Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1963 — Page 2

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Modern Living Calls For More Hot Water Faster.

In today’s modern home it’s a case of water, water needed every - where — and particularly hot water. But the problem is how ttf get enough of it for our larger families and needs, how to stoi% it in our ■ smaller-sized houses, and produce it as rapidly as possible and inexpensively. Today’s house may “over appliance’ itself with hot watergulping contrivances, but fail to be equally modernized in its hot water capacity. This is the case with water heaters in many American homes to-’ . day. according to the National Fuel oil Council. While • householders go merrily along buying such time-saving items as automatic dishwashers and washing machines, and adding extra bathrooms, not to mention having lots of babies, the ‘incumbent water heater becomes literally “swamped’ by the increase in the demands placed upon it. From early morning till late evening, the kitchen, laundry, atid bathdooms of the modern American house are Continually in use for any number of reasons—show-

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ering, shaving, bathing, ( washing, shampoos, brushing teeth, food preparation—and, of course, washing dishes — frequently in a new, hot water-gulping dishwasher. Add to this,, washing the family clothes in the automatic machine, and the other general household uses for hot water, and it is easy to see how this element — and the water heater — play a vital and new role in modern living. A generation ago a family of four usted about 1,000 to 1,200 gallons of hot water a month. • Today's .needs are triple — around 3,000 gallons a month ,(100 gallons a day). Dishwashing and automatic laundry consume about 45 per cent of this, showers and baths another 30 per cent. The rest goes into "washing hands and face, house cleaning and miscellaneous uses. Not only do homes need more water, but a lot of it has to be hotter — 140 degrees for average uses up to 160 degrees recommended for dishwashers. Among modern developments for the home aimed at solving this problem is a new oil-fired water heater that needs only one hour a day to produce 120 gallons of hot water in a compact 30 gallon storage tank. It burns oil combined with air in a gun-like burner head as do the automatic oil heating plants. The secret of this heater is its “recovery rate” — the speed with which it can heat up water for the storage tank as the supply is used.

What Country Neels Is Good Expandable 2-Bedroom House

What this country needs is a good two-bedroom house to meet the needs of young married couples and retired elders. During all the rest of the much maligned 60s, government forecasts call for the heaviest population increase in the young married and retired couple classes. Young married couples, reports one national housing economist, would much prefer to buy than rent, if they can get a house to Electric Heat Gives Buyer Wide Choice A variety of electric heating systems helps make it possible to equip virtually any home with modern electric heat. Among the most popular types of electric heating systems available today are: . 1. Basebeard Units. — Baseboard electric heating units are installed- along the walls of each room. They blend into baseboards, take up little room and make room decoration and furniture arrangement easy. 2 Ceii.ag Cable — The only sign of a heating system is the thermostat, cable is stapled to ceiling board and then concealed completely with plaster or plasterboard. Heat radiates gently from the ceiling throughout the | entire room. I 3 Wall Panels — A number ! of wall panel types are available. ; One radiates heat from a thin ' glass panel, either surface-mount-I ed or recessed in a wall. Another | type combines both convection and : radiation. Some employ a fan for air movement. 1.4. Electric Furnace — A com 1 pact central unit that draws air over heated resistance coils and then distributes the warmed air via ducts throughout the house.

Indoors ‘Tree House’ Fulfills Primary Need Every child and adult has a right to privacy —a room he can call his home, a study nook or a corner set aside for his own use. In country areas, boys sometimes satisfy this instinct by building a “tree house.’’ This isn't feasible for girls or adults, and not even for most city boys. Room partitions, whether floor to ceiling or partial height, have solved many, a demand for privacy in the home, according to the Masonite Home Service Bureau. Faced with factory - finished hardboard in beautiful reproductions of walnut or cherry boards, these dividers are low in cost, high in beauty and easy in /Maintenance, the bureau said. Two boys or two girls in a bedrooom can enjoy companionship but also have privacy for study or hobbies if the area includes a divider especially designed by the bureau. It includes separate study areas and a twoway storage closet. There are “two of everything.” Various Masonite hardboards are utilized in the design, which may be obtained free by writing a postcard to the Home Service Bureau, Suite 2037, 111 Wi Washington St., Chicago 2, 111., and asking for AE-265. A single divider partition setting aside a room corner for a study will, in many case, be helpful to a student or adult with homework. A simple stud wall fashioned to the floor and an adjacent wall and faced with walnut or cherry grained hardboard is an easy solution — ~ and inexpensive, too.

fit their needs and their pocketbooks. The two-bedroom house is the ideal starter house size, the economist states. It will accommodate the first birth in the family. It is also the prime need of older couples who want an extra bedroom for gusests but no more which they would have to maintain and which would involve a dead investment. The starter house, the economist warns, should be so designed that an extra bedroom can be added in case of sales to a larger family. Since ypung married couples dp move .around in th? early years of their marriage as they receive promotions with their firms, resale values are vital considerations. The two-bedroom home that has been designed in wood frame construction, the expert points out, is mostly easily expanded because frame wallls can be cut for new openings without much expense. One of the easiest ways to plan for expansion is to design the garage or enclosed carport so that it can be converted to a master bedroom with very little extra expense. It is a lot easier to build a new carport than to add a room to a house. By providing for expansion, the expert observes, the resale handicap of the two-bedroom house is changed dramatically. The good two-bedroom house, designed for easy remodeling, then has two ways to go in a sale; either it can be sold as is to another young couple or retired pair, or it can be sold as a potential three-bedroom home. More important than the twobedroom angle, says the economist, is in the matter of style and quality. A well designed wood frame home, using such tep favorite structural lumber as Douglas fir or west coast hemlock, will last for generations. An occasional coat of paint is about all the maintenance needed, and the room should be kept tight.

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Buy House With High Resale Value Experienced home buyers think about selling a new house even before they buy it. This makes good sense since the average home owner moves approximately every ten' years. Prime factors in assuring good resale value are quality building materials. Other pojnts include floor plan, number of bedrooms, location, schools, and improvements made by the owners. A. M. Watkins, in his book, “Building or Buying the HighQuality House at Lowest Cost,” points out that the use of quality materials adds only five to seven per cent to total construction costs. When added to the mortgage payments on an average $20,000 house, the increased cost is only about $7 a month, he estimates. UL Label Important A roof of UL-labeled asphalt shingles is one quality item to look for in a new house. Other asphalt shingles may look the same, but only those approved by the Underwriters’ Laboratories have been tested by UL technicians for fire resistance and performance. The FHA requires that asphalt shingles have the UL label. Wood doors and windows are another mark of quality. Because wood is an effective insulating material, wood windows help keep heating costs down while adding to comfort. They also are attractive and easy to decorate. Doors and windows of durable ponderosa pine are available in many stock styles and sizes at local building supply dealers. Insulation Adds Value Thorough insulation, another factor that contributes to the value of a house, is one of the most practical investments a home owner can make. Any extra expense for insulating a house to meet standards recommeiided by the National Mineral Wool Insulation Association, rather than minimum standards, is quickly returned in lower heating and cooling bills and in greater yearround comfort. Another feature that attracts buyers to a house is a modern, all-electric kitchen. A wellplanned kitchen is a strong resale factor when it is equipped with an automatically controlled electric range, a large-capacity electric refrigerator-freezer that needs no defrosting, and a builtin electric dishwasher. 9— —————q Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee 0 0 Ink Eradicator Your own homemade ink eradicator can be produced by whipping up a solution of one part of chlorinated laundgy bleach and 10 parts of water. Keep this in an old iodine bottle with a rubber stopper to withstand the destructive effect of the bleach, and with a glass rod as an applicator. Use along with a blotter just as you do the commercial eradicator. This, of course, does not work on typewriter ink. Safe Mailing For important letters or packages, put strife of clear cellophane tape across the address. The writing Will then be protected even through rough weather and hard handling. Picture Hanging Your pictures won’t slip and hang crookedly if you'll wrap a little adhesive tape around the center of the picture wire. Wet Paintbrushes If you’re unable to finish a paint job in one session, the cleaning trouble can be avoided if you store them overnight in an airtight package. Wrap the brush in aluminum foil, folding it over the bristles and lapping securely around the shank of the. brush. This method of storage also comes in handy when you don't have time to clean the brushes after completing a job and must let them go until the next day. Non-Raggcd Edge When cutting siding board, you usually find that, regardless of how sharp the saw is, you invariably have a ragged edge which prevents neat fitting. The easy way to overcome this trouble is to score the boards first before sawing with a sharp knife or awl. This scoring' breaks the outer grain on the wood, giving a smooth finish after sawing. Alphabet Bookends If your youngster no longer has need of his alphabet blocks, you can make them into attractive bookends. Glue four of the blocks together, and give them one or two thin coats of pure white shellac. The bookends can be made heavier by putting flat weights at the bottom, or they can be glued to a felt bottom. Toothpaste Tubes . Mend breaks in your toothpaste tubes — or any other such kind of tube for that matter — with a strip of cellophane tope wrapped at least twice around the tube. Saves ypU money, and keeps the tube neat.

GETTING THE MOST... FROM YOUR GARDEN by Dr W. A. Liddell of Inforaiaiiai*, Atgrow Seed Company I THE LAWN IN FALL: RECOVERY AND REFITTING

After the long days of glare and heat in summer, the lawn is likely to be showing signs of wear and tear. While this is true of well established turf, it is still more true of lawns made last fall or in spring, which will now be exhibiting any defects of construction, flaws in the soil or imperfections in the seeding. This is the best time for renovation and repairs, while the grasses can yet make weeks of growth before going into winter dormancy. Ek . — w-";■ r>. JSkßbbmhb

All plants need food, lawn c grasses more in proportion than s most others because their leaf blades are always being mowed off < as soon as they make much growth, c even to the extent, if it was all s added up, of 30 or 40 inches in a i season. In this way the nitrogen, i the great leaf-maker, which the i roots get from the soil, is continu- 1 ally being used up and carried [ away, together with smaller i amounts of other essential food 1 elements. Os all these elements, ni-. trogen is not only the, most wanted ; but it is also the one that is most 1 easily washed out of the soil by < rain. Until recently this has meant ; rather a troublesome condition in < lawn care, with the grass too often i in a state of feast or famine. But | with 30 or 40 million lawns in the < country as a result of the building i boom, scientists have been at work ; on this matter and have developed ’ slow-release, long lasting nitrogen ' compounds to encourage the i steady, even growth that makes a I good lawn. It is prescribed by law that on 1 every bag of fertilizer three figures I must be printed, showing the pro- i portion it contains of the principal I food elements — nitrogen, phos-1 phorus and potash. In fertilizer ; blended for lawns, these figures will i perhaps be 22-8-4, denoting a 22% 1 content of nitrogen. A fraction of < this will be inorganic and will go ’ into solution quickly, but the major i portion will be of the new organic ■ form for delayed action. The usual all-purpose garden fertilizer^with a formula such as 5-10-5, is not the best for turf because the proportion of phosphorus is far beyond'what grass requires and leads to the for-1 mation of insoluble compounds in i the soil. Fall feeding should there-] fore mean this high-nitrogen fertilizer, at the rate of 25 pounds to 2,500 sq. feet, and the most efficient, least messy, way to secure

For a free booklet to help you have a rich green turf, print your name on a postcard and send to Living Lawns, Asgrow, PO Box 406, New Haven 2, Conn.

FHA Requires More Insulation In Cooled Homes Air-conditioned homes on display during National Home Week this year will be better designed for both comfort and economy if the builder has met minimum FHA requirements. A new requirement of the Federal Housing Administration now spells out minimum standards for insulation of homes equipped with central air conditioning. Previous insulation requirements were based on heating needs alone. The new requirements were adopted, FHA explains, because of the increasing volume of air conditioning installations. FHA is quick to point out that its Minimum Property Standards are just that-minimum. As a result, FHA encourages home buyers and builders to exceed its minimums when quality construction lowers the cost of keep-” ing the house up and living in it. For example, by exceeding FHA minimum insulating requirements, home owners can cut cooling and heating costs substantially and enjoy greater yearround comfort. In addition, since smaller, less costly heating and cooling equipment is required, the total cost of a well insulated house may actually be lower than that of a house with minimum insulation. A reliable guide to proper insulation of an air-conditioned house is the National Mineral Wool Insulation Association's Quality Home Requirements. These call for mineral wool with installed resistances to summer heat gain or winter heat loss of R-19 or R-24 in ceilings, R-ll in walls, and R-13 in floors over unhealed spaces. Good Insulation One advantage of wood framed walls is that they keep a home warmer’ in winter and cooler in summer because they afford good insulation. Wood is a natural insulator.

even is with a wheeled spreader. If any bare places have developed through the summer, their cause should be investigated. Possibly the topsoil has sunk, following a settlement in the subsoil beneath; then more topsoil can be added to bring up the level. If it is found that an underlying rock or a piece of builder’s trash is the cause, it must be, removed and the hole filled. White grubs, usually of the Japanese bettie, often eat the roots and thus cause dead patches. If they are seen when a square of the old truf is lifted, the whole lawn area should be treated, using the spreader, with a granular chlordane insecticide packaged for the purpose. Crabgrass is a most common culprit. Its dead remains should be removed and the spot treated with a pre-emergence herbicide to prevent next year’s crop germination. Whatever the cause of the bare spots, they will need to be forked, fertilized and re-seeded. Fall gets its name from what the leaves do, it is not well to rely on their being blown away by the winds of winter. They are more likely to be matted down by rain, bleaching and smothering the grass, and therefore should be raked off with a springy rake which will not pull up the grass plants. Too often one sees these leaves being burned, when they are excellent organic material which can be used to provide a winter mulch for flower beds, or added to the compost i heap. One final, and easy, aid to the lawn this year is what is known as dormant seeding. Any time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, scatter good seed at the rate of two pounds to 1,000 sq. feet and let it lie there to be settled in through i the winter by natural means. This may gain as much as a month in : renovation next spring. . j

16 Million Homes Goal For 1960 s ’ BY W. EVANS BUCHANAN President, National Association ( of Home Builders Model homes on display during National Home Week, Sept. 8-15, will be tangible evidence of the building industry’s progress in producing better homes for American families. This year an estimated 1,430,000 new homes will be built at a cost of more than 23 billion dollars. The total of new homes

needed during the 1960 s will reach about 16 million. One of the prime goals of the National Association of Home Builders is to see that this need is met with quality housing at the

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lowest cost. Under the NAHB research program, new as well as proven materials are tested, and engineers constantly search for new construction techniques that will help builders to produce better houses in less time and at lower costs. Recently, NAHB built a new test house in Rockville, Md., under the FHA’s experimental housing program. This raises to five the number of test houses built by NAHB. Conditions today are favorable for the homebuying public. Not only is there a wide selection of new homes from which they may choose, but mortgage money is readily available at reasonable interest rates. The longer mortgage period and low interest rates mean that the monthly payments made on a new home are about what a family would expect to pay out io rent.

Even Kooks ’ Cook Best In Convenient Kitchen

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Spacious, but step-saving, this all-electric kitchen was designed to streamline homemaking. It’s the kind of kitchen that makes a- - house a livable, workable home.

A kitchen is away of life, says Mrs. Stephanie Lapinig of New York, whose own kitchen is literally her way of life. She’s a graduate home economist who tests new food products, dreams up dreamy recipes for them, and prepares photogenic food for newspapers and T.V. “Your tastes and way of life may be conventional or ‘kooky,’ but your kitchen must be convenient to work in,” she says. “Look first of all at the major work areas-the food storage center, the food preparation center, and the clean-up center. ‘‘These three should form a triangle that measures no more than 22 feet all the way around, and each of the three work centers should have plenty of counter and cabinet space,” she advises. "Next,” says Mrs. Lapinig, ‘‘check the appliances. If they are modern, automatic electric

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appliances, that’s a good sign that your housekeeping chores are going to be lighter. “An electric range with automatic controls-especially if it has two ovens-is going to save time and trouble, and will be easy to clean. And you’ll get consistently good results, even with trick dishes,” she says. An automatic- electric dishwasher is such a time saver that it has become standard equipment in new homes, Mrs. Lapinig points out. Mrs. Lapinig also advises looking for a large-capacity electric refrigerator-freezer, too. “At least 14 cubic feet for the average family,” she suggests. “These days more builders are including combinationrefrigerator-freezers in their development homes because of the growing demand for more storage space for both fresh and frozen food,” she notes.