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Progress Bulletin from Pomona, California • Page 38

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Progress Bulletini
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Pomona, California
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38
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the home World of animals College students dean up HONOLULU (UPI) "cal students pruning the rees and art majors washing he windows are a an's answer to the problem the vanishing cleaning The days when an apron- Iad woman arrived on the waxed the floors, washed dishes, ironed the clothes, ght her own lunch and lent her sons to college with a lifetime of earnings are fading fast. With disgruntled wives doing their own laundry and window washing because they A ju i find help, David Schiller saw a ripe opportunity to take over the messy domain left when the cleaning lady quits. The former high school teacher from San Fr a i has turned a shoestring operation into a business that "surpasses my wildest He is particularly amazed how his young workers are the generaron gap while scrubbing the "It all goes back to the fact that nobody wants to make a career out of waxing floors, or mowing lawns any Come to on the Mall or Call Us for Sis Expert Professional Reasonable Call NA 3-2521 Commercial Complete Line of Wiring Supplies Lighting Fixtures ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Safes Service ELECTRIC Pomona Malt NA Schiller said. "On the other hand, people want to do it for themselves if tfiey can pay somebody else. "What you do is find people willing to earn money doing these jobs while they educate themselves to do something better.

Students time to go to job interviews, and they the money to buy power mowers and hedge i i the need of many students for more money and the desire of housewives to hand over the mop, Schiller started the Student Sevice Co-op. Operating cut of his apartment living room, force is between the ages of 19 and 26. Working in teams of two for four-hour periods, the young workers keep 80 per cent of their earnings and turn the other 20 per cent in to the organization. Schiller supplies the equipment, and a team provides basic yard maintenance for S20-S30, housework for and painting for The demand for services has been so great that Schiller is expanding his operation to start a hauling service and has even started cleaning small, privte planes. Schiller is convinced that much of the secret of his success is using the team approach.

The painting and gardening teams are men, but the house cleaning teams are coed. "The girl does the ironing and the lighter work, and the boy washes windows, vacuums and waxes floois. company for each other, they keep each other ort the job, and our customers tell us they get more done than from one person working for eight Schiller said. Acknowledging that some- Trimming parakeet beak job for expert By DR. FRANK MILLER DEAR DR.

MILLER: I had to have my beak cut because it was so long he was having trouble eating his seed. Now it is getting too long again, growing back faster than ever. Where can 1 go to get the job done properly so I have to go through this all of the time After all, the operation was very hard on little George and it was a lot of worry for me, too. I want to put either one of us through it again. Definitely not more than once more anyway.

W.W. Dear W.W.: Presuming you want to tackle the job at home, and you unless you know what you are doing, George is undoubtedly going to have his beak trimmed elsewhere and as often as required. For some birds, once in a lifetime will do it. Most frequently, though, once the beak has to be trimmed the process has to be maintained at intervals. The trimming itself is some stimulus to further growth.

Besides, whatever problem initiated the overgrowth in the first place probably still exists and usually is not correctable. Properly done, beak trimming should not he too hard on George. Improperly done, it could prove fatal from the shock and-or he- morrhage. Hence it is smart to have an expert doing it. Progress-Bulletin Classified Want Ads give you a wider selection, A broader Choice, Better Bargains.

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