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Show The Dollars and Sense of Your e Business Own Part-Tim- TN AN EFFORT to beat infla-1tion, many Americans are turning to moonlighting. Usually, moonlighting means a second job. But another form of moonlighting is a part-tim- e business operated after regular job hours. 2- It may be just the idea for you not only for extra money but for the challenge and satisfaction that comes from having your own business. "For example, Bernard Collins, a security guard at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is one such venturer. From 9 to 5, Collins watches over h our program, but twice he weekly changes his uniform to a white robe and black belt, and his His subject title becomes "Sen-Seiis karate. moon-launc- ." A Korean veteran who learned the sport while a paratrooper stationed on Okinawa, Collins now holds a black belt and is one of the sandan kanation's highest-rankin- g rate experts in his style, which is 4th-degr- ee cafled "shorinjr (closed list). Collins now teaches four classes a week, and his students range from balding, overweight executives to and even one lithe striptease artiste from Cocoa Beach. Teaching these proteges nets Collins between $300 and $400 monthly not bad, considering he's keeping fit all the while. residents Two Orange-count- y e success with a achieving part-tim- e business are Bill and Bob Lang. Bill, 23, attends the University of Southern California law school; Bob, 20, is a junior at the University of Redlands. Their business is making special signs for home builders. They have 90 accounts and place some 4,000 signs directing home builders around housing developments each Friday, picking them up Sunday night. From signs, they've branched into psychedelic signs for public utilities. They don't expect to be sign painters forever, although they recently turned down a $100,000 offer for their company. Another Californian has succeeded with a different kind of sign business bumper stickers. Devoting only one day a month to his bumper crop, Emil Reisman is prolific and versatile in his social commentary, ranging from "Stamp Out Spanish Dancing" and "Hire the Morally Handicapped" to "Support Your Local Police Bribe a Cop Today." teeny-boppe- full-tim- real-esta- ,snai I ill University students Bob and Bill Lang a highly lucrative sign business. own rs te Housewife Merry Eustis moonlight without leaving home by making "frankly fake" flowers from plastic and paper. But financially, decorating bumpers can be a sticky business. One year Reisman sold 60,000 stickers for a total of only $5,000, and such figures account for his sticking with his advertising job. Yet Reisman tries to satisfy even those motorists who don't want their cars cluttered. He makes a bumper sticker that is completely blank. Jim English of Eau Gallie, Fla., a printer for a local newspaper, keeps his wife in jewelry and his three kids in allowance money by treasure hunting around Brevard County beaches. English also is the franchised dealer in Brevard for "Gold Coast Treadeg sure Detectors," a vice he sells to other searchers for about $190. He sells two or three a month, and the profits plus his own treasure hunting net him an extra $150 a month. English says, "If you have a detector in the back of your car, you're never without money. Any park or playground worth its salt will cough up four or five bucks." Another printer who has ventured field is Al into a similar part-tim- e Walters of Kansps City, Mo., whose House of Swords sells reproductions metal-locatin- of swords, shields, breastplates, maces, sabers, and other weapons with a fighting history. With brother Joe as partner, Walters sells swords for $25 to $42, and shields are priced from $79 to $250. The Walters got their idea for this side line when they toured a sword factory in Toledo, Spain. "We were sure there weren't many shops in the U.S. that handled swords," Al recalls, "and we had a hunch people would go for it." People did mostly ones looking for something unusual in home decorations. team also can A father-and-so-n make it in part-tim- e work, as did the Jim Cullums Senior and Junior of San Antonio, Texas. Nights you'll find them, on clarinet and trumpet, blasting out Dixieland jazz at "The Landing," the night spot they opened in the basement of a downtown building along the San Antonio river. By day, the Cullums are busy executives for Harry Tappan and Sons, a grocery firm. The two grocerymen, who have turned their love of jazz into a prof-Berna- rd 9xO tK w V r T-- V- Howard F. Ameele has supplemented his income by building model boats. e itable business, started out for free and the fun of it. playing By peddling stock to friends, they've managed to get "The Landing" and Jim Cullums' Happy Jazz Band off the ground. bookings now bring the band $1,000 per night, plus expenses, and the Cullums' Happy Jazz Records company has produced six albums. In Rochester, N.Y, there's Achille Forgione, a photographer specializing in family portraits. His father is a graduate of the Royal Institute of Art in Naples, Italy, and a onetime painter of church frescoes. Achille followed his father in art and began sculpturing. Now his plaster figures, welded steel structures, and painted stones make up a thriving business. Howard F. Ameele of Pultneyville, N.Y., is a landscape artist until winter cramps his style. Then he supplements his living by building model boats on commission. Carving the hulls from soft pine and adding string, wire, starched cloth, varnish, and a few hundred hours of patient skill, Ameele charges from about $125 to $800. Most of his customers are boat owners who want miniatures of their beloved vessels. State Department photographer Herbert Meyle also deals with the seasons in his second vocation. At his home in Areola, Va., of raises all things Siberian Meyle huskie dogs. In fact, Meyle's Bull Run Kennels is one of two major sources of huskies in the Washington-Baltimore busiarea a part-tim- e ness that earned him about $3,700 last year. This lucrative side line began seven years ago, when a kennel-ownfriend gave the Meyles a Siberian huskie pup to assuage the loss of old Joe, the mutt whom side-lin- J z security guard, utilizes his Korean-wtraining by teaching karate. 20 Family Weekly, November 30,1869 ar , ' i ; Out-of-to- snow-spar- se er Collins, Kennedy Space Center I f r |