Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1947 — Page 10

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Paint Radiator

. Heavy Layer of Dust Also Acts as Insulation,

"Prevents Heat From Circulating in Room By HUBBARD COBB

1f your home happens to be heated by radiators, here are a few

acts about these contraptions that you should know.

A radiator finished in a metallic paint such as bronze or aluminum is | sing extra fuel because some of the heat is reflected back into the To get around this, apply a couple of coats of oil paint right.

wetal. ver the metallic paint when the radiator is warm.

With Oil Before Applying Metallic Coating, Use Effective Heat Reflectors and You'll Conserve Fuel This Winter

solid plece of timber in back of the university who takes issue with our plaster to dttach the brackets to. [column on tree surgery printed sevIf you want to put up shelves in eral weeks ago, the basement on a wall of masonry, Our floriculturist makes the eéxuse one of the many kinds of expansion bolts for this job. You have | [to drill a hole first but this is easy {with a concrete drill and a hammer. | To put up a series of shelves, one {one top of the other, atiach wooden | juprights to the masonry or plaster |

Radiators placed against the wall, find one that isn't) use a lot of weir energy heating up a small sec n-of the wall directly in back of|%f en. . This isn't doing the rest of |

the sas) ure to the sill

er Some kind of a reflector ould be placed in back of the

diator =0 that this heat will go of the wood than is necessary,

need some sort of hook and eye or, wall first Wnd then screw the brack-| other device_for holding the bottom|ets to these uprights. This saves |

If you have new sashes they may o s far as heat Ped 8 little planing and sanding| ie house much goad'a here and there before they fit, Take, it easy and don't remove any more

you a lot of time and energy | Sticking Sashes Due To 3 Main Causes

Last week exactly 28 per cent of our mall consisted of questions about

AN AUR ‘cellent point that the layman willl have difficulty in removing all the decay from the cavity|in the tree |

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colder than the air in the basement, fires—27 gf them set yesterday—

| The side of the sash with the sticking windows, This figure is very

He says that unless all the decay Is

* Fires on Poachers

He said that at least 122 separate

When the furnace goes on the sweat-| were burning in the five counties. ing will stop. This sort of trouble] Burnside said the poachers and can be avoided by taking down the tenants were setting the fires in pipes at the end of the heating sea‘ revenge because landowners have son and storing them in a dry place. been reluctant to lease land for |farming after a recent boom in the jeast Texas lumber industry,

ers are showing mofé streamlining than ever before, with fenders taking on the contours of plane wings and in the tear-shaped bodies.

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By NEA.Service 4 DETROIT, Oct. 1. — The youths | —| CONROE, Tex., Oct. 1 (U. P)).—{of America already are several If you have a home re- |Poachers and tenant farmers were years ahead of the nation’s automo- | pair problem, write a let: [blamed today for the series of forest bile designers with their ideas of ter to Mr. Cobb, sare The pres aca Juve devasited tim. what motor cars should be like, Indianapolis Times. If your Xas coun~| Some of their ideas are impracs | question is. of general in- Ses snes their outpreak Sept. 22.|tical. Some probably will be in- | terest, an answer to it will |, Co rade, of fire je corporated in automobiles which | appear in a forthcoming (nat “new fir g A Jere: fast, will go into production within the I The Times Home | aie of NeXt feW Years, . ! column on jer than the old ones can be put| making their tip from wa-bull | Page. a |out. fighter planes, these young desigr

e cases extending behind

Include Air Conditioning One out of three of the boys who

t.Mhto the

room, ohm {putty should face the weather,

| Btorm sashes for standard size windows are stocked at many lumber yards. If you happen to have some odd size windows, they will order special sashes for you.

A poorly designed radiator inclo- Shelf Great Invention, re can reduce the amount of heat Easy to Put Up in Home

oduced by a radiator considerably.| ‘One of the greatest little invenwell designed inclosure will have yione in our opinion, is the common enings at the bottom and at the .),01f No home 1s without one but p. This will allow cold air to en-' ov homes don't have at the bottom, circulate around .,.,.cn of them e radiator and flow out the top ‘and warm, [ Radiators should be kept clean. A avy covering of dust on a radiator] a pretty effective insulation, Un-| rtunately, this is about the one| ace m the house where you don't) nt any insulation,

heck Storm Windows losely Before Hanging

Last week we did a long Involved lumn on why we think storm winws are good things to have, We llow this up with a few words of vice on hanging said windows and me other incidental information. Before you put the storm sash up sure that it is painted on both les and along the edges. Check to

seem

A simple shelf is easy to make All you need is a wide piece of board, some wood screws and a few metal shelf brackets on sale al hardware and five and dime stores, | The main thing to keep in mind is that the shelf must be sturdy and not sag every time dust settles on! it. Use plenty of brackets—they don’t cost much.

Don't try to attach a shelf to a — plaster wall by nailing right into (T°) {the plaster and laths alone. This won't hold worth a nickel. You can find the position of the 2 in. by 4/ lin. studding either by tapping on! {the wall or by locating the nails in| {the baseboard. The baseboard is nailed to the studding so just come| {up perfectly straight from these | sure, that the putty around each nail heads and you'll have a nice! «x “ne of glass is in good condition —

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There are several concerns making |

| metal storm sashes which are eon{venient as the dickens but cost a I little more than the regulation l wooden kinds.

out, it will start to work in spite of the concrete patch | He recommends that if you have any tree surgery to do and are not,| jan M, D., clean out as much of the decay as you possibly can and then, {paint the cavity with asphalt paint.| After you do this, put in a drainage! tube at the bottom of the cavity or cut out the bottom so that the cavity will drain of its own accord.

'and what you can do about ti,

caused by painters getting paint be« dangerous sodium chlorate is the tween the sashes and the stop beads stuff needed for roots (those little strips of wood that hold, Our reply to all this is a meek the sashes in the frame), In most “Yes, sir, and many,thanks for your cases a slight tap around the edge interest.”

of the sash will break this paint seal . { Must Remove Paint

but sometiines you'll have to pry i (gently, friend) the stop bead off Before Applying Stain |

ind sand down thé spots where the paint has accumulated. When a house is adolescent

tends to settle and this movement tions, the answers to which may be lettsville in April.

will throw the window frame out of plumb, The net result of this is that the windows don't move, What vou generally have to da here is remove

future or possibly never,

of interest to you now, in the near dred Reeves

Mr. H. H P. in Columbus, 0, He then goes on to point out nat Wants to know if studding for a parsignificant so here we go on a brief the modern weed killers are madg/tition to be covered with wallboard tour of what makes a window stick of 2, 4-D which is not for xliling [should be placed 18 inches on center. | tree roots, The material used on the He'll have less waste and less cut-| | A great many stuck windows are old fashion weed killers, the more ting of the wallboard if he places 16 or 24

the studding either at inches on center.

Tri-County Group Plans Music Festival

Times State Service GOSPORT, Ind, Oct. 1 nine “member schools of

Mrs. W. J. In Texas wants to know | numbers to be played by the school |

the stop bead, take out the sash and how she should go about staining Organizations. { sand or plane down the edges until her front door after it has acciden- Will ‘direct the massed bands and

it works up and down easily, Don't tally been given one coat of paint. lee clubs in three numbers.

take off a grain of wood more than The paint will have to come off with is necessary. sandpaper, a liquid remover and a Last but not least we find sashes paint scraper. After the paint is that swell up in damp weather be- completely off, the surface will be cause moisture gets into the wood. ready for the stain, A good cure here is to let the sash! P. 8. Don't forget to put several! get good and dry and then paint all coats of spar varnish over that the edges. (stain, | Floriculturist Adds Mes. C. L. H. in Fi. Wayne oom= plains of sweating furnace chimney| Note on Tree Surgery pipes. This is our old friend con-| We'll argue with just about any- densation caused by the pipes being

one except a man with a loaded qun,| 5

a woman without a gun and anyone, | ALUMINUM AWNING

who happens to be a floriculturist. Well, ‘last week we'got a leitor] from a floriculturist at Ohio Stiteé

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Opens Fall Run Times State Service SHERIDAN, Ind, Oct. 1, — The {sorghum mill at Bakers Corner, |four miles east of here, has started | processing 55 acres of sorghum cane. Owned and operated by H W. Pickett, the mill alsocwill process cane on the custom basis for dozens lof Hamilton county farmers who annually raise an acre or two of the crop. ’ Mr. Pickett predicts nearly an average yield this season.

NEW PRINTING DEVICE FOUND

| WASHINGTON. Bimetallic {printing plates found in Germany are said to be good for a million impressions in printing bank notes. They are made of brass with nickelsteel electrically deposited over the non-printing areas.

the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild competition designed rear-engine cars "and provided more interior body room. More glass’ was incorporated "in the designs for better vision, Most of the models called {for air conditioning. Rear engine {models had air intakes along the {forward edges of the’ back fenders. | Maybe it's because the boys

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