Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1963 — Page 2

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Women Find Office In Home Eases Work Burden

Routine housework includes more than cooking and cleaning; there is a large and invisible burden of record-keeping similar to office routine, reports the Construction Research Bureau, national clearing house for building information.

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but a small part of the clerical load that usually is dealt with in living ox bedroom, with unsightly results. Carpets become ink-stained, paper clips and fasteners damage vacuum cleaners, and important records are jammed out of sight and mislaid. But many householders have solved the problem by creating an “office-area” which merges subly into the warm home de-, cor, avoiding the cold business look. Such an area yields all the efficiency advantages, of an office and is useful for those who run small businesses from their home or perform part of their management functions there. For such people, a definite office-area clarifies for Internal Revenue auditors the proportion of home expense deductible from business ■income as office costs. Office Plan How is such an office set up? Here are some helpful recommendations: 1— Selecting the location is simple if there is unused space such as a basement of attic. Other possibilities lie in converting a bedroom no longer occupied by a married child or a den rarely used. Finally, excellent home-of-fice areas can be obtained by sectioning off one end of a long living room, or irregularly shaped room with room dividers. 2— Decoration for these areas can be given a warm dignity by blending them into the home decor with properly selected wallpapers or plywood panelling. A wall of'shelving filled with books will give a library atmosphere, and a resilient flooring such as Kentile vinyl asbestos tile, available in a wide variety of colors and designs can continue the mood. Such a floor, too, is easily cleaned of office-work ink stains from falling ball-point pens, inked stamp pads or rubber stamps antj can be swept easily free of paper clips and fasteners. No “Cold” Effect 3— The equipment needed for paperwork efficiency are a desk, file cabinets and a typewriter, but the cold effect of these is easily dealt with. You can easily secure .Unpainted wood pieces, including docks styled like home furniture, and narrow wooden chests of drawers which may be adapted to use as file cabinets. These can be painted, stained and — shellacked, or given an unusual finish by use of the new plastic veneers, which can be glued onto wood or metal surfaces by their own adhesive backing. The final effect can be an office blending beautifully into the relaxed mood of one's home. Such an office area will help avoid many problems about unpaid bills or insurance premiums mislaid records and possible questions by the tax man.

New Trend To Billiard Room In Homes Popularity of the game of billiards is zooming nationally, and many a family would like the pleasure and status that comes with having their own private billiard room. But these homeowners hesitate before installing a full size table in., basement playroom or attic, since it is 9 feet long, 4!£ feet wide,quite- heavy and cannot easily be moved. The _§Mce occupied, therefore would seem to be permanently invested in one game. However there ‘is away to use your space and have it too, reports the Construction Research Bureau, a national clearing house for building information, xyhich has studied how homeowners themselves have solved this problem. Multi-Purpose Room The Bureau passes along the following tips on how a billiard room can easily be transformed to a multi-purpose room without coping with the problem of moving a heavy table. 1— First of all there are smaller tables available to fit your playroom size, an 8 feet long by 52 inches wide billiard table, and one 7 feet long by 48 inches wide. Also, these tables are portable and have folding legs. 2— Regardless of size, these tables all can be easily transformed into official size ping-pong tables without putting them away or moving them. Simply put a plywood 9 feet long and 5 feet wide on top of the table, add a net and start to play. Any local lumberyard or building supply dealer will cut a plywood board to these dimensions for you. can paint it yourself, green for visibility of ping pong balls, and a white stripe along the edges and down the center line. 3— The ping-pong table then can be converted into a party or dining table by removing the pingpong net and covering with a tablecloth. Refreshments, buffet style, or a served meal can be enjoyed at such a table. Need Good Footing 4— Both billiards and ping-pong are best played on a resilient tile floor such as Kentile travertine, .solid vinyl tile, which never requires waxing and i% easily, cleaned of food and liquid refreshment spillage when the table is converted to dining. This floor is 'installed by the homeowner himself, if he wishes.

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GETTING THE MOST... FROM YOUR GARDEN by Dr. W. A. Liddell - • • 1- ■ ■ • *"■

ESSAY ON WHEN TO PICK Nev. mcrs to gardening, and even some old-timers who should know better, often have a hard time learning to tell when their crops are at their prime for picking. Who among us hasn’t wasted a dozen ears of corn, looking for six ripe ones? Or ruined a couple of melons, looking for a “good’* one; And how many of us let our squashes and cucumbers, beans, and beets swell beyound the edible stage, under the mistaken notion that things always get better as they grow older and bigger? -

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So, our little sermon for this es- while the warts are still firm and say draws its inspiration from one knobby, before the fruits balloon of our good friends in the food to a diameter of 2-3 inches. Acprocessing industry, who makes a cording to some connoisseurs, big thing of “The Fleeting of Per- cukes are more digestible when section." The fact is, with some eaten young, skin and all. kinds of vegetables there is a fleet- Beans — snap and lima. Snap ing moment when they are ready beans usually take a week or ten to harvest for your table. days to reach prime picking stage Take peas, for example. The time after the blossoms drop, but this is to begin checking your crop is another vegetable that is better to about 21 days after the blossomspick on the young side. Don't wait appear. You have a choice in how for the pods to make maximum' you harvest your crop. You can size. By then they are quite seedy, make two or three pickings, starting fibrous, and sometimes stringy, with the pods lowest on the vines; With limas, it’s the other way or, with shqrter-vined kinds you around. They're hard to shell if you can wait until the top pods are just pick them in the “baby" stage. If a bit shy of full maturity and then you want baby limas — butter harvest all the pods at once. Your beans they're called in many places decision should be determined— use one of the small-seeded valargely by the kinds you plant and rieties, like Clark's Bush, Henderthe size of your planting. son’s Bush, Jackson Wonder, or Corn is another vegetable that Early Thorogreen. matures about 21 days after bloom- Beets, carrots, and other rooting — that is, after the silks emerge crops are delicious when young, but from the husk. Like peas, corn will can be left a bit longer than other filature faster when the weather is crops. before harvesting, though hot, so this period may differ, de- radishes become strong and pithy pending on the weather as the crop if not pulled, within three or four approaches maturity.. Like peas, weeks after planting. Even the too, corn passes very quickly from others may become woody if you the best eating stage — usually in leave them indefinitely. a day or two —so don’t wait for Harvest lettuce, spinach, endive the kernels to get still bigger or yel- an d other leafy crops before the lower in color! seed-stalk begins to form. NonSummer squash and cucumbers heading leaf lettuce can be harare two vegetables which suffer vested a few leaves at a time, from being left too long on the * Have you ever eaten tiny young bush or .vine. Whether you grow summer squash, uncooked but thinyellow, green,- or white varieties, |y sliced and marinated in olive oil the time to pick summer squash is an j vinegar, with a few herbs? A when the fruits are still young, not gift from the gods! .more, than three of four days after , the blossoms begin to dry, whilelf you would like free information the skin is still very tender and thejabout how to grow vegetables in seeds undeveloped.* The same back yard, send yodr name, cucumbers, though it may take a on a postcard, to Asgrow Garden day or two longer after the blos-IGuide, PO Box 406, New Haven 2, soms diop. In any case, pick them Conn.

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Home Damage By Storm Gets Tax Deduction With the hurricane season approaching, many homes may suffer damage from flooding rain and high winds. Such casualty losses are deductible from taxable income, reports the Construction Research Bureau, national clearing house for building information. It must be remembered that to be deductible, a casualty must be sudden, unexpected or unusual. You cannot deduct property losses due to normal wear and tear, or decay over a long period of time. The casualty need not be only caused by storm, but can be man made. If hoodlums smash your windows, break down a fence, or kill a valuable pet, you have a casualty loss. How much can be deducted? Well, first you must reduce the loss by whatever insurance is received on it. But the general rule applying is that you may claim the decrease in fair market value of your property, but never more than the original cost plus the improvements. Keep Cost Records Therefore it would be wise to keep a record of the cost of property improvements, even when the homeowner does them himself, as in finishing a basement playroom by putting down a floor of vinyl asbestos tile. The value of such an 'improvement, of course, would include the labor put in by the homeowner as well as the material cost of the flooring. It may be necessary to prove the loss to the Internal Revenue Service. This can be done with photographs plus estimates of repair costs by outside firms. In measuring the casualty damage by such repair estimates, however, there are 4 rules set up by the Internal Revenue Service. I—The repairs must be necessary to restore the property to its former condition. __ 2—The amount spent for repairs must not be excessive. 3— The repairs only fix damage caused by casualty, nothing else. 4— The value of the property isn’t greater after the repairs than it was before the damage. The Internal Revenue Service is Well equipped with information on all sorts of probable repair costs and knows what damage is logical. The fact that your basement playroom was flooded, for instance, doesn’t necessarily ind'icate damage, for example, if you’ve put down a vinyl asbestos floor such as Kentile properly, they know ft very likely wasn’t damaged much, if at all, since such floors have come through famous floods intact. Such a claim would require real proof.

I o Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee

Linoleum Repair Repair scratches, dents, and tears in linoleum by scraping or coarse sanding a small pile of linoleum dust from a scrap piece the same color as the damaged area. Mix this dust with clear lacquer or quick-drying varnish into a paste. Smooth into the damaged spot with a putty knife, and when dry, buff it smooth with fine steel wool and boiled linseed oil. Then wax. Part of the filler can be tinted with oil color when necessary to match inlaid designs. Snag-Proof To prevent wooden garment hangers from snagging clothes or other fabrics, give them a coat of clear shellac. The wood won't be inclined to chip or sliver if protected in this way.

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