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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1960)
ir flu I , I J' I ( "J few? y t , PLAYFUL BEAR - Snow puts this bear at the Oklahoma City zoo in a playful mood. There was plenty of it for snowballs six to eight inches in many parts of the state. ; " (UPI Telephoto) SYMINGTON SETS TALK Montgomery, Ala. - (UPD -Sen. Stuart Symington (D Mo.), a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, will speak here Jan. 25, the day before Ala bama's delegates to' the Demo cratic national convention are selected. - MEDFORD Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1960 4 Pages Construction of Paper Houses in America May Be Delayed Because Codes, Unions Elmer Walzer Hayes who By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York (UPD Here's something new and reason ably priced in housing a paper house. But it may be a long way off for U.S. citizens be cause of build ing codes and unions, says Hal B. Hayes, C a 1 i f o rnia builder and inventor, heads his own $32 million company, Hal B. Hayes Contractors, Inc., of Los Angeles, described the house of paper which he has designed and engineered as strong, fire resistant, flood proof, and impervious to all the elements. Paper houses, if they are permitted, could be construct ed to cost $5,000 for a two bedroom home. They would be made of pulp specially treated with a chemical plas tic. They would be held to gether in tension, the same principle that is engineered into the George Washington Bridge in New York. The houses would be mold ed together and sealed by giant stapling machines, re sembling large sewing ma chines, and they could be con structed in a week. Foreign Lands Since his idea is being held up- here, Hayes may turn to foreign lands to erect these paper houses. He is looking to Europe, South America and Asia as possible fields. He in dicated Florida might be a state where he could operate in paper housing, but isn't sure. ' . Hayes is no dreamer in con struction. He is one of the na tion's largest home builders. His company currently has contracts for $114,500,000. These contracts are for projects in Grand Forks, and Le Jeune, N.C.; Fort Bliss Missile Base, Texas, near El Paso; Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento, Calif., and Beale Air Force Base, north of Sacramento. He has two other large California private projects and several others at classified bases. He plans to expand his operations and make his com pany a public one listed on one of the exchanges. Hayes believes there will be almost as much housing this year as last with builders now placing heavy orders for ma terials for use later on. He says much of the home financ ing will come from savings and loan associations which appear to be attracting more deposits than banks because of their high interest rates. Genius in Concrete This 47-year-old contractor is regarded as a genius in con crete. Many of his 60 patents cover construction machinery and methods. Hayes has built a prefabri cated concrete house in 34 minutes as a demonstration, and a poured concrete one in a day. However, he uses the material available on the spot in his construction. His concrete masterpiece is a concrete boat which he says can be the basis for a fleet of concrete submarines. With a machine large enough he says he could produce ten concrete submarines an hour. The principle of his submarine is the round pipe which he says o tOQ. ONLY'- 9x12' TO 12kl8' ft 3sasi ft 1 4 fi - . ?Vjr- 12x17 12x15'4" 12xll 12x13' 9" 12xl2yll -ffJJ5rf."5ai3'f -SSS 12x11' 11" -, fjS. 1 2x1 1 9x12'4J 9x1 2' 8 9xl3'2" 9x15 9x1 5' 6 9x1510 9x1 5' 11 9x16 it" 9x1 6' 7 9x17' 2 9x18 i oil 9x1 8' 8 12x18 12x17' IV THE BUY OF THE CENTURY 100 ALL WOOL! 100 NYLONS! 100 VISCOSE RAYONS! WILTON - VELVETS! TWEEDS! TEXTURES! PLAINS! HURRY! WHILE THEY LAST! 9x12' TO 12x18' VOUR.'GHOIICI $500 DOWN DELIVERS FACTORY CLOSE-OUT OF CARPET REMNANTS IN LARGE ROOM SIZE RUGS. 100 ONLY BUT LIMITED IN TWO OF A COLOR OR SIZE. TER RIFIC SAVING POSSIBLE ON PER FECT QUALITY! ff Satisfaction guarantee'3 or your money back SEARS Jackson it Biddle SP 3-6661 FREE PARKING Open Mondays and Fridays 'Til 9 P.M. is the strongest method of construction. Under the Hayes' system of concrete home construction, hollow outside walls are pour ed around cores. The forms for the interior are built around a collapsible mold. Electrical and plumbing in stallations are attached to the forms and cemented in place so that very little work re mains for the mechanics once the walls are in place and the roof on. In this operation his com pany uses Hayes' patented concrete crane which incor porates a derrrick and cement mixer. He has perfected meth ods of hardening concrete quickly by vibrating. From Start To Finish The Hayes company employs 9,000 workers and handles a project from start to finish, including engineering, con struction, water works, sew age, roads, shopping center, postoffice, and all other facili ties. This agile young builder crosses the nation 10 times a month and his day generally runs to 15 hours. He'll have a lot more territory if his plans mature to add foreign nations to his operations. His operations now include supervisory aides with wide spheres of autonomy. When his company goes public Hayes anticipates giving wi der latitude to his supervisors under an incentive plan. Under this incentive plan he hopes to bring costs down in his various projects, and he hopes eventually to convince the various states that paper houses are very worthwhile means of keeping building costs down. His next problem will be the unions which resent the new methods must as they fought for years against pre fabricated homes, he says. Foul Play Seen Disappearance Holdendale. Wash. (UPD Sheriff Ed Kaiser said Wed nesday, he feared that a 32-year-old Trout Lake cafe op erator, missing since New Year's day, may have met with foul play. Keith Lanefield, a bachelor and Navy veteran, was last renorteH seen about 4 D.m. Jan. 1 driving his 1959 green two-door car away from the cafe. A search of back roads for three davs has failed to pro duce a trace of Langfield or the automobile. Lanefield's father. K. C. Langfield, said his son left about 2:30 p.m. New Year's day to take inventory at the cafe. The sheriff said a three page list of everything in the restaurant was found indi cating that the job had been completed. Kaiser said two small boys told officers they spoke to Langfield as he was leaving the shop about 4 p.m. They had asked for a milkshake but said they were told they would have to wait until the next day. Farmer Doesn't Worry About Speed Almond, N.Y. -(UPD- A 79-year-old retired farmer who lives, near, here doesn't have to worry about getting tickets for speeding. "She'll only go about 35 miles per hour," he said, as he pushed his 1924 model T Ford out of the garage. D. V. Gatlin said he believes his car is the oldest useable auto in Steuben county. Gas mileage isn't one of Gatlin's worries. mm c:waf.e Of IMITAJtOMS LOOK FOR THE HAPPY UTILE DOG tRIPPl TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE Participation in Contests Ruled ' Salem -(UPD- Attorney Gen. eral Robert Y. Thornton said Wednesday that an insurance agen may participate in the so called "community club awards" promotion program, provided certain legal safe guards are observed. He said such participation in CCA must not result in a real discrimination among policy-holders and there must be no valuable benefit for the insured within the intent of state anti - rebate insurance laws. Community Club awards is an advertising plan by which a radio station awards cash prizes to certain community organizations which have ac cumulated the greatest num ber of "credits." These may be in the form of labels, re ceipts, bottle caps, or other proof of purchase. The CCA cash awards that go to a club or organization as a result of members' pur chase of various advertisers' wares would not "amount to a valuable consideration bene fiting the insured." Thornton said. British Columbia larch trees, growing to 180 feet, are used for railway ties and mine timbers among other construc tion work. Fire Inspector Turns In a False Alarm Province to wn, Mass. Ooops! When officials of Province town High school set out to learn who turned in a false alarm that emptied the entire school, they found a red-faced fire inspector. It was like this, mumbled the inspector. He was check ing a fire box in the gymnas ium, when all of a sudden . . . 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