| Show " r\ r r7 \ / \ 7\ 7 7Building \ Building P Plans Pan an Spur Incruiries Inquiries Interested you youreaders youreaders readers have been in my reports ot othat ofwhat \\hat hat \ American Amencan ingenuity in d ffer fferent fferent ent communities commurutles has done to make makebr makebr br ck ( and other building bulIdmg material materialfor materialfor for veterans homes ) without the thestraw thestraw straw ( of read readily y available maten matenals matenals als and labor ) which we seem to lack lackm tolack in m this tlus otherwise rich and pros prosperous prosperous perous land of ot ours But I can tell tellyou tellyou thoughtthey you that a lot of ot people who thought they could go and do likewise 1lkewise were heard wereheard fromYakima from fromYakima achievemei acluevemel Yakima Wash whose aclueve mel thiscolumn t was the first described descnbed in this column mformat mtormat has had requests tor for mtor mat on from 41 cities and li 18 states Neaby statesNearby statesNeaby [ communities commumtles have sent peo pie peoPie o 0 Yaklma Yakima to get first hand In forr totorr Inforr atlon in person . . Delegations Delegationshav hav come to Yakima from trom Spa Spokar Spakar kar e Seattle WaUa Walla Walla Ephrata 1'a 1a ' EphrataPa Ephrata1'a co Prosser EUensburg Ellensburg and Br andBr merton in Washington Washmgton and from Pc fromPortland fromPc rtland and Pendleton in Oregon Oregonme Oregonfhe me fhe Salem Saiem plan under which the thec thecty c ty is subsidizing the conversion conversiorc conversiond d ( extra space into new apartments I apartmentst apartmentsI as drawn comment from anum a numher anumber ber of ot other Massachusetts towns Gloucester townsGloucester already has copied part partof parof of the plan and Inquiries have come comeIn corn.in cornin . In from five other cities In the Ba'state Bastate Bay Baysta ' sta Ie and from state offices of ot Am Amvets Anivets vets VFW and American LegionThe Legion LegionThe The veterans co-operatlve co operatlve cooperatlvewhich co-operativewhich co operativewhich - - which has been so successful In Inbu Inbu bu Idinff IdlDg moderate co cost t housing housingIn In Albuquerque N M 1\1 1 \ has bas been beenbu beenbusy bu y answering questions qucstlons too tooReque tooKeque&ts tooKequets Reque & t have come from nous- nous nouston nous-ton nous ton - - ton and Amarillo Tex from fromS fromSiracuse S ) racuse N Y ChicopeeBIass Chico pee pee1I1ass 1I1ass Las Cruces N 111 111Grut MGreat Grut Falls Mont 1II0nt Erie Crle Pa PaBerkeley PaBerkeley Berkeley Calif Cahf Oklahoma City City"etroit CityPetroit "etroit etroit " and elscwl elsewl ere The success of Rochester N Y Yin YIn in providing provldmg living llvmg space bas brought hasbrought basbrought in m an impressive list ofqueries of ofqueries queries from other communities communitieswhich communitieswhich which haven t yet solved communitiesI their hous housIng housing I Ing problems Chambers of ot com commerce cornmerce merce in Bristol Tenn and Far Farrell Farrell rell Pa and in half halt a dozen New FarI I York NewYork and Massachusetts towns have haveI I inqwred haveInquired haveinqwred Twenty nine banks in 14 14states 14states states and one in Canada have writ written ten in tor for details Housing com comrnlttees cornmittees rnlttees in Ann Arbor Mich Mlch and San andSan Antonio Tex have asked Ithe torthe for I otheri the story as have a dozen other othercommittees i commIttees in cities nearer to Rochester toRochester toRochesterThe The stories I printed were only a tew afew atew of ot the many commun ties hes which whichhad had the will that finds the way I wayI wish I could print them all |
