Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1950 — Page 10

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: ® Profession for Couple Rats in Cellar Inspired Start Of Pest Exterminating Firm WIDE | a <ONAFTER FOUR ~~ 0 REET | et oe Bi, war TO, ra ot id D: Scholls Shoes

: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. __ familiar country sounds that kept “|the Petaras awake. It was rats

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tag through the walls. ‘A large, {and altogether too friendly | roach tried to share the eggs and {bacon at breakfast. ei {| Jack Petara called on a pest-}’ ‘exterminating company in Springfield. Oh, yes, they would guarantee to completely rid the place of rats and roaches for $200. Jack did not have that kind of

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ren Wheeler of Cleveland, asked her husband one day. antee the job, he could do it if

a sa gL 1s : " \q he knew how. I always thought you didn’t like cleaning,” he answered. The best place to find out, he

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chore,” said Mrs. Wheeler. : With the usual masculine remark that he ‘could never

only Some in' today and save special a 2 a st. - > : fomen's Sizes: AAAA to EEE. 2% to 13 understand women, Warren PART OF THE BARN was par-| en's Sizes. AAA to EEE 5'2 to 16 ; cleaner, they can do a job much titioned off to make a laboratory, |

agreed to give it a try. And oor than the ordinary cleaning so the “Wheeler Houseclean- woman. ing Service” was started. Mrs. Wheeler can estimate alThe Wheelers work by the job most to the minute the exact time and not by the hour. With the it will take them to clean any aid of electric scrubbing ‘brushes, 8iven room or house, and charges. polishers, and special at- accordingly.

tachments for their vacuum 8.8.8 - AT THE BEGINNING, it may

be wiser for you to charge by the hour. Since you have an investment in the machines and will take these with you, your charge will be much higher than the average cleaning woman, who usually can he hired from 75 cents to $1 an hour. Your rate would be closer to $1.50 to $1.65 an hour, but your - accomplishments should double those of the cleaning woman. We have seen a man who carries on a one-man cleaning service scrub (with his electric brush) and wax ‘ad average-sized linoleumcovered. kitchen floor in 20 minutes. The woman who usally does this same floor takes an hour. Your supplies will consist of the latest in vacuum cleaners, window cleaners, ‘clean and plentiful cloths, waxes of all kinds, electrically driven scrubbing brushes and a wax applicator and polisher. The Wheelers’ charges are fig- || ured to produce a gross income of $3 an hour for the two of them while on a job. Allowing for travel time between houses and the comparatively small expense of soaps J detergents, and waxes, they net ‘| $100 a week for 40 hours’ work u n 5 hl WHEN A MANNEQUIN which | models dresses in store windows , becomes. shabby and dirty, what becomes of it? Only in"the larger cities is there anyone who makes.any attempt to restore these dummies to their orginal beauty. Yet people with some knowledge of puppets, could do well servicing mannequins in any small city. “Mme. Mannequin is made of gentle clay and must have respectful care,” says the Department Store Economist. “Her most per|{ishable part is her hair. Constant {changing of hats, bright sunlight land dust play havoe with it. “If the lady has eyelashes, avoid touching’ them for they tear - easily. To repair minor cracks in {the body scrape out the cracked [part fill the cavity with plaster, {rub off gently with sandpaper and . {retouch with enamel.” o n n BEFORE YOU start in this {business your best bet is to buy ; a {up a few dummies which are comlarge extent what you make it. This is so because, pletely passe. Have color prints Shi u'll fi | id {made of these dummies and after at Shirley Brothers, you'll find a truly wide range lou have restored them to their |former beauty have another set of Kodachromes taken. These

and there, the Petara Chemical! Co. was born. : i Within six months Jack Petara! made contracts with hotel and office building managers to service their buildings on a. yearly basis. . A flat fee, often amounting to several hundred dollars for a! large building w#8 not unusual. Several years after he started, a small city paid him $2,000 to rid the city dump of rats. Today, the small house in the country is a show place, two of

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