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ERROR: Should be Mary Colletti. SECTION 1 1 Business, markets 6 and financial Carbondale-Herrln-Murphysboro Carbcndtle Herrin Murphysboro SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1974 TT CS)OULLli(SOi Rainmakers make jewelry Business News iii I 1 I 1 i I I I A By Jim Michels Of The Southern Iilinoisan Seldom does a person have both the means and the will power to do the things he has always wanted to. Hiree men who do have the will power and are creating their own means have banded of the metal and just about anything but shoes out of leather. "We can make just about anything out di metal that someone wants to order," Jezzard said. The building in which Rainmaker Jewelry is housed does not look like a shep.

The build ft ing is an old shipping depot together to open a new business (gifflamngo on the main street of Makanda. i i Scoffic 'semi-retires' i- -il They call their shop Rainmaker Jewelers and they specialize the creation of hand-made jew dry. Colletti fo run Dave Dardis, Dennis Blank enheim. and Bill Jezzard, each A Star building charge with tha times. When your busiest expands, your Star building expand with it easily and economically.

When production methods change, your Star building can be adapted to the new methods, simply and swiftly. Build a building with a future). Ca'l your professional Star builder for complete information. I Y-M recrion ljud en On SIondaytR( one, and everyone was 1- iocco CoUettpf come," Scoffic said. "Giving up operation of the used by area fruit producers in the 1930s.

It is now deteriorating across the street from the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad tracks in the middle of Makanda. A small, faded and battered sign which identifies the jewelry shop hangs at the front of the building. Hie door at tht entrance is covered with red paper so a visitor can not see what is inside until he enters. Work desks are located in the front section of the building and in the back is the sleeping quarters. Hie walls are plaster on one side and wood on the other.

All three of the crew wear well-worn clothing that indicates involvement in their work. The blue flame of the oxyacetylene torches flares up brilliantly as the men labor, attempting to create a product that is at the same time both practical and beautiful. Blankenheim, busily working Perfection Club was a difficult decision to make. After so many Phone 687-1738 Our business is building yours years, the club has become a part of my life," Scoffic said. has some special reason of his own for opening the jewelry shop that does mostly wholesale business.

Yet, in many respects their reasons are the same. Dardis explained why he decided to go into jewelry work. 'I was painting, then fell into working with leather for about a year and then I started doing renaissance fairs. We'd go in and set up camp, live in a field for about a month until the fair was over and then move to another one. "Everybody used to be working In leather.

I decided it was more beneficial to work in jewelry than in Dardis, who has lived in Car- The restaurant is known for MORGAN COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES I i I V-VV Ml -rjf'' I a -i 1 i tatty' n. j' 4- 1 I i' ir i i 1 ir i jj i v. i p. i i will become the new operator of the Perfection Club, located at the intersection of U.S. 51 and Illinois 14., south of Du Quoin.

For the past 39 years, the restaurant has been owned and operated by Joe Scoffic. The new operator owned Col-letti's Restaurant in Carbondale for 15 years. He sold the business in November, 1972, and the restaurant's name was changed to The Patrician. Until 1955, the Perfection Club was called the Evening Star. In 1955, it became the Perfection Club.

The club was open to every MURPHYSBORO 617 WALNUT its steaks and seafood. "The Perfection Club is known for its food not only by Du Quoin residents, but to the many travelers coming to Du Quoin to the fair or to the industries," he said. Scoffic has operated the St. Nicholas Hotel in Du Quoin for several years, and plans to sell it. "I'm planning to go into semi- on a brass buckle, explained retirement," he said.

SAVE jL People who like to live with style usually have one thing in common-they have better things to do with their time than wax floors. That's the beauty of Solarian! Solarian comes in all the bold, new patterns that while he has been working with metals for a long time, he got his start in arts and crafts in California in 1965. "I've been doing this all my life. My father was a machinist, my grandfather was a blacksmith. "I am competing with the rest of the buckle makers.

I am doing handwork as opposed to machine casting. I get my satisfaction out of putting out a better product than most of the larger companies." "Bad eyes zinc poisoning and tendonitis," is what Jezzard, in a moment of humor, said he cets out of working bond ale for the last five years, met Blankenheim and Jezzard at art fairs held throughout the Midwest. Blankenheim and Jezzard had known each other before when the two had lived at Milwaukee. Ihey decided to open up their business at the end of the summer to help supplement their income. Dardis said right now business Is a little slow, but he attributes that to the fact that they are relatively unknown.

The threesome decided to locate in Makanda because of the 900,000 tourists that travel through Giant City Park each year. "We call ourselves rainmak-ers' because it rained at every that are "in" today yet is practical, because it shines without waxing. See Solarian in ten exciting patterns, dozens of colors today at your Flnnr Fashion Center? r7 St i SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION IIO SOUTH 14th AlvKfrt IMJUKU, ILUNUIJ) oyoo TtLtPHQUL 684-3 12 on jewelry and leather goods. "I just don't like working for somebody else," was the reason Dave Dardis pounds spoon into belt buckle Plan to have yow new home VI have the new, bold-pattern loon that shine without waxing. O'irf nil hwK lis bpram Floor design copyrighted by Armstrong i I fair we worked and one day while we were doing an indoor fair at Arlington Heights a water pipe above our heads broke," Dardis said.

The men work in three different metals, bronze, silver, and gold. The prices vary accordingly. Most of their bronze jewelry ranges in price from $3 to $5. Jewelry made from silver goes anywhere from $5 to $30. Gold jewelry starts at $40 and ranges to "God only knows" with the rapidly fluctuating gold market.

The men make bracelets, ear-! rings, rings and necklaces out1 the belt in place, spreading the glue, and then inspecting the final product to see if it is exactly the way he wants it to be. So, in a small town near the natural setting of a state park, three men in a small jewelry shop are attempting to defy the mass-production stereotypes of a consumer society. They are trying to create by their own hands something that is at the same time both unique and Jezzard gave for his participation in the new business. "It's easier working 60 hours a week for myself than 40 hours a week for someone else." Asked for a quick description of the process for the manufacture of the jewelry, Jezzard replied, "the flowcast technique is very similar to brazing in that you use an oxyacetylene torch and melt the bronze into whatever design you want. If somebody wants a particular design we make it, but wo like to do our own.

We use a lot of shapes from nature and a lot is just unconscious, just comes into our heads as we work." Jezzard said that the investment needed to start work in the jewelry line was "fairly substantial." The craftsmen use a variety of tools to create their product. Jezzard has an air that indicates he knows what he is doing. While attaching the backing to a leather strap to be used in a belt, his hands move swiftly through the motions of putting now. 0 FIGS' epnone plans projects urban and rural calls, rural line story brick structure on West Monroe street in Carbonale dur cables for Herrin customers, ing the fourth quarter of 1974. Capp Homes has the home you want Capp Homes has 78 models to choose from modify, if you like.

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The company plans to begin construction of a new three- Major projects in Jackson office and additional equipment. County include the relocation Some of the major Williamson of telephone cables along Illinois County projects will include ad ditional cables to carry Marion DMion 00 Freeman Coal re lexfins cfipp Homes The village of Elkville will get one of four new switching offices to be constructed in the state by the company. Company officials say it will be the latest solid state design, permitting the touch-tone dialing for subscribers there. Other area projects include $73,000 in office equipment and $153,000 for cable in the Pinck-neyville area and a cable project near Evansville. Du Quoin recently got automatic number identification equipment that permits long distance calls without the operator.

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