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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
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!tal nuclear-powered surface ship driving cnal?cs '" olncr slales'
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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.
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