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Billions Of Dollars In Loans, Outright Gifts Involved In Government Housing Agenda By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, July 6. More than 25,000,000 low-Income people live in slums or run down city or farm homes. They can't afford better. Now the government will help some of them through a public Over $25,000,000 Raised In Drive For Polio Fight A record total of $25,728,000 was raised In the 1949 March of Dimes to continue the fight on polio, it was announced today by A. G. Henninger, chairman of the Douglas County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The comparable figure for last year was $21,600,000. Mr. Henninger disclosed results of the 1949 March of Dimes ap peal following receipt of a letter from Basil O'Connor, president of ' the National Foundation, who expressed his thanks to the American people and the thou sands of volunteers throughout the country who made the drive the most outstanding in the or ganization's history. Half the sum raised after ex penses will be used by national headquarters to support its re search, professional education and training programs, and to supplement resources of its local chapter Jn epidemic emergencies. Chapters retain the other half to pay for care and treatment of polio patients and epidemic aid. O'Connor's letter declared that despite the record breaking drive "the need for funds to fight polio still remains extremely critical" because of the unusually severe epidemic experienced in recent years. "Last year's epidemic, the worst in 32 years, exhausted re serves of the National Founda tion," O'Connor disclosed. "In the five-year period ended in 1948, the 96,974 cases of infantile pa ralysis recorded in the nation were more than double the 42,738 cases reported in the preceding five-year period. At the same time, per patient costs of hospital ization and medical care also have more than doubled in the last decade. "The doubled case-load, multi plied by doubled hospitalization costs, has meant a burden in medical care alone for the Na tional Foundation that has in creased more than fourfold in re cent years. "At the same time, research to find a cure or preventive for the disease has been stepped up to the limit of our resources. Now that many hopeful signs are be ginning to appear on the research horizon, we cannot relax our ef fort in this direction." I housing program. Although it lsn t big enougn to help all of them, many millions of people will benefit since it will spread over a period of years. It has three aims: 1. To get rid of slums. No one expects all the slums to be wiped out by this program. But it should make a dent in them. 2. Build houses the so-called public housing where low-income families, who have to pay low rent, can get recent dwellings. EMPLOYES ASSN. 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They'll have to hire private contractors to clear the slums and build the public housing for them. When they can't foot the bill themselves, they'll get money help from the government. They'll handle the slum clear ance and run the public housing when It's built. The government's chief role is to see that the plans make sense before it dishes out any money. The public housing goal Is 810, 000 family units In the next six years. A unit can be a place with one bedroom, or two or three bed rooms, plus the other usual rooms. Since there are millions of peo ple in the slums, the 810,000 units can't take care of all of them in six years. The government won't let any city use federal money to wipe out a slum unless there's a low rent place for the slum-dwellers to go. For that reason, the public housing part of the program probably will be the first to start. Slum-celtrance can follow. Only For Low Incomes This program clearly means the government acknowledges It has a responsibility to see that American people are decently housed. Congress has approved the pro- Wed., July 6, 1949 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 gram and President Truman shortly will sign it into law. Then it can start. Families allowed in the new public housing must have in comes too low to afford ade quate new or old housing. And The rents charged in the pub lic housing must be at least 20 per cent less than the lowest pri vate rents in decent dwellings In the area. The a vera ere rent probably will be around $23, plus $7 for utili ties. Some families will pay more, some less. This is not all new and sudden. Congress has been Investigating the problem Intensively for the past four years. And In 1937 Congress passed a housing act. Under It 193,000 dwellings have been provided in 268 localities in 37 states. Registered Willamette Val ley Lred Romneyi from Im ported ram. 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