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"Wills" Home Design Suggested As Basis For Family 'Five Year Plan"
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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.
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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
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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
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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. (P)
Western senators were divided
today over the need for appoint
ment of a supreme court Justice
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