Show building plans spur inquiries I 1 don t know how interested you readers have been in my reports of what american ingenuity in differ ent communities has done to make br ck and other building material for veterans homes without the straw of readily available maten materi als and labor which we seem to lack in this otherwise rich and pros berous land of ours but I 1 can tell you that a lot of people who thought they could go and do likewise were heard from yakima wash whose achieve ment was the first described in this column has had requests for anfor mation from 41 cities and 18 states nearby communities have sent peo pie 0 yakima to get first firsthand hand in coir 01 r atlon in person delegations hav come to yakima from kar kare e seattle waua walla walla ephrata ephrath pa co prosser ellensburg ellensberg Ellens burg and br merton in washington and from portland and pendleton in oregon the rhe salem plan under which the c ty is subsidizing the conversion cf extra space into new apartments I 1 as drawn comment from a num her ber of other massachusetts towns gloucester already has copied part of the plan and inquiries have come in from five other cities in the bay state and from state offices of am vets and american legion the veterans operative cooperative co which has been so successful in building moderate cost housing in albuquerque N 51 has been busy answering questions too requests have come from houston and amarillo tex from syracuse N Y chicopee mass las cruces N M great falls mont erie pa berkeley calif oklahoma city and eNe elsewhere where the success of rochester N Y in providing living space has brought in an impressive list of queries from other communities which haven t yet solved their hous ing problems chambers of corn merce in bristol tenn and far rell pa and in half a dozen new york and massachusetts towns have inquired twenty nine banks in 14 states and one in canada have writ ten in tor for details housing corn com in ann arbor mich and san antonio tex have asked for the story as have a dozen other committees in cities nearer to rochester the stories I 1 printed were only a few of the many communities which had the will that finds the way I 1 wis wish I 1 could print them all |