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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1946 NINE Victoria River Downs, cattle station in Australia's Northern Territory, covers 6,686,912 acres, more land than Vermont. The taipan, an Australian snake, is so poisonous that horses are said to die of its bite within four minutes, A taste of summer ! next winter. . . home canning does it! Watch your family's faces light up next winter when you give 'em sun-ripened, home canned fruits, preserves, jams and jellies I You'll keep 'em healthy, too . , , cut down winter food costs. ..find meal planning easier. Get your full Bhare of sugar for canning ask your grocer for .TREE ABELS my SPRECKELS SUGAR - i " - v - "Dad's gettin' a COOPER MOTOR CO. Oak and Pine Sts. Roseburg E S r . - Plans of Oregon Localities To Aid Veterans in Getting Homes Still in Paper Stage By GORDON G. MacNAB Associated Press Staff Writer. Oregon's veterans are being housed, but homes the places that give them roots and a feeling of permanence still are paper houses. Municipal administrations, Chambers of Commerce, veterans' and other groups have worked, planned, called on federal agencies and have come up against the same obstacle: Too little to buy at too great a cost for the average veteran. A survey of a dozen Oregon cities reveals overcrowding, in convenience, frustration, but lit tle actual distress. Some cities, confronted with the acute housing shortage, have attempted to provide temporary houses. Others, for variety of reasons, have not. At Portland, 3,695 families live in the city's several housing pro jects all but one of. which are temporary, born of the need to house war workers. Other Ore gon cities principally college towns by late May had been listed for 571 temporary housing units from surplus projects at Portland and Vancouver, Wash. Eugene and Corvallis. faced with a record influx of students, have large temporary housing projects but for the most part these do not touch the problem of the non-student veteran who wants to put down roots. Eugene's Veterans of Foreign Wars ar ranged for an 80-unit trailer park and city of Corvallis set aside four blocks for 60 temporary units on which work is under way, to meet, partially, commun ity needs. Slum Phase Feared But Pendleton, which has an al location of units from the federal public housing administration, Is confronted with this problem: If the units are grouped, the city will have to install sewer and water mains for which it lacks budget funds. If they are scat tered, the problem of finding lots will be acute. Many cities are reluctant to take temporary measures because of the fear that temporary units will become permanent slums. So, aside from shelter for stu dents, housing for veterans has been viewed largely from the permanent or semi - permanent point of view. What has been accomplished toward this end has been almost solely the result of private ini tiative: and in relation to the de mand, it has been woefully little. At Baker, for example, 200 to 300 veterans want homes yet only 27 residential eonsl ruction permits were issued in the first five months of this year. Plans Slow to Materialize At Portland, two major subur ban communities are planned with some 3,000 homes to be built but one is still in the blueprint stage and the other has only a handful of houses under construc tion. Throughout the city, hun dreds of houses are being built, but they fall far short of the mayor's committee estimate of 17,000 needed. .At Bend, one contractor plans 25 houses; others plan more but few have actually been built. At Corvallis one contractor has an nounced plans for 32 houses but at the moment is building only seven. Some 25 houses are being built at La Grande where an esti mated 200 families are living doubled up in 100 dwellings. Pen dleton hopes that two sub-divisions will produce 300 houses eventually. Roseburg is depend ent on private builders to relieve crowding in a government-owned trailer, project and the city's pre war houses. Throughout the state, new houses are going up. But be cause builders cannot get ma terials their rate of progress is slow and the number is far below the needs. Medford Sets Example Communities have not been lacking in effort, however, to find a solution. Medford last March, under the leadership of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, attempted to show Carpenter's Overalls 4.84 White Herringbone Twill Trousers 3.92 Coveralls 4.38 to 5-95 Fancy Assorted Luggage 4.26 to 32.76 Assorted Shop, Welders, and Railroad Men's Caps CANVAS LOAFERS 3.95 234 N. Jackson Phone 217 WILDER' S "Happy to Cash Quality Clothes for Men Your Pay Check" that a low-cost house could be built and converted to other use later without loss of the original investment. A lot was donated as were materials and labor. In 24 hours 150 workmen erected a 20 by 24-foot structure suitable for later use as a double garage. The veteran who got it in a drawing paid $1,900 to the Community Chest for his house. It gave him a liveable house for a sum most veterans could afford to pay. But other Medford veterans did not follow the lead, for at going prices a duplicate would cost $3,897 a sizable sum fop a two room house. Grants Pass Gives Land Grants Pass adopted a differ ent approach. Veteran Homes, Inc., was formed to equip vet erans with lots as cheaply as pos sible so they could qualify for GI loans. Josephine County turned over a 40-acre tract within city limits for $1. The non-profit cor- fioration borrowed money from ts members and business men and laid out 89 large lots on part of the acreage. They installed sewers and water mains and of fered the lots at cost. Fifty-odd have been sold on a down pay ment of $75 each. The total pay ment is expected to be between $125 and $150 in a city where lots have been held up to $2,600. No one has yet moved Into a home as a result, but backers of Veterans Homes, Inc., believe they have solved one problem. Now they are tackling another. They plan to act as agent for groups of veterans and ouy ma terials on a mass oasis, easin; the problem of getting what the builders need. The problem of high property costs also was viewed at La Grande and the city set a 25 per cent discount on its lots when bought by veterans. Awaiting Price Slash Probably no city in the state has a more critical situation than Astoria. The Chamber of Com merce has tried to stimulate building by private interests, and aided in getting 275 temporary government units opened to vet erans and service personnel. But it has no answer now, or in sight, for the 3,000 men who will be stationed with the 19th Fleet Re serve base, the 200 base construc tion workers or the men who have returned from service. They, as others throughout the state, are building a little at a time and waiting for the day when contractors tell them that materials can be had at a price veterans can afford. Mrs. Lena Smith, Kin of Roseburg Residents, Dies Mrs. Lena Smith, wife of E. V. Smith, and a resident of Oak ridge, died at her home, August 3. Services and burial were held at Bandon Tuesday. Mrs. Smith was a sister of Mrs. C. W. Wharton, a niece of Mrs. J. F. Barker, and a cousin of Mrs. Velle Broadway and Mrs. L. W. Josse, all of Roseburg, who, with Mrs. Florence Wlckland of Hon olulu, a daughter of Mrs. Whar ton, attended the funeral services. Ketp Wheat in your diet r serve FOR SUMMERTIME MEA1S Made from Durum Meat! Macaroni is the most nutritious of all wheat foods and Mission is the finest macaroni you can buy! 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