Plastic Makes It Easy
To Have Knotty Pine
PLASTIC FILM dipped in warm water makes it easy to trans
form plain kitchen cabinets to knotty pine paneling.
By VIVIAN BROWN
AP Newsfeature Writer
S'i you'r. bored with the “hospital look” of your kitchen?
F very thing se ’ms .-o s iow white, shiny and sanitary, you can’t
be.:r !:.
Well, why not cover your cabinets in plastic veneer? More
than two dozen designs are available in marble, wood grain and
■ leather patterns to please the most discriminating home decorator.
These are in roll form, like wallpaper, and the plastic film is
CAB Suspends
Godfrey's Pilot
License 6 Months
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Civil
Aeronautics Board decided today
to suspend Arthur Godfrey’s pilot
certificate for six months, effec
tive March 16, as a penalty for
careless flying at Teterboro, N.J.,
airport Jan. 7.
The decision came in the form
of a recommendation by Safety
Examiner Albert H. Ruppar. God
frey has the right of appeal, but
a recommended decision by a
safety examiner customarily is
adopted by the board as its own
* decision.
The recommended penalty was
surprisingly severe in view of the
fact that the- Civil Aeronautics
. Administration had asked for a
suspension of “at least 30 days.”
Godfrey, star of radio and tele
vision and a flying enthusiast,
has denied that either intent or
carelessness was involved when
his plane roared close to the con
trol tower in a takeoff at Teter
• boro.
The CAA contended that he de
liberately “buzzed” the tower
with his twin-engine DC-3 in an
noyance because he was not per
mitted to take off from the run
way of his choice.
Boston Parker House Fire
BOSTON, UPl — Three guests
were assisted down ladders and
some 500 others were evacuated
down three elevators and a stair
case as fire swept the fifth floor
of the famed 14 - story Parker
House early today.
One man suffered smoke inhal
ation and was treated at Boston
city hospital.
There were no other casualties.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
similar to transfers, although it is
applied with adhesive.
The film is so authentic looking
due to its photography of selected
wood grains and other materials
that it looks like the real thing—
mahogany, walnut, pine, limed
oak, leather, marble or whatever.
It is easy to apply. All you do is
cut the large sheets of plastic film
to size using a razor blade and a
metal straight-edge. Dip each
piece of film in warm water for a
few seconds, removing the paper
backing. Then apply a slow-dry
ing cement on the surface to be
covered and position the plastic
veneer to the cemented area.
The- veneer may be adjusted
with your hands. It is squeegeed
until it is smoothed and all excess
cement is then removed.
This material is supposed to
cut easily and cement readily.
It may be applied to wood,
metal, glass, plywood, and mason
ite with equal success. It may cov
er fine furniture such as coffee
tables, pianos, chests and should
give a permanent fine surface
finish. It is not brittle and should
not chip.
Alaska Radio Stations
Change Ownership
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Acquisition
of two southeast Alaska radio sta
tions and changes in its top per-,
sonnel were announced yesterday
by the Midnight Sun Broadcast
ing Co.
The company, controlled by the
estate of the late Capt. A. E.
Lathrop, added stations KABI,
Ketchikan and KJNO, Juneau to
; its existing stations, KFAR, Fair
j banks and KENI, Anchorage.
New general manager of the
I four-station combination and its
| national sales office in New York
is Alvin O. Bramsted, manager of
KFAR since 1943. Bramstedt’s
home office will remain in Fair
banks.
Army or GM Must
Fay $60,000 For
Loose Tank Screws
WASHINGTON, {jfl—'The trans
missions in about 6,450 medium
tanks already delivered for serv
ice are being taken apart for cor
rection of faulty assembly discov
ered in some of them, the Army
said yesterday.
The Army itself has some of
the machines and the National
Guard has others. They were pro
duced by General Motors. The re
pair work is being done in the
field.
A Pentagon spokesman, an
swering questions, said that on
Jan. 22 a report was received
from Ft. Hood, Tex., base for
the 81st Armored Division, that
damage to transmissions had been
discovered in three or four tanks.
Investigation, said the spokes
man, revealed that screws in the
assembling process at the Allison
division of General Motors had
come loose because they were not
properly fastened.
Orders were issued to take
apart the transmissions of 6,450
tanks already issued and “stake
down” the screws. The disassem
bling and reassembling of a trans
mission required about 33 man
hours of labor. Cost of the cor
rective work, the spokesman es
timated, might be about $60,000.
He said the question of who
should pay for the work — the
Army or the company — is being
studied.
Mortar Shell Explodes
During Training Lecture
Killing Six U.S. Marines
With 1st Marine Division, Kor
ea, h?*)—A mortar shell which ex
ploded when dropped accidentally
at a training lecture, killed six
U.S. Marines and wounded 30 yes
terday.
The shell presumably was an
enemy missile. The instructor was
showing how an American-made
fuse could be adapted to it and
apparently thought it had been
made harmless, a Division spokes
man said today.
The shell exploded as it hit
the floor of a quonset hut at the
division’s mine warfare shod. The
blast ripped out doors and win
dows and hurled steel fragments
through the walls. The instructor
was killed.
Four of the wounded were in
critical condition. Four others
seriously hurt.
The Marine announcement did
not say specifically that the mor
tar shell was of Communist or
igin, but it did describe it as an
82 mm missile, a standard Red
army type. The comparable Am
erican mortar caliber is 81 mm.
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