Trying to Latch Onto Some Heel Protectors

Mrs. Morris Gandin of Oxnard has not been dragging her feet in her effort to locate black terry cloth heel protectors with Velcro fasteners. Can you help by being on your toes with a source or two, or will Gandin have to dig in her heels before she can again stand tall?

Juanita Ferrey of Harbor City is all shook up because she’s unable to find somebody to repair a vibrating pillow. Can you help bring good vibes back into her life, or will Ferrey have to stay rattled a while longer?

Marge Russell of Burbank needs a new rake for her shag rugs; the Shag Witch she now has is slowly wearing out, and she has not been able to replace it. Can you help end this shaggy-rug story, or will Russell have to start calling people on the carpet because the rug has been pulled out from under her?

Mary Shimbo of San Gabriel wonders if any old-fashioned hardware store has window vents that screen out rain, drafts and insects. Can you help before Shimbo gets all wet, or will she simply have to keep bugging us?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Dorothy at (714) 675-2769 needs a Thomas shorthand workbook or manual. Please help so that Dorothy, no doubt, will no longer be caught short-handed. . . . Sandie at (213) 723-2717 needs to complete a set of Bridal Rose Royal Heidelberg Winterling china , made in Germany about 40 years ago. Please help with a few pieces before Lufthansa has to book another flight or two. . . . For two friends who are ill, Ruth at (213) 299-6442 needs General Electric AM/FM clock radios with TV sound ; evidently this item is no longer being made. Please help so that Ruth’s friends can again wake up to the sound of music.

Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for one-time items and for products no longer available in stores. And you must give us written permission to publish your telephone number, so that others may contact you directly.

Jo Anne McNamara of Canoga Park and Dolores Wise of Inglewood, who were looking for teapot cozies, will now have a number of sources to cozy up to. We received more than 50 replies, far too many to list individually. The places named most frequently by readers are Williams-Sonoma (Woodland Hills, Beverly Hills and Beverly Center), the Tudor House (4th Street and Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica) and the Rose Tree Cottage (824 E. California Blvd., Pasadena). Others are: Folk Music Center, Claremont; Graber Olive House, Ontario; Software Kitchen Clothing, Town & Country, Los Angeles; Tea & Sympathy, Costa Mesa; Hollinder Co., Temple City, and Apple Farm, San Luis Obispo. Mail-order sources include: Tea & Biscuits, 194 Conant St., Concord, Me. 01742; Cosy Corner, Box 128, Still River, Mass. 01467, and Crabtree & Evelyn, 505 Nichols Road, Kansas City, Mo. 64112.

We also heard from about a dozen readers who wouldn’t object to their tea cozies letting off steam in somebody else’s kitchen, and another dozen readers who are willing to either knit a cozy or else provide a pattern. We even have an Irvine resident who would bring one back from England. And Rita Kimberly of Rita-Lynn Sales, (213) 413-3944, says their “travel store” will even deliver the cozies (they cater to shut-ins.)

Sherry Barber of Whittier, who was looking for Thank-U-Grams, will soon be able to again put pen to paper, thank you. According to Blanche Kay of Los Angeles and S. Taylor of Huntington Beach, the yellow pads are available from the Kimball Foundation, 24 Northcote Drive, St. Louis, Mo. 63144. Dorothy Thompson of Los Angeles and Gene Coffman of Pasadena suggest SHARE International, Box 40444, Fort Worth, Tex. 76140-9987. And Cliff Dektar reminds us 3M produces an array of Post-it Notes.

Joan Burke of Newport Beach, who was looking for a scrubber-polisher with rotating disks for her hardwood floors, may have to continue doing hard time for a while. A reader is willing to sell a fully equipped Electrolux she hasn’t used in years. For more, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope.