Show T Town Wil Solves H Housing I AUDUBON IOWA Armed Armed only with an idea some ingenuity and a alot alot lot ot of hard work this town of 2409 persons' persons solved its teacher feacher housing problem by construction of two modern modem modern mod mod- ern em duplexes and duplexes and it didn't t take ke a abond abond abond bond issue to do It The duplexes which cost about house four teachers and their heir families At the fairyland rental of 30 per month per family the he houses will have paid for themselves themselves them them- selves in 15 years i 1 This was the situation last summer summer sum sum- mer as explained by Supt ellen Allen N. N Stroh Audubon had 10 men on its school faculty acuity of ot 32 Nine were married and had families Of the nine Stroh had rented a home and two others courageously had bought homes That left six families including that hat of Don Stark the high schOol ir industrial arts instructor and father of ot a 3 new baby faced with the t typicaL typical cal eat situation in small communities landlords considering them a term short-term proposition no no laws in-laws to move in with and no hotels to live in 1 while watching the want ads Stroh learned of ot surplus buildings for for sale at Clarinda Iowa by War Assets administration The buildings were barra barracks formerly occupied by Japanese and German prisoners of ot war He sounded out the school board on buying them The board decided not only to buy them but to tear them down haul the lumber to Audubon and build the homes from rom scratch Lots were bought in the residential Ual district and Stark engineered the filling of a hole on the site with more than 2000 yards of dirt The project was finished in record tim time The teachers did their own interior in tenor decorating ting |