Plans Finished for Fiffh College Model Home

Plans are complete and construction began in September on Los Angeles Trade-Technical College's fifth all-student built model home, according to an announcement by college officials recently.

Designs for the home were drawn by architectural drafting students Ronald Francis and Frank Mead during the college's summer session.

"It's something different, a home that combines an indoor-outdoor feeling in a formal atmosphere," said Kenneth L. Hunt, coordinator of the college's architectural and mechanical drafting department.

Covering 1,497 square feet of space, the largest allstudent-built dwelling to date, the home will have three bedrooms, two baths, a combination dining and entry area, living room, all-gas kitchen, and all-purpose family room.

One of the entirely different features of the home will be the separation of the living room from the rest of the house by means of a floating deck floor in the combination diningentry room and a lattice work screen that will shield the dining-entry and living rooms from the rest of the house.

A pool running partially underneath the deck and a sky- light over it will give the entry-dining area a feeling of coolness and spaciousness while still maintaining the indoor-outdoor atmosDhere.

In the living .oorir,a sheet metal free-form fire place, thc first one designed for any of the college's homes, ancl hearth to ceiling windows on either side of it will also help give this room the outdoor-indoor feeling.

In addition, an atmosphere of isolation has been created in the designs for the living room so that it will impart the aura of being used exclusively for entertaining guests, while the other rooms privacy.

Another first for in the home have the college's model a feeling of family home plans this year is the inclusion of drawings for a car port that will lead directly off of the front entry. This is the first time the college has included plans for any type of garage along with the designs for the home in its planning

Construction on the dwelling will begin in the middle of September by approxim ately 520 studeirts in the construction trade classes taught at the college.

Involved will be students from carpentry, cabinet making, plastering, bricklaying, sheet metal, air conditioning engineering, painting, electrical wiring, lathing, paper hinging, glaz:ng, tile setting, and floor covering classes.

"The purpose in designing and constiucting a model home each year, for the past five years, on the Tradt-Tech campus is to give the students in the various trades who participlte in the Construction of the home the actual opportunity to gain practical experience in working in their- irades while they are in school," said F. Parker Wilber, president of the college.

After the home is completely built and decorated in May, it will be opened for public inspection from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 5 :30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. during the week. On weekends the home may be viewed between I p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

During the middle of June, the house will be sold to the highest bidder, using a sealed bid form, at an auction ifl front of the home. Bid forms will be available to those touring the home; at the college's Business Office, 4O0 West Washington Blvd., Building A, Room 107, or at the Business Division of the Los Angeles Board of Education, 1425 South San Pedro Street. Room 101.

Bid forms will also be mailed if requested.

In addition to purchasing the structure itself, the home's owners will also be able to obtain many of the built-in extra features at no extra cost.

If a baseball pitcher could throw a curve like the Western Pine "ogee" moulding pattern he'd have it made. "Ogee" is architectural talk. ft means double curve.

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A handy new envelope stuffer designed to carry the product story of Weyerhaeuser Versabord to the architect, builder, lumber dealer and floor covering dealer has been developed for the building trades. This new literature describes and illustrates the versatility of Versabord-an all wood panel prod- uct used extensively as underlayment in floors and counter tops, and as cabinet parts, shelving, closet doors and wall paneling. Also outlined are detailed instructions for installing Versabord underlayment in the floor system. Panels applied in compliance with these instructions are backed bv the Weyerhaeuser performance guarantee. For a free copy and sample of Versabord write Weyerhaeuser Company, Silvatek Division, Box E, Tacoma 1, Washington.

Living ond Thinking

It is more difficult to live on the level than it is to think on the level. In your mind you may have a pack of splendid ideals. You may admire fine actions, and abhor the other sort. But when it comes to putting these thoughts into practice, that is something else again. But it is better to think good and do bad, than to think bad and do bad also. We're not altogether sure that it isn't better than it is to think bad and do good. That marks either a coward or a hypocrite. But if you really think right, a lot of your thinking is bound to crop out in your actions. Keep the old brain on the decent track and it's apt to pull the rest of you along with it.

Oh, Mon!

As part of the matriculation exams in English, the entering students were asked to write a brief definition of their conception of a self-made man. One young lady wrote as follows.

"A self-made man is like a self-made cigarette-a lot of Bull wrapped in a transparent cover."

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Heolth Notes

To the thin: DON'T EAT FAST.

To the fat: DON'T EAT. FAST.

-California Pelican

Folks ond tYle

It's a funny thing, but true; Folks you don't like, don't like you. I don't know why this should be so, But just the same I always knowIf I'm sour, friends are few; If I'm friendlv. folks are too. Sometimes I get up in the morn, Wishing I was never born; Make of cross remarks a few, Then my family wish, too, That I'd gone some other place, 'Stead of showing them my face. But just let me change my tune, Sing and smile, and pretty soon Folks around me sing and smile; Sure, it's catching, all the while. Yes, it's funny, but it's true, Folks you like will sure like you. ***

Good Old Julie

Julius Caesar and his friend Cassius were walking in the Roman forum one day, when they met a couple of pretty girls. Julius, as was his wont, gave them a glad hello as he passed them.

"Who was the gals ?" asked Cassius.

"I don't know," replied Julius, "but I'm forum."

One more on Julius, and we'll quit: One day Brutus asked the question, "How many eggs did you have for beakfasi, Caesar ?"

lle answered with these famous words: "Et tu. Brutus."

A Three-Toed Tree Tood's Ode

A tree toad loved a she toad

That lived in a tree.

She was a 3-toed tree toad, But a 2-toed toad was he. The 2-toed tree toad tried to win

The she toad's friendly nod: For the Z-toed tree toad loved the ground

That the 3-toed tree toad trod.

But vainly the 2-toed tree toad tried- lle couldn't please her whim, In her tree toad bower, with her V-toed power, The she toad vetoed him.

A Smile

Nothing on earth can smile, but man.

Gems may flash reflected light, but what is a diamond flash compared with an eye's flash, a flash of mirth?

Flowers cannot smile. This is a charm that even they cannot claim. It is the prerogative of man. It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy-these three.

It is the light in the windows of the face by which the heart signals that it is at home and waiting.

A face that cannot smile is like a bud tha[ cannot blossom, and dries rip on the stalk.

Laughter is day, sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight-that hovers gently between both-more bewitching than either.

Particle Bosrd Mill For Southern Coliforniq

Personal Property Leasing Company has concluded financial arrangements to locate the first particle board mill in the Southern California area, President Theodore O. McClurg has announced.

Approximately $2 million is involved in the transaction in which Personal Property Leasing purchased all equipment of Haskins Wood Products, of Swisshome, Oregon, and leased the equipment to Big Bear Board Products, Inc., who is moving the entire mill to Redlands, California, Personal Property l,easing will also purchase additional equipment for Big Bear Board on a leaseback basis. Big Bear Board holds a 78-month lease from Personal Property Leasing, who owns all the assets.

The mill will be reconstructed adjacent to the Big Bear Timber Co., the only lumber mill in Southern CaliforniaMr. David Rogers, president of Big Bear Board Products, Inc., stated that the move was prompted by the savings in freight rates and low raw material costs that Big Bear Board would enjoy in its new location. The mill's primary market has been Southern California, he said, and the proximity of Big Bear Timber Co. rvill allow Big Bear Board to advantageously use the more than 100 tons per day of shavings and sawdust that the lumber mill is prtsently burning. The efficiencies to be derived from the new location should expand the company's market considerably, he added, noting that the nearest competitive particle boaid mill is in Northern California.

Big Bear Board will manufacture pressed, flaked and high density board and rvill be managed by Columbia Engineering Co., who has a three-year management contract.

-!ig Be-a1 Board is_ expected to be in production by the middle of January, 1962, and should employ approximately 50 to 55 people on a three-shift basis. -Prirduction is estimated at 20 to 25 million square feet a year.