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JOURNAL STANDARD SATURDAY, OCT. 13,1956 PAGE 3 The Spacious For Growing Family Rooms Six Bedrooms Four Closets Eight Cubage: House 26,200 Ft. Garage 5,300 Ft Dimensions 41' For the young married couple with plans for the future, today's Home of the Week, the "Audrey," has ideal features for present and future needs. For example, the couple working on a moderate budget may choose only to finish off the downstairs in the beginning and then later on add the two upstairs bedrooms. As you enter through the front door there is a good size hallway double coat closet that will be 'mighty convenient.

To the left is the living room with a large fireplace and plenty of for easy, distinctive decorating. A moderate size picture window adds a touch of elegance sure to win approval. The kitchen is ideal. Work area is centered at one end with sink, range and counter space in a convenient L-shape to save steps. The oval counter separates the kitchen to provide a separate dining area more than adequate for even the largest family.

There is "a broom closet in the kitchen and room for plenty of cabinets. The window above the sink will allow mother to keep her eye on the children in the back yard. Cross Ventilation Notice that the two 'bedrooms downstairs feature cross ventilation with plenty of windows. Double closets are also indicated in the ELECTRIC SERVICE State 530 FRISBIE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR 208 West Stephenson Street floor plan to assure plenty of storage space. Later on when upstairs bedrooms are finished the home owners may prefer to convert one of the downstairs bedrooms into a den, TV-room, or library.

Near the large downstairs bathroom is a separate linen closet which is certain to come in handy. The cross hallways deliberately planned by the architect will limit traffic through all rooms and thus the "Audrey" becomes an easy home to keep clean and tidy. Upstairs there are two giant bedrooms with a bath in between. Closet space, too, is very generous and full size windows assure comfortable sleeping all year round. The "Audrey" as shown is built with garage in the rear for a corner lot.

The garage may also be constructed, on the side of the home with or without the indicated FREEPORT HARDWARE CO. 103 West Main and Corner South Galena and Main PAINTS for every purpose Need Ready Mix? for CALL US NOW! breezeway. The breezeway serves as a cool, comfortable porch during summer months and always an ideal play area for the children. Shingles Add Charm Colored shingles add a touch of warmth and charm and either clapboards or shingles may be used depending upon the builder's preference. The proper landscaping makes this rather simply designed house a home of extreme beauty.

Laundry equipment will be placed in the basement and there will be adequate room for a playroom or workshop. This Home of the Week design is approved by the VA and FHA. Complete blueprints and specifications of the "Audrey" are available at moderate cost with a money back guarantee should the builder decide not to proceed with the building plans. BLUEPRINTS AVAILABLE Complete plans for this home are available; 1 2 3 Address requests (mentioning name of home) to Home of the Week. Dept.

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These con trivances consist of 4-inch slats beveled plate glass, opening am closing at a turn of a crank and overlapping to provide weather tightness. They open awning-wise, so when slightly opened they ventilation in a driving rain with out worry about water coming the room. When fully opened, thej give virtually unobstructed ai space. Glass jalousies are equippe with insect screens and with storm plates for winter to cancel an air leakage. They are fitted i aluminum frames with aluminum mechanism to insure permanen operation without rust.

How To Clean Hardwood Floors aucefs Tested So They'll Last 60 To 90 Years On and off. On and off. Millions of times. This is part of the rigorous test which faucets are subjected in he product development labora- ories of manufacturers. Machines made for this purpose damage" are so equipped that they automatically operate faucets by turn- Trash Fire Spreads, Causes $100 Damage To Downtown Building Fire, which started in a trash pile, spread to a window and door frame at the rear of the Modern Plumbing building, 223 E.

Stephenson Friday afternoon. Flames were quickly extinguished by firemen. Damage was estimated at $100 by Fire Chief Ray Pontius, includ- ng them on and off, day after day, year after year. right off the assembly line are selected for spot tests. To check on the durability of the washers in the faucets, they are alternately subjected to steam and then cold water.

Accelerated tests equivalent to from 60 to 9J years of actual serv- ce provide manufacturers with 3ositive information on the per 'ormance of faucets and their various component parts under the severe conditions. The knowledge gained is utilized the improvement of faucets with he result that modern faucets provide many years of service as well as beauty. Higher Ceilings In Living Rooms Architectural observers see taller iving rooms becoming more in demand in new houses. These experts think the split-level houses, nany of which have story-and-a- mlf living room heights, partly responsible for this trend. "Contrast," says one critic, 'makes any house more interest- ng.

A small house with a so- called cathedral ceiling in its liv- rig room and low ceilings in the bedrooms has an important look- ng living room by contrast with unimportant looking bedrooms. It also has intimate looking bedrooms contrast to the spacious-look- ng living room. The result is the whole house is more interesting." New Electric Switch Controls Light Volume Home lighting can be dimmed or brightened much in the manner stage lighting control. New dia switches can give you modulatec light in any for read ing or entertaining, soft for relaxa tion and conversation. Rheostat principles are in corporated in each light switch But all dial switches do not provide for dimming.

Some merelj turn lights on and off silently. Winslow High School Announces Honor Roll For First Six Weeks Flames from the trash fire urned insulation material from a 20-volt power line leading to the uildmg. Sparks flew as the double wires arced. They burned through isrupting power to the building, "elephone lines were also shorted Manager of the plumbing com- iany said a man had been work- ng at the rear of the building a hort time before the fire broke lUt. Two pumper trucks, the aeria ruck and the ambulance answerec he alarm.

Army Reserve Unit Announces Promotions For Enlisted Men Promotions for four Freeport and two area men were announcec oday for Detachment 1 of the 9330th Ordnance Training Center Army Reserve Unit. Chester A. Bennett was promoted from private E2 to private irst class; Harold R. Schulz was jromoted from corporal to ser Stanley C. Simler of Free )ort, Norbert C.

Boyle of Stockton and Arthur A. Smith of Shannon ivere promoted from sergeant to sergeant first class. Herbert S. Freel and Charles Penticoff were promoted from pri vate El to private E2. Penticoff and Bennett are enlistees under the reserve forces act of 1955 which allows a youth rom to join the reserve and when he has completed schoo spend six months in training anc the remainder of his enlistmen with his local reserve unit.

Name Five Speakers For Industry Meetinq Sponsored By Chambe The names of five speakers fo he annual Industrial Managemen Conference were announced Fri day by Fred Kirkman, chairman of the event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The conference will be held a Freeport Country Club, Oct. 30 Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. The speakers include M. G.

Par sons, assistant professor' of th business management bureau a the University of Illinois; L. Brown, manager of training an safety at the Elgin'National Watc "Earthquake Lake," the story of eelfoot Lake in Tennessee, is the ext Audubon screen-tour to be iven here on Thursday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. in the Junior High chool auditorium. Karl H.

Maslowski is the photo- rapher and narrator for this olor film. Reelfoot Lake was formed by iolent earthquakes in the time of ohn James Audubon. It is now a lake two miles wide nd 12 miles long, formed when ie waters, of the Mississippi ushed into the chasm made in 811-12 by a series of quakes in the vild countryside of Western Ten lessee. Audubon left a record of riding hrough one of these earthquakes nd fearing he would not survive Swamp Forests Today the borders of Reelfoot Lake are covered with great wamp forests in which nest cormorants, water turkeys, heron anc grets. These are the actors Maslow- Hardwood floors normally should never be cleaned with water, says the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association.

Dust clean them with a soft brush dry mop or cloth. If the floor is soiled or spot stained, rub it with a mop or cloth moistened slightly with penetrating sealer, turpentine or furniture polish. This treatment is especially effective on tight- grained hardwoods such as maple and birch. jjere comes I I MONEY-SAVING IDEAS REMODEL a new home at your old address MATERIALS We can recommend or provide you with all the materials you'll need to plan and complete your job. CARPENTERS We are In touch with competent carpenters and tradesmen of all types, or should you wish to do-it-yourself we'll gladly assist with plans tips.

PLANNING We can provide you with any type of plan or help you develop your own. FINANCING You'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy It is to finance a home remodeling scheme. I DO-IT-YOURSELF Should you wish to do the job yourself; we can provide you with all necessary hints, and directions to make the job easy and inexpensive. The Firm of Many Extra Services Plenty of Parking in Rear honor roll fo the first six weeks of the fall term at Winslow High School was an nounced today. Those on the honor roll are Seniors; Alvin Wire, Nancy Fergu son, Jean Wahler, Ruth Ann Drye and Donovan Lee.

Juniors: Emilie Niemeier, Marene Keller, Carol Schliem and ane Bitz. Sophomores: Mark Miller, Jefrey Smith, Linda Wild, Eileen fire, Gary Boeke, Larry Stabenow nd Dennis Thorn. Freshmen: Robert Bidlingmeier, oanne Wahler, Beverly Ferguson, aren Rodebaugh, Wayne White- urst and Gloria Niemeier. kunk In Drawer mells Up Class At Oklahoma College TONKAWA, Okla. That stinkin' old English class" was ust that to 3 students at North- rn Oklahoma Junior College Fri- ay.

Instructor Joe Hochderffer aid an "aroma that improved Jth age" completely disrupted is class, and spread disorder iroughout the building. Student Duane Beaver -traced ie cause to a skunk in Hochder- er's desk. A crew of volunteers ustled the desk out of the build- ng and opened the drawer. One tudent who said he was an old kunk trapper, boldly picked up ie animal and carted him off to ie biology department. RATTLESNAKE IN JAIL GAIL, Tex.

W) A rattlesnake leeping peacefully in center a cell in city jail was sentenced death Friday. It wasn't that heriff Sid Reeder didn't like the nake it was the two men he was about to put in the cell who bjected. Phone Main 303 324 East Stephtnson PATTERSON cFERRIN EYERS EXCAVATING Free Estimate Phone State 3508 Earthquake Lake' Subject Of Audubon Screen-Tour Robert Roose, supervisor ol jersonnel, General Electric Paul M. Dauten profe'ssor management and Wayne Lem- iurg, College of Commerce and Business Administration, both from he University of Illinois. Creative thinking within industry the theme of the program.

Squirrel Blacks Out Part Of Southern Texas SAN MARCOS, Tex. squir- el Friday worked its way into a ransformer putting out the lights or two hours over a part of Hays and Caldwell counties in southern! The shorting of the trans- ormer blew out a safety device md caused a fire at the Lower Colorado River Authority substa- ion. Heavy damage resulted. J. C.

Parker, assistant manager of he substatoin, said the squirrel into the transformer near the plant. Nixon Speaks In But Sleeps In 'Heaven' MARQUETTE, Mich. The towns that figured in Vice 'resident Nixon's campaign dip nto Michigan take their names Tom Chippewa Indian words for 'heaven" and Nixon did his political speechmaking in Negaunee (Hell). But 1 le slept Friday night in Ishpem- ng (Heaven). ski's color film, the first one made of Reelfoot.

He pictures a southern swamp rabbit that is at home in water, the bird-voiced tree frog, a turtle aying its eggs, a night hunt for jullfrogs and flying squirrels, and the three-toed Congo eel, largest native salamander, who reaches a length of 40 inches. Naturalist-Cameraman Maslowski is a native of Atlanta, who grew up in the North. He has worked as photographer- naturalist with the Ohio Division oi Conservation, lectured in nature study for the University of Cincinnati and served as curator of birds at the Cincinnati Museum of Natu ral History. A writer of a weekly nature column in the Cincinnati Enquirer, he has also published illustrated articles in Natural History, Outdoor Life, Nature, and Child Life magazines. Walt Disney has used much of his film footage.

For years the Army Air Corps used his camera skill, assigning him to combat service in North Africa, Italy, Corsica, France and Austria. Work On New Armory To Start Next Week, Superintendent Says Construction of the new armory building here will probably get under way next week according to Emil Smith, superintendent of struction for the J. L. Simmons general contractors. A shipment of steel is expected then, he said, and actual building will begin as soon as it arrives.

Bulldozers and graders have leveled the ground. Ditches for footings and the basement have been excavated. The armory site is located in the 1200 block of South Adams avenue, north of the railroad bridge. if FREEPORT HARDWARE COMPANY Heating Plumbing Dept. 116 South Van Buren Furnace you can have builf in space WIRING REPAIRING ELECTRIC 424 South Chicago Phone Main 3M RENT A FREEPORT SOFTENER Save Your Rent Money In 3 Years You Own Itl As Low As $3.10 A Month We Use Dowex Mineral Shepley-Hayner CORP.

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