The Times

"It would cost three dollars to have my hair redone, and only one dollar to have your suit pressed—that's why I didn't pick you up!" SUBURBIA TODAY

GETTING AROUND ... to Our Pleasant Places and People

DEER HUNTERS in Massachusetts face a problem in shopping for suitable garb to see them through the current season. Color tests, held at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, show that "blaze-orange" is most consistently visible under all hunting conditions. The state law, however, requires hunters to wear red or yellow, which are at the rock bottom of the safety list. Russian-Language classes at Ventura College, Ventura, California, are being held in room U2 this semester. When a stray tortoise wandered up to his patio, Benjie Koslover, age three, of Reading, Massachusetts, ran inside shouting, "Mommy, Mommy, come out! There's a sandwich walking in the back yard!" A discount house near Tempe, Arizona, recently started a sales campaign with the slogan, "Pick Us Clean." Somebody did, a few days later, to the tune of $60,000 in watches and rings. In Wakefield, Rhode Island, South County Hospital makes about $3,000 a year through the sale of cancelled stamps. Trustee Fred R. Hazard, himself a stamp collector, figured that if he could get his friends to send in the stamps from their letters, greeting cards, and other correspondence, he could then make up packed collections and sell them. Stamp contributors include former patients and their friends, students at foreign colleges, and secretaries in offices all over the world. Every Tuesday, members of the Volunteer Women's Service Committee meet at the hospital to sort and process the stamps, which Mr. Hazard makes up into special issues, ordinary mixtures, or special mixtures. One dealer in Sweden orders ten to twelve sacks at a time. After a heavy storm in Alexandria, Virginia, the mail stopped coming for a few days to the house of the Rev. Ernest H. Sommerfield, minister of the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church. Finally, when the mailman, with no mail, did show up, it was to collect 45 cents postage due. When the Rev. Mr. Sommerfield asked why he didn't bring any mail with him, the postman said, "Because I can't get through "—whereupon he counted his change very carefully and left. Don Amrhein, a school bus driver who is also Safety Chairman of the Linthicum, Maryland, Lions Club, became alarmed when he discovered that it took twelve minutes for the children to make an emergency exit from his bus. After going through a few basic drills and instructions with his charges, he found that he could cut the evacuation time down to 30 seconds. It was so simple that Mr. Amrhein hopes other school bus drivers will time their own passengers and follow suit if necessary. The West Texas State College, at Canyon, Texas, has installed outlets in its football stadium so that fans can keep snug during games by plugging in their electric blankets. Continued on page 7 Suburbia Today, November 1960 5

Electrasol ends FOAM CHOKE-UP in your dishwasher

Change glasses from spotty to sparkling! Electrasol ends FOAM CHOKE-UP in your dishwasher How new-formula discovery gives you spotless, film-free dishwashing every time! New formula Electrasol frees your dishwasher from the sluggishness caused by foam choke-up! Releases torrents of water for all-out full spray action! Dishes come out spotless, your silver gleaming, your glasses sparkling... without a hint of dulling film! So let Electrasol restore full spray action to your dishwasher... whatever make you own. Here is how foam choke-up builds up from food remains on dishes to strangle your dish-washer's cleaning power. Dishes come out muggy, glasses spotty, silverware streaked! Here is how Electrasol with its exclusive chemical formula frees your machine for full spray action. Dishes come out spot-free, glasses crystal-clear, silver dazzle-bright! Does what no other dishwasher detergent can do ... even in hardest water! NEW ELECTRA-SOL FOR ELECTRIC DISHWASHERS NOW STOPS SPOTTING on Glasses • Dishes • Silver Replacement or refund of money Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping if not as advertised therein © 1960 Another famous product of ECONOMICS LABORATORY INC., St. Paul, Minn.