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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1960
Page
6
Architect Herman H. York fits a four bedroom home under 1,200 square feet into 1,152 liv ing area. The plan emphasizes a bright family room kitchen with dining area and easy access to a screened porch, plus a shared washup lavatory and convenient basement or garage access.
The article covers practical wallpapering tips over old or new walls, using plumb lines to hang straight, trimming selvage, and butt joint alignment. It also mentions plaster and gypsum board prep, wallpaper steamers, and methods to create visual width with a brick veneer contrast and an extended plant box. It notes bi fold doors for bedrooms and space-saving closet doors, highlighting door heights.
A budget plan splits heating oil costs into 12 equal payments to ease peak month bills. Smaller charges during peak heating months free up funds for other expenses. No service charge applies, and you can call for a Summer Fill option.
Post Office ad offers a baby blueprint Design B-27 with 50 cents enclosed. Reader prints street and city clearly and joins a weekly House of The Week plan collection.
A reader guidance column covers pointing brick joints with lime mortar to prevent leaks, using a pointing trowel and wetting joints, fixing loose mortar, and wiping spills. It also notes talcum powder may quiet minor floor squeaks temporarily, attic finishing cautions, heating load concerns, and cementing acoustical ceiling tiles directly to plaster is durable when installed per directions.
A Berlin reader complains in an East Berlin paper that when he bought 400 nails at a state department store the clerk counted them individually. Nails are typically sold by weight, making the process unusually slow.
Commissioner Ralph Pearson led a City Commission discussion on reducing the police force and turning off boulevard street lights to conserve funds. No decision was reached.
A safe was moved from a home in San Antonio and handed to Father Michael Holden of St. Gregory's rectory. It contained 1500 dollars in cash and 500 Mexican gold coins. Holden would not reveal who left the safe or details of the person responsible.
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