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o 9 O Jelf Service Supply tenter Run by Army Fort Hood, Tex. (in The Afmy has turned to the super-market principle for more efficiency in supplying troops. Fort Hood's new Self Serv ice Supply Center aims to do away with the tedious requi sition method by which units obtain field and office sup plies. The center contains some $15,000 worth of merchandise on eight miles of steel shelves ayovering 25,000 square feet of flqpr space in an old mess hall. Each Fort Hood troop unit is given an account at the store and a catalog of the items available. All purchases are charged against these accounts. MEDFORDiJifi Tribune Third Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1958 v 8 Pages Relocating off Project Area GDweDDers Presents Problem off Klouses-!KluntBn By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington (W "Ar rangements are being made to relocate the residents of the project area." That sentence usually ap- t Vote for SAMUEL M. iBOWE committii to liter sowt justice Of tw sufkme pun. niei r. allen. g p. pears prominently in the pub lic announcement of a new slum clearance project. To people who .are not directly affected, it carries the reas suring implication that no one will be hurt by the municipal face-lifting operation. But to slum dwellers whose homes are marked for de struction, relocation is an om inous word. It means they have to move from a neigh borhood which, however "blighted," is at least famil iar. For many of them, there is no place to go except to another slum. ' The plight of these urban DP's attracted little public attention in the past, when slum clearance projects were few and far between. Today, however, virtually every city in the country has one or more major civic im provement projects in prog- j f yyl Protect Your Schools! Protect Your Homes! Protect Jackson County! Protect Oregon! I. fin 5) ft fUn ISO 1ISI IVILL: 1. PROTECT SOUTHERN OREGON COLLEGE by fighting for its fair share of appropria tion to insure its continuing climb to be come the best college, in the west. PROTECT YOUR COUNTY SCHOOLS LIKE WISE. : . ' O PROTECT YOUR HOMES by fighting for his " his belief regarding taxes. x 0. II. BEHGTSOn Believes that: TAXES SHOULD BE based on ability to pay. V- HE FAVORS exemption of taxes on homes whether in the city or in the country up to "Shelter Value." I "SHELTER VALUE" is that value in a home eith er a city dwelling or farm unit occupied by the owner that is necessary to the actual needs and comfort of a family of moderate means. "EXCESS VALUE" is that value in a dwelling after "shelter value" is taken out. "Excess value" indicates ability to pay and should carry the tax load. If "shelter value" in real estate both in the city and country were v ' at this time exempt from .all tax, it would ' " have a tremendous effect on home de velopment. That building of many modest homes would increase employment would increase buying of building material, fur niture and necessities. ' A substantial increase in building would eventually reduce interest rates on home v loans which will enocurage more build ing whcih will increase employment, which will increase the sale of more ma terials, more necessities which will in crease prosperity. 0. II. BENGTSON WILL FIGHT . TO ACCOMPLISH THESE RESULTS. Q O. H. BENGTSON will fight to get a fair share of public funds spent on improve ment of roads and development of South v em Oregon. A O. H. BENGTSON will fight to operate ' State Government economically to attract industry and tourists to Oregon. VOTE FOR O. H: BENGTSON FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE THE ONLY CANDIDATE WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO FORMER TERMS Paid Adv. Bengtson for Representative Committee, George Tucker, Chairman, 525 North Riverside, Medford ress or on paper. Federal housing officials estimate that about 85,000 city families will be uprooted from their homes during the next year as a result of "gov ernment action." About one-third of them will be displaced by slum clearance projects carried out with federal financial aid under4he Urban Renewal Act of 1954. As of March 31 there were 525 such projects in var ious stages of planning and execution in 317 cities. The remaining two-thirds of the families will be ousted to make way for new high ways, schools and other pub lic buildings, or as a result of condemnation proceeding against dwellings that violate municipal building codes. To qualify for federal fi nancial aid a community must demonstrate that it . has a "workable plan" for relocat ing the displaced families. Thedretically, the "worka ble plan" must show that "de cent, safe and sanitary" hous ing is available in the com munity for each displaced family, at a price or rental that family can afford. In actual practice, the com munity sets up an official re location agency which does its best to help each family find quarters at least as good; and if possible better, than the Electromagnets to Signal Disorders Los Angeles, Calif. OP) Tiny electromagnets about the size of a little finger tip may be used to send ouf signals from troubled organs of the body long before external symptoms appear. This is the hope of Uni versity of California medical researchers who recently re ported on their experiments. The technique also may de termine the effect of therapy on a diseased organ. , The small magnets, in the experiments, were implanted in experimental animals, the system serving as a flow me ter to pick up electrical sig nals induced in the moving blood. Signals are carried by wire to a recording system. Experimental records 'show definite patterns In response to various stimuli. For exam pie, smelling food makes a characteristic increase in blood flow through the caro tid artery a characteristic reflex preparatory to inges tion of food. A new slide and movie pro jection screen is made of plas tic sheet with thousands of tinv lenses embossed on its surface. An increase of 100 per cent in brilliance and a wider viewing angle are claimed. Mechanical Record Assists Teachers slum housing being evacuated. Have Priority About half of the families displaced by urban renewal projects are in the bottom in come brackets eligible for ad mission . to low-rent public housing. They have a priority on available vacancies in such housing. But a government survey last fall showed that only 24 per cent of the evac uees from urban renewal sites actually move into public housing. Where do the rest go? The survey showed that 12 per cent buy homes. About 10 per cent move into private rental units which they find for themselves but which the re location agency later inspects and certifies to be "standard" housing. ' . The rest scatter far and wide, some into known slums, others into borderline hous ing. A substantial number about 10 per cent simply disappear. In officials reports, they move into "accommoda tions, the location of which is not known." A few cities go beyond the minimum requirements of fed eral law and provide reloca tion service to all families dis placed by government action the evacuees from highway rights-of-way and other proj ects as well as those in "ur ban renewal" areas. New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New Haven, Conn., are among "the cities that have attempted to help relocate ' all types of dis placed families. Shift Becomes Haider Housing, officials agree that the shifting is becoming hard er all the time. The number of new public housing units that can be built each year is lim ited by law to a maximum of 35,000. During the past two fiscal years, actual construc tion averaged only half of that. , Section 221 of the Housing Act authorizes 40-year-no-down payment mortgage guar antees for private builders who put up homes costing $9,000 or less for families dis placed by urban renewal projects. But to date, con struction commitments have been made on only 5,800 such units in the entire nation. The law also , authorizes long-term government loan guarantees for community agencies or non-profit private groups -that will undertake to build rental housing for slum displacees: But only three uch projects are underway in the country two in Co lumbus, Ohio, and one in Pitts burgh. - One complicating factor irr the relocation problem is that about 60 per cent of the fam ilies displaced from con demned slums are members of minority groups. For them, income is not the only barrier to finding a "decent, safe and sanitary" home elsewhere. Chicago (IP) Teachers are going to have more time to teach at suburban Proviso Township High school. A mechanical record-keeping system has been set up to lighten teachers' bookkeeping and turn out report cards for the school's 4,200 students. Under the former system, four different persons the classroom teacher, homeroom teacher, permanent records clerk and counselor haa to copy grades. Now the teacher will make a "sense" grade marking with a special electrographic pen cil, counsellors will sense- mark" a special absence and tardiness card for each stu dent. These markings for grades and attendance will be sensed by automatic equipment. The machines will pick up addi tional datafrom a master in formation card for each stu dent and a master class card. And out will pop printed report cards.- Basic equipment for hiking should be a compass, a knife, waterproofed matches, first aid kit, canteen, flashlight, and food so suggests the Boy Scouts of America. World War I was touched off in 1914 when a Serb stu dent assassinated Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife at Sarajevo, Bosnia. The rainfall In the Ha waiian Islands ranges from less than 20 inches annually in some localities to almost 500 inches in others. ele6t judge JAMES 1.1. MAUI Circuit Court Position No. 1 Pd. Pol. Ad. Ben Day, Chmn., Gold Hill L Nominate f UEffi 'For' Sheriff Says -Paul Rynning O Vern Smith 1$ a native Oregonian . 9 Resident of Jackson County 26 Years Law enforcement officer" 20 years' Character and integrity above reproach r Ex-Serviceman Member Elks Club Mason and Shriner Methodist- ' t Director Mercy Flights ' -V - Vern Smith Will Give You an ' Efficient Administration " Paid Ad by Paul B.. 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