Title Changes Hands Mary Collins (left) who won the
"Miss New York City" contest gives contest trophy to runner
up Loreen Osgood (right), of Port Huron, Mich., after being
disqualified for competition in the Atlantic City beauty
pageant because she is under contract as a model. Grace
Downs (center), head of the model agency which sponsored
the local contest, explained that Mary's agent has refused to
tear up her contract as has been customary when a girl under,
contract won the New York City contest, and that the title
automatically goes to the runner-up. (AP Wirephoto)
4 Plants Here
Remain Down
Four sand and gravel com
panies in Salem are now the
only Willamette valley plants
Involved in the wage dispute
with the Teamsters' union that
has kept the plants idle several
weeks.
These are River Bend, Salem
Sand & Gravel, Walling, and
Commercial.
In Corvallis, Albany, Sweet
Home and Woodburn settle
ments have been made and work
resumed. The settlement is on
the basis of a two-year contract
with the union and a wage in
crease of 15 cents an hour. Brok
en down the increase is 5 cents
an hour retroactive to January
1, 1949; an additional 7V& cents
effective August 1; and another
2 cents to start January 1,
1950.
The dispute started June 28.
The union picketed the River
Bend plant, and said the stop
page of work at the other plants
was a lockout.
Meantime local building proj
ects have been under some han
dicap, but have contrived to
make progress. Four plants have
signed the union and are oper
ating. They are the Keizer Sand
& Gravel, Eola Tile & Products,
Valley Sand & Gravel, and Lund
Rock & Construction.
W. E. Kimsey, state labor
commissioner, said that 48 em
ployes of River Bend, Walling,
and Commercial companies
would vote at their respective
plants next Monday morning on
LEGAL
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NOTICE HEREBY 18 GIVEN that by an
rder of the Circuit Court of the State
of Oregon for the County of Marlon, In
Probate, duly made and entered on the
thirtieth day of June, 194D, I have been
duly appointed a executor of the liw?t
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the question whether the dis
pute should be terminated or
continued. The vote will not be
concerned with the contract. He
said about 20 workers petitioned
for the vole.
Kimsey said that while, ac
cording to Oregon law, the vote
will not be binding on either
side it could be a forerunner of
court action by the employers
The union demand locally is
an increase of 12'A cents an hour
as of July 1 and 10 cents an
hour retroactive to last January
1. This would make a minimum
of $1.52 cents an hour against
the present minimum of $1.40
Veneer Workers
Vole Against Union
Lebanon, Aug. 3 Employes
of the Western Veneer company
voted 103 against unionization
with 53 ballots favoring the CIO
and 17 the AFL, according to a
report received from the labor
board by Harold Jones, one of
the plant owners. The special
election, order by the labor
board, found 178 of the 198 eli
gible workers casting a ballot.
LEGAL
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all per.
sons particularly Interested and to the
general public that a hearing will be held
before I he common council of the City
of Salem, Or e on, at the city hall Autcust
8. 1949. at the hour of 7:30 p.m., (DSTt,
to consider an ordinance changing from
a Class II Residential District to a CIsrs
III Business District the following de
scribed premises:
Beginning on the North line ol Bloc
Six (6). Robert's Addition to Salem,
Marlon County. Oregon, at a point
120.00 feet East from the Northwest
corner of Block 8: . running thence East
erly along the North line of said block,
39.65 feet to the East line of the North
west one-quarter of Block 0; thence
Southerly along said East line 1S8.00
feet, 2 Inches to the North line of an
alley running Easterly and Westerly
through said block; thence Westerly
along the North line of said alley 39.86
feet; thence Northerly parallel with the
East line of said Northwest one-quarter
of Block 6. 158.00 feet, 3 Inches to
tne point oi oegmning.
BY ORDER of the Common Council:
ALFRED MUNDT,
City Recorder.
Capital Journal Aun.2.3. 4.1949.
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VTS ANSWER TO HOUSING PROBLEM
'Nothing Down,
$39 a Month'
(Editor's Note: In Painesville, Ohio, veterans are getting
homes at prewar prices. The reason is, they are willing to
invest some of their spare time and a certain amount of sweat
to keep construction costs in line. Because of the current
discussion in Salem on the condition of the veterans' housing
colony, the Capital Journal is reprinting the article below in
two parte on the Painesville situation. The article was sug
gested by W. H. Merrill, 1110 S. 18th St., Salem.)
(Reproduced wilh full pcrmltll.il r.nled 10 the Capital Journal by Ihl
Amrlaan U.lon Ma.aaln. and th. author. D.rrell Hull .1 Sonoma. C.lll.)
By DARRELL HUFF
Don and Val Smith, and Don II who was born right spang on
Christmas morning in '47 are living in a gooa new name on
an attractive street in Painesville, Ohio.
It's a well-built iwo-oea-
room house whose comforts in
elude radiant heat, and it cost
them only $5,800.
That sounds a lot like a pre
ar figure about 1940, say.
But Don and Val's house is one
of a hundred new homes for
veterans that have come into
being in the last two years ai
remarkably low cost Because
a little group of businessmen got
together to show what could be
done with housing. Ana De-
cause the veterans who bought
the houses were willing to in
vest some of their time and own
sweat in making homes for their
families.
By putting a little labor of
their own into their houses,
these men and women now have
what is becoming known as a
sweat equity." As a device for
getting more house for less
money, it applies not just to vet
erans and not just to Ohio. It
can mean a good deal to anyone
who wants a new home any
where and is stumped by the
high cost of building.
This story of a good postwar
house for nothing down and ?J
month begins in two place;
banker's office in Cleveland
and an Army field in Mississip
pi. Actually, of course, it be
gins at every other Army or
Navy establishment, anywhere
soldier was married or had a
child or a father was drafted.
But we're talking about the
Smiths of 6 Hawthorne drive
just now, and it was in Missis
sippi that Don and Val met.
Don was a former electric re
frigerator salesman who went
into the Army as a private in
November, 1941. He was sta
tioned at Keesler Field and Val
was working there for Air Sup
ply when they began to go out
together in 1944. Five years
later, Don was in Painesville, an
Air Force major on terminal
leave. He was already busy by
day and most of the night, work
ing with his two brothers to
set up an automobile agency
and repair business, but he
found time to get lonesome.
He persuaded Val for Val-
asta to come and visit in
Painesville.
She stayed so long her sis
ters wrote and complained and
my family started crying, 'Do
something or send her home.'
We got married July 5, 1946,
and I got my discharge from
the Army three weeks later.
We began to hunt for a place to
live."
...
A million other young fam
ilies could duplicate the story
of the housing difficulties that
followed. There was nothing in
Painesville to rent and nothing
to buy at a price that made
sense.
They did what they could.
They hired a 70-year-old cab
inetmaker and knocked togeth
er a place to keep house and
sleep on the second floor of an
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did them for a year, but they
were immensely pleased and re
lieved when they learned they
could buy one of a hundred
houses being built for veterans.
They felt even better when they
learned the price.
The low cost of these houses
and that's what makes them a
story worth telling goes back
to a meeting between a builder,
an architect, a real-estate man,
and a banker named Harry R
Templeton.
Templeton's arguments went
something like this. If we'll all
get together and cut our costs
to the bone we can produce
good houses for veterans at
prices they can afford. If we
let the people who buy the
houses themselves do some of
the finishing work themselves,
we can cut costs even lower.
mere was more than guess
work in this latter notion: The
Cleveland Trust Company, of
which Templeton is vice pres
ident of mortgage lending, had
tried sweat-equity loans before
the war and had found them the
best kind of security. Of 500
families whose sweat had gone
into their equity, only one had
oetaulled.
None of the businessmen in
volved was asked to work for
nothing, but each cut his
charges as far as he could.
The architect, J. Wallace
Green, set his fee at $10
house.
Realtor Milton Ludwig agreed
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to handle the sale of land for
no commission and to limit his
charges to $50 for handling the
details of transferring each
house to its owner.
George Gund, president of
tor, said he thought there was
too much talk and not enough
action in veterans' housing. He
said he'd build the houses for
cost plus 10 per cent and that
out of his 10 per cent he would
pay taxes, social security, work
men s compensation and all his!
own overhead.
George Gund, preisdent of
Cleveland Trust, agreed that his
bank would advance the needed
capital for construction at the
low interest rate of three per
cent and skip a lot of the usual
costly red tape. When buyers
took over the houses, the bank
would lend them money at four
percent up to the full value of
the houses.
All these business people
agreed to these things, and then
they pitched in and did them
fast.
That's why, by the time Don
II was born, the Smiths were
living in a comfortable house
with a surprisingly modest
mortgage. And why 99 other
G.I. families in Painesville have
good housing, too.
It was no dream house, how
ever, the day Smiths moved in
There were no sidewalks and
no screens. The yard was a sea
of mud in need of grading and
top-soiling and planting. In
side, the plaster walls and parti
tions were unpainted and the
drab concrete floors were bare
The attic needed insulating, the
closets needed doors, and every
thing needed paint
Don and Val began at once to
build up their sweat equity.
First they covered those bare
floors in kitchen, bath, and bed
rooms with asphalt tile.
"I just bought the tile at
department store for about 15
cents a square foot," Don ex
plains. "And I got some of that
black sticky stuff you use to
fasten it down. The salesman
told me how, and then we start
ed to work, laying the tile at
night after I came home from
work. I got pretty tired and
the black stuff got all over me,
but we did a beautiful job and
the whole business cost us only
about $75."
Don and Val put batt insula
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to use the attic as a darkroom,
too, whenever he finds time for
photography.
...
What with getting a new busi
ness going, Don s days were too
short, so he hired a painter to
help with the inside work. They
made the living room light gray,
the kitchen off-white and green
the bathroom yellow, bedrooms
blue and peach.
The outside clapboard al
ready had two coats of paint to
protect it. Don finished it med
mm gray with tulip - yellow
shutters.
'We were the first people on
this street to paint our house
anything but white," Don points
out with some pride. "Now look
half the street is in color,
barn-red, green, yellow . . ."
With the essentials out of the
way, the smiths did other jobs
as time permitted. They added
closets, put a shower over the
bathtub, added a breakfast bar
and closet doors, and put screens
on the windows. They bought
a rug for the living room, and
Val made the draperies.
For $3 Don was able to have
the yard plowed. He put on
top soil and turned the rough-
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They made the back yard into
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They did these things pretty
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much the hard way, squeezing
in a few hours when they could,
working even when both were
tired from a long day. They
put up insulation at night, Don
tacking it between studs while
Val held a light.
They were encouraged by
knowing that all up and down
Hawthorne Drive other veter
ans were doing the same things
at the same time. Anyway, it
was the only way to get things
done, Don says. He was work
ing harder than ever by day
building up that automobile bus
iness. Mistakes? "Sure we made
mistakes. On the tile job I put
down too much goo and it oozed
up between the tiles and made
a mess for a while. Other jobs
the same way. But we learned."
Don and Val are pretty pleas
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ect has worked o.ii financially
too. The purchase price for
house and lot with paving in
front and a graveled drive
worked out to about $5,800
which includes the cost of show
er and some other extras the
Smiths wanted but not the im
provements they have made and
are still making. They figure
their house is worth at least
$2,000 more than it cost them
Comparison with other houses in
the locality indicates that this
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