MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5,
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I "Wetmore" House-of-the-Week Design Is Termed "Biggest Little Home"
PRACTICAL PLAN
MEETS NEEDS OF
SMALLER FAMILY
Cubage Of 'Wetmore' Is 4,-
450 Cubic Feet Building
Economy Is Stressed.
The value of architectural
skill and experience applied to
the proposition of supplying the
most house for the money in
the building field where the
FHA title I, class 3 loan is avail
able, is strikingly illustrated in
the "Wetmore" design offered
this week by Western Homes
Foundation. This design was
created by National Plan Serv
ice architects to provide the
most complete home possible in
space restricted to economy re
quirements. The "Wetmore" has
but 440 square feet. Its cubage
i 4,450 cubic feet.
Yet the specifications allow
for fully equipped bathroom
and kitchen, the latter and the
bedroom as well having cross
ventilation, while the living
room has door or window open
ings on three sides. There is
clever arrangement for dining
space at the rear of the living
room, and for book shelves in
the center partition. The roof
is pitched high, providing for
a roomy attic that may be used
for storage space, and then for
the addition of bedrooms for
the growing family. In the lat
ter case the front porch can
be remodeled into an enclosed
entrance and stairway. The
"Wetmore" bids for the title of
"biggest little home."
"Designs of the 'Wetmore'
size and price type are basic
in meeting the housing needs
of urban families who are seek
ing escape from crowded and
rundown city and town neigh
borhoods," states W. C. Bell,
chairman of Western Homes
Foundation. "The movement of
such families from town to
country is nation-wide. Figures
from federal real property in
ventories of 1934-1936 show
why this is so. At that time
approximately 16 percent of
urban homes in the United
States were classified as 'unfit'
for use as dwellings or in need
of major repairs. This percent
age represented about four mil
lion out of 26 million urban
homes.
"Current slum clearance pro
ject can only touch this situa
tion in its worst spots. For the
vast majority of independent,
self-reliant families now existing
in rented, rundown urban
dwellings, the home-land pro
gram of the building industry
is the real hope in housing.
"The home-land idea simply
means: (1) an equity in a half
acre or acre outside city or town
limits: (2) a home loan for $2500
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or less, with the equity serving
as down payment, under the
FHA title I, class 3, plan, or
by private financing; (3) designs
for homes that may be built,
under non-urban conditions, for
$2500 or less, either complete,
or as shells to be finished by
families during occupancy; and
(4) the basic essentials of sound
home construction, namely,
solid foundation, and frame,
floors, sidewalls and roof built
according to standard specifica
tions and practice, with non
essential equipment and finish
to be added later."
Working plans and specifica
tions for the "Wetmore" may be
obtained through retail lumber
dealers or from Western Homes
Foundation, 364 Stuart building,
Seattle, Wash.
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STORES TO CLOSE
Crater Lake post, and auxil
iary, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday in
the Medford armory to make
plans for observing Armistice
Day next Saturday, particularly
for taking part in the annual
parade.
In a statement issued yester
day the post requested all Med
ford stores to closenext Satur
day "in honor of all World war
veterans."
Armistice Day, the statement
continued, "is for all vejerans
and it does not seem possible
that it should make any differ
ence to any store whether it re
mained open for business or not
as all of its patrons could get all
their supplies on the day before
Armistice. The members of Cra
ter Lake post 1833, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, are planning not
to patronize stores that remain
open on Armistice Day."
The VFW Bicycle Safety club
will meet at 7 p. m. Tuesday in
the armory. William J. Cooney.
junior activities chairman, re
quests the presence of all mem
bers as he said he has an im
portant message for them. ,
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REJECT BIOS FOR
Portland, Nov. 4. (a3) The
Oregon highway commission ap
proved a SI 00,000 appropriation
for advertising next year and
decided to follow the same plan
this year.
Ray Conway, manager of the
state motor association, pro
tested that too much of the
money was spent in the east
and that more should be placed
in western states but Harold B.
Say, director of the commis
sion's travel information depart
ment, said 47 percent of the
1939 appropriation was used
west of the Mississippi.
The commission acted on the
following jobs:
Jackson: Siskiyou Junction
Klamath county line, rock pro
duction on Greensprings high
way, all bids rejected.
ITALY BUCKS UP,
MUSSOLINI SAKS
Rome, Nov. 4. (JP) Premier
Mussolini, addressing a cheering
crowd celebrating the 21st an
niversary of Italy's World war
armistice with Austria-Hungary,
declared today that Italy was
strengthening her "will and
forces for tomorrow."
"The Italian people . . . cele-
Complete Compact
EARLY RELEASES
Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 4.
(j)The Brite brothers, John
and Coke, slayers of three men
in a woods fight at Horse creek
in Siskiyou county, petitioned
Gov. Culbert L. Olson today for
a commutation of sentence to
time served.
John, 39, aid Coke. 34. were
convicted at Yreka in 1938 of
first degree murder for the
shooting of Martin Lange and
Joe Clark, denutv sheriffs. anH
Fred Seaborn.
John declared in his petition
that he "killed in self-defense."
Coke declared he "had no part
in the shooting" but that if he
had It "would have been justi
fiable Mlf defense."
Their applications will be wb
mittad to the advisory pardon
board for recommendation.
Dm Mail Trlbuii want ado.
Elecirieal Contracting
Rewiring Repairing
OLSON ELECTRIC
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The small house shown in the
above illustration is situated in
Greenburgh, N. Y.
The house shows the result
of careful planning in the effi
cient arrangement of rooms.
The bath is accessible from each
bedroom without the necessity
of passing through any other
room. The attached garage is a
convenience that has not inter
fered with the symmetry of the
design.
brate their victory today with
a clear soul and a firm faith
in the destiny of the country,"
Mussolini said in a brief speech
from the balcony of his office.
"The victory belongs to the
people because it was achieved
by a great sacrifice," he added.
"In this remembrance of what
was achieved we strengthen our
will and forces for tomorrow."
Mussolini, with Foreign Min
ister Count Galeazzo Ciano and
Ettore Muti, secretary of the
fascist party, appeared on the
balcony at 11:08 a. m. (5:08 a.
m., EST) to address the crowd
thronging the Piazza Venezia.
The premier, after his speech,
reappeared seven times on the
balcony in answer to the
crowd's cheer.
TEDDY JR. FEARS
New York, Nov. 4. (P) Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, asserting
$1,000,000,000 of allied war
orders were expected by the ad
ministration, predicted today
that "pocketbooks will take
command of pur foreign pol
icy" and attempt to lead the
United States into war.
"It is the handwriting on the
wall," Col. Roosevelt said,
speaking before the Foreign
Policy association.
"By abolishing the arms em
bargo we are starting down the
self-same road we followed a
quarter of a century ago.
"Gradually we will be pushed
down the road from which there
is no turning the road to war."
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