Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1947 — Page 12
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Fix It Yourself—
Air in Ash Pit Keeps Furnace Grate Cool; Speed Shoveling of Snow Urged;
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Regular Cleaning of Bathtub Drain‘Suggested; Boiling in Milk Seals Cracked China
Hints Offered on Dismantling Furniture; Asphalt Tile Protected by Water Wax
\ People with hand-fired coal furnaces are usually a pretty happy lot except for a day or so each winter when they look like something that . no self-respecting cat would bring home, even on a bet. This unhappy condition is usually brought on by the furnace grates—whicl may be burned out or by a non- combustible mass in the firepot called in polite
nish is not so good for linoleum years figuring out how to break.
between wax or lacquer, sealed tighter than Fort Knox by We had someone write and ask boiling said article in milk for about if stone was suitable for the foun &n. hour. You should use enough
dations of a house, It's suitable but|milk to cover the article and con-
would probably be cheaper in the Might save money by just buying a new piece of china.
circles a “clinker,”
If you've ever spent much time down there with the grates of ty
[burning the garbage and other refuse in the fire pot
furnace you know things get pretty. ? of Snow
Way. The oly Wing ust seems! Requires Lite Skill
- One fine morning you are going to wake up to find the countryside covered with a beautiful white blanket. This Is called snow and {it has to be cleared off walks and driveways because if it isn’t your neighbors will say you're a lazy hum
[te skill but much effort, You can| (reduce the effort by coating the shovel with paraffin, This keeps the world is relative) is the air in the|snow from sticking. If you have a! ash pit, metal shovel the paraffn can be Let the ash pit fill up with ashes | rubbed on, but if th# shovel 1s wood, | and there won't be any alr and melt the paraffin and brush it cn, | there go the grates up in smoke. A| Unlike your catly neighbors, we thin bed of ashes between the don't care when you tlean the suow.| grates and the burning coal will|Off your walks but you'll save a lot] alsa help keep them cool as cucum-| a bers
the grates cool (everything In this
A clinker is simply a group of! ashes which get so hot they stick together. It can be caused by forcing the fire too much or by poking the fire so that the ashes and the! burning coal all get mixed up together, Covering the fire with a layer of ashes at night is another
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good way to raise a crop of clink- ree ers. And it this doesn’t wark, UY of work by doing it right after the snr {snow falls and before it gets packed Let Us Be Your Counsellors tn AD} down. Insurance Coverages 8 K [1 I | antl peaking o ce, which up n | CARL W, KING k SON, Ine. now has not been mentioned, we GENERAL INSURANCE have it from usually reliable sources 230 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE {that concrete and masonry steps| INDIANAPOLIS et pretty slippery when coated with! Ofos R1-1060 Night (R-078 jae! preity slip; ice = HOME A way to keep your neck in one|
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you should use is a water wax. This| the piping connected into thé trap. World War Memor ial building for | will protect the tile and also make { Alter you get the trap pretty well election of officers. recall | | cleaned out replace the lid. Better
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to do this when the; A | | trap lid is off, Boil China: in Milk (TT LT: To Seal Up Cracks The best place to learn about ALUMINUM epairing china is a china store just DOOR the bull has-“walked out. As! WAY CANOPIES
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cement thit give good results but the repaired article should not be treated roughly or washed in hot water. The edges of the pleces to be |fitted should be cleaned and given je coat of cement.
{long run to have the foundations, ade of poured concrete, | When andirons finally give way {in the middle. you can get them ot Slats. Betviee bck into working order hy cutting | GREENCASTLE Dec. 3—Putnam through at the bend and slipping| County's 22d annual corn show will on a length of pipe that will act as|be held in the court house here a sleeve and hold the two halves Dec. 11-13, Walter J. Harpel, oT. together, | Montgomery County, newly crowned Light bulbs can be colored by corn king of the International |dipping them in lacquer and then Livestock Show at Chicago, willl {hanging them up by the metal por- | judge the local exhibits. The show| ition until the lacquer is hard iis sponsored each year by the Firs Citizens
Use of Wire Held Best |Citiaens Bank : Tost Co To Clean Bathtub Drain
Last year, or maybe It was shel® year before, 2,804702 hours and 15 minutes were lost ‘because of the! time it takes water to run out of {some bathtubs, This figure sold]
| Harpel to Judge Putnam Corn Show
As an added feature this year, a garden storage exhibit will be held| in connection with the corn show,
Howe Students |
be reduced a full 15 minutes |r. R. C. Julian, veterinary repre-|is filled with putty or even a wood | \moved to Montoe County. everyone cleaned out the a |sentative on the State Board of plug. drain, nounce a |Health: Dr. R. F, Smith, State Vet- pg you can’t find nails or screws The best spot to clean a drain is |erinarian, and his assistant, at the trap. Don't try to squeeze! Students at Howe High School | \M. Friedley; Dr. W. D, Daugherty glue and this calls for water or!
under the bathtub to find the trap, |are completing plans for the Class 'and Dr. J. L. Kixmiller of the Pit-
however,
because (a) it won't be | {of "48 Winter Party, to be held Dec. there, (bh)
you won't fit. The trap|12 in the gymnasium. The commit-| used for bathtubs and showers is|tees selected will be assisted by usually located somewhere near the (Mrs. Ellen Mead, commerce infixture with the {flush with the floor. head of the social studies depart-| This trap is called a drum trap|ment. because it is shaped like a cylin-| Committees named Inelude
der. (Reasonable) The top of the|gmised uy Lioan Carter: Harman Hees:
trap can be unscrewed with either Wick, Rover Bork, Jan Payne, Betty Me Mc- {scholarship committee of the New HITE ¢ and, an illlam Dismore t y Jcommiitee chairman is Joyce Dehnboster | Bethel Baptist Churth will present | STEEL ounY pi assisted by Pat Sharp, John Bruckial, a schol f A : nese? | Te Worry ha ™aID. John Bruckman is. & holarship fund program at 7:30! Expert —— | éhariman is Ed Cassady, aided by iid {p. m. Friday in the school auditor- | = bi : Designin fcAree, Priscilla Groves, Darlynn De fum. =a 8 | Lang and Robert Beach, | of Other committees inciute Javors, th Entertainment will be provided
John Hartman as chairman, Mary J lor, Gladys Perguson, Carl AA Ty Katherine Nitchman, Refreshments, note, {Arnholter, chairman, James Stutz, Norma ers, Donald Raftery, Helen Aldrich an Tim Gallagher Publicity: Phyllis | Leffler, chairman, and Anne Schutt. Post fers: Janice Kilbourne. chair rman, Phyllis [MEKee, William Mitchell and Elvis Flem-
| PE lembers of the decorations om jtice include Erlene Snyder, chairman; Jam and (8mith, Ruth Smith, Roy Dobbs, in la Bennett, Phethut
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Use a plece of wire to probe in meet at 1:30 p. m. Friday in the
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Naturally you
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| There are many brands. of china |
{think of can be used to keep preseither, For this you have a choice] Small cracks in china can be|sure on the joint until the cement
is hard.
tape or string, Chita repaired this way can be washed and will take quife a beating. (We weren't kid-
A swell cement for china is white ding about the year business.)
Two to Address Veterinary Group
Dr. J. 1.
|Indlana State Board of Health, wil
¢| appear oh the program of the Hlst annual meeting of the U. 8. Live-| stock Sanitary Association in Chi]
cago today through Friday.
Dr. Axby will conduct 2 memoria service at the opening meeting. Dr. (Fagan will speak on
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Also attending the meeting are: pelow the wood surface and the hole! Ernest Murphy, 40, who recently
man-Moore Co, and Dr. Frank H. Brown of National Corp.
Scholarship Program
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Timely Hints Outlined On Repairing Furniture
Do you happen to have an attic {full of furniture that cost too much {to burn, but is too horrible to look |at? Well, could be that after you {have removed the old finish, hacked {off the scrools, curled de-dads and (glorified whatnots, youll have a |pretty nice looking piece of furni-
| After this they are pressed to-|lead paste. You apply a thin coat| (ture, {gether and must be held tight until to each surface, stick them together the cement is hard. String, rubber and hold them this way for a year
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stay together it's either because of, {glue, screws, nails or dowels. {the cause, and put down that hatchet, ll Get rid of the finish first with
{sandpaper and a scraper. This
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Most -of the screw heads will be concealed. The head is set
Dr. 8. then the joint is probably held with] A Christmas bazaar and turkey
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Laboratories removed as a unit can be eliminated | Street Presbyterian Church.
with a plane, chisel and sandpaper.
After all the structural changes/P. A, Haltom and Mrs. Ira Thomptop of the trap|structor, and Russell W. Curtis, IP- TA and Church. Yo Give have been made, stain and finish
the piece to match the rest of your {furniture,
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mantling furniture is that the Wood istration, there are about 160) 0 band ot 80: doesn’t stick together because of|veterans who have not reins ands or any 0 her device you can’ jor “7As you may § get tired, use| 2 two pieces of the policies. they’ allowed to: lapse)
Find |roe County when two handcars col-
If it still looks horrible, the Color | The Parent-Teachers Association iput-it-back in the attic. ’| of John. Hope School 26, and the
LPYCAS, 1947 MILK RICE HIKED
BLoOMINGION. Bee's — ak rices in Bloomington reached an
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“The Veterans Administration to-| day warned veterans that midnight, Dec. 31, is the deadine for reinstating their insurance at the same pre{mum rate paid when in service, without taking a physical examina-| tion.
|. The only requirement is a signed, statement saying the veteran is in| as good health as when the policy| lapsed. Two premium payments must accompany the statement and| application for reinstatement, One payment is for the month in which the policy lapsed, and the other is for the month of reinstate- | ment, According to the Veterans Admin-
|since their discharge from service. | The administration urged veterans, {to get in touch with the nearest ad-| {ministration office if they wish re-! !instatement.
Handcar Crash Kills Gosport Rail Worker
ING State Bervien | BLOOMIN Dec. 3—George | | Neibel, 40, Na Gosport, who was in-| | jured Monday in northwestern Mon-!
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