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Vuf0FTIlY00DS, y JSJ STEVENS Housing ia Tf t Town ... The Better Housing League of Cincinnati, a conservative or ganization, looks ahead on a ten yr program of slum elimina tion and "urban redevelopment that ' will require business in vestments of $327,000,000 or more. The league has issued its 39th annual report, playing up the brutal fact that 91 out of every 100 dwellings in the "Basin" area were built before 1920 Some are a century and more of age. One fourth of Cincinnati s population lives in the Basin, al though it covers only one six teenth of the city's land area. Through the Better Housing league civic leaders have been working to reduce residential neighborhood blight for 40 years, The Taft family has been in the thick of it. Charles P. Taft is a veteran member of the league's board of directors. Cincinnati, like every other old city, was held in action on housing rehabilitation for 20 years by the fantastic policies of Ickes and his ilk. Their demand was for the Federal government to move in on the slums and spend billions to wipe them out and raise up monumental apart ment houses in (Jheir stead. Slum families could not pay the rents. In Cincinnati, as in Baltimore and other critical areas of slums, it is lumber that has served to hold the old dwellings together through many years. Lumber is the basic material for. the re newal and ' rehabilitation - pro grams, as well as for the "urban redevelopment" programs in blighted neighborhoods of resi dential dwellings. Whin the work is done block by block decent housing may be produced on old frames and floors which have-been protect ed from the weather. This is par ticularly true in the neighbor hoods of individual and duplex family dwellings. The distribu tors and users of lumber nation wide are working everywhere on this situation through the American Council to Improve Our Neighbors called "Action" for short. Today business men ere top of the job. The govern ment is no longer trying to take over- our towns but seeks only to support local action. TheNational Association of Home Builders has ' estimated that more than 7,000,000 new homes will be needed for new family formations in the next six years. As the rate of hous ing depreciation and decay is now moving,1 8,300,000 existing homes may be graded as unfit for human habitation by 1960. These 8,300,000 "homes" are be ing lived in now by about 23 per cent of the American people. However, the major number of these dwellings can be re newed and remodeled, brought up to the American standard of living because they stand with sound frames, floors, walls and rafters of lumber. Good lumber, for the most part You can do anything with good lum ber. . The Running Sore ... The slums of St. Louis, Cin cinnati, Baltimore, Boston and other old cities are the worst side of. the picture of the coun try's 8,000,000 and more dodder ing dwellings. The people of Taft Town are-facing up to it so well that Mr. Frits B. Burns, a founding father of ACTION, is making national distribution of the annual report of the Bet ter Housing league. A one-page monthly news letter is packed with inspiring items of enter prise and progress. ine j my number, ior; ex ample, reports the signing of contracts for 900 new low-rent units. The City council approved an item cf $98,000 in the 1958 budget "to implement the ur ban renewal program" through increased building inspection service. A million dollars worth of slum demolition was provided for in another program. From project improvement areas a total of 130 families were relo cated in June. The program for the next five years is relocation of 12,588 families more than 30,000 persons. This is all vital stuff in the market areas of the lumber industry. Youth, 18, Rescued From Rocky Cliff s Mt. Vernon, Wash. OJ.R) James Hanson, 18, Mt. Vernon, was rescued from the sheer cliffs of Deception Pass yesterday aft ernoon after he had clung to "rough spots" for nearly an hour and a half, some 200 feet above a rock-strewn beach. Hansen, who had only tiny finger and toe holds to keep him from falling, became stranded on the cliffs while on a Sunday climbing expedition with Vin cent Erickson, 19, also of Mt. Vernon. Erickson descended to the beach and raced for help when Hansen called to him that he was "stuck and couldn't move." A four-man rescue team, com posed of a state patrolman, a As We Live It's Impossible To Live Under Shadow Of Doubt When people live under the shadow of doubts and misunder standings, they are suspicious and ready to condemn oth ers o n the slightest pre tence: As a result, no one is happy. That is why it is best to clear u p suspicions and doubts as soon as possible. (Q.) "When I was married." Mrs. F. W. writes. "I went to live with my husband's folks. 7tT " 'p ii nf Dr. Hex lock When I was having my second child, my husband's' mother and sister condemned a young man. who is very polite and refined and who had nothing to do with the situation. I would be willing to have a blood test to prove my innocence. . My life has ' been made miserable because of this. Every time we quarrel, my hus band curses this child and is mean to us. He runs to another woman and seems to have lost interest in me. Whenever I talk about our future together, he ig nores what I say." (A.) I certainly think you should come to some under standing about this matter, not only for your own sake, but also for the sake of your child. You do not say how old this child is and whether it is a boy or a girl. But, in any case, it -is un fair to the child to have him made the innocent victim of your husband"s suspicions. . Just how you will prove to your husband that he is the fa ther of your child is something you will have to work out with your doctor or your minister. Does the other man know any thing at all about the accusa- By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. tion your in-laws have made? May Become Indignant If he knows nothing about it he may become very indignant at the charges and refuse to have anything to do with the matter. That is why it would be well to consult your minister and ask him how best to tackle the problem. , There are ways of determin ing the paternity of a child and you should avail yourself of these methods if necessary When your child is old enough to understand what this whole matter means, he will be very resentful toward you and his fa ther, and it may warp his whole personality unless you can con vince your husband that he is the child's father. , (Copyright 1955. General Features Corp.) World War II Gl Bill Benefits To Expire World War II veterans train ing under the original GI bill should- keep in mind that one year from July 25, 1955, the program for all but a few ex ceptions will end. ' Charles Holbrook, county ser vice officer, recently advised GI trainees to plan their future ac cordingly. , , - Even though a veteran may have unused GI training entitle ment left at the deadline date, or is in the middle of a course, payments will end. The small group of veterans exempt from the July 25 closure are those who enlisted or re-enlisted un der the Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act, between Oct. 6, 1945, and Oct. 5, 1946. These few have nine years from the end of their enlistment or re-enlistment to complete their GI training. Sunday School Convention Slated Speaker at the first evening service oi - the JKogue valley Sunday school convention Tues day at 7:45 p.m. will be the Rev. Wilmer N. Brown, execu tive ""director of the northwest region of the National Associa tion of Evangelicals. ' The speaker served 15 years as pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren church. He is a musician and for 14 years di rected the Gospel Gleemen, a male chorus of ministers. On Wednesday afternoon, the min ister will address the conven tion on "Music in the Sunday School." At .7 p.m. Tuesday, the. Rev. Ulphin Davis, - director f of the Evangelical Sunday School serv ice, will lead in a discussion on the "Art of Visitation." He is a former Christian Education di rector. Opening session of the con vention will be at 10 a.m. Tues day, Sept. 20, at the Church of the Nazarene, First and Holly sts. The Rev. Ray Hum will be host pastor. The public is invit ed to attend all the services and sessions of the convention.. Death Penalty Urged In Narcotics Traffic Portland OJ.R) Dr. Don ald J. Twiss, president of Opti mist International, urged the death penalty against traffickers in narcotics who peddle dope to the nation's youth. Twiss, in Portland for a re gional meet of the club Satur day, said "some might argue that this punishment is too dras tic." But he said "traffickers in drugs murder the soul just as surely as the killer murders the body of a victims." county deputy and two unidenti fied sailors, secured a 400-foot rope around the base of a tree and lowered the looped end to Hansen. The stranded climber slipped the rope around his waist and was lowered to the beach. Speaker Explains Show Procedure For Garden Club Jacksonville Mrs. R. T. Nichol. Medford, spoke on "Flower Show Practice" at meeting of Jacksonville Garden club held September 15 at the home of Mrs. William Winning ham, Perrydale road, Oak Grove. Mrs. Nichol explained the du ties of the different chairmen and stressed beautification, in spiration, education and infor mation as points to be consider ed in giving a good show. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs. Omar Culy, Mrs. C. Culy and Mrs. E. E. Evans. Mrs. Dee Hendrickson won a prize. Mrs. Surles and Mrs. Of fenbacher poured. " " Woman Enlists . In Army Corps - Miss Joann Irene Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N Thomas, route 1, box 328 Med ford, enlisted in the Women's Army Corps in Portland Sep tember 13, a release from Port land states. : ' From Portland Miss Thomas was flown to Birmingham,. Ala At Fort McClellan, the home of the new WAC Training center, she will receive eight weeks of basic training before being as signed to a school. Miss Thomas was born and raised in the Rogue river val ley, and attended Jacksonville schools; where she graduated last June. Two Initiated by Women of Moose Mrs. Harry Mitchell and Mrs John' Mitchell were initiated into Women of the Moose' at a meeting held September 14 at Medford Moose hall. The pub licity committee, headed by Mrs. James Newton, took charge of the program and refreshments. The program consisted of a film on Mooseheart and Moose- haven. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, September 28. Monday, September II. 1S3S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRTBUXE TUBES Sprague River Man's Trial Set for Dec. 5 Klamath Falls (U.R) Trial of Marcelhis John Norwest, 26, Sprague River, has been set for Dec. 5 in Klamath county Cir cuit Court. Norwest was accused of shoot ing Jackie Howard Jones, a 24-year-old Chiloquin logger, and was indicted by the grand, jury for second degree murder. . MUSTACHE WAX SOLD l Port Huron, Mich. U.P.)-Bar- bers here said today they are having their first run on sales of mustache wax in decades. 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