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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH DECORATING WALLS Question: We live in a new home and it is now a year since it was plastered. How do we go about preparing the walto for paint or wallpaper? Is it advisatfe to use a resin-bas- e, water emulsion paint? Answer: Your own newspaper probably has many helpful sug-gestions on decorating. You can also find many articles in homo magazines and books at your pub-lic library. If you are going to hang wallpaper, the walls must first have a coat of good glue size. (I assume the plaster is free of dirt and grease.) Some of the wall-paper and paint manufacturers issue printed instructions on how to paper a room, and give a list of tools and equipment that will be needed. If you wish to use water paint, you will not need sizing. If you use an oil paint, you can apply the first or priming coat as a size. Most painters do not care for glue-siz- e, before a paint job. BAMBOO SHADES Question: Are bamboo shades suitable for an open porch where they should be exposed to rain. Answer: Yes, a bamboo shade can be used as a porch shade. The wood is not affected by mositure or dampness. But, to improve the appearance and to keep the wood from becoming soiled, it is advis-able to give it an occasional coat of spar varnish. If you're wearing shorts around the kitchen, especially during canning season, protect yourself from flying and spattering hot stuff by pinning a turkish towel to your waist so it will hang down in front of your bare legs. Sliced fingers can be prevented when you pare vegetables if you slap a piece of adhesive tape on your thumb before you start. A variation of the old colonial custom of spicing bedsheets can be worked in your linen closet and linen drawers by purchasing quan-tities of toilet soap in advance of your needs and storing it un-wrapped among the linens. White, flower-scente- d soaps go well in the lora and master's shirts and hand-kerchiefs; green, pine-scente- d cakes are suggested for bed linens and towels. Onions are probably the most dangerous vegetable ;o slice thin because they have a way of slip-ping out of the knife's way and leaving your fingers there to take the rap. Avoid this by setting the onion on a flat metal grater while you slice it. The grater won't allow the onion to slip out from under at the crucial moment. When fat flares up on the stoe, quickly throw a handful of salt on it. If no salt is handy, clap a magazine or newspaper over the flame. Or, use an empty pot as a snuffer. In any case do not throw water on the flames. It's not likely to extinguish the fire, and there's a good chance it will splash some of the flaming grease onto you. To prevent grease from sputter-ing excessively, sprinkle a little salt or flour in the pan before the grease is added. If it's too late for such a preventive measure, turn a colander upside down over the frying pan. This will stop the fly-ing grease, but will still allow air to come in contact with what's cooking. In storing clothes of any kind, name your own brand of moth pre-ventive. As for type, contact sprays which are actually sprayed right into the cloth seem to prove most effective. However, regard-less of what you choose, it'll be of little use unless the clothes are first d. Dry-cleani-solvents are positive death to any moth larvae roosting in the cloth. When you need extra closet and drawer space, let an old attic trunk take care of it for you. Clean the trunk with steol wool, soap and water, spruce it up with two coats of enamel to match the color scheme of the bedroom, garnish with decal transfers from the five-and-te- n, and find a place for the trunk in the room that needs the closet space. It's particularly handy for storing the baby's wool-ens and extra blankets and such; saves a lot of running up to the attic for things. pmmwm,. ...nJg,.iiii.,l.1i.,:,ii.i,,j.iiUniii ,piu. i.i.um. , , .,p. . '"" " f '.' J "J'Vyf lEmErald Usiex I . Weekly Picture Story -- Vol . v" R - x ' 1 " ft , ' . - ... :j f rT"siT: X: 4 t uit-- " . i &l 1 O Back under Greek rule after 600 years of foreign domination, Rhodes, called the "emerald isle" by the Greeks, is once again be-coming the tourist attraction spot in that part of he world. Founded by Greek emigrants around 1500 B. C, the island has been under Roman, B-yzantine, Turkish and Italian rule. Since World War II the Greeks have cultivated to the fullest the island's natural at-tractions. A bit of its beauty is seen in the above picture of Rhodes City, at the entrance of which once stood the gi-gantic statue of the sun god, Helios, then one of the won-ders of the world. O The six miles of crenelated walls, ramparts, moats and hastions (above) which surround the medieval city have remained intact to this day. These mighty, walls successfully withstood the repeated onslaught of the Turks during four sieges within a hundred years and give to the city a dominantly gothic atmosphere so attractive to tourists. I V ' - y'' i i "C Ijji i Mh , - r , : B ' mil . i AfJ- - . i vzTTh IfiV-- ! HflA- - Uv , . , iff j O The above picture shows the few remaining ruins of Lindos and its harbor in the background. Lindos was one of the three cities Greek emigrants founded when they moved to the island. The armies of Europe made Rhodes their headquarters for their crusades from 1309 to 1523. O In the Iliad, chronicler Homer tells of the founding of three great cities on Rhodes which attracted the attention of the ancient world Lindos, Camiros and lalyse. In the picture above are ruins of the Acropolis of Lindos. In modern times, between World War I and World War If, Mussolini persecuted the population but preserved many such ruins. Barely 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, Rhodes is a swimmer's paradise, with many beautiful and beaches as pic-tured at the right. 'VKlfJ& aaitf5Z?.1!'''. aagw sDfcn. iBir.iliiini m ,nr, ,t w n, JSSwraii- - , 1 '5 .1 "til '4 i i fH htr ifTSiaigiiMbgsi O Withstanding the ravages of time, the colonnade (above) overlooks the valley which holds the ruins of Camiros, the second ancient Rhodian city which was built on the western short of the island. I fi S5Ti HOfTIE M 111 Town W. J IN WASHINGTON Jm BEA Appropriations RURAL electrification ad-ministration has allocated to 61 borrowers for the rural telephone program Involving 21,-40- 8 miles of line and 74,585 sub-scribers in the first year of its operation. This allocation was made from a total of 609 applications amounting to $00,470,956. The state of Texas leads in actual allocation of loans j with seven borrowers, or new tele- - phone co-op- s, with $4,704,000 for 6,809 miles of line and 15,461 sub- - scribers. Minnesota comes second, Louisiana third. New Mexico fourth, then comes Iowa, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Utah and Alabama in the order named. The loan allocations have been made to 20 newly formed farmer and to 41 commercial, companies. As was pointed out in this column last week, work of the rural telephone program will be hampered and cut back consider-ably during the coming year due to lack of money and the scarcity of essential materials. For Instance approximately $30,000,000 is avail-able for 1951 fiscal year, but there will be only about $14,000,000 for 1952. If you do not have telephone service on your farm write to the rural electrification administration, department of agriculture, Wash-ington, D.C., and ask for their book-let "A Telephone for Your Farm." Answers to all questions are In-cluded. House Throws Out Bill You can lobby and high pressure a small group of men much easier than you can a house appropriations committee. That Is the answer to the backward step taken by that house committee when by a coalition vote of 31 to 18 the committee overrode its chairman, Rep. Clarence Cannon of Missouri, and threw the single- - package appropriation bill into the ash can. As a result the house will go back to the obsolete methods of making up appropria-tions for the government expenses ' In 11 separate measures, consider ed by 11 separate passed at separate times which pre-sents any member from knowing what expenses of government will be until the final eleventh bill is passed. Another reason for the retrogres-sive step was the jealousy for pow-er, for under the single package appropriation bill the chairmanships for these 11 subcommittees were eliminated, and the chances for log-rolling and "back-scratchin- in the whole committer are much less than in the smaller This is the second reorganiza-tion plan in the house which has been discarded at this session, the first having been restoring auto-cratic and dictatorial power in the rules committee wherein eight men on that committee can, by their opposition, prevent any bill from coming to a vote on the floor of the tiouse. Washington Silhouettes Washington Silhouettes Land around the beautiful Jefferson me-morial located on the tidal basin Has sunK approximately 10 incnes .... With an Influx of some 300,000 tiew war workers coming into the city, some agencies such as the patent office, the REA and other smaller agencies may be moved to other cities for the duration as was the case during World War II and plans are being made for dispersal of some other important agencies to points within a radius of 20 miles of Washington, which means construction of new build-ings Another angle to this dispersal is the possible bombing of the nation's capital .... For about two years there has been a "for sale" sign on a modern brick ehurch edifice and rectory in the 4600 block of 13th street N. W. Cas Sales Increase Remember the Kerr bill, vetoed by President Truman, which would have taken the poor, downtrodden independent gas compainies from under Jurisdiction of the federal power commission and permitted unlimited rate Increases? Well FPC reports operating revenue of these natural gas companies under FPC totalled $110,219,004 for November, only 24.9 per cent increase over the same month, a year ago, and gas sales to consumers up 12.2 per oent in the same period. For the year ending November 30, net in-come of the companies was 9, an Increase of 32.4 per cent. So successful was the first one, that despite unsettled world condi-tions, a second United States In-ternational Trade Fair will be held. That the United States finally had the back-bon- e to brand Com-munist China as an aggressor in Korea was received here with mix-- d feelings. First, elation that the United States position has been maintained, and second, some ap-prehension as to what the next . move will bring sanctions, block ades, or "limited" war. JniPhjllipr W PRICE FREEZE Q. Why were prices fixed as o last Thursday? A. Because some Governmen officials couldn't spell Wednesday Q. Why did Washington wal until prices had hit the skies befuri applying controls? A. It adheres to the old adage "Never do anything today tha' would seem too sensible tomorrow and always remember that a stiter in time can lose votes In any elec tion." Q. Didn't Bernard Baruch las July warn that only immedluti price controls could stop price: going through the roof? A. Yes, but Washington was using a pneumatic roof. Q. What Is a "base period' price? A. The price at which a sellei has raised prices in anticipation ol a "base period" price. Q. What Is scare buying? A. Buying done by a harassed housewife in search of a dozen eggs for an omelette, the nature of which Is being fixed by a Federal Bureau which prefers soup. Q. Live animals, tree nuts, shark oil, pine gum, castor oil poppyseed and muru-mur- u kernel! re exempted from controls. It this bad? A. Not unless you are In the habit of eating live animals with shark oil dressing and tree nuts for dessert. Q. What are muru-mur- u ker-nals- ? A. They must be something serv-ed in the lunchrooms of Congress. Q. A year In jail and a $10,000 fine are penalties for violations. Is this the basic year as of Thursday or a year subject to shrinkage as usual? And Is the $10,000 fine ap-plicable at current dollar values or those when money was money? A. Next question, please. Q. If you, as a buyer, are over-charged, what can you do? A. Recover "up to three times the overcharge or up to the over-charge plus $10,000, whichever is lower," it says here. Q. What is meant by "which-ever Is lower"? A. We don't know; we are sleep-ing In a "lower." Q. A housewife pays sixty cents more for liver and bacon than is legal. What can she do? A. The law says she can retain a lawyer and have him bring suit in any court of competent jurisdic-tion. Q. Where will that leave her? A. The lawyer will get every-thing from the liver and bacon to her bungalow, flivver and house-hold chattels. Q. If I eat In restaurants what can I expect? A. Every restaurant must keep menus for the base period and can-not raise prices above them. Q. How will this work out In beef stew, frankfurters with beans or a hamburger sandwich? A. He will get less beef in the stew. A shorter frankfurter and the right to take whatever goes Into the hamburger to any court of com-nptp-lurisrfirtinn which wants something for the dog. a YE GOTHAM BUGLE That message in Chinese which in some way got printed in a cor-ner of thousands of tax forms didn't bother most people. It was the part printed In English that had them all at sea. How can anybody be sure what part of a tax form is Chinese? . . . When Ima Dodo heard the re-cent air raid siren tests she rushed into the nearest grocery, thinking it was a warning before p.ri.ce.controls went into operation An American Theater of Shakespeare is planned at West-por- t, Conn. Why not Avondale or Stratford? . . . Movie fan talk: "I'll meet you at The Enforcer' be-tween the ninth and tenth murder." . . Groucho Marx has been voted the video personality of 1950 by the Academy of Video Arts. To 'us Groucho Is funny but not as funny as that. Top video funmaker in our book is Jimmy Durante. His mad-ness and gusto seem better on video than In his Hollywood movies and his program in which he led a philharmonic orchestra while Helen TraubeL famous grand opera star, went into a Hot Mommer number, had us howling. "Gentlemen," said Jimmy to the orchestra, "Synchro-nize your watches. I don't care what you play so long as you all finish together." . . . America's Immediate need is a control board to control the boards that control the selection of tha control boards. Eric and Mike, Eric and Mite, Tbey will have beadachet that neither can like. A man was arrested at a New York airport with $280,000 worth of diamonds hidden in his heels. 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