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(V How Do You KnowWhm, To Buy New Refrigerators? You may have trouble deciding when to get another rfri..V.i5 Refrigerator! are one of the old !.,iyEes o.PPliances. Your. it i. rfi f last le8- Even if hiii. TS- gooa "Pair bills may be in the offing. And when the refrigerator fails there s inconvenience. Sometimes there is food loss. On the other hand, appliances are sturdily made, and even" " u moderately old, your refrigerat or may have years of good service UMMMMMM With lop burner controls on lli new (as sanies you're aasured perfect reiullt like this every time. left in it. In that case you may ask your self how it fits into your home. Are you content to go on at the same old grind of housework in the same old way, or are you ready to move ahead into new di mensions of effective living? Some experts compare this home problem to the decisions that have to be made in American facto ries. In plant after plant, the man agers are ripping out perfectly good machines which could have years of service ahead of them. There are better machines today and the factories can do better job with the new. Today, there are new refriger ators, too. You have a much wid er choice than you did when you got your last refrigerator. Do you have automatic or semi automatic defrosting? In automat ic defrosting, the refrigerator de cides the time for the job and does it. In semi-automatic defrost ing, you tell the refrigerator when to act. In one case, it is complete ly off your mind, and you don't nave to bother about it. In the other case, you can adjust the arrangement of food before de frosting. Some people find their storage plan calls for human su pervision. You may be buying a freezer. You may be getting one of the combination freezer - refrigera tors or paired units that stand side by side. You may like your freezer space above the refrigerator. But you probably use the refrigerator more than a freezer. Some people find it more convenient to have the freezer space at the bottom, and RANGE RAINBOW Gai ranges now are made with enamel surfaces in black, blue, brown, coppertone, jray, green, pink, red, tan, white and yellow. Metallic finishes come in antique bronze, antique copper, bright enrome, satin enrome and stain less steel. Surveys by the American Gas Association show that yellow and green are favorite colors. Stain less steel works beautifully with any color. WHAT IS NATURAL GAS? Have you been wondering just what natural gas is? Formed millions of years ago through the decomposition of mat ter, it is found in pockets of sponge-like rock far below the earth s surface. It can only be found by drilling successive wells until the gas-bearing strata is located. k fillip! Ill CLAMOR 1ZE IT The thoughtful husband will tuck a iurpr.se into the appliance hei giving hit wife for Ch.Utmas. Rose, perhaps. Or her favorite perfume. It doesn't have to be big or expensive just very personal and slightly sentimental. GUESS WHAT? To add feslire holiday note and 10 keep them pleasing, dress up your appliance gifts in gay wrapping with Yulelide motifs. Here are some suggestions from Dennison's designera which can aenre lo inspire you lo many attractive variations. 90MK1I0N GAS APPUANOs M Uit TODAY III Hp Iff ' liMMS KINS MMWCU, Ht IMCWtMM 1110RB than 90 million gas appli. ances valued at 116.4 billion arc currently in use in the United States Of this number. 7I.S million are sei zed by utility gas and the remaii. der by LP or bottled gas. The 35 million gas-using families average almost three gas appliances apiece. BUILT IN FACILITIES Today's steel kitchen cabinets provide built-in facilities such as pull-out shelves and racks. CUTS DOWN COLDS An automatic dryer cuts down on colds and chapped hands. - there are many refrigerators built that way. The new wall refrigerators which become part of the kitchen shelv ing are convenient in many kitchen layouts. Other types are built into the wall itself. You can also get counter-type refrigerators with work space on top. And some peo ple use two small units instead of one large one. You can get refrigerator doors that can open right or left, and some have devices that permit the same door to open either way at your convenience. Your choice could make a big difference in the number of steps you take. It de pends on your kitchen plan. Wrap Christmas Gifts For Surprises For years Father and the young sters nave been baffled about how to present Mother with a White Christmas gift of a major kitchen appliance and wrap it so it would come as a huge surprise. The problem of how to disguise these gleaming gifts has been solv ed this season in some imagina tive ways by Dcnnison stylists. Here are some suggestions that may be just what you're looking tor: The new refrigerator can be turned into a happy Santa by1 cov ering the entire appliance with red crepe paper. An easy way to do it is to wind the paper in layers around the refrigerator horizontal ly, securing the ends with tape. How To Do It Make Santa's belt by folding black crepe paper and placing it around the middle of the appli ance, taping it down in back. The buckle is a large square of gold foil taped on the black belt. Use a real mitten or cut a mit ten shape from green paper and tape' it to the front, sticking a candy cane in it. For Santa's face: tape on a ta ble tennis ball or a large tree ball for the nose, use large gum med stars or round notary seals or the eyes, black masking tape or black pipe cleaner for the mouth. Stick on cotton for eye brows and beard. To make Santa's cap, cover a large cardboard carton with more red crepe, bringing it to a point at the top. Add a wad of cotton for a pompon, and stick it at a jaunty angle on Santa's head. Disguise tho new ironer as a fireplace. You can do this by cov ering it completely with brick patterned crepe paper. Use cello phane tape to hold the ' paper in place. Mass greens and pine cones on top. Pile the family's presents in the opening. Andirons and other fireplace equipment if you have it on hand will add a realistic touch. Por the new washer let the wlsple family share in the fun of decorating. Cut two tree shapes from green construction paper. Staple together down the center. Fold one side forward, the other back. Tape to one corner of the wasncr. Drape two lengths of red cord or tinsel rope across the front, hanging small mitts and Christ mas stockings on them. Tuck lolli pops into them. The mitts and stockings can be cut from double thickness of colorful crepe, then mo siaes stuenca logetner. Trim with Snowflakes Snowflakes printed on midnight blue crepe make a perfect coverup for that freezer. Get packaged pre- cut crepe icicles and tape them around the top. For a humorous touch, blow up a yellow balloon or find last summer's beach ball and with plastic tape make slant eyes and smiling mouth of an Eskimo boy on it. Tape on cotton for a hood. Add a wreath of greens at the neck. Clever? Trim the new range with large versions of Christmas good ies, such as gingerbread figures, cookies and so forth. Cut them from brown construction paper and tape in place. Tie it all together with a 10-inch band of bright red flame-proof crepe. Loop more crepe together for a bow on top. A cylinder - shaped hot -water heater can be made to look like a kingsize candy cane by spiral ing Christmas red flameproof crepe streamers around it. Secure streamers here and there with cel lophane tape, Wed., Nov. 21, 1956 Tht Newt-Review, Roieburg Ore. 5 "aft ) ft '""SMSSIM." f ! icr-v::i,!n rrA' VVla) i & u. s& 7.1 s . v " Isl vim' h f .1 "W "' ' ' 1 "iv-sj " " ' ' t ... 1 HAIDERS There's always plenty of Ice In the modern gas refrig erator when the youngsters come looking. With the magic ice server keeping a constant supply on hand, you'll never run out one of (lie many pleasures lo be had from your new refrigerator. TIMES HAVE CHANGED Today's homemaker spends less than three hours a day preparing meals in an all-gas kitchen. The housewife of yesteryear had to work nine hours a day in a hot, smoky kitchen to cook her family's food. Ml i Mi FIGURE IT YOURSELFi Here's how to find your best oven height! Measure A, lite number of incites from floor lo elbow. Subtract three inches, the distance lo allow be tween forearm and open oven door. Subtract B, the distance be tween lop of the opened oven door and lower surface of oven frame These Iwo subtractions leave you with C, the height to which the oven's receiving frame should be built. ' ABOUT FREEZER FOOTS Do not refreeze thawed foods. After they are cooked, however, they may be returned to the freezer. For a Christmas gift that keeps you young ask Santa for a washer-dryer. FREEZER HINT Try to arrange foods in your freezer so that those frozen first 1 are used first. SPACE VS APPLIANCE Years ago kitchen space was measured to provide shelf and cabinet room for a variety of au xiliary cooking appliances. Now the trend is in reverse, says the Gas Appliance Manufacturers As sociation, and the space is being used for food storage or practical placement of china and utensils. The reason? Manufacturers now are producing gas ranges equip ped with special controls, griddles, roussene ovens ana otner lca tures to take care of special cook ing functions which formerly re quired auxiliary appliances. WHERE TO NOW? What happens to the old gas range when the home improver provides a shiny new one for the kitchen? The Gas Appliance Manu facturers Association recommends a cellar spot for the old one. It will be ready for coffee breaks for the improver himself when he's at workbench tasks, or for bis wife when she's at the laundry or other cellar chores. The extra cooking capacity fits in when the guest list taxes even the spacious modern gas range. 6IFTS TOT KEEP ON .GIVIH6-0- Give her an automatic gas appBiasice for Christens It's the newest trend, and she'll love any one of them. A modern automatic gas range is faster . . . more controllable . . . cooler . . . smokeless broiling! And with the modern top-burner heat control she can dial any heat and make all her pots and pans automatic! Or give her an automatic gas clothes dryer . . . it's so much faster . . . more economical. Or the glamorous new Ice Server Gas Refrig erator. No trays ... no defrosting! Or an automatic gas, water heater will give her loads of really hot, "sanitizing" water to make all her household work easier! And remember gas is so much faster! Ohuk tW m I it I I ii vjtvsiJi I v I kwi a J 9, ri 1 cooo a t?"V MAKE IT S ' T WHITE T r 44$ Xt iv.,.-t- ' I 1 ", I , ?IVt:V 1, t ,al ). 1 'iftl 'y(i3 : Hzz iyu. g tw i nsin ahiatfflsalifaina-aian M nrliiif""h- CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC UTILITIES COMPANY Pacific Building Phone OR 2-7526 A Small Deposit Holds The Gas Appliance of Your Choice 'Til Christmas BUDGET PLAN TO FIT YOUR NEEDS YV Vat ill
