Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1948 — Page 20
New ‘White House Balcony |
Proves 2d Floor's Downfall
Shain of Addition
Is the ‘Last Straw By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — A - good second-floor balcony isn’t any good if the second floor isn't any good. And that's why the Truman family moved across the street. It all started when the President thought it might be nice to have a balcony on the White House, He just wanted to do ‘what a couple of million other Americans do of a summer evening, relax on the back porch. So what if his back porch had to be a $50,000 balcony? He's the
ides but the President is a per-
sistent man and pretty soon the fs
carpenters were all over the place, Putting up scaffolds. Pounding. Hammering. Ripping out windows. Cutting holes for ~ doors, ; Floor Sags The staid old mansion hadn't had such rough treatment since old Andrew Jackson's parties. The strain apparently was the straw that broke the camel's back. One morning when the First
Lady was on one of her inspec- EffN
tion tours she noticed that the Bi
second-story floor sagged about two inches below the wall. She reported it through channels to
the Public Buildings Administration. Ho
A few days later Margaret no-| ticed that one of the legs of a| piano had quietly settled about a| foot into the floor. She also dropped this information into the hopper for PBA. Chandelier Acts Up Then the President, staring moodily at the ceiling one night in his second-floor study, noticed that one of the chandeliers appeared to be defying gravity at an angle of 10 degrees. Another memo to PBA. Other strange phenomena was ohserved by the servants. Round objects rolled off flat tables. Loud creaking noises sometimes woke up all the occupants of the executive mansion. Pictures began to hang at peculiar angles. A month or so later when the flow of information through the channels reached PBA Commissioner W. E. Reynolds, a “program of action was immediately implemented.” Mr. Reynolds decided to investigate, What he discovered shocked him. The White House literally was losing its second floor. A check of the records revealed that when the building had had its last major overhauling in 1901, somehow the second floor had been completely ignored.
President's back porch: Was | it the straw that almost broke | the second floor of the White | use?
mitted in the President’s second-| {floor . study." He did get out on the balcony | a couple of times, however. Now PBA 1s handling the prob-| lem with typical - government thoroughness. A careful survey,| at a cost of $50,000, is being made | to determine how much the remodeling job is going to cost.| When this is done an estimate! will be handed to Congress. | Commissioner Reynolds admits that the final cost might come to $1 million. That would be a de luxe job, including the instal- | lation of - all-steel beams plus cleaning up after the carpenters.
Filipinos Learn Weather Secrets
Times Foreign Service MANILA, P. I, Nov. 25—Con- | trary to Mark Twain’ 8 quip about! the weather, Filipinos not only, talk about it, but do something. And they're doing it in the United States, in a big way, A total of 75 “letters of award” have been extended to
Improvements Weaken Succeeding “improvements” only served to weaken it more. When new electrical wiring was installed the electricians just ‘drilled holes through the supporting beams. The plumbers drilled more holes through the beams when they put in a new heating system. Then more holes for a cations system and still for a ventilating system. ‘As Mr. Reynolds puts it, “the second - floor supports probably look more like Swiss cheese than they do wood.” In addition to becoming danStoualy weak, the wood had out, making the White Te a real fire trap. Safety Precautions When the sad shape of the second floor was reported to the President he decided to take a few precautions for the safety of his family, himself and the staff, but not to do anything drastic until after election. Fire fighting apparatuc was increased and only 15 persons at one time were per-
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young Filipinos under Manila's program to rehabilitate the! Philippine Weather Bureau. {These letters, Issued to staff members of the local weather] bureau and to Filipino students) who have shown high scholar-! ship aptitude for this phase of| science, put their holders through | meteorology courses in he} United S. Cah Staff mbers spend three three to four months as observers in tol 'U. 8. Weather Bureau's field! offices, positions that correspond, | to those they hold here, while students study for a year in| American universities and put in| three more months of practical work in a U. 8, weather forecast office. Of 31 students who left Manila last year, 17 are back as specialists in Manila. Four more are] due to return shortly, four ions
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