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Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, A p ril 24, 1947 n«xg H o w to R aise an d T r a in Y o u r D o g Ingenuity Solves Housing Problem Cooperative Action Builds Homes for Yakima Vets Newcastle Disease Control Progresses By BAUKHAGE Yr«-* ,\n a h il tn d Com m entM or. Vaccination Now Gives Promise of Real Aid W M ' Service. ISIS Eye Street. N. W ., . tire coarload was apportioned on the spot—to the place where it would do Washington, D. C. (Editor's Note: This Is the first the most good. Within a short tim e, 50 homes of four articles describing how vet were completed—but 50 were not erans in different parts of the coun enough, so the mayor organised try managed to put roofs over their an emergency housing commit heads. The first deals with Yaki tee with a retired Baptist min ma. Wash.) ister as chairm an, veterans' or ganisation representatives, a WASHINGTON — There is one lawyer, a labor chief and three quality that is as thoroughly indig enous to America as potatoes, hot ( persons from local savings and dogs, baseball or apple pie. That is ! loan associations. The committee asked local build ingenuity. It often is alluded to as "Yankee ingenuity.” but it blos ers and architects to design a house soms from the Florida Keys to Pu which would meet FHA standards get Sound and from the purview of and still be sold for less than $5.000. San Diego’s farthest floating peli A large order in these days of high can to the northernmost quirk of : prices, but the committee turned up a practical plan. Four local con St. John's river. Ingenuity is something that tractors were interested and con achieves the impossible There has struction got underway. The local government h o u sin g expediter come to my at helped by organizing a "swap shop” tention a number where builders could find out who of stories on how had some extra hardwood flooring, certain communi plaster or plumbing fixtures. ties have solved, The Yakima contractor who com with their Amer pleted the first of these new low-cost ican in g e n u ity , houses says he couldn’t have built that s e e m in g ly the house for the price if he hadn't unsolvable hous had plenty of cooperation from ev ing problem. 1 erybody in the building industry. think some of He saved money by using straight the stories are walls instead of offsets, and he sim worth repeating plified the cabinet work. But the to you. and I'm most important thing was the co b e g in n in g w ith operation he got from the unions who Y a k im a . Wash., saw that he had the right men at a town of 50,000 Baukhage the right time to do the jobs when people which I haven’t visited for 15 years, but they needed to be done. The con which I can visualize clearly, rest tractor paid union wages to his ing contentedly in the heart of Yaki- j workmen, bought his materials from ma valley. That vicinity furnishes many things from apples to polo ponies, but like many other communities in America, it didn't—until this spring —furnish enough homes for veter ans. Formal dedication of a white, green-roofed, five-room house was the end of the first story I want to tell, a story with many a sequel. Last fall there were 160 houses standing unfinished in Yakima for lack of plaster. Many of the houses ! were unlivable, but with winter | weather coming on and the housing shortage getting worse every day, some people tried to move into 1 their uncompleted homes. Yakima’s mayor, M. K. Buck, knew that 200 low-cost homes (under $5,000* were needed for veterans as well as 1,000 higher-priced houses. He consulted contractors, plaster sub-contractors, the plasterers' union, veterans’ organizations and press and radio; gave them the | facts; asked their help. Sub-contractors agreed to move crews from commercial construc tion to the unfinished homes. They Ex-Sergeant Colgan finds K.P. also agreed to transfer stocks of duty in his new house a pleasure. plaster being held for commercial building to veterans’ housing. The Ex-WAC wife Mildred says the kitchen is everything a kitchen plasterers’ union agreed to work only should be—cross-ventilation and on veterans' housing when plaster was available. Materials dealers plenty of built-in cupboards. agreed to sell rock lath and sheet regular dealers, made a fair profit rock for veterans’ homes only. The plan went into high gear when for himself—and was still able to a carload of plaster—the first to sell the house for $4,750. The veteran who moved into the reach Yakima in a year—came in one October night, consigned to a first house was Walter Colgan, a local lumber company. When the former army sergeant, and his wife, company manager arrived early Mildred, who served in the WAC. in the morning, he found a crowd They’ re very proud of their new five- of veterans waiting for him. The room, two-bedroom product of local commander of the Disabled American ingenuity and coopera American Veterans checked the tion. (Next week, Des Moines, Iowa) needs of each purchaser. The en- ★ ★ ★ ★ Freshman Senators Make Mark “ I ’ve never seen anything like it,” my friend was muttering, “ never in my 12 years on Capitol H ill.” My friend explained, “ I mean the freshmen senators in this ‘class.’ The class of ’47. I ’ve never seen such activity among any group cf oaby senators before—the way these boys have pitched in to build m ajor legislation; the way they han dle themselves on the floor, present ing their points so effectively, and so on—” I t used to be the custom that freshman senators were seen and not heard. They were supposed to sit around for a year or maybe even two years, absorbing procedure and protocol, speaking when they were spoken to. But not the “ Class of ’47.” My friend explained this unusual activity among the newcomers as due to two reasons. One: There are so many new comers—18 on the Republican side alone. This means Republicans had to put newcomers on subcommit tees. Subcommittees are s m a ll- three men, usually—and tradition ally, the chairman of the subcom mittee handles the legislation in question on the floor. Thus this year’ s freshmen have had opportu nities denied their predecessors. Two: He points out that this year’s crop of newcomers are unusually capable men. Under Roosevelt’ s large majorities, he said, "acci dents” were apt to be swept into the senate—men who were put up by the party with no real confidence that they would be elected—but they rode in on the tail of Roosevelt’s popularity. According to my informant, there are very few “ accidents” in this senate. One or two at the most, and even those, he says, aren’t too bad. He feels optimistic about the trend; thinks i t ’s a good thing for the country. Most of the new “ boys” are young—several of them in their early or middle forties. They’ve come straight from the people, and maybe they are closer to the peo ple. New house of representatives members, he says, can be trained to party teamwork under the type ot strong leadership provided by Speak er Joe Martin, but the senate fresh men of ’47 w ill never be led or In fluenced out of their independence of action. “ Watch them,” my friend predicts. “ This class is going to be a notable one in the history of the senate.” By W. J. I1KYI1EN New vaccine developed by the U. ffV E K Y O N E a d m ire s a well tra in e d pup. Don’t postpone S. department of agriculture gives a teach in g your dog appealing tricks chicken immunity to Newcastle dis becau se you think a special knack ease for several months. This is good news to the poultry industry which or skill is required. All you need ia p atien ce und good hum or. Rem em ber that «logs have varying (tegn-i-s of Intelligence, too. don't abuse your pup If he's slow to learn.« Hotter not begin training before three month» old. Then slick Io three short trulnlng periods a duy until each trick la mastered. • e e Our booklet No. 7R contains 20 Illus trated lessons on leachl- g trick» mid obe dience. Alsu chapters on diet, grooming, house manner». Illness. Semi 2.'i cents (com) for ••llow to Raise and Train Your Ilo g " I,, Weekly Newspaper Service, 241W. '17th St., New York I I . N. Y . Print name, address, booklet title and No. 7«. Francis Marion ‘Swamp Fox’ of Revolution Fame BY T H E S ID E OF T H E RO A I) . . . The grave of an "unknown brown and white doggie, victim of an intoxicated Christmas d riv e r,” is tended by neighborhood children. It is located at a busy Intersec tion in Santa Monica, C alif. Curious motorists stop to read the inscription; then drive away carefully. NEWS REVIEW Anti-Strike Bill Drafted; Railroad Crashes Probed LABOR BILL: Plenty of 'Teeth' A strike-control b ill that would rigorously restrict labor unions in many ways has been approved by the house Republican steering com mittee. Its most drastic provision, perhaps, is a clause authorizing the federal government to obtain in junctions for a 75-day period in in dustries which affect public health or safety. This apparently would cover the telephone and other com munication industries, coal mining, electric light and power companies, railroads and possibly several other fields. The bill was prepared under di rection of Chairman Hartley (Rep., N. J.) of the house labor committee. He told newsmen he hoped that the bill would pass the house within a week. It probably faces a struggle in the senate, observers believe. The injunction feature is designed to give the government a stronger weapon against strikes imperiling public safety and welfare. The attorney-general would be empow ered to seek a restraining order in federal courts which would require a 75-day "cooling off" period. Other provisions would outlaw in dustry-wide bargaining and ban the closed shop. Unions would be re quired to keep dues low and to elect officials regularly by secret ballot. Communist - d o m i n a t e d unions would lose the recognition of the National Labor Relations board. Unfair labor practices would be in vestigated and prosecuted by a new agency—the Office of Administra tion of the National Labor Relations Act. April 5, Milwaukee road switch engine fell off bridge near Ottumwa, Iowa; crew narrowly escaped drowning in swollen Des Moines river. April 6, Union Pacific’ s City of Portland collided with a freight near Granger, Wyo.; 11 injured. April 7, Pennsylvania's Gotham Limited jumped track outside Co lumbia City, Ind.; 40 injured. April 8, Pennsylvania's Manhattan Limited derailed; passengers shak en up. Rioting and revolts in various parts of the French empire have prompted the French cabinet to strengthen the army. To this end President Auriol has called up con scripts of the 1947 class on May 15. several months early. An uprising in Algeria has brought promises of reforms. In terior Minister Depreux has gone to the North Africa country to make swift changes to pacify the rebel lious Kabyle tribes and to quiet gen eral unrest. War Minister Paul Coste-Floret has demanded additional troop re inforcements to cope with trouble spots in Indo-China, Madagascar, Algeria, Morocco and several A fri can protectorates. Daily Occurrence Gas on Stomach Relieved in 5 minutes er double your money beefc W h e n • i e « M a tom ach acid | U M 8 p a in fu l, a u ffu r a t- In bi | U , *u u r atm naeh a n d h a a rtb u rn duvtnra uauaily p r *o rrib a th e fa a lv e t-a r ttn u m adtetnee k n o w n fo r ■ v rn p to fn a ttr r e lie f — m»<lle4naa lik e tiioaa I n Ite ii ana T a b le te . N o l a s a t i v e H a ll ana b r in g * c o m fo rt In a j i f f y o r double y our m oney ba rb v u re tu r n o f b o ttla Io ur 25« a t a ll d ru g g is t* for the ¿ wmc on your smile E ffic ie n t C.aloM w o r k t treo way»» X llr lp i rem ori film . . . bring out Applications of limestone at the rate called for by a soil test w ill correct the acidity of surface soils. Lime, however, should be applied from six months to a year before legume seeding to allow time to sweeten the soil. Disking or harrowing scatters limestone particles through the top two or three inches of surface soils. Then each particle starts correcting acidity in its immediate area. With in a year it may materialize an area of from one-half to an inch In di ameter. In the beginning, acid soil zones considerably outnumber non-acid areas around the limestone parti cles. However, jf sufficient lim e stone has been applied and thor oughly mixed with the soil and if lime particles are allowed several months to establish areas of sweet soil, clover w ill be able to secure lime from the sweet areas. Tests should be made before, not after, liming. New Utility Cart BIG EGG . . . Thia speckled Brahma hen, owned by Mrs. Evans Mealing ot Glen Cove, L. I., N. Y., Is the new champ of egg layers. She laid a 14-ounce egg, seven and a half inches in cir cumference, which is shown be side one of ordinary slse. Building Costs To Level Off tural steel and cast iron soil pipe and fittings, prices for most building materials have tended to remain steady since the start ot the year. Only in the Pacific states was opin ion general that further gains of from 11 to 12 per cent would be w it nessed in 1947. According to the survey, labor in efficiency caused by an irregular flow of materials, construction de lays imposed by an Inadequate sup ply of skilled workers, and an ex cessive expenditure of time in shop ping for and obtaining materials are F ra n c is M arion, who led a g u er rilla band of A m ericans ag a in st the B ritish d uring th e R evolutionary w ar, w as known as the ’’Sw arnp F o x .” He broke B ritish lines of com m unication, cap tu red B ritish scouting and foraging purties and p rev en ted the L oyalists from o r ganizing. W henever he wus h ard pressed or m et a force too big for his g u er rilla band to tack le, he would re tire to the sw am ps to re ap p ea r at som e d istan t point to h a ra ss the enem y once m ore. Thut is how he earn ed the title of “ Sw am p F ox.” Trouble in Colonies RAIL ACCIDENTS: Derailment of the Santa Fe's Su per Chief in northern New Mexico, with injuries to 25 passengers but no fatalities, rounded out a week of ra il road accidents reminiscent of the early days of railroading. The Super Chief, one of the na tion’s most famous streamlined lux ury trains, left the track near Raton, N. M., while traveling at high speed. The three-unit diesel locomotive broke loose and came to rest with its nose on the trestle of a dry river bed. The train was eastbound from Los Angeles. Other accidents within a week: April 3, Burlington's Twin City Zephyr derailed in Downers Grove, 111.; three killed, 35 injured. April 4, engine of Rock Island Rocket derailed near Linwood, Kas.; engineer injured. had cause to fear this new killer. Poultrymen in about 30 states have suffered from costly inroads made by the disease. The new vaccine is not the last word. Specialists of the various states and federal department of ag riculture are still at work to devise a "fool proof” vaccine. The achieve ment of the federal specialists in developing the vaccine that would Inst even several months is a big step forward. Newcastle diseuse is a virus which attacks chickens of all ages, from baby chicks to laying hens. It also is known to attack pigeons, ducks, turkeys, geese and pheasants. Until the vaccine has been placed on the market in an improved state, the prevention and spread of the disease must be contrdled by sani tary procedures, use of disinfectants, proper feeding, housing and manage ment. FRANCE: RELIEF IN SIGHT NEW YORK.—Construction costs have reached a peak after soaring to all-time highs during the post war period, it is revealed in a sur vey covering 268 general contrac tors. Fifty-three per cent of the contrac tors queried in the poll, which was made by F. W. Dodge corporation, expressed belief that building costs have reached their highest peak, and a m ajority felt that costs w ill stabilize below present levels. It was pointed out that, with ex ception of lumber, cement, struc- Teaching Tricks major contributing factors of today’ s high construction costs. Of the reporting contractors, 43 per cent said the average wage of some building craftsmen in their areas of operation had increased since the first of the year, and 76 per cent said that they expected in creases later in the season. 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