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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1952
Page
11
Readers ask for room color schemes across living rooms bathrooms kitchens and bedrooms. Suggestions include lemon-yellow walls with chartreuse and red green patterns, red and white striped curtains, green bath mats, white enamel fixtures, and blue or eggshell backgrounds with floral drapes.
The Portland Cement Association stresses accurate moisture content in sand for mixing concrete. Drying sand and weighing against undried sand yields the moisture percentage. Damp sand holds about 2 percent water by weight, wet sand about 4 percent. Include this moisture in water calculations to avoid weakening concrete. Only potable water is used.
The Port land Cement Association prescribes water based mixes for watertight concrete including 6 gallon pastes and damp cure. For dampproofing walls a cement sand mix with no lime is used, brushed clean before application and protected by damp curing.
Small rooms should avoid large furniture and bulky fixtures. Convector radiators save space and can be free standing, wall flush, or recessed. Light wall colors and plain carpets visually expand cramped areas, while mirrors create a sense of spaciousness.
Interior decorators highlight wall and ceiling tints to fix spacing and mood. Light gray grounds with pale yellows greens or corals create a sense of space in dark rooms. reverse in overly bright spaces. Dark warm tones pull together large rooms. light walls on opposite sides resize square rooms. Knotty pine on fireplace wall adds warmth. temper bright sun with greens or blues. boost dim rooms with yellows golds or chartreuse.
A new corner lavatory designed for rooms with limited space. It fits 12 inches on wall sides, uses corner areas efficiently, and still allows full arm movement according to the Plumbing and Heating Industrial Bureau.
Article notes patronage would surge as parties gain control of Congress, detailing House and Senate job pay and roles from doorkeepers to clerks, and naming key figures and a 1962 divorce notice amid election and bond issue items on Capitol Hill.
Ordinance amends Section II to authorize serial bonds of 100000 dollars dated Oct 1 1952 at 2 percent interest with semiannual payments. Ten bonds of 1000 dollars mature 1953–1962. Emergency measure to finance public safety via traffic-light upgrades adopted Sept 10 1952.
The City Commission of Middletown Butler County Ohio adopts an emergency ordinance amending Ordinance 2865 to issue serial bonds totaling 395000 dollars for parks and playground improvements land acquisition and facilities. Bonds dated Oct 1 1982 bear 2 14 percent interest with semiannual payments through 1963 and mature in installments.
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