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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22. 1936 PAGE FIVE PUT STATE I Oregon, richest of states In timber resources, has an opportunity to lead the nation In home construction activity and through the Federal Housing administration Is offered a practical plan that makes home own ership within the reach of all, Ac cording to Jamleson Parker, state di rector of the FHA In Oregon. "The Federal Housing administra tion program was begun In Oregon In August, 1934," he said. "At that time Its activities were entirely edu cational, seeking the cooperation of lending Institutions In the modern ization credit plan, and the accep tance by the public of this new and attractive plan of financing home repair and modernization work. People "Home Conscious" "In the year that has passed, many lending agencies have Joined In the program and have made loans In steadily Increasing volume. Over 11, 000 Oregonlans have taken advantage of this unparalleled opportunity to Improve their homes and the lending agencies have made over $3,420,000 available for the work. "The housing program has made our people 'home conscious,' and y hundreds of home owners who were not In need of credit have used their available funds to Improve their homes In some way. It Is estimated that over 15,000.000 has been spent on modernization and repair work since the program was begun In Ore gon. "Title II of the National Housing act Is known as the single mortgage system. The act Itself states that It Is 'to encourage Improvement In housing standards and conditions.' This part of the act offers a prac tical and sound plan for home own ership, doing away entirely with the old home mortgage system, with Its short-term notes. Its second mort gages and Its. high Interest costs. . . Repayment Easy c "In Its place we have a Plan that nrntoxfi tVio linrt1nff institution through the Mutual Mortgage Insur ance fund, and that protects the borrower because of the property standards and construction supervis ion and offers a plan of repayment In convenient monthly Installments. "Loans can be made by approved lending agencies for the purchase or construction of houses, and for re financing existing mortgages. The amount of the loan con be for as much as 80 per cent of the appraised value of the property, and can be made for as long as 20 years. This makes a small monthly payment which Includes all fixed charges against the property. "In my opinion, this act la a sound and far-reaching step toward recovery. It definitely places the re sponsibility upon private capital and "private initiative, and with full ac 'Ceptance of this responsibility by business and the public alike, the many benefits offered in the program an be enjoyed by all." HOME BUILDING SURGE REGARDED AS CERTAIN PORTLAND. A columnist writing for the Wall Street Journal is credited with the statement that residential building Is due for a major spurt this year. He says there Is universal agreement on this- point. Economist Col. Ayres expresses the opinion that residential building may expand by more than 50 per cent during the yaar. ' James Gormley. 67-year old Scot died with an amazing knowledge of poorhouses as his claim to fame, tfor 43 years he resided, for shorter or longer periods. In practically every poorhouse In Scotland and became a recognized connoisseur on poor-house menus. From "Shabby House" to "Goodwill Cottage" riy? ft M mm mm r - . : - 4f Above Is shown. In graphic detail, how an outmoded dwelling may be transformed Into a modern, livable home. The project represents ft co-operative movement on the part or business and civic leaders of Newark. Ohio, and wns sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of that city. The photo (upper left) shows the original structure, which stood for almost 100 years lit an out muled section of the city.- It was placed on rollers and moved to the court house square, where It was stripped of unsigntly features and prepared for modernizing (upper right). The picture (lower left) shows volunteer workers busy on the modernization project. The new house Is beginning to take form. The fourth photo shows the completed Cape Cod cottage, strictly American In style and embodying all modern conveniences. AH materials, labor and furnishings were supplied by citizens of Newark. An Indication of the Interest shown In the "Goodwill Cottage," as It was named, Is Indicated by attendance figures for the first 12 dajs following completion. ( During that time 10,000 people from 7 6 cities and 12 states Inspected the charm ing little cottage. ' NEEDY FARM FAMILIES PROMISED WINTER AID PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 22. (AP) Needy farm families under the rural rehabilitation program will receive emergency grants of food, clothing, fuel, medicine and subsistence goods during winter months when employ ment Is slack, Walter A. Duffy, re gional director, announced today. "State directors of rehabilitation have been Instructed to put forth every effort to care for families fall ing in the jaew category that lu cludes all families whose Income when last employed was derived pri marily from farming operations, whether as owner, renter, tenant or farm laborer." Duffy said. "Fruit pickers, hop pickers, harvest hands and other agricultural workers will be Included in the emergency phases of the rehabilitation program Insofar as allotment of funds will permit. Grants will be on a monthly basis and permanent rehabilitation will be undertaken for families able to qualify for rehabilitation loans." Duffy la director of the Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho- region. iw 4 ' Traffic rules violators In Bremen, Germany, are being made to get up early Sunday mornings to attend lec tures on regulations. Police devised this penalty as a method of stopping too frequent Infractions of traffic laws. Use Mail Tribune want ads. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 23. -(UP) Robert M, Burgunder, Jr., 19, son of the former King county prosecutor, and whose ambition was to be a crim inal lawyer, today contemplated life from a county Jail cell. Pollca said the youth confesed holding up a drug store, obtaining $14.65 and engaging In a running gun battle with Constable Clyde J. Reed as he fled.. Burgunder, a University of Wash ington freshman, wore a Boy Bcout uniform during the holdup. He ad mitted firing five shots In Reed's di rection, though he said he did not aim at the officer. One of Reed's bullets penetrated his uniform. The youth said loss of $130 In gam bling and slot machine play prompted the holdup. CHICAGO BANK FINDS BORROWERS ARE GOOD PORTLAND. A report received at FHA headquarters from Chicago states that a leader banker of that city Is enthusiastic over the way the Mod ernization Credit Plan Is working. The experience of that Institution reveals that the average borrower not only pays his bills .on time but In a great many cases ahead of time. New Shop Open at 203 South Front. Hematltohlng So yd.; buttons covered; hose mending So to 35c: dressmaking. Nlnann Craig and May Lewis. Phone 1338-W. Through Title Two the Federal Housing Act affords funds for the construction of YOUR new home when your property has been secured! The Members of the Medford Realty Board Are at Your Service! Thia board, identified with the national organization, provides such qualification for membership aa to assure a trained and dependable service to home or property purchasers . . , You will find it GOOD BUSINESS to deal with these recogrniiad realtors ! Here Are the Members of the Realty Board HAROLD BROWN BROWN & WHITE AGENCY E. C CORN J. H. FLETCHER FOWLER REALTY CO. WALTER JONES ED JANNEY CHARLES R. RAY W. J. ROBERTS CARL Y. TENGWALD SOUTHERN OREGON REALTY CO. J. W. WAKEFIELD W. J. WARNER CHARLES A. WING AGENCY HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 22. (UP) Sylvia Sydney, brown eyed film actreas, today announced her ro mance with Bennet Cerf, New York publisher, has "gone on the rocks." The couple, married In Phoenix, Arlu., October 1, 1935, have sep arated, according to the announce ment. Miss Sydney arrived home last week from New York , where she said she' and Cerf had agreed to call It off. ' ' "We decided we made a mistake," she explained, "and agreed to sep arate now. No plans have been made for a divorce." Miss Sydney recently completed "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" for Walter Wagner, film producer. She said she has no Immediate plana for new production. Cerf at present is in New York. The publisher flew from New York to Phoenix to meet Miss Sydney who flew there from Hollywood In a widely heralded "air minded romance." SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. (UP) More than 1000 administration offi cials of the California works progress administration will be handed thetr walking papers aa a result of a gen eral reorganization ordered today by State Administrator Frank Y. 'Mc Laughlin. Announcement of sweeping, drastic reductions In the state administrative setup followed receipt of Instruc tions from Harry L. Hopkins that overhead costs In California must be slashed from $500,000 as of January to $350,000 during February. McLaughlin's order Indicated that the entire Btate WPA program would undergo a general revamping, with curtailment of costs and manpower anticipated In virtually every department. TO DRAMA, SAYS NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UP) The drama. Instead of the novel, may well become the vehicle of expression of that new mentality, the twentieth century's, which America created, be lieves Thornton Wilder, author. Wilder, on leave from University of Chicago where he li a professor of comparative literature, aald he was convinced "the novel la losing Its validity In the twentieth century." Look at the facts," he said. "We see that distinguished noveJlsts with in 10 years of their deaths suddenly seem less vital than we thought them. The vast bodj of Galsworthy. Can- rad, Hardy, can already be aeen against the perspective of the Victor ians to be of slighter content than we first supposed. "And although plot has always been considered one of the principal in gradient of the novel, look at the four - greatest novels since 1600 'Proust, 'Ulysses,' "The Magic Moun tain,' and Gertrude Stein's The Mak ing of Americans'; they have no plots. They are not read for susiense, for surprise, nor for solution In the realm of events, "The twentieth century mentality Is of strikingly different material from that of the nineteenth. It no longer believes that the external suc cession of happentnga that partly ar rive as accidents and partly are gen erated from character, constitute the essential routine of experience. "The twentieth century mentality does not trust the author's Imagin ative creation of events. " 'It's only a book; It's only a con trivance,' saya the reader. "With these facts and with these theories In mind we see the whole Ides of narration shifting Its ground, leaving us with two extreme poles. The externally subjective mediation of the novel, already cited, on one hand, and the extremely objectls presentation, which Is the drama, oa the other. "The drama, free from the perpet ual editorial adjustment which la felt in the novel, takes place in s pure present time, with editorial com ment of the autfchor reduced to a minimum, and reposing upon the con ventlon of its validity through the thing seen or the thing heard. "The 'Irama may well become the vehicle of expression of that new mentality, the twentieth century, which America created and which America is disseminating through out the world. Somewhere there Is a project of Poe, Whitman, Melville and Henry James Into the future, and that projection, after a certain delay In philosophy and Ideas, should find Its mouthpiece In the dramatic.' About 800 among 2,451 officers and soldiers Imprisoned by the Brazilian government after the November re bellion have been freed and investi gation continues into the participa tion of the others. Be -correctly corseted in an Artist Model by Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann. Use Mall Tribune want ads. 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