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PAGE THREE "Wills" Home Design Suggested As Basis For Family 'Five Year Plan" FIR. IT from beyond the Mississippi river to succeed Justice Pierc Butler. Several of them said they would urge President Roosevelt to name a westerner, but Sn ator Borah (R., Idaho) question ed the Importance of geography "HOUSE-OF-THE-WEEK" Model For Modest Income MAKES POSSIBLE in in selection. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SAVING PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS TO Same Design is Adaptable For Summer Cottage . Ideal For Small Family. The Wills design issued this week by Western Homes Foun dation is for the smallest dwell ing in its Home-Land Series. This home when built according to the specifications of the Na tional Plan Service has but 3000 cubic feet and only 320 square feet. Yet as the illustration shows this design embodies ar chitectural attractiveness and several features which show careful expert planning. Note the arrangement of living-room windows, the door design, and particularly the sun porch with flat deck. The latter may be screened or glassed-in by the builder who uses the Wills de sign for a summer cottage. "Throughout 1939 there has developed nationally a move ment of families from run-down city dwellings to suburban and country areas where land is cheap and where urban building .nrioc anrt nthpr restrictions on economical home construction do not apply," says W. C. Bell, chairman of Western Homes Foundation. "The Sunday build Dracticallv every newspaper in the country are evidence of the expansion of this movement. In Midwestern metropolitan areas, it promises to reach the proportion of a migration. In the West, it is growing in every city and town. "Here is a specific example from a Pacific Northwest city. The family numbers three, a young couple and a three-year-old child. The breadwinner is a machinist who frequently has l-i is work cut to three days and has had a seasonal layoff of a month or more each year since hie mnrrinffp Thp familv lived in a small house built in 1906 on which the rent had been raised from S17 to $24 per mrmth Hiirino thp nact threp and a half years. The house had not been painted since 1930. The heating and plumbing equip ment was worn out. The land lord was able to provide nothing but patchwork repairs. Other houses in the neighborhood were in even worse condition. It was a poor environment for a grow ing child. "Last spring this little family started on what they call their own special five-year plan. For S10 down and $5 per month they bought a country acre. They had a car, five years old but paid for and in good condition, and also a camping outfit. In the late spring and summer, the family camped out on the acre. r3Iii. -- - "s. The New Jersey lake country Is the setting for this attrac tive two-story brick-and-frame dwelling. Containing no star tling architectural innovations, the home is nevertheless unique in that it presents an attractive and pleasing appear ance at a modest figure. Ar rangement of the rooms is a lesson in practicality, with the living1 room, dining room, and kitchen on the first floor, while the second floor is given over entirely to the three bedrooms and one bath. Assigned a val uation of $6,250 by the Fed era) Housing Administration, it was built with the aid of a $5,000 mortgage insured by the FlIA. F15T-FLOOR-PLAN SCALt SECOND FLOOB- PLAM L JLIL,J P,2I,( ,J jTy ."1IM wooa ONIAIl 5 ' ' I u NiioLiM jwooa aiq .031 When the breadwinner was off his regular job, he built the foundation, frame, sidewalls and roof according to the working drawings and specifications of a design for the lowest cost home he had been able to find. A retail lumber dealer helped him finance the purchase of materials, and the employment of a carpenter in cutting and erecting the rafters, installing the window and doors. With the coming of the fall rains, the family was able to move into its own home. Ceiling, walls and interior are yet unfinished. But a good start has been made on the 'five-year-plan' of this up-and-coming American family. This plan contemplates later ad ditions to the house, including bathroom, another bedroom, and enlarged living room and a gar age and development of their land into a rich producing gar den plot. s "The design used was the Wills, illustrated on this page. This is why the story is told." Working plans and specifica tions for this minimum-size, minimum-cost home may be ob tained through retail lumber dealers or from Western Homes Foundation, 364 Stuart Build ing, Seattle, Washington, on a basis of production cost. BLASTS LAIO 10 London. Nov. 18. UY Three sharp explosions, blamed by authorities on members of the outlawed Irish republican army tonight hook the Picadilly Cir cus area London's Times Square. Theatergoers were thrown in to confusion but police said no one was injured, apparently be cause of the small crowds as a result of nightly blackouts. The window of one shop was shattered and its steel shutters twisted across the pavement. Glass in front .of one theater also was smashed. A fourth explosive, which failed to go off, was found in the fashionable Park Lane dis trict, next door to a bank. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p m. SET CALIFORNIA E Washington, Nov. 18. (P) Senator Thomas (D.-Utah) an nounced today that the Senate Civil Liberties committee would begin hearings at Los Angeles on November 24 in its investi gation into the activities of em ployers' associations in Califor nia. Describing the inquiry as "the biggest job we have tackled yet", Thomas said he would con duct hearings for three days in Los Angeles and move to San Francisco on December 4 for a series of hearings there. He will conduct the hearings in the ab sence of Chairman LaFollette (Prog-Wis.) and Senator Walsh (D.-Mass.). Only documents sought by the committee staff will be subpoe naed in the first series of hear ings, Thomas said, with wit nesses to be called later by the committee when the staff has completed its study of these records. UPON SIGHT CONVICT MEETS 1UST THAT FATE Shawncetown, 111., Nov. 18. (P) Willard Shockley, 23-year-old ex-convict for whom a "kill on sight" order had been isstied, was shot and killed here early today in a 15-minute gun fighl with Sheriff Ed Hines and Dep uty Reuben Davis. Shockley had been hunted since Wednesday night in con nection with the shooting of State Highway Patrolman Cecil Brokmyer, who is near death In a Harrisburg, 111., hospital. From eye-witness accounts of the battle which raged in the heart of the downtown district shortly before 8 o'clock, Shock ley was trapped in this manner: He was picked up along the highway west of town by Noah Kurstine, owner of a mine, who thought he recognized the youth from newspaper photographs. Kurstine drove into town and parked in front of the court house. When lie got out of the car to tip off the sheriff Shockley dashed into a clothing store. He ordered a pair of overalls but before they could be wrapped up Deputy Sheriff Davis came in and ordered him to sur render. Shockley reached for his gun. Davis fired the first shol into his stomach. The youth then ran out a back door, firing sev eral shots that went wild. He ran two blocks and hid behind a small shed from where he again opened fire. He final ly climbed into the back seat of a parked outomobile. When Sheriff Hines asked him to give himself up. Shockley yelled: "Come and get me." Sheriff Hines ordered the large crowd of curious onlookers to stand back, then he and Davis started shooting at the des perado. Supt. Walter Williams of the state police had identified Shock- ley as Brokmyer s assaimnt and issued an order to "kill him on sight." The state trooper was shot when he stopped the youth to question him concerning a hold up. Closing time for Too Late to Clas slf; Ads Is 1:30 p m. Use Mall Tribune want ad. President Has Given No Thought to Successor of Late Pierce Butler, Word Hyde Park, N. Y Nov. 18 (JP) President Roosevelt told reporters today he would wait until congress convenes In Jan uary, unless some emergency arises, to fill the supreme court vacancy left by the death of Justice Butler. Ha said he had givaa thought to a successor. Huge War Orders Placed by Canada Ottawa. Nov. 18 iPi Th. Canadian war supply board was reporiea unofficially today to have placed huge orders for planes and other war equipment and supplies In th United States. The board, howevar, with held official Information on any dealers concluded. It acts as pur chasing agent for the British supply board, charged with re sponsibility for buying war ma terial from toothpaste to tor pedo boats. Washington, Nov. 18. (P) The supreme court and admin istrative officials paid final tri bute today to Pierce Butler be fore the body of the 73-year old associate justice was started to ward St. Paul, Minn., for burial. Two retired justices also at tended the solemn high requiem mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral where the Right Rev. Monsig nor Edward L. Buckcy offici ated. Monday morning another mass will be sung at St. Luke's church in St. Paul. Justices Mc Reynolds, Stone and Roberts will accompany the body to Minnesota. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p m. Washington, Nov. 18. 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Desirable Medford lots are available at moderate cost and your Medford lumber dealer will handle much of the detail of planning and building. . . . It's a grand feeling of independence to own your own home gives you better standing in your community, too! Why not plan NOW to build that home you've been wanting--in MEDFORD? MEDFORD Lumber Dealers Offer COMPLETE BUILDING SERVICE Quality Lumber and Building Materials at Uniformly Low Prices! . Plans . Specifications Estimates Financing Advice Labor Assistance! MEDFORD LUMBER CO. N. Fir at Third. Phone 629 . BIG PINES LUMBER CO. Sixth and Fir St. Phone One BRUCE BAUER LUMBER CO. J. W. C0PELAND YARDS South itiverside. Phone 332 PORTER LUMBER CO. 204 Sonth Fir St. Phone 124 North Riverside at Court. Phone 594 WOODS LUMBER CO. Eaat Jackson. Phone 108 Her is bui on oi hundreds of desirable hem plans . you will find those that will xactlr rneel ih require ment oi your family. Why not pay your rani money on a horn of your own? 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