Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1961 — Page 2

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Ventilation * Ventilation is needed in homes having large glass walls. Best way io insure good ventilation is to insert a louvered glass section near the Door between »x 4 Douglas fir mullions. Fir mullions make clean lined frames and support members for glass walls. Yard Improver* Dress up your yard with an Attractive outdoor pavilion which can be lighted at night for extra effect. The pavilion can be framed in Douglas fir dimension lumber and good color selection can give it extra charm.

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Dishwasher Sends Health Hazards t Down The Drain An automatic dishwasher can help keep winter sniffles and! summer complaints to a minimum. A three-year study done by the Department of Microbiology at tiM University of LouisvUte's School of Medicine resulted in scientific date showing that the a of electric diahwaahen in; home helps insure against health hazards due to improperly wabhed dishes. * } "Dishes, glasses, knives, and forks which appear to be sparkling clean may still contain bacteria and viruses which can spoil food er cause diseases, thus the sanitizing of food utensils after: every nasal to eliminate both food spoilage germs and disease producing germs is of vital concern to every homemaker," the School of Medicine concluded. The study showed that approximate average bacteria counts on dishes and utensils were as follows: hand washed. 390; washed in an automatic dishwasher, less than 5. All dishea washed in the electric dishwasher were cleaner than the American Public Health Association standard of 100, and almost three-quarters of the dishes and utensils washed in the automatic dishwasher gave a bacteria count of zero. Electric dishwashers get dishes cleaner than hand washing because they use extremely hot water and- detergents mtlch stronger than the housewife’s hands can stand. Every item in the .automatic dishwasher actually is scoured and rinsed with strong surges of hot water for an average of 15 minutes. Not even the most fastidious housewife could possibly scrub each dish, glass, utensil, and piece of silverware that long. Neither would she wash the dishes twice and rinse them two or three times, as most electric dishwashers do.

Lumber’s Story Spans 300 Years Forests have served as faithful handmaid to America's growth, unceasingly from the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock some 3Vi centuries ago. The earliest settlers in Virginia and New England lived on the bounty of the forest. They built huts of bark and rived logs. They ate nuts, greens, fruits and berries. They made sugar, medicines, seasonings, dyes, even spot tea, spruce beer and elderberry wine. They shot and snared birds and beasts for meat and furs. Al! of these aids to life came from the great east eoast pine woods. First manufactured product shipped from the New World to England was pine clapboards, in 1608 or soon after. Captain John Smith's sawmill at Jamestown was simply a two-man saw, with one man in a pit below the log and the other above it. The hardy colonists also shipped sassafras, bark, pine logs, tar, pitch, turpentine and potash, all products of the pines. From those harsh years down to present times, the nation’s forests have contributed with fabulous generosity and ever-increasing diversity to America’s wealth. Wherever the sturdy pioneers settled as they pushed westward, they needed lumber immediately. They used it in homes, schools, stores, churches. From lumber they fashioned sluice boxes for gold, crossties and bridges for railroads, pens for livestock, timber for mines, shelter for factories, boardwalks and fences in the towns. Crude hand labor served alone until water power reduced the drudgery in the early 1700’s. A century later, the circular saw and steam power quickened the industrial pace, followed by gang saws and high-speed band saws. Lumber is the country’s oldest industry, and lumber has been the greatest wood product over the 350 years of the nation’s development. Today lumber shares the scene with hundreds of other wood products of amazing diversity. Lumber and related products mean jobs for more than 600,000 people. Strong 20th century supplements to lumber in the building world are plywood, hardboard and various fiber and particle boards, i. Pulp and paper are not far behind, with more than 500,000 employes. The country’s first paper mill to use wood pulp did so 92 years ago in the state of Maine. All in all, one of every ten manufacturing workers is employed in forest products. More than 1,500,’006 employes turn out useful products from America’s wood resources to a value of S2O billion every year. a Rhe Bathroom Realty, Utility In many homes, the most in- ! adequately planned room seems 'to be the bathroom, the last ; room to be into the ' bouse. Beauty and convenience have been regarded as essential only in recent years. But these ! qualities can be added to any bathroom at low cost, according to the Construction Research Bureau, national clearing house for building information. New equipment has been developed in the last decade to make bathroom use more efficient. Old materials have been improved and made more beautiful. And new ideas for bathroom design also have been evolved, so that today the neglected bathroom can be improved in many ways. In proportion, the bathroom has more wasted space than any other room, the Bureau finds. Very few have sufficient wall cabinets and much wall space is wasted while existing shelves have become cluttered and unsightly. For Linens Shelf units with doors and drawers like those used in kitchens can add much storage space to bathrooms. These are Meal for storing linens and other lavatory articles and their tops can serve as useful work counters. Usually the space beneath the wash basin is not used. A laundry hamper can be placed there or the wash basin can be replaced with a vanity-style lavatory unit with a cabinet built-in at relatively low cost. This type lavatory with two wash basins can help overcome morning congestion, especially in homes with two or more children. Egpy to Clean Special attention in remodeling a bathroom should be given the floor. It should be easy to clean,

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resist moisture and add color to the room. Many architects seeking a flooring material combining aU these properties use Kentile solid vinyl tile. It is easy and inexpensive to install over any existing floor and comes in a wide variety of colors. Condensation from bathing and showering usually is a problem in bathrooms and rounded cove baseboard at the junction, of the floor and wall keeps condensed moisture on walls from seeping beneath the floor. A wall ventilating fan will helpi remove excessive moisture. The bathroom will take on additional beauty if fixtures are replaced with recessed types. These also provide more work space and walking space because they do not Jut out More space can be added by replacing small medicine chests with larger ones or by installing a second toedicine chest.

Wood’s Growth Amazes Experts Did you know that for every four trees America is harvesting today, the country is growing five to replace them? Even though the forests are yielding billions of cubic feet of raw material every year, they are so vast and so fecund they are renewing themselves at an even faster rate. This is the most significant fact that can be emphasized. Even though the first primitive sawmill dates back to 353 years ago at Jamestown, Virginia, 1961 is only the second year of nationwide recognition of the vital role filled by America’s forests. Wood is a marvelous, renewing resource. Only a few years ago, many people believed that loggers were rapidly stripping the country bare of trees. The pioneers cleared millions of acres permanently for farms, towns and roads. America’s lumber Industry since Its beginning has cut enough wood to build a six-foot boardwalk from Earth to Sun —% or, in non-space-man terms, this amounts to 80 times last year’s lumber production, which was 35 billion board feet. In addition, a ravenous paper industry rolls out 30 million tons of products yearly. Plywood, hardboard, fibreboard and other wood products require millions of cubic feet annually. Yet the forests are more than keeping pace. During National Forest Products Week, wood processing industries emphasized the certainty of their permanence on the American scene. Timber is a crop. And the nation has more than 650 million acres of forest lands — an area larger than all of the states east of the Mississippi River. Forest owners, private and public, are doing a better job year by year to protect this renewing resource from its natural enemies, fire, insect and disease. Nearly three-fourths of the commercial forest lands are privately owned—and it is profitable today to operate them as tree farms. But forests are more than a source of logs. They are conservers of the water supply on which most people are dependent. They are what most people think of as “the great outdoors” — to which more and more flee to “recharge their batteries.” They are the habitat of fish and wild game, which support the sport of millions. National Forest Products Week called attention to one of America’s top five industries, a S2O billion a year complex of useful products. In a real sense, it points to more than that, a vast portion of the country’s out-of-doors, managed and protected for their watershed and recreational values, as well, as for the commercial value of the trees. Room Next To Kitchen Is Versatile A utility room adjacent to the kitchen can be much more than a place to put the hot water heater and various meters. Many builders include space for the laundry appliances in the utility room, but often there still is an unused portion that soon becomes cluttered with miscellaneous items. This space can be ‘‘put to work” as a sorting area or sewing center. The home handyman in the family can transform this area into a good-looking work spot by installing decorative Marlite paneling, which is highly resistant to heat and moisture.

QnaTtfieg for Cold Medaßion x New Plan for Split-Level Colonial House Example ofAßetterHome—AßetterLife 9

Architect Herman York dearly had in mind the theme of National Home Week, "A Better Home—A Better Life," when he designed this split-level Colonialstyle house in honor of the week being celebrated nationally Sept 23 to Oct. 1. Convinced that total electric living is a basic part of a better life today, York designed the house to meet Gold Medallion standards for all-electric homes. He specified electric baseboard heating, 200 ampere electric service, air conditioning, a quickrecovery electric water heater, and an all-electric kitchen featuring range, refrigerator-freez-er and automatic dishwasher. Foyer, den or extra bedroom, family room and lavatory-laun-dry are on one level On another level are the living and dining rooms and kitchen with breakfast bay area. The upper level, not shown, has three bedrooms and a full bath. Exterior features Include wood siding with masonry used as an accent material. Asphalt shingles, durable and low in applied cost, are specified for the roof. York recommends a multicolored blend of asphalt shingles as a basis for a wider choice of exterior colors on sidewall* trim and accent areas. Highlighting the entrance area are two handsome panel doors of ponderosa pine. A diamond pattern was chosen for the glass in these doors as well as for the double-hung wood windows in the den. Both the living and dining

Finish Fall - Out Shelters For Peace - Time Users, Too

The fallout shelter can be planned for peace-time purposes as well as an emergency following an atomic bomb drop. Various day-to-day uses for the shelter include a darkroom, a home movie projection room, a meeting place for Cub or Boy Scouts, a sewing room, or a retreat for study, conversation or hobby pursuits. With this type of a room, the family is making an Investment in better living and is prepared for survival in the event of war against civilians. John Concord, housing expert for Masonite Corporation, suggests that families obtain such booklets as “Individual and Family Preparedness” and “The Family Fallout Shelter” from their local or county office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. Find out how to build one and how to stock it for an emergency occupancy of two weeks. Get Daily Enjoyment Meanwhile, looking on the brighter side, you can fix up your fallout shelter for daily use. This being the atomic age, families should be prepared for the worst but enjoying the present to the utmost. With a dualpurpose shelter, they can do just that, according to Mr. Concord. The solid concrete blocks used

House Insulated For Electric Heat Breeze to Cool A house that is heated electrically and properly insulated can easily be air conditioned to provide year-round comfort and cleanliness. , The thorough mineral wool insulation specified for an electrically heated house also provides the correct amount of heat resistance to make air conditioning efficient and economical. Workman installs mineral wool batts labeled R-19 between ceiling joists of home to be electrically heated and cooled. With both Insulation and wiring already installed, an air conditioning system can be added with a minimum of trouble and meet the Quality Rome Requirements of the National Mineral Wool Insulation Association, a house that is to be heated and a'ir conditioned electrically should be insulated with batts and blankets of mineral wool labeled R-19 in ceilings, H-ll in walls, and 2-13 in floors.

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rooms are brighter because of wide bay windows of ponderosa pine. In keeping with the Colonial styling, all interior doors are stock panel units. — To assure efficient, economical electric heating and air conditioning, York specified the use of mineral wool insulation to

in your basement for the shelter walls will serve to protect in an emergency. Their cold, bleak surfaces can be dressed up for day-to-day use or a two-week enforced occupancy by low-cost, warm looking woodgrained hardboard panels, available from lumber yards. Masonite has wide distribution of two tyjes — walnut and cherry, each in attractive, restful colors. Helpful Storage Hints Storage is an essential to the shelter, according to OCDM. Floor-to-ceiling cabinets can be lined with functional Peg-Board, and even the space-conserving sliding doors can be made of this material. Since space will be at a premium, Peg-Board is ideal for storing emergency food and water,, clothing and other items. Cabinets should include ’hobby material and games, useful at any time. As seating, build swing-up benches that have storage underneath. Covered with foam rubber or an inflatable narrow mattress, the benches become beds at night. Make them of a lumber framework and sturdy Masonite Tempered Presdwood. Last Centuries Wood has shown remarkable longevity. The oldest wood building in the world is believed to be the Horyuji Temple at Kyoto, Japan, which was built 1,350 years ago. A church in Norway is more than 1,000 years old. Archaeologists have found wood models and figurines in the tombs of ancient Egypt, made an estimated 6,000 years ago. A wood floor in the tomb is one of the earliest Pharoahs, thought 5,000 years old, was reported found in good condition. Diggings near Ankara. Turkey, three years ago uncovered massive wood beams that had remained sound for 2,700 years. These were found in the tomb of King Gordius, father of the more famed King Midas. In New England are numerous old colonial homes with their original wood sash, siding and exterior, installed 300 years and more ago.

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No One’ll Mourn Final Extinction Os This Bird Whafs a wooly-ankled, muf-fler-throated, blue-toed sniffier? Give up? It’s a bird whose nest is a house that’s badly insulated, if at all. This bird wears, heavy socks, fleece-lined slippers, and outdoor clothing all winter long in his own living room, trying to escape the discomfort of cold floors and chill drafts that sweep through the house even when all doors and windows are tightly closed. Today, the •sniffier* is coming closer to extinction, thanks to such things as modern electric heating and the insulation needed to make it practical. The drafts “snifflers” suffer from are the result of inade-quately-insulated walls that get as cold as a tqmbstone. When heated air touches them, it cools off and drops rapidly, scudding across the floor in a chilling draft When walls are insulated according to Quality Home Requirements of the National Mineral Wool Insulation Association—batts or blankets labeled R-ll—or are filled with blownin mineral wool, they stay warm and drafts are eliminated. In electrically heated homes, the same standard calls for R-19 batts in ceilings and R-13 batts in floors over unheated areas, or this equivalent in blown-in mineral wool. The “R” number indicates the resistance to the flow of heat the mineral wool is engineered to provide.