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
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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<T1II<I< you plun to make
b a ll g a m e a r
’ ’ office work your career, or
r i v e s , w h e r e hope to enter some other field
thero w ill be an eventually, you have to know typ
entirely different ing to get u foothold.
attitude on the
Remem ber, an experienced eye can In
part of the Na stantly ile te e i the uneven touch of ■ hunt-
and-pcek typist, »>> lie tlir inaater the touch
tional league for system without delay.
a big change.
s e e
While t h e s e
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maneuvers
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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. Walker
is s till baseball’s leading combina
tion hitter, meaning batting aver
age and runs batted In.
WNU—13
22—47
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try this If you’re
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On *GERTAIN DAYS’ Of M o n th -
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build up resistance agalnat such dis
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