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o o o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THUH9PAT. JUNE li. 190 qSAVE $ $ $ at ok market qsave $ $ $ at ok market qsave $ $ $ at ok q ON FATHER'S DAY, SERVE DAD'S .7. tl o 'f. C?4 fji 'jr' J rruV ri rw rrEi PREFAB APARTMENT A wall section containing a window is raised into place on one of the prefabricated apartment build ings being erected in Moscow. Such "In stant" prefab apartment houses are sprout ing up all over Moscow in what is billed as the world's biggest building boom. Floori are hoisted through the air with bathtub, sink and toilet already attached as the buildings are pieced together like doll houses. (UPI Telephoto) Prefabricated Apartment Houses Spring Up in Moscow By ALINE MOSBY Moscow-(!IPII-"Instant" pre fabricated apartment houses are sprouting up all over Mos cow in what's billed as the world's biggest building boom. To ease a critical housing shortage, the Soviets are push ing a crash housing program. The fastest way to get roofs over heads, they discovered this year, is via almost-ready apartments rolled off factory assembly lines. Now one of Moscow's more astonishing sights is forests of building cranes, looking like wiry animals with entire walls dangling from their "mouths." The cranes gently nudge Into place walls complete with doors and windows even glass in the frames. You see floors giddily sailing through the air with bathtub, fink and toilet already at tached. Suburb Blossoms It's like watching a doll's house being pieced together Wave after wave of these new aparimenis march mo notonously over the flatlands of Moscow. Gregory Dukel sky, one of Moscow's chief architects, led me to one new suburb that blossomed from a vacant field Trucks lurched over the mud to dump stacks nf walls, floors and ceilings. The six inch thick panels were made of porous clay filler and con- crele at 12 factories near Moscow, In Leningrad, some apart ments have been built of en- tire prefabricated rooms. "Those eight workmen will take only one month to put tip this Su-apartment build' ing," said Dukelsky, pointing tn the Russians helping the crane drop a third-story wall Two more months are need ed to paint the entryways and install gas, electricity, water, wallpaper, people and furni ture. Some prefabricated con crete panels, 1 noticed, were chipped or cracked as they were unloaded from the trucks. Many Ne.d.d "When Gov Collins of Flor ida was here he asked why we didn't build fewer and bet ter buildings," Dukelsky said. "But many people need apart ments. We must build quick ly." Because of war damage and concentration on other Indus tries, old apartments are crowded. Izvestia noted re cently that two or three fami lies live In many apartments. To adequately house the citizenry, Dukelsky and other housing authorities face I goal said to be unique In housing history: 100,000 apartments a year Jr each year the seven-year plan. I - This year's quota was pared to 91,000 because they "aren t being built as fast as we hoped," another housing of ficial admitted to me, Even then that means 250 new apartments, or three five- story buildings, opened daily Airline Pilots Observe Order By Unitad Press International Pilots at three of the na tion's major airlines observed no-strike injunction Wed nesday but Eastern Airlines still was paralyzed by a wild cat walkout. A fifth airline, Northwest, faced a strike deadline of a minute before midnight set by the Air Line Pilots associa tion. Federal Judge Julius II. Miner in Chicago issued an order prohibiting a work stop page by pilots protesting the placing of a federal aviation administration inspector in the third pilot's seat of jet air liners. C. N. Sayen, ALPA presi dent, said pilots were being advised to accept the order and not go through with the threatened boycotts of Ameri can, Trans-World and Pan American Airlines. Illinois Group Visits in Oregon Salem -H'PH- A legislative group from Illinois was here Wednesday conferring with of ficials of the Oregon Depart ment of Agriculture on mar keting programs in the west ern stales. Illinois State Rep. John Morris said the cost-price squeeze is pushing farmers in Illinois "against the wall" and the group is touring the west coast because it feels this area Is ahead of the midwest in gov ernment assistance to farm marketing. Members of the Oregon Leg islative Committee on Agri culture attended the confer ence. Boston - First Ironworks In the U.S. was established at Saugus, Mass., 300 years ago. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Mention St. PORTLAND, OREGON All rraniltnt auatH. All thou who com, raturn. Ratal not high, not law. Frtt asrsft, TV'i and radios. Rtputatisn for cloanlinou. Children Under ' n this capital of approximate ly S.5 million. This shower of figures, re peated to the Russian people in the press practically every day, becomes meaningful when you visit some new ten ants. Dukelsky and I barged in on one couple, their son, 9, and the wiles mother. They had moved into a new t w o - r o o m apartment, al though Dukelsky said three persons were scheduled for that size apartment. It consisted of what Rus sians call two "dwelling rooms"-each of necessity fur nished as a living-dining-bcd-room - plus bathroom, toilet room (always separate here), kitchen and hallway. Although the small apart ments were modern in design, the tenants clung to their tra ditional Russian decor. The rug was hung on the wall. Two beds in each of the rooms were made up as beds, not sofas, with traditional Russian big pillows draped with lace. I visited two other apart ments with similar furnish ings. All three had two-burner stoves with ovens, but no broilers. Two had new refrig erators, one did not. The rent Is approximately 35 rubles a month, or $3.50 (at the tourist exchange rate), in cluding gas and electricity. Citizens are assigned to new apartments as they become available. If you turn yours down, it means a long wait for another one. Although these prefabs may seem modest to some west erners, they appear to be ade quate low-cost housing. "Over there we're building a school, food store, restau rant, kindergarten, movie the ater," exclaimed DuMielsky. "Come back In a year and see the grass and trees." BEWARE Of IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THf HAPPY umi doo TOPS IN QUALITY! o Ul 11 o o Ul ll o o r- 1U ll o Ul ll o 4ft Ul Please POP and Your Purse, too, With These Penney Savers from OK MARKET! OPEN 8 A.M. TILL ti O 03 MIDNIGHT Jfi yjtt' P r5im '7? 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