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Show Avoid Burglary During Vacation You check your luggage before you leave. You have the tires, water, oil and gasoline checked on the car. But before yru hop into the car and take off, the Insurance Information Institute suggests you run through a few precautions against burglary while you're away. Here's a check list Ask a neighbor to handle mail, circulars and newspapers, or have the newspaper mailed to your vacation refuge Don't publicize your travel plans in advance. Burglars can read newspapers. Make sure you have the right kind of locks on doors and windows. Don't forget garage doors or sliding windows Ixwk into the idea of plug-in timers to turn lights and a radio on and off while you're away. If you can get a variable timer so lights go on and off at different times during the evening, so much the better. If you can get your neighbors to open your draperies in the morning and close them in the evening, do so. Offer to take care of theirs when they're away. Precautions or not, no house is burglar-proof. Possibly to recover lost property or as an aid in recovering your financial loss under your insurance policy, the Institute suggests: Make a list of serial numbers of items like TV's, radios, guns, stereos, cameras, and the like. Get photographs of jewelry, silver and other valuables. Keep copies of the lists and pictures in a safe place; give your insurance agent a copy for his filed. Look into inexpensive metal engravers. You can put an identifying number, such as your Social Security number, on many items to provide positive identification. Short shorts are more lifting t than proper Nothing ruins a man's memory for faces like a plunging neckline. |