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Show c i THE LEIII SUN, LEHI. UTAH Ingenuity Solves Housing Problem Cooperative Action Builds JL Homes for Yakima Vets By BAUKIIAGE S'ws Analyst and Commentator. WXU Service, 1618 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. (Edltor'i Note: This la the first of four articles describing- how vet erans In different parts of the coun try managed to put roofs over their heads. The first deals with Yaki ma, Wash.) WASHINGTON. There is one quality that is as thoroughly indig enous to America as potatoes, hot I dogs, baseball or apple pie. That is ingenuity. It often is alluded to as "Yankee Ingenuity," but it blossoms blos-soms frm the Florida Keys to Pu- get Sound and from the purview of I San Diego s farthest floating peli- tlre coarload was apportioned on the spot to the plact where It would do the most good. Within a short time, 80 homes were completed but 50 were not enough, so the mayor organized an emergency housing committee commit-tee with a retired Baptist min ister as chairman, veterans' or. touiisuon representatives, a lawyer, a labor chief and three persons from local savings and loan associations. The committee asked local builders build-ers and architects to design a house wnicn would meet FHA standards and still be sold for less than $5,000. A large order in Hies rfav nf hah uwuiiijuu iui ui prices, dui the committee turned up L 23 Baukhage St. John's river, Ingenuity Is something that achieves the Impossible. There has come to my at tention a number of stories on how certain communities communi-ties have solved, with their American Amer-ican ingenuity, that seemingly unsolvable housing hous-ing problem. I think some of the stories are worth repeating to you, and I'm beginning with Yakima, Wash., a town of 50,000 people which I . haven't visited for 15 years, but which I can visualize clearly, resting rest-ing contentedly in the heart of Yaki ma valley. That vicinity furnishes many things from apples to polo ponies, but like many other communities in America, it didn't until this spring furnish enough homes for veterans. veter-ans. . Formal dedication of a white, green-roofed, five-room house was the end of the first story I want to tell, a story with many a sequel. Last fall there were 160 houses standing unfinished In Yakima for lack of plaster. Many of the houses were unlivable, but with winter weather coming on and the housing shortage getting worse every day,, some people tried to move into their uncompleted homes. Yakima's mayor, M. K. Buck, knew that 200 low-cost homes (under $5,000) were needed for veterans as well as 1,000 higher-priced houses. He consulted contractors, plaster sub-contractors, the plasterers' union, veterans' organizations and press and radio; gave them the facts; asked their help. Sub-contractors agreed to move crews from commercial construc tion to the unfinished homes. They also agreed to transfer stocks of plaster being held for commercial building to veterans' housing. The plasterers' union agreed to work only on veterans' housing when plaster was available. Materials dealers agreed to sell rock lath and sheet rock for veterans' homes only. The plan went into high gear when a carload of plaster the first to reach Yakima in a year came in one October night, consigned to a local lumber company. When the company manager arrived early in the morning, he found a crowd of veterans waiting for him. The local commander, of the Disabled American Veterans checked the needs of each purchaser. The en- practical plan. Four local con- tractors were interested and con siruction got underway. The local government housing expediter helped by organizing a "swap shop" where builders could find out who had some extra hardwood flooring. piaster or plumbing fixtures. The Yakima contractor who com pleted the first of these new low cost houses says he couldn't have built the house for the price if he hadn't had plenty of cooperation from ev erybody in the buildine industrv. He saved money by using straight wans instead of offsets, and he sim ptifled the cabinet work. But the most important thing was the co- ODeration he Pnt frnm ho tint saw that he had the right men at IKIVS KKVIKW uie ngni time to ao tne jobs when they needed to be done. The con tractor paid union wages to his workmen, bought his materials from I J I II ' 'I IN I i I ,1,11), i I I ' ' A. , "VW!. ;'t ft Lr- J' " t s IN THESE UNITED STATES Famed Azalea Gardens Recall Beauty and Quiet of Old South WNU Features. NORFOLK, VA. It's spring again and Norfolk's azalea gardens ure in bloom. Eighty acre of floral and woodland beauty bid the visitor to old Virginia welcome to a beauty spot which many lovers of nature claim is unrivaled any wnere. Within a few minutes' drive of the business section of Vir cinia's hustline seariort citv and actually within sound of gianl airliners taking off from Norfolk's airport, the azalea gardens are a step to yesterday to the beauty ana quiet oi me uia south where nature stages a page To discourage mildew floors and' woodwnri, wJrU with a damp cloth dipDed ? and a little kerosenfPed 10 H . f ,1 BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ... The grave of an "unknown brown and white doggie, victim of an intoxicated Christmas driver," is tended by neighborhood children. It is located at a busy intersection intersec-tion in Santa Monica, Calif. Curious motorists stop to read the inscription; then drive away carefully. A ti-amilsBTIIlto nil' iji'il Anti-Strate Bill Drafted; Railroad Crashes Probed , Ex-Sergeant Colgan finds K.P. duty in his new house a pleasure. Ex-WAC wife Mildred says the kitchen Is everything a kitchen should be cross-ventilation and plenty of built-in cupboards. regular dealers, made a fair profit for himself and was still able to sell the house for $4,750. The veteran who moved Into the first , house was Walter Colgan, a iormer army sergeant, and his wife. Mildred, who served in the WAC. They're very proud of their new five-room, five-room, two-bedroom product of American Ingenuity and coopera tion. (Next week, Des Moines, Iowa) Freshman Senators Make Mark "I've never seen anything like it" my friend was muttering, "never In my 12 years on Capitol Hill." My friend explained, "I mean the freshmen senators in this 'class.' The class of '47. I've never seen such activity among any group of baby senators before the way these boys have pitched in to build major legislation; the way they handle han-dle themselves on the floor, presenting present-ing their points so effectively, and so on" It used to be the custom that freshman senators were seen and not heard. They were supposed to sit around for a year or maybe even two years, absorbing procedure and protocol, speaking when they were spoken to. But not the "Class of 47." I My friend explained this unusual activity among the newcomers as due to two reasons. One: There are so many newcomers new-comers 16 on the Republican side alone. This means Republicans had to put newcomers on subcommittees. subcommit-tees. Subcommittees are small-three small-three men, usually and traditionally, tradition-ally, the chairman of the subcommittee subcom-mittee handles the legislation in question on the floor. Thus this According to my informant, there are very few "accidents" in this senate. One or two at the most, and even inose, ne says, aren't too bad. He feels optimistic about the trend; thinks it's a good thing for the country. Most of the new "boys" are young several of them in their early or middle forties. They've come straight from the people, and maybe they are closer to the people. peo-ple. New house of representatives members, he says, can be trained to party teamwork under the type of strong leadership provided by Speaker Speak-er Joe Martin, but the senate freshmen fresh-men of '47 will never be led or influenced in-fluenced out of their Independence of action. "Watch them." my friend predicts. "This class is going to be a notable one In the history of the senate." LABOR BILL: Plenty of 'Teeth A strike-control bill that would rigorously restrict labor unions in many ways has been approved by the house Republican steering committee. com-mittee. Its most drastic provision, perhaps, is a clause authorizing the federal government to obtain Injunctions In-junctions for a 75-day period in industries in-dustries which affect public health or safety. This apparently would cover the telephone and other communication com-munication industries, coal mining, electric light and power companies, railroads and possibly several other fields. The bill was prepared under direction di-rection of Chairman Hartley (Rep., N. J.) of the house labor committee. He told newsmen he hoped that the bill would pass the house within a week. It probably faces a struggle in the senate, observers believe. The injunction feature is designed to give the government a stronger weapon against strikes imperiling public safety and welfare. The attorney-general would be empow ered to seek a restraining order in federal courts which would require a 75-day "cooling off" period. Other provisions would outlaw in dustry-wide bargaining and ban the closed shop. Unions would be required re-quired to keep dues low and to elect officials regularly by secret ballot. Communist - dominated unions would lose the recognition of the National Labor Relations board. Unfair labor practices would be in vestigated and prosecuted by a new agency the Office of Administration Administra-tion of the National Labor Relations Act. RAIL ACCIDENTS: ' Daily Occurrence Derailment of the Santa Fe's Su per Chief in northern New Mexico, wnn injuries to 25 passengers but no fatalities, rounded out a week of rail road accidents reminiscent of the early days of railroading. The Super Chief, one of the na tion's most famous streamlined lux ury trains, left the track near Raton. N. M., while traveling at high SDeed. The three-unit diesel locomntiv broke loose and came to rest with Its nose on the trestle of a dry river bed. The train was eastbound from Los Angeles. Other accidents within a week: April S, Burlington's Twin Citv Zephyr derailed in Downers Grove, 111.; three killed. 35 iniured. April 4, engine of Rock Island Rocket derailed near Llnwood. Kas engineer injured. AprU 5, Milwaukee road switch engine fell off bridge near Ottumwa. Iowa; crew narrowly escaped drowning in swollen Des Moines river. April 6, Union Pacific's City of Portland collided with a freight near Granger, Wyo.; 11 injured. April 7, Pennsylvania's Gotham Limited Jumped track outside Co lumbia City, Ind.; 40 injured. April 8, Pennsylvania's Manhattan Limited derailed; passengers shak en up. FRANCE: Trouble in Colonies i " Kioting and revolts in i various parts of the French empire have prompted the French cabinet to strengthen the army. To this end President Auriol has called up conscripts con-scripts of the 1947 class on May 15, several months early. An uprising in Algeria has brought promises of reforms. Interior In-terior Minister Depreux has gone to the North Africa country to make swift changes to pacify the rebellious rebel-lious Kabyle tribes and to quiet general gen-eral unrest. War Minister Paul Coste-Floret has demanded additional troop reinforcements re-inforcements to cope with trouble spots In Indo-China, Madagascar, Algeria, Morocco and several African Afri-can protectorates. F ' ant that man can only admire but cannot hope to reproduce. - More than 50,000 azalea bushes, planted so as to give continuous blooming from about April 1 to about June 1, are the principal attraction at the gardens but they are only a part of the beauties there. Tall trees and quiet lakes and flowers other than azaleas combine to form a silent symphony of nature at her best. Song birds in profusion add their voices to the scene. The azalea gardens, a part of Nor folk's park system, are located along the shores of Norfolk's lakes which form a perfect water mirror for the flowers. The area has been landscaped with paths and foot bridges to make all sections of the gardens available to visitors. The gardens began their spring blooms in March when camellias, Japanese quince and forsythla pre ceded an avalanche of naturalized daffodils and bluebells. In April five varieties of Indian azaleas and six varieties of Kurume azaleas bloom under a canopy of native dogwood, redbuds, shadbush and other plants. Riot of Color. May sees azaleas macrantha and hexe at their best with accompany ing plants being mountain laurel, columbines and Louisiana wild iris. In June the flowers grow near the water's edge. The colors of the rho dodendron catawbiensies and the flame azalea compete with those of the Japanese iris close by the shores Wild flowers bloom in profusion in July. Included in . the wild flowers In the azalea gardens are the beautiful beau-tiful cardinal flowers which present a contrast to the rhododendron max imum, Lovers of the crape myrtle, which Is Norfolk's adopted flower, will find that plant at its best in August when its blooms appear in bold masses in many parts of the gardens. In the falL thousands of berry shrubs, Including four varieties of hollies, nandinas and pyracantha, supplement the autumnal tints of the woodland. The gardens as they exist today are a result of the dreams of Frederic Fred-eric Huette, director of the Norfolk bureau of parks and forestry, and Thomas P. Thompson, former city manager. Admission to the gardens is free, AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER At Corvallis, Ore., a justice court acquitted John R. Cattron, pilot, of chasing geese in an airplane. State game enforcement officials charged that Cattron apparently was trying to fly wing formation with a flock of geese near the Corvallis airport Construction is underway on a new airport at Maquoketa, Iowa Plans call for two runways, one of which will be 2,000 feet in length, and a 30 by 80 foot hangar. . . . Airplanes are playing a significant role in development of a pheasant hatchery operated at Greenwood, DeL, by E. D. Brasure Jr. Brasure utilizes air express to ship his turkey tur-key poults to Michigan, Louisiana, Texas and other states. Brasure, who has shipped several thousand pheasants by air, reports that not a single one has been lost in transit. Although shipping of baby chicks, poults and hatching eggs by air has become almost commonplace in recent years, it is seldom that poultry feed moves through the wild blue yonder." That is what happened in the vicinity of Nashua, N. H., however, when an acute feed shortage impended. A shipment of feed by air was credited with saving sav-ing a number of valuable breeding flocks. The Iowa Flying Farmers or ganization is really soaring in membership at least. The group, wnicn will note the first anniver sary of its founding in June, al ready has exceeded the 500 mark in membership. The total, according to Howard Hill, president, presi-dent, exceeds that of any other three states In which Fl'yfesr armers are organized. As one of Its major projects, the Iowa gruup issues a monthly magazine maga-zine to keep members posted on opportunities for rural farmers. . ", .' FAMILY PROBLEM The flying Hicks familv of Tal. laaega, Ala., doesn't have the usual one-car family trouble. That is After washing roll them in a towel and the moisture, p" ; 0! when damp, to avoid stretof" garment beyond its s 2 Clothes closet sheiv.- . smart when painted one oT v wuiwi iuii aiong the edge sC I ample, a gray shelf with, ft ' color edge. w a H , To glue in the proner , I wood surfaces must KomnH dry.freeofmooa,0 When you clean the refriPo, , use a solution of baking 3 at water. Put one teaspi to a auart of I01 counteracts food odors anAS1 -a--uvui oweei, . Pltice a shoe-box cover in J bottom of your nanpr Z2 ? Ul cut' ae. Th . iri. foundation to stand "R n . vuunror poor ana prevents liquids hi trickling out of tippine Simple means of win,v-. dow shade roller ia tn ,:.! flattpnprf en) J l , . . -"v iii a neynoie so tW both hands will be left free to 3 the roller and turn it ,mi ufl tiJiiCU ugntness, CLASSIFIED DEPART MEN ute fid ls tne I F ailr ass Deli ties :ie, an cite; km in e! i ( rsri t since 1917 any ; i MISCELLANEOUS BOLL Developed Overnight Serric 2 High Gloss Prints each negative. At eizes. 25c. Re-Drints. 3c each. i FOX STUDIOS - - Blilinns, Miatam p re One pvei r!let ui m lijast SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. ONION Plants Crystal War. 5wwt un, ow postpaid Si. union Beea, Si it). Cal bage. Broccoli Dlanta. 100 for SI Tomji pianis atier May i. write for plant cataioi liBKe neu i-iani f arms. Overton. Nevau and when the azaleas are at their !1Umlnfted because the father. City best as many as 13,000 persons have wu""",S5Iner James L. Hicks, owns visited them in one dav. an automobile agency. The Hicks' Army Bows Out. arguments Instead concern use of The azalea gardens have been rec- , . anuly planes- There are two ognized by the army as having pri- ""Tumm to the family, but Hicks, onty over the pressing needs of war emergency. In 1942 the army staked out a construction project in the area WANTED TO BUT WT5 RUT ANn RFTT. Office Furniture. Files, Typewriters, Am uig macnines, sates, casn Kegiswrs. SALT LAKE DFSK EXCHANGE 623 South State St.. Salt Lake City, M three sons and one daughter all I nave ineir fliers' licenses. BIG EGG . . . This speckled Brahma hen, owned by Mrs. Evans Mealing of Glen Cove, L. I., N. T., is the new champ of egg layers. She laid a 14-ounce egg, seven and a half inches In circumference, cir-cumference, which Is shown beside be-side one of ordinary size. RELIEF IN SIGHT Building Costs To Level Off NEW YORK.-Construction costs have reached a peak after soaring ' tA fill-timA MrrfM. 1 . vear-i freshmpn ha h,A ... . . '"6"a UU1U,K ulc V' Hi-H .".""T ! war Perlod. 1 "vealed in a sur- Two: He points out that this year's crop of newcomers are unusually capable men. Under Roosevelt's large majorities, he said, "accidents" "acci-dents" were apt to be swept into the senate men who were put up by the party with no real confidence that they would be elected but they rode in on the tail of Roosevelt's popularity. vey covering 268 general contrac tors. Fifty-three per cent of the contractors contrac-tors queried in the poll, which was made by F. W. Dodge corporation, expressed belief that building costs have reached their highest peak, and a majority felt that costs will stabilize below present levels. It was pointed out that, with exception ex-ception of lumber, cement, struc tural steel and cast iron soil pipe and fittings, prices for roost building materials have tended to remain steady since the start of the year. Only in the Pacific states was opinion opin-ion general that further gains of from 11 to 12 per cent would be witnessed wit-nessed in 1947. According to the survey, labor inefficiency in-efficiency caused by an irregular flow of materials, construction delays de-lays imposed by an inadequate supply sup-ply of skilled workers, and an excessive ex-cessive expenditure of time in shopping shop-ping for and obtaining materials are major contributing factors of today's high construction costs. Of the reporting contractors, 43 per cent said the average wage of some building craftsmen in their areas of operation had increased sine? the first of the year, and 78 per cent said that they expected increases in-creases later in the season. In the aggregate, the general contractors con-tractors reported that 34.6 per cent of their present work, by dollar volume, vol-ume, is being done on a lump-sum basis, while the rest is being handled han-dled on cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts. and planned a series of buildines which would encroach on the actu al garden properties. City of ficials, garden clubs and other organizations or-ganizations rallied to the defense of the gardens and the army, despite the pressure of war in 1942. chanced its plans and erected its buildings eisewnere. At that time Huette voiced the feelings of nature lovers the world over when he said: "Not all the government's billions bil-lions can replace a 50-year-old oak, a 25-year-oI4 pine or a 20-year-old gum." The azalea gardens are but a small part of the attractions of the iMonoik area lor the tourist The lakes on which they are located are a veritable fisherman's paradise and while fishing is not permitted in the gardens themselves, it is permitted close by. Numerous Attractions. Within 20 minutes' driving time are Virginia Beach in one direction and Ocean View in the other. In the general Tidewater area are such points of interest as the Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown historical section, naval establishments at Norfolk and Portsmouth, the waters of Hampton Roads and the scenic grandeur of the Great Dismal Swamp. Not far away also are the rugged Outer Banks of the North waruiuia coasi. As another lure to visitors. Nor. folk points to its food, which is uni- versauy acclaimed as a delight to me visitor ana homefolk alik whether it be saltwater delicacies from the deep or the famed Smith-field Smith-field ham and Virginia fried chicken, chick-en, ably supported by candied vam black-eyed peas, turnip greens and peanut soup. A new type of drunken driver drunken airplane pilots got KBisiauve attention in Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin. A bill was introduced in the "tate assembly providing for fines of $10 to $100 for the first onenso and $100 to $500 and six months' Imprisonment for a sec- vua onense by drunken or reck less puots. WHITE GRASS Scientists have been urged to de- y a snow wmte grass. The sug-gestion sug-gestion was made by some plane-piloting plane-piloting Illinois farmers. If they can't 6. wuiie grass, they'll settle for grass of some other color that would Wl ,7 K ways on rural land- UGIUS, Buy and Hold Your U. S. Savings Bonds Gas on Stomach Relieved in 5 minutes or double four rwmT n VhM mMmmm .hmuh mMA MM nfiinfftl. Klff,": Ing . aoar stomach and hartbarn, doctori imairj prescribe the fastest-acting medicines w;"l symptomatic relief medicines use '""ri.Y jiffy or 'double yoor money tack on return f W to us. 25c at all druggists. Firemen Get Lost, Miss Two Blazes FRANKLIN, IND. Chalk ,m . double error for the Franklin fire department after firemen lost their way to one fire ' and completely missed another. Summoned to the rural J. B. Hicks residence, firemen iuu uie wrong road. When they finally arrived at the Kicks home neighbors had extinguished the blaze.- Meanwhile, a dairy barn in town was gutted by flame -J : r' & J 7 change to CALOX for the ionic eed on your smile Efficient Col"' -nrh two !i KV.VO TO 1 X'r tfcl n UK1 First of 1J Aircraft uwvonvair-240 commercial com-mercial transports will be deliv. Vea m The new plane s America', first 300-mph! 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