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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1958)
PACE 12 D HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1958 Wood Paneled Walls Ideal For Modern Kitchen Decor 1 IUI" mjrv A" I J. 1 1 rti f , . ,1 .tri WARMTH AND INTEREST are added to a kitchen when built-im of knotty western pine paneling cover all wall surfaces. This kitchen contains a maximum of efficiency and attractiveness in a comparatively small space, making the room easy on the feet and easy on the eyes. With proper treatment, wood paneling stands up well for years under hard kitchen use. Color and decorative interest are becoming increasingly import ant requirements for the modern kitchen. They rank alongside con venience jnd efficiency. The housewife is no longer sat isfied with an assortment of the latest appliances crammed into whatever space is available, says the Western Pine Association. Today's kitchen must be well in tegrated to carry out its main functions: preparation, serving, and. if need be, consumption of food, plus cleaning up afterward. To meet these requirements the modern kitchen is planned to make best use of the space avail able. There are continuous work counter areas with adequate stor age near ihe main activity cen ters. Utensils are stored close to where they are used. The main purpose of kitchen de sign is to reduce time and effort of the housewife. But that's not enough. The woman of the house wants her time in the kitchen to be spent as enjoyably as possible. Builders have discovered that she wants a cheerfully decorated room with gay colors. The monot onous sameness of the laboratory like kitchens of only a decade ago is no longer acceptable, no mat ter how modern the appliances in the setting There is a craving for individuality in kitchen decoration. To achieve this note, wood pan cling, a popular feature of the days of the coal stove, is making a big comeback in kitchens but in a completely modern dress. The forests of he western pine region produce 10 species of woods that are particularly well - suited to kitchen use. Each species has its charaetcris.ic grain, color, and knot pattern for warmth and in terest with an individual touch. An unlimited range of modern finishes can add any color to the wood and slill permit its natural characteristics to show through. Western pine paneling also meets another important require ment for a kitchen surface: easy maintenance. Properly treated, it will stand up well under the hard est use for the life of the house. for a kitchen or any rooming,, wnetc paneling may dc suojecied to m a i s t u r e or temperature changes, 1,'s wise to use a scaler on the wood. For either a natural or stained treatment, a covering finish ofi lear brushing lacquer is a good! choice in kitchen woodwork. Two! or three coats make a durable sur face. To lake off some of the shine, it may be desirable to buff Hie last coat lightly with .No. 3-0 steel wool. In kitchens-especial!., a coating of wax over the lacquer finish will make the paneling easy to main tain. Care of this kind of finish con gists of routine dusting plus an occasional washing and rewaxing use a damp cloth or sponge with a small amount of mild soap or a natural detergent and water. To restore the luster and protec tive coating, either paste or iquid wax is suitable. Here Is Why The Food Bill Stays Up High LAFAYETTE. Ind. in Purdue University economists have draft ed an explanation for housewives who can't understand why food prices have gone up while' the larmer s share of the retail food dollar has gone down. Jim Stevenson and Clara Wendt, consumer education specialists, re port it is true that the farmer now gets only about 40 cents of the food dollar, compared with 53 cents in 11145. But the difference, they assert, is not due to excessive profits by any greedy middleman. Profits of food marketing firms have been traditionally low, compared to the sales, alter taxes, in 1955. The Purdue specialists listed these as some of the reason for higher prices to the housewife: ' Hates for shipping agricultural uducts by railroad have increased by 75 per cent in the last 10 years. Truck rates generally have fol lowed rail rates. The cost of labor for marketing agricultural prrtducts was 273 per cent higher m 1!I5 than in 1940. innumerable "built - in" serv ices have bcei, added to the food line cleaning, trimming shell ing, mixing, pre-cooking and fancy packaging all adding to t h e cost. The Purdue experts say Mrs. America evidently is willing to pay for more attractive, ready-to-cook fund. She spent 25 per cent of her disposable income on food in l!.ifi. If she had been willing to accept food of the type and quality of 20 years ago, she could have ht it for .16 per cent of her income. WAIT TILL SIMMER AT -LAST BANGOR. Me l'P At 101. JaiiH's Hamsey, a 'native of New foundland, soon will realize his tondest dream. He has been no tified he will be admitted to the American citizenship he was re fused 40 years ago when he lacked the necessary papers. FAIR EXCHANGE IIOLYOKE. .Mass. l'P "A re tired painter desires to exhenag labor for dental work." read a classified ad in the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. J. T. Roy. who inserted Ihe ad. got fast results. A dentist needed some painting Book Boat On The Erie. Canal Editor's Note: Author Samue! Hopkins Adams has written more than 50 books, ranging from a sen sational expose of the Harding Ad ministration ("Incredible Era") to 'Night Bus," which became the award-winning movie "It Happened One Night." His mellowing years have been devoted mostly to nos talgic, witty re-creations of oldtime upstate New York. By SAMUEL II. ADAMS In an age teeming with print. it is difficult to imagine this na tion as book-starved. Yet, so it was in the first quarter of the Nine teenth Century. A common wealth firmly established, econom ically confident, and swiftly ex panding was turning to the inter ests of the mind. Two dozen or more classical colleges were fos tering an American culture which seeped down through the body pol itic, a growing public craved read ing mailer. Prospective readers found thin pickings. Libraries were c o n- fined to the large cities. The lit. erate farmer or small town resident and a surprising number of them were literate must depend upon private amenity for his literary auaienunce ana Dorrow trom the parson, the lawyer, or the M D though the local taproom would probably carry an almanac or two and the bank, a weekly. Only the well-to-do could afford to buy books when a copy of Don Sfinxoie cost So and a schoolmas ter's wage was 50 cents a day ' payable, as like as not, in oats, flaxseed or gunpowder). Nevertheless presses sprang up. Hooks and pamphlets were pub lished. The demand was insistoni Distribution was the difficulty. The iiirnpiKe siage had no spare space for literature. Freight wagons were crowded with the necessities of life. Postal service was casual and costly. The book trade was threat ened with stagnation. Then, with a wave of his politico magical wand Gov. Dp Will riininn drove the Grand Erie Canal through me reiueiani soil ot New York niaie, irom Hudson s River to Erie Water, and "Clinton's Ditch," de rided and denounced by penny pinching, politicos, became over night the glory and boast of the whole nation, the Eighth Wonder of the World. Freighting rates dropped 90 ner cent. Transportation was off upon us greatest recorded boom. The new waterway bore proudly upon us iour-iooi depths. Albany to Buf falo, every requisite of a boominn growth from pianofortes to pickled eeis everything except books. In tne early records of the tax-locks no quotation on rates for printed matter is found. Just when the pioneer hook huckster entered upon the mari time scene is a lost item of his tory. My paternal grandfather, who helped dig the Erie 'his fa ther was a canal contractor) and was, throughout his lifetime, a passionate defender and fanatic patron of it, thinks that the Great Idea originated before 1830 and that literary canal traffic began as a sideline to one of those Re fined Educational Animal Shows, common along the turnpikes and at country fairs, which had taken to the water. Though he remembered neither the name of the boat nor of the showman, he was quite sure that in the spr;ng either of 1828 or 1829 the' waterborne attractions of a live bear, a stuffed python, an educated monkey, and a bob cat painted with tigerstripes, were augmented by a supply of books lor rent. He recalled, also, and with disapproval, that the floating library carried a sale-stock of bowksheets (a bowker was a low grade purveyor of improper lit erature I; penny broadsides Im printed with ribald ballads, "less edifying than risible,-" said Grand father. That was but the embryo. A few years later there was launched a full-fledged Book Boat, so titled across its stern, which covered the full breadth of the state. It carried a varied line, heavily slanted toward the theological trade at the lop and toward tap room custom at the bottom, from! Alarum to Unconverted Sinners! and Buck's Theological Dictionary ("full of edifying information")! to the Universal Jest Book and such excitants of mirth as Sorrow-' fill Sam and "Thinks I to Myself' Who?" ("very comical") at the' bottom. The Book Boat pursued a leisure ly course, often taking a month in the full traverse, Albany to Buffalo. Wherever sufficient inter-; est was manifested it would "look up for a post" in canalside par lance, tie up to it, and throw open : its Heading Room. Here for 2 cents a hour, or 10 cents a day Se brains of the settlement might lud satisfaction. A well attested patron could car ry the volume of his choice home with him at a per diem rental con sonant with the price of the book. There was also a small stock of. duplicates for outright sale, but as local bookstores began to develop, usually in conjunction with the drug trade, this phase diminished. How long these floating librar ies lasted is uncertain; up to Civ il War time. Grandfather believes. By that time there was no furth er need for them. Libraries, large and small, had sprung up across the face of the nation, The Book Boat is forgotten now by all but his torians and specialists. But, in its . day it played an important, per haps even a vital part. At a pe riod when it was most needed it became a radiating agency of lit erature. There was no olher dis tributive mechanism of its kind. The Book Boat was a pioneer. EBER HAGEN I.AWN MOWERS SHARPENED EN'filNKS REPAIRED 4.TJ7 SHASTA WAV Sre Our Ad In Clasairlpdt PAINT THINNER Gol. .-:-..)iffl?.-. A "MUST" with your Rotary Mower 'v-v STATE FARMS ACCOUNT FOR MUCH BUYING POWER More than one-half billion rinl. lars annual "buying' power" in Oregon's economy has been cred ited directly to the state's agri culture by an Oregon State College agricultural economist. Dr. Gerald E, Korzan has com- pleted a study of Oregon agri culture showing that gross farm income plus value added in the first step of marketing contribut ed $571 million lo the slate's econ omy in IH5U. The. total does not include Im portant dollar payrolls provided by such activities as wholesaling transportation, and storage of (arm produce en route to retail markets. BOOKLET PITTSFIELD. Mass. 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