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toy using suitable plants. It is fre fuently over-done and the effect is pot pleasing. Trees should be selected with great care because they serve to train the landscape picture. This is true, whether they are placed in front, to the side or for background effect. The size, when mature, and form should be considered.! Dtr not over-plant the yard, with trees. Reaqember that sunlight may just as welcome as . The private, or famiiy living area, should provide privacy. Here ' simplicity ami ease of mainten ance ate 'especially important. Screening type shrubs should be used. This will also be the picnic \ area where the family can spend many pleasant hours together. The service area should border the service entrance to the house and should be confined to as little apace as possible. Such things as garbage disposal, clothesline, trash burner, garden equipment storage and compost pile should be in this location. The plantings should . be simple aw}, consist largely of screen plantings to hide unsightly objects. ■r KMX A. Krira Television means a lot of things to a lot of people . . but the thing means most often, to most peo ple, is FUN! So why don’t we have « little fuh with' it m today’s cd As you Know, the “picture” you see on your Tele vision screen con . gists of 525 in terlaced horizon tal lines, scan rung the screen from top to bot tom and from left to right. Now suppose (just'for fun, remember) that these .lines started _ running from right' to left instead? What you see is h mirror image — with Ed Suljivtfa’s left ear where his right one ought to be! The picture looks perfectly O. K., of course. But wait . .,. here comes the title — and it’s backwards! This might be fine during the'eammencials .. . but most of us like to know the name of the picture we’re watch ing. Can it,be done? Sure . . . it’s a simple matter of revising a couple of leads inside the set . . Has it been done, As a matter ot fact, it’s a practical solution in' narrow roams where a large num ber of people want to watch TV: By placing a large mirror directly opposite the TV screen, the viewing distance is doriued and the pic FREEWHEELING • ,X. ■. ww,l >, B®G TORT — Having bi lied and an automotive writer about the same number of years, I ought to have known better tgie other night when 1 aimed to pat a stop to this trash-talk about women being better drivers than men. o'What I hadin mind was to or ganise the neighborhood women folk for a little quiz on things au tomotive — and . 'deflate some housewifely ego as I went. This little project had seal mean ing for me. Especially since mp3, per when ®njy own spouse looked up from the paper, smirked, and said “Ah ha. It says right here in I come out of the chair. “Drat it,” exploded I, “what does Just one etaWJttc mean? Look how many more men are on the road, driv ing through all kinds of weather, long distances. Check your com mercial drjvers'; how about the police, bus fevers, highway pa trolmen? 'They’re Out driving when most of you women are home knfttiiik.” I said • “Makes ne diff,” she pounted. “When equated to mileage driven, women perform behind the wheel better — and safer — than men. AMERICA’S , LARGEST SELLING MULTI-VITAMINS SUPER*, PL EN AMINS 11 ViUaRHU' kDd 12 Minerals hvEach Tablet —SOLD AT YOUR REXALL DRUG STORE— CITY DRUG STORE Phone 4138 202 Middle St. New Bern Mr. Farmer . .*•. - % ■ *7 * SEE US FOR Electric and Battery FENCE CONTROLS Kinston Paint & Hardware 123 S. Queen St. Phone 2670 Kinston, N. C. AUCTION SALE Friday Sept. 5th AT 7 P.M. COME ONE. COME ALL. BUY A BARGAIN AT THE CUT RATE FURNITURE STORE. A FACTORY OUTLET OF HIGH POINT, N. C. HAS OPENED THEIR NEW STORE ON HIGH WAY 70-70A 1% MILES WEST OF KINSTON ON THE GOLDS AND APPLIAft FRIDAY NIGHT. WE INTEND PRICE. TO 4 And don’t raise your voice to me.” S*d to say, men, she was right. I checked the records in the Moibar Vehicles Department. Lots of them. But sheer genius prorhpted the lat ter part of my,survey, and slaved the day. “Okay smarty,” I tfent on. tits] also pretty important for good driv ers to know what makes the car run. So let’s see what the women know about that, huh? Let’s sur vey the- neighborhood.” ! And away we went. At the first house, Lady looted suspicious when I rang the betL “Just making a little check, Mrs. Handy,” I announced with a grin. “Now tell me, where is an auto mobile’s transmission and what does it do?” Like I figured, she flubbed the question1 miserably. “Well,” she said tentatively, “isn’t that the part where the stick thing goes and Continued on page It AT ALUMINUM STORM AND SCREEN DOOR The triple-track inserts are self • storing. Finger-tip control with top and bottom ventilation. Instant changing from glass to screen. In terlocked inserts with rain-snow caps for tight seal. S-L Best of All—has every quality feature. 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