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Renovation Gives

Face to Old House

Rupert while of sturdy
e an old fashioned appearance both

t this is not something which ean-

died in Most cases, Say builders here,

=_

Time to Check
Eaves, Drains

Now, before the
ter rains,-is the tinve to @ean
the eaves and check the down-
pipes and drairis of your house
for there are few things so
noying as finding the
overflowing and having to clean
them during a downpovt

Most houses with  shineled
roofs Will produce a lot of silt
in the éavetrourghs, washed down
by rain. This eventually. stops
up the entrance to the down-
pipe, and spelis trouble

Drains also clog dow
pipes develop leak either of
which are troublesome and
should be remedied before wiritet
in

This is also a
get exposed
with a
vent breakage
during a sudden

spell

Cruise Ship Sinks

1)

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nterior
1 ply
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be fiven
on Of pic-
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ich there
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such and

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good time to
water pipe
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ied from page

the Was rel
old Lorraine §

a San Francisco insurance

saga ated by 23-yer
firm
Lorraine, her sister, Gladys,
and their father were members
of tour group sponsored by the

Catholic Young Men's tmsti-
tute of San Franciseo. Their
tour Was scheduled to go to
Alaska last year but plans had
been cancelled when the Kath-
leen was damaged in a collis
ion with the steamship Prince
Rupert.

So the group mad
ake in Alaska
sceptre of tie
up with t
line Of Alaska

The Kathleen must have
omething

said, When

d-——most of
Franciseo
{t flight of
e Rupert

ired

plans
this year
shyipw

er i i re

reck caught

nad

again u Lorraine

she was asked where
the tour planned to \ next
year, she replied They h

said yet. I not

because if it
pody will go

The Sthaylor family figured
they lost $1,500 ». iuggage and
personal belongings. Most of
the Passengers estimated their
losses at about $500.

We Were in
went ground said
Shaylor, clerk with the
of Internal Revenue
flew arownd the room
fell {rém the table

‘At first people
around. There
of near panic
thé people quir

“Tt Was pretty av
idown those rope
lifeboats

The ship we
4 m. We mace
9:30 then we left
hiked a mile they
| felt, more hike 10.”

HLPOTT EVITT & CO., LID.

BUILDING SUPPLIES

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September 8, 1952

ince KUpErt
Monday

Total values
contract awards
for*the month of August, was
$11,855,700 under the total for |
the same pe riod of last year.

of construction |

TI . of $175,756,900
Beacon

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PLANNING SUREAU

 

a Facts

}represents a decrease of

_ August Construction Awards Sec Slump

Cumulative total for the first)
eight months of 1952, according
to MaceLan Building Reports
Limited, stands at $1,219,933,200

;as compared to the eight month
|} period of 1951, which had a dol-

lar volume of $1,692,741 300. This
$472,-
808,100 for the pericd.

FTW AN i

WNajrobi, famous centre for hic
game nung, is
| Kenya.
construction had two large pro- |
jects under way: one of 200)
homes in St. Laurent at $2,500,- |
000 and one of 250 homes in|
Sarnia, Ont., at $2,125,000 for}
CMHC.

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Smal! House Planning Bureau of Canada
Box 1193, St. John, New Brunswick

send me more information,

Please
the plan features and the

Tih

NAME
ADDRESS

CITY

type of construction used in the

BEACON house as pictured in The

THE BEACON is
house, compact

a small one bedroom
and economical to
build, with the added advantage of
being expandable. With a minimum
of alteration work consisting merely
of opening a preframed section of the
hall, a second. bedroom can be added
either now or in the future
The open plan arrangement of the
living-dining room incréases the liv-
ing area while effectively concealing
the kitchen work space
Kitchen cabine
are efficiently place
cabinet is located in tt
A total of six closets
including linen cabinet and @ouwie
wardrobe closets in the bedroom
Pians call for full basement, fram
construction siding and asphalt
hingleés.
Dimensions are
672 square feet
tals 13,104
Por further
BEACON
ning Bureau
jaint John

equipmen
d chin
dining ar

are p ovided

28 feet by 24
cubag

Area
while to-
THE
Plan-
1193

infor ion about
House
da, Box

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without obligation, about

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PROVINCE

Color Harmony Needed
For Well-Planned Home

You and your family wil feel happiest in your Election Now

iome when

y ou best.

Everyone thinks of green as
h, peaceful, well ealaniéed
cheerful, sunny

warm, energetic, exciting

reserved. In a way,
resemble the
st, says paiht

yellow as

cool,
ou can. be said to
you like be
iltant, Faber Birren
active, like to get out
1 around, like to ha lively
s at your house, want your
make vivid impres-
others, like unusual fur-
then red and the colors
imily will probably
vorite, most
your person-

blue as

‘ jlor

If you're
partie
home to
sion On
nishing
in the red kk
true fi

reflect

be your ac-
curate

ality

ing

“RED DYNAMIC

In this
home

A

case, the
decoration

keynote of
should be
room be made
with well-chosen red
Or, as a background
watermelon red W all paint
1m an active, ively
A lively exterior
begin with horizontal sid-
ing painted red, set off by white
painted shutters, posts and rail-

ean

color
will a
atmospi

right

a TO

ne

GREEN FOR COMFORT

If you valwe a cheerful home
ifmosphere with: tomfort Aippex-
in home furnishings; lke
colors that are too strong;
entertain quietly, green is prob-
ibly your favorite color

A medium green, neither gar-
ish nor too subdwed, will Be a
happy choice as a color to paint
your house exterior. It will give

rievdly vet quiet charm to your
home

Neutral white trim will create
1 soft blend rather than a sharp

most
not

> color contrast

Used on interior walls,
provides a hospitable
| ground for brilliant color accents |
lin furnishings and accessories.
| CONSERVATIVE BLUE

If you want your home to be

lignified and impressive like an-
tiques and traditional furniture;
choose your guests carefully and
fentertain your friends quietly;
| are more or less conservative,
| blue. is probably the color that

you feel most at home with.

A cool, conservative blue with
|white shutters is an excellent
}eolor plan for painting the ex-
iterior of the more formal, con-
gervative house which you prob-
ably favor if blue is your color.
| An interesting note of contrast
lean be added by painting the
front door red.

Blue makes an effective back-
ground color for traditional
room furnishings. Enhance this
pleasing room scheme by con-
fining fabric to a single pattern
single ‘con

green

i

faha

trasting color.

+
accents wo a

 

NEW CONSTRUCTION

-

REWIRING OLDER BUILDINGS
mmit Phone Blue 293

APPEAL OF YELLOW

If you find modern decoration
;and modern art appealing; like
to work at home on your pet
projects; choose colors more by
reason than emotion; valie ih-
tellectual ability highly and pre-
‘fer good conversation to a card

 

|
|
|

you're surrounded with colors that suit

game, yellow is
favorite color

The intellectttal appeal of yel-
‘low can be expressed in the
inatural yeHow Wood tones of
modern furniture. Unpatterned
ceiling-to-floor draperies
pale paste] yellow-green
on walls and ceiling, will
ithe room both spaciousness and
‘the uncluttered effect you like.

On the exterior of your house,
use yellow as a unique
color. It will contrast attractive-
ly with brown stained siding or
with gray paint.

Ike Would
Assign Negro
To Cabinet

Gen. Dwight

probably your

paint

CHICAGO
D. Eisenhower said here he
would appoint a Negro to his
cabinet if le were elected pres-
ident and if the Negro were the
right man for the job

The Republican presidential
nominee, making an’ exception
to the rul€-about discussing pos-
sible appointments, told a three-
state meeting of Republican
leaders of his views 6nwthe
Negro at the top level of his ad-
ministration.

back- |

|

Whether you are in-
Stalling a new heating
plant or renovating
the old, you fad bet-
ter start now before
cold weather sets in.
And to be sure of
guaranteed results we
suggest you call our
licensed plumbers
and heating experts
now. Free estimates,
of course.

ELKINS LTD.
P.O. Box 274

Phone 174

 

give

accent |

About Steel

Production

NEW YORK—The basic facts!
about the structural stee] short
age are published for the first
time, After severa] months’ in-
vestigation of the long-debated
question whether Steel's pro-

ction has kept pace with con-

c Architectural
published these find-

of

needs,

In 1929 the building industry
got 2,744,615 tons of heavy struc-
| tural steel, In 1949, the last year
before Korea, it got 1,538,435
tons, only r cent of what it
n years cistior'! Last
year it got or ly 2,242,877 tons.

No other major user got less

éel in 1951 than in 1929, In the
intervening 22 years, total net
stee] product was increased
71 per cent 32,931,205 tons.
But stee] for constriction was
eut cent or 501,738)
tons

56 pe
Was 2 x 20 3

10n
or
back 19 per
i 1 Big Building in 1951 up
15 per cent over 1929, the con-
struction industry got 20 per cent
less structural] steel,
Erected cost of structural steei
as increased from $90 in 1929 to,
Of this $145 increase,
$36 Was for the rolled shapes, up
from $38 to $74; and $109 was
\for fabrication and erection,
from $52 to $161.
| More atid more building joBs
| that would Wave Been built i
| ste} a few years back are goine

|to concrete, in Whose wse More!

and more being

worked out.

economies are

‘B. C. Liberals
‘Don't Want

VICTORIA (—Former Edtica-
tion Minister William Straith
said here the Liberal group in
the British Columbia legislature
| doesn’t want an early election.

Straith, who may be the Lib-
eral Party’s house leader, said
his views are supported by Mrs.

foot, other

members.
Straith said:.
“I believe

two Victoria Liberal

tion at this time, and
seems to be no reason to believe
that another

fusion,
fusion,
ready.”

|= werek

or

BUILDING REPAIRS
NEW BUNGALOWS

Re-roofing and
Concrete
SAVE MONEY

Write Box 465
Daily News

\eategory in August, 1951 Sigates

j}and $6,507,800 in residential and
| business respectively.
_ decrease of $27,423,100 in the en- [
| gineering category, coupled with

Upeé

oe Hodgts and D. J. Proud- |
and |

people of British |
iColumbia do not wish an lec- |
there |

election would re- |
sult in anything but farther con- |
perhaps greater con- |}
than there has been al- |

|
Other big jobs include storaze |
:
}

Montreal, air defence
St. Suber’, @ue.: General Contractors
Building and Repairs
of all kinds.

Painting and Decorating

Increases in the individua:; headquarters,
construction categories were | school, Halifax, N'S.: office quar- |
scattered throughout the prov- | ters, Halifax; roadwork, Prov- |
inces. The only category to show |ince of Alberta; nurses honie,
a Dominion increase was resid-| Saskatoon; factory, Port Hope
ential, which increased $6,169,606|Ont.; three pumping stations, |
over the $35,177,600 recorded for|Edmonton, Alta. high school, |
August, 1951. Drops of $4,342,700 | Halifax; a hydro powere project. |
(business) ; $2,133,200 (industrial) | MacArthur Falls, Man.; a conser-
and $11,549,400 (engineering) as|Vation dam, St. Marys, Ont.:
against the $6,169,600 residential | Supply and fabrication of stee)
increase produced the $11,855,700 | huts, Montreal; and a hospita!,
overall] decrease. | St. Boniface, Man

Comparative figures for each a ipenltgctiind

P.0. Box 1670 Phoné Red 894

Sooo

ee

LONG TERM |

in brackets) follow: Residential,|pycept for a brief period of semi-

$41,347,200 ($35,177,600)); Busi-
Industrial, $13,420,400 ($15,553,- |
600); and Engineering $73,007,-
400 ($84,556,800).

The Western ‘section of t he!
country showed a total decreasc ne

of $16,492,30¢ even with the sub- .
stantial increases. of $5,083,900 | SAANICH
PLUMBERS

For all your Piumbing

etize AhCity ii i 949,Gene Yaliss Sito.
| Chiang Kai-Shek has ruled Na-
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The large

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Libbey Sofedge
CRYSTAL
GLASSWARE

Retail Value $14. 85

the $660,900 decrease in indus- |
trial were sufficient to account
for the $16,492,300 overall de#
crease.

In the “Big Job List of the Phone Blue 846
Month” no one particular eate-

gory was outstanding enough to|| ©or. McBride and Fifth Ave.
merit singling out. Housing

and Heating Needs

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