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
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canned fruits, preserves, jams
and jellies I
You'll keep 'em healthy, too . , ,
cut down winter food costs. ..find
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Get your full Bhare of sugar
for canning ask your grocer for
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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
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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.
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