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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1975)
r I r xkxt week is average, aotne 20,000 American families will buy house. Guiding them in making this most important single purchase of their lives is a minion of the Housing Research Foundation of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Tex. ' A nonprofit organization aimed at improving our living standards, the foundation works with architects and builders throughout the country to foster better homo construction. Its Homo Buyer's Handbook, which is based on this work, offers advice on things to consider before you sign on the dotted line Hero are some of the foundation's suggestions: 1. The answer probably is "no", if you are recently married, have little furniture, are considering em ployment elsewhere, or are the parents of grown and married children, for moat families, however, owning a homo is satisfactory and desirable. You may not save money in the long run, but a house gives you pride of ownership phis a secure sense of belonging. r 1. Mow do y f asset aaefre, a a sT The advertising section of your local newspaper is -one of the best places to start Your friends also may give you leads. Most important of all, keep your eyes open as you drive around, but first call a family con feronce on your requirements to guide you in your choice. When you go house hunting, be sure to take pencil, paper, and a pocket compassyou'll want to preserve information on room and closet size, and the direction in which rooms face. . In an older housr, youH probably get quite an in vestment in trees, lawn, and plants.-But you may also get considerable trouble. For one thing, you'll (ADVERTISEMENT) :" - - - v L SUV STAai 1. PtOWST . . . nerve responses gradually tuned out of your brain , SUtP STAM 3. UOHT , . . skin temperature lower . . . heart beat slower . 11-YEAR RESEARCH EXPLORES THE FOUR STAGES OF SLEEP POt 11 YUkS, people like yon went to sleep fat laboratory sleep rooms. Young people. Old people. Single-bed sleeper. Married couples in double beds. While they slept, sensitive elec tronic equipment recorded their brain waves, heart beats, muscu lar tension, skin temperatures. As a result, man's knowledge of sleep has been vastly increased. Ia this extensive live research, leading scien tists, doctors, physiologists and technicians were able to fully explore and measure the 4 stages of sleep. Their scientific charts show: - . IN UIH STA6I 1, the drowsy stage, your body and mind have begun to relax. Nerve responses are gradually tuned out of your brain. SUSP STAM 1 sees relaxation increase. Senses become more dulled. Skin temperature is lower. You have reached light tlttp. SUSP STAM S reveals lest muscular tension, lower blood pressure. This is moderately ittp sleep very im portant because mind and body are getting the recupera tive rest thafs so urgently seeded. SUB STAM 4 sees brain activity at a minimum, the heart beat slowed down, the skin cooler. This is the most ' precious sleep of all-deep sound sleep. gcieaci bat aWs-ered hew yea sleep, and scieace can show yoa how to get better sleep, too, simply by the right choke of mattress. SWll vVflrVM SfceMV "StaaeV SleMg9 During this 11-year study, without the sleepers' knowl edge, an the leading types of mattresses were rotated through the sleep rooms, . Finally when all the findings oa all the sleepers were , put together, a composite box score showed that one make t
