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Kiwanis Sale Fills Two Buildings, Offers Practical, Exotic Items

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Kiwanis Sale Fills Two Buildings, Offers Practical, Exotic Items 

By Daniel Campbell

The Kiwanis Sale this year is filling two buildings, and there is something for everybody from the aquanaut to the Zingiberaceae specialist.

The Armory, 223 E. Ann, and the old Peters Hotel, E. Ann at N. Fourth, are both full of thousands of practical and impractical items.

Kiwanians have been working late hours to get items sorted and priced before the sale opens at 9 a.m. tomorrow and closes Saturday at 2 p.m. 

For the woman who likes to dress well, the sale has fine hats to choose from. The selection is not limited to this year's varieties, as in other sales. There are hats with birds on them, hats with flowers and fruit, hats with feathers and fuzz, huge hats and tiny hats. There are hats for the swing set, the jet set and the tea set. 

There are stoles and coats, with a selection of fox stoles leading the line. 

The sale has its discount counters for the bargain hunter, such as the record counter where you can get anything in music from Chubby Checker to Caruso. There is a luggage counter also, with pieces sticker from faraway places for the impressionable. 

Discerning shoppers may find joy in some of the elegant pieces in the glass and kitchen section. There is pewter, sterling and fine bone ware for example, to tickle the antique hunter's fancy. 

There are exotic pieces, too, for the off-beat collector. On sale are a large white bust of Tchaikovsky with its nose broken, a chic sea-shell ash tray from Asbury Park, a set of towels monogrammed "Alcatraz," another "Sing Sing" and linen from every hospital in the state of Michigan. 

Something's here for the man who has everything, according to Kiwanians, who point to garden tools, sports equipment, toys, books -- and some "plain junk (but good!)." 

In the furniture building on Fourth St., items are piled almost to the ceiling, with a Louis XV chair and an antique cedar chest stealing the show. 

Running down other items at random: snorkels for the aquanaut, a cultivator for the Zingiberaceae specialist, (one who grows ginger), size 14-D shoes for the pedestrian, a bear bank for the thrifty, a cistern pump for the thirsty, a clock for the tardy, beds for the lazy and -- you guessed it -- even a kitchen sink for the housewife. 

'Bargain' In Old Shirt

The old shirt would have been a DANDY buy at the Kiwanis Sale. 

But a worker at the Armory yesterday in sorting donated pieces of clothing made the shirt just another GOOD buy. 

That's because the Kiwanis worker took more than a hundred dollars in old paper money from its pocket. 

The money was turned over to city police, who said the owner may retrieve the cash by identifying it.