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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1966
Page
33
A home plan titled House of the Week presents a flexible 70 by 35 foot layout adaptable for later expansion. The design enables optional features and staged construction to suit future needs while maintaining overall footprint.
A three bedroom ranch designed by architect Lester Cohen highlights easy maintenance with a side entry to the garage and a rear patio. The layout keeps living areas off the main flow, featuring a generous living room with a fireplace and TV Hi Fi alcove, and scalable options like delaying the family room or enclosing the rear patio. The house measures 70 by 35 feet including the two car garage and family room.
The notice advertises an architect designed House of the Week with a zero cent blueprint to obtain contractor estimates. It offers a booklet YOUR HOME How to Build Buy or Sell for one dollar and includes reproductions of 16 Horse of the Week issues. Enclosed is fifty cents for the baby blueprint design G-57 and one dollar for the YOUR HOME booklet.
Motivational expert Dr. Ernest Dichter says sellers target hidden needs beyond space while Wes Bahr of First Federal Savings and Loan urges buyers to study neighborhood quality over flashy exteriors. He warns disrepair nearby can drag down value and advises locating homes in generally good areas.
Readers learn that white roof paint can cut interior temps by up to about 20 percent when switching from dark colors. The article notes roof type affects paint choice, recommending exterior latex on black asphalt shingles, non chalking exterior paint on wood shingles, exterior aluminum primer with top coat if stained, priming for galvanized or tin roofs, and asphalt coating for asbestos cement shingles. A roller on a long handle is suggested, with two coats for flat or low slant roofs.
The text notes that two U.S. presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and John F. Kennedy, shared the phenomenon of having only one run for office. It frames this as a notable historical curiosity linking their presidencies.
The article notes that Chinese is the principal language in eastern Asia with the widest number of speakers. It also states Chinese is one of the five official UN languages.
The interior omits statues in Orthodox churches. It uses flat pictures called icons instead, avoiding imagery regarded as pagan idols while reflecting distinct worship space design.
The Allied Triphibian operation on the coast of France on D Day June 6 1944 is described as the greatest invasion in military history with vast scale and strategic significance. It marks a turning point in the war as Allied forces open a Western front and begin liberating occupied Europe.
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