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SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 195o
LP AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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RALPH DAI.ZELL
convenience outlets
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Electric
older houses and apartments are
often too few and result in the in
convenience of tangled wires and
plugging in and out of various ap
pliances. A fire hazard exists not
only in the tangled wires, but in
possible overloading and improper
fusing when lighter fuses burn
out. Without proper fusing the
wires within walls could become
hot enough to start fires.
Molding outlet strips provide an
inexpensive way of securing all
needed outlets, without the mess of
chopping plaster and redecorating.
The simple materials may be pur
chased at hardware or electric sup
ply stores.
Picture A shows part of a typical
baseboard found in most homes,
and an installation of molding out
let strips in sections about sixteen
inches long and with two outlets
per section. Sections are shown at
1-2 and 3-4. The strips are made
so that any number can be joined
simply by pushing the end of one
strip into another. Two .or three
wire circuits are available.
By installing only four molding
strips, for example, eight new out
lets are available. Sections for in
side and outside corners are also
available. Sections for inside and
outside corners are also available,
to extend along walls and around
corners. Moldings may be painted.
Picture B shows how the mold
ing strips can be installed on a
wall at any distance above the
floor for convenient use in kitch
en, hobby and recreation areas.
Picture C shows the strips above
or below work benches, shelves and
counter tops. Six or more outlets
can be provided in a kitchen or
for "power tools in a workshop.
As indicated in pictures A and
D. the strips are attached to walls
or other surfaces with screws.
Holes for the screws are provided
at the proper places in the mold
ings, so the installation work con
sists of simply screwing the mold
ings to wood, plaster and lath or
other materials. Masonry anchors
can be set into the surfaces of
masonry walls.
Small moldings at the top of
baseboards can be removed and
the molding outlets installed in
their places, or old molding can
be placed over the molding outlets
as shown in picture A. The electric
molding can be placed over base
boards which hasno topping ma
terial. One section of the molding strip
(see picture E) should have a
romex or other connection made by
a professional electrician because
he will know how to create the
necessary circuit for the molding
strips and how to install it so the
whole job will be safe from fire
and other disadvantages. This de
vice is relatively inexpensive to
install when compared with other
methods of adding convenience out
lets. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. How often should wax be ap
plied to a good hardwood floor?
A. Generally not more than three
times a year. Too much wax is
worse than none. With an excess,
floors appear dirty. Areas in con
stant and hard use, as around
doors, can be given extra coats.
Q. What paint can be used on
hot metal surfaces?
A. Silicone resins are used in
making heat-resistant coatings.
They are readily available in hard
ware and paint stores.
Q. What kind of paint should be
used for kitchen appliances?
A. Glamour finishes on kitchen
appliances are especially formulat
ed to withstand acids, hot grease
and chemicals. Ask your paint deal
er for them.
THE "PLANTER POOL" can be very attractive in certain formal homes. The pool will add
warmth and gaiety to the stiff interior. Contrasting plants with different leaf structures
may be planted around the border as shown above.
save space for the annuals. This
procedure is good because it per
mits us to spade up and fertilize
each year the space provided the
annuals. Where the perennials are
Now Is The Time To Consider
Your Spring Gardening Plans
The lowest point in the United
States is Death Valley, which is
280 feet below sea level.
By CYNTHIA LOWRY
In this dead-of-winter period
just a little too soon for most of
us to start even the slowest of
our seeds the finest gardens ever
grown bloom gloriously on paper.
There is an old rule of thumb,
printed religiously each year about
this time in all the garden guides.
It instructs us to make a list of
seeds to be ordered and then to
cut it neatly in half before send
ing the order to the seed house.
Like most rules of thumb, it con
tains much sense.
But if one studies seed cata
logues while simultaneously con
sulting rude sketches of garden
beds, it is almost impossible
to over-order. Those sketches,
with trees, shrubs and the posi
tions of herbaceous perennials duly
noted, indicate just how much
(or more likely, how little) room
there is for the annuals. Just about
the only serious over-ordering one
could do is an ounce of seed in
stead of the usual packet.
For most of us small home own
ers, a packet of seed is quite
enough for most purposes
even taking into consideration the
need of thinning out seedlings.
Most of us, in planning for gar
den blooms from April through to
the killing frost, take into consid
eration perennials, biennials and
annuals. Perennials are the plants
which live through winters to
bloom for many season's. Peren
nials include, of course, trees,
shrubs and hedges. They also in
clude phlox, daisies, peonies, chry
santhemums, columbine and a
host of others which die down to
their roots during the winter and
make new growth each spring. Bi
ennials are the plants forget-me-nots,
campanula, foxglove which
grow from seed one season, live
over a winter to flower, seed and
die the next. And annuals are the
ones that crowd their whole lives,
from seed to producing seed, into
a single season.
Ideally for the convenience of
the gardener and the health of
the plants a garden bed should
be carefully planned so that it
consists primarily of perennials or
of annuals. Or we can apportion
special areas to the perennials and
growing, we have the problem of
hand weeding and of digging-m
needed fertilizer without disturb
ing delicate root systems.
In theory and on paper all this
is very logical and very neces
sary. The trouble with it is that
gardeners have as much trouble
sticking to the plans as house
wives have sticking to their budg
ets. (Last year I had the nicest
space reserved for a fine assort
ment of annuals and ruined the
whole planting plan by heeling in
a large number of lilies a neigh
bor had dug up and was about
to throw away.) However, you
do get a better garden and yon
do have a better idea about what
you are doing with a plan than
just ordering by whim.
Garden books are full of draw
ings of model annual gardens,
model perennial beds and any of
them ought to help the beginner
get started.
Galvanized Cans j
Remain Odorless
Although steel is widely recog
nized for its durability, low-porosity
is another important feature
of this metal. Low-porosity means,
for example, that steel does not
hold odors as a softer material
often does. This is particularly
important to such functional prod
ucts as garbage cans and pails.
These containers, so often in con
tact with unpleasant-smelling ref
use, must resist retaining foul od
osr or they'll soon smell as bad
as the substances they contain.
For this reason, most garbage
cans and pails are made of gal
vanized steel which is steel coat
ed with zinc. Because of the low
porosity of these steel containers,
they are easily kept clean with
an occasional hosing or rinsing
with hot water.
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