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around more in winter than in su hazards you should do something

you are absolutely sure that the furnace, stove pipe and chimney | are all in perfect condition. If there is the slightest doubt in your mind, call in an expert | and let him check things over, It may cost you something, but i's cheap at twice that price. Don’t store hot ashes (even warm ones, for that matter) in cardboard or wood boxes. Keep your ashes in a metal container and don’t let them accumulate in the basement, ! Speaking of accumulating, don’t use your cellar as a storeroom for old magazines and newspapers. The heating value of a néwspaper is about nil but newspapers can help a basement fire get off to a nice start. | There are still a lot of people who don't believe in fire screens

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ER “that tive’ sereendoesn's really have to fit tight. Maybe a spark has never F escaped to go td

kerosene or paint in your home, Keep them outside so that in case you do have a small fire, it won't grow big on this select diet,

How to Treat Frozen Locks—and Rats

Here are a few odd facts we dug up while fixing up a nice place to. hibernate for the winter. We'd have probably found a lot more if we hadn't run into al

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FIX IT YOURSELF— Don't Put Heating Plant Into Winter Use Until You're Sure It’s Safe

|pocket forms where. water can| [install a vapor barrier of paper lin back of the interior walls.

Fire Hazard Is Greatest in Cold Months; Expert Inspection May Prevent Losses By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man

Fire, like uninvited guests, stray cats and bill collectors, can arrive at your home at any time of the year but it seems to get

mmer. With this fact planted in

our minds, we proceed to point out a few of the more common fire

about,

Don't even think about starting up your heating plant unless

brown bear who had got there

first, When a door lock néeds oil,

give it a shot of powdered graph-|

ite. If you don't have any graphite, grind up the lead of a soft lead pencil, Works fine on

hinges too and isn’t as messy as oil.

An item called red squill is|

poisonous to rats but not ‘to hu-! mans and domestic animals. And]

speaking of rats, someone has just developed a special type of

plywood that rats won't gnaw |

through on a bet. You can clean mica with a

cloth soaked in vinegar. Be sure also not .a good idea to drain the

side your house are fixed to get] ™ {through the next, . For example, newly planted trees. probably don’t have their roots deep enough in the ground

as yet to save them from going {over in a high wind. | Run some wires from the tree ito the ground just to provide a [little support. The wires should be insulated from the tree with rags or sections of rubber hose 80 that there won't be any chance of damaging the tree bark. Most shrubs can get through a cold spell without doing much {more than shivering, but a few |types can't take extremé cold for long. If you live in a chilly climate, you might check with {your local nursery and see what they suggest you do, if anything, for the shrubs they sold you, Fish and garden pools will give you a problem if you live in a below freezing climate. It’s not a good idea to let the {water inside the pool freeze as this might crack the pool. It's

to clean both sides—not just the'pool as frost between the earth

fragt. tside padlocks often don’t up. |work worth a nickel ‘because inside to Hn thing you can do is cover the patti apr eteclng auinter Ae AOD, {motsture.. will . freaze and. you, Andes get the same result. A little strip side” Aone

moistire has worked

of “rubber tacked over the pad-|

» (lock. will keep its insides dry. aA Pei ti

on car door locks, too.

Shield Trees, Shrubs

Herp a lighted mate h or -_ to it. The heat will travel down the

key and melt the ice. Works fine Finished at Home Buying furniture these days is that

and the pool might crack things

This puts you in sort of a spot,

freeze, |

few wy: logs.

Furniture. Can Be

complicated by the fact

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And Pools From Frost

In case you have been sitting around ° wondering . what

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should do, with your free time,|a bet. we suggest that you take a few| One way to get around this is minutes ofr to see how things out- 'to buy unfinished furniture of the

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right design and | apply t the finish yourself, Then, if you don’t like! the plece you have only yourself! to blame. If you want to cover the woo! grain then a good enamel is about your best bet. Enamel is easy flow out so that when it is dry there won't. {be any brush marks. Lacquer can be used too, {lacquer dries in nothing flat |80 it’s hard to apply over a large {surface unless you have a spray | gun. If you don't have a gun and want a lacquer get one made for application with brush. When it comes to a natural

but

Snot covered you have: a wide depending on the kind of insula- due University will

choice. You can use either wax, varnish or shellac.

If you want to change the color moisture and so even if moisture Institute of f Electrical Engineers.

of the wood a little and bring out the grain, you use a stain before the varnish or shellac goes

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Another trick 18 to toss in a too much as you might end up| The "logs will with i wood a little too dark. |

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ai i y But no matter what sort of finish you use, be sure that the iwood has been sanded smooth and that small holes and defects in the wood have been filled with plastic wood before you apply the finish.

Tilt Radiator To Stop Pounding

The most important period in {your life are those few minutes between the time the alarm goes off and you finally get up the courage to get out of bed. | If these precious minutes or {hours are marred by something

like a pounding steam radiator | your entire day may be ruined. | A steam radiator or steam pipe, will pound because somewhere in the line water has become trapped

land is getting in. the way of the oncoming steam. Steamfifters

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finish where* the wood grain is Vapor Can Damage ‘House Insulation

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get around this problem by pitching the pipes so that they all run down toward

If the radiator pounds then the!

{thing to do is to place some small is to give the plaster walls a coublocks of wood under the legs. [ple of coats of aluminum paint, | This will Jift the radiator enough This will act as a vapor barrier ito change the pitch of the pipe! land you can apply your wall paint and allow the water to get out of right over it, he radiator and get back to the|

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After this you just have to!

hoist the pipe back into position: State to Publish Data . On Lakes and Fish

and secure it there with some brackets, In some cases a radiator will pound because the valve is at the

and half-way point, Either have the cation and content of fish species

insulation in the attic is not so When a pipe pounds you have good either. What you ‘do here 18 to do a little hunting until you to make sure that there is a vapor {find the spot in the line where itb

a has sagged. | insulation,

One way to solve this problem

Water vapor collecting on the

Information covering depth, lo-

valve all the way open or all the! for more than 500 Hoosier lakes,

way closed. Don’t let pipes and radiators pound even if you don't mind the noise, may cause leaks at joints,

Somewhere inthis land there is {a small select group of home ¢

It's bad for the pipes and Department of Conservation nas |! announced.

Iwill be published in the oficial Association of Retired Railway Indiana Lake Guides, the State|SMPlOY ees at 2 p.m, Tuesday in

Mayor Al Feeney’ to keep children off the street on Halloween week-end, Christian Park community is planning a party.

use the community house will sponsor the

{ing for the funniest, prettiest and {most original costumes. dianapolis Power & ‘Light Co. arvier on the warm si will show an educational movie, | T de of thei, lowed by 8-Reddy Kilowatt cartoon. -

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“Rail Unit Lists § Speaker

Park Community Plans Fete Oct. 30.

Complying with the request of

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Twenty-five thousand copies, al eprint, brought up to dat® of the |

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Donald R. Hughes, director of he department's Fish and Game

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|pen if the water vapor irfi-the air gets into the roof and wall insu-/ lation and then condenses into a {liquid.

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