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Allis-Chal?ers 11-B Disc Harrows ||
\?*?ry round
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When you pull an Allis-Chalmers 11-B Double-Action
Disc Harrow acroaa your field, you get down to pay dirt
on every round . . . fast!
It has the weight needed for quick penetration, and
this weight is evenly distributed. Every keen-edged
blade does its full share of the work. Altogether, they do
a masterly job of chopping stubble, roots and surface
trash . . . mixing and pulverizing the soil.
The 11-B is a flexible harrow, with every adjustment
necessary for the kind of seedbed you want. Front and
rear gangs have independent action, assuring coverage
in rough or uneven conditions.
MC-lvtiy Saturday
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V SAlfS AND SffftVfCf I
NEWPORT
Tractor & Equipment Co.
C. T. CANNON, OWNER
SALES - SERVICE
Willys Cars ? Trucks ? Jeeps
Allis-Chalmers Tractors
Fertilizers, Smith-Douglas-V-C
Tobacco Curers, Any Make
NEWPORT; N. ?r
Phone 237-7
Piggy Bank
Teaches Thrift
Project for a lathe.
Learning thrift is fun for the
youngsters when their handyman
pop makes them an eye-catching
piggy bank.
Here is a bank which can be
turned out on a home workshop
lathe in a single evening. It is de
signed by the Delta power tool
division of the Rockwell Manu
facturing Co.
As shown in the diagram, the
piggy bank is basically egg-shaped,
with an over-all length of four in
ches and a diameter of three inch
es. A good block of maple can
be easily worked.
The two front legs are 5/8-inch
by 1 3/8 and fit in holes drilled
in the body. The back legs are cut
to conform to the curve of the
body, and are nailed and glued
in place, as shown.
Finishing of the project offers
several opportunities for humor
ous touches. The eyes, for example,
will bulge prominently if white
map tacks are used, and a brass
ring can easily be inserted in the
nose. Incidentally, an ordinary
pipe cleaner makes a good twist
ed tail for the pig.
Farmers Find Ragweed
Useful as Cattle Feed
Chillicothe, Mo. (AP) ? Here at
last is a use for sagwe^^WJMi*
trouble maker in hay fever
The Depler brothers, who raWn
near here, had a 10-acre field
which grew up in ragweed. As an
experiment they cut it, stacked it
? and it turned into silage which
smelled like licorice.
. . . and the eating it to much bdtti
when don* electrically! The rtoion be
hind this: Electrical cooking it Fetter,
Cleonor, it done more Evenly, end cooks
Automoticollyl
Enjoy your Pudding, and everything
else cooked electrically? Since electric
cooking doet not depend upon drew* j
lating air, no oxygen it con turned and /
foods stay juicy and more flavorseme. /
(CAROLINA POWER * UOHT COMPANY)
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Building Industry Tackles
House Trade-in Problem
HOW TO TRADE IN your house
for a new one the way you trade
in your automobile -wat> the big
gest problem tackled by the home
building induatry in the past year.
Progress waa made in ironing out
the wrinkles persuading banks
and other lending institutions to
play ball with builders, who would
modernize traded-in houses to
make them marketable ? and now
the idea is expected to grow into
the biggest development for the
home building industry and the
home owning public for 1954.
This can mean a lot to you,
even if your house was built since
World War II. Home builders ad
mit that some 4 million two
bedroom houses, nicknamed
"birth-control" houses, were built
in the last seven years. They
have proved too small for grow
ing families. Furthermore, more
than half of all the houses in the
country are over 35 years old.
Lots of people run into a road
block in do-it-yourself and mod
ernisation dreams. It might be
a fine idea to fix up the old place,
but the job just seems to be too
much. A new house may be
the only answer in these cases.
OF COURSE, anyone living in
an old house can sell it and buy
a new one. But that is not always
simple. You have to find a buyer
by advertising or listing with
brokers and then try to convince
the buyer that he can fix the
house up. He has to have the
cash you want plus the cash or
loan to modernize the house.
Lots of old houses have won
derful intrinsic value, but little
sales appeal The trade-in idea
would persuade banks to rccognize
the true value and possibilities of
an old house, make a commitment
to a builder for a modernization
loan and make as good a mortgage
break for the buyer as he would get
on a new house of a similar price.
Under the present system, big
ger down p'ayments are required
on old houses than on new houses.
The Federal Housing Administra
tion is trying to change this and
FHA Administrator Guy Hollyday
recently said Congress would be
asked to "make it possible to treat
old and new housing more nearly
alike."
THE ONLY WAY to get lending
institutions all over the country
to back this program uniformly
seems #to be through the FHA
system of insuring loans. So the
FHA has already made rulings to
encourage builders to lake old
hpuses in to cover a man'i
dawn payment; or more, when he
wants to buy a new house ?>
modernize it and then resell it.
There always are small families
looking for small houses. And
there always are big families
who need more of a house than
they can afford in new construc
tion.
The National Association of
Home Builders is strong for the
trade-in idea because it knows that
the housing shortage has been
filled. A demand for new models
and better housing must be tapped
if their industry is going to contin
ue at full blast. And their indus
try, including all building trades
workers and manufacturers of ma
terials and equipment, is vital to
our national economy.
The builders also know there is
a demand for trade-ins because
four out of every 10 prospects for
a new house already own a house.
BUT MANY PROBLEMS remain
to be ironed out. House and Home
trade publication of the home
building industry, has summarized
some of these hurdles:
"Owners of old houses have an
inflated idea of old-house values.
"Selling new houses is not
tough enough to resort to trade-ins.
"Builders do not like the idea
of getting into the realty business
of having to' make two sales to
complete a deal."
But at the same time. House and
Home, canvassing builder opinion,
quotes M. M. Robinson of Detroit
as saying: "Any efficient operative
builder should be able to make as
much money building five new
houses and modernizing five old
ones as he can make building 10
new houses."
And Robert Kendler, president
of Community Builders, described
u Chicago's largest remodeling
firm, chipped in with: "There is
more money in modernization than
in new houses."
II that is the case, there is a
moral to this tale: Modernize your
own home. BUT, House and Home
tips oil the builders:
"Consider only major improve
ments that will increase market
ability and uselul lite of the house.
Avoid overimproving it for its
neighborhood."
Home Location
Governs Style
WHfiN PLANNING to build or
buy a new house, most people do
some thinking on the question of
design.
What style of house is the best
investment?
What type will prove to be a
passing fad?
Should we learn to like ground
floor bedrooms?
Can picture windows be used in
a little cottage with shutters?
And so on ? innumerable ques
tions that defy simple yes or no
answers.
Essentially the problem boils
down to two basic factors:
1. The house for you is the
house you like.
2. It depends somewhat on
where you >vant your house to be.
A vote of preference on design,
whether taken among prospective
owners, mortgage lenders, or ar
chitects, can differ widely geo
graphically. The split-level house,
the one-story so-called ranch house,
the conventional two-story house
and the story-and-a-half cottage all
have their advantages and disad
vantages.
MOST ECONOMICAL to build in
northern regions where basements
are popular -the style that gives
most house for the money is the
two-story dwelling, or dormer-in
the-roof (one-and-a-half -story)
house.
These styles require the least ex
cavation, foundation and foot area.
They are economical to heat and
maintain. They can be fitted suit
ably to smaller plots, yet present
an attractive appearance on any ac
reage.
Easiest to live in is the one-story
house, laid out like a spacious
apartment with no stall* to*limb,
no high windows to be fined with
screens or storm sash, readlfy' adap
ted to indoor-outdoor living, a nat
ural for window-walls and open
planning.
But when all the rooms of a
house arc built on the ground level,
more land is needed, more founda
tion work is necessary and much
more roof space is exposed.
THE DIFFERENCE in heating
efficiency between two-story and
'one-story houses is apparent when
it comes to insulation. Tests have
shown that it is more important to
insulate the sidewalls of a two
story house than it is to insulate
the roof. And it is more important
to insulate the roof of a one- story
house than it is to insulate the
sidewalls.
When it comes to air cooling,
the one-story takes the lead. Keep
ing upstairs bedrooms cool becomes
slightly more complicated in a two
story house, where heat naturally
rises to the second floor.
The split-level house, originally
designed for slopes, with its two
story wing on the downhill side
and its one story or story-and-a
half wing placed midway up, is a
compromise between two-story e
conomy and one story popularity.
NOWADAYS MANY split-level
houses are built on comparatively
flat land because of their advan
tages in meeting family living
needs. Lots of women like the
idea of having bedrooms removed
slightly from the living-room-dining
room-kitchen level. In the split
level, this separation is only half a
flight, which reduces stair climb
ing.
On the other hand, you climb
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Let us help you realize
your dream*.
See us for a free estimate.
E. C. WILLIS & SONS
Contractor
Phone 6-3435
104 8. 14th 8L Mare bead City
RUBBEROID
SHINGLES
and
ASBESTOS SIDING
AFRIT
LUMBER CO.
LnnoxvilU Road Beaufort Plimi 2-4581
Folding Tables
Make More Room
Folding, out-of-the-way table and
benches can be made by the handy
man for home or camp. The table,
when folded, forms a door for a
wall cabinet.
Hardboard of the % -inch tem
pered pressed wood type surfaces
the lumber framing of the table
top and covers the planks of the
benches to make them splinter
free.
The cupboard is built of 1 inch
lumber framing covered with hard
board.
You can figure your own dimen
sions, which depehd on the number
of persons you plan to accommo
date and the space available. The
hinging idea permits the table and
benches to be fastened up with
hooks when not actually in use.
a few stairs almost any place you
go in a split-level.
IN COMMUNITIES where archi
tectural restrictions have been in
cluded in zoning regulations, vir
tually blackballing modern one
story houses, split-level construc
tion gets under the wire. Gray
haired city fathers may insist on
"colonial architecture." You put
shutters on a split-level and that's
that. After all, they built split-lev
els in colonial days, too.
And as for a mortgage invest
ment, you'll find one type of layout
as acceptable as another almost any
place. The same holds for resale
value. No matter what kind of
house you like, there are plenty of
other families who will like the
same type. '
Philip of Macedon won his great
military victories and set the stage
for his son, Alexander's, conquests
by an effective combination of in
fantry and cavalry.
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COMPLETELY COVERS old or iww walls.
I Decorator selected colors.
No Mixing. Spreads easily. No brush
marks or laps.
Wall beauty in a durable new oil paint
that's SCRUBBABLE!
?FASHION APPEAL? a face-lifting in
smartness for any room!
HUNTLEY'S
Atlantic Highway Beaufort, N. C.
fhone 2-4871
WHERE PAINT COUNTS. ..DAVIS MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!
CONCRETE BLOCKS
SAND ? GRAVEL
CEMENT ? MORTAR CEMENT
WATERPROOFING PAINT
CONCRETE STEPS ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS
CEMENT DRAIN TILE SEPTIC TANK LIDS
MOREHEAD BLOCK & TILE CO., INC.
Morehead City - New Bern Highway Phone 6-3970
FOR
FARM DRAINAGE, CHANNELS,
WATERFRONT LOT FILLING, AND
CRANE WORK ? CALL 2-7327
Cliff SherrHI Drainage Company
Highland Park Biaufort, N. C.