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Old Homes May Be Keys lo Open Doors “For Comfortable, Convenient Bargains

‘ If you own. an old. tuipble cfown abandoned house and don't know what to do with it . . . well Ipok around a bit. it may have some valuable surprises for you ’Scrape off that scaling wall paper and see what s underneath Look at the flooring. It could be 1'ard-to-eome-by •'heart' pine. Check the window Lames. Were they hand - carved a hundred years ago by a master at the craft? There are many pros and antis about old houses. But Miss Blanche Howard, Buckingham county home agent, has calmly turned her back on all arguments and has set about proving ttiat

an old house can be as good as. frequently better than. a new Her own two-story home, panelled throughout with heart pine, was once a derelict covered with cobwebs and overgrown with brush and brambles. It cost her $U.00u to te.u- down the old building and put it b.«ck up again m a new location . . complete wdtli slate roof, electwcity. water system, and full ba.-ev.eni Try to duplicate that on today's mar ket! Iluuslng Miort ige Looking back to 1945. when there was a housing shortage and building was restricted because of the war. M. s Howard tells her

Coke is on the menu! Its so good with meals

There it is—right next to soups, meats and desserts. Yes, Coke with meals is growing fast — it really makes good food taste better.

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story .... There were, and are, many old houses in the county, aban doned because of oad roads or because people have moved away. Tin- one I found was large enough but not too large. <The house now is 40 feet long, 16 wide ' The size of rooms didn't need to be changed so there was no waste of timber. The timber was sound heart pine. The in terior heart or clear pine ceiling was an inch thick, and there was no sign of termites. Fortu nately the interior had never been painted.

Dismantles House "I bought the house for $335. A 70-year-old carpenter in the neighborhood. John Taylor, who built tlie house when he was a young man. took it down for; $700. His son hauled it to Buck- j iigham for $32. "Now I had tlie house but no i cue to put it up again. (The local ■ ntnietor had told Miss Howard it was not practical.' Another carpenter in his 80s who was a hne cabinet maker as well, agreed to put it up if I didn't blind lus being a little slow. (He is now deceased.' Both workmen were artists. The lirst marked each timber carefully as he took it down. Tlie second was as careful as lie would have been with new wood. "Originally there was one large loom and hall downstairs, and one large room and dressing room upstairs, with the kitchen across a breemvuy. By building the kitchen on as a wing there was

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Crowning Event

THE "CORONATION," a top item in Spring millinery fashion, is mod eled at a Chicago hat show by Mari Robinson. The creation of a British military designer, it ar rived from London with a collec tion of chapeaux copied from headgear worn In the days of Queen Elizabeth I. The hat shown here features jeweled embroidery on a velvet band. (International)

enough wood fir a e'assed-in porch. Tin- big window in the porch was from an old store . . . $11. The picture window in the living room is a companion to the porch window, and was bought for tlie same pi ice. The old flooring was used as .sub flooring in the living room and hall. "Sixty-five dollars for new flooring, $:10 for stair and balustrade and $(J for .slate, is all that was spent for new material. Pine Waxed "Before the pine ii iline and ! paneling was put up i( was scour ed with steel wool and wax until it looked litre satin. It will never i have to be painted, and just i running the vacuum cleaner I over it keeps it clean and polish ed. The kitchen was painted and i tlie porch papered The small I dressing room became the but ft - ' room ." This old house lias served as a demonstration for some L’OO peo ple since its rebirth. Other resi dents of Buckingham county nave followed in Miss Howards footsteps. i Take for instance . . . Mrs. i Margaret Lacy, tvhc bought .an old two-story boxhouse for $400. moved it. and put it back up for a total cost of $5,000: Charles Hall, who lias added new rooms, removed and enclosed porches I and put storage spare in a bungalow-type cottage on ins father's farm, and who now has j an attractive house for half tlie i price of a new one: and Dr. and ' Mrs. K J. Hutchins, who are now

in the process of remodeling a In ;ck house which dates back to pre-revolutionary days. Remodeling Underway The brick home ' Mrs. Hutchins still has the original grant from King George II for the land on which it stands) has posed some problems For instance the walls are three bricks thick, so pipes lor radiators had to be put back of the floor-to-ceiling window frames. But careful planning and some extensive juggling is slow ly transforming the old and beautiful building into a modern home with up-to-the minute conveniences. A lady with her job still ahead of her is Miss Carrie Fitzgerald, a teacher in the Buckingham schools, who has just bought an ancient frame house set back in a wilderness of weeds. Most peo ple might hot see beyond the dust and litter and cobwebs. But the sound well-seasoned, termite-free lumber, the hand-carved window frames the foot-wide clear pipe planking, are all there. And you won't find them elsewhere very easily. A veritable epidemic of housing study groups Is rampant in Buck ingham county home demonstra tion clubs. The women are learn ing to read house plans and to visualize the completed house.

Home Planning That this pre-knowledge pays off when it comes time to build a house is evident in the newly completed brick home owned by Mr, and Mrs. C. I. Poole. Mrs. Poole drew her first floor plan, took it to an architect and said "this is what T would like, please put some walls around it.” The architect's comment was "that is the way to plan a house but it is the first time I've been asked to draw it that way." Whatever convenience, or aid to happy living you can think of . . . name it . . . . it's there in the Poole home. There is a down-stairs den with a' picture window that looks out on a pic ture ' rose-garden in the back' instead of the street, a recreation loom in the sound-proofed basement with billiards, tele vision. home movies: plenty of storage space: easy passagways to and from various parts of the house: an "outdoor living room" in the back yard. Miss Howard points out that "housing includes surroundings." So landscaping is being studied, to. along with house furnishings , and accessories.

BABY I'NDF.It TRAIN SAIF Paris, Franco — A m othe r I shrieked frantically when her 2 \ ear-old boy fell under a moving subway rain. Shrieks turned to cries of joy when tile train was gone—and there was Sonny— grinning and unhurt.

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MR. FARMER IT'S FENCING

% j f Special Prices On All Fencing Materials

These are special prices, not marked-down prices. Tin fencing \*. a secured by a lucky purchase and is offered specially priced for a definite pen-. : »• :i‘:5 february 11. Xow is the time to repair and build those fences. B !

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ELECTRIC FENCES Electric fences are practical, easy to in stall and can be moved from place to place. It' you have not tried an electric fetiNk you can do it now. We have everythin*.’, ymi will need : • Half-a-Mile galvanized or eopner fence Wire • Insulators and Clips • Red Devil Electric Fence Controls I

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