S outhern Oregon News Review, Thursday, May 29, 1947 Touch Typew riting Can Be S e lf-T a u g h t Albuquerque Venture Is Successful Vet Cooperative Provides Homes at Reasonable (Cost JOB ByBAUKHAGE (T b it it the fifth nf a serie» describ­ ing hoit A m tr iie » ingenuity it helping lo solt é one of America's biggest p ro b ­ lem s— the G .l.'t No. J headache-—th e housing shortage.) WASHINGTON.— As congress pre­ pares for the home stretch, some veterans' organizations are prom is­ ing that liftin g the rent and con­ struction controls w ill start such a rash of construction that everybody's housing problem w ill be solved. Oth­ ers say that would be the knell to any kind of a veterans' housing pro­ gram. Rep. Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, who wrote the bill m odifying restric­ tions passed by ’W the house, told J b j me he believed .-¿■b « that the veterans wanted not pri- o r i t i e s. b u t houses. His bill, he thinks, w ill make the latter possible. Oppo­ nents claim the opposite — that two and a half billion d o lla r s worth of building applications for h ig h e r priced Baukhage construction has been built up as a backlog. With re­ strictions off. opponents say chances for cheap house-building w ill go with the wind. At this w riting, the sen­ ate has not yet said its say. Meanwhile, some veterans are getting houses on their own build houses for themselves might solve the problem for other veter­ ans. He took this idea to Max Kas- lo. who operates the local veterans' referral center. Robinson also talked to V irg il Judy, local housing expediter. The idea clicked. Interested vet­ erans got together; drew up a con­ stitution and by-laws; filed papers of incorporation. C o m m u n ity A id s V et E n terp rise 'FLYROYS* OF THE FUTURE . . . These Philadelphia youngsters listen avidly as Victor J. Fritz, Philadelphia youth leader and head of the model aircraft m eet for the world air show, tells about the m inia­ tures. These youngsters are too young to participate In the model plane com petition, however, participation being lim ited to boys of 16 or over. As word got around, the Albuquer­ que com m unity pitched in to help. A local architect donated his serv­ ices on the first house and pledged to provide blueprints, floor plans, et cetera at special rates for subse­ quent houses. A concrete block m anufacturer furnished the blocks for one dwell­ ing; a landscaping firm offered to do the landscaping without charge: an awning company contributed the awnings. Other business firms wished the association w ell; promised to sell it m aterials at reduced prices. But the contributions and reduced prices don't apply to any single house. They are to be prorated am ong all houses, so that each association member will benefit from the savings. NEWS REVIEW Farm Lami Prices Soar; Portal Claims Outlawed PORTALS CLOSED: Hack Claims Denied Almost six billion dollars in back claims for portal-to-portal pay was erased from the books when Presi­ dent Trum an put his signature on congressional legislation designed to relieve employers, as well as the government, from such claim s—now and in the future. Although he opposed the wishes of organized labor and overrode an appeal for a veto by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, the President emphasized that he was certain that it was not the intent of congress to n ullify past gains made by labor. Explaining his reasons for sign­ ing the bill, he said "Businessmen w ill be able to plan with assurance for fu ll production and price reduc­ tions. This w ill be of real value to labor and management in a con­ tinued high level of employm ent.” At the same tim e he repeated his ! plea to business for lower prices J and requested congress to take im ­ mediate steps to increase the statu­ tory m inim um wage from 40 to at j least 65 cents an hour. So fa r the association has the sec­ ond and third houses almost com­ pleted; the fourth about half-fin­ ished. Membership has swelled to 75, and because the association feels that a new house in Albuquerque means a vacant house for rent or D raw in g fo r H om es sale eventually, the membership C lim axes P r o je c t isn’t lim ite d to just veterans. For example, a few weeks ago in Association operations are flexible. Albuquerque. N. M . a man put his A person may become a member by hand into a hat and pulled out a buying one share of stock for $100. house. It happened on a bright sun­ (This is credited toward his house.) ny Sunday, when the New Mexico He may buy more than one share of Housing Cooperative association stock if he wishes, although he is not held a drawing for the first house perm itted more than one vote. completed under its new building Each member buys his own lot program. and has the privilege of selecting There were 58 members of the the design of his own house. How- housing association who had a ever, the house cannot be any big- chance to move into that first house ger than 1,200 square feet (around —the 58 people who were paid-up average size), and construction must members. They gathered on the meet FHA standards and building sandy lot where the house stands. code requirements. Members can There were more than 200 persons, have the co-op build for them, or j counting sweethearts, wives, kids they may m erely purchase the ma­ and friends, attending the drawing. terials through the organization. The lot is on Arvada avenue in A ll labor is paid for, but members northeast Albuquerque. You can can reduce the cost of their houses see the desert from there and the by working on their own or other purple mountains rising in the houses under construction. It a distance. The house is a single- plumber who is w orking fu ll tim e on story bungalow of Spanish style with other jobs spends Saturdays doing a low-pitched roof like so many of plumbing work on one of the cooper­ the homes you see in the Southwest. ative houses, he w ill be given credit It is made of concrete block, cov- at the standard plumbers' pay for »red with white stucco. th~ hours he works. Quite a few The drawing was a gala affair. members have done this but most The people, dressed in their of them are men w ith office jobs, Sunday best, perched on the anxious to pitch in and get the piles of lum ber or sat on the houses built. When they work on hoods of automobiles to watch the project, they are assigned a^, the association’s president, M. laborers and receive credit at la­ E. Holly, place the 58 slips of borers' pay. There are a few un­ paper in his hat. Assistant City accustomed blisters and callouses, Manager A rthur Staton drew but they enjoy the novelty, and the first name—Duward E Lee. houses are going up fast. There were whistles and shouts of congratulation. By coincidence, it happened that Lee had been the first man to put up his money to buy stock when the association was or­ ganized. Real poetic justice that he should get the first house. The drawing continued. A ll 57 rem aining numbers were drawn. The name drawn second was to get the second house completed, to the th ird name drawn went the third house, and so on. Soon each association member would have a house sim ila r to the Lee's—a comfortable five-room bun­ galow w ith hardwood floors, steel casement windows and an attached garage. Lee said he couldn’t pos­ sibly have bought the place if it hadn’t been for the co-op. I t cost him $6,350, complete w ith lot. The New Mexico Housing Cooper­ ative association developed from the idea of Veteran Paul Robinson, a tall rawboned engineering graduate of -I TOO MUCH SM OKE: Can’t See Stars The nation's capital city is getting just too smoky, dusty and crowded fo r the U. S. naval observatory, which is getting ready to move to a more sylvan neighborhood. Because big cities radiate heat, which is bad for delicate astronom i­ cal instruments, the new location for the world-famous observatory must be no nearer than 25 miles to any m etropolitan area. Officials estimate that it w ill take about eight years to find a site, put up the necessary buildings and install equipment. In addition to providing the na­ tion w ith the world's most accurate tim e checks, the observatory warns the radio industry of sun spot activ­ ity, puts out almanacs, supplies data on tides, phases of the moon and sunsets and sunrises, and fig­ ures out calendars. FLU ST O P P E R : Neiv Mold Tested M. E. Holly, president of the Albuquerque, N. M., Housing Co­ operative association, reads the name of the lucky veteran who w ill occupy the first house con­ structed by the organization. A possible cure for influenza may be forthcom ing from a newly dis­ covered green and black soil mold, according to an announcement by the Society of Am erican Bacteriolo­ gists. So fa r, although there are pre­ ventive vaccines for flu, no specific cure has been developed. Not yet tested on humans, the mold is said to have shown a curative effect on chicken embryos and mice with in­ fluenza. There is one hitch, however. The mold-bearing earth, according to the two scientists who made the dis­ covery, was one of numerous sam­ ples which came to them from all over the world. Just where that p articula r b it of d irt came from they do not know. Dentists Arc in Pain, Too Pity the po o r den tist u h en he sneaks in beh in d you r teeth w ith that sat age little d rill and tries to unseat th e to p of your skull. Chances are his feet hurt. And bis back aches. A n d his legs are ueary. T hat, at least, is th e conten­ tion of N o rlb u ’eslern unit ersily school of den tistry, which is start­ ing Io teach its stu den t dentists to u o rk silting d o w n — on a specially constructed stool. .4 standing den tist is of no m ore adtan tage to the patien t than a sit- tin dentist, th e school asserts. // dentists can be brou gh t to a siltin g position, the u n ite rsily belieces, their professional liie s w ill be ex­ tended b y fire years. FARM LAND : Prices Co Up Continuing the steady trend up­ ward begun early in the war, farm real estate prices are nearing a lev­ el double the average fo r the 1935- 39 period, a survey by the U. S. bureau of a gricu ltu ra l economics shows. D uring the year ending March 1, farm real estate prices rose 12 per cent fo r the country as a whole. That figure is compared with a 13 per cent rise for the corresponding period in 1946, 11 per cent in 1945 and 15 per cent in 1944. F ifty -s ix per cent of the recorded sales in the past year were fo r a ll cash, it was revealed in the survey. OUTM ODED D E FE N SE: Rockets Far A heat I Ever-im proving rocket weapons already have rendered obsolete the best a n ti-a ircra ft guns of the arm y and navy, Paul W. M artin, an ord­ nance expert, has asserted. The big strides made in develop­ ment of r a p id -firin g automatic, radar-directed guns have been far outstripped by atom ic energy and guided missiles, he said. Three im portant features of a good defense were cited: A long- range detection system; a defensive rocket to intercept the enemy m is­ sile, and destruction of the enemy missile at a safe distance. Record Slaughter A new record fo r slaughtering of cattle and calves was set during A p ril in all federally - inspected plants in the country. Hog killin gs were lower, however, reports the departm ent of agriculture. Cattle killed reached the all-tim e high during A p ril of 1,203,137 head, compared with 714,860 for the same month a year ago. Calves slaugh­ tered numbered 678,440, compared w ith 445,049 in A p ril, 1946. Hogs killed dropped from 3,857,- 972 to 3,615,746, and sheep declined from 1,735,882 last A p ril to 1,326,589 this year, lowest since 1939, the de­ partm ent reports. R e m e m b e r Y o rk ? L. L. Coryell of Lincoln, Neb., couldn’t believe a two-bedroom bungalow could be provided for veterans for only $5,250. To him goes a copy of the th ird story in this series—how they did It in York, Pa. the Colorado School of Mines. When Robinson returned from a several- year tour of duty with the navy, he couldn't find a home in Albuquer­ que. F in a lly he bought a lot, designed and personally supervised construc­ tion of a two-bedroom house. When he had finished, he found he had spent $4,300 (m aking allowance fo r a salary fo r him self) for a house that compared favorably with what was costing other Albuqerque vet­ erans about $7,000 in the open m ar­ ket. Robinson thought a veterans’ co­ operative through which men could EVIDENCE OF LETUP Income and Output Hit Peak WASHINGTON. — Although both the national income and the national turn-out of services and finished goods rose to record peaks during the first three months of the year, there is evidence the boom is slack­ ening, it is pointed out In a com­ merce department report. Since the income and production are measured in term s of money, higher prices and higher wages were in p art responsible for the showing. The “ gross national product,” de­ fined as “ total output of final goods and services in the economy at m a r­ ket prices,” was advanced to an G E T T IN G A \ ’eu < in ai y <1 and C om m entator. WNl Service, 1616 Eye Street. N. W., Washington. I). C. - annual rate of $209,000,000,000. This, said the department, ap­ proxim ated the peak recorded in the second quarter of 1945 when huge quantities of war m aterial were be­ ing produced. Also, it topped the fourth quarter of 1946 by $4,300,000,000, principally because of increased consumer spending, but nevertheless repre­ sented "the smallest quarterly gain since the bottom of the reconversion decline was reached in the first quarter of 1946,” National income reached a record total in the first quarter of this year at the annual rate of $180,500,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000,000 over the fourth quarter of 1946, the depart­ ment said. Income payments to individuals rose by $3,500,000,000 to an annual rate of $177,000,000,000. Wages and salaries accounted for the largest p a rt of the gain, $2,600,000,000 at an annual rate. R elief and social security pay­ ments and veterans' allotments also were up by $600,000,000, reversing th e ir downtrend through 1946. D iv i­ dends, interest and net rents of land­ lords were down $500,000,000. Net income of business owner-operators was up $200,000,000. / " ’ HICAOO is steaming up for the '--J hottest m idsum m er sport carni­ val In recent history. F irst, there w ill be another big- money A ll Am erican open golf tour­ nament. involv­ ing heavy cush. Then the all-star ’ III> lie tlir inaater the touch tional league for system without delay. a big change. s e e While t h e s e The Weekly Newspaper Service booklet maneuvers are teaches toucn typing with charts, exer­ and speed drills. Simple to learn. place, cises Grandmili Rli-c t a k i n g Send 25 cents (cotnl for "Touch T yp ew rit­ Tony Zale and ing Self Taught” to Weekly Newspaper Service, 243 W. 17th St., New York I I . Rocky Graziuno w ill begin the final N. Y. P rin t name, address, booklet title stages of their training, for what and No. 13. should be boxing's best show in i many years. C ertainly Tony and Rut Few Hantien fía Defy the Rock topped the book last sum­ Being I’ieketi by Wearer mer, including two heavyweight ' championships. And the flop there wasn't Louis' fault. It belonged en­ Of the some 400 different kinds tire ly to a pair of palefaces known ; of handcuffs and other fettering as Conn and M auriello. devices that have been invented, After the Zale-Grazlano m elee 1« not more than 100, so far as is out of the way. the $100,00« Arliug- known, were ever manufactured, j ton cla ssic will arrive. This may says Collier’s. j he one of the biggest races of the Among them, only four or five season, com ing along at a high spot cannot be opened by tho wearer of the racing year. without a key, ar. outstanding ex­ So here we have Chicago crowd­ ample being the Tower handcuff, ing in golf, baseball, boxing and rac­ invented in 1876, whose double ing, all in the chumpionship mold, lock has never been picked, al­ through a three-week stretch. though many experts have tried it, The Zale-Grazlano m eeting will be including Houdini. the standout. It should be one of the m ost dram atic m iddleweight contests In the long history of the ring. It may not carry all the fury and destruction of their first m eet­ ing, hut it can't m iss as a thriller. There have been som e great mid­ dlew eight fights in the past, hut none had the color this pair can Millions Now Take Healthful take into the ring. Fresh Fruit Drink Instead And you can wager a few sester­ ces this tim e that the National of H arsh L axatives! league isn’t going to concede the all- i star game in advance. It's lemon and water. Y e s-ju st tho • • • Juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon in a glass of water-first tiling on arising Star Coach Missing Taken first tiling in the morning, Spring football practice, which i tins wholesome drink stimulates bowel draws little publicity despite the many thousands getting ready for I action in a natural way-assures most people of prompt, normal elimination. next fall, has an absent star who Why not cliange to this healthful w ill be missed badly in the home j of the Crimson Tide. His name is ! habit? Lemon and water is good for Frank Thomas, Alabama's able ■ you. Lemons are among the richest leader, who has had to retire be- : sources of vitamin C, which combats cause of illness and now is the ath- I fatigue, helps you resist colds and letlc director of the southern instl- j infections. They also supply B i and I’ . They alkalinize, aid ajipctite and tution. Red Drew, who happens digestion. Lemon and water has a to be another coach of class, is fresh tang, too - clears the mouth, in charge of the squad. wakes you up! Sixteen years ago, back in 1931, Thomas succeeded Wallace Wade at Try this grand wake-up drink 10 mornings. See if it doesn't help youl Alabama, when Wade left for Duke. Use California Sunkist Lemons. An ex-Notre Darner, Thomas was short and stubby w ith a pair of keen, alert eyes and a thorough knowledge of football in every de­ partm ent, To bold your loons uppers and low­ Alabama couldn’t have picked a ers comfortably secure all day—and every day, try dentin'» amazing dl»- better man. For in Thomas' 16 covrry called 8TAZE. Not a 'meaay" 8TAZE Is pleasant-to-use years at Alabama, the Crimson powdcrl iia»te. Get 35c tube at druggist Tide from Tuscaloosa won 111 today! Accept no «ubatilutc! gam es against 22 defeats. Five C T A 7 T HsISs All D«y at gam es ended in tie score. In seven & » i * £ a K e T m i Mom lack I bowl gam es, which Include Rose, Sugar, Cotton and Orange bowl con­ C a lif o r n ia M is s io n tests, the Thomas-Alabama record is five victories against two defeats. AID-TO-HAIR GROWTH These are pretty fair m arks in big- **Thtt OU o f lit* P'stlrea" K it consisting o f A id -to -IL n ir G ro w th , tim e com petition. Hhampoo find Scalp T o n e r $7.5O,<-om plctr. It also m ight be added, that In Satisfaction G u ar, or M o n ey R efunded. W rit* to this period, Thomas developed such CALIFORNIA PLANTS DISTILLATION CO.. Inc. all-Americans, or near all-A m er­ P. O. Box 263 . Halcyon, Cold. icans as Don Hutson, Jenkins and Don W hitm ire (la te r with N avy' Johnny Cain, Hupke, D ixie How­ ell, B ill Lee, Riley Smith, Tarzan White, Holt Rast, Vaughn Mancha and H arry G ilm er. He rates G il­ mer, who has one more year, as the best college passer he ever saw, | and predicts a b rillia n t pro future ) for his 160-pound back in case he ' decides to take up professional play. ! In addition to strong intersection- ! al competition, Tom m y had to bat­ tle his way through a fast-moving c irc u it that included such stout op- ) ponents as Tennessee, Duke, Geor­ gia, L.S.U., Tulane, Vanderbilt and many others who always played for ' change to keeps. One reason for football strength for the to n ic • H e e l in the South has been the quality of its coaches, w ith such leaders on your smile as Bob Neyland of Tennessee, Frank E fficim l C alox w orks t w o w e i y t t Thomas of Alabama, Wallace Wade t Help« remove film. . . bring out of Duke, W ally Butts of Georgia, R ill all the natural luatra of your Alexander and Bobby Dodds of smile. Georgia Tech, Red Sanders of Van­ 2 A special Ingredient In Calox derbilt, Henry F rnka of Tulane, encourages regular massage. . . Carl Snavely of North Carolina and which has a tonic effect on gums ...h e lp s make them firm and many others who knew their stuff. rosy. Tone up your smile...with W ith his form er aid Red Drew at ! Calox I Mississippi, Thomas made a brave I M o /a As fam eut McKotson laboratories, attem pt to leave a sick bed and ! I t ) y ta r i ef p b a rm a iru lic a l know-here coach his team from a stretcher last fall, an impossible assignment. END CONSTIPATION THIS NATURAL WAY! FALSE TEETH CALOX Dixie Hangs On It has been a m atter of 19 years since a kid ballplayer by the name of Fred ("D ix ie ” ) W alker Reported to the Albany, Ga., club of the Southeastern league. Dixie blew In from his home hamlet, V illa Rica, Ga., at the age of 18. Ills record shows that in his 18 years of wandering Dixie has been delivering base hits fo r 13 different clubs. But, with such hitting stars as Stan Muslal, Joe DiMagglo and others fa r down the list. 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