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Show Wednesday, March 17,1 976 Page 11 New Career Began at 70 Twenty-two years selling door-to-door. . Not a bad record for anyone, but truly remarkable when you realize real-ize that Tophy Herpelinck was 70 when he started selling sell-ing Walk ins Products. That's right. He was 70 when he started and, as everyone who can add has figured out by now, Mr. Herpelinck Her-pelinck is now 92. And is still selling. "I enjoy selling," he said. "I enjoy meeting people." Mr. Herpelinck goes door-lo-door in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. His office is his car trunk "I still drive my own car," he said, : ; He said he drives into an area of the city, parks his car in the middle of the block by Gerry Johnson i and' starts going, door-to- ; door. "Selling is a . science as well as an art," Mr. Herpe- . linck said. "The science is the knowledge of the prod- uct. The art is the applica- 1 tion of that product, what it . - can do for the customer." Watkins Products include spices and many j. kitchen items. "I'm not a specialty , salesman," he explained. "I get a customer and keep go-: ing back, keeping them sup-, plied." He said he still has some of his original customers. cus-tomers. ! - j. Presently, Mr.. Herpelinck works two or three hours a day and "1 go out nearly every day," he said. He has ; no plans to quit work en- tirely. ''. : "I believe you should be-active be-active as Jong as. you can," he said. . , V.' As you might suspect, a man who is 92 has done a variety of things. . Born and raised in Iowa, ' Mr. Herpelinck spent many '. years on the .farm, or- more accurately on farms. He farmed in1 more than one V state. "I always liked farm- ' ing," he told a writer for The National Council on the Aging; . ;.. -' ' V .But he also enjoys selling and has had several jobs . , which included selling, v "Everything1 I've done, every job I've had, has been interesting" he said, refusing refus-ing to single out one preferred pre-ferred occupation. 'V ; . With more sales to make, deliveries to be made, - new worlds to: conquer, life con- ; tinues to-be interesting for Mr. Herpelinck. THE NEW method of . packaging certain household ' products with child proof caps created a problem for ' many people such as those with arthritis. Now the Consumer Con-sumer Product Safety Commission Com-mission is permitting easy-to-open caps. Packages with such caps will bear the label that "This package for households without young children" or "Package not child resistant." These packages pack-ages have to be requested. A note of caution: When there are young visitors in a ; home with these easy-to-open packages, you must remember remem-ber to put them out of reach : IN GREAT BRITAIN, employers are trying to find older workers. The Federation Federa-tion of Personnel Services, a group representing private ;.' employment agencies, said that those past retirement age could be relied on to give a full day's work with enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. But British teenagers, teen-agers, according to the report by Reuter's. were inexperienced. inexperi-enced. ! greedy and thought that the world owed them a ' living. ; ' THE LATEST Senior Cil-. izen of the Month Award has been presented to Marshall Mar-shall C. Cheney of Santa Cruz, California. Mr. Cheney Chen-ey runs an employment service serv-ice for Santa Cruz County, placing older people in jobs. He was featured in an earlier GOING STRONG column. The Senior Citizen of the Month Award is sponsored by The National Council on the Aging and the Kentucky Fried Chicken Family. The award was created in honor of Colonel Harland . Sanders, San-ders, now 85, who started the Kentucky Fried Chicken business when he was 65. A COOKBOOK with large type recipes for low-cost and high ' nutritional dishes for one and two persons is now available front, the Senior Citizen Centers . of Greater Minneapolis. Entitled. "The Golden Spoon: Recipes for One or Two." it includes recipes for people on low-sodium low-sodium and no , sugar diets. The 202-page book can be obtained for $3.50 from Senior Sen-ior Citizen Centers of Greater Great-er Minneapolis. 1627 South 6th, Minneapolis, Minn. 55454. ilf Frozem Asssfts for Bill AIIoetd "GaW? M3-9056 FOR SALE: Older home, four bedrooms, two baths, basement and good location. Close to "Get On It." $40,000. NEW traditional-looking duplex; each unit has two bedrooms, .1 baths, fireplace, good off street. - -parking. Terms available. ' -:':- : .:....;.,; j . ; ...-47 NEW LISTING: Urge restored old home, over two- : thousand square feet with posslblltles for expansion ex-pansion located Jn quiet area of town near .bun ftpPnU FOR SALE: New duplex on Daly Ave. with sauna and garage. Victorian architecture; two bedrooms in : each unit. J . WE CAN show you anything In town, condos, lots, homes, whether it's listed with us or not. NEW LISTING: Large duplex with two bedrooms in each unit. Quiet location with nice . garage. $48,000 with possible terms. Good building site on Rossie Hill overlooking town, $7,000. Bill McComb ... 649-8550 or 649-9280 (home) Seldom has there been a better time to take ad vantage of Park City potential. . Are you looking for a home? An investment? Income In-come property? Combine these goals Into one with a duplex. We have three for sale. Offering a good choice of terms, price and size. ; 1 Call today for details. ' ; i : . fit- " JT9 SE if K " ,K drJi till? . TV : a . , - ' 1 ' " '',-, I ENJOY SMOKING BUT FEEL GUILTY OR APPREHENSIVE? Let yourself go Become a mm SMOKER Chain cigarettes have gobs of that tar and nicotine you so desperately yearn for. j WARNING: Chain smoking has been linked to cancer and other dreaded diseases, but nobody lives forever. i - Winter Golf Classic, nor was it a cross-country ski race. It was the Fifth Annual Park City Snow Sculpture Contest that attracted the hundreds of people to the resort golf course Saturday afternoon. The contest, which is sponsored by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., awarded over $1,000 in prizes to the ten best entrees in a field of 66. The first place prize of $400 was won by Bill ? Allen of Ogden who created a "Bar Scene" which depicted two young ladies happily drinking while &nofcpf drinking gidsiv 'ttetam lt?iT$:1t faff . ;& " alone, sadly looked on: Most , - ' of those viewing the award-winning award-winning sculpture appeared to be most impressed with the" snowy-white endowments of" the two voluptuous ladies. Second prize and $200 was given to Chris Banks of Salt Lake City for his Corn Cob sculpture. , while the thirds place prize of $100 went to Greg Nelson for his River P Raft scene. Those finishing in places 4 . fourth through 10th were each '. awarded a $50 prize. ; Prize winners are as follows: ' ''.-i-oi 1) Bill Allen - Bar Scene S , 2) Chris Banks - Corn Cob 3) Greg Nelson - Rubber Raft : 4) Jim - Chamberlain -Indian . ,(. . 5) J.S. Sipel - Fish 6) Mielte Full - Inner Ear . 7) Dave Johnson - Paper People 8) Lynda Snyder - Eagle. s 9) Cindy Moultan - Knight Slaying Dinosaur ir, ''nil.- i tl jliV 1 tnj'-ni 'J jImj! 'fjl't If . " .... v - ' . J t 1 ! ..) 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