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V HERALD AND NEWS. Klamaia) Mis. On- Wrdnmla.v. JaMV? U. BM1 Housing Is Losing Its Impact By HKMtY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor NEW YORK iL'PIi-The hous ing industi-y is losing its recuper ative impact on the nation's econ omy and will continue to do so for at least the next five years. real estate executive declared today. Morris Karp, president of Real ty Equities Corp.. said this situa tion has become obvious during the current recession. In the re cessions of 1950. 1954 and 195D. housing starts rose sharply while, the rest of the economy was dc clining, thereby helping to shore up the decline and support the lucceedins economic upswing. But in 19fi0. Karp noted, hous ftig followed the sluggish trend of the general economy. And he does not see the industry returning to its counter-cyclical role for at least five years. Karp does not support the belief among many industry and polit leal leaders that the housing de cline has reflected a tightness in mortgage money. He said mort gage money has been ample the past six months, and in many areas interest rates have declined somewhat without any stimulating effect on housing. Basically, the really equities executive declared, home building appears to be faltering on a fundamental weakness in consum er demand based on the shifts in 'the age composition of the U. S population. The population is growing fast at both ends with fewer new- households being formed in the middle because of the low birth rates of the 1930s. The housing demands ol the elderly and the very young do not call for new homes or large space require ments. Karp stated. To back up this view he cited apartment construction and rent ing, which caters more to the young and old, and which led up very, well in 1960. He also recalled that from I94.S to 1960 additions to the stock of U. S. housing ex ceeded the growth of new house holds by more than (wo million units. Sales of luxury and inexpensive units have been good despite the overall softening in housing demand,- and Karp sees his per formance continuing through 196C. He noted that luxury homes, especially in prime suburban areas like New York's Westches ' ter County and Chicago's Oak Park, can always sell because liv ing in these areas imply a cer tain social connotation desired by young executives on the way up in the business world. Inexpensive' homes continue in demand because young couples still prefer a home to an apart ment if the carrying charges are Dot too great. The slack in housing has oc curred in the broad middle in come area. The resale market for old homes has slackened and many families are unwilling to accept the lower price for their present homes and assume the Charges and costs for the new ones, Karp explained. He doesn't see any change in this situation until the mid-sixties when the huge crop of war-time babies comes of marrying age. T.H. Ui. F. OM. Water Extraction Breakthroughs Promise To Meet Need By SAM DAWSON I A home unit for desalting water Supplying fresh water from sea Al Busiaess Newt Aaulysi is hemg ten marketed in the NEW YORK (API Water isSoulhosl. Big-scale sea-water a pressing need in many fut-; operations are in use or about to growing parts ot this country iw oe installed in men widely aepa the world. And both industry sndJiatcd points as the We.t Indies government are reporting break throughs in methods of extracting usable water from the two great remaining sources, sea water and brackish water. and Israel. Costs have been the big, stumbling block. The goal is to gel tliem below 50 cents per thousand gallons, which would make con version competitive w ith natural water in many areas. Research el foi ls in both government and private industry laboratories are reported showing great promise today. Tuja Man Ufiiiiiui The search for more water also i wo men nappy goes on jn the idcr (iCds o( conserving rainfall and controlling runoffs in rivers. Congress is Burglar Trap Failure Makes water on pleasure and work boats and for use m homes. ' Another method is to freeze the salts out. Blaw-Knox suggests using butane as both refrigerator and melting ssenl. which it says should bring the cost way down. Struthers Wells and Scientific Design Corp. have teamed in a freezing process they s;ay cuts costs sharply. Fairbanks Whitney is building for the Israeli government desalt ing units aimed at purifying 250, 000 gallons a day for that thirsty nation at a cost they say will be lower than any in previously built big units. Several other American compa nies are in the water purifying business, including Westinghouse Electric and Ionics. Government agencies say aver age daily use of water for all purpoaet in the I'nited States is 300 billion gallons, up from 300 billion 10 ytars ago. They expect it to go to around 500 billion a day by 1980. At present a dry! year can bring water use restric ts to as many as 1,000 U.S. cities and communities. Wt have available an averaca of 31 billion gallons a day of fresh water. This would be enough if H were distributed evenly, But it isn't, and many sections are short now, and others are threat ened with shortages in dry years. "I have a feeling; he's going to give up skating!" Navy Will Convert Ship For Long Range Missiles SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (t'PD -Harry Wu promised to tell police the next time he sets a booby trap for a burglar. If it had worked the way he wanted it to, it might have killed a cop. Wu. who owns the Chinese Tea garden Caie. said his place has been burglarized "so many limes I've lost count." expected to be asked for more funds for such developments and also for pi eventing pollution of streams or for purifying them. Industry's stake is high since industrial use of water is grow ing at a faster rate than is the domestic use by the world's zooming population. Mining, plas tics, chemicals and pharmaceu tical industries are especially heavy users and noticed a window open. He' " -"'s .. ...i j . i..j ...:hrancs and electric current to III vauumcu aiiu icaincu aviuaa the window sill. There was a bril- "I set the thing to fix the next burglar," he said. Policeman Jerry Phillips was making his rounds early Monday WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Navy has won Defense Depart ment approval to convert its long delayed nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach into the first surface ship armed with longrange bal listic missiles. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr., a former Navy secre tary, has rejected Navy proposals for arming a number of surface ships with Polaris ballistic mis siles, but made an exception in the case of the Long Beach. The cruiser, first nuclear-poW' Navy Polaris missiles would be less vulnerable than ballistic mis siles carried by surface ships. They would do more damage for the money spent, he decided Nevertheless he made an excep tion for the Long Beach. Gates has fully explained his reasoning to his successor, Robert S. Mc Namara. Construction Behind Schedule The Long Beach, once sched uled to be commissioned in No vember, 1960, has encountered so liant flash. He had brushed a string that triggered a rat trap, which in turn activated wires leading to an electrical socket supposed to send current into a shotgun shell and explode it on the window sill as a burglar crawled through. "I don't know why it didn't work." Wu said. Phillips is glad it didn't. dissolve and remove salts is being tested in Texas by the American Machine & Foundry Co. AMF has big clectrodialysis membrane unit in use in a plant of the Libyan Public Development and Stabilization Agency at Tobruk which converts 20.000 gallons o( brackish water a day into drink ing water. Distillation - is a traditional method but loo expensive in the past for mos' areas. AMF now has a small heat evaporator unit Convictions Hit Record In State SALEM iAP Convictions for violating traffic laws reached an all-time high of 203,331 last year of Motor manv ftnlauc that it rannnl inin ered surface ship ordered by then., n.-. nlil novt fall !tne state Department .-savy. nas supped anoui ninci B..a.lse it .as ion0 dp,aved vcnicies saio tooay. and its expense had mounted so greatly. Gates agreed that the Navy could turn the delay to ad vantage and make one expedition months behind schedule and the estimated cost has risen from an 'original $250 million to $320 mil lion. Authorizes More Money Gates has authorized the Navy to spend an additional $58 mil lion to equip the ship with eight The 1959 total was 181,405. Convictions for drunken driving totaled 2.363, while 539 Oregon drivers were convicted of drunk ett 1 onQ ww--- !tal nuclear-powered surface ship driving cnal?cs '" olncr slales' u . 1 tU armed with ballistic missiles. The Long Beach is being equip ped also w ith Talos and Terrier 1.500-mile Polaris missiles, bring-jantiaircraft missiles, Asroc anti ing the total cost to $378 million, i submarine missiles, and the most 52 Charged In Obscene Mail Case CHICAGO (UPI) - A federal grand jury has indicted 52 per sons, including college and high School teachers and students, on charges of conspiring to send or ol sending obscene matter through the mails. Those named in the indictment included at least one clergyman. i lie action climaxed a six month investigation of two organi zations called the Adonis Male Club and the International Body Culture Association. U.S. Dist. Ally. Robert Ticken Said the Adonis Club had 750 members in 24 states and Canada. He said both clubs were promoted hv Jack Zuideveld, 40, Oak Park. III., and his wife. Nirvana, also 40. through the physique and mus cle display type magazines Vim and Gym. "Postal authorities have repeat edly said that the biggest increase in obscenity has occurred in the field of correspondence between males with deviate tendencies," Ticken said. "The investigation originated tvith the response by wives and mothers to the request of Post noaster General 'Arthur' Summer field that envelopes bearing can celled postage stamps and carry ing obscene material be retained and that the matter be reported to the Post Office Department," be said. The Rev. Robert M. Reden haugh, 55. Tabor, Iowa, a retired Episcopal clergyman and one of the men indicted, denied the charges. Rcdenbaugh said he had "absolutely no knowledge" of any basis for the charges against him sad hivl ne knowledge of the Adnata Mart Club r tht IMr-l ilior! Soli tywe Assoc jaI loft He told the Navy, however, that it would have to get the money, by cutting back on other projects and not by adding to its budget. With the agreement of Gen. Ly man L. Lemnitzcr, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gates decided that land-based and rail car-mounted Air Force Minuteman missiles and advanced submarine detection gear available. Armed with the Polaris, it is .seen as a possible one-ship task force which, by itself, might be able to dominate such a strategic area as the Indian Ocean. The first H-bomb explosion oc- suubmarine-based icurred in November of 1952. Under New Management! TINY'S TAVERN MERRILL - LAKEVIEW JUNCTION NOW BEING OPERATED BY MURIEL & ANDREE Open 9 A.M. to 1 A.M. 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