Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1951 — Page 39

Fx I Yourself Check This List When You're in A Vacation Daze

By HUBBARD COBB Your Handy Man No place looks quite as good as home does after a glorious, relaxing and invigorating two weeks’ them. > vacation—with pay, and the kids,| SEVEN: Have all deliveries of and the inlaws and the traffic/mail, paper and milk stopped beand the bugs and six flat tires on fore you go. that detour off route 124. EIGHT: Don't pull the window Anyway, so you Hot worry shades down, about your home while you're : k away, here is a check list of NINE; Close the garage doors things to do before you leave, Miscellaneous A leaky vase or even a flower-

ONE: Pull the main electric switch so that all current in the/POt can be made waterproof by house is off. coating the inside with melted paraffin. Use this same treatment

TWO: Turn off the main water shut-off valve if you have any|if you wish to paint the outside

leaky faucets you never had time/of flowerpots. It prevents the to fix. moisture inside causing the paint THREE: In this order close:|/to peel attic windows, third floor win<| Screen doors should be fitted dows, second floor windows, first|with spring hinges to keep ‘em {floor windows and basement win-|closed.

Lost Purse Intact in Crowd dows. Be sure all are Jocked.- Joints 11 MEMPHIS, Tenn, June FOUR: Lock all doors from the drawers

| (UP)—The woman caught the by, i bus, but her purse was left lean-| FIVE: Be sure that no foodstuff ing against a post. In a few min-|is left that will spoil. utes, she came rushing back into|frigerator went off when the pow- wood.

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next door neighbor that you are going away and where you can be reached in an emergency. Leave a set of door keys with one of

Planning a Home " For: Maximum Room

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in desk and bureau ft keep coming loose 16 inside except the one you leave/can be fixed Ynce and for all by gluing triangular corner blocks The blocks If the .e-/should be made out of hard-

convenient living. The architect] |. re the crowd waiting for anotherier was cut, clean it out and| Ordinary steel nails can be Has gosigueq it or wick veneer I To ae To Tr Sowaer.. Thong them |e ere con a nfor: e police, e but it would look just as attrac-|. igi sumerre | wages. your fire insurance agent and your Stuck screws often respond if it

New copstruction expenditures in May increased 6 per cent over ago, But new-home bulld-

for the first time since 1939. Us. Department of Commerce reported, The decline in residential build. ing activity reflects the drop that started last winter. The May figure was $854 million, 3 per cent less than April and 18 per cent under May, 1950. The drop prevented total new construction from rising seasonally to the usual extent. The relatively small increase in expenditures in May was due to substantial rises in defense plant and military conStricon, as well as seasonal expansion of most types of nonresidential building. Public constructien in May amounted to $813 million, about 17 per cent above April and 39 per cent above May of 1650. Atomic energy and other defense plants, military facilities and highway construction accounted for most.

they are heated for an instant with a soldering iron, When sawing a piece of wood, always saw on the waste side of the line. This eliminates ending up with a piece of wood the width of the saw blade too short. A plumb line can be held steady in the wind by submerging the plumb bob in a container of

ment while taxes are at their highest levels.

Seek Tax Write-offs

Businessmen have been flooding the Defense Production Administration with so many applications for fast tax write-offs that the DPA temporarily has had to shut down processing new ones, to work off the backlog.

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cement or cinder block. The design itself makes this home look much more pretentious than it really is and the picture window, outside chimney and pro-| tected front porch all add to the) looks, Inside we find a coat closet by the vestibule and a door leading to the kitchen and another to the large living room. This arrangement will save many steps

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a laundry, heater room and rec-! = reation or hobby room. The second floor is shown unfinished, as most people will want |

there is something to be fixed about the house . most reputable service organizations in the city .

Clip this “Where to Get It Fixed” Directory and hang it in a handy place in your basement or Utility Room _ . . when . here is the place to locate your fixer. Listed here are some of the . all experts in putting a variety of things back into first class workin det. These firms guarantee service satisfaction. Call one of these “Fixers” who has the know-how to “Fix-it.”

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