The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1947 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CARROLLTON CHRONICLE,
Albuquerque Venture Is Successful
iVet Cooperative Provides
Homes at Reasonable Cost
By BAUKHAGE
Sett s Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W.t
Washington, D. C.
(This is the fifth of a series describing
bow American ingenuity is helping to
solve one of America's biggest problems—
the G.l.’s No, l headache—the housing
shortage.)
WASHINGTON.-As congress pre-
pares for the home stretch, some
veterans’ organizations are promis-
ing that lifting the rent and con-
struction controls will start such a
rash of construction that everybody’s
housing problem will be solved. Oth-
ers say that would be the knell to any
kind of a veterans' housing pro-
gram.
Rep. Jesse Wolcott of Michigap,
who wrote the bill modifying restric-
tions passed by
the house, told
me he believed
that the veterans
wanted not pri-
o r i t i e s, but
houses. His bill,
he thinks, will
make the latter
possible. Oppo-
nents claim the
opposite — that
two and a half
billion dollars
worth of building
applications for
Baukhage higher priced
construction has
been built up as a backlog. With re-
strictions off, opponents say chances
for cheap house-building will go with
the wind. At this writing, the sen-
ate has not yet said its say.
Meanwhile, some veterans are
getting houses on their own.
Drawing for Hornet
Climaxes Project
For example, a few weeks ago in
Albuquerque, N. M., a man put his
hand into a hat and pulled out a
house. It happened on a bright sun-
ny Sunday, when the New Mexico
Housing Cooperative association
held a drawing for the first house
completed under its new building
program.
There were 58 members of the
Rousing association who had a
chance to move into that first house
—the 58 people who were paid-up
members. They gathered on the
sandy lot Where the house stands.
There were more than 200 persons,
counting sweethearts, wives, kids
and friends, attending the drawing.
The lot is on Arvada avenue in
northeast Albuquerque. You can
see the desert from there and the
purple mountains rising in the
distance. The house is a single-
Story bungalow of Spanish style with
a low-pitched roof like so many of
the homes you see in the Southwest.
It is made of concrete block, cov-
ered with white stucco.
The drawing was a gala affair.
The people, dressed in their
Sunday best, perched on the
piles of lumber or sat on the
hoods of automobiles to watch
the association’s president, M.
E. Holly, place the 58 slips of
paper In his hat. Assistant City
Manager Arthur Staton drew the
first name — Duward E. Lee.
There were whistles and shouts
of congratulation. By coincidence,
it happened that Lee had been the
first man to put up his money to buy
stock when the association was or-
ganized. Real poetic justice that he
should get the first house.
The drawing continued. All 57
remaining numbers were drawn.
The name drawn second was to get
the second house completed, to the
third name drawn went the third
house, and so on.
Soon each association member
would have a house similar to the
Lee’s—a comfortable five-room bun-
galow with hardwood floors, steel
casement windows and an attached
garage. Lee said he couldn’t possible
have bought the place if it hadn’t
been for the co-op. It cost him
$6,350, complete with lot.
The New Mexico Housing Cooper-
ative association developed from the
idea of Veteran Paul Robinson, a tall
rawboned engineering graduate of
Remember York?
L. L. Coryell of Lincoln, Neb,,
couldn’t believe a two-bedroom
bungalow could be provided for
veterans for only $5,250. To him
goes a copy of the third story in
this series—how they did it in
York, Pa.
the Colorado School of Mines. When
Robinson returned from a several-
year tour of duty with the navy, he
couldn’t find a home in Albuquer-
que.
Finally he bought a lot, designed
and personally supervised construc-
tion of a two-bedroom house. When
he had finished, he found he had
spent $4,300 (making allowance
for a salary for himself) for a house
that compared favorably with what
was costing other Albuqerque vet-
erans about $7,000 in the open mar-
ket.
Robinson thought a veterans’ co-
operative through which men could
build houses for themselves might
solve the problem for other veter-
ans. He took this idea to Max Kas-
lo, who operates the local veterans’
referral center. Robinson also
talked to Virgil Judy, local housing
1 expediter.
The idea clicked. Interested vet-
erans got together; drew up a con-
stitution and by-laws; filed papers
of incorporation.
Community Aids
Vet Enterprise
As word got around, the Albuquer-
que community pitched in to help.
A local architect donated his serv-
ices on the first house and pledged
to provide blueprints, floor plans,
et cetera at special rates for subse-
quent houses.
A ^ concrete block manufacturer
furnished the blocks for one dwell-
ing; a landscaping firm offered to do
the landscaping without charge; an
awning company contributed the
awnings.
Other business firms wished
the association well; promised
to sell it materials at reduced
prices. But the contributions
and reduced prices don’t apply
to any single house. They are to
be prorated among all houses,
so that each association member
will benefit from the savings.
So far the association has the sec-
ond and third houses almost com-
pleted; the fourth about half-fin-
ished.
Membership has swelled to 75,
and because the association feels
that a new house in Albuquerque
means a vacant house for rent or
sale eventually, the membership
isn’t limited to just veterans.
Association operations are flexible.
A person may become a member by
buying one share of stock for $100.
(This is credited toward his house.)
He may buy more than one share of
stock if he wishes, although he is not
permitted more than one vote.
Each member buys his own lot
and has the privilege of selecting
the design of his own house. How-
ever, the house cannot be any big-
ger than 1,200 square feet (around
average size), and construction must
meet FHA standards and building
code requirements. Members can
have the co-op build for them, or
they may merely purchase the ma-
terials through the organization.
All labor is paid for, but members
can reduce the cost of their houses
by working on their own or other
houses under construction. If a
plumber who is working full time on
other jobs spends Saturdays doing
plumbing work on one of the cooper-
ative houses, he will be given credit
at the standard plumbers’ pay for the
hours he works. Quite a few mem-
bers have done this, but most of them
are men with office jobs, anxious to
pitch in and get the houses built.
When they work on the project, they
are assigned as laborers and receive
credit at laborers’ pay. There are a
few unaccustomed blisters and cal-
louses, but they enjoy the novelty,
and houses are going up fast.
‘FLYBOYS’ OF THE FUTURE . . . These Philadelphia youngsters
listen avidly as Victor J. Fritz, Philadelphia youth leader and head of
the model aircraft meet for the world air show, tells about the minia-
tures. These youngsters are too young to participate in the model
plane competition, however, participation being limited to boys of
16 or over.
NEWS REVIEW
Farm Land Prices Soar;
Portal Claims Outlawed
M. E. Holly, president of the
Albuquerque, N. M., Housing Co-
operative association, reads the
name of the lucky veteran who
will occupy the first house con-
structed by the organization.
PORTALS CLOSED:
Back Claims Denied
* Almost six billion dollars in back
Tclaims for portal-to-portal pay was
erased from the books when Presi-
dent Truman put his signature on
congressional legislation designed to
relieve employers, as well as the
government, from such claims—now
and in the future.
Although he opposed the wishes
of organized labor and overrode an
appeal for a veto by Secretary of
Labor Schwellenbach, the President
emphasized that he was certain that
it was not the intent of congress to
nullify past gains made by labor.
Explaining his reasons for sign-
ing the bill, he said, ‘‘Businessmen
will be able to plan with assurance
for full production and price reduc-
tions. This will be of real value to
labor and management in a con-
tinued high level of employment.”
At the same time he repeated his
plea to business for lower prices
and requested congress to take im-
mediate steps to increase the statu-
tory minimum wage from 40 to at
least 65 cents an hour.
TOO MUCH SMOKE:
Can’t See Stars
The nation’s capital city is getting
just too smoky, dusty and crowded
for the U. S. naval observatory,
which is getting ready to move to 9*
more sylvan neighborhood.
Because big cities radiate heat,
which is bad for delicate astronomi-
cal instruments, the new location
for the world-famous observatory
must be no nearer than 25 miles to
any metropolitan area. Officials
estimate that it will take about
eight years to find a site, put up the
necessary buildings and install
equipment.
In addition to providing the na-
tion with the world’s most accurate
time checks, the observatory warns
the radio industry of sun spot activ-
ity, puts out almanacs, supplies
data on tides, phases of the moon
and sunsets and sunrises, and fig-
ures out calendars,
FLU STOPPER:
New Mold Tested
A possible cure for influenza'.may
be forthcoming from a newljtf dis-
covered green and black soil mold,
according to an announcement by
the Society of American Bacteriolo-
gists.
So far, although there are pre-
ventive vaccines for flu, no specific
cure has been developed. Not yet
tested on humans, the mold is said
to have shown a curative effect on
chicken embryos and mice with in-
fluenza.
There is one hitch, however. The
mold-bearing earth, according to the
two scientists who made the dis-
covery, was one of numerous sam-
ples which came to them from all
over the world. Just where that
particular bit of dirt came from
they do not know.
Dentists Are in Pain, Too
Pity the poor dentist when he sneaks
in behind your teeth with that savage
little drill and tries to unseat the top
of your skull.
Chances are his feet hurt. And his
hack aches. And his legs are weary.
That, at least, is the contention of
Northwestern university school of den-
tistry, which is starting to teach its stu-
dent dentists to work sitting down—
on a specially constructed stool.
A standing dentist is of no more ad-
vantage to the patient than a sitting
dentist, the school asserts. If dentists
can be brought to a sitting position,
the university believes, their profes-
sional lives will be extended by five
years.
FARM LAND:
Prices Go Up
Continuing the steady trend up-
ward begun early in the war, farm
real estate prices are nearing a lev-
el double the average for the 1935-
39 period, a survey by the U. S.
bureau of agricultural economics
shows.
During the year ending March 1,
farm real estate prices rose 12 per
cent for the country as a whole.
That figure is compared with a 13
per cent rise for the corresponding
period in 1946, 11 per cent in 1945
and 15 per cent in 1944. Fifty-six
per cent of the recorded sales in
the past year were for all cash, it
was revealed in the survey.
OUTMODED DEFENSE:
Rockets Far Ahead
Ever-improving rocket weapons
already have rendered obsolete the
best anti-aircraft guns of the army
and navy, Paul W. Martin, an ord-
nance expert, has asserted.
The big strides made in develop-
ment of rapid - firing automatic,
radar-directed guns have been far
outstripped by atomic energy and
guided missiles, he said.
Three important features of a
good defense were cited: A long-
range detection system; a defensive
rocket to intercept the enemy mis-
sive, aqd destruction of the enemy
missile (at a safe distance.
Record Slaughter
A new record for slaughtering of
cattle and calves was set during
April in all federally - inspected
plants in the country. Hog killings
were lower, however, reports the
department of agriculture.
Cattle killed reached the all-time
high during April of 1,203,137 head,
compared with 714,860 for the same
month a year ago. Calves slaugh-
tered numbered 678,440, compared
with 445,049 in April, 1946.
Hogs killed dropped from 3,857,-
972 to 3,615,746, and sheep declined
froni 1,735,882 last April to 1,326,589
this year, lowest since 1939, the de-
partment reports.
EVIDENCE OF LETUP
Income and Output Hit Peak
WASHINGTON. — Although both
the national income and the national
turn-out of services and finished
goods rose to record peaks during
the first three months of the year,
there is evidence the boom is slack-
ening, it is pointed out in a com-
merce department report.
Since the income and production
are measured in terms of money,
higher prices and higher wages
were in part responsible for the
showing.
The "gross national product,” de-
fined as "total output of final goods
and services in the economy at mar-
ket prices," was advanced to an
annual rate of $209,000,000,000.
This, said the department, ap-
proximated the peak recorded in the
second quarter of 1945 when huge
quantities of war material were be-
ing produced.
Also, it topped the fourth quarter
of 1946 by $4,300,000,000, principally
because of increased consumer
spending, but nevertheless repre-
sented “the smallest quarterly gain
since the bottom of the reconversion
decline was reached in the first quar-
ter of 1946.”
National income reached a record
total in the first quarter of this year
at the annual rate of $180,500,000,000,
an increase of $3,000,000,000 over the
fourth quarter of 1946, the depart-
ment said.
Income payments to individuals
rose by $3,500,000,000 to an annual
rate of $177,000,000,000. Wages and
salaries accounted for the largest
part of the gain, $2,600,000,000 at
an annual rate.
Relief and social security pay-
ments and veterans’ allotments also
were up by $600,000,000, reversing
their downtrend through 1946. Divi-
dends, interest and net rents of land-
lord! were down $500,000,000, Net
income of business owner-operators
was up $200,000,000.
I
SMART AS A FOX
Farm Youth Snares 135 Foxes
To Win Championship Laurels
WNU features.
! ITHACA, N. Y.—Old-timers among the ranks of trappers
i may well take a cue from Huck Spaulding, 18, of South Westerlo,
Albany County. Despite his age, Spaulding has snared 135 foxes
i during the past, winter to rank as champion fox trapper of New
i York for 1946.
Second place was taken by Robert H. Hark, 18, of Dalton,
with 51 foxes, and third by George Rathbun, also of Dalton,
with 28. Both are 4-H club members. Hark also received first
prize for the best prepared pelt. 1
’ Winners receive cash awards and
pedals in the contest for farm youth
•sponsored by the State Farm bureau
I federation and the American Agri-
jculturist, farm magazine.
Purpose of the contest Is not
Just to kill wild game but to
teach farm boys and girls how
| to control surplus wildlife in
areas where damage is being
1 done to poultry and livestock.
’ Another aim is to encourage
practices among rural youth
' that recognize wildlife as a farm
crop which may add Income to
the farm business.
D. B. Fales, assistant state 4-H
:club leader, reports that an estimat-
ed 2,300 foxes were taken in the
state by the youthful trappers dur-
i ing the contest year.
Second and third places for the
best-prepared pelt were won by
Edward Bartlett of rural Lockport
and Francis Simpson of rural Port
Jervis.
This, the second year of the con-
test, far surpassed last year’s when
CHAMPION TRAPPER
1 Outfoxes Foxes
an estimated 1,500 foxes were
caught, Fales reports. All three
state winners also trapped more than
the previous high winner, who ac-
icounted for 21 animals.
. Spaulding, Hark and Rathbun will
be guests at special activities on the
Cornell Campus.
AVIATION NOTES
School Constructs
Houses To Assure
Getting Teachers
CRAWFORDSVILLE, ARK.-
• Plagued by a shortage of school
teachers resulting from a lack of
; housing accommodations, Crawfords-
■• ville’s school board finally solved
the problem—by building a seven-
family apartment.
The board received several “no
housing-no job” responses to its of-
fers of employment; other teachers
• resigned because they couldn’t find
a place to live. If housing was the
'trouble, board members decided,
then they would build houses.
Now, the seven-family apartment,
.conveniently located across the
; street from the school, his been
opened for inspection of teachers.
iThe apartments are new and mod-
ern and, best of all, rentals are
las low as $25 a month.
The new apartment is a school
board job from start to finish. When
contractors refused to handle the
project except on a cost-plus basis,
the board hired its own building su-
pervisor, carpenters, bricklayers,
masons and. other laborers. The
,board bought all materials through
the school. The finished building
;cost about $50,000, which board
^members figure is a saving of about
$8,000 to $10,000 over a contractor’s
.cost.
The school board rejected bar-
racks and boarding-house type build-
ings "because congeniality .does not
seem to exist where a large group
of adults is forced to live together.”
Money for the project came part-
ly from the revolving loan fund of
the Arkansas department of educa-
tion, partly from the school board
cash. Even with low rentals, the
board figures the building will pay
for itself in 20 to 25 years.
AIRPORT CHATTER
When the temperature dropped to
26 degrees, J. J. McDonald, Cash-
mere, Wash., apple grower, called
in a pilot and his dusting plane toi
"blow the frost away” from the or-
chard. The pilot flew just over the
treetops for several hours until the
sun rose. The propeller, stirring
the air, sent the temperature Up to
30 to 31 degrees. . . . Dedication of
the new Iowa Falls, Iowa, municipal
airport and an air show are sched-
uled for May 30. A flight breakfast
at 7 a. m. will open the day’s ac-
tivities, which are expected to at-
tract pilots from all parts of the state.
. . . J. J. Schecter, rancher near
Alamosa, Colo., utilized a plane to
sow a section of land. Crested wheat
grass, clover and brome grass were
sown from a plane flown by Norman
Kramer. . . . With recent acquisi-
tion of a $16,000 war surplus link
trainer, Augustana college at Sioux
Falls, S. D„ is planning to offer a
two-semester course in civil aero-
nautics. . . . Five Holstein heifers,
all "expectant mothers” and valued
at $11,000, have been shipped to Uru-
guay breeders. They were sent
from Seattle to Milwaukee by train
and from there by plane. Breeders
in Uruguay bought the cows with
the stipulation that they arrive be-
fore giving birth to their calves.
* • •
Dodge City, Kas„ fabled cattle
town of the early days and site
of Boot Hill cemetery, stressed
modernity at its recent 75th an-
niversary celebration. An air
show, featuring everything from
stunt flying to dummy bombing,
provided a modern touch to the
colorful old - time celebration.
Pilots from Colorado, Oklahoma
and Kansas gathered for the
event.
• • •
STANDARD RISKS
Of 100 life insurance companies
surveyed by Institute of Life Insur-
ance for current practices in con- I
nection with aviation risk, two-thirds
accept as standard risks without
limitations applicants who contem-
plate air travel on U. S. scheduled
transports in the western hemi-
sphere.
• • •
M. Harding James of Bing-
hamton, N. Y„ likes to fly—but
he also believes in keeping a
promise to his wife. When he
flew from Binghamton to Toron-
to, he kept one foot on the earth
all the way. The earth was in
a small box.
• • •
BETTER TRAVELERS
Babies are better air travelers
than grown-ups, according to Pan
American World Airways steward-
esses.
Babies, they claim, seldom get air-
sick or restless. They sleep peace-
fully or play near their seats. Stocks
of baby foods and a baby kit with
comic books, rattles and games keep
them busy. Some toddlers even
have crossed the Atlantic unaccom-
panied.
Difficulties do arise occasionally,
the stewardesses admit. On a re-
cent trip “emergencies” exceeded
the emergency supply of diapers.
One small traveler debarked wear-
ing the plane’s fanciest dish towel*
Application on Towel
Indicates ‘Clean Job’
CLINTON, IOWA.—To assure of-
ficials that he intends to do ”a clean
job” if appointed. Ralph M. Prim-
mer, Clinton contractor, filed his ap.
plication for appointment as coun-
ty supervisor on a paper towel. Prim-
mer is an applicant for a vacancy
in the supervisorial post which will
occur m June. His application, filed
with the county auditor Was writ-
ten in pencil.
MASS PRODUCTION . . . Dra-
matic new aviation asaembly line
methods, patterned after the De-
troit type which once before
changed the nation's form of
transportation, have resulted in
peak production at the Stinson
division of Consolidated Vultee
Aircraft corporation in Wayne,
Mich. A new production record
of 316 multi-purpose personal air-
planes, like the craft shown above,
was set during April.
• • •
SMAILL AIRPORT GAINS
Progress in design and manufac-
tUr j relied upon to reduce
production costs, improve perform-
ance and decrease noise of small
aircraft, it was brought out at the
national personal aircraft meeting of
the Society of Automotive Engineers
m Wichita, Kas. To reduce costs,
Beech Aircraft representatives rec-
ommended that costs be considered
during the design stage and that
manufacture of planes be coordi-
nated by engineering and production
departments.
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