobile library which they pull around the neighborhood in a red coaster wagon once a week. Mrs. G.W. Jack Rudes, who lives on E. Hutchins, tells of some bright-eyed 5-year-olds who were surprising everyone at home by offering their shoes for sale in a door- to-door sales campaign on a rec-ent sleepy Sunday afternoon.

And no particular secret about why the soft-drink stand idea lost appeal in the 600 block of Garrity Rd. A year or so ago Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Biedenharn Jr.

president of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. here) arrived home from a trip to Corpus Christi to find that their own children had helped the neighborhood to set up a soft drink stand on the comer and were briskly selling an soft drink which a local supermarket had on that day. ACTUALLY, the last soft- drink stands most people recall seeing were at the parades in the spring. Obviously, if we may make MAKES THIS PLAID-PLEAT COTTON A SUMMER JOY, LORCH MAKES IT AN EARLY AUTUMN FASHION SUCCESS! Lorch of Dallas designs in Galey and Lord's fine polyester and combed cotton, in a clear plaid of blue with red, or green with beige. With stay-there knife pleats, plaid-accented leather belt, in 8 to 16 sizes, 28.00.

Our Sports Shop a suggestion, the first project of any Society for the Preservation of Lemonade Stands should be the organizing of rip-snorting neighborhood parades. With hundreds of beginning band students, skate board virtuosos, dog show promoters and backyard circus clowns over town, this should be no problem. And then, even if nobody does play out in the sun and get properly hot and thirsty anymore, be an excuse for lemonade stands. Think, ladies! Will you let this great American tradition of free-enterprise-in-the-front- yard be air-conditioned intb oblivion? Betty Walters, Cyrus Parks Set August Wedding Date Mr, and Mrs. Barney Walters announce the engagement of his daughter, Betty Lou, to Cyrus Brohier Parks III.

The bride-elect is a graduate of Brackenridge High School and attended San Antonio College. She is also a graduate of the Baptist Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Mr. Parks is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Cyrus Brohier Parks. He is a graduate of Sam Houston High School and attended San Antonio College. He is presently a student at Southwest Texas State Collie, The couple will be married Aug. 7 in Bethany Methodist Church. MISS BETTY WALTERS FROST'S DOWNTOWN AND FROST'S FASHION SQUARE, NORTH STAR MALL.