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SAFE IS YOUR HOME? DO YOU HAVE enough elec- trical outlets to handle your a ppli a nces? Sq m.qcher O DO YOU HAVE heavy enough wiring to carry the loads your appliances require? DO YOU HAVE a properly wired home? i, ANSWER NO to any of these que, s- i,, then YOU IIAVE A FIRE HAZARD ;Which Could destroy your home and loved ones. If your answer is NO in any case, Notify 00[TIIACKERAY ELECTRIC A STREET PHONE HA 6-6477 Q0,,,,o-,T .................................. • You Prepared with intments • Salves • Bandages ii COMPLETE FIRST AID SUPPLIES AT HcCO,K00Y's d Railroad Evergen Square T "" ;72 00o,,evo00 ,o Fire Hazards Is your home fire safe? Do y,n know in what rooms mol fires start ? Would your family know wi]at Io dr) if fire broke out? 'Chore's a burning need for you t> observe Fire Prevention Week (October 4-10) by checking your lmme for fire hazards. C(msider these statistics: • Fire losses last year totaled $1,056,266,000, the second year in a row that they have topped a billion dollars. They showed a 21 percent increase over the $870, 984,000 recorded fiw, years ago. • There were nearly 300,000 residential fires last year. • Fires claimed an average of 11,602 lives each year during the past eight years. Thousands more were injured in fires. FIRE PREVENTION, like char- ity, begins at home, and the aver- age homeowner, however gener- ously he treats his favorite char- ity in other respects,, is stinting himself and his :family on vital protection against fire by failing to observe one or more common sense safety rules. The National Board of Fire Underwriters, in connection with Fire Prevention Week, has set l!orth basic rules to follow. First of all, suggests the :Na- tional Board, work out a Home Escape Plan, with alternate routes to the outdoors from every room. Hold practice drills to be sure each member of the family is cap- able of taking the routes that are mapped out. Figure out a work- 1 And Your Family a grease fire does start while you're cooking, first turn off the burner. 'Phen cover the burning pan with a large flat cover using a hmg handled fork, or smother it quickly by sprinkling ordinary, baking soda or salt on it. 2. Make sure window curtains or imnging towels don't blow over stow burners. Never use lighted matches to earch dark closets. Use a flash- light: IN TIlE KITCHEN use these precautions: 1. To prevent a grease fire in the stove, clean out oven regular- ly, thus avoiding an accumulation of grease. And keep grease con- tainers away from your stove. If able method of reaching and res- cuing anyone who is partially or completely helpless. Always end your drills at the same prear- ranged meeting place, so everyone can easily be accounted for. MOST IIOME FIRES begin in either the bedroom or the kitchen. ] The following tips are especially ] applicable to those two rooms, though may apply to every room in the house: Special Week ha 37th Year might fall asleep, drop your rig- '  ' arette. Toxic gases from the fire Fata f res are ot ace dents cigarette m hand, when a portable 3. If you use an oil or kerosene stove, keep main storage of oil outside. Never refill when the stove is lighted. Keep stove clean and free of dirt. Don't use as fuel either gasoline, crankcase oil or any oil containing gasoline. 4. Make it a hahit to disconnect your electric iron, wilen internpt- ed by a phone call, the door bell or caller. 5, Never keep flammable elean- ing fltlid, such as gasoline, in the house. Use safe cleaning fluids. 6. TO PREVENT those mysteri- ous fires caused by "spontaneous ignition" never put oily rags or cloth saturated with pablts, fuli- ture polish or wax in closets or cupboards. Instead, get rid of those which you will not need again, and keep the others in cov- ered metal containers. Keep your waxers and floor mops in cool open places. 7. Never throw flour, uncooked cereals or dust from a vacullm cleaner or dustpan into a stove fire, or into a burning incinerator. Dust is explosive. Wrap up dust and dispose of it safely. 8. Never wear loose, flowing robes or negligees while cooking, A sleeve or sash may catch flx on one of the burners. Remember, fire prevention is! everybody's business, not just the fire department's. An ounce of plvention is worth a pound of cure, and the best way to achieve fire safety is to keep fires from happening. Follow the basic rules of safe- ty and your home is well on the way to being fire safe. PROTECT YOUR VALUABLES In a Fire-proof, Low-c0at SAFE-DEPOSIT BOX We Have a Few Available Now at DON'T GIVE A: FIRE A CHANCE TO START But IF IT DOES 000. Twenty years ago, This Can "t Happen ,9008, the00 ye:e pS,,77 9,, 00s:firolos.sof•Sxo,6.00,o00 ... If You Build wHh Oonorele Rl00eks- |l dUing 195S" meant that fire de- I/atr0Yd on the average of $2,893, 11 ot':over $2,000 worth of property |l every minute. Fire losses amount- i* to over $6 for every man, |[0nan and child in the Uniged II St. G0000nm/o Vd00! * II timaed at $156,000,000 during liOOO in 1957 and $145,000,000 in If .. ; UC H MOrN EY WOu '' Drin. F.e 4ve.t*o n W" L ET FOR THE ASHES? |, those" |.'[oct'wlllth°u'ads4"10'swarof Junior Fire Ma.hals infrtendsOftheirU. --S'alldc°mmunitieS..me.tl.ighbors,.nd " " ' ' ',0. gO' ,hto.' '' ......... ALL- . . . " I eu_ wouldn't sell your home to fire cheaper than you II see out bbi, d oily li rags and other potential fir@ haz- | ,..0uld to a buyer.., that doesn't make sense! Yet you el ard debris. • • , Ull i ght well do that very thing if your home isn t insured With fire lo.es hi,heat during [P to value, winter months, million of Junior will conduct special inspections of e acement Costs Have Grea 0..., .,.....o tion Weak Oct. 4-10 to help pre- ncr ased in the Past Few Years! ,..,.,,.o=,,:.,;o. coo,,.. ilik e -" --I.  homeWa la 195a at Li.onia, Mlch.ftres.  0 EL certain now that you are properly protected. Check Damage amounted to 150 nfilion. I r fire insurance over now. I am at your service at no While the greatest lrOpe'ty loss ... when you build w00,h lligation.  from rtr in the U, S. is in indus- --- tell OFF AGErtclr try, the greatest loss of ltfe ir in ... ,o. Graystone Masonry B R' Fire*claimed a life in the U.S. 7th and Park Phone HA 6 6661  every 46 minutes during 1958. i iQRTH 2nd STREET- PHONE HA 6-3357  Highest death rate b txe is amo pdons 65 yta df age ¥ and, okkm during 1958. " Largest loss of life in a single fire :In the United State occurred at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and sur- rounln area in 187I when a forest fire fanned by toaado-like winds claimed 1,152, lives. The fire occurred on the same day that the Great Chicago Fire started-- Oct.. 8, l71tn which 250 lives were lost. .... Forty,three times Since 1871 sgle conflagratlon in the Unit- ed States have claimed the lives of 'at least 35 persons. Most re-: et: a nursing home fire in 1957, which claimed 72 lives, and the cago school fire of 1958, in Whi4h 93 died. There were an estimated 846, 097 fires in U.S. munlties 2,500 or more 1958. This includes: 299,861 resi dentlal fires, 114,717 other build- ins fires, 241,849 grass or brush fires, and 189,670 other fires. Fig- ures aze based on reports from 2,53 fire chiefs. * $ * Fire losses in the U: S., meas- ured in dollars, i reached a record of $'1,055,266,000 during 1958. was. an increa of $38 rail, over 957i where they were niversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It is observed at the same time in the United States and Canada, by proclamation of the President of the United States and the Governor-General of Can- ada. Fire Prevention Week actually dates back to ltre Prevention Day which was inaugurated and first observed throughout the United States on October 9, 1911. It began when the Fire Marshals' Association of North America (now a section of the NFPAI suggest- ed that the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire be set apart for bringing before the pub- lic the much-needed lesson of fire prevention. In August, 1916 the National Fire Protection Associa- tion Committee on Fire Preven- tion Day was formed. And in 1920, this committee succeeded in per- suading President Wilson to issue the first National Fire Prevention Day Proclamation. However, It was not until 1922 that the whole week containing Fire Prevention Day (October 9) was afficially proclaimed "Fire Prevention Week" in the United States and Canada. FIRST AT PINE DIAL HA 6-4393 INDUSTRIAL AND BUILDING SUPPLY Fire Prevention Week $1.32 Quart • $3.95 Gallon • Refill Now, During If You Already Have Fire Extinguishers FIRE EXTINGUISHER FLUID QUICK-AID Will Restore It To Full Effectiveness III Quarl Size,., $12.64 QUART ll/:z-QU ART SIZE SIZE $12.64 $13.65 I[ ]_1.11. L .11 .... J I that might result could render you De unconscious before the. heat awak- i[ I ened you. They happen when small children oil stove is tipped over, or because , 2. Don't string electric exten- are left alone in a home, when of rubblsh in cellars and attics. si°n c°zxls ar°tmd the r°°m' Never sonm°ne dlxwsea °ff with lighted It's the simple things like these  PROPERLY F  that again and again cause the run cords under rugs oz' over nails tragic deaths from fire. where they will wear, causing short circuits, possible fire. ! If the equally simple rules of 3. If you uses portable oil or' lvery 37 seconds a fize breaks 1 fireeverywhere,Safety areweObServedcan practicallyby people , PREPARED gas heater, be sure there is fresh out in some city of the United air in the room and turn it off States, damaging or destroying l erase our present sorry record-- about 11,500 lives lost to fire each before going to bed. Many people prolerty and endangering lives, l year in the United States and are suffocated every year because , , . ' ' t about 600 in Canada, plus tens of they use unrented oil or gas heat- Every two minutes fire dam-lthousands more bm'ned and dis-  TO FIGHT IT era in tightly-closed rooms. 4. Place portable heaters where ages or destroys someone's home figured ' The principal victims are "NOWmj IF YOU MUST SMOKE IN BED-GO AHEADI" wIT00|Di:A they cannot be tipped easily, trip- in a United States city. There [ old people and cidldren. Fire Pre- ped on, or over-turned. Never car- were nearly 300,000 residential vention is ew, ryone's job every ry an'oil heater while it is lighted, fires reported'in the U. S. during week of the year. Accepting and OENERAL OUIO Set heaters level, out of the line 1958, in communities of 2,500 pop- acting on this fact is the most ira:  I of traffic, and away from corn- uldtion and over. portant message of Fire Proven- QUIGK ETTE s.o,. Pressure $419 ISHERS bustlbles such as curtains, bed- . * * * tion Week. FIRE EXTINGU dins, etc. Every 46 minutes a person dies Traditionally, F i r e Prevention Replaceable. Suitable for car, chain saw as a result of a fire'in the United Week each year is the full calen- In Several Convenient Sizes States. 'Fire claimed 11,500 lives dar week including Oc, tober 9, an- safety, and other emergencies. SAFE IS YOUR HOME? DO YOU HAVE enough elec- trical outlets to handle your a ppli a nces? Sq m.qcher O DO YOU HAVE heavy enough wiring to carry the loads your appliances require? DO YOU HAVE a properly wired home? i, ANSWER NO to any of these que, s- i,, then YOU IIAVE A FIRE HAZARD ;Which Could destroy your home and loved ones. If your answer is NO in any case, Notify 00[TIIACKERAY ELECTRIC A STREET PHONE HA 6-6477 Q0,,,,o-,T .................................. • You Prepared with intments • Salves • Bandages ii COMPLETE FIRST AID SUPPLIES AT HcCO,K00Y's d Railroad Evergen Square T "" ;72 00o,,evo00 ,o Fire Hazards Is your home fire safe? Do y,n know in what rooms mol fires start ? Would your family know wi]at Io dr) if fire broke out? 'Chore's a burning need for you t> observe Fire Prevention Week (October 4-10) by checking your lmme for fire hazards. C(msider these statistics: • Fire losses last year totaled $1,056,266,000, the second year in a row that they have topped a billion dollars. They showed a 21 percent increase over the $870, 984,000 recorded fiw, years ago. • There were nearly 300,000 residential fires last year. • Fires claimed an average of 11,602 lives each year during the past eight years. Thousands more were injured in fires. FIRE PREVENTION, like char- ity, begins at home, and the aver- age homeowner, however gener- ously he treats his favorite char- ity in other respects,, is stinting himself and his :family on vital protection against fire by failing to observe one or more common sense safety rules. The National Board of Fire Underwriters, in connection with Fire Prevention Week, has set l!orth basic rules to follow. First of all, suggests the :Na- tional Board, work out a Home Escape Plan, with alternate routes to the outdoors from every room. Hold practice drills to be sure each member of the family is cap- able of taking the routes that are mapped out. Figure out a work- 1 And Your Family a grease fire does start while you're cooking, first turn off the burner. 'Phen cover the burning pan with a large flat cover using a hmg handled fork, or smother it quickly by sprinkling ordinary, baking soda or salt on it. 2. Make sure window curtains or imnging towels don't blow over stow burners. Never use lighted matches to earch dark closets. Use a flash- light: IN TIlE KITCHEN use these precautions: 1. To prevent a grease fire in the stove, clean out oven regular- ly, thus avoiding an accumulation of grease. And keep grease con- tainers away from your stove. If able method of reaching and res- cuing anyone who is partially or completely helpless. Always end your drills at the same prear- ranged meeting place, so everyone can easily be accounted for. MOST IIOME FIRES begin in either the bedroom or the kitchen. ] The following tips are especially ] applicable to those two rooms, though may apply to every room in the house: Special Week ha 37th Year might fall asleep, drop your rig- '  ' arette. Toxic gases from the fire Fata f res are ot ace dents cigarette m hand, when a portable 3. If you use an oil or kerosene stove, keep main storage of oil outside. Never refill when the stove is lighted. Keep stove clean and free of dirt. Don't use as fuel either gasoline, crankcase oil or any oil containing gasoline. 4. Make it a hahit to disconnect your electric iron, wilen internpt- ed by a phone call, the door bell or caller. 5, Never keep flammable elean- ing fltlid, such as gasoline, in the house. Use safe cleaning fluids. 6. TO PREVENT those mysteri- ous fires caused by "spontaneous ignition" never put oily rags or cloth saturated with pablts, fuli- ture polish or wax in closets or cupboards. Instead, get rid of those which you will not need again, and keep the others in cov- ered metal containers. Keep your waxers and floor mops in cool open places. 7. Never throw flour, uncooked cereals or dust from a vacullm cleaner or dustpan into a stove fire, or into a burning incinerator. Dust is explosive. Wrap up dust and dispose of it safely. 8. Never wear loose, flowing robes or negligees while cooking, A sleeve or sash may catch flx on one of the burners. Remember, fire prevention is! everybody's business, not just the fire department's. An ounce of plvention is worth a pound of cure, and the best way to achieve fire safety is to keep fires from happening. Follow the basic rules of safe- ty and your home is well on the way to being fire safe. PROTECT YOUR VALUABLES In a Fire-proof, Low-c0at SAFE-DEPOSIT BOX We Have a Few Available Now at DON'T GIVE A: FIRE A CHANCE TO START But IF IT DOES 000. Twenty years ago, This Can "t Happen ,9008, the00 ye:e pS,,77 9,, 00s:firolos.sof•Sxo,6.00,o00 ... If You Build wHh Oonorele Rl00eks- |l dUing 195S" meant that fire de- I/atr0Yd on the average of $2,893, 11 ot':over $2,000 worth of property |l every minute. Fire losses amount- i* to over $6 for every man, |[0nan and child in the Uniged II St. G0000nm/o Vd00! * II timaed at $156,000,000 during liOOO in 1957 and $145,000,000 in If .. ; UC H MOrN EY WOu '' Drin. F.e 4ve.t*o n W" L ET FOR THE ASHES? |, those" |.'[oct'wlllth°u'ads4"10'swarof Junior Fire Ma.hals infrtendsOftheirU. --S'alldc°mmunitieS..me.tl.ighbors,.nd " " ' ' ',0. gO' ,hto.' '' ......... ALL- . . . " I eu_ wouldn't sell your home to fire cheaper than you II see out bbi, d oily li rags and other potential fir@ haz- | ,..0uld to a buyer.., that doesn't make sense! Yet you el ard debris. • • , Ull i ght well do that very thing if your home isn t insured With fire lo.es hi,heat during [P to value, winter months, million of Junior will conduct special inspections of e acement Costs Have Grea 0..., .,.....o tion Weak Oct. 4-10 to help pre- ncr ased in the Past Few Years! ,..,.,,.o=,,:.,;o. coo,,.. ilik e -" --I.  homeWa la 195a at Li.onia, Mlch.ftres.  0 EL certain now that you are properly protected. Check Damage amounted to 150 nfilion. I r fire insurance over now. I am at your service at no While the greatest lrOpe'ty loss ... when you build w00,h lligation.  from rtr in the U, S. is in indus- --- tell OFF AGErtclr try, the greatest loss of ltfe ir in ... ,o. Graystone Masonry B R' Fire*claimed a life in the U.S. 7th and Park Phone HA 6 6661  every 46 minutes during 1958. i iQRTH 2nd STREET- PHONE HA 6-3357  Highest death rate b txe is amo pdons 65 yta df age ¥ and, okkm during 1958. " Largest loss of life in a single fire :In the United State occurred at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and sur- rounln area in 187I when a forest fire fanned by toaado-like winds claimed 1,152, lives. The fire occurred on the same day that the Great Chicago Fire started-- Oct.. 8, l71tn which 250 lives were lost. .... Forty,three times Since 1871 sgle conflagratlon in the Unit- ed States have claimed the lives of 'at least 35 persons. Most re-: et: a nursing home fire in 1957, which claimed 72 lives, and the cago school fire of 1958, in Whi4h 93 died. There were an estimated 846, 097 fires in U.S. munlties 2,500 or more 1958. This includes: 299,861 resi dentlal fires, 114,717 other build- ins fires, 241,849 grass or brush fires, and 189,670 other fires. Fig- ures aze based on reports from 2,53 fire chiefs. * $ * Fire losses in the U: S., meas- ured in dollars, i reached a record of $'1,055,266,000 during 1958. was. an increa of $38 rail, over 957i where they were niversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It is observed at the same time in the United States and Canada, by proclamation of the President of the United States and the Governor-General of Can- ada. Fire Prevention Week actually dates back to ltre Prevention Day which was inaugurated and first observed throughout the United States on October 9, 1911. It began when the Fire Marshals' Association of North America (now a section of the NFPAI suggest- ed that the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire be set apart for bringing before the pub- lic the much-needed lesson of fire prevention. In August, 1916 the National Fire Protection Associa- tion Committee on Fire Preven- tion Day was formed. And in 1920, this committee succeeded in per- suading President Wilson to issue the first National Fire Prevention Day Proclamation. However, It was not until 1922 that the whole week containing Fire Prevention Day (October 9) was afficially proclaimed "Fire Prevention Week" in the United States and Canada. FIRST AT PINE DIAL HA 6-4393 INDUSTRIAL AND BUILDING SUPPLY Fire Prevention Week $1.32 Quart • $3.95 Gallon • Refill Now, During If You Already Have Fire Extinguishers FIRE EXTINGUISHER FLUID QUICK-AID Will Restore It To Full Effectiveness III Quarl Size,., $12.64 QUART ll/:z-QU ART SIZE SIZE $12.64 $13.65 I[ ]_1.11. L .11 .... J I that might result could render you De unconscious before the. heat awak- i[ I ened you. They happen when small children oil stove is tipped over, or because , 2. Don't string electric exten- are left alone in a home, when of rubblsh in cellars and attics. si°n c°zxls ar°tmd the r°°m' Never sonm°ne dlxwsea °ff with lighted It's the simple things like these  PROPERLY F  that again and again cause the run cords under rugs oz' over nails tragic deaths from fire. where they will wear, causing short circuits, possible fire. ! If the equally simple rules of 3. If you uses portable oil or' lvery 37 seconds a fize breaks 1 fireeverywhere,Safety areweObServedcan practicallyby people , PREPARED gas heater, be sure there is fresh out in some city of the United air in the room and turn it off States, damaging or destroying l erase our present sorry record-- about 11,500 lives lost to fire each before going to bed. Many people prolerty and endangering lives, l year in the United States and are suffocated every year because , , . ' ' t about 600 in Canada, plus tens of they use unrented oil or gas heat- Every two minutes fire dam-lthousands more bm'ned and dis-  TO FIGHT IT era in tightly-closed rooms. 4. Place portable heaters where ages or destroys someone's home figured ' The principal victims are "NOWmj IF YOU MUST SMOKE IN BED-GO AHEADI" wIT00|Di:A they cannot be tipped easily, trip- in a United States city. There [ old people and cidldren. Fire Pre- ped on, or over-turned. Never car- were nearly 300,000 residential vention is ew, ryone's job every ry an'oil heater while it is lighted, fires reported'in the U. S. during week of the year. Accepting and OENERAL OUIO Set heaters level, out of the line 1958, in communities of 2,500 pop- acting on this fact is the most ira:  I of traffic, and away from corn- uldtion and over. portant message of Fire Proven- QUIGK ETTE s.o,. Pressure $419 ISHERS bustlbles such as curtains, bed- . * * * tion Week. FIRE EXTINGU dins, etc. Every 46 minutes a person dies Traditionally, F i r e Prevention Replaceable. Suitable for car, chain saw as a result of a fire'in the United Week each year is the full calen- In Several Convenient Sizes States. 'Fire claimed 11,500 lives dar week including Oc, tober 9, an- safety, and other emergencies.