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Evening star., 1953-05-22
SUMNER FURNITURE

Third Floor. Washington;
Fourth Floor, Stluer Spring and PARKinoton
Outdoor Metal Chairs lockette bar keeps
5-Pc. Wrought Iron Dinette, 28x48" table,
chairs ---------------------49.99
aluminium Chair, lightweight, rust-proof,
folds compactly -------------7
Cool Peel Tub Chair, woven peel lets
breezes through ------------------ 90
Non-Tilt Hammock and Stand, green or
red and green plaid d--------------1200
1nnerspring ChaiSe Lounge. tufted mat
tress, 3 positions ---------------2
Bamboo Slat Shades, u" Stats, all 6-ft.
drop, 2'6" wide e----- QQc
Glider Cushion Set, 6-pc. plastic cover,
green, red, yellow --------------12.9o
Evening star., 1953-05-22
WoMEN'S FASHIONS

er $35 & 1926 Misses and Women's Light
9 Weight Better Wool Toppers -------23.0O
= sos & sos Maternity Dresses and Rayon
4 Print Suit 90
% Misses and Juniors Evening Gowns, Bal
lerinaS, FornnalS S-----1 7S
u So Famous Name Brassieres padded with
8, foam rubber .10
y Misses and Juniors All Wool Fully Lined
VI Budget TopperS --------------1 90
= 6.95 to 895 Misses and Women's Cotton
~ ~ dresses
- b.98 to 1893 Misses Summer Cotton Skirts.
> 4.49
Is Misses and Women's Famous Swim Suits,
y 500
Il S.95 to 9.95 Women's Famous Marcy Shoes,
N Wute lncIuoeo
10 $5 and sos Famous Name Girdles and
~ Panty GlrdleS
te. T.95 New Summer Millinery, whites darks,
ii naturals ----------------H
yt1 5unior Miss Washable Nylon Dresses, pas
~ CelS ana prints --------------------7.H .HS
u 1875 Misses Better Dresses, puckered nylon,
es nylon prints ---------.-------------14.05
9 Dyed Northern Back Muskrat Capes, plus
70 TAX
-. (fur products labeled to show country of origin
lC, of imported furs)
y Misses Summer Toppers in rayon poodle,
white, pastels -------------------
n Misses and Juniors Summer Raincoats.
= pastel rayons ---------13RS
eS Misses Washable Nylon Casual Dresses,
IL pastels, navy 0O0
e. Misses, Womens and Juniors Summer
G. Suits, rayons, cords -Q on
Evening star., 1953-05-22
FURNITURE

Z19.95 Foam Rubber Sofa. MODERN tight
seat in choice of covers, colors 1925
1895 Reversible Foam Cushion Sofas. 8
styles in boucle, matelasse, frieze --120.05
3 Styles Reversible Foam Cushion $3.50
Chairs Hardwood frame ----3005
Pair of Occasional Chairs. No-sag spring
base. Nail-head trim. colors 2 for 1895
259 95 Two-part Foam Cushioned Sofa-use
as one sofa, as two small sofas 1895
1895 Rowe Chair with Nylon Upholstery.
Moth and fadeproof. Colors -----60.05
995 Rowe Chair with Foam Rubber Cush-
ions beautiful wool frieze ----6005
1895 Rowe Sofa Upholstered in Nylon.
Fadeproof, wipes clean Colors ----l20.05
1895 Rowe Sofa with Foam Cushions, wool
frleze in decorator colors ---------120.05
249.95 Hungerford Solid Mahogany Bed
1895
$162 Solid Maple Dresser, Mirror, Chest and
Bed complete with innerspring mattress
and coil spring g------------------l20.05
24.95 Genuine Leather Top Tables, gold
fooled. Choice of styles ------3 for $50
1895 Formica Top Lined Oak Tables. AL
cohol. burn, scratch resistant ----3 for $50
1895 Mahogany Veneer Dropleaf Table
Closed, 18x34";; open, 45x34" ------S33
Mersman Mahogany, Tables. some with
marqueterie inlay. Choice styles 1905
7a95 Solid Maple Dinette, dropleaf table
and chairs. Colonial style --------6005
5-Pc. Plastic Top Table Dinette Wrought
iron legs, plastic seat covers -----64 .05
Kneehole Desk in maple or mahogany fin
ish. drawers, brass harware 1905
Evening star., 1953-05-22
TABLECLoTHS, ETC.

Fifth Floor, WashinOton;
Third Floor, Surer Spring and PARKinUton
Loo Chenille Bath Mat Sets, solid colors,
4.99-30x54" Looptwist Rugs. latex non
slip back many colors --------2 for SO
Seconds of 3.99 Queen Anne Plastic Coated
Table Cloths, 53x53" "-------0Q 90
Scranton Ecru Lace Dinner Cloths, 7Ox90",
first quality -------------------
Evening star., 1953-05-22
TOWELS, DoMESTIcs

Fifth Floor Washin0ton:
Third Floor. Silver Spring and PARKin0ton
Seconds of 2.69 Cannon Bath Towels,
25x48", 1.29 each or ------------4 for S5
49c Irish Linen Kitchen Towels, 17x29"
multl-SCr1pe Tor Xl
soc Cannon Bath Towels, 22x44", first quail
SOC to 79c Printed Tea Towels. Assorted
patterns, miSprints -----------------30
Imported Goose Down Pillows ------880
Mattress Covers, famous make, zippered,
twin or double -------z2 OF
Pacific Percale Sheets, scalloped, twin size,
2.09
Blossom Mattress Pads, white, S9x7e", 3.69;
54x76" 20
4.99 Cannon Summer Blanket, colors match
Cannon sheets ts--------------------3.99
Feather Pillows, 20x2e", mixed feathers,
1lOral ClcKlng Tor KS
Mattress Pad Seconds, famous make, 39x
76", 2.22; 54x76" ---------------3.3
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Kennedy Hits Policy
On U.S.. Wool Stock
BY the Associated Press

Sen. Kennedy, Democrat OF
Massachusetts, says "inaction'
of the Agriculture Department,
rather than imports, is the cause
of the current heavy stocks OF
Government-owned wool.
"It is my understanding" he
said, that the department has
made no serious effort to dispose
of the wool which it now holds
under the price support pro-
gram; that the department re-
fueS to test this wool to satisfy
the suspicious of over-appraisal
by those who might otherwise be
anxious to buy it; and that it
has generally ignored the advice
of the wool industry in the dis
posal of this stock.
"If the Department of Agri-
culture is unable to get this wool
into a merchandisable state and
sell it at a reasonable price, it
should not seek to place the
blame elsewhere when market
conditions have been in it's IA
vor."
Senator Kennedy-who terms
his home town of Boston "the
worlds wool center" - outlined
his views in a statement pre-
pared for filing with the United
States Tariff Commission. The
commission scheduled hearings
for today on whether further
import duties should be placed
on raw wool because of the eff
fects of wool imports on the
price support program.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
$500 Flee Floods
In Southern Texas;
Property Rises
BY the Associated Press

ROBSTOWN, Tex, Aug. 81
More than $500 persons were
homeless today along the
swamped lower Texas coast as
rising water from ten days of
heavy rains Seeped into homes
on the fat coastal plains. ..
At least 1000 were evacuated
In this farming community of
5000 about II miles west of
Corpus Christi. Many spent their
second night in emergency shell
ter. They were joined by new
refugees late last night.
The number OF homeless in
creased as thundershowers con-
tinued along the coast. More
rain was forecast.
Another town hard hit was
Sinton % miles north of Corpus
Christi, where $50 were evac-
Nated.
No Great Damage to Life.
The South Texas flood was no
great danger to life because the
water rose slowly. 1t spread over
vast acreages and was trapped
behind drainage ditch levees,
railroad embankmentS and other
obstructions.
Flooding here began Saturday
when an enbankment Softened
by 812 inches of rain in 36 hours
gave way, flooding much of the
town. Constable Ben A. Ben
nett said "easily 1000" had been
driven from their homes and
calls for evacuation were COM
ing in all the time as water
crept higher.
At Kingsville, 40 miles south
west of Corpus Christi, about
60 families, possibly 800 persons
were still sheltered after high
water Thursday and Friday.
There had been no reported
loss of life, but property dam
ages continued to rise. In many
South Texas homes water was
more than three feet deep.
Heavy rain along the coast
Evening star., 1953-08-31

was in sharp contrast to vast dry
areas of Central and West Texas.
Scattered rains in recent weeks
have eased the drought in local
areas, but the situation remains
critical for many cattlemen.
Square mile Lake.
Water receded only a few
inches yesterday at Robstown,
then rainfall up to 8 inches fell
on higher ground west of the
city. The runoff built up lake
outside dikeS that was up to 3
feet deep last night. It covered
8 square miles.
Sinton had a finch cloud
burst in less than five hours
yesterday, making a total of al
most 20 inches since Thursday.
About one-fourth of the town
was under water.
On the upper Texas coast at
Bay City, 80 miles southwest of
Houston, 1923 inches of rain had
fallen since Saturday. Streets
were flooded with eight inches
of water measured in two down.
town stores. Houston had 4.19
inches of rain since Friday night.
More rain was forecast.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
200 Seized as Police Raid
Norfolk County Cabarets
BY the Assoeiafed Press

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 81
Nearly 200 persons were arrested
and at least 81 were booked at
police headquarters on various
charges following a series OF
raids early yesterday on 10 Nor
folk County night spots.
OF those booked, 81 were
charged with visiting a disorder
ly house and four were charged
with whisky violations.
The simultaneous raids, made
about 1:25 am, followed nearly
week of observation of three
of the clubs by plainclothes po-
licewomen.
Operators and employees and
patrons were arrested in the 35
Club. the Spotlight Club and
Pent's Place-the three clubs in
which the women officers had
been stationed. Nearly so State,
Evening star., 1953-08-31
By the Associated Press

FLINT. Mich. Aug. 31.-Flint
today was proud of itself and its
neighbors. In it's northern out
skirts stood 81 completed homes
and 112 more in various stages
of construction to prove that
hearts and hands can do much
to erase the scars of tragedy.
Those homes took an estimat-
ed 10000 man hours of work
all of it contributed Saturday
and yesterday by volunteers.
Beneficiaries were those who lost
homes. and often loved ones, in
a tornado which claimed 116
lives and injured nearly 1000 on
June 8.
The building bee was tagged
Operation Tornado" and work.
men. skilled and amateur,
flocked to the scene from many
places. Around 200 came from
Detroit. A group from Muskeg-
on chartered bus to get to the
job.
Building materials were all
the tornado victims we're asked
to contribute. and Flint dealers
gave discounts on these.
Where there had been 4,500
volunteer workers Saturday,
5000 showed up yesterday. Both
days were among the hottest of
the year, but 90-degree heat did
MT deter anyone, although four
fell by the wayside from heat
prostration.
Their work made Flint Mayor
Donald L. Riegle hail Operation
Tornado" as a thrilling success, :"
Evening star., 1953-08-31
japanese Club 10 Attempt
HimaIayan Expedition
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

KATMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 81.
The Nepalese government has
granted a Japanese alpine club
permission to attempt scaling the
26,658-foot Himalayan mountain
Mansalu next spring, official
sources said today.
The IA member expedition
tried to conquer the peak in
northwest Nepal earlier this year
but were beaten back by storms.
An eight-man team from
Tokyo University also has been
granted permission to attempt
Annapurna peak - 26,493 feet
high-in central Nepal this win
ter. It already has been climbed
once-by a French team under
Maurice Herzog in 1850.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Cunudo's Population
MuY Double bY 1875

OTTAWA.-The population of
Canada in 1904 consisted of 70
white persons and innumerable
Indians.
BY 1941 the population was
II ,506,655 and by 1851 it was
14,009, ,429, gain of % per cent
in 10 years. The population is
expected to double between now
and 1878.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
5000 Pitch In to Help Rebuild
7 ornddo-S Shattered Flint Area

and Project Chairman M. A.
Bergman added:
There's not another country
it could have happened in. The
Voice of America ought to blare
this thing all over the world"
"For most" explained Mayor
Riegle, "the free labor meant
the difference between a home
and no home"
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Norwegian to Study at Yale

OSLO.-Sven Major, an Oslo
civil engineer. has received q
$1,000 scholarship from the In
ternational Road Federation to
study traffic engineering at Yale
Unlversity's Bureau of Highway
Traffic.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Most Heavily Populated

NEW YORK.-Russia, China
and India comprise the three
most heavily populated nations
in the world.
Evening star., 1953-08-31

county and ABC officers staged
the raids.
Also visited were the Rainbow,
Elm Grove, RoSemont, Ell
Rancho, Bird Land and Flamin-
go Clubs and Busy and Dawes
Drive-in.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Renfro Valley
Sesqui Program

John Lair plans to devote the
March 1st CHS Radio "Renfro
Valley Sunday Gatherin" as a
tribute to Ohio's admittance to the
Union, March 1, 1903.
Lair will relate many of the
legends and historical tales of the
border country along both sides of
the Ohio River between Kentucky
and Ohio with appropriate songs
by the Renfro Valley Folks inter-
woven throughout the program.
A personal application will be
the story of Colonel William
Crawford's torture by warning In
dians. Crawford was a personal
friend of George Washington and
an ancestor of LARS wife, Virginia
Crawford Lair.
In keeping with the programs
regular policy of bringing to the
nations listeners the best of pio-
neer legend and folk music which
played such a big part in the
growth of the nation, John Lair
and the Renfro Valley Folks will
commemorate in story and song
the early years of Kentucky's sis
ter state as part of Ohio's sesqui-
centennial.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
BY CECILY BROWNSTONE
Associated Press Food Editor

Serve a special dinner dessert
on George Washington's birthday
rich with cherries, of course.
A hearty and delicious steamed
pudding should hit the spot on a
February night. The pudding we
recommend is made of a white
cakelike batter, studded with
whole red cherries. It's pretty to
look at when it's sliced.
The pudding itself calls for
only a modest amount of sugar,
because with it goes a double
delight-a thick hard sauce and
a delectable thin cherry sauce,
the latter with just the right un-
dertone of tartness. You use part
of a can of cherries for the
pudding, the rest goes into the
sauce.
It's fun to shape the hard
sauce for the pudding into small
hatchets by molding it on pat
tern cut out of cardboard. But if
the pudding is piping hot-as all
well-bred steamed puddings should
be-the hatchets will melt! So
pass your hard sauce fancies
separately in a matching bowl,
and there will be festivity aplenty.
Here are the recipes.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Wool Superior To
Synthetic Fibers
Hopkins Says Wool
Ou+-Performs Others

COLUMBUS, OHIO-The bid of
the new man-made fibers for
woors traditional markets is
competition of ideas, not of fibres,
Giles E. Hopkins, Technical Di-
rector of The Wool Bureau, today
told members of the Ohio Woll
Growers Cooperative Association
at their annual meeting in Co
lumbus. No synthetic fiber has
woops basic and essential quail
tiles, he declared, and scientists
doubt that these properties can
ever be produced synthetically.
The speaker told his wool-grow-
ing audience that producers of
the new fibers are today compet-
ing with wool by endeavoring to
enlist the interest of mills in
fibers which they claim can be
processed at a profit and which
in the end will be accepted i'm
lieu of the service rendered by
wool
Efforts to create this state of
mind among garment-makers, re-
tail distributors and the public
are being made by the great
chemical companies producing the
new fibers, he continued, on a
scale and with expenditures of
vast funds hitherto unknown in
any of the textile industries.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
cooking's Fun
FAMILY DINNER


Split Pea Soup with Croutons
Potato-Stuffed Frankfurters/
Butterd Carrots, Cole Slaw
Bread and Butter, Beverage
Lemon-flavored Applesauce.
(Recipe for Starred Dish Follows)
Potato Stuffed Frankfurters
Ingredients: l pound g medium
-size) potatoes, u cup very hot
milk, 1 tablespoon butter or marg-
arine, II to u teaspoon salt, pep
per, A frankfurters, paprika.
Method: Boil potatoes in salted
water until tender; drain and put
through ricer or food mill. Beat in
hot milk, butter, salt and pepper to
taste. (There will be about 2 cups
mashed potatoes.) Split franklin
ters in two lengthwise, but do not
slit through bottom. Flatten frank
furters and pile ~ cup of mashed
potato on top of each frankfurter
Run sharp three-tined fork length
wise over potato to score; sprinkle
with paprika. Place several inches
from source of moderately higf
broiler heat; broil until hor
through and lightly browned-5 tc
10 minutes; watch carefully. Max
eS 4 servings.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Mrs. Montgomery
Funeral Friday

Mrs. Dorothy Hougland Mont
gomery, 80, 291 Gladys Run Road
near Rome, died Wednesday in
Mt. Carmel Hospital after a short
illness.
Surviving are her husband
Charles (Bob) Montgomery; two
daughters, Donna Dolores and
Dorothy Dianne; a son, Charles
Douglas; her mother, Mrs. Effie
Hougland; two brothers, Wayne
Hougland of Lake Pres on,
South Dakota and Kermit of
Portland, Oregon.
Funeral services Friday morn
ing at II o'clock at the Blauser
and Baker Funeral Home, West
Jefferson, the Reverend G. F.
Peters officiating minister. In
terment in Sunset Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
homo
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Farmer PIows But
Once In 4 Years

Sloping land on Howard Calls
dairy farm in Summit County is
in full production although he
plows it only once in four years.
= Call does not grow cultivated
crops on this land. He sows a mix
ture of alfalfa, ladino clover and
bromegrass in oats every four
years and uses it for hay, silage
and pasture.
For the first two years he max
es most of the meadow into hay
and silage. He uses it more for
pasture the second and third years
and pastures close in the fall be-
fore it is plowed.
Earl Jones, extension agronom-
list at Ohio State University, says
grass sods are heavy enough to
keep erosion to a minimum after
plowing. Call rotates his pasture
plots and uses lime and fertilizer
on meadows.
Jones says Calrs cropping sys-
tenn is adapted to dairy and beef
breeding farms on sloping land
He also points out that the system
is good where heavily Travelled
roads cut through farms or where
distance from barn and water eli
inmate some fields for pasture
purposes.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
To Celebrate Boy
Scout Birthday

With the month of February
set aside each year by une Ma
tional Boy Scouts of America
Organization to celebrate it's
founding in this country, the West
Jefferson Cub Scout Pack is
sponsoring a pot-luck supper in
the Methodist Church basement
Friday evening, February 81, for
Cub Scouts and their families.
Boy Scouts and their families,
leaders, directors and sponsors.
All who attend are requested to
bring food for the supper and
table service for themselves. An
interesting program is being plan
red to be presented following the
supper.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
WEST JEFFERSON news
Parent | eacher Program
Has Fine Turnout mondav

Lewis, Patty Jobe, Jane Miller
and Rosanne Rowland.
WALTZ CLOGG De b bic
Thompson.
MILITARY TAP John and
Billie Robinson.
ACROBATIC DANCE Patty
Hunter.
HULA Judith Cain.
TAP Linda Loveless and
Caroline Latirrow.
TRICKS FOR TWO Jean and
Jane Miller.
SHUTTLE TAP Donnie Dea-
con, Dennie Horton, and Johnnie
Overturf.
SONG Linda Marx.
ACROBATIC CONTORTIONS :
Nancy Lewis.
FAST TAP Viola Marsh.
BUCK TAP Bonnie Ellis and
Ann Bricker.
DANCING SURE IS FUN : Ilo
Sue Blauser, Karen Cornwell,
Brenda Rings, Beverly Baber.
ACROBATIC Rosanne Row.
land.
FAST TAP Linda Catanzarro.
IRISH TAP Ann Bricker,
Cathy Lewis, Bonnie Ellis, Sandra
Rowland.
IRISH CLOGG Mildred Cos
sard.
SONG, JAVA-JIVE TAP aero
BATIC Patty Jobe.
COMEDY TAP Jenny Will
hams, Sandra Kelly.
HULA Kay Bateman.
RHYTHM TAP Sarah Ellen
Smith.
BALLET Rosanne Rowland,
Patty Jobe, Jean Miller. Nancy
Lewis, Patty Hunter, Jane Miller,
(SoloiSD Sharon Farquhar.
SONG and RHYTHM TAP :
Bobby butcher.
STEP DANCE Bonnie Ellis,
Kathy Lewis, Ann Bricker, San
dra Rowland.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Darby Grange
Sesqui Plans

Plans for a Sesqui- Centennial
exhibit were made by members of
Darby Grange 779, jefferson
township, at a special meeting
Thursday, February 19, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. ASH Bid
well Sr., Lucas Pike.
Sunday, April 19, was the date
scheduled for an exhibit in
Grange Hall from two to nine
o'clock with supper from four to
seven. Grange members will have
tickets for the event.
Any person having articles suit
able for the exhibit is asked to
contact Mrs. ASH Bidwell, Sr.,
who is chairman of the affair.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27


Tossed Green Salad, Beverage
(Recipe for Starred Dish Follows)
SHRIMP SCALLOP
Ingredients: l pound fresh or
frozen shrimp, 2 cups boiling
water, l teaspoon salt, 6 slices
bread, a tablespoons butter or
margarine, l No. 2 can Il pound
and 3 ounces) stewed tomatoes.
Method: Add shrimp and salt to
boiling water; bring to a boil
again; simmer 3 to 5 minutes;
drain. Shell shrimp and devem.
Stacking 3 slices OF Lreaa at a
time, cut off crusts and cut bread
to make 6 pieces out of each slice.
Melt butter in skillet; add bread
pieces and toss in butter. Cook
over low heat, stirring often, until
bread is Drowned and crisp. Put a
layer of the bread in the bottom of
a 112-quart baking dish. Add
shrimp and stewed tomatoes. Top
with remaining bread. Bake in a
hot (4O0F) oven 10 to Is minutes,
or until tomatoes are bubbly and
hot. Makes a servings.
Note: The canned stewed toma-
toes called for in this recipe differ
from ordinary canned tomatoes;
they are a comparatively new pro-
duct and are now widely avail
able.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Daisy Deems
Buried Monday

Funeral services for Mrs.
Daisy Deems, SO, who died Mon
day afternoon at her home in
West jefferson, were at the RAIDER
Funeral Home Wednesday after
noon. She had been in i'll health
since last July when she suffered
a broken hip. Interment was in
Rushville Cemetery, Fairfield
County.
Mrs. Deems was a member of
the Domestic Science Club of
West jefferson.
Surviving are two nieces, Mrs.
Clarence B. Tanner of Columbus
and Mrs. William Kees of Lake
Worth, Florida.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
10 BARNUM

Petite Jo Barnum, 80 pounds of
energetic charm, thrills Hollywood
Ice Revue fans with her jitterbug
and hula routines. She is a distant
cousin of the great P. T. Barnum.
whose name is synonymous with
show business. Before joining the
Wirtz extravaganza which opens
at the Cincinnati Gardens on
March 3-11, she starred at New
York's Roxy Theatre.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-27
Old Houses Need
Thoro Inspection

1t pays to be nosey when buying
or remodeling an old house.
First, locate the builder, if pos
sible, to learn if the house was
properly constructed. Try to get a
copy of the original plans and
specifications for information not
otherwise available.
Next, study a look on house
construction for information on
structural factors to examine.
Some of these books contain a
check list-copy it and use it
when inspecting the house.
Finally, make thorough tour
of inspection, beginning in the
basement. Inspect main girders
and beams to be sure they are
straight and free from cracks.
Check spacing and size of joists to
determine whether they are ade-
quate. Test their condition,-if a
knife blade digs easily through
such framing members, it may in
dicate dry rot or termites.
Check for crawl space if the
basement does not extend the
length of the house, and the ma
terial used in the floor. A good
drainage system helps assure dry
basement and walls free from
cracks.
Many buyers learn what kind
of heating system and fuel are
used, but fail to look inside the
furnace. Poor condition of CRATES
and Innings may mean costly re-
placing.