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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
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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.
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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 . . .
United States agricultural
exports for the 12 months
ending in mid-1959 are esti
mated to be about $3,800,-000,000.
Artificial Silk
New York - Artificial silk
has been produced from wood
pulp and other cellulose con
tent materials such as cotton.
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