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12-(Sec. II) Statesman Salem, Ore., Sun., Nov. 11, '58 Garden Calendar.. Nov. lilt-Oregon Weed Control Conference, Bend. Nov. li-ls-Holiday Magic Show, Olympic Hotel. Seattle. Nov. JO Sheridan Garde Club ;meeting. Mrs. W. H. Brandt, host- est. Program: Mn. Brandt to fcpeak on "Jama and Jellies from :Wild Fruit' nt. M-2S Christmas ' Show, Clackamas County, Canbr High School auditorium. Admission 40 Nor. Jt-lJ-Holiday fcbow, Toledo City Hall. Hourst Saturday, 1 to 7 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to a p.m. tit. S-JNational Vegetable Growers Convention. Grand Ra pid. Mich. .";" ; Nov.. -Dee. 1-8 Rogue River pistrict Christmas Ida Show, North Fend Community Bldg. Hours: Fri tiay, 230 to p.m.; Saturday. 10 k m. to I p m.; Sunday, noon to pm. t Dee. M Merry Christmas Around the World, Portland CRHSt-f. mas Show, Rose Bowl, Multnomah Hotel ' ." Dee. I Salem Garden Club. Top , k: Christmas Customs and JUg )nds by members and guest. Dee. 1-1 Christmas Show, Wind iore Hotel, Tacoma, Wash. i Dee. M-lt-Salem Garden Club Christmas Green Show, Isaak Wal ton building. - - lAP Dt'E FOB HONOR . , I TOKYO. Nov. 10 tfv-Kenji Miro 'guchi, a leading Japanese movie director who died last August, will .receive a special tribute at the .Venice .. motion picture , festival )iext summer. Two of his pictures won top awards at Venice in 1951 lend 1953.. . . when you see the new ComtMt CowNtt 6m NuN for Nthml 6m . 3 M M TnoVh for tow Old Ol Dm Unit il 0ffNM Xew wiWBaoTj D. E. COOPER Son SMHoodSt. Phone 13603 PILijGQ- FB.0' AUTOMATIC WASHER to fto fm 2 VASI! srnss! 2sn:i srnrs! nbiostto SSo SM Inl ClMM 1 1 . . .- . X'T Green Stamps Cptn ton. & Fri. 'Til 9 P. M. 5 " n. ccvvrciAL 5 ' Beauty of Paneled Walls Depends Upon Finishings The real secret b jetting tha most In beauty and attractiveness out of your wood paneled walls is in the finish, advise wood finish ing expert. . Attention to detail at-,time of finishing coupled with proper ma terials, can make even a dub look like a master1 craftsman. The trouble Is too many people don't like to put In the extra elbow grease to get a really first class job so they sometimes settle for a cheap Job that will always look cheap. Softwoods Finish Easily The softwoods available today at most retail lumber yards in the country take every conceivable kind of finish. The final appear- ance oi walls, builtina and other installations of Douglas fir, west coast hemlock or western red cedar are limited only by the tastes and desires of the home- maker. Leather Lines Many Dresser Drawers Now The inside of dreser drswers should be as dressy as the outside,, according to Paul McCobb. McCobb, one of the leading de signers of modern furniture, is lin ing drawers with leather usually to match the exterior paneling on bis ease goods. - The leather inside and out comes on the most stylish and expensive pieces. Usually the colors match green, yellow or rust In the drawer linings and on the out side panels. Some people have ordered pale blue leather for the chests, he reported. : McCobb said he uses leather on his storage pieces because "it is warm, interesting and practical." He added: "Interiors for the storage of nice things should be lined with a good looking material like leather." Other case goods designers at the market also dressed up drawer interiors by painting them dead white Women who want to make draw ers more decorative on the Inside can use inexpensive atickon paper and achieve a pretty and practical effect. : - - Oregon Roadside Council to Meet . v ... " ; The annual meeting of the Oregon Roadside Council will be held at the Portland Garden Club, 1132 SW Vista Avenue,, at noon Tuesday. A buffet lucheon has been arranged for, and a number of Salem area members plan to attend. John R. Vanderzicht, director of the Washington Stutm Parks and Recreation commission win M guest speaker. ' . ' Flection of off icers will follow brief committee reports. !igh Speed Dryer tsi.'b Autcststic Ccr.Jrcl hSQ-lKixTPattk Colors end ttkiti WASHER AVAILABLE WITH NEW AUTOMATIC SUOS RETURN SYSTEM! TTTi Tranrhised Dealer A;-, "ance Display QfiSDTGEJjl WASHER AND DRYER per week NO DOWN PAYMENT ML These popular softwood can be mushed to retain their natural grains, texture and colorings by varnish, rex, lacquer or wax fin ishes. They can be stained, painted, enameled, or antiqued. There are dozens of variations to each one of these Individual fin ishes. For instance, where it is desired to retain the texture and grain of the wood but to change the tone in some manner to fit with color achemes or other decor, an almost endless variety of stain, paint and ret may be put on, then wiped off immediately, leaving tints or color shadings. Here are Just a few of the many ways fir, cedar and hemlock walls may be finished by the above method; Walnut stain, lead blue paint with chrome- greee pigments, walnut with . chrome yellow, sage rex, chrome green with burnt um ber. -The combinations, inflections, shadings are endless, 6ae4 Properly - Experts lay down certain dog matic rules when finishing fir. hemlock or cedar or any of the other softwoods. All wood surfaces must be sanded with 4-9 sandpaper or buffed smooth as a starting point. Proper sanding is important in obtaining the most perfect pos sible finish. Next step is to stain, res or paint on color if this is desired then wipe off. A coat of lacquer sealer is next suggested and when thoroughly dry it should be sanded with No. 300 sandpaper. Subsequent coats of shellac, var nish, rex or lacquer may be ap plied depending on how much depth and patina is desired, snd each must be allowed to dry thor oughly and each coat must be sanded smooth before another is added. Final coat can be sanded down with No. 500 wet or dry paper plua paraffin oil thinned with mineral thinner, then wiped clean and rubbed with No. 4-0 steel wool Tile Helps Make Kitchen Gay, Colorful You can keen up with the trend toward color in the kitchen by in stalling small tiles instead of large appliances. L You may not want to invest in yellow refrigerator or a tur quoise stove, but for $30 you can buy ceramic tile and design your own kitchen color scheme. For as little as $30 the appear ance of a kitcben can be en hanced with a panel above a sink and drain or for about $300 a whole kitchenette can be. built with the most colorful and best tile in any one of scores of col ore, combinations and designs. Aside from the initial low cost. It lasts rorever. -As proof ot the durability of tilt excavations in Egypt, notably in the Steppe Pyramids, wbere tile used in 3,000 B. C. is as good today as when it was installed. Tile is still primarily used in the bathroom and kitchen these days, but it also can be found in a number of rooms in the most modern homes as mantels, panels,- walling lor patios,- halls, play rooms and basements. ortakla Ifocfric THERMADOR fcUSTK KUT-FAN k. ;ifwr K$avy-Duty Heat or Summer Cooling MIT MTIOM. tint It M k itwtlr for KtM, KkM, orttto or lUSUTtt OMllH Mt a) SOBS o) 40N mm MOMttlMu as iia, ojfo enHfl olldk - -,. .-. $50.75 lain sis wtnstk if i lift, elsas TMrudsr tltrtrls strier tadayi RICHES ELECTRIC CO. 236 Stat St. Ph. 2-4156 I Whenever You Heed! Lplohty of xm ran ol ow I H Answers To Garden Questions (Editor's Note; We like U re. eelve fneatlons and any little bits ef information about your home fardea that yon would like to tell as about. But please doa't expect aaawera to your questions the following Soaday after they are mailed. This week we got two each letters asking for "tan mediate answers la aext Soa daj'i". If they need Immediate atteatloa we try to move them forward. Bat we do get a am ber of qneillani and sometimes have quite a stack ahead. Please be patient.) - i, ' OOO.,.". Questira:Can you give us infor mation about construction of little greenhouse? Or tell us where we can get such information? G.F. Answer Oregon State College has bulletins about this. We be lieve your county agent there in Daiias migni nave some oi me bulletins. ooo Question Christmas Rose is be ing choked out by Call Lily. Could move it now? Or would I lose it? It never blooms until February because it is shaded too much Don't tell me to dig the calla lily as it's roots go down to China. Are there two Christmas roses, one a rose red and one a green ish white or cream? E.K. Answer As we started reading this question, we had our answer all framed for moving the calla lily then we came to the calla lily part! However, this is a good time to move and divide calla lilies, if they need it. It is a little late to replant the Christmas Rose now September would have been all right. You probably wouldn't lose the plant, but you would likely lose this year's bloom. If you don't want to move the calla lily, better wait until the Christmas Rose has bloomed this year and then care fully remove it from the calla lily territory. These plants like at least partial shade, and a cooL moist soil. The ideal toil is a retentive loam, freely mixed with leaf mold and well-rotted manure. As they are impatient of disturbance at the roots, choose a place where they will not be required to be dis turbed very often. "There are two distinct types of Helleborus: The Christmas rose flowering as yours does, in Jate winter (sometimes these, in the right location will actually flower at Christmas), and the Lenten Rose, the greenish white which flowers in early spring, - Qaeotlon You told ui 'to treat the soil in which we lost a rhodo dendron, with aldrin or dieldrin to kill root weevil. We have dona this Now do we have to wait a year to plant somethina else in this spot? H.H. Aaswer Yon do not have to wait at alL The aldrin or Dieldrin, whichever you used, should have destroyed the weevils, but has no effect on the soil itself. Water Spots StainFloor A common floor problem fac ing housewives today is water spotting but there are ways of minimizing it The iirst and most important rule is to wipe up spilled water immediately, using a , slightly damp cloih or sponge. Water will spot any type of floor finish varnish, sealer, shel lac or wax. On some finishes the water merely evaporates, leaving a whitish deposit of minerals. On other finishes, water actually changes the color, texture or gloss. .Floors finished with a polishing type wax are not nearly so sus ceptible to spotting" a those treat ed with self-polishing wax and can be restored simply by wiping or buffing. If the water contains some foreign material such as food or soap, however, recoating and polishing may be necessary. Self-polishing waxes become more water-resistant with age, some taking 48 hours to attain maximum resistance. If wiping does not restore gloss, a little of the self-polishing wax spread thinly on the affected area may help. , Water is particularly bad for wood, causing stains and rough ness of (rain. It also can affect certain pigments in linoleum, vinyl, asphalt and rubber tile, causing a change in color. ., NEW LOW IT fll NIL GLASS HEAT PANELS CHOICE COUTIIIEIITAL-CRYSTAL-BERKO BASE BOARD PANELS, ETC. OlAlt IA0IAMT HICUIC t0 eroodwty Home sind Asparagus Popular as Garden Crop By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman So many requests for informa tion on growing, asparagus have reached me that I asked Oregon Mums Arrange Easily - ; ' ' ' : a m saL w. -wsak-oa. -w r ov. ' . i : . ; I ' ' ' J '111 I J '.If I I 1 ' " ' t 1 ..... A This Is chrysanthemum season, which lends itself to excellent arrangements. Also there are colon for every background. Here are two of the popular arrangements at last week-end's show in Salem Heights. Neither is a difficult arrangement and both are useful. Had the candles in the dark arrangement been placed to the left, they would have been more effective, the judges believed. PRICES!! I OF ClYITAl MAT CO. , WW rk 14)0 State College for specific infor matlon on this perennial vege table. Because of the numerous requests, the information will be run in rather full form and in and the 'mums are one flower ATTENTION GREENHOUSE OWNERS,,. lie i ' ' " 1 V General Veclric Soil Hearing Cable in 60 ft. lengths at our - low, low price of only $95 1 Garden two installments, -Asparagus is our most import ant perennial vegetable crop in the Willamette Valley. In recent years' its popularity aa a commer cial farm item has increased, but it is also grown largely, yet, in the home garden. Oregon's com mercial production is around 400 acres. Produces Long Asparagus should be given space along with other perennial crops at one side ot the nome garden. With good care, the planting should last 12 or more years, it mould not De repiaiuea frequently, so the advice is to choose a place where it will not have to-be jnoved constantly. As the stalks tend to become small, a new planting should be started, and the old one de stroyed. Commercial asparagus growers usually plant some acre age every five tr six years, so they will have a regular harvest each year Asparagus is an early produc ing vegetable which comes in at time when the garden is rela tively unproductive.. Stalks cut fresh in the garden and prepared for eating make a product of high quality. The longer the stalks are held after cutting, the more fi brous and hard the base becomes, and the smaller the amount that is edible. While asparagus produces ear lier on sandy loam soil, it sdapts itself readily to nearly any soil, aa well as to a variety of climatic conditions. Deep Soil Good A deep fertile loam soil with good air and water drainage is desirable. Sandy soils produce earlier crops because they warm up faster in the spring. A slight ly acid reaction with a pH of 6.0 to 8.5 is preferred, if you want to be technical. Mary Washington, a rust-resistant variety of asparagus, is still a leader in the Willamette Val ley. Another good variety being grown, is California 500. Qualities most desired in a paragus stock are rust resistance, good color and length of stalk, long holding without woodiness, and adaptability to freezing as ..... . While asparagus is grown from seed, most gardeners plant 1- year-old crowns, grown from se lected seed by specialists in root and plant production. The use of strong year-old crowns, gives a year's advantage and a much bet ter planting. Even then one should not' harvest .ay crop the first year, but allow all strength to be stored in the crown. This should bring about a good pro duction of strong shoots the sec ond year. When they become spindly or crooked, in the second and succeeding years, cutting should stop snd the planting should be given good care to build up the crowns. ' Prepare Bed Well Since asparagus is normallv planted and left in one place for a number of years, it is quite im portant that the soil be well pre pared. Perennial weeds and grasses should be eliminated be fore planting. The organic matter content of the soil should be built up for a year or two prior to field planting. Faster work is done in the home garden. Stable manures or green manure crops are help- lui. fan plowing or spading is desirable to incorporate this material in the soil well ahead of planting time. In larger plantings, commer cial fertilizers of around a 5-10-10 formula are used for this crop. One to two thousand pounds per sere are used, depending on fertility of the soil. After the planting is producing, a complete fertilizer is applied after harvest, and some nitrogen in the early .spring jf needed or better growth. 11 you have an old planting Victorian Chairs Turn to Pastels Victorian furniture' is going pas tel for late 1956. Pink, blue and green finishes on normally mahogany Victorian chairs appeared at" the Interna tional Home Furnishings Market in Chicago recently. The pastels were used in tone-on-tone effects: The pink-painted chairs had - velvet upholstery in darker rose, the pale blue chairs were covered in deep blue velvet, and the light green chairs had deeper green covers. This it tha bast grade of lead covered cabla available today and at a price lower than most plastic covered cabla sets. ' VIBBERT ELECTRIC SSI Court St: Phone 39031 O o O which you wish to renovate, put a mulch of well oecayed compost or barnyard manure , over the plants. In the 'case of compost scatter a small handful of the Garden Gabbing By GARDEN GADDER IT'S SAFE NOW To mention or ' Democrat without beina little story before but thought best not to bring it up in case we would be accused of politic-ing. But we've often thought that more of us should do what Mrs. Bob Mautx did for Ike and Mamie Eisenhower. Mrs. Bob is the wife of the Republican national everyone knows by now. She ing up tne rooms me Dig loiks were to occupy. Mrs. Mautz was in charge of decorations for the presidential suite at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland for the President s visit . . . She didn't get great big chrysanthemums or even roses (which would have been excellent, but Mamie had been given her roses). She did something different. In the suite Mrs. Mautz featured Oregon fruits and holly. And Mamie was really impressed. She wrote in part: "You can't imagine how pleasantly surprised my husband and I were to be greeted by such exquisite fruit and flower arrangement, and we went from one to the other explaining about your artistry." (The letter waa addressed to Mrs. Mautz.) Nice going, Bob and Mrs, Bob in more ways thsn one! WE'VF-GOT-'F.M, TOO We got a complaint by mail today from a lady who lives aa State Street. She talked about how she missed the colorful trees from her owe beloved mid west . . . how tired she was of our "dead grrea, Green, GREEN the only color yon have here!" We feel very badly that the dear lady is so blind. All she had to do was go out oa her front porch or lawa and look right down State Street, toward the west. The birth along Willamette University campus are still lovely (they may not bo by today Sunday, as the leaves were coming dowa fast). W have never seen the tree1 more lovely and colorful than tba year ... or coming east on Court Street from downtown ... I There are many lovely trees in the State House groun that have been so colorful this year although we think tf green trees are pretty, too. The two Japanese maples (Aa Palmarum) on the east side of the Capitol' are worth walk! several blocks to see. And the small-leaved Field Maple (Aj Campestra) have furnished a clear yellow on the Cap) grounds. ' ' A HOBBY THAT PAYS We with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Halvorson in their chrysanthemui dens east of Siiverton on the Marquam Road. j We had understood that they frosts . . . but their chrysanthemum h)usAwas as full and ei aa ever, and the dwarf varieties growmg--tight outside wea beautiful ... It had taken some doing for the Halvorsonsj place and acquire sufficiently for such a showing but the gathered from far and near ... "You see it s a bobby although mostly it pays or lue somehow one doesn't seem to mind on a hobbv. Mrs. U3lvorson explained. show where she had done very ! prizes. She had also judged at we knew, been invited to judRe vania. too. but turned this down folk first, ror 19 years now, Mrs, ror 19 years now, Mrs. hobby . . . "and if I'm not careful, she-laughed this week. Some of land some from Canada others She had "hated to miss the told us she had tieard that it was And she had heard correctly. was one of the best of its kind that to see the variety of chrysanthemums which had come thr the winter someplace ... and ments. 43 SHOPPING DATS Have Not nearly enough gardeners (including ourselves) label nearly j enough plant around the garden. There's a new metal label . that comes in assorted sizes, 256 labels for S3.75. we noted. If your giftee is sn African Violet fan, well, yon have one of the g west's big collections right at Salem to choose from . . . 25.001 ; . violets . . . there's eve a new miniature called "Salem Allur Ing." There are bulbs in gift packages, too tulips, daffodils and between Christmas and New Year Isn't too late to plant them for spring bloom . . . and for the home within, there are the porcelain drawer pulls for furniture; These come in many . bright shades, pastels and so on. Teenage girls like them in their rooms . i . Those we saw were six in a box for $10.15. CHORKS FOR THE WEEK Watch vour new transplants. Niver let them dry out. That may seem Valley garden. Actually it isn't. and transplants can be gone. Stake them properly, too, if they are trees or shrubs, so that they don't whip around in the wind. Top dress lily of the valley beds now with well decayed manure. If you have a clump of trilliums in your garden, this some treatment will be very welcome here, too. Continue making compost piles. Dont let the leaves go to waste. Put bonemeal around lilacs if they seemed in need of fertilizer last spring. - , Pottery Painting Notes Revival An art the Indians and Mexicans developed to perfection hand painting .of pottery is being re vived in the Southwest for decora tion of inexpensive china. Artists are finding that china dishes from Europe or Japan can be turned into lovely home decora tions with little more skill than' a steady hand, and adequate color perception. Patterns can be follow ed by the less adept. The painted designs are "fired in a kiln to make them permanent. China painting is 'an offshoot of a general revival in do-it-yourself" ceramics. Ashtrays, shelf dec Answers to Crossword Puzzle A l Fi alien! IS h i rQ Iob OjE itwatm ImIaIki'cIcIJp a g a nIJm E Pjl EfrqA ddk tote STEINITnE SIT ATE . jdISiu Btl STTBT5 ' fnci"AB KENT TT nTjt ft 5 UC eir f Hatq S T E RriTflY RUff '1Eer QuBlN A - TlzfeDC H AIL E T 5NjvrMA i Tr! . QliCOR TICAL IMrETSamE .. MOlRSE iUVEA isllRLrME " New Biauty for Your Windows Manufacturers of Salem Venetian Blinds Cut to Measure Window Shades Ccpitcl Shcde end Drcpery Shop 1695 Fairgrounds Rd. Phone 4-1 S5o Lillio L iMadscn 5-10-10 fertilizer over the com-" post. In early spring,: give the plants a little t nitrogen to jet them off to a good start. (CoaUnaoVext week) the dreadful words "Republican" accused of lobbvins. We knew thia committeeman for Oregon, as most used true Oregon articles for pretty visited a bit one day this bad lost their 'mums in last spending extra time and nicely, thanx you, in the the Vancouver show ... . Sh at the national show in P as she had promised the w Halverson hi Halverson has grown muml it's going to get into a busii her plants- have come from I from the east in our own eou Salem show," too, this yearj ''excellent." We were there, and thougfj we had seen. We were surpr the very many excellent arraa o von seen the new metal labeliTi like odd advice in a Willamette A few days of cold, drying wind, orations, vases and eating dishes become "originals" fn homes where the housewife doubles as a craftsman. Hand-painted pottery or china al so make welcome gifts. A white Japanese china cup selling fof a nickel or a dime can become the cherished personal dish ot a child when painted with puppy or kitty figures and inscribed with the child's own name. Japan's birth rate has dropped faster than that of any other na-. tion in recent times, according to United Nations' reports. " Custom-Made Draperies, Shaies, Venetian Blinds Combination Screen I St ornT Doors Kirsch Drapery Rods end Hardware