Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 22, 1957, Page 16, Image 16

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Building Costs
Climb Twice as
Fast as Income
But Houses Have Been
Made Bigger, Belter
In 10 Years
By ALFRED LEECH
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO UP The price tag
on the average house has risen
during Ihc last 10 years almost
twice as fast as the average fa
mily's income.
But the house Is bigger and
better.
These fads were disclosed In a
study by the United States Savings
and Loan League, which con
cluded thai "tight money" has
kept the price of housing within
reach.
The study showed that building
costs have risen 37 per cent in
the last decade, while the price of
the average new house has risen 82
per cent.
During the same period the
average family's income, esti
mated at $.1,850 in HI", has risen
42 per cent, the league said.
Homes Equipped
Norman Strunk, league presi
dent, said the average cost of a
new house in 1047 was $fi,750. ex
cluding land. In 1956 it was
$12,300.
But Strunk said today's house
Is larger by at least 300 square
feet and probably more.--
And many houses today come
e.uippcd with kitchen and laundry
appliances, an extra bathroom or
half-bath, and a host of other
items not found in the house of
1947.
Strunk said the cost of living in
dex has risen only 21 per cent dur
ing the decade, so that the typical
family has been able to divert a
greater share of its rising income
nto housing.
He said the triple concoction of
rising costs, rising incomes and
bigger families has prompted the
current trend toward bigger and
costlier houses.
Bedrooms Increased
Ten years ago, the study showed
most new houses had only two
bedrooms. Today they have three. I
Strunk said he expects the trend
to bigger and more expensive
homes to continue during 11157. As
in each of the past 10 years, he
said, the price tag will he slightly
higher but the bouse will be lar
ger and better equipped.
Strunk said Americans can
thank the government's controver
sial "tight money" policy for keep
ing huilding costs within rench.
"Tho inflationary pressures arc
already strong enough," Strunk
said. "If we increase them further
by liberalizing government spon
sored home lending or by broad
ening the government's direct loan
' program, a new round of inflation
Is assured.
The Republic of China Is sending
art and industrial exhibitions to
aeveral fairs which will he held
in the United States in 1057. ,
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her hind legs as she gets ready for her part in the Inaugural parade
which followed public swearing In of President Elsenhower and
Vice President Nixon for a second term. With the elephant are
her trainer, Virgil Sagravcs, and his wife, Rita. (AP Wire-photo)
Solar Researcher Says He Can
Forecast Rain 10 Years Ahead
By RKNNIE TAYLOR- Dr. Abbott, who is 85 and has
Associated Press Science Reporter been studvins solar nruhlrmx for
PHOKN1X, Ariz. CD A veteran
solar researcher says he has found
a way to forecast fairly accurate
ly the rainfall of a community for
as much as 10 years in advance.
Such a. system of forecasting if
established in about 30 areas cast
of the Rocky Mountains could be
of enormous value, he asserts.
The method was developed by
Dr. Charles C. Abbott, research
associate for the Smithsonian In
stitution. He reported it in the
Journal o f Solar Engineering
Science and Engineering. This is
a new publication sponsored by
the Assn. For Applied Solar En
ergy, with headquarters here.
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more than a half century, says
weather bureau officials and pro
fessional meteorologists 'oubt the
value of his method but adds that
he has checked its accuracy by
'forecasting" the weather of past
years.
The procedure is hased upon bis
finding that variations in weather
arc identical with minute changes
in the amount of solar radiation
reaching the earth's surface.
Variations ranging from 1-50 of
1 per cent to 1-4 of 1 per cent in
solar radiation are paralleled, Dr.
Abbott says, by changes of 5 to
25 per cent in normal average
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Seattle and Everett
4-Lane Road to Be
Built Without
Tolls
OLYMPIA ( The State High
way Commission announced Mon
day the 194-million-dollar Tacoma-Seattle-Everctt
expressway will
be built without tolls, and work
on it will get under way this year.
The commission also disclosed
plans to spend approximately 15
million dollars on the main east
Russ People's
Freedom Urge
Backed by Ike
By JOHN M. IHGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (A President
Eisenhower Monday endorsed the
"demand" of the "Russian peo
ple" for greater freedom and bet
ter lives.
His words suggested that Eisen
hower believes Russia's rulers
are facing revolutionary pressures
within their own country.
Eisenhower's unusually strong
and direct words on this point
were subject also to the interpre
tation that he is deliberately try
ing to encourage the forces of
"liberalization" in the Communist
camp. Such forces have come to
the fore since the death of Stalin
in l?ir3, and reached a climax in
Nikita Khrushchev's repudiation of
Stalinism a year ago.
The President provided ammu
nition for Voice of America
broadcasts aimed at peoples rath
er than governments behind the
Iron Curtain.
The revolt against Soviet dicta
tion in the satellite region of East
ern Europe has been the greatest
development in foreign affairs dur
ing the past year. Less well known
is the fact that authorities here
have received a constant stream
of reports of discontent, unrest
and demands for change inside
Russia itself. ,
rainfall and by 1 to 5 degrees in
temperature 'luctuatinns.
Weather men generally do not
believe that such small solar
changes can produce such large
weather variations, Dr. Abbott
says. Nevertheless he asserts that
his forecasting based on this idea
has been 50 to 90 per cent correct.
The sharp peaks and valleys ot
daily weather graphs have to be
averaged and "smoothed out" be
fore they will match the solar
graphs of the same dates. The
weather lags behind the solar ac
tivity by varying lengths of time,
depending on the community, the
condition of the atmosphere, the
extent of sunspots at the time and
even the activities of the popula
tions of large metropolitan areas,
Dr. Abbott says.
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west route across the state, U.S.
10.
The much-talked of IB-mile,
four-lane road between Tacoma
and Everett will be built as a
freeway. Virtually all of the mon
ey for the project will be provid
ed by the Federal Aid Act ot 1956.
First work will be south of Ta
coma. This was the first official con
firmation by the commission it
will construct the project as a
freeway.
William A. Bugge, state director
of highways, said Monday the Ta-coma-Seattle-Everett
expressway
will be basically a four-lane road
generally east of U.S. 9. The ex
pressway will be expanded to six
lanes in some areas and to eight
or 10 lane through downtown Se
attle. 1
Bugge said one of the six-lane
routes will be through Tacoma.
The others will be at points
where projections show a heavy
traffic pattern expectable by 1975.
The Highway Commission ear
marked $1,B99.000 to start work on
an alternate route for U.S. 99 to
bypass Seattle on the east side
of Lake Washington bv way of
Renlon, Bellevue and Kirklnn'd. It
would reconnect with the main
route of U.S. 99 north of Seattle.
Radio KNEW
Sale Revealed
SPOKANE Wi The sale of
radio station KNEW in Spokane
to the Mount Rainier Radio and
Television Broadcasting Corp. of
Seattle for a price "in excess of
$400,000" was announced Monday.
The Seattle company owns and
operates stations KHR in Seattle
and KXL in Portland. The sale
of KNEW, an affiliate of the Don
Lee Broadcasting Co., is subject
to Federal Communications Com
mission approval.
Burl C. Hagadone, president of
the Inland Empire Broadcasting
Co. which owns and operates
KNEW announced the sale. Haea
done is also an cxeculive of
Scripps League Newspapers, Inc.
He said the sale of KNEW will
make it possible for him and his
associates to concentrate their ef
forts in connection with their news
paper operations.
The Scripps League has II) news
papers in the Northwest and Ilaga
done said "we expect quite a
growth in tho newspaper field."
lie disposed of interests in sta
tion KVNI in Coeur d'Alcnc, Idaho,
ahout a year ago and in station
KW1K in Pocatcllo within the last
month.
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NEW YORK New Jersey Gov. Robert B. Meyner and his
bride of two days, the former Helen Day Stevenson, imlle happily
as they leave New York City hotel on honeymoon trip to Barbados.
The couple spent first day of married lite here, flying east after
Iheir marriage Saturday at Obcrlin, Ohio, the bride's hometown.
On Barbados they will honeymoon lor two weeks at a beach
house cottage belonging to friends of Mrs. Meyner. (AP Wire-photo)
Surgeons Fail -
Baby With Heart Outside Body
NEW YORK Wl Surgeons
three times restored a heart beat
to a premature twin born with
his heart outside his body, bu
the infant died Monday night.
In a 95-minute operation Mon
day the doctors tried vainly to
get the heart into the chest cav
ity. The infant was hon. early Mon
day in Spring S'allcy, N.Y., to 34-year-old
Mrs. Iclcn Wight, wife
of a construction worker. A twin
brother, who was born second,
was normal.
The malformed infant was given
oxygen and the exposed heart
was covered with .. sponge soaked
with a salt solution. He was
brought in an ambulance about
20 miles to Montcfiore Hospital
in The Bronx.
As doctors prepared to operate,
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the child's exposed heart stopped
three times. A heart beat was
restored each time by means of
oxygen.
Dr. Eliott Hurwitt said: "We
freed the skin on both sides of
the heart and formed a covering
over it. But we couldn't get it
all the way down."
The twins Mrs. Wight's first
children were two months pre
mature. Each weighed 4 pounds,
6 ounces.
PARTY ELECTS MACMILLAN
LONDON Ufi Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan was formally
elected leader of the Conservative
Party Tuesday, succeeding S i r
Anthony Eden. There were no
other candidates.
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Sweden Asks
2-Year Ban on
Nuclear Tests
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)
Sweden today proposed a two-year
moratorium on nuclear weapons
tests.
Swedish delegate Rickard Sand
ler asked the U.N. Main Political
Committee to consider a standstill
in explosion of atomic and hydro
gen weapons until the General
Assembly's Scientific Committee,
collecting data on radiation effects,
reports in 1958.
"In my view," Sandler said,
"there exists ample reason to ask
for a standstill, a moratorium, in
the testing of nuclear weapons,
until that committee has reported
its findings and the assembly has
acted upon them...
"From the genetic point of view,
there is unanimity among scien
tists that every increase in the
sum of radiation is harmful, and
it is the sum that counts. The
most important thing we know
now is that we do not know. And,
,
U.S., Monaco
In Hassle on
Unborn Heir
MONACO (UP) The United
States and the 368-acre principali
ty of Monaco were in a diplomatic
tug of war today over an unborn
baby, the heir of Prince Rainier
III and his Hollywood movie star
wife, Grace Kelly.
Rainier has said the child of hi
Philadelphia-born wife is gong to
be "uniquely" Monegasque.
The U.S. State Department isn't
so sure.
According to U.S. law, a child
of an American parent born
abroad has American citizenhip
until he reaches the age of 21.
Then he can decide whether to
remain an American or take out
citizenship in the country where
he was born.
Monegasque law is made pretty
much by the Prince himself, and
if he says his child is "uniquely"
Monegasque, that's enough for his
2.50O subjects.
He is understood to consider it
unthinkable that the heir to his
throne should bear the citizenship
of another nation.
But the State Department
doesn't like to see U.S. citizenship
plucked away from American cit
izens even before they're born.
If the state department decides
that the Prince's decision is arbi
trarily depriving an American cit
izen or his right there may be
more fireworks in this community
than just those slated to greet the
child's birth.
A battery of clerks. is searching
for the answer in Washington at
the moment.
The U.S. consul general in Nice,
Louis Thompson, says he jopes to
have a ruling from Washington
by Wednesday.
The United States and Monaco
do not maintain diplomatic rela
tions Jor an angry Prince to sever
if the State Department, tells him
h is not going to take away his
child's American birthright! There
is little likelihood of any military
threat, either.
The last time one of Rainier's
70-man army fired a rifle on duty
was in 1938 when a soldier tripped
and fell during the changing of
the palace guard. The blast killed
a pigeon.
CZECHS GO TO MOSCOW
VIENNA m Prague Radio
announced Tiiesday that a Czech
government delegation headed by
President Antonir Zapotocky will
leave for Moscow Wednesday for
official talks with Kremlin lead
ers. indeed, we know all too little about
those genetic consequences. But
at a time when we know more, in
what way could we undo the harm
possibly done today?"
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