June 1957

How to break through the college jam-up

Within the next five years, thousands of parents ambitious for the future of their children will meet with crushing disappointment. The bumper crop of babies they raised during the postwar years will face a NO ROOM shingle on every college in the land. For countless teenagers, Graduation Day in June will no longer mean commencement, but a day symbolizing a dead end for their scholastic careers.

JUNE GARDEN REMINDERS

Lawns: It's still not too late to give the lawn a late spring feeding. Spread a balanced plant food over the entire area, working carefully to see that no spots are missed or get a double portion.... Mow grass higher as hot, dry weather sets in. Take only half an inch at each cutting. This keeps heat from penetrating down to tender grass roots.

Is the city manager plan the answer?

One of the major reasons so many communities have turned to the city-manager plan is that the managerial profession is now solidly established. The chance to secure a well-trained nonpolitical administrator is a powerful inducement in communities where locally elected officials, beset with mounting municipal burdens, want the help of men who know the best practices in what is an increasingly technical field.

Latest Garden News

Sowing a lawn in late spring, too late for permanent grasses? Then don't sow rye for a temporary cover. What is not commonly known is that all rye grasses give off a toxic substance from their roots which checks growth of other grasses. Extracts from their roots will actually stop the germination of seeds of the permanent lawn grasses.

Look what they got in a small house

Tom and Sue Briggs, like most young couples, were apartment dwellers during their early married years. This is their first house.

HOW-TO for the handyman

Get solid support when you cut concave and convex materials on jig or bandsaw with this 2-inch-high "jack" fastened to hardboard or plywood saw table insert.

Ways to hold flower stems in place

Preview of cars to come

A banner crop of new features is always the by-product of a highly competitive year in the automotive industry. Currently outstanding is the retractable hardtop, a complex amalgamation of the best features to be found in convertibles and sedans. In blueprint form, the design has long lain dormant on engineers' shelves. It wasn't existence of the idea that caught the industry completely by surprise, but rather the market timing of one manufacturer.

Just a moment!

Wilbur Wilt feeds his ROSES

Start your fall mum show now

It's NEWS to me!

Glf-ball washer fits on your caddie cart-- gives the elusive rascals a scrubbing while you wend your way about the course. Three or four golf balls, a pinch of detergent, water, and a revolving cup do the job. Power is supplied by your golf-cart wheel which causes balls to rotate in suds against a stationary brush.

THE SLAVERY OF SEX FREEDOM

A college girl in a class in Human Behavior in a fine Pennsylvania college stood up to answer a professor's question on the role of sexuality in life. "Sex is like raw meat," she said. "When you're hungry you take it."

How to color-scheme your flower arrangements

Big news in rail vacation travel

Little more than a century ago the first passenger-carrying stagecoach left Independence, Missouri, bound for Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each coach carried 11 passengers. The hot, dusty journey required two full weeks, and the fare (one way) was $250 per passenger (including meals).

A summer house in your back yard!

Many of us have moaned in mock misery: "We need another vacation to rest up from the one we've just had!" And that's often true. It's a job to shut a house, cram-pack a car, and battle traffic to and from a vacation spot.

Gay summer decorating good the year 'round

It's a great idea--raised garden beds

What do you know about the GEODESIC DOME?

A single American DC-4 slipped into Kabul, Afghanistan, on the last leg of a 7,500 mile hop from Durham, North Carolina. Aboard was one American engineer, a brace of 40-foot scaffold towers, a cargo of 3-inch aluminum tubes and discs shaped like hubs of an automobile, plus a plastic-coated nylon "skin" bundled and packaged, parachute fashion.

How to plan your garden for easy maintenance

Screens can star in your decorating

Quick effects with potted plants

New house or old house?

Jim and Eileen Lucas used to drive through beautiful countryside just outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where Jim is a designer. Their favorite route was a winding lane through bottom land of the Big Sioux River. Trees here are tall and thick, and pheasants run around like chickens.

Better Homes & Gardens IDEA FILE

Tips for starching and tinting in your washer

Starching in your automatic washer saves you time and work, gives clothes an even starch finish. It's grand for bulky cotton curtains, draperies, slipcovers that are hard to handle by hand (especially when wet). It's a snap for doing a roomful of sheer curtains at the same time and getting the same finish for all of them.

Skip ironing ... with your dryer!

Make fishing fun for your child

For diabetics--A PILL instead of a puncture!

For a majority of 2,000,000 Americans suffering from diabetes, the testing of a new drug called Orinase ushers in a promise of freedom-- a release from slavery to the hypodermic needle. Instead of being chained to the need for daily injections of insulin in order to live-- many of them may be able to control their disease with a tablet which can be swallowed.

How to repair and replace FLASHING

Personal help in planning, decorating and furnishing YOUR home

Look for this Better Homes & Gardens "Home Planning Center" seal when you're looking for ideas to help make your home more comfortable and attractive. It identifies leading stores who feature personal counsel on home planning, decorating, and furnishings problems.

How to be safe with electricity

The electrical industry maintains rigidly high standards in the manufacture of electrical devices. Otherwise, our homes would be potential death traps. It's only through carelessness and lack of knowledge on our part that electrical accidents occur at all.

Don't let redspiders damage your evergreens

When a queen has a blessed event

How to control weeds

A summer house

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

June 1 When I peered out the motel window this morning, the first thing I saw was snow-- off in the distance, gleaming white on top of mountains. Under the window, though, outside, peonies were in bloom. It was almost freezing.

Shopping for a swimming pool?

Plastic pools are oversize, heavy-duty children's wading pools that are inflated with a vacuum cleaner and filled with a garden hose.

Shopping by Mail

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

All the wives around here began mowing their own lawns this spring-- until Elaine Cowan saw a little green snake and hired Billy Jones to mow hers. Now all the kids in our block have jobs mowing lawns-- except Bill. But he's doing O.K. renting out a little green snake.