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Automatic Hedt Regulators Will Save Many Trips fo the Basement

Let Experts Do the Job; It Won't Be Long Before Reduced Fuel Bills Pay for Work

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man Everything is becoming automatic these day:

This leaves us all

{line and this is adjusted to keep wedge between the joist and the|chalking, in case you are interest-, the water in the tank at a tem- meandering board. This wedge keeps | ed, i§ caused by the oils in the paint

perature between 70 and 90 degrees. /the board from moving hence, no! which are absorbed or otherwise Hoosier life has drawn national

To keep cold water from getting noise,

into the hot

water ‘system he has

The other way is to take a strip! find out if paint is chalking by rub- 8 issue.

| dissipated as time goes on. You can

with a lot’ of time.in which to become really bored with life, but that js stalled a check valve in’ the hot of wood and presf it against the! bing your finger over it, If your

peither here nor there, The point we are anxious to make is that there are numerous type

of automatic heat regulators made for every kind of heating system and anyone

by having them installed you will save yourself, your ite, or r small child numerous trips tothe basement to °

water line, » Mr. M. C handy up a system like this,

see how things are getting along. Not-only does a thermostat save vou time and trouble, but it saves money as well, It is pretty well established that any kind of heating plant does better if kept at an even’ temperature, rather than being wide open, until the house feels like

If you have a home repair problem, write a letter to Mr. Cobb, care The Indianapolis Times. If your question is of general interest, an answer to it will appear in a forthcoming column on The

the job yourself

collple of parts that will cost some-

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# Turkish bath, and then shut down Times Home Page. Unless vou happen to be a pretty talented character, we don't recoms- move the door over so it can be mend that you install a heat regu- jatched. The crack is now on the

ide sos plive matter on how he beats eral ways to do this job. You can the

put thin pieces of wood or cardboard under the hinge And this will}

sweat {different Our feenious

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root of tht trouble and connects a the wood as well, as give you a bad el line from his hot water svitent Lime Alkali removers will some- When ‘people -get old they. are): LOANS into the inlet pipe to the fank He U/MeS raise the wood grain so it will liable to do most anything— —gen-| {has a has a globe valve on the ¢old water require additional sanding. Liquid erally -to the profound disappoint- | ! AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK |—— - Teaver Just take off the paint or pient of “their heirs. When paint] varnish

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{sub-floor as you nail it securely to! finger changes color, then the paint|by Ross Lockridge Jr. the nearest joist, The loosé sub-floor| board now rests on this wood cleat |

(and shouldn't move,

Leaky Chimneys Cause Lot of Grief

Is to carry smoke and gas out of a house into the wide open spaces. |

Unfortunately, some chimneys get

| It seems generally agreed that {the primary purpose of a chimney

side tracked and the next thing you jg chalking.

know they are bringing water from the outside into the house. In any | well appointed home this condition is 10 be avoided.

lator device yourself. 1f they are other side any hiwiny oak becuse a not put in right, they won't be Another angle is to remove. the : worth a nickle. Let an expert do striking plate from the jamb, tack 'he expense of the hot water that then in its own sweet time works : {a strip of wood to said jamb and W!l ve consumed over a period of | 3 n then replace the striking plate, The time : [ « | Strip of wood. should be about the, On the other hand, there are a - same width .ag the™vrack.. If this lot of people ‘who won't mind | w | can’t be done, you can’ take the spending a little ‘money to kéep {door down, nall the strip! of wood water from dripping. off flush tanks to the hinge jamb and put the onto good’ bathroom floors, door back on Most hinges on interior doors How to Clean havg a pin that can be removed Hot Water Heaters thus disconnecting the two hinge . i i plates, Remove the bottom hinge You'll ‘find some sediment 0 a the job for you and it won't be . most all water and it has a habit of down through the mortar joints! long before the reduced fuel bills) collecting in the coils of the hot wa- and eventually comes out over the have paid for the whole works, ter heater. *This can provide - you/mantle or some other inconvenient | After #that, the money you save is with dirty hot water so it's a good spot, gravy. | idea to disconnect the hot water The way to prevent this sort of v * heater now and then and give the trouble is to cap ‘the top of the Fix Narrow Doors cols a good flushing out. While .conry with rite rounded | In Several Ways you're 8 the ii those o)ightly at the top so that the] The nice thing about living in a ” Off. CORLING YOu money, 80 WIP water ,will drain. off and net just cave is that there isn't much that Bp aking of paint removers (who it there. You'll ante Yule a ERE RN WHOA EXPE PErINPR IN emi PBR RR compres masa the SRS AR He coming to live with you. Houses liquid remover superior to either lve tide of the fide on the other hand. are -different. PIn-1rst, then the-top, When the or 4 strong alkali, Lye Is hasty stufl ANgICe x : Take, for example, an interior time comes to pitt the door back y ’ Clean any loose masonry and dirt door that all of a sudden gets too| #ttach the top hinge first 1 } (off the top of, the ame, wet yr " . . { sro things down and then bui up SUEOY, Soy ihe Swe Stans. Here Ohioan Has Solution . about three inches of concrete One being to adjust the door so it TO Sweaty Flush Tanks made with one part cement and oan be. latched ‘and the other. to We ft gor] . two parts sand. Round off the. top cover the large crack between the yy.» "vv wl = SHE Irom ™s hax: =| ad Keep the Teeth any and door and the jamb. has furnished us with 1 . =| . Lovered for Severs . BYs. 8 ueh Like skinning a cat there are sev- 1 plans and (CD) not to let any concrete fall down

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. 18 *to drive a thin wood! with, it"will chalk and this is good

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Sometimes paint will begin to chalk very early in the game. This may be due to the fact that only two coats were applied instead of three. The oils in the two coats have been quickly absorbed and this leavés only the pigment. The cure is to slap on another coat. Bad paint will crack and should not be painted over. You have to, remove it, and this will teach you never to use poor quality paint.

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CLEVELAND, Sept. 10 (U. PJ. “Raintree County" ~Ray H. Brannaman, new comformerly of | mander-in-chief of the Veterans Bloomington. Under the title, “The! of Foreign Wars; today pledged the

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Lucille He also promised that the v. . .W. program of pensions for| world war I veterans would be pushed at the next session of con- | {the footrace title from Raintree| gress. |county’s champion -in the lusty, Both Mr. Brannaman, a 55- | | gusty days of pre-Civil war Indiana, year-old . rancher from. Denver, “Raintree County,” a first novel, | | Colo, and Lyall T. Beggs of Mad! will be published late this fall by | ison, Wis., Houghton, Mifflin,

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Veterans Rush to Cash Bonds Slowing Down

Julian Freeman Named

Julian Freeman will represent, the | The rush by veterans to exchange Indianapolis Jewish Community as-| their terminal leave bonds for cash sociation on the program commit- has subsided. | {ee of the ninth annual convention| According to reports from federal

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