Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free muss of Friday. August a 1975 fixing up the House by George Dalgleish Wall panelling 4 real feature a drab uninteresting living or dining room can be livened up by installing a feature Wall of Wood panels. Whether you live in an older Home or have just moved into your new Home a feature Wall May be just what is needed to add the personal touch. Some like to choose a Wall panel that will complement their furniture or if they have just moved into a new Home they May want to wait until they have All their furniture then choose a Matching Wood panel for the feature Wall. For example if your furnishings Are provincial you May choose a Maple or Birch Wood panel for the feature Wall. Wood panels come in just about every Wood imaginable teak Walnut Ash mahogany Ebony Cedar Rosewood to match or contrast the furnishings. There Ere nun Sircus real and imitation Wall panels on the Market. Most Are made in four feet by eight feet sheets one Quarter Inch thick. The real Woods Are naturally the most expensive and Are usually the Best to use on the main floor of your Home. The costs May Range from or per rotary Cut Laune mahogany to to letters to the editor Bottom s up for Burniese teak and up to 5100 for exotic Fritca Roate hed brazilian Rosewood. The cardboard Are very authentic looking and most people cannot Tell the difference Between real Wood panels and hardboard. There Are also Wall panels that Are made by printing the Wood Grain on real Wood usually mahogany overlaid with a Vinyl Wood Grain. These panels also look very authentic As the pores of the Grain May show through the Vinyl print adding to the realism of the training. As far As i am concerned the imitations will always be that imitations. I Don t think there is anything More Beautiful than real Wood panels. If Cost is a Factor you might want to consider the imitations however. The Type and age of your Home must also be considered. Sometimes a mod Ern real Wood panel would look out of place in a Home that is 60 years old. Select a panel that will Best suit your needs and pocket Book. But Don t skimp on the Quality just to save a few dollars when 10 or 20 dollars extra can make the difference Between a Beautiful Wall and just a panelled Wall. The finish is something that must concern you. Pre finished Wall panels Are very difficult if not impossible to refinish so choose a panel that has a lasting finish that can take the knocks and bumps it May receive. There Are panels on the Market that have a finish As Good As Fine furniture but of course they do Cost More. But they May be less expensive in the Long run. If you choose a Well known name Brand of Wall panels chances Are they will be guaranteed against a. Lium oci1 us Pelecis including . Now that you have chosen your Wall panel let s get Down to installing it. First select the Wall that will be Best As a feature Wall. V usually it is an end Wall or the Wall you face when entering the room. The Type of furnishings and How much furniture will also determine the Wall that will be featured. If you have an older Home or the room is a Den you May want to panel All the Walls. This May also be a solution to rough and crack ing plaster. By installing Wall panels the need for continual painting is eliminated. Once the location of the feature Wall is decided the next step is the actual work. Tools must be considered. A Sharp Fine toothed finishing saw is required. have some Type of saw but usually it is Dull and needs setting. Check your tools first and have them in top condition because the work you Are about to do has to be looked at for a Long time not Only by you but your visitors. What Homeowner does t want to be proud of his workmanship the application of the Wall panels will be deter mined by the Type of Wall panel and the Wall sur face. If your Home is relatively new and has a Dou ble laminated plasterboard the panels May be glued panels May also be glued to plaster Walls that have a smooth even surface. To determine if the surface of your plaster Walls Are even enough to glue the panels directly to it take a straight piece of lumber or Metal and run it Over the surface of the Wall. If there Are a number of irregularities then the gluing method May not be suitable. If your Walls Are in Good enough shape to glue the panels on there Are special Wall panel Adhe Sives that May be used. Follow the instructions on the tube and you should Little the glue is usually applied with a caulking gun. A few nails Are required at the top and Bottom of the Sheet. If you find that the Wall is not even enough to install the panels directly to the surface by gluing or if the plaster is cracked uneven and coming Loose it May be better to strap fee Wall with Wood Ferring strips first and then glue or Nail the panel to the strip. If this method is used the baseboard usually has to be removed. In some older Homes this May be a problem because the baseboard is usually about 10 inches High and sometimes there is plaster missing along the lower part of the baseboard. This should be filled in with a Wall Patching compound. Spruce boards one Inch by three inches can be used for strapping the Walls. It is usually necessary to level the strapping especially Over Loose or uneven plaster. If the Wall is not too uneven then strips of plywood could be used for strapping. To level the strapping you could insert the thin end of a Cedar Shingle Between the Wall and the strapping to the required depth before you hit the Nail. Use a coated Box Nail of appropriate length. After the strapping has been installed and is level it May be necessary to build put the window and door jambs. This is necessary when the jambs Aren t to be lined with the Wall panelling. If this is the Case Cut pieces of Wood to match the Jamb and Nail along the Edge of the Jamb. Then install the Wall panel flush with the Edge of this Jamb Extension. If the Jamb is to be lined with the Wall panels then this step in t required and you simply install the Wall panel in the Jamb making a flush Corner at the surface of the Wall. Corners May present problems. If they Are not Square the simplest solution is to install Vinyl Corner moulding that matches the panel. If the Ceil ing is uneven a plastic Cove moulding can be if the Job is Worth doing it is Worth doing it right so Don t hurry and Don t skimp on the Materi Al. Then you can have a Beautiful Wall that really stands out As a feature. Copyright George Dalgleish enterprises Ltd. sir i would like to reply to George a. Russell s letter headed scraping the bar and to myself. Or. Russell i wish to thank you for the interest in civic matters expressed by you and other taxpayers in your recent letter. If i interpret your concern correctly it is or was in your my incorrect or unrelated use of the phrase when our City coun cil is scraping the Bottom of the barrel More reve Correct i will endear deficit budgeting each year our City councillors have in deed been scraping the Bot Tom of the barrel for More Revenue. How Many times in recent years Lias our worthy mayor it Al gone to the provincial government o n Broadway threatening beg Ging pleading and demand ing a piece of the lucrative and luscious growth taxes pie in order to enable a bal acting of our City budget you recall that i m sure. That s really scraping the Bottom of the or to explain More clearly would t you agree or. My reason for employing it Russell that is one of Many i believe there is relevancy. First let me Tell you what 1 was not trying to say or attempting to imply or Sug Gest. By use of the phrase i was not trying to subtly hint that the City of Winnipeg 1 Ever had been in the past or could be in the foreseeable future in serious Dif faculties financially. That our City has never at any time been in such a precarious or insecure position is common knowledge. This is evidenced by the fact that the City of Winnipeg today enjoys a very High credit rat ing with All the Money markets of the world. Anytime its Long term Bonds or Deben Tures Are issued for Sale they Are gobbled up in Quick fashion at rates of interest that Are very favourable. I am aware of. All this there fore that is eliminated. Nor was i attempting by any manner or Means to Sug Gest imply or hint that our City was headed on a course toward bankruptcy like new York for instance. Such thoughts were never in my mind at any time therefore also eliminated. Now or. Russell let me Tell you the True facts i was really trying to put Forth by making use of the scraping the Bottom of the barrel phrase. Our wonderful and Beautiful City of Winnipeg has since unification been hav ing great difficulty each year in gathering in or harvesting sufficient funds and Revenue from realty and business taxes plus other sources to meet the Ever increasing expenditures plus added Gal loping inflation to provide and maintain the essential services demanded and expected by its taxpayers. In other words the expenditures with inflation far exceed the City s income. In order to come up with a balanced budget and avoid reasons i used the phrase because i thought at the time it was most appropriate and still do. Does the above provide the validation you and other taxpayers Are seeking once again thanks so for writing. Stephen j. Sweeney Winnipeg of Winnipeg sir i saw a Middle East documentary. Some goats were grazing and periodically defecating in a Sandy desert from which protruded the Graceful columns of a once proud and highly intellectual civilization. I was sad. We All know what bloody dictators the likes of Hitler do when they first take Over rip up the libraries and Burn books. I am sad too when anybody Burns books. It looks As if we whim Peg Gers win not have to resort to such drastic measures. Our new Library is still a big Hole in the dirt surrounded by the towering playpens and the convention Centre. Of Alexandria of Athens of Rome apparently to borrow a metaphor from David Lewis our Union Ripoff bums could t care less whether they Ever read or whether any of the taxpayers of Winnipeg who pay their wages Ever get a Chance to read. George a. Russell Winnipeg anti fogging quiet revolution gives new Hope for mentally i although he has been retired for 26 years Louis Levesque 91, of 209 Bertrand Street St. Boni face still likes to keep Busy. For him a former Farmer in St. Agathe man., Busy Means hard Active work such As chopping Down Trees in his daughter s Gar Den. Psychologist stumbles on a cure for stuttering potatoes sir As the summer progresses the pro fogging fraternity Are once again As ubiquitous As the mosquitoes they seek to eliminate. In re cent weeks it seems to have become increasingly possible that the environment com Mission will buckle under to pressure from the loggers. I would therefore like to Call the Public s attention to the following. Those householders who do not wish to have their prop erty fogged May communicate this to the mosque abatement programme no. 3 Grey Street. In the event of fogging the Aba tement programme will undertake not to fog within 350 feet of the Householder s property this effectively stops All fogging on the entirety of one s Block. If even a few Winni Eggers do this fogging could not reasonably be brought into practice. I would like to encourage All opponents of fogging to i Contact the abatement pro gramme immediately in order that fogging May be blocked before it is begun. Steve Nerz i. Winnipeg by Dennis Montgomery Chicago a a Young Chicago psychologist thinks he has accidentally discovered a cure for one of Man s oldest mental it was kind of like the principle of ing one thing when you Are looking for something said or. Greg Nunn 25, director of the Institute for youth development at read mental health Centre in Chicago. With a treatment emphasizing controlled breathing and relaxation Nunn says he can eliminate from so to 90 per cent of a person s stuttering in two hours. Since he began on the technique 2vi years ago he has treated about 70 patients aged from four to 67. He says he has an s5-per-cent Success rate the first Day and 93-per-cent Suc Cess Over four months. Nunn says he stumbled on the cure while working for or. N. H. Azrin. A Behaviourist at Anna state Hospital on a technique to control stutter ing by training sufferers to read aloud in time with a metronome. He noticed a woman patient was breathing irregularly. Nunn said the breathing Pat Tern was a sign of anxiety the primary cause of stutter ing. So i thought Well what happens if i change her breathing pattern around and have her speak with a change i n when she came to a word that she was stuttering on i asked her to Slop take a deep breath and read on. And much to my amazement she stopped stut he reasoned that the metronome procedure regulated stuttering by regulating breathing. If a stutterer can control his breathing Nunn said he also can control his speech. We teach them to think about what it is they Are going to say before they Start speaking he said. Nunn stresses that an individual maintain a Comfort Able posture breathe deeply and regularly and relax to improve speech patterns. Then what i do is teach them How to breathe when they Start to speak. That s the secret ingredient. What i do is i will have them Start from the beginning a Book. Be fore they Start speaking they take a deep breath let just a Little bit of air escape through the Mouth say the word and let the rest of the air remain ing in their lungs flow the procedure is repeated gradually increasing the number of words Between breaths. Then i get to the Point where they read and pause at natural pause Points in he said. Then we go into spontaneous speak ing. It s army corps reunion set Canadian women s army corps wac veterans will hold an annual reunion sept. 26. And 27, in Toronto. The 34th anniversary re Union is being sponsored by the Canadian corps association wac unit events will include the Lay ing of a Wreath . A reunion luncheon Buffet Din Ner and social. Farther in formation can be obtained from Shirley Wood Heesaker 201 Niagara Street Toronto Ontario m5v-1c9. Washington t p n s doctors using drugs have drastically changed and improved men Tal treatment in the 25 years. In the process they have Learned that much men Tal illness is basically biological in nature a United states task Force has said. This quiet the Force s report said has Given new Hope to the men tally ill by looking upon their problem As readily treatable with drugs rather than one that is deeply psychological and freudian requiring Long psychotherapy. The task Force a 300 member group assembled by the National Institute of mental health nigh re viewed the changes brought about with the help of Bil lion in federally funded re search since 1949. They found these dramatic results treatment of Depres Sion the Success rate has gone from less than 30 per cent to 90 per cent largely As the result of drug treat ment. In treatment of schizophrenia the use of Chemi cals has helped free a multitude of people from mental institutions and kept Many others out. 25 years ago the main emphasis in Federal psychiatric research train ing and treatment was Freu Dian and psychological the main emphasis now is chem ical and biological. Or. Ber t r a m Brown director of nigh said the shift is from "60 per cent psychological 40 per cent biological to the other Way the discovery in recent years that various brain chemicals play a role in schizophrenia depression a manic disease has pot scientists on the Brink of tailor ing drugs to specific conditions. The experts emphasized however that the problems of the mentally ill Aren t solved and that so called successful treatments have to be repeated if a patient relapses. The experts maintained at a news conference called to present their 435-Page report that 10 per cent of the . Population or More than 20 million people suffer from some form of mental or Emo t i o n s 1 illness. Only one seventh of the 20 million it was estimated get expert treatment. In recent interviews or. Brown and his colleagues have said depression and Sui cide Are increasing As a re suit of recession and joblessness. They have said that while the population of mental hospitals is dropping Many patients Are being dumped into ill prepared nursing Homes or welfare hotels without continuing treatment. An individual s Environ ment May still have devas Tating results on his mental condition the experts said development said we be put too much guilt on parents particularly on the in severe psychoses in children. Current knowl Edge showed the underlying cause often was biological or chemical. This in t to say that the parents role in t important. But we be Over emphasized it. There is evidence now of Many other for instance or. Melvin Cohn a sociologist said it has become increasingly Clear that there is a Strong hereditary component i n that is the disposition to the disease May be genes. Studies have shown that while its incidence in the population As a whole is about one per cent it is 20 to 40 per cent in schizophrenics identical twins 10 per cent in close relatives and two to three per cent even in other relatives. Studies have shown that the incidence of schizophrenia is three to 3va per or 35 cases per persons in the worst slums but Only around one per cent in the Best neighbourhoods. Or. Marion Yarrow a specialist in infant and child development said we be put too much guilt on parents particularly on the Mother i severe psychoses in children. Part of the new knowledge or. Yarrow said is that Lack of close parenting warm affectionate holding and care of babies can have severe emotional effects. But we re also learning that these effects May be reversible that a child s life is d e t e r m i n e d by age two which has often been said is not despite the new emphasis drugs and biology or. Brown called for continued study of psychological social and behavioural factors. Too Many such studies have been Cut because of Short funds and the necessity to make a Choice he maintained. Clay Benjii Cone 9-13 moist. True porcelan throwing body. Baku oven Craft baked in your own oven. Modelling Clay Low fire moist colors red Brown. The Ceramic greenhouse Ltd. 284-7632 wanted summer cottages for Sale Matlock whytewold., mpg. Beach areas have buyers looking now pm. Addie Mcdonald 389-2632 i Block Bros. Realty 453-8619 mpg Spring thaw to be revived Toronto up Spring thaw the annual Toronto revue that ran from 1948 to 1971, will be revived next Spring at the Queen Elizabeth theatre in the Canadian National exhibition it was announced wednesday. Bob Johnson who started with the show As an usher in 194s and was its producer from 1966 to 1969, said in an interview he will co produce the new revue with actress Tedde Moore granddaughter of the show s founder Dora Mavor Moore. This is the first time the Queen Elizabeth building has been rented for a commercial theatrical venture he said. It scats by revue is Complete with two built in turntables the Only ones in Canada. Or. Johnson said he and miss Moore arc seeking Satir ical material for the show from newcomers As Well As such veterans As Pierre Ber Lon and Dob Harron. Sears meet Hedi at Garden City come in and meet Hedi Lewis in the Garden City store saturday from 12 noon to 5 . Shell be handing out free copies of her August bulletin. It s full of great recipes As Well As household hints. Bring your favorite recipe or Hobby to the housewares dept. At either the Polo Park or Garden City store. If used in future bulletins you May win a prize. Simpsons Sears Ltd ;