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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1950 TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIFTEEN << H . 0 makes screen with a bloom The hocks yellow under Hollyhocks against the home make a most-attractive feature. Indicated in the sketch is a small fenced-in garden with pink Allegany Hollyhocks silhouetted against white siding. The white picket fence gives privacy and provides an admirable planting background. These graceful and stately bien. nials should be included in every garden. Their tall and rapid growth ground borders, against walls and to They grow to nine feet high and blossom from July until September, bearing large open flowers along a leafy main stem. Colours are red, salmon, white, pink.and yellow. A new introduction is "Indian Spring", a variety which is most beautiful and will flower from seed in a few weeks. Hollyhocks should have rich, well drained soil, deeply dug and enriched well rotted manure. The addition of sand produces rapid root growth. Dead blooms should be kept picked off the flower stocks and should be cut down to the ground when all dust early in the Spring. them most suitable for back- unsightly views or fences. good commercial fertilizer or is finished. commonest disease of holly- is rust. This causes sickly foliage. Control by dusting the leaves with fine sulphur Garoen Cue TURE SERIES Copvaicwr Cawaoad USA. by Haroco C Becwerr A/A. CAPITAL ALTERATIONS COSTLY John McShain, the affable Phila- delphia contractor who has agreed to make the White House a safer home for presidents, is losing his shirt on the project, Douglas Lar- sen writes from Washington. Fortunately, however, McShain is a man of many shirts. He knew what he was getting into. And what he drops on the 1600 Pennsylvania avenue project he'll more than make up on _the new General Ac- counting Office, the new National Institute of Health building and a half-dozen other huge projects he's building around town. Labor of Love The White House is a labor of love for him. After his low bid of .a fee of $100,000 was accepted, he admitted that the only material gain he'd probably get out of the job was an income tax deduction for the loss. But it's not every contractor who can tell his grand- children that he rebuilt the White House. It's obvious that McShain is put- ting his best efforts into the recon- struction of the executive mansion, too. The work is almost a month ahead of schedule. And at the rate his foremen are saving money on the job it might end up cost- ing the taxpayer close to a half mil- lion dollars short of the $5,400,000 appropriated for the job, He is also making housing mag- ic with the job. Merely by adding a basement, they're turning a three- storey structure into one with six floors, and all without changing the place's outside appearance. Here's. how it works: 1 The floor of the new basement, WE SELL AND INSTAL = ALL STEEL FURNACES OIL BURNERS ' Visit Our Showrooms at 21 CHURCH ST. MOSIER imu METAL floor, is the first. There's goin to ve a mezzanine floor above the basement, which is the second floor. Floor number three is what they used to call the ground floor. The main floor, the next one up, is ac- tually the fourth. The old second floor is really the fifth one now and the third is the sixth. Is that clear? Only top floor and the basement floors, including . the. .basement mezzanine, will be different in the completed structure. The other floors have to be restored exactly as they were before President Truman noticed that the White House was about to come down around his ears. The basement will be used for storage, and eight bedrooms and bathrooms have been added to the top floor for more guest space. Those changes are only in the plans. As the job stands now the White House looks like the inside of an armory. It is just a shell, supported inside by steel frames, with. no walls or partitions, Dangerous Work The most ticklish part of the work is- completed, however. That consisted of putting a new foun- dation under the outside walls of the structure. They could only put four feet of new foundation in at a time. Digging a hole under the old walls any bigger than that could have brought the whole shell crashing down. When it is finished it will ac- tually be a house within a house. The outside walls, which aren't be- ing changed at all, will sit on their 24 feet lower than the old gon) own foundation. Everything inside will rest on its own new steel frame which also has its own foundation. It's estimated that the work is about one-quarter completed. Oc- tober, 1951, is still the date the president is expected to be able to move into it. He's been taking a keen interest in the progress and has learned to read blueprints like an engineer. * Souvenir Rubble Still unsolved 'is: the - problem of what to do with the 100 tons of rubble and wrecked sections of the interior which have been taken out of the structure. All of it has been stored in secret places around town until it is decided how to dispose of it as souvenirs. Best guess is that the bigger pieces, such as sec- tions of mantels and carved panels, will be distribyted to libraries and museums around the country, Also still not decided is how the interior will be decorated. Most of the interior will have the iden- tical decoration and color scheme of the old White House. Mrs. Tru- man will probably be consulted on the decorations for the newer sec- tions. MADE FOR REVELRY London--(CP)--Tenants at a new apartment block in London's Wal- worth district cad throw a noisy party without complaint. The block contains a soundproof hall for revelry, TEACHER 81 YEARS Carlisle, England -- (CP) -- Mrs. Julia Helen Ewbank, 93, has been a Sunday School teacher for 81 years. "Wow! Lookit that kid run those bases!" ERNIE. CAY LU COMPANY -- Everyone yells for the home run hitter -- and that's why so many people have been rooting for the hits we have made with quality materials at low- er prices. If you are plan- ning to build or remodel, better call us today! LUMBER' PHONE 127 Before You... Whether it's » garage. hme, you in the shortest possible time end at en absolute minimum of SEE US for a FREE estimate regarding sour building or cost. remodelling problems! King St. West TRIMBLE "Building and Contracting is Our Business" store or factory we'll build .t for Phone 4859M Bureau Reports Fewer New Homes Being Started Ottawa, July 15.--(CP)-- Fewer new homes were started and fewer completed in April and in the first four months of this year than in the corresponding periods of 1049, the Bureau of Statistics reported today, \ But the number of houses under construction at the end of April still was higher than at the end of the correspondnig month last year. The total was 50,775, an increase of about 2,000. The figure included the number of new homes started and the number being completed. Part of the increase was due to Newfoundland's inclusion in the 1950 figures. No reason was given for the drop in the number of starts and of com- pletion, but Resources Minister Winters said recently that sky- rocketing lumber prices and a short- age of lumber were responsible for a decline in home construction. The bureau said completions in April was estimated at 5397 units, compared with 7,251 in the corre- sponding month of 1949. This made a total of 23,270 completions for the first four months of the year, compared with 25,077. Starts in the month numbered 7,422, compared with 8,466 a year ago. In the four months, they totalled 16,437 against 16%82. Completions in April were lower in all regions except British Colum- bia. In the four months, they were higher in Quebec and New Bruns- wick and lower in the other prov- inces. In Quebec they were 8341, against 6,778, and in New Hfuns- wick 583 against 378. In Ontario completions declined to 7,554 from 8,725; Nova Scotia to 839 from 1,085; Manitoba, to 995 from 1225; Alberta, to 2,219 from 3,023, and British Columbia, to 2,059 from 3,253. Completions in New- foundland, which entered Conferer- ation a year ago, totalled 99. In the four-month period, starts in Quebec increased to 6,840 from 4,961; and in the Maritimes to 687 from 512, with increases for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- land offsetting a decline for Nova Scotia. Starts in other provinces, with Somparable figures in brackets, fol- ow: Ontario, 5,110 (6,350); Manitoba, 409 (506); Saskatchewan, 173 (204); Alberta 1,240 (1,780); British Columbia, 1,763 (2,459), Starts in Newfoundland were placed at 213 units, ps The bureau estimated that of the total of 23270 units completec in the four months, 17,094 were one- family detached dwellings, 3,798 apartments or flats and 2,306 two- family detached dwellings. An es- timated 28 per cent were for rental purposes, ---------- ARTISTS' END The painters Van Gogh, Cezanne, Dolci, Magnoni, Lautrec and Man- cini all went mad. FAIRBANKS-MORSE OIL BURNERS At : HARRISON & KINSMAN 337 SIMCOE ST. §. 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The ex- terior construction is of brick To Study Race Problems In South | Africa Toronto, July 15 (CP)--Following argument between American Ne- groes and South African white clergymen, the World Council of Churches today decided to send a "multi-racial" delegation to South Africa to study racial" problems there. The resolution was passed after Dr. Benjamin Mays, a Negro clergy- man from Atlanta, Ga., opposed a on the lower walls with bevel- ed siding abc Data: Cubic Feet, 26,718; Square Feet, Living Area, 1st Floor, 834; 2nd Floor, 937; Garage Area, 236; Ceiling Heights: 1st Floor, 8 ft.; 2nd Floor, 8 ft; Basement, 7 ft. Blueprints and other infor- mation may be obtained by writing to the Builders' Page Editor, The Times-Gazette, Oshawa. ion that the delegation be composed entirely of white persons, "I would like to attempt the im- possible," said Dr. Mays, "and speak for 8,000,000 Bantus who have no chance to speak in South Africa, no chance to speak anywhere." He said the 'attitude of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa toward the blacks was "a gross mis- representation of theology." Dr J. B. Marais, of the Dutch Reformed Church of Transvaal, said "you will judge differently if a delegation comes to South Africa and gets all the facts." He said a insisted it should be white. This was delegation would be welcome but ROOFING For Free Estimation PHONE 1218M Insulation, Insul-Brick Siding, Eavestroughing . . . applied or supplied. * JACK MORRISON 147 BRUCK EAST not a question of principle, but was advisable because its members would deal wit" the "white" Dutch Rpformed Church. FISH LOCATER Grimsby, England -- (CP) -- Tests are being made by an east England firm of equipment which will aid fishermen not only to locate fish deep in the seas, but also to identify their species. It is in the "hush hush" stage of development. We Arrange N.H.A. 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