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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD. DUCHESNE, UTAH Cooperative Action Inlets Homes Some Cities Talk Housing; Memphis Actually Builds By BAUKIIAGE WNU Service. JS16 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. the fourth of a series how American ingenuity is helping to soli e one of Americas biggest problems-thG.l. housing shortage .) (This is describing cuts his own timber, hauls it to his own sawmill for sawing, drying and cutting, then hauls it direct to his own building sites in size and amount wanted. So much waste is Gay Morning On Practical Aft A BUDDY Poppy Sale To Provide Funds For Children of Soldier Dead WNU Features. Like every American girl and boy, the children of our country's soldier dead are entitled to a normal home atmosphere and a happy childhood. To assure them of that American birthright, Veterans of Foreign Wars maintain the V. F. W. National home in Eaton Rapids, Mich., for widows and orphans of From this home every spring a little girl, daughter of a deceased goes to Washington to present to the 'i I fek News Analyst and Commentator. EE jfef. r President the first Buddy Poppy. $ This presentation is preliminary to . opening of the general sale of Bud-dy Poppies, which is conducted annually by the V.F.W. throughout the nation during the week preceding Memorial Day. A national goal of 21 million poppies has been set "AVIATIOV NOTES for the 1947 sale. AIRPORT CHATTER Made by Veterans. Frank Hartman, Denver real esBuddy Poppies, made by tate agent and a commercial pilot abled ex servicemen patients in government hospitals as a phase of with 15 years of flying experience, their occupational therapy work, combings his flying and selling are distinguished by a green label skills to advantage. He recently closed a large ranch sale In a copyrighted by V.F.W. single day after showing the propFrench poppies, made by to a customer from the air. erty women and children of areas The ranch buyers said they learned devastated In World War I, more about the property from the were used by the V.F.W. when air in a half hour than they could it inaugurated the Buddy Poppy learned during a week riding have sale in 1922. The present plan . . . After horseback. was developed in 1924 to extend the Pacific ocean for 26,074 miles on the relief afforded by the popa survey flight to Singapore and the pies to men disabled and needy Royal Netherlands East Indies in a but still capable of making the DC-- 4 big Skymaster plane, Mrs. flowers. Mamie B. Nelson, 67, is convinced V.F.W. was the first veterans or-- she is just as batty about air ganization to undertake the poppy travel as my son. Her son, with tale on a nationwide scale. whom she made the flight. Is Orvis Entire proceeds of the sale are Nelson, president of Transocean Air used for welfare and relief activi- Lines and vice president in charge ties among veterans and their of international operations for Philpendents, including an allotment to ippine Air Lines. . . . Fred Richol-son- , the V.F.W. National home. farmer near Davis Junction, 111., finds it convenient to allow Houses 250 Children. The site of the home, now cover- Roger Lace, local air enthusiast, to use part of his pasture for a landing ing 640 acres, was the gift of Corey J. Spencer and his wife, Mattie field. The arrangement works out to Ebb Spencer, in 1925. The home their mutual advantage, Richolson finds, since Lace frequently makes trips to nearby cities for badly-neede-d farm equipment. , , . Cranberry bogs In Massachusetts are being dusted and sprayed with a helicopter, purchased by National Cranberry association for use of its members. Airplane dusting, used for the first time last year, is being continued on larger bogs but the helicopter supplements Its work on small and inaccessible bogs. eliminated that the leftover lumber from a whole house can be hauled away in one wheelbarrow. WASHINGTON. Thirty-fiv- e hun THEY SOLY'E HOUSING PROBLEM . . . Confronted with a housing When brick couldnt be had in the new dred homes started in one year problem. Dee Ainsworth and Mrs. Marion MacOnnell of Los Angeles is a pretty good record for any fair Memphis area, Johnson still manpurchased a wartime LCVP (landing craft, personnel) for 5700 and consized community especially when aged. He got brick on a swap basis verted it Into this trim boat with living accommodations. They will , the year is obtaining critical materials and and the city, sail to Central America ports aboard their floating home. concern Memphis, Tenn., had never started labor for a more than 2,400 units a year before. which used the items thus supplied Some two thousand of last years to make brick for Johnson projects. starts were completed in 1946. If he couldnt find the mateNow in the spring of 1947 while rials he needed around Memsome communities still talk about phis, he went where he could and wish for housing, Memphis is buy them. He has sent emgoing right ahead finishing up the ployees by air all the way to the rest of the 1946 starts and underwest coast to pick up windows more. taking and doors, even paying retail The answer to this old southern prices for them when he had to. citys success In housing lies partly But Johnson couldnt do as well in the cooperative attitude of as he does nor keep his costs to vet- - TORNADOES: city officials who erans so low without cooperation of Path Dpstrnrtinn Just Like the Movies the community. In Memphis the are very conJust like in the movies, Film tornadoes cut a wide Devastating city repays builders of approved scious of the vet-Actor Errol Flynn was the hero of swath through midwestern and eastr a n s housing subdivisions for their expense in in- ern a real-lif- e rescue of Tom U Andrea, wide states, a leaving path utilities. The Memphis light, and stalling another actor, who was thrown problem, destruction in their wake. and water gas to which individdivision, is partly from his horse. The actors were ual builders who publicly owned, has gone so far as Striking in a thickly populated galloping in the Battle of Gettysto area rural of south "! permit utility connections even have been will Fairmont, N. C., burg with the Union payroll when g a twister killed at least to make when no meters were available. DAndreas horse stumbled in a ing one person, left an estimated 300 gopher hole and threw him. Flynn price sacrifices, Thus, quite a number of houses grabbed him from under the flying work long hours were finished and families were homeless and caused severe dam hooves. To provide a typical movie housed, without having to wait for age to tobacco crops. and do whatever hard-to-gending, neither was injured. the meters. was necessary to The death toll from a tornado As a result of this which leveled overcdme the communities Screen husbands and wives must cooperation f Johnson last fall had completed 55 Bright Water and Garfield in northaSes sleep in twin beds one foot apart houses which went to west Arkansas was placed at nine in films shown for the British pubTake Wallace E. Johnson for Memphis vets for $5,250. Other The business section of Bright Wa lic, British censors ruled. That, they a builder who started in prices are comparably low, $6,000 ter, population 100, was explain, discourages cuddling. Be-virtually cause censors spotted a scene in December, 1939, to construct one to $7,000, and even in the lowest destroyed. house and who now has to his credit brackets Johnson tries for in which "My Awfsd Wife Most destructive of the twisters good deFranchot Tone and Lucille Ball several thousand. sign. He switches roof lines or the was one which tore through small snooze in twin beds pushed togethHe is devoting all his energy and set of a house on a lot, and utilizes towns in Missouri and Iowa, causing er, the scene must be Cost, ingenuity to housing veterans these other means to avoid the sameness 13 casualties in the small town of $30,000. It takes energy and ingenuity generally characteristic of rows of Worth, Mo. More days. than 50 others too, but this man who, during the houses in developments. Incidenwere injured and property damage war, was completing a house for a tally he recently was awarded a was estimated in the thousands of freight, derailing its engine and war worker every two and a half prize by National Home Builders tender. The dollars. same tornado lashed on hours has what it takes. The collision occurred at Boyer association for Meritorious House across Into Iowa, striking at Clio, For example, last September Design in 1947. where extensive property damage Ridge, near Huntingdon, not far when lumber couldnt be bought for The tenants appreciate this. Not resulted but no loss of life was re- from sites of the previous Red love or money, Johnson bought land Arrow and Sunshine Special train long ago one couple, the first tenported. with standing merchantable timber ants in a new wrecks, both of which also were in subdivision, gave a Narrowly averting the heavily the and a sawmill camp near Potts n hours. There were no complaints Sunday night supper for all of Johnof populated city Dallas, Tex., a Camp, Miss., close to Memphis sons workers the received or arrests made for inshipping clerks, tornado smashed briefly to earth on PALESTINE: This purchase made possible a toxicated flying in Pennsylvania timekeepers, the general manager, the citys eastern outskirts, then triple play which has paid off in the truck drivers and all the people 1946. That evidence of during bounced Issue and skyward Explosive disappeared. of time and savings money Johnson who helped build the house. the lack of tipsy fliers is taken In its wake, two persons were dead The explosive Palestine question from the Pennsylvania Aeroand four were injured. Two other was marked by the usual wrangling nautics commissions annual reTexas- - twisters caused less damage. and confusion in action before the on aeronautical violations. port steering committee of the United MINES: Nations general assembly. AVERAGE PILOT The Another Tragedy steering committee The average airline pilot and corejected requests from the Arab Disaster struck again in the in the United States is 32 years pilot BUDDIES AID THEM . . . Funds coal mines, an under- countries for the assembly to debate derived old and has been piloting planes at this session the question of canfrom the annual Buddy ground explosion in the Small 4,859 hours. This is a part of the celing the British mandate over t Poppy sale will aid children and Spring Hill mine near Tore Haute, Palestine picture of the average airline pilot of widows and at freedom for the the Holy Ind., snuffing out the lives of eight as produced by a Civil Aeronautics V.F.W. National hW.e in Eaton miners. Three others survived the Land. administration study looking toDr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, Rapids, Mich. Two of the children blast. ward possible reduction of the huare shown here life in man enjoying The 11 miners were repairing and assembly president, failed to effect the element in air accidents. nursery. a compromise beThe program for redetermination improving the ventilating system of fore the the mine to prepare it for federal of physical standards for airmen t consists of about 22 family-siz- e ........ cotcommittee meetiwill inspection. Closed since the general take into consideration the two no tages, exactly alike in arching. safety shutdown of April 1, the mine tecture and furnishings. There also physiological effects of extended ocThe Arabs denied is had failed to pass the first federal a $35,000 hospital constructed by cupation as an airline pilot and the that their proposal inspection. the V.F.W. auxiliary in 1931. possibilities of increasing air safety called for immedi-- a The disaster was the fourth serithrough use of pilot selection methCommunity cooperation aids home builders of Memphis, Tenn., in Approximately 250 children, sons ods t e independ ous mine accident of the year. Maother than those of proficiency completing badly needed housing projects. These homes are typiand of or daughters deceased totalfor Palestine. They cal of the low-co-st determination. jor catastrophe was the Centralia. projects completed by Wallace E. Johnson. disabled war ly insisted they mereveterans, are living 111., explosion of March 25. which The average pilot and ly wanted a full at the home. They receive the benetook a toll of 111 lives. Ten miners 165 weighs fits of an ideal home discussion of the environment, inches tall. pounds and is 5 feet, 10 were killed April 10 in a gas exploThere were fewer than problem and recog- food, clothing and education. In resion at Exeter. Pa., and 15 lost nition by the assembly of the prin- turn, the V.F.W. hopes only that three chances in 100 that he wore their lives January 15 at Plymouth. glasses, only 2.7 per cent requiring these children will grow up to beciple of ultimate independence. With some friends I sat Pa. a lens correction. How much better would we looking come useful and citizens. patriotic through a window on Lafayette The group average for solo be, I insisted, with our surreys ALEMAN : Children are flying, divided into family Square just as the leaves reached WRECKS: with the fringe on top Instead 4,859 hours, included of all each flying groups, a cotgroup the point where they screened Anoccupying Cordial Welcome of our automobiles and our kinds and lin aircraft of any Third tage descripa for supervised house mothdrew Jackson, sitting on a horse by Pennsy trees instead of parking First Mexican chief executive er who keeps strict watch over tion. DunYg 1946 this group averspace? which somebody described as havIn the eerie hours, the ever to make a state visit to WashA their welfare. Wherever possible, aged 63 hours a month, 37 during survey made by the highway third wreck on the ing two feet firmly planted (like a Pennsylvania Pres. ington, of director Aleman the house mother is actually the daylight hours and 26 at night. CAA was Miguel the District of Columradical) in the air. Soon the foliage railroad s middle Pennsylvania diallows an airline given a cordial reception on his trip mother of one or more of the II. C. Whitehurst, shows bia. pilot to fly 1,000 W'lll come down like a in vision that three months killed four to the nations hood, coverhours a year, an average of about 52,000 vehicles capitaL skirt the the skeleton branches which ing circle persons and injured 34, eight seri83 hours a month. As the personal guest of President now are still showing through the every day, not counting buses and ously. Honor Navy Dead trolley cars. It is estimated that in green Each year, as The American, New York to St. Truman, the visiting dignitary parof its poppy ticipated in a full schedule of events program and the part Trees were on our minds for we less than 10 years 68,000 cars a day Louis flyer, jolted into rods of Memorial Day obwill be nosing by. That is the reason sheet arranged in his honor by the state, servance, the V.F.W. had just walked down Connecticut steel protruding from the sides of war places a giant for the underpass. and navy departments and wreath fashioned two gondola avenue, which for several blocks is cars of a moving Mexican entirely of popThe two circles embassy officials. being deforested so that a tunnel already operated freight train, the impact ripping a ples at the Tomb of the Unknown In speeches before the can be drilled underneath Dupont upon were Thomas Circle, an eight-poiSoldier In Washington and at the tremendous hole in the side of union and congress. President intersection, and Scot Circle, fourth car of the American the Circle Washington Is famous for its crypt of Woodrow Wilson, World and Aleman Since then the accident urged Western trees but of late years the automodamaging the mail car and republics to assure theHemisphere War I president, in the National bile ha- - caused the destruction of rate has dropped 75 per cent, the another coach.engine, independcathedral. Thousands of similar No cars were de- ence of each nation through the solimany of the finest. Widening of commission reports. railed. smaller poppy wreaths are placed darity of all. It is going to cost $3,800,000 to streets sometimes necessitates reat the graves of our hero dead A moment later another The Mexican chief executive utifreight moval of trees. Frequently ancient operate on Dupont Circle and the train throughout the country by V.F.W. ripped into the sheet steel pro- lized the visit to oaks, elms or ginkgos are cut down trees. begin preliminary posts. from the other side of the discussions truding and replaced with saplings American loan. Another highlight of the organizaUnderpasses to take care of the , tion s program is the presentation traffic have burrowed under two of of a huge anchor of poppies to the oui circles already and now my secretary of the navy. He, in turn, circle Dupont (I live only three presents the wreath to the Peary blocks fiom it), is tp experience a Ship post of the V.F.W., an AIRMAILER . . This is similar operation. It will never be the unit, for appropriate services on Airmailer, new helicopter the same. Of course, Dupont Circle Memorial Day. At that time the model designed and produced is not quite the same as it was when by anchor is cast into the ocean as a Bell Aircraft I first saw it three decades ago corporation specificWASHINGTON. to tribute the men Prices of the navy and of farm has been under ally for service on r.ew helicopter when It was the center of the social way for many the bureau reported that products declined about 1 per cent months. airmail routes to be prices of marine corps who have lost their and diplomatic section. proposed by nearly every group of products lives at sea. during the month ended April 15 the post office department. The index for these prices in I was bemoaning this "official after bought averaged somewhat higher reaching record levels in was 230 per cent of the 1909-1than the final figures for March vandalism" which robs these spots according to the monthly average 15, OWNER DIRECTORY compared with 227 in of their charm, as we looked out summary based on quarterly reports from Cat Disgraces Himself compiled by the bureau 128 and 1935-3An official for the averover the five varieties of elms in of agricultural economics. more than 16,000 merchants directory of registered age. And aircraft the park before us. One of our owners in each of the 48 Police Chief The index of prices received the Owner Leading decline general in This by advance in the index for meat animal states has been group, a naturalist, identified the farmers in completed by Air was 276 per Prices prices, hog prices reBEAUMONT. TEX. Of all paid pushed farm Review Publishing elms as American. English, Scotch. cent of the 1909 14 average comparity ceived by farmers fell $2.10 a of cats in town, the one prices slightly belonging to Dallas, Tex., under corporation Dutch and Smoothlenf, not to menin the month to an avercontractor to pared with a mid March index of are theoretical higher. Parity prices Police Chief Artie Pollock had to Civil standards used the tion Aeronautics administration horsechestnuts, maples, 280 and with 107 for the 1935-3by age of $24 30. Butterfat prices fell the disgrace himself (and he chief) by For the first government in determining 5 cents to 69.5 beech, dogwood, a beautiful deodar, average. time, an a pound and cents to a levels at local hotel which it will support going and getting listing of each owner alphabetical an ash. which he reminded us was prices milk prices were lower because drunk. Prices paid by farmers for proby states is of farm Learning that scraps of food provided, products. the mystic tree of Yggdrasil, its duction materials and cost of seasonal supplanting the governproduction of from hotel the Increased living his provided three ments former method of crown in the heavens and its roots items, prices paid by farmers Wheat prices including interest and taxes, occurred listing square meals a day, the cat decided in the nether world primarily in feed, clothing lower and rye was off 34 j continued by license number. The direc-tor- y an upward trend which and cents a to inspect the place. His trip, howbudding materials, although busl el. also includes the owners adever, was interrupted when some and complete information dress, rascal gave him a bottle of beer. about his plane. e ,re$ brick-makin- g NEWS REVIEW T ornadoes WreakHavoc; Blast Kills Eight Miners criss-crossin- g ' high-ridin- short-Baukha- le re-sh- pre-daw- ever-dangero- crucial srJ co-pil- Underpass Dooms Old Trees J OMEinwillthesebe lots ,r,. Farm Product Prices Decline mid-Apr- Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept , San Francisco 6, CaLf Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. Box 3X7 No Name- il 4 mid-Apr- h - il - Address- - CLASSIFY DE P A R T M EN BUSINESS & INVEST. Ern day With a portable OPPQI ;iaci rst popcorn Write torn bags, bee Comp.ete mach. $135. Pc. Also popcorn, seasoning, Blevins Popcorn Co., Nashville, SEEDS, PLANTS, t Ir ETC. TOMATO, CABBAGE, Broccoli Kants postpaid $1, 1500 collect $5 25. Onionpl Sweet Spanish, Crystal Wax, 500 pcs $1, 6000 collect $7 50. 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