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Kingsport Times-News Sunday Jan 3 1954 7-B MrFix: odays House Plan Blonde Guide Is Attraction Know Your Lumber Grades And Save 1 For Tourists On UN Tour 4-' i I i 1 i 1 1 4-- i I 3: Charter and see documentary films about the organlzatldhs work During the second week of training groups of six or eight take turns lecturing to each other-rehearsals tor the tourists Each girl makes up her own talk None memorizes a set routine Each lecture Is supposed to reflect the guides own personality The girls criticize one anoth er during this period and overcome shyness no problem to Kathy She had stage experience In winter stock In Phoenix where her father Dr Moore Is now medical adviser to the Ari zona State Industrial Commls slon She spends her evenings spends i 4 i 0 4 i -r -o I A i i i 1 I studying acting at a Manhat TJ -t 1241 ODfS aociato AJkUiTSOTV EXTERIOR Plans (or a new ranch house "The Rhodes" have a flagstone walk leading to the sheltered front porch for Informal air By SUL FIX Distributed by NBA Service Neophyte handymen and do-it-yourselfers are usually dismayed and confounded by lumberyard jargon and end up buying the wrong lumber for the job they have In mind More often than -not they select higher-priced lumber than they need Lumber Is graded according to quality and classified as common or select" To buy select lumber when common will do is to throw away money and It may amount to several dollars if any sizable quantity is purchased For instance If you were to build shelves for the kitchen and planned to paint them it would be foolish to buy top-grade finishing wood for the job Lower-grade wood with sound knots and minor defects will serve the purpose just as well when painted A slightly better grade of lumber may be required If a clear finish Is to be applied Lumber clear on one side and Imperfect on the other will do nicely to some cases A good Idea Is to pick through the lumber carefully Its often possible to save money by buying a quantity of low-grade lumber then use only the clear portions between imperfections Dont hesitate to consult your lumber dealer Tell him how you plan to use the wood He will be glad to save you money because he knows then you'll be back with more business And retail lumber dealers are relying" more and more on the do-it-yourself trade Select woods are graded A and A and softwoods the two highest grades are known to lumberyard parlance as Better or 1 2 Clear In hardwoods they may bq called FAS (firsts and seconds) or is 2s In general the higher select TO AVOID BUYING higher-quality and higher-priced wood than you need learn bow lumber Is graded and how to use each grade I Compactness Spaciousness Combined To Make An Attractive Ranch Home knots rough edges pother skip etc It Is popular for useqn projects to power-tool-equipped workshops Common grades follow much the same pattern Numbers and 2 are good all-around utility woods Defects get progressively! greater through the other grades" Number 5 has the most impar- grades are for natural finishes and the lower and for paint finishes But there are exceptions to this Even occasional top-grade common woods -can be found good enough to take a natural finish Common grades are usually designated by numbers 1 through 5 the latter7 being the tan studio or attending Broadway productions During spare time between tours she often reads plays In the guides lounge Kathy and another girl share a 2 -room apartment on the ground floor of old brown stone house not far from the She cooks two meals a day at home At the she works from 9:30 to 5:30 with an hour off for lunch five days a week Her salary Is 350 a week plus 33 for every tour over 20 she takes lowest grade They are for gen- 1 ectlons and if a unlikely that thehomo handyman would find uiej fi ''tei rtlii ii United States Woos Interest In America eral utility and construction purposes St Better select grading permits minute pitch pockets slight splits small knots and other minor Irregularities It is for high-est-quality woodwork trim and cabinetwork Stain and additional small defect are allowed on C-grade select lumberr next lowest to price and quality It is less likely to merit a transparent finish The grade may have additional defects Including small much use for it Qr-Is it all right to use- spar varnish on floors and furniture? A Spar varnish is designed for exterior use and should not be used Indoors It contains a large proportion of oil and produces a flexible film that Is high in water resistance and slow in drying On the other hand to- terlor varnishes are harder lessv water resistant contain less oil -and dry slower They should notL be used outdoors Appalachian Tales: By STANLEY JOHNSON and WILLIAM OATIS UNITED NATIONS One of the sights male tourists at the spectacular headquarters appreciate as much if not more than the modern angular architecture Is a blonde girl guide named Kathy Moore A 28-year-old dynamo from Zanesville Ohio Kathy trudges up to 10 miles a day around the buildings Newarks biggest tourist attraction showing the sights and explaining the workings of the world organization Bhe personally guides abou 120 of the 3000 persons who dally take the Ns 31 tour That means five hour-long tours of about 25 persons each Many of those who follow he? are men But It Isnt wolves that bother her says Kathy Its her feet She pampers them by changing shoes wearing low heels on one tour and high heels on the next "Low heels can get Just as tlr lng as high heels she says Its the change that helps" Yet the job Is not nearly as hard on her feet as on her voice That really suffers she says particularly If you have hard of-hearing people along" The doesn't forbid the girls to accept dates from boys they meet on the tours nor does It forbid them to give out their phone numbers That would violate one of the fundamental human freedoms the Is sworn to uphold It does however teach the girls how to say no" In a lady like way" Boiled down this consists of pointing out some Interesting sight to the visitor when he begins to get too Interested In the guide In case they ever have to get explicit the 47 guides among them can say no in some 15 languages Including Scandlna vian But It Is seldom neces sary Kathy says she discourages srospectlve dates because shes oo busy and hasnt had real rouble with any mashers" Most male visitors to the are respectful she say? Since you have so much to tell you give a kind of Impression of erudition or something and that I think scares most men off Then they see were on very friendly terms with these big strapping security guards around here" You could hardly blame a man or asking Kathy what shes doing next Saturday night A trim 110 pounds she stands 5 feet 3 Inches tall with blue eyes 'and blonde hair worn In a pony taiL Her eyes sparkle Kathy entered the two-week training course last April 3 After graduation In 1949 from Muskingum College New Concord Ohio she worked for community defense projects This gave her the background col-ege and an Interest in lnterna-lonal affairs the looks for In Its employes The guide training period Is a lot like the Armys ba-tlc but less rigid and routine Kathy started out by getting a physical--the same on the armed foroces use and was issued her blue uniform The girls get free medical care as long as they work for the tour service The service Is not run by the Iself but by a private organization the American Association for the United Nations For the first week trainees wander abut the buildings familiarizing themselves with the shyslcal layout They read ooks and articles on International affairs memorize the Bible Still Used To Cure T-wr BHoprt ASSOC lATVt AACUmCTSI INTERIOR Fireplace with bookcase at one 'side makes for cozy comer In the living room Illsln Virginia Area JAMEVT re to the By JAMEVTAYLOR ADAMS Here to the Upper 1920 I guess I know after Thomas died and Today' Associated Architects have for you a splendid example of an Informal home one in which you and your family can live completely at your ease It called "The Rhodes" The house Is ranch type In keeping with Its note of comfort The floor plan suggests a flagstone walk leading from the driveway to covered front porch where you find the front door To keep traffic in regular lanes there Is a center hall from which bedrooms bath kitchen and living room radiate And for privacy the trio of bedrooms Is nicely separated from the rest of the house Those are rather good bedrooms as youll note In the plan Ranging In size from about 12 by IS feet to 9ft by 10 feet The rooms have large su-eas of window space and are well equipped with closets The master bedroom has a pair of separate closets something many a family desires To put available space to best use the Associated Architects have allotted Just what Is needed for the bath While compact this bath has sufficient room for all fixtures even the luxury of a "built-in" tub The central location of the bath makes It accessible to bedrooms and other sections of Vie house The kitchen 1j compact too Jet there Is plenty of room for the working tools of the homemaker appliances counter space and storage cabinets Because of the planned arrangement of kitchen equipment the housewife will find she need not do so much walking In her working hours Youve probably noticed that the living and dining rooms are put together In the shape of an The result Is an atmosphere of spaciousness which provides a maximum of light and ventilation The broad expanse of windows -at both eld gives a hit was he died with the flu when hit was a-rag-ing round Anyway hit was when Raney and her children lived up there next to me passage hit wa? they had to' read so hits my honest opinion that they went after the Bible and axed RUe what it was they' had to read Thats been a long time you know and I dont remember what verse it was Seems like hit was to the Old Bible One of the Hash girls stood right up over Raney and opened the Bible where shed had her thumb to it ever since she brought it to the house Probably had held her thumb there all the way from Hash HoUow I dont know Anyway she started to by-saying Raney now yoq listen' right close to what Im readingl And she set to and read a verse to a sort of singsong fashion Sort of like a preacher giving out a song or reading his text She read the same verse over three straight times Then she closed the Book and said to Raney You lay right still! And she turned round andald to the rest of us Now see If hit dont stop And hit did stop But you know Ive always thought) that hit was that alum that Id put on the place that stopped it fi ft If 1 BUENOS AIRES OP) In Latin America whfre nearly half of the United States foreign capi tal Is Invested Ills are mostly economic Early this year Uncle Sam will be asked to solve many of these Ills directly or indirectly to protect his big Investment and keep the southern countries as good customers At the 10th Inter-American Conference starting March 1 In Caracas some southern neigh bors will urge the United States to assure stable prices for Latin Americas basic metals petroleum coffee and other products knock down trade barriers and keep tariffs low Even a rich nation like Venezuela fears Congress may limit her shipments of petroleum to the United States Wealthy little Uruguay tra dltlonally fast friend of the Western Allies resents new duties Imposed by the government on her wool tops Metals represent a worse problem Bolivias tin Is a drug on the market at prices below what the ore costs to mine and ship Chile has vast stores of unsold copper and the congestion apparently can be relieved if the United States buys It to stock-pile Mexican metals producers are worried by low prices and the threat of duties and other restrictions Cuba Is able tosell the world only a fraction of the sugar she produced during war years Argentina has good crops after a severe drought and fears her grains mat face disastrous competition Us the United States gives away surplus wheat or sells cheaply In world markets These problems plus runaway nflatlon in some countries will be difficult for diplomats and economists to settle No readymade solutions are in sight From 1850 to 1950 the population of the United States multiplied by about six from about 23 million to about 151 million They thought Raney was shore going to pass nut Everybody to the neighborhood were there trying vto do something to stop the blood But hit just kept a-bleeding Why man alive! She was bleeding like a stuck hog Theyd sent for the doctor and hed come and give her something He said that hit would fix her up all right that the bleeding would taper off and stop But hit didnt taper off a bit If anything It got worse I went down and give her some alum Id always heard that alum would draw the wound and stop bleeding Id seed it tried and hit worked But nobody it seemed had much faith in it So two of RUe Hashs girls who had come over from Hash Hollow said theyd heard that if youd read a certain varse or passage out of the Bible over a person bleeding to death that the bleeding would stop Mag one of Riles Cumber-lands the Bible is probably held to greater reverence than any other place Our folk not only accept the Scriptures as a waybill to heaven but depend on the Good Book to cure many and various physical ailments It would surprise you the Bibles youd find under pillows in these mountains if you would go to the trouble to take a peek Some of these because whoever it Is that lies head on the pillow believes It will prevent bad dreams others (once numerous but seldom found today) put the Bible under their pillows to keep witches away One of the most popular methods of stopping blood is to read a certain chapter from the Bible to the sufferer This treatment not as popular as it once was but even in this year of 1954 you will find It being used by some of the older generation One day (December 9 1940) not long before he died Pat Addington told me of a case Tight here at Big Laurel where the Scripture Remedy was prac tlced I member said Pat throwing back his head and dumping some smoking tooacco Into his aw (Pat seldom used regular chewing tobacco either plug or twist) one time that Raney Kilgore had some teeth pulled and was about to bleed to death Lets see now! St was about COUPON FOR BLUEPRINTS AND MODEL OF "THE RHODES" Please send ms the following for which I enclose check or money order With basement Without basement HioM'n? mm 3 seta for 315 mm Model(s) at $2 each (If ordered alone) elrls said I know I can stop it Raney didnt have a Bible in lUngsport Lumber Supply Company PboM 2243 1 set for 37' 2 seta for 312 COLORED MODEL OF SOLID WOOD: Model (s) at 31 each (With blueprint order) Add 25c for postage and handling "Your Ideal New Home" a book of 57 designs at 75 cents a copy "Modem Eome Styling" a book of 25 designs at 50 cents a copy Name Address City Zone State Address The Associated Newspapers 229 West 43rd St New York 38 Department KT (Do Not Send Currency) the house not even a New Testament So the Hash girls went all the way back home and fetched their old Bible They hadnt seemed 'too certain what 1 dramatic effect To round out the living room there Is a fireplace with a built-in bookcase at one aide Be sure to note If you want plana with basement or without The cubage with basement is 25000 cubic feet Without basement It Is 20200 cubic feet You will want to know that the living 'area of "The Rhodes" Is 1200 square feet plus another 340 square feet for the garage and porch Your order also will hrlcg you (at no extra cost) a list of all building materials needed plus a suggested contract form to help protect your Investment Bhould you prefer concrete block or brick veneer to wood siding the same plans show how any of thesepseful materials ly the model is made of solid wood and will make a wonderful toy after you have finished with It Youll find the model Is worth a great deal more than the modest cost may be employed To help you see "The Rhodes" In all three dimensions Associated Architects can supply you with a rugged scale model of this home Decorated realistical -1 EAST TENNESSEE STATE COLLEGE JOHNSON CITY TENNESSEE CAMPUS EVENING CLASS SCHEDULE Winter Quarter 1954 THIS IS i LAMP TABLES END TABLES canriER tables gbffee tables 6 TELEPHONE STANDS FLOORLAMPS STUDENT DESKS PLATFORM ROCKERS ELECTRIC RANGES OIL HEATERS Vour life! 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