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Show New Houses For Old The suggestion is being made this spring that most of us can get new houses for our old ones. Fire chiefs are explaining that anyone can make surprising home improvements with just a ; little effort. Spring Time is Clean-up Time . The chiefs are interested in the safety angle, too. They recommend re-commend checking up on conditions condi-tions in the cellar, saying that any burnable materal that is becoming be-coming charred by radiated heat from the smokepipe, should be moved to a safe area or else properly insulated. Furnaces and stjoves should be checked for broken or rusted parts and should be thoroughly cleaned. Chimneys should be inspected for cracks, the soot cleaned out, and hot ashes put into a metal container Don't overlook attics, closets and celurs; remove ascumula-tions ascumula-tions of paper, rubbish and any old and broken furniture. Clean up the yard and burn papers and trash in an incinerator. If I you leave pa'nt rags, oily waste, i or cleaning mops about, they may sponlaneouMly ignite. Keep this dangerous matorial in a metal can with a tight cover, Electric fuse boxes should be checked to make sure that; the Sorrect size fuse i.s used and that J no burned out fuses are bridged i wiHi a coin or piece of metal, ' All electrical work or extensions should he done by an expert electrician. elec-trician. Replace all worn or fray-3d fray-3d cord3 on appliances. Let's make Spring Clean-up worthwhile this year Get a new, safe house for au old, hazard-jus hazard-jus one! |