Medford mail tribune., March 01, 1936, Page 22, Image 22

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U. S. Subsistence Homesteads Bring Happiness to 225 Families
New Community Projects
Provide Homes, Land For
Men Working Part Time
FATHER wanted to plant potatoes; Mother
wanted roses and now, through the recently
completed federal subsistence homestead projects
in the West, they can have both ! ' .
There are 225 families on the Pacific Coast
settled and progressing in this new experiment of
Uncle Sam's 225 families raising potatoes and
healthy - children ; roses and vegetables. All the
men are smalf wage earners, yet these projects
have given them a standard of living on the highest
plane ! .
."Now, Leo, you leave my rose bush room to grow
in. You don't need potatoes on every inch of land!"
Thus, Mrs. Hautie Nichols, of Longview, Wash.,
asserts her rights! Maybe she 13 right women
have always hankered for beauty, hungered fpr it,
and men have thought of food of a sterner sort.
Leo, her husband (along with a few hundred thou-:
sand other men and women), has known, what it
means to tighten his belt and smilein the face of
that grinning cheat, adversity. Potatoes, mean food ;
for the kiddies to Leo rosea mean food for their
souls to Hautie! ' ' ' '
After all, thinks Leo, there are the three boys to
feed Baby Wayne; Eugene,' age 9; and Raymond,
14. "We want to raise all we eat this year and can
a lot of stuff, too," he confides.
THE route from tenements to model homes, with
four, five, or six rooms in the center of two
acres, has been the route from hunger and want to
the land of plenty, with a margin of happy kiddies
thrown in.
There are 60 such families in Longview, Wash. ;
'.00 in El Monte, Calif.; 40 in San Fernando, Calif.,
and 25 in Phoenix, Ariz. On all of them, the hus
bands work in town while wives and children stay
on the ranch!
It makes living possible for the working man
earning between $600 and $1200 a year even if
he has a family. And all of them have families.
On one of the homesteads, for instance, is Mrs.
Homer Wesley Throne, mother of six, who moved
from a tiny four-room house in town, to a new.
two-story, six-room modern house on the farm.
Now Harry, 15, and Homer, 13. can have one up
stairs room, and John 12, and Leonard, 10, the
other. Shirley, 5, and Helen, the baby, have a down
stairs bedroom, and mother and father actually
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"Don't plant your potatoes too close to my rose bush,"
Mrs. Leo C. Nichols cautions her husband. Mrs. Nichols
- Is one of the happy housewives In the new Longview,
Washington, suburban homestead project, built by Uncle
Sam's Resettlement Administration. There are three
other growing communities boasting such homesteads:.
El Monte, Calif., San Fernando, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.
have a room of their own. And, think of it, there's
a big living room left over, and a huge kitchen, a
bathroom, a work porch and garage!
Mrs. Throne has always dunked her six children
in a tin washtub of a Satnrday night. Now, for the
first time in their lives, they are having the thrill
of a real bathtub and plenty of hot water!
And you thought you knew what a thrill was!
YOU could take the list and go on down the line
of the whole 225 families and each would be a
human-interest story all its own. Wasn't it Robert
Service who wrote something about "A home and
all that it means"? This is it!
The government has established these four tailor
made cities. They are splendid examples of town
planning. Homes were built with the inside finish,
including smooth plaster and sanded floors, with
new fixtures and plenty of closet room. A garage
was attached to each house.
Two acres, more or less, went with each resi
dence, and a combination cow-poultry house had
room for one milker and 25 layers. On many of
them even fruit trees were planted.
The man of the family pays around $14 a month
Craft of Sailmaker,
Days of Columbus,
THE tools Tom Doyle uses daily are the same
sort that were in use when some unknown ;
craftsman fashioned the sails for Christopher Co
lumbus' "Santa Maria" yet it's modern yachting
that has revived this intriguing business!
Tom Doyle follows a trade so old it's almost like
the dodo bird and the clipper ship. It nearly
-stopped existing, long ago. Then, unexpectedly, it
came very much alive.
The Doyle sailmakers were known in the early
seventies wherever great ships sought harbor on
the Pacific Coast. There were three older brothers
and three younger brothers, and the sails they
; sewed carried many a vessel to far ends of the
earth and back again.,
Of the six, Tom is the last in the business. He
learned to stitch tough sailcloth with palm and
twine in his father's Clay Street shop on the San
Francisco waterfront. That was back in 1887, when
he was 10 and sailing was the life blood of com- ,
merce.
STEAMSHIPS came years later to kill his trade.
Sailmakers quit and there were no apprentices.
"I used to tell boys to choose some other trade;
that sailmaking was dead. Then along came yacht
ing. The yachts needed sails and there were few
sailmakers to make them.
"The movies began to make pirate pictures and
South Sea pictures. They had to have sails, good
sails. '
"Now the few real sailmakers left in the game
have all they can do. Business? Why, look at this
shop!" He waved his stitching hand at the moun
tains of white cloth, in the big room with its sail
cloth window curtains.
"There are lots of men now who try to make
sails, who can't even name them. They are awning
makers, or tent makers. It's still true, just as it was
rent. If things go right, he will be able to buy the
whole set-up for $3000 on a long-time contract.
Now, most of the men who have been weary and
worn at the end of the day come home to happy
families and even the women have learned to
plow!
Unchanged Since
Revived by Yachting
in the old days, that the best sailmakers in the
world are on the Pacific Coast."
The best sails are still hand-sewed with roping
palm and twine. The spike, the heaver and the fid
are still essential implements of the trade, even as
in the days of Spanish conquest.
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While he stitches a mainsail for the yacht Corsair,
Tom Doyle, last of six Ooyles who followed the trade,
muses on the history of his craft. Yachts and movies
revived the sailmaking business some years ago, Doyle
explains, and now it flourishes as it did in the days of
the Clippers. ,
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