Home Building And Remodeling Hints For Home Owners
Replacing blown fuses by homeowners requires cutting the main switch with care. Use fuses of the same rating, no substitutes. For floor varnish, mix one part based seed oil with turpentine and use sparingly. Clean floors with steel wool, benzine, or turpentine to avoid dust darkening wood. Red-lead paint should dry between thin coats, three coats recommended. Modernization Credit Plan from FHA may finance such work. To clean maple furniture, wash with warm suds and rinse with clear water, then dry with cheesecloth. Grand Rapids fire crews now carry a trailer with kitchenette and first aid station to support firefighting. Repainting a tin roof is noted. a fossil-rich roof in Cuba dates to over 150 million years.
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Federal Housing Administration
Location choice crucial for FHA home buyers advice
FHA officials stress careful location and lot cost in buying a young home. They warn lot price often shapes overall affordability and urge written agreements on included improvements, utilities, and access to water sewer electric and gas. The guidance underscores selecting a lot and neighborhood suited to the family for long term value.
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Penfield Seniors stage May 3 comedy at school auditorium
Penfield Senior Play Penfield A Ready Made Family was presented Friday evening at the Penfield school auditorium. The three act comedy pleased the audience and honored director Miss Rachel Lowash. Cast included Josephine Rollin Martha Woods Maer Saret Youngies Doris Pierce Cela Usenic Virginia Cornetti Howard Berkey William Feron Robert Rowley Virgil Smith. Penfield Orchestra provided music and a violin duet was performed by Arlene Sooy and Martha Woods. Safety was the Belden Grange program theme with 61 attending Penfield Belden Ridgeville Wellington Ceresie and others. Deputy Master Frank Aison spoke after Master Carl Buel opened the program with a song Electricity.
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Rachel Lowash
Josephine Rollin
Martha Woods
Maer- Saret Youngies
Doris Pierce
Cela Usenic
Virginia Cornetti
Howard Berkey
William Feron
Robert Rowley
Virgil Smith
Arlene Sooy
Belden Grange
Belden
Local notes from Bearville and nearby communities
Community snippets recall a May Queen coronation at the school auditorium and the "Spring Caper" production by sixth graders. Montlountate latest updates, a piano duet, and a Mothers Club meeting discuss mothers’ roles. Page mentions a hunting accident in Bearville, wartime ammunition purchases, and a birth of a daughter Joan to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Mohmen.
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Percy Mohmen
Joan
Mothers Club
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Stanley Sooy
Penfield Grange
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Chief house paint price cut prompts remodeling plans
A local ad highlights a price drop on Chief house paint to 2.95 per gallon and promotes the F H A budget plan for remodeling loans. It touts shingles, roofs, insulation, painting, doors, and labor financing up to three years with no down payment. Also features small low cost house plans under 3000 and other home improvement items.
Home Builders Q and A on Hearths and Foundations
Fireplaces require a minimum hearth depth of 16 inches from the chimney breast and a width not less than the opening plus 1 1/2 inches. Materials include brick tile smooth-tin concrete stone and slate. Hearths sit on a concrete slab. For basements and termite shields a corrosion resistant metal strip is placed between masonry and wood, extending around the wall face, with tight joints and proper soldering, and outer projections for inspection if open.
Pittsburgh housing shortage hits metro area
Sixty five percent of families in Pittsburghs sub standard areas live in overcrowded dwellings and the housing shortage is becoming prevalent throughout the metro area. The Pittsburgh Housing Association has reverted.
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