Show Berlin Brownies Take Odd Jobs Work to Get Funds To Attend School BERLIN Would Would you like a handsome young man to take care of at a wallflower at your birthday party Or a girl for sitting baby-sitting Or somebody to clean your rugs Just call the Brownies Heinzel- Heinzel of ot West Berlin For 36 cents an hour they'll tackle any odd job anybody wants done The Brownies are a tradition of the city of Cologne Hundreds of ot years ago go the story goes the helpful helpful help help- ful fuI little spirits made life a pleasure pleas pleas- ure for tor the people They did all the work while the city folk were asleep Then a curious shoemakers shoemaker's wife who wanted to see what the Brownies looked like frightened them away They never appeared again until 1949 Right now there are about Brownies officially registered In Berlin students Berlin students who have to earn extra money so they can attend attend attend at at- tend West Berlins Berlin's free university Chief Brownie Ulrich Heckert 24 24 a student of at medicine started the ent enterprise With money he had collected from spirited public-spirited citizens he launched an extensive advertising campaign to let Berliners know the Brownies had come back The Brownies had 1400 work hours in the first month Four months later they had But that still wasn't enough At best it averaged about 10 hours a month a student and a net income after deductions deductions deductions de de- de- de for administrative expenses ex ex- of nine West Vest marks Nevertheless C Chi Chief h i e t f Brownie Heckert says he is quite happy about the Increasing number of orders for student services His fiancee Ingeborg Janecke 23 23 a photographer by training is the Brownies' Brownies office secretary Each student is paid 12 West marks 36 cents an hour She explained no Uno matter what kind of work he does The student keeps 95 and 25 go into the funds from wl which ch we pay the advertising office rent telephone telephone tele tele- phone bills accident Insurance nd id so go on |