Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1954 — Page 9

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Lightning damage through television antennas is very easy to avoid, L. E. Archbold, county extension agent, reports. Extension agricultural engineers at Purdue University have worked out a simple system for grounding TV antennas which will prevent damage to homes or their occupants. There have been several reports of direct lightning “hits" on TV antennas in the Forf Wayne and Decatur area, and with no ground system connecting the antenna with moist soil, a direct strike must discharge through the house frame and fixtures to reach good ground. Serious damage to the building and its occupants can result. Archbold suggests that a No. 6 copper wire, either insulated or uninsulated, be -clamped to the antenna. The wire should then be run generally downward (never upward at any point) to the ground and should be turned in a loose loop over gutters, cornices,

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etc., rather than shaped over. It should be fastened to the roof and side, but insulators are not necessary. The lower end can be connected to one or two grounds. The best grounds are generally metal water pipes, if they are over ten feet long and buried horizontally in the soil. The wire can be connected to an outside spigot, dug down to an underground pipe, .or run r .Wpngh the wall to a basement pipe. Approved ground clamps ehould be used for all connections, since soldered connections melt from heat produced by lightning. Another type of ground is a cop-per-clad ground rod at least eight feet in length, driven down to permanently moist soil. The use of both grounds, Archbold emphasizes, will give added safety, should one ground connector accidentally become disconnected. When the water.system is used as a ground, Archbold suggests

that it be ; tied in with electrical and sewer systems, This avoids the danger of a' change In one system jumping to the other with destructive force. An electrician should make the tie-in with the electrical system, but the sewer system can be tied in at any convenient point in the basement, A No. 6 copper wire, using clamp 4-onqections, should be used in each case. Grounds supply an easy path for electric discharge. Since a onefoot length of No. G copper wire is ever 2*/, million times a better conductor than a person's body, the copper wire properly connected offers an excellent path to the ground. » A properly grounded TV antenna mounted on the, roof will serve as good lightning protection for the entire house. To give maximum protection, it should extend at least half as high above the roof as the distance from the antenna to the farthest corner or peak. If a lightning system is already on the house, it should be tied in with the Antenna ground system at the closest point. The county agent points out that twin lead-in wire and rotor control wire should also be grounded with approved type lightning arresters. The arresters protect the TV set and rotor motor from lightning damage. They should, however, be located at the same or lower level than thA set, if any real protection is to exist. The ground conductor from the arrester should be connected to the same ground system as used on the masCor pole. Tourist Fare DUBLIN. (INS) — American tourists visiting Ireland this year will be welcomed by 100 golf clubs, the oldest yacht club in the world, many famous -jace meets, free shooting areas and thirty fox hound and harrier packs for hunting. according to the Irish Tourists Bureau. JL—, Home Laundry For Nylon Sheets URBANA, 111., (INS) — The home laundry is the best place for those new nylon sheets and even there they should get speclabtreatment. Florence King, University of Illinois textile specialist, said the nylon sheets will considerably outlast cotton ones if they are laundered in water of moderate temperature and gently agitated. Miss King warned against tightly twisting them to get the water ou£ and recommended use of a spin dryer. If a conventional wringer is used, she said the nylon sheets should be put through in as smooth folds as possible. The sheets do not need ironing since they usually come in contour styles and the fitted corners bold the sheet smoothly to the mattress.

I fl * X 1 f ( 1 I I o I 1 f 3 f-’ 1 1 I AGRICULTURE Secretary Ezrfc Taft Benson is shown in Washington announcing he "regretfully" is clamping tightest production controls tn history on American agriculture for 1905 and imposing a 13 per cent reduction in whsat acreage to reduce surpluses of farm commodities. The action is expected to work greatest setback on one-crop farming like wheat and cotton. . tlnternational) Working To Perfect Roads With Bounce Engineers Working In Several States DENVER. (INS) — Engineers are hard at work in Colorado and several oth#r states perfecting roads with a bounce. The rubber industry has a sur- ! plus of rubber, and one of the new’ uses for may be in 1 road construction. A rubber asphalt has been developed, consisting of four percent liquid latex and two percent ' powdered rubber. The new rubber asphalt is more elastic in winter and harder in summer. Instead of getting brittle and cracking under stress during cold weather, the asphalt will become more pliable. And in summer, instead of getting soft as present day asphalt does, the rubber asphalt would get harder. The only hitch to wide-spread use of rubber asphalt is that ft costs about 20 percent more than regular paving. Many states, including Colorado, are attempting to determine whether the rubber roads are worth the additional costs. In Colorado there are two test strips, each a mile long, it will be about three years before the final results of the test strips Will be known, and the Colorado highway department says It the tests are satisfactory, it will not be long until all state motorists are driving on the roads with a bounce. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.—Webster.

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Moscow Night Life Said On Tame Side. Maddeningly Slow Service In Clubs MOSCOW, (INS) — Moscow’s night lite in definitely on the tame side from the western point o£ view. If you want a night “on the town" in Moscow, you dine and dance at one of a dozen or bo “fjsstrclass’’ hotel dining rooms or nationality restaurants, such as the Gerogian “Aragvi'’ or the Ar* ihenian "Ararat.” Slow Service , There’s not much to choose between them. The six-piece orchea* tra may have a balalaika or a potbellied guitar instead of a saxophone. The hall may be low-ceil-inged and caye-like or as vast as the Grand Central station waiting room. But, give or take a* greenpepper shashlik, you’ll get the same menu and wine list with the same cooking and prices and the same maddeningly slow service. Most old Moscow hands favor the Grand Hotel, where the service is usually a bit better, the food somewhat more thoughtfully prepared and the atmosphere in the ornate basketball court of a din-ing-room a dash more congenial. On a typical evening the Grand begins to fill up about 9 p.m. The diners may include, as they did one evening recently, a half-dozen university students and their girlfriends toasting graduation in vodka; a British businessman and two Soviet purchasing agents; a party of visiting foreign Communists .and their guide, a rather welt known Soviet novelist; a sprinkling of army and navy officers and Finnish or other visiting businessmen. A bit later on the evening in question, a party of six young U.S. and Canadian embassy employee arrived. The girls looked particularly smart in party dresses. They would have been less conspicuous and perfectly correct wearing house dresses and flat-., heeled shoes. But eating out at the official exchange rate of four rubles to the dollar is a real occasion, a chance to wear that special gown. As one of the *irls put it.’ "They’re going to stare at us anyhow — we thought we'd give them something to stare at." Limited Foods The food is limited in variety and short on fresh vegetables out of season, and they don’t do it Justice in the kitchen. The filet mignons, beet bargain on the menu at |2.59, are grilled to the proper specifications. But the less said the better about the side dishes — greasy potatoes fried In sunflower oil. overcooked canned stringbeans and dull dry canned peas. The band at tne Grand — violin, accordion, saxaphone -. clarinet, drums, piano and trumpet — isn’t as Jazzy as those at the Metropole or the Sovietskaya hotels, and It doesn’t have a vocalist but it,, does play danceable music. And the musicians manage, on request, to pound out recognizable versions of "Harbor Lights" and “Sentimental Journey,” “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie" and similar familiar, M old, American favorites.