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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, May 15. 1947 Your Home: Planning, Financing, Building Cooperative Action Nets Homes Some ('¡ties ‘Talk* Housing: Memphis Actually Builds Hydro-Electric on Farms Fills Needs By B A U K H A G E \ews .4«a/»Jf Commentator. W M Servir«’. 1616 Eye Street. N. W. Washington, D. C. (This is I'Ae lourlh of a <eriej describing bow American in- frm ily is helping Io sohe one of America's biggeil problems— the G.l. bousing sbortage.i WASHINGTON - T hirty-five hun dred new homes started in one year is a pretty good record for any fa ir sized com m unity—especially when the year is 1946. and the city, Memphis, Tenn., had never started more than 2,400 units a year before. Some two thousand of last year's "starts'* were completed in 1946. Now in the spring of 1947 while some communities s till talk about and wish for housing. Memphis is going right ahead finishing up the rest of the 1946 starts and under taking more. The answer to this old southern city's success in housing lies partly in the coopera tive attitude of city officials who are very con scious of the vet- e r a n s housing p r o b l e m , and partly to ind ivid ual builders who have been w ill ing to m a k e price sacrifices, work long hours and do whatever was necessary to overcome short ages of mate Baukhage rials. Take Wallace E. Johnson for ex ample—a builder who started in December, 1939, to construct one house and who now has to his credit several thousand. He is devoting all his energy and ingenuity to housing veterans these days. It takes energy and ingenuity too, but this man w’ho, during the war. was completing a house for a war worker every two and a half hours has what it takes. For example, last September when lum ber couldn't be "bought for love or money, Johnson bought land with standing merchantable tim ber and a sawm ill camp near Potts Camp, Miss., close to Memphis. This purchase made possible a trip le play which has paid off in savings of tim e and money. Johnson cuts his own tim ber, hauls it to his own sawm ill for sawing, drying and cutting, then hauls it direct to his own building sites in size and amount wanted. So much waste is elim inated that the leftover lumber from a whole house can be hauled away in one wheelbarrow M'hen brick couldn't be had in the Memphis area, Johnson still man aged He got brick on a swap basis —obtaining c ritic a l m aterials and labor for a brick-m aking concern which used the items thus supplied to make brick for Johnson projects If he couldn't find the mate rials he needed around Mem phis. he went where he could buy them. He has sent em ployees by a ir all the way to the west coast to pick up windows and doors, even paying retail prices for them when he had to. But Johnson couldn’t do as well as he does nor keep his costs to vet erans so low without cooperation of the community. In Memphis the city repays builders of approved subdivisions for th eir expense, in in stalling utilities. The Memphis light, gas and water division, which is publicly owned, has gone so fa r as to perm it u tility connections even when no meters were available. Thus, quite a number of houses were finished and fam ilies were housed, without having to w ait for the hard-to-get meters. As a result of this cooperation Johnson last fa ll had completed 55 two-bedroom houses which went to Memphis vets for $5,250. Other prices are comparably low. $6.000 to $7,000. and even in the lowest brackets Johnson tries fo r good de sign. He switches roof lines or the set of a house on a lot, and utilizes other means to avoid the sameness generally characteristic of rows of houses in developments. Inciden ta lly he recently was awarded a prize by National Home Builders association for "M eritorious House Design in 1947.” The tenants appreciate this. Not long ago one couple, the first ten ants in a new subdivision, gave a Sunday night supper for all of John son's workers—the shipping clerks, timekeepers, the general manager, the truck drivers and all the people who helped build the house. Serves as Substitute Central Power Service T H E Y SOLVE HOUSING P R O B LE M . . . Confronted with a housing problem. Dec Ainsworth and Mrs. Marion MaH'onnell of Los Angeles purchased a w artim e LCVP (landing craft, personnel) for $706 and con verted it into this trim boat with living accommodations. They will sail to Central America porta aboard their Moating home. VA'US REVIEW Tornadoes W reak Havoc; Blast Kills Eight Miners TORNADOES: Path of Destruction MINES: Another Tragedy Community cooperation aids home builders of Memphis, Tenn., in completing badly needed housing projects. These homes are typ i cal of the low-cost projects completed by Wallace E. Johnson. U nderpass D oom s Old T rees With some friends I sat looking through a window on Lafayette Square just as the leaves reached the point where they screened An drew Jackson, sitting on a horse which somebody described as hav ing two feet firm ly planted (like a radical) in the air. Soon the foliage w ill come down like a hood, cover ing the skeleton branches which now are still showing through the green. Trees were on our minds for we had just walked down Connecticut avenue, which for several blocks is being deforested so that a tunnel can be d rille d underneath Dupont Circle. Washington is famous for its trees but of late years the automo bile ha: caused the destruction of many of the finest. Widening of streets sometimes necessitates re m oval of trees. Frequently ancient oaks, elms or ginkgos are cut down and replaced w ith saplings Underpasses to take care of the traffic have burrowed under two of oui circles already and now “ m y” circle Dupont (I live only three blocks from it), is to experience a sim ila r operation. It w ill never be the same. Of course, Dupont Circle is not quite the same as it was when I first saw it three decades ago when it was the center of the social and diplom atic section. I was bemoaning this “ official vandalism ” which robs these spots of th eir charm, as we looked out over the five varieties of elms in the park before us. One of our group, a naturalist, identified the elms as Am erican, English, Scotch, Dutch and Smoothleaf, not to men tion the horsechestnuts, maples, beech, dogwood, a beautiful deodar, an ash, which he reminded us was the m ystic tree of Yggdrasil, Its crown in the heavens and its roots in the nether world. How much better would we be, I insisted, w ith our surreys w ith the fringe on top instead of our automobiles and onr trees instead of parking space? A survey made by the highway director of the D is tric t of Colum- bia, H. C. Whitehurst, shows that 52,000 vehicles s k irt the circle every day, not counting buses and trolley cars. It is estimated that in less than 10 years 68,000 cars a day w ill be nosing by. That is the reason fo r the underpass. The two circles already operated upon were Thomas Circle, an eight- point intersection, and Scot Circle, six-points. Since then the accident rate has dropped 75 per cent, the commission reports. I t is going to cost $3,800,000 to operate on Dupont C ircle—and the trees. Just hike the Movies Devastating tornadoes cut a wide swath through midwestern and east ern states, leaving a wide path of destruction in th eir wake. S triking in a th ickly populated ru ra l area south of Fairm ont, N. C., a high-riding tw ister killed at least one person, left an estimated 300 homeless and caused severe dam age to tobacco crops. The death toll from a tornado which leveled the comm unities of B right Water and Garfield in north west Arkansas was placed at nine. The business section of B rig h t Wa ter, population 100. was v irtu a lly destroyed. Most destructive of the twisters was one which tore through sm all towns in Missouri and Iowa, causing 13 casualties in the sm all town of Worth, Mo. More than 50 others were injured and property damage was estimated in the thousands of dollars. The same tornado lashed on across into Iowa, strikin g at Clio, where extensive property damage resulted but no loss of life was re ported. N arrow ly averting the heavily populated city of Dallas, Tex., a tornado smashed briefly to earth on the city's eastern outskirts, then bounced skyward and disappeared. In its wake, two persons were dead and four were injured. Two other Texas twisters caused less damage Disaster struck again in the ever- dangerous coal mines, an under ground explosion in the Small Spring H ill mine near Terre Haute, Ind., snuffing out the lives of eight miners. Three others survived the blast. The 11 m iners were repairing and im proving the ventilating system of the mine to prepare it for federal inspection. Closed since the general safety shutdown of A p ril 1, the mine had failed to pass the first federal inspection. The disaster was the fourth seri ous mine accident of the year. Ma- jo r catastrophe was the Centralia, 111., explosion of March 25, which took a to ll of 111 lives. Ten m iners were killed A p ril 10 in a gas explo sion at Exeter, Pa., and 15 lost th e ir lives January 15 at Plymouth, Pa. WRECKS: Third for Pennsy Just like io the modes, Him Actor Errol Flynn wot the bero of a real-life rescue of Tom D'Andrea, anutber actor, ubo was ihrowo from his bon«. Tbe actors were galloping in the Battle of Gelt ft- burg with the Union payroll whan D'Andrea's bon« stumbled in a gopher hole and threw him. Flynn grabbed him from under the flying boorei. To proiide a typical mode ending, neither teas injured. PALESTINE: Explosive Issue The explosive Palestine question was marked by the usual wrangling and confusion in action before the steering committee of the United Nations general assembly. The 14-nation steering committee rejected requests from the Arab countries for the assembly to debate at this session the question of can celing the B ritish mandate over Palestine and freedom for the Holy Land. Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, assembly president, failed to effect a compromise be fore the c r u c i a l committee m e e t - ing. The Arabs denied that their proposal called for immedi- a t e independence I for Palestine. They i insisted they mere i ly wanted a fu ll discussion of the Or. Aranha problem and recog nition by the assembly of the prin ciple of ultim ate independence. 1 K W. unit on a ranch In Montana. The electrical capacity of units, such as that illustrated, varies from H to 10 kilowatts. For example: A typical unit w ill generate one kilo watt, w ith an eight-foot head of wa ter, having a flow of 190 cubic feet of water per minute. As the head of water increases, the volume re quired decreases for the operation of a generator of given capacity. Thus, with a head of 25 feet, a hydro electric unit w ill generate one kilo watt with a volume flow of only 68 cubic feet of water per minute. An eight-foot head is a ll that is needed for those generating from one-half to five kilowatts. Fungicides Tested By Vegetable Mice Scales of Easter lily bulbs are very subject tp attack by a fungus causing scale rot, which accounts fo r their adoption by Drs. W. D. M c Clellan and N. W. Stuart. U S D A , agricultural research division, in de term ining the effectiveness of v a ri ous fungicides at the Beltsville sta tion. One fact that makes these "vege table m ice" p articula rly useful in testing work is that all the scales from one. bulb are genetically the Farm Product Prices Decline the bureau reported that “ prices of nearly every group of products bought averaged somewhat higher than the final figures for March 15, based on qua rte rly reports from more than 16,000 merchants.” Leading the general decline in meat anim al prices, hog prices re ceived by farm ers fell $2.10 a hun dredweight in the month to an aver age of $24.30. B utterfat prices fell 5 cents to 69.5 cents a pound and m ilk prices were lower because of seasonal production increases. Wheat prices averaged 4 cents lower and rye was off 34 cents a bushel. Healthful Fresh Fruit Drink Makes Purgatives Unnec essary for Most People Here's a way to overcome constipa tion without harsh laxatives. Drink luice o f I Sunkist I-emon in a glass of water first thing on arising. Most people find this all they need -stimulates normal bowel action day after day 1 Lemon and water is good lot you. I-emons arc among the richest sources of vitamin C, which combats fatigue, helps resist colds and i ri feet ions. They supply valuable amounts o f vitamins Hi and P. They pep up appetite. They alkaliniu, aid digestion. Lemon and water lias a fresh tang too-clears the mouth, wakes you up, starts you going. Try tins grand wake-up drink 10 mornings. See if it doesn’t help you I Use California Suokist Lemons. JhsL ßßAL QnvRAtm&nL lA. §. StwuiqA. fio n d i DELOUSE C H IC K E N S BLACK LEAF 4 0 — lap along r o o m and »mear—body heat of fo w li releatet nicotine fumes which k ill chicken-lice and feather • mites. Cap - Brush Applicator saves nicotine. Insist on original factory* sealed packages to insure full strength. W au ItH C C I I f r i m e r s t CHEMICAL C IIM U T IIH iNcosrosxrio Cordial Welcome COSTS UP, INCOME DOWN WASHINGTON - Prices of farm has been under way fo r many products declined about 1 per cent months. during the month ended A p ril 15 The index for these prices in mid- after reaching record levels in mid- A p ril was 230 per cent of the 1909-14 M arch, according to the monthly average compared w ith 227 in mid- summ ary compiled by the bureau March and 128 for the 1935-39 aver of a gricultural economics. age. The Index of prices received by This advance in the index for farm ers in m id-A pril was 276 per prices paid pushed farm parity cent of the 1909-14 average com prices slightly higher. P a rity prices pared with a m id-March index of are theoretical standards used by 280 and with 107 for the 1935-39 the government in determ ining average. levels at which it w ill support prices Prices paid by farm ers fo r pro of farm products. duction m aterials and cost of liv in g Increased prices paid by farm ers items, including interest and taxes, occurred p rim a rily in feed, clothing continued an upward trend which and building m aterials, although WHY TAKE HARSH LAXATIVES? ALEMAN: F irs t Mexican chief executive In the eerie pre-dawn hours, the ever to make a state visit to Wash th ird wreck on the Pennsylvania ington, Pres. Miguel Aleman was ra ilro a d ’s m iddle Pennsylvania d i given a cordial reception on his trip vision in three months killed four to the nation's capital. persons and injured 34. eight seri As the personal guest of President ously. Trum an, the visiting dignitary par The Am erican, New York to St. ticipated in a fu ll schedule of events Louis flyer, jolted into rods of sheet arranged in his honor by the state, steel protruding from the sides of w ar and navy departments and two gondola cars of a moving Mexican embassy officials. fre ig h t train, the Im pact 'rip p in g a In speeches before the Pan-Amer tremendous hole in the side of the ican union and congress. President fourth car of the Am erican and Aleman urged Western Hemisphere damaging the engine, m ail car and republics to assure “ the independ another coach. No cars were de ence of each nation through the soli railed. d a rity of a ll.” A moment later another freight The Mexican chief executive u ti tra in ripped into the sheet steel pro lized the v is it to begin prelim inary truding from the other side of the discussions on an American loan. Cood W iring a ' M ust" I E Y O U 'V E e ver been annoyed * by lig h ts d im m in g w hen the re- Despite the progress made by tr ig e ru to r goes on, o r the rn d io power suppliers in "e le c trify in g ru going o ff when the iro n is sw itche d ral Am erica,” the task is so vast on—y o u 'll vow y o u r new hom e be that thousands of farm s w ill not be ade qu ately w ire d . That inraita enough c irc u it, and outlet, reached by electric lines for several to take care uf Die electrical equipment years. A number of these farm s ou now have, plua what you hope to buy are located fa r from existing or in the future. e e e contemplated distribution lines. Our Header Service booklet No IS give» Farm ers need not have to delay many other helpful facta about bulletins or do without electricity and the con and remodeling homes Dosena of Hour plana and photos I fiend IS cents (coin) venience. tim e and labor-saving ap for "S m all lln n ir c I'lannlng. 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E dison also inve nted the carbon m icro ph on e and the a e ria l. M o re o ver, E dison disco vere d the ra d io d ete cto r tu b e —though when he found it, he d id n ’ t know w h a t to do w ith it. F o r ye ars it w as ca lle d the "E d is o n E ffe c t T u b e ” and was e x h ib ite d ns a s o rt o f e le c tric a l n o ve lty. Screen husbands and wives must sleep in twin beds one fool apart in films shown for the British pub lic, British censors ruled. That, they explain, "discourages cuddling." Be cause censors spotted a scene in "hly Awful Wife" in which Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball snooze in twin beds pushed togeth er, the scene must be re-shot. Cost, $10,000. freight, derailing its engine and tender. The collision occurred at Boyer Ridge, near Huntingdon, not far from sites of the previous Red Arrow and Sunshine Special train wrecks, both of which also were in the pre-dawn hours. ° UR HOMfc F lO U U V IU I J. KENTUCKY GIRLS! WOMEN! try this If you're NERVOUS The Easter lily w ith from 40 to 60 scales of almost chlna-llke smooth ness Is well adapted to Its “ mouse” role In testing of fungicides. same, and fo r that reason the vul n erab ility to attack of the rot Is uni form . Some other advantages of this new method are that the scales can be used at any tim e of the year if prop e rly handled, the effect of the dis- ease attack on the scales can be read with ease because they are smooth and almost white, the chem ical to be tested can be applied as dust and in a suspension or solution, the equipment is simple and takes little space. Chick Glands Bigger When Fed Thiouracil Studies at Purdue experiment sta tion have shown that a new drug, thiouracil, when fed to chickens at a level of 0.2 per cent, resulted In m arked changes in the thyroid gland and Increased the rate of fa t tening. When the drug was fed to breeding hens, the thyroids of new- ly-hatched chicks were greatly en larged. 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