Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1963 — Page 2

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Give Sparkle to Autumn Salads These glistening individual Party Pear Salads with their colorful pink dressing are sure to make your Autumn meals more festive and flavorful. Fresh Bartlett pears used here arc now in season. Mountain grown and harvested at the peak of their maturity, Pacific Bartletts are individually wrapped and carefully packed to reach your local market in superior condition. Their beautiful size and luscious juiciness make them a delicacy for out-of-hand eating and lunchboxes. • For a change of pace at the end of a busy summer, feature fresh Bartlett pears frequently, as in this recipe for Party Pear Salads. Party Pear Salads 4 fresh Bartlett Pears ■4 pineapple rings 3 ounces cream cheese 2 tablespoons chopped maraschino cherrie* 2 tablespoons chopped nuts Pineapple juice Crisp greens > Party Pink Dressing Peel halve and core fresh pears leaving stems on. Drain pineapple, Cream softened cream cheese with cherries and nuts, adding just enough pineapple juice to make good spreading consistency. Fill center and spread cut side of pear half to edges with-cream cheese filling. Top with second pear half and arrange over pineapple ring on crisp greens on individual salad plate. Top with Party Pink Dressing. Make# 4 servings. Party Pink Dressing 8 eee®. ... % cup pineapple juice •4 cup sugar * teaspoon salt z tablespoons melted butter 14 cup lemon juice Maraschino cherry juice r Combine eggs, pineapple juice, sugar, salt and melted butter fa top of double boiler, beating until blended. Slowly beat in lemon juice. Stir and cook over boiling water until thick. Chill. Thin and tint with maraschino cherry juice before serving.

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shell of fine sand bonded with a new plastic to shape interior of the pump. Gray Iron Founders’ Society engineers point out that producing high-grade cast iron pump bowls by shell core method provides ul-tra-smooth finishes in the interior sections or waterways. Self-prim-ing pumps for a variety of home, farm, and industrial uses also utilize cast iron for their body, volute, and impeller and for the casting of the gas engine or electric motor ’flowering the pump. ’

Divider Wall Will Provide Privacy in Children’s Room*

When two children occupy one room, each is entitled to privacy for work, study and play. This situation can be created in a sizable bedroom by installing a functional divider wall large, enough to provide each child a separate study-hobby space. Inexpensive and quite easy to install, the divider's structural members are 2x4-inch lumber spaced 16 inches apart and nailed to floor and ceiling runners of the same dimension material. To each side, the craftsman then can nail some attractive, factoryfinished panels of Masonite Presto Peg-Board. Their all-over pattern and tic-tac-toe design of perforations make a good looking backdrop and suitable place for hanging shelves, clock and hobby items. On each side can be hung a working surface made by covering a rectangular frameworok of Ix - inch lumber with Masonite Tempered Presdwood. Cross members should be 16” apart. • With the wood parts primed and painted and the surface shellacked or varnished, the deck provides an excellent surface for study or hobby. It must, of course, be anchored to the studs forming the backSiding Gives Indoor Room Accent Wall Do you want durability in a boy’s room? Good looks and masculine appearance, too? You’ll have it by putting ii exterior siding on one or two walls. This suggestion comes from the Masonite Home Service bureau, which advocates the use of either vertical or horizonal siding for a "different 1 ” and durable wall. Such a room improvement may be included in a new house, in which the siding would go right over the wall studs, or in an older home. There is is nailed to furring strips. Exterior Siding Indoors A teen-age boy’s room on the Second floor was completed effectively with walls of Masonite Sunline siding. This sturdy paneling has built-in, Integral battens, which create a desirable Vertical line at eight-inch intervals. To test the siding before deciding on it at the lumber yard, the youngster's dad borrowed a hammer and pounded it vigorously. The grainless hardboard took the beating without scats Naturally, Dad didn’t expect his son to be that rough, but as a "teener” himself once he figured that the walls should be able to take some rough and tumble. Used by Decorators Other hardboard sidings made by Masonite Corporation are used by decorators, too, for special effects. For example, in a "Gay Paree” recreation room, one of the Walls is horizontal siding. This represents an appearance in keeeping with a Parisian street scene. An imaginative family can dream up various wall treatments to give their home distinction. Because of its durability, low cost, easy paintability and simple maintenance, hardboard naturally is a choice of many. - Factory-finished, wood-grained panels are becoming increasingly popular. > During the past 30 years, Masonite Corporation has produced enough hardboard to build a walk four feet wide to the moon and back, plus waiting rooms, restaurants, and auditoriums at each end.

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bone of the divider and fitted with wood supports angling into the divider at the floor. Drawers made of lumber and hardboard can be mounted underneath. Fluorescent lighting above will illuminate the area adequateJy. ....... j... For a free plan detailing a more elaborate two-in-a-room plan, including closets, send a postal card to the Home Service Bureau, 29 North Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, 111., requesting No. AE-265. Five - Sided Playhouse Easily Built The kiddies will love their own pentagon. Pentagon for them means a five-sided playhouse that Dad.can string together with plastic cord in an evening. From the lumber yard, he can get five pieces of Masonite Tempered Presdwood. Depending on the number of youngsters who'll be using this pentagon, the panels can be 4x4s or 4x6s. For easy lacing, good ventilation and many peekholes, Dad many want to buy Peg-Board. He’ll use a strong plastic cord to lace the ends of the panels, being sure the joints will be like piano hinges —.allowing folding of the panels against each other in either direction. Between panel 1 and panel 5 there will be no lacing, as this is the door to the kiddies’ pentagon. Due to its flexibility, this summer playhouse may take various shapes. It may zig-zag to become a barricate, fortress, or fence. If it's Peg-Board and Dad can keep the kiddies away, he can use it as a shaded siesta spot, with magazines and refreshments hung from brackets in the perforations. The panels should be primed and painted in bright colors. They’ll be an attractive, useful addition to any backyard. If the youngsters are tiny, the pentagon can be anchored into a fixed position by means of wooden stakes to avoid its being knocked over.

Make The Most of a Patio To Gain an * . - IoOutdoor Room Dollar for dolllar, a patio is a sound investment in summertime living enjoyment for the whole family. It costs little to build and pays dividends in the form of an added “outdoor” room. rTo begin with, consider the patio as part of the over-all lay? out of the house and afford it the same attention as you would a the room, say designers of Lib-by-Owens-Ford Glass Company. It should appear as a planned part of the home and not as a thoughtless extra. When possible, build the patio on the south or southeast part of the house to get the most breeze in summer. Shield it from neighboring property with trees, shrubs, privacy fence or wings of the house itself and take advantage of the colorful plantings from! both indoors and out by joining | the house to the'’patio with floor-to-ceiling Thermopane insulating glass. Since a patio is primarily intended to increase living enjoyment, keep its "efficiency rating” high to avoid making it an area which requires constant maintenance. For example, flagstone paving will reduce the need for extensive grass clipping; raised! plant beds make flower gardens easy to reach; evergreens will look; well all year with littlg attention,! and potted plants in color contain-! ers can be rarranged at will to[ provide custom-made patio land-! scaping. Hardboard Kelps Ease Home Work In Many Ways Outdoor,work can be made easier through the use of quarterinch tempered hardboard. The' Masonite Home Service Bureau of- [ fers these suggestions: To keep down weeds in a garden, cover the space between rows of plants, Mark rows of flowers or 1 vegetables with paddle-shgped stakes, gluing on the seed pack-1 age or painting on the name, of the variety. A square of the smooth-sur-faced hardboard is ideal for mixing concrete used for patching a walk or driveway. The residue can be washed off clean apd-tbf board reused for this purpose or! others. ■* * * For installing concrete walks or I stepping stones, this versatile ma-! terial can be nailed to wooden, stakes to create forms.

OBTTINQ TH« MOST... FROM YOUR GARDEN by Dr. W. A. Liddell sR 1$ FOR AILING LAWNS

Plants and animals have miseries in common.- Both suffer from diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and roundworms. Grass, being a plant, is no exception, and even in the best kept lawns, various of these diseases can cause serious damage, making it necessary to replant large areas.

Stiow mold Among the most common lawn i grass diseases are snow mold, mt It- I ing out, dollar spot, and brown i patch. The first two occur in the winter and early spring; dollar I spot and brown patch come during i the late spring and summer. They i are caused by fungus organisms which attack the plants, causing gradual defoliation until large areas of turf are affected. Snow mold shows its symptoms with the first spring thaws, appearing as sharply outlined straw colored areas. These may range from 2 inches to 20 feet in diameter, turning either dull gray or pinkish in wet weather, depending on the particular fungus causing the condition. Snow molds attack all the cultivated lawn grasses and are favored by warm conditions under a layer of snow and by mild winter weather combined with high rainfall or heavy fogs. Melting-out, which is also known as leaf spot, begins in the cool wet weather of spring, appearing first as water-soaked areas on the leafsheath narts of grass plants. These areas become purplish red and then turn brown in the summer. When the leaves become completely girdled, they drop from the plant, and in heavy infestations, entire areas of the lawn apoear to “melt" away. The Common strain of Kentucky bluegrass is susceptible, though the Merion- strain is quite resistant. Dr. Houston B. Couch, turf specialist at Penn State, estimates that almost every established strand of Common Kentucky bluegrass in the Northeast and Midwest is to some degree infected with leaf spot, or melting out. Dollar Spot occurs usually from mid-July to late August and affects all the popular turf • grasses, though bentgrass and bluegrass are the most prone to injury. Infected leaves show small green blotches, which fade to straw-colored tah as they enlarge. The margins of

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Fences Add To Effective Landscaping Fences are meant to beautify as well as protect, to add to landscaping’s effectiveness as well as define boundries. They can be located anywhere to provide privacy and contribute to appearance. Properly planned and constructed, they can achieve these goals economically and with a minimum of maintenance. Fence styles are almost ap numerous as the reasons for erecting them. For instance, there’s the woven horizontal attern, made 1 by weaving long strips of MasonI ite hardboard from three to 12 inches wide between posts spaced three to four feet apart. Or, a vertical weave can be achieved by nailing hardboard strips alternately to each side of 2-by-4 rails- and around a one-inch center dowel. Use of Peg-Board panels fastened alternately to either side of rails gives a hanging garden effect when potted plants are hung in fixtures inserted into the perforations of the hard board. Such* a fence also is ideal for supporting a grape arbor. A score of ideas on fences are shown in a booklet which can be obtained free by writing to the i Home Service Bureau, 29, North Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, 111. When modernizing a room, finish the job with matching moldings. Both metal and wood moldings are available for these projects according to the Masonite Home Service Bureau. Six Woodgrains In Marlite Line Handsome woodgrain walls can be installed quickly and without muss in a basement recreation room with high-fidelity Marlite planks. The plastic-finished hardboard planks do not require any finishing, and their backed plactic finish is washable to reduce maintenance to the minimum. The 16” x 8' planks are tongue and grooved to simplify installation. Detailed installation instructions are inciluded in each package. Plastic-finished hardboard planks are available in Swedish and Italian Cherry, Swiss and American Walnut, English I Oak and Norweigian Maple. |

Melting out (leafspot) these spots are usually reddish brown. Affected areas on the leaves extend to about half an inch. From a distance the disease as first makes the grass look as though it had been cut with a dull mower. Soon straw colored areas 2-6 inches in diameter develop. If not. treated with a fungicide they may spread quickly to 10-15 ft. in diameter. Brown patch, another warn! weather disease, is particularly severe in summer humidity. Infections first show as water-soaked blotches on the leaves, enlarging rapidly, fading to light brown and Withering the entire leaf. From a distance affected lawn areas appear as irregular patches of blighted grass, ranging from one to ten feet in diameter. Disease control is an essential i part of every good lawn management program. The time and moni ey you invest in fertilizing, water- : ing, and caring for your lawn can : be quickly and cdmpletely lost in an outbreak of one of these dit seases. i Proper use of fertilizer and water helps to- prevent diseases, but in severe outbreaks, even these f measures will not prevent infesta- , tion. When the symptoms appear,i it’s time for. immediate action, to keep the disease from spreading to 1 other parts of your lawn. Chemical manufacturers have de- . veloped several materials that control one or more of these fungus t diseases, including captan, dyrene. f semesan, thiram, zineb, and various i mercury compounds. Some of these > are specific for a particular disease, I others like dyrene give good to excellent control for a fairly broad t range of fungus diseases. Most of - these chemicals are available as , packaged products under various • trade names and brandmarks at gar--1 den centers. Some are available in ;, dry, granular formulations, which n can be applied quickly and easily if with a standard lawn spreader.

o 0 4 Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee 0 0 ■*" Car Radiator Your car radiator should be flushed at least twice a year — when removing antifreeze in the springy and when adding antifreeze in the fall. Drain out the old water close the cock, and refill. Add cleaning compound, and run the engine for 15 to 30 minutes, and drain. Leave the cock open and run water from a hose into the fill pipe until the water coming out of the cock is clean. Close the cock, and refill the radiator. Prevent Spot Rings The formation of spot rings on the cloth when removing stains 1 from garments can be avoided by ! placing a felt-covered furniture j floor cup under the spot before applying cleaning fluid. In addition, I the brush-like fibers of the felt also keep the material from slipping while the spot is rubbed. Frying Bacon Your frying time on bacon can be cut down, and more bacon cooked at the same time, if you crisscross the slices and turn them all at once with a pancake turner. Stewed Fruit V When stewed fruit begins to sour, try adding a pinch of baking soda, then boll the fruit over again for a few minutes.' New Light Chairs Among the newest products in furniture are ornamental French Colonial chairs made of ductile iron instead of metals traditionally considered lighter. New foundry techniques and continuing improvements in ductile iron metallurgy have made possible thin iron sections as light as other metals — and with cast iron’s durability, strength, and superior dec orative details resulting from its fluidity in casting. Marble Patterns For Powder Room Give your powder room or second bathroom a glamourous touch by paneling the wallls with plas-tic-finished hardboard is a distinctive marble pattern. Washable Marlite paneling comes in five attractive marble patterns. This paneling resists stains and rrfars: cleans with a damp cloth. Matching moldings also are available.

Fireplace Adds to Livability Os Modern Glass-Walled Homes

If you want to recapture some Os the nostalgia of “the good days,” try reviving the traditional family pastime of . gathering around a roaring fireplace. It’s an idea that homemakers are finding both practical and enjoyable. Although fireplaces have yielded much of their former prominence to modern appliances, they are still unique in the touch of comfort and mellow livability they add to a room, comments Otto F Wenzler, architectural consoultant of Libbey-Owen-Ford Glass Company. STYLEWISE, the simple, clean lines of modern fireplaces add appeal to any room, the architect commented. The materials from' which they are now commonly made include varieties of brick as well as natural and pre-cast stone, offering homeowners a choice of design and color to blend or contrast with the over-all decor of the room. Many prefabricated models, which are perfect for remodeling on a limited budget, are also available. Some are complete units which need only to be connected to a chimney. Commenting on the growing popularity of fireplaces, Mrs. Wenzler pointed out that families today are generally inclined to informality in everyday life and entertaining, and it follows that more-and-more time is being spent relaxing outdoors and preparine meals regularly on the grill. It is natural, he said, that everyone is reluctant to sacrifice this freedom when the weather compels to move indoors. “IN MODERN HOMES where Thermopane insulating glass walls have practically made rooms part of their surroundings, however, the feeling of patio living has moved ‘indoors with the season. A fireplace in the living or family room enables homemakers to maintain much of the summertime atmosphere all year, even to the point of barbecue cooking.” Mr. WenZler added. With the fireplace often forming a dividing wall between the family room and kitchen, the trend is to designing them with the hearth opening on both sides. This way, the pleasing effects can be enjoyed from two rooms at the same time with a cost saving brought about by using one common chimney. HOMEOWNERS can also capiGardeners: Make Hinged Bench Since the garage often is a< gardening center, a swing-doWn work bench is a boon. A discarded door will serve, providing you. cover it with durable Masonite Vi” Tempered Presdwood. Bevel the edges with a file. Fasten the workbench to studs with hinges and add lumber braces. For additional ideas on garage improvement, send a postal card to the Home Service Bueau, 29 North Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, 111., for free plan AE-312.

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talize on the tendency to place the hearth above the floor so everyone has a good view of the blazing logs. Mr. Wenzler suggests that a raised hearth be expanded into a built-in bench that extends the full width of the fireplace wall. This serves as a perfect place to set fireplace accessories and can double as extra seating space when needed.

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