Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 213, Ed. 1 Monday, April 28, 1952 Page: 5 of 8
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THE DENTON REC0RD-CHRONICLE
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exander’s Rag-
first sung tn
1 when Emma
pgo. Later that
it at a Friars
tk City.
an argument as
Varus or Mrs.
lexandar’a Rag-
song has been
,000 times, has
million copies
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ilties.
f "Blx’’ Beidar-
aya a question
a of the famed
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and the name
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let long and has
ph is handy for
I left him the
Iwhide railroad
wolves; about
khat, preserved
he fight out of
the warpath;
k of Johnsons,
Store Johnson,
Ion, and Tucker
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Ise fetching old
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knac, made up
craft out of his
Latin and the
Washington and
nto Idaho, Hol-
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for legend, fact
corner isn’t a
sore important
eft behind, but
his book bnght-
lexander’s Rag-
Lusic publishers
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critics, objected
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long instead of
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Services for Every Member of the Family
1. Savings accounts for Hie children's future
X Checking accounts for Mother's convenience
3. Loans to Dad for ell purposes.
First State Bank
Of Denton
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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WASHINGTON bf»—Sen Ellender
(D-Le) has called for Congress to
let the government's wage and
price control program die.
He declared that President Tru-
man wants the Defense Production
Act extended "only to strengthen
the power of the labor etars.’’ That
is the act which provides authority
for the government's inflation-fight-
ing wage, price, rent and credit
controls and the rationing of ma-
terials to industry. It is due to eg-
pire June 30.
"With supply of goods catching
up with demand—and in many
esses exceeding it,” Ellender said,
•'about all the Congress can do
now is to let the Defense Produc-
tion Act die a natural death.”
"I do not think that it can any
longer serve a constructive pur-
pose.” he said in a speech record
ed for broadcast over station WWL,
New Orleans.
Ellender accused the Wage Sta-
bilisation Board of "usurpations”
and "abuses’’ of power whirh he
said “have become a habit," and
denounced ita handling of the atee)
dispute.
"These usurpations of power by
the wage board.” he said, "added
to the President's illegal seizure of
the steel mills, show clearly that
the President has no intention of
using the Defense Production Act
to stem the tide of inflation, but
only to strengthen the power of
the labor csars."
He asserted the law “haa been
used only to pry higher wages
from industry while keeping prices
more or leas level.”
"Labor has been given almost
everything it requested in the way
of pay increases and fringe bene-
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providing krw-coet bonsee, however.
Houston builders eomplaia at ft-
nancing difficulties because lend-
ers, even if a bouse have FHA
approval, are rdnetant to lend
money at the rate of interest pre*
scribed by the govenunsnt.
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AFLOAT IN THE FLOOD—Tugboats being built by the Missouri Valley Shipyard—
a small riverside yard in Leavenworth, Kas. —are almost afloat as they sit in their
cradles over eight feet of Missouri River flood water. A truck, used to haul ma-
terials to reinforce the private levee around the yard, is almost under water as the
raging river takes charge, Note the materials piled on the deck of the boat at
right. (AP Wirephoto).
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scribed by the govenuapnt.
The lack of suitable buflding
sites ts stymieing some building
st Beaumont and DeUaa, conatnw*
tion man report Some Beatunoot
builders complain that available
loti are too high for low-cost bauaee
and there is need for inexpensive
land with utilities.
In Dallas, Graver A- Godfrey,
executive vice-president of the Dal
las Homa Builders Association,
•aid that only the lack of a suit-
able site stalls the construction of
between 1,500 to 3,000 new hemes
for Negro buyers.
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•nd a half room and five room
houses for P,975 on the owner's
lot, says the plan’s success lies
in the fact that the coat of mater-
ials is four times the labor cost
during initial construction. After
the buyer takes over, the cost of
materials ts only one half the usual
labor costa. That means the buyer
•pends ll.ooo to 11,500 for mstenals
to finish the house but saves $3,000
to (3,000 in labor costs.
Prefabricated bouses, popular in
the East and North, have not
caught on in Tesaa. An innovation
of the post-war period was the
Le tourneau "h o u a c laying ma
chine" developed at Longview. The
huge form, mounted on large
wheels, cast small concrete cot-
tages. Although widely used In Is-
rael, West Africa and South Amer-
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By HAYMOND HOLBROOK
Associated Frees Staff
Low cost bousing is being tackled
by Texas builders.
Since the war the heavy demand
for naw homes coating 57,000 and
above has kept the building indus-
try busy.
But the "cream" of the home
construction business has now been
fairly well skimmed off and many
contractors and developers are eye-
ing an untapped field—homes fur
the vast number of families able
to pay only $3,000 to >8,000. --
Because of mounting material
and labor costa, builders have
found that "conventional” construc-
tion w^n’t fill the bill for low-cost
housing.
To get the job done they are
having to evolve new designs, uti-
lize new materials end adopt naw
building techniques.
>?,000 on homes ranging from 730
to 800 aquare feet.
Five basic designs with identical
and interchangeable roof trusaes
•nd interior arrangements, plywood
shething and "baek to back” kitch-
en and bathroom plumbing have
cut conatruction costa on the Wichi-
ta Falls project.
At San Antonio, tha first of 22
San Angelo type homes, featured
•a "The Angelo”, are on sale et a
price of >3,750 including the lot
A local furniture dealer offered to
completely furnish a home for >785
additional.
At Beaumont one builder predict-
ed that several hundred of tha Sin
Angelo type houses would be built
and several oil companies In the
Houston area are planning to dup-
licate the plan for their workers
In trying to evolve more efficient
construction techniques, Texans are
showing a willingness to try slmost
anything.
A few years sgo sn Amarillo
builder had residents guessing
when they saw him calmly shingl-
ing a roof ha had built right on
the ground.
When his roof was finished and
painted, he jacked it up to where a
roof ought to ba and then built hi*
house under It. The unorthodox
method, he explained, saved time,
labor and money and provided an
all-weather cover for the rapid
completion of his house.
Since then a group of engineers
at the Institute of Inventive Re
search at San Antonio have gonr
the Amarilloan one better. They
have developed the Youta-SUck lift
slab method in which concrete
slabs for tha roof and second fluor
are poured on the ground, allowed
to set, and then lifted by hydbraulic
lifts set atop steel columns to their
proper position.
The resulting atructure looks like
two waffles held up by toothpick
supports. Walla of lightweight non-
bearing "curtain” type *“
placed wherever wanted c
floor*.
At Corpu* Chriati, where ths nsw
chamber of commerce building and
stores have been built by "lift
slab," thia method produced com-
pletely fireproof apartment units
or a record breaking low eost of
$6 3-5 a aquare foot—far below the
national Public Housing Authority
average.
While lift slab haa not yet been
used extensively for residences, ita
users say that it could be used
successfully on housing project* to
help cut costs
While new designs and new ma-
terials are being utilized, builders
of "conventional" type houses are
trying a new method to provide
lower coats.
While new designs and new ma-
terial* are. being utilised, builders
of "conventional" type houses are
trying a new method to provide
lower coat*. It’* the *emi-finished
house in which the buyer lay* his
own floors and doos the trim, paint-
ing and papering.
One Fort Worth concern, which
his sold a number of these four ,
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TEXAS BUILDERS ARE NOW TURNING TO f
HOMES COSTING ONLY $3,000 TO $6,000
fits,” Ellender said, "while the em-
ployers and Industry had to sit
tight on the price line. The result
has been that our economy is be-
coming completely out of balance
and It is impossible now to admin-
ister the aet fairly and efficiently."
The senator made sharp retort
to the President’s recent threat to
hold Congress in session until Now
Year’a unless it votes all the funds
he believes are necessary for na-
tional defense and security. He
snid the threat "comes with singu-
lar ill grace."
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The new designs are "functional”
with simplicity and economy the
keynote.
Flat roofs—perfectly adequate for
virtually snowless Texas—concrete
slab floors, carports instead of ga-
rages, cabinets and cloaeta that
serve as partitions and single walls
that need neither Interior nor ex-
terior finish are among design de-
velopments.
A wider use of new and inexpen-
sive materials—light weight ag-
gregate concrete blocks, plywood
panels, asphalt floor tiles, simpli-
fied windows and mineral composi-
tion soil pipes—are being utilised.
New construction techniques in-
clude modular designs that koep
lumber waste to a minimum, pre-
assembly of plumbing units, pre-
cutting of lumber and roofs that
are built on the ground.
The San Angelo house—a trim
masonry and wood home with a flat
roof to sell for approximately
$3,500—attracted wide attention
over the state a few months ago
But other Texas cities are also see-
ing new and substantial homes be-
ing built at prices low income fam-
ilies can afford to pay.
An Abilene developer has com-
pleted 49 of an eventual M houses
that are selling for $4,250, approxi-
mately $6 a square foot with a 50
foot lot thrown in.
The Abilene house*—similar to
those at San Angelo—have two solid
side walla of lightweight aggregate
concrete blocks. Casement windows
are placed in the frame and as-
bestos siding walls that form the
front and back. Each house 27 feet
by 25 feet 5 inches, has a combina-
tion kitchen-living-dining room,
bathroom and two bedrooms. The
floors are asphalt tile and a central
heating unit la aet in the wall.
A Houston developer has started
800 small ranch style homes uf C24
to 672 aquare feet selling for $5,325.
The bouses, which have two bed-
rooma, bath, kitchen and break-
fast nook, combined living-dining
room and carport, ia built with
cedar shakes and frame aiding and
has a composition roof.
At Wichits Falls. 367 of the 1,400
new living units now under con-
struction approach the low-coat
classification with a price tag of I
More Lawyers
Being Elected
To Congr ess
WASHINGTON UR — hjflre and
more lawyers are getting elected
to Congress.
On the other hand, the supply of
dentists and doctors In Congress re-
mains low but steady.
The statistics on the educational
background of congressmen were
Inserted in the Congressional Rec-
ord the other day by Rep. Magee
(D-Mo).
They are the result of a study
made by Dr. George S. Reuter Jr.,
a University of Missouri professor.
He got the facts on congressmen
for the years 1937 through 1951
from information supplied by the
congressmen themselves, in their
biqgrsphies in the Congressional
Directory.
The swing to lawyers for law-
makers shows up in both House
and Senate.
In 1937. 141 representatives said 1
they had law degrees. In 1951, the 1
number had gone up to 166 The
Senate showed a similar increase,
from 39 to 49
Physicians seem to be In no rush
to diagnose the ailments of the
world There were six doctor-rep
resentatives in 1939. and there
were six in 1951 The Senate his
gone downhill, medically speaking,
from one to none.
Fewer Congressmen are showing
up who never went to college. Or,
a' least, fewer are saying to in
their biographies. In 1937, 137 rep-
tesentatives gave no indication
that they ever had had college or
univeraity training. Ditto far 20
senators. Now 80 representatives
and only 13 senators make no re-
port of a college education
Anyone who studies the Congres-
sional Directory can’t help but no-
tice how often a congressman
proudly notes he still lives in the
town in which he was born
(Samnle1 Ren Stigler (D Okla),
born in Stigler, Okla., still lives in
Stigler, Okla.)
Reuter found the same trend in
education.
One-hundrad twenty-four repre-
sentatives and 39 senators report
they attended the state university
in the state from which they were
elected
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AUSTIN (in — Forty-two major
new firms opened in Texas in
March. That waa the moat to begin
busineaa in a single month ainee
August 1951, the Texas Employ-
ment Commission reported today.
Hie firms gave employment to
1.968 persons, the greatest new em-'
ployment figure since last August.
Six of the businesses hired 100
or more workers each, in wholesale
and retail trade, manufacturing
and construction.
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ics, the Tournalayer’s uae in Taxes
has been restricted to approximate-
ly 50 bouses in the Longview area.
Approaching tha low coat cate-
gory are 300 homes now being
built in Longview by the H. E.
and S. Construction Company. Sail-
ing for about >7,000 those homes
•re being built ef pre-cut lumber
•nd ‘production line" construction
methods.
While Corpus Chriati builders are
still busy with homes coating >7,000
•nd above, William E. Fry, praai
dent of the South Texas Home
Builders Association reports "there
•re soma of the builders who are
on the drafting boards now to see
if they can come up with a nice
home around >4,500.
Construction eosts have not
proved to be the only obstacle in
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