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14 THE OSHAWA TViMES, sereresy, Febieczy 2°, 1946 FIRST AID TO VIBRATION IN LIVING ROOM QUESTION: Our home is 12 years old. We have a vibration in our living room when a per- son walks over the flour. I also noticed this a little in our small hedrooam. My wife and 1 like our home very much and would like to correct this deteci. ANSWER: Bracing, or cross- bridging, placed diagonally be- tween the joists should greatly remedy the situation. Aluminum cross-bridging is available at most hardware and building supplies dealers for do-it-your- self installation. Or short lengths of two by four's with ends cut at proper angle are very satis- factory. POLISHING PEWTER TRAY QUESTION: I have a pewter tray and it needs polishing. What should one use to restore it ANSWER: Pewter cleaning and polishing preparations are available at some large house- wares dealers; follow label in- structions. Or use a good sil- ver polish. Never use a harsh, abrasive polish on pewter sur- faces because the metal is very soft, and scratches easily. One of the following home methods can also be used safely: If a dull fifiish is desired, make a paste of- rottenstone and olive oil and rub this over the pewter with a soft cloth; rinse off with clear water and wipe dry. If a bright finish is preferred, make a paste of powdered whiting and dena-| metal with a thin layer and allow to tured alcohol and coat dry. Polish wtih a soft, clean cloth. Rinse with clear water and wipe dry. STAINS ON WINDOW SILL QUESTION: We are building a new home. Before the doors were installed, birds got in on the bay window sill. We have been sanding these bird stains and scrubbed them, but cannot remove them. What can be done? ANSWER: I assume there is no finish on the wood sill. If there is, remove it (paint re- mover for varnish or paint, de- natured alcohol for shellac) down to bare wood. To the stained bare wood, apply a pre- pared wood bleach according to label instructions; or apply a hot saturated oxalic acid (pol- s0n) solution, allowing to remain overnight and rinsing off in the morning with clear water. If the- bleached area is too light, touch up with a matching wood stain. Finish sill as desired. RESTORING WOOD COLOR QUESTION: Can stained wood be bleached back to its natural color If stain is not even, can it be evened out sucessfully? ANSWER: Stained wood can -- a as aR OOOOH TE AILLING HUUDSL paste of powdered whiting and a nonflammable liquid spot re- mover (be sure room is well ventilated while using this) and cover the stains with a once- a sheet of thin plastic (old vege- tabie bagy Over the top te re- tard evaporation. When naste is dry, replace with fresh. Repeat treatment until all grease is ab- inch layer of the paste, placing || | ra) 3 tal ING Mum. UTILITY SH STOOL WORESHOP DAT TERN 339 sorbed. Clear plastic or shell can be sprayed over the sur- face or apply a thin coat of good quality paste wax, buff- ing well. Easiest of all is to campaign for use of non-oily hair dressing instead of that "greasy kid stuff!" CONCRETE STEP FORMS | QUESTION: We wish to re- place worn wooden porch steps with cement steps and don't know how to go about building forms. Where can we get this information? ANSWER: Most concrete con- struction books have this type of information. Or write to the Portland Cement . Association, 33 West Grand ave., Chicago 10, ll., for free instructions on con- crete projects around the home. ENDLESS USES may be found for this well - designed shelf and stool. Perfect for tele- phone and book. Below a mirror it makes a small dressing table. Also good for lamp, radio, bed- side or utility stand. Pattern 387 which gives actuai-size guides and directions for @®th pieces, is 50c. It also is one of four pat- terns in the Small Shelf and Stand Packet for $1.75. The Home Workshop Editor, The Oshawa Times, Pattern JIG-SAW ENTHUSIASTS will be delighted with this beautiful Leaf - Scroll Design for wall shelves. Pattern 336, which may be traced right on the wood ready for cutting, is 50c. This pattern is also in the Jig-Saw Packet No, 33 with full-size de- signs for a seven and a 12-inch bracket to match these shelves, picture and mirror frame de- signs and 10 novelties -- all for $1.75. The Oshawa. Times, Pattern Many years ago, sreveral at- tempts were made to grow the faim wace (Roce chinensis 'Min- ima') in the Arboretum at the Plant Research Institute. This tiny rose, six inches high with double pink flowers like a poly- anthus variety, was finally es- tablished, and it flourished for many years until it succumbed to the blades of skis on a snowy winter evening. From plants of this type, once lost among its larger brethren, have arisen a new class of mod- ern roses, the miniature rose. These highly pleasing roses, wiih buds no larger than peas, are small replicas of the gar- den kinds. Each bud opens into a bleom of the same shape Dept., Oshawa, Ontario. Dept., Oshawa, Ont. and appearance as a hybrid tea Life Was Threatened or a fioribund rose, yet in per- fect miniature. The plants are only eight to 14 inches high and their leaves are like garden roses except that they are small- er in every detail and more ANSWER: CLEANING BRIGHT BRASS QUESTION: I'm in the pro- leess of cleaning a beautiful old brass bed. It is such a big job that I wonder if there is any- thing I can use after it is clean- jed to keep it that way. Yes; after the brass is cleaned and polished, spray on clear lacquer or plas- tic, widely available for this pur- pose, in variety, hardware and housewares stores; follow label directions. s | PAPER HARM WOOD | QUESTION: I would like to lprotect the tops of our boys' desks by applying adhesive- backed, contact paper. Could this harm the wood or finish? /The furniture is rank oak. ANSWER: This type of pro- tection will not harm either the wood or the finish. When remov- ing the paper eventually, for a bare wood desk top, some of the finish may be removed in trying to get off stubborn adhesive. But this can easily be touched up with shellac or varnish=to match the rest of the desk sur- face. PAINT REMOVER QUESTION: I have a large area from which I must remove paint and varnish (all interior woodwork in the middle-ged |house we just bought). Is there | anything inexpensive that I can | mix myself s a paint remover? | ANSWER: An_ inexpensive paint remover can be made by dissolving three pounds of tri- sodium phosphate in each gal- By JACK GRAY TORONTO (CP) --Premier |Robichaud of New Brunswick |Says one of a number of threats | against his life after he initiated drastic reforms in his province came from a man who identi- fied himself as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. | The premier, who will partici- pate in a political gathering here today, told a press con- ference Thursday that the threats last fall were from crackpots influenced by a '"'bad local press in Fredericton." Under questioning, he named The Gleaner and its publisher, Michael Wardell, who opposed his reforms. the idea of an attempt on his life. "Attorney-General W. W. Mel- drum said in the legislature he had received threatening |let- ters," said Mr. Robichaud, "'but this hasn't changed my way of life in any way and I don't in- tend it to." OPINION DIVIDED The premier's reform pro- gram has been acclaimed as 3 plan of modernization by those who favor it and denounced as a "grab for power" by leaders of a determined battle against it. Opponents claim the legisla- tion is creating a split between the more prosperous English- speaking majority and the poorer rural Acadian French. Premier Robichaud said Several Times-Robichaud But, he said, he laughed at} Mr. Wardell, once an execu-| tive on the late Lord Beaver- brook's Daily Express in Lon- don and British-born, has been publisher of The Gleaner since 951. Mr. Robichaud said the crisis over the program "'will last for months with the opposition at- tempting to exploit the situation in a way to defeat the govern- ment." His program would eventually give the province control of delicate. No plants are more suited to the very small garden than these fairy roses, for they bring to the most confined space all the charm of the hybrid tea and floribunda. One of their most attractive qualities is that they form low spreading bushes, which if. planted closely, will completely hide the soil. A-most attractive display of miniature roses may be made by planting together those with a more vigorous habit, growing nine or 1? inches high and by |health, education, welfare, jus- | tice and assessment. County ad- |ministrations, relieved 'of these jmajor responsibilities, are to | disappear. Mr. Robichaud said the as- sessment bill for municipal re- form, which passed the New Brunswick house, is one of 131 bills to implement his program to raise the standard of living. The other bills were intro- duced and allowed to die in or- der to give the public an idea| of what his government had in} mind, he said. | In Fredericton, Mr. Wardell said the premier's 'reference are utterly disgraceful and with- out any authority. In effect, he is charging that I and the Daily Gleaner have incited men to murder him . . . and that is one of the most disgraceful using contrasting colors. A doz- jen plants would be sufficient to \fill a small bed, which could be jedged with violas such as Coron- jation Gold, Chantryland or the jcommon blue horned violet |(Viola cornuta). To effectively inspect and enjoy these roses, you should grow them on a rais- paved walk at its base. WHOLE GARDEN A whole garden in miniature could be designed for these love- ly little plants. You might use a small ornament for a central focal point and arrange small beds radiating out from it. Each bed could be edged with one of the dwarf compact ageratums, such as Blue Blazer, or the Car- }pet of Snow alyssums. The an- nual alyssum could be sown in- side during March or plants could *e bought for setting out- charges ever made by a minis- ter holding public office. There | is no vestige of truth and every) \Thursday his Program for| criticism of the newspaper has been thoroughly within the com- petence of journalism and in the has passed. The rock garden is a natural ed bed fronted by a wall with a| side after the danger of frost) place for these delightful baby roses. They should be planted in small groups of three plants siv inches anart in small pock- ets in a sunny location near the base of the rockery; there the plants will not be troubled by dry conditions at the roots. Be- fore planting, prepare the pock- ets with a mixture of soil, sand and peat and add a tablespoon of a complete fertilizer for each cubic foot of soil. Miniature roses also make ex- cellent house plants if grown un- der fluorescent lights during the winter. Bring them inside after a few frosts, about early Decem- ber, and plant them in a mix- ture of equal parts loam, leaf- mold and sand. A five or six- inch bulb pan is large enough for the small roots. These plants, however, will become leggy after, they have flowered for several weeks under lights. Then all you need to do is to shear the plants hard back to within three nches of the soil. They will respond by quickly forming compact new growth and a profusion of buds. In spring prune back these roses once more and plant them out- side or plunge the potted plants in the soil and keep them well watered. Miniature roses are available from many commercial nurser- ies and garden centers. Here are a few of the best kinds test- Viet Volunteer Plan Incompatible OTTAWA (CP)--The raising of a private volunteer corps in Canada for duty in Viet Nam is "incompatible" with the law, specifically the Foreign Enlist- ment Act, External Affairs Min- ister Martin told the Commons Thursday. Mr. Martin was replying to Opposition Leader Diefenbaker who had asked what the gov- ernment position was on a pro- posal by a five-man group to establish a fighting force to help the U.S. in Viet Nam. A 1,200-man brigade was pro- posed by Donald Echlin, a 30- year-old Toronto crane oper- ator, who wrote to Prime Min- ister Pearson and Mr. Martin. Wallace Nesbitt (PC--Oxford) asked what is the status of Ca- |nadiangs serving with U.S, forces lin the Viet Nam war. New Iiodern Rose Seen In Miniature Rose Make-up ed in the Plant Research Insti- tute's Test Garden: COLn STAR Meha Mats Stas hae A emmy Sawate eee flowers of golden yellow and grows well under fluorescent light. Cinderella is an older double white that grows outside and in pots; its flowers, touched with pink, have up to 60 petals and its branches are almost thornless. Lilac Time matures when less than 10 inches high and produces buds that. open lilac pink and change to pure lilac, Red Imp has rich double red flowers three quarters of an inch across, borne on very vig- orous plants. Sweet Fairy opens one-inch flowers of apple - blos- som pink. Tinker Bell has flow- ers an inch and a quarter wide, bright pink with up to 60 petals. Perle d'Alcanada is about the most vigorous variety grown in the Test Garden and it has suf- fered less winter injury than the others; it has pale-pink flowers about one and a half inches in diameter. Little Scotch has large buttercup-yellow flowers on very dwarfed plants. It-is also possible to get minia- ture roses in tree form on 18- inch stems, but we have not yet tested these. The fairy roses should be treated just like hubrid teas, covered with soil in the fall and with leaves after the soil has frozen. Since they grow closer to the ground than standard hy- brid teas they stand our win- ters better. If you haven't grown minia- ture roses you should try at lleast one plant. Most established rosarians are inclined to dismiss these roses as mere fads, but many secretly admire their ob- vious advantages. After eS Colorade Water ' LOS ANGELES (AP)--After half a century of squabbling over the Colorado River's in- creasingly vital water, seven Western states are about to get together on a plan to tp one of the major rivers of three other states. Tie pian cou eventuany cost more than $12,000,000,000, The plan calls for: 1. Immediate start on con- struction of a $1,200,000,000 proj- ect to move Colorado River water southward to Arizona's booming Phoenix and Tucson areas. 2. Eventual construction of an aqueduct linking the heavily- used Colorado with either the little-exploited Columbia River, which has 10 times the Colo- radio's flow, or its closer trib- utary, the Snake River. Hookup withthe Columbia would. cost $11,000,000,000, with the Snake $4,000,000,000. The big hitch, of course, is opposition from Washington and Oregon, which border on the Columbia, and Idaho, through which the Snake flows. Representatives of the seven Colorado River basin. states-- Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California--agreed at a meeting here on most of the technical language of a bill to be sub- mitted to a congressional sub- committee on irrigation and re- clamation. QUICK START The proposed legislation calls for a quick start on the big central Arizona project, and also for a massive survey of ways to channel additional wa- ter into the Colorado so that other users of that river, pri- marily California, will have enough for their growing popu- lations too. The legislation would not call for joining the Colorado with the Columbia or the Snake-- | ee suns: feasibility of that is left for the survey to determine. But most water experts say the Columbia and the Snake are about the only sources big enough to give the Colorado's users the amount of water they claim they need. The agreement was a major accomplishment, Tt meant that We Uglorago Dasin siales were ready to stop quarrelling among themselves over how to split up the dwindling waters of the Colorado--and start looking for ways of increasing the Colo- rado's flow. Some experts believe the west coast some day will be the cen- tre of the United States' popula- tion, California is already the = populous state in the un- ion. SHOOTS TO SAVE LIVES WINNIPEG (CP)--A man in a white suit carrying a shotgun can often be seen on the run- ways at the airport here. He is a bird frightener. The shotgun fires blanks which are used to scare away birds when aircraft are about to take off or land. -- Buying or Selling! on GUIDE REALTY LTD, @ KLOYD CORSON, President @ DICK YOUNG, Vice-Pres. @ LUCAS PEACOCK, Sec-Trees 16 SIMCOE ST. S., OSHAWA PHONE 723-5281 be bleached back to its natural |jon of hot water. Apply the solu-| color; if bleaching results in too |tion liberally, and when the fin-| light a color, the wood can then|ish has become softened, take| be Stained the desired shade. In}it off with a wide blade putty using wood bleach, be sure to) «nife or steel wool. Or you can follow label instructions careful-|yse an infra-red lamp, holding ly. If the stain isnt' uniform on |it about 12 inches from the paint- the wood, it can be touched up |eq surface; when the finish has so that the result is satisfac- | softened, remove it with a putty tory. © | knife. GREASE ON MAHOGANY |LEAKY CHIMNEY BRICKS QUESTION: I have Luan ma-| QUESTION: Is there any Opportunity will fight} DON'T FORGET Che Rih Room NOW OPEN SUNDAY 4 TO 7:30 P.M. Continental French Buffet Served Daily 11:30 - 2 p.m. -- 5 to 8 p.m. GENOSHA HOTEL Equal | " ral | bet i |public interest. The Daily poverty and that. opposition to Aimee wit eontinie to criticize | it would slow down as its bene- 6 j ficial effects were realized. aaa Mr. Robichaud and his pol- | He said there were el re teint in New Brunswick trying to set one segment of the population TOOK SAFE TOO against the other. LONDON (CP) -- A. jewelry| "New Brunswick has a record| firm gave one of its salesmen) of harmonious relationship be-|a built-in safe, bolted to the) tween its peoples and I don't] floor of his car. Now the car want it broken by a foreigner," | has been stolen from a parking | he said. space, complete with the safe; hogany. partitions in my down- stairs recreation room. I notice stains on it from grease and hair dressing where the panel- ling is leaned against. Can I use some varnish or sealer to stop these stains from soaking in the wood How can I remove |This is for all-over protection. | the stains? 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