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Battalion/Page 1
March 1,1983
Warped
by Scott McCullar
Sellers and buyers
save at fleamarkets
United Press International
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J.—
Selling at flea markets is a
good way to pick up extra
money on the weekend, says
Jersey Devil editor Fritz Davis,
and patronizing them is a
good way to hang on to it.
“I consider the flea market
the last stand of free enter
prise,” Davis said. He puts out
his monthly newspaper from
an office behind a clock and
antique shop in New Hope,
Pa., just across the Delaware
River from Lambertville, a re
gional center for flea and anti
que markets.
“Each market is a little
community,” Davis said.
“Some people have been in
the same place for 25 years.
Davis has compiled a book
of anecdotes and pointers,
“The Jersey Devil’s Official
Flea Marketeer’s Manual.”
While his paper and his
book contain tips for consum
ers, their main focus is people
who want to sell merchandise
or set up a market.
The popular conception of
marketeers may be that of fly-
by-night outdoor merchants
selling used or defective mer
chandise at cut rates. That im
age is behind the times, Davis
said.
“Seventy-five percent of all
the merchants are retired
(from other jobs),” he said.
“It’s also a way to keep active.
A lot of the other merchants
are there because they work in
offices all week and this is a
change.
“People can use flea mar
kets to supplement income.
They’re an ideal family opera
tion. Some people who have
had stores and then switched
over to markets say they make
just as much money in two or
three days as they made all
week before.
Davis said more and more
new merchandise is being sold
at flea markets, and some peo
ple are starting to sell services.
A New Brunswick mall has
a booth staffed by a retired
lawyer who consults with peo
ple and steers potential clients
to the main office. Flea mar
kets no longer are limited to
otherwise empty parking lots.
Some rent space for weekend
operation in otherwise empty
shopping malls.
“What I think is
is that (the malls are)
from a retailing to a real estate
operation. They provide
essential services, and the
merchant is responsible for
everything else,” Davis said.
The book tells how to find
outlets to buy from cheaply —
sherifFs auctions, bankruptcy
sales, closeouts.
happening
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“I’ll be nervous the first time,
but at least I’m there and maybe
I won’t feel guilty if I mess up,”
she said. “But with experience,
maybe I’ll get better.”
She said she joined Hotline
because she felt a community
this size needed the program.
Jenny is working for a mas
ter’s degree in psychology and
would like to have her own prac
tice some day. She said she has
done peer advising and tutor
ing, but thinks it will be different
to counsel over the telephone.
mg
said, “especially the role-
playing.”
The Brazos Valley Crisis Hot
line was established in January
1979 as part of the Brazos Valley
Mental Health Mental Retarda
tion drug and alcohol abuse
program.
The Brazos Valley Commun
ity Action Agency became the
sponsor in September 1980.
Betty Steelman, volunteer
career coordinator for the Bra
zos Valley Community Action
Agency, said that it is a loose
sponsorship; she said they pro
vide support by paying the
phone bill, supplying o I
materials and equipment.
“The hotline • runs
through its volunteers,”
said. “We don’t do anytl
give them monetary si
and supplies.”
The main goals of Crisis |
line are to:
— provide information!
referrals to community |
sources.
— provide anonymous,!
fidential, immediate shorn/
lay counseling.
76
New pills cure severe acne
United Press International
BOSTON — Pills containing
synthetic vitamin A represent a
“breakthrough” in the battle
against severe acne, researchers
say, but they caution the drug
should only be used as a last re
sort.
About 16 million Americans
have some degree of acne, but
over 95 percent of the cases re
spond well to treatment with
antibiotics such as tetracycline
and over-the-counter products
containing benzoyl peroxide.
Previously, however, there
was little hope of curing the
most stubborn cases, known as
cystic acne.
“Synthetic oral vitamin A
preparations were really the
breakthrough,” Dr. Thomas B.
Fitzpatrick, chief of dermatolo
gy at Massachusetts General
Hospital, said in a hospital news
letter Monday.
The treatment calls for the
pills to be taken several times a
day for 16 weeks. Positive results
have been seen after two weeks
and the acne gradually vanishes,
leaving clear, smooth skin.
Fitzpatrick cautions that the
drug, 13-cisretinoic acid, cannot
be taken by a woman who is pre
gnant or plans to become pre
gnant during treatment because
it may harm fetuses.
Other women of child
bearing age must use an effec
tive form of contraception while
taking the new medication, he
said.
The vitamin A treatment was
used in Switzerland as a cancer
treatment because of itsab
counter the effects of thed
by making cells mature.
It causes the cell lava
slough off, leaving the
with smooth, healthy skinj
drug has led to completed
ing m 13 of 14 patients wiili
tic acne who did not rest)
any other treatment.
Dead cells, bacteria
can clog the pores andi
pimples and eventually
acne if the lesions bee
flamed.
Four-ring weddings
growing in popularity
United Press International
NEW YORK — Traditional
wedding ceremonies include the
words, “With this ring I thee
wed.” Today they might well be
changed to “With these rings I
thee w'ed.”
The four-ring ceremony, two
for her, two for him, is a rapidly
growing trend, say jewelers and
bridal magazines.
Usually the extra ring con
tains gems set in gold or silver,
says Eric M. Freedman, who
runs a family jewelry business
established in 1936 at Hunting-
ton, N.Y.
The continuing favorite for
engagement rings is the white
diamond solitaire, Freedman
said, but you can also find blues,
greens and pinks.
Many brides want diamond
and ruby combinations and
Princess Diana set off demand
for diamonds combined with
sapphires.
Jewelry prices vary across the
country, Freedman said, but his
firm is doing good business in
“anywhere from $6,000 to
$8,000 engagement rings. The
$10,000 customer is no longer
unusual.”
The rising divorce rate
doesn’t seem to matter either.
“Diamonds are resettable,” he
said. “Put them in pendants or
earrings. It’s all right to separate
the larger stones. After all, a
diamond is forever.”
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