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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1959)
SUNDAY, MAY TO, 1959 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE SEVEN .-J -It , . 4 r Tfcese modern tables will, dress up your patio and make themselves highly useful at the same time. They are one of 'the simplest do-it-yourself projects, since all you need to do is to attach legs to exterior-type fir plywood panels. Do-lt-Yourself Duffers Can Build Patio Tables Here's a one-evening do-it-yourself project that any duffer can handle and it will do wonders in brightening up you patio or ter race. It's a set of four sectional patio tables you can cut from just one standard txB-foot panel of fir plywood. These tables are colorful and ver satile' enough so that you can use thenV jndoors or out. Designed pri marily as low-cost, easily built ta ble' surfaces for outdoor living areas,' they can also be used as casual indoor furniture in a child's room or den. All you have to do to make them is cut the parts, mount blocks on the underside and screw in the hairpin legs which you can buy at almost any hardware store or re tail lumber yard. - The plywood surfaces can be painted just like any wood. If you RECESSED CEJUNG L6W FOCUSMS SPOTS Kitchens Need If you're chief cook. ' baker and bottle washer and you're reading this, it is a good bet that you're in your kitchen most of the time. Look around. Can the lighting ar rangement in .the kitchen be im proved by modernising? As in most homes the illumina tion in your kitchen can use over hauling, unless you happen to be tne happy owner of a recently built or modernized Medallion Home where the electrical excellence is as inviting as the welcome on the front door mat. For in these homes, "light for living" is one of "the three main premises on which the electrical standards are based. So, if your kitchen does need better lighting and wiring as do al most four out of five homes in America today, here are a few ideas to consider: First of all, to insure safety and top performance, call in a quali fied electrical contractor to survey the wiring 'and to -suggest and check ideas about lighting arrange ments. ' " ' " Here are some suggestions for If " "" sic, . o x -V"- are something of a perfectionist it would make good sense to buy plywood with a specially prepared painting surface. This kind of panel is called overlaid fir plywood. It has a plastic-like resin-soaked fiber surface on the panel face that provides an ideal base for paint, eliminating the occasional difficul ties like grain show-through one sometimes gets in applying paint directly to a wood surface. Either way, just make sure you get plywood with waterproof glue. When the job's done you'll have a colorful set of accent spots for the patio that can fit into corners or that you can scatter nicely around the area. A free plan folder showing you just how to cut out and assemble the tables is avail able. Write Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washing ton. CA&MEr LGHT Right Light types and placement of fixtures lor general, overall kitchen light ing: "Ceiling panels": Instead of the old-fashioned glove fixture, this semi-recessed type of illumination is widely used in modern kitchens especially in dropped ceilings. Us ing fluorescent tubes, there can be square, oblong or narrow pan els flush or a bit below the ceil ing. "Focusing spots": Either re cessed in the ceding or as swivel wall fixtures, the spots create use ful work light in the kitchen. To balance the general room il lumination, . direct lighting over counters and work centers also is to be planned for. "Built-in cabinet light": Some steel wall cabinets have accom modations for small fluorescent tubes built into the bottoms. This neat design puts direct light on the counter below it. "Counter light": Directly on the wall below upper cabinets, shielded fluorescent tubes can be installed to provide light over work counter. I -, ! There is a growing awareness among prospective home owners of the necessity of. a place for the home workshop. Of the millions of home work shops in existence, few were planned that way. Most of the time, a workshop whether it be in the basement, the attic, a ga rage or a spare room is a grad ual thing. You buy a hammer and a screwdriver and a pliers and a few other essential hand tools for minor repair work around the house. Then, some time later, you decide you want a portable elec trie drill and some of its acces sories. Before you know it, you Jind yourself with a workshop of sorts. After your workshop has grown you wish you had done a little planning ahead of time. You dis cover you have tools which you seldom, if ever, use . . . and you learn, one way or another, that there are some tools you need but do not "have. ' You discover that things are getting a bit crowd ed because you failed to allow room for expansion. You are torced to string an extension cord in some awkward arrangement be cause there is no handy outlet. And you run into other little an noyances which do not exactly pre vent you from fixing and making things, but which do make your job more ditticult. A lot of this can be avoided with a little planning at the start When you select a place to work, pick one that will allow for ex' pansion even if, at the time, you do not think you will get that ser ious about doing things yourself. Consider such matters as light, ventilation, heat, the availability of electrical outlets and space for wood and other materials you may be using. Buy or make a workbench that will be serviceable over the years, not one that is a make shift affair that you'll never get around to changing. Give some thought to the kind and quality of the tools you buy. Decide that each new purchase will become part of a workshop that- will last many years. In that way. you will not make the common mistake of buying the cheapest tools avail ableand being forced to replace them when you become a more serious craftsman. Keep in mind the noise factor Ease Found For Hornfly An Oregon State College re search team' has come, up with an inexpensive, highly effective way to use rotenone for controlling horn flies in dairy cattle. R. L. Goulding, assistant profes sor of entomology, and L. T. Har- gett, graduate student, prepared backrubbers . containing rotenone dust. They made them by draping a chain wrapped with three burlap bags across a cattle walk. Each bag contained one pound of five per cent rotenone dust. In testing backrubbers on farms in the Willamette Valley last year, they found rotenone dust gives good control for five or six weeks and leaves no toxic residue in milk. Goulding stressed the impor tance of locating backrubbers where cattle have to use them. In the OSC tests they were placed in the doorway of the milking par lor so each animal would get a small amount of dust twice daily. Untreated herds averaged 100 or more flies per cow throughout the season, compared to 10 or fewer tiles per cow in treated herds. ANGEL CAKE Y NEW YORK (UPI) A party dessert to delight children or grown-ups is whipped cream an gel cake. Scoop out 10-inch cake, leaving a wall about 'i-inch thick. Dice scooped-out cake, mix with 1 cup heavy cream, whipped, and Vi cup drained chopped maras chino cherries. Fill cake shell with cherry-cream mixture. when selecting a' place for the workshop. If you are the type of person who sometimes will be working in the shop late at night, you want to be sure you will not disturb members of your house hold who retire early. There are certain steps you can take later on to prevent some of the noise from leaving the workshop, but generally speaking, the best safe guard is the proper location for the shop in the first place. You're bound to get into the power tool field sooner or later. since you'll want to do your work faster and without so much ef fort. It's almost inevitable that you'll buy a portable electric drill. But from that point on use care in the selection of power tools, unless you have so much money you don't care how you spend it. You should select each tool on the basis of the type of work you expect to do most of the time. A lathe is useless it you aren t going to do much wood-turning. A circular saw is fine for straight- cutting and bevel jobs. A band- PAINT THINNER 55. 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