Do's and Dont's
By ANDREW C. LANG
YOUR GARDEN HOSE
Da . . remember that It has been
estimated that the life span of a
garden hose ii cut at least SO per
cent by careless handling.
Do . . . repair a leak at either
end of the hose by checking first
to see whether a new washer i>
needed and then, if necessary, buy
ing and attaching a new fitting.
Do... repair a pinhole leak
along the length of the hose by
applying liquid rubber, rubber ce
ment or tightly-wound plastic tape
Do . . . repair a larger leak along
the length of the hose by cutting
out the damaged section and Rising
a metal coupler to rejoin the two
parts.
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Do . . . buy a urtwl device for
use where the hose Is coaneded
to the faucet; it alio*" the hose
to be moved freely without the
usual wear and tear at that point.
Don't . . . leave the hose about
when it is not being used; drain it
and coil it on a hanger so that it
has no abrupt bends in it. '
Don't ... pull the hose around
the corner of the house without
checking to see whether it is
scraping against the foundation.
Don't . . . indulge in that very
bad habit of smothering the flow
of water by kinking the hose
sharply at some point along its
length.
Dont . . . target that when the
outside corda of a hose are dam
aged but there is no leak? fur
ther trouble ran be prevented by
wrapping the area with plastic or
friction tape.
Don't . . . neglect to change the
position of the hose on your lawn
occasionally: when left too long
in one position, the grass under
neath it will suffer.
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Dream Kitchen May be Far
Off; New Stove Best Now
Comfortable height of built-in oven unit is demonstrated by Alma
Chambers, kitchen expert. She says a new range and cheerful color
scheme can bring your dream kitchen nearer than waiting for the in
vention of robots.
By VIVIAN BROWN
AP Newsfeaturrs Writer
Are you waiting for that dream
kitchen? A magic room where you
could push buttons all day long
and have little robots do your
work?
Well, better settle for what's
around now, if you get the chance.
It may be years before that kitch
en comes to pass. So says charm
ing Alma Chambers whose father
invented the first insulated range.
She explains:
"A new stove in your kitchen
is worth two in that dream cata
logue. If the man of the house
offers to buy you one he has seen
on sale or likes now, don't make
the mistake of saying 'I think I'll
wait for . a skyblue range or an
atomic powered one.' Take what
you can get right now."
Miss Chambers, who assists her
father in business, has seen dream
kitchens evolve, but they do take
years of planning after those first
rough sketches, she says.
Her father was the first to put
color and antique copper finish on
stoves (in 1929). He has designed
a stove too so that panels may be
removed and new ones inserted'
when you've tired of the color or
woud like to replace white with
color.
If you are planning a new home
or organizing your first one. put
plenty of thought into your kitchen
Miss Chambers advises. She sug
gests:
"Buy the best equipment you
can afford. Instead of investing in
all sorts of accessories such as
broilers, toasters, deep fat fryers,
put that money into your stove.
Some stoves come with built-in
griddles, too.
Buy a refrigerator that will hold
all the frozen foods your family
needs. Make sure cabinets are
placed strategically so that you do
not wear yourself out reaching and
bending for things."
Miss Chambers thinks color
should be encouraged in the kitch
en. It doesn't need to be in all of
your appliances, cabinets and util
ities, but your color scheme should
Re inviting she says. It should
look so pleasant that even the man
of the house will volunteer to
whip up a meal. Says Miss Cham
bers:
"The kitchen is coming Into its
own again as a meeting place for
familie and friends. Larger fam
ilies are putting a lived-in look
back in the room, and we'll see
bigger and more colorful kitchens
going into new homes."
She also sees the day, not far
off when we will cook all over the
house. There will be barbecue
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At Long Last
Syracuse. N. Y. (AD? An ex
pensive hospital machine is in use
at the Hadassa Municipal Hospital
at long last, reports received here
from Israel say. It is an electro
cardiograph (a complicated appa
ratus to measure heart action)
which belonged to the late Dr.
Henry H. Haft.
His widow and Dr. Irving L.
Ershler who took over Dr. Haft's
practice when he died in 1952
wanted to give it to Israel. But
red tape surrounding international
shipments of scientific equipment
stopped them.
It was surplus, because Dr.
Ershler had his own machine and
it lay in storage until Mrs. Mark
Silverman came to "the rescue. She
packed it in two 35-pound units
and took it as hand luggage on a
trip to Israel. She reports the
crates proved a bit uncomfortable
sliding around the stateroom in a
heavy storm, but she tells how Dr.
A. Abramovitz met her at the
dock to say there was urgent need
for the machine.
Dr. Ershler says he was able to
tell Mrs. Haft that her husband's
machine, with his name plate still
on it, was in active use before she
died in a hospital here.
rooms and cooking burners in the
family get together room.
Hot plates and burners will be
hooked up right in the dining
room so that casseroles may be
taken right off the burner and put
on the table. But these things will
not be available at consumer price
level for three or four years at
least. Miss Chambers reiterates:
"Enjoy whatever you can get
now and don't sit around waiting
for decentralized cooking. It'll be
fun when it gets here and that's
the only way to look at it."
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Stella Postoffice Opened in 1892
By A. D. BNXETT -
(Editor's Note: The following is
a summary on the history of Stella
presented at the meeting of the
County Historical Society Saturday.
Mr. Knnett has long been a resi
dent of the western part of the
county where Stella it located).
Stella postoffiee was opened In
1892. Prior to this time, the set
tlement was known as Barkers
Bridge. Before the time of Barkers
Bridge, there wm a local ferry,
connecting the two counties of Car
teret and Onslow.
The Sabistons seem to have been
the earliest settlers of prominence
in the area.
A Doctor Barker, of English
parentage, married a Miss Sabts
ton. and this was the beginning of
the Barker family at Stella, about
year of 1800.
Naval Stores Trade
There was some very early trade
in naval stores, carried by sail boat j
. to Swansboro. which for a long |
time was the principal naval stores
depot, for eastern North Carolina,
! second only to Wilmington, along
the entire North Carolina coast.
Cotton Was an enrlv commercial (
crop. It* impartanca im probably
emphasized by the rather large
Negro population, plus the fertile
soil, well (trained by the White Oak
River, on whose bank the village of
Stella .stands -
Like most places in the South at
this time, the motive power for
ginning rotton. was supplied by the
same faithful (aria animal, that
pulled the plow, in cultivating it.
About 1880 the White Oak River
Corp. was formed, for the purpose
of manufacturing lumber from the
near virgin forests of pine, grow
ing along the bank* of White Oak
River.
Northerners Man PI sat
A Captain K. B. Terry hailing
from Boston. Mass, was general
superintendent of the plant, and
he brought with him a number of
northern men to man the mill, sev
eral of whom married and remain
ed in Carteret, though Captain
Terry returned after closing of
mill. Truckner and Kuhn were
among the names of those remain
ing.
For about three years Stella en
joyed a period of great prosperity.
"Logging" was the order of the
day. A large Negro population
nnr Ian* r?nl pfarWatioa JWt
above Stella supplied much of the
day labor. At this tin*. ItM, dM
prevailing price for day labor mat
40 lo 3* ??? per day ? and thia
waa not aa right-hour day, but 14
to 12 boon, or "from sua lo aua."
The manufactured lumber waa
towed down White Oak River M
barges. and luaded aboard time
maat schooaers that cam* in
Boguc Inlet, and lay beside Dudlay
Island Chaaarl until loaded.
Moat all of thia lumbar wal
shipped b j schooners to Naw Bed
ford, Maas. Stella's first attain
boat, tha "Nannie B" piloted by
Capt. D. B. Wade of Morebead City,
and Capt. Bob Mcl.ean, of 9teiia,
as chief eagineer, towed the barge
of lumber down the White Oak
River. Tha "Nannie B" was a
"wood burning" steamer.
During the "boom days" of Stel
la, the families of Barkers. Pet
letters, Weeks, Mrl.cons were so
cially prominent.
At this time, Stella boasted a
hotel, dance hall and Its first and
only telegraph office Operator at
that time was Stacy B. Wade, nana
residing at Raleigh, and one tine
our secretary of state.
Keeping Hot Air Out Is
First Step for Cool House
By DAVID G. BAREUTHER
Houses, like closed automobiles
in sun-baked parking lots, can be
intolerable heat traps in hot
weather. The way most of our
houses are designed and built, the
materials used in them, even in the
way we use our homes, make sum
mer cooling a pretty complicated
problem.
It seems that we just can't say
I "Let's air condition," unless we
are prepared to pay unnecessary
operating costs for a house not
ready for efficient air conditioning.
The color of the roof, the size and
location of windows, trees in the
yard, the amount of breeze through
the attic, even the material we use
for a shower curtain can mean
many dollars in the family bud
get when we try. to make a house
cool.
Don't think a bathroom shower
curtain has nothing to do with com
fort in the living room. A little
thing like that has baffled en
gineers. C. \V. Nessel of Minneapo
lis-Honeywell, who served as an
expert on the Austin, Texas, air
conditioned village, told us the
other day of an interesting adven
ture with a wet shower curtain.
A homeowner complained that
his air conditioned hottfce was too
hot UumMm the morning, but per
fcclly crtol in the afternoon when
the outside temperature soared to
100 degrees. Tests showed abnor
mal humidity in this house imme
diately after 8 a.m. Humidity, of
course, has a lot to do with keep
ing cool. The drier the air, the
warmer you can stand it.
Well, the engineers found that
a canvas shower curtain remained
soaked after the family's morning
baths. It took all morning for the
curtain to dry ? by evaporating
its moisture throughout the house.
As soon as a nonabsorbent plastic
curtain was substituted, the prob
lem was solved.
Keeping heat out of your house
is the most important step toward
keeping the place cool. This is the
conclusion of the University of Illi
nois Small Homes Council, which
has issued a comprehensive bulle
tin on Summer Comfort.
"If the sun's rays," says this
study, "can be kept off the walls,
glass areas, and the roof, and if
the hot outdoor air can be kept
from penetrating the house, the in
door temperature can be more easi
ly held in check. Shading the
house and the use of other sun con
trols (roof overhangs, sun screens,
louvers) are the principal means
of protecting the house from the
sun's rays."
Shade trees to protect windows
and roof on the south and west
sides of a house are stressed in an
other booklet "Practical Pointers
on Home Air Conditioning" just
published by the United States Air
Conditioning Corp., Minneapolis.
Tree-shaded walls are only slightly
warmer Ihun the outside air, but
walls protected from the sua ran
temperatures of 135 degree* ami
more. Unshaded roof tempera
tures have been recorded from 140
to 180 degrees, with attic tempera
tures as high as ISO.
So insulation and plenty of ft
becomes a must whether you at
tempt to cool your house with fans
or with air conditioning. A new
book. "Insulate and Air Condition
Your Home." rites case studies to
show that adequate insulation can
reduce the first cost and opera tien
of home air conditioning by as
much as 50 per cent
Co-authors Groff Conklin aid
Arthur M. Watkins advocate as
much as 8 inches of mineral wool
insulation in the floor of an attic.
Conklin is a former builder and
Watkins is an air conditioning en
gineer and associate editor of a
leading building magazine. Their
contention seems logical especially
in view of the inevitable settle
ment encountered in looie insulat
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