MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22. 1936
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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an Artist Model by
Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann.
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