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Show Has An 'Answer' For Housing Crisis By LEROY POPE UPI Business Writer CORNER ON COMMERCE Bank Aide Tower Hofei Warns Of Cost Hike Sets Opening - SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Interest rates may go even higher if Congress does not extend the income tax surcharge, a West Coast banker said Wednesday. "If the surtax isnt extend- Dr. Lev NEW YORK Zetlin is an engineer with some revolutionary but respected ideas on how the United States should solve its housing crisis. Tie believes, for instance, that we should build better of todays homes for 70 per about saving tests, cent on materials. If advanced technology were put to work at once. And theres the nib, accordone-tent- h ing to Dr. Zetlin, who heads up an engineering consulting firm In New York and the Center for Research and Innovation In Building at the University of Virginia. The future he envisions depends on massive government financing to bring about the needed technological revolution. To prove that his theories are practical and save money, Dr. Zetlin has cut $3.5 million from the projected cost of a tower e 1 v 1 c observation planned for Milwaukee. It involves his theory th't there is 70 per cent waste in the construction of tall buildings. Since much of the material is used to counteract drift, why Thursday, June 26, 1969 10B not, asks Dr. Zetlin, find other ways to fight drift, particularly since the building will be under severe drift strains only 1 per cent of me time? His design calls for the use of gyroscopes and electronic sensors that actuate piston type mechanical shock absorbs to keep the light building from drifting. "Present buildings weigh three to 10 times as much as the loads they are designed to carry," said Dr. Zetlin. "Thats like drinking tea from a lead mug. And why make one family homes permanent structures? Why not, he asks, build them out of lightweight modules and panels so they can be bolted together, then unbolted and loaded on a truck if the home-ownwants to move? "That er , definitely is going to have to be done if we are to solve the housing crisis," he said. that Dr. Zetlin contends architects and the construction industry are slaves to ideas 4,000 years old despite all recent scientific advances. To escape this mental slavery, he said the chain of command will have to be changed. He predicted that in the next century there will be no architects, construction engineers or contractors such as exist today. He sees the impetus to change coming from outside from the building industry its customers, the government, the aircraft manufacturers and other industries, whose engineers know a great deal more about kinetics and materials The LAS VEGAS (UPI) Landmark Tower, a space-needshared resort which has been a towering white for tight years, will be Howard opened July 1 by Hughes. The hotel, loacted off the conLas Vegis strip near the vention center, has never opened for business because deof financial problents that ownerseveral under veloped ships. Hughes bought the October for high tower last resort $17.3 million when the was in the midst of involuntary bankruptcy proceedings. was that Implied in the deal be satiswould creditors all fied and the bankruptcy dis le ele-pha- ed, monetary policy is going to have to carry more and more of the load (of controlWard C. ling inflation), Krebs, a senior vice president of the Wt Js Fargo Bank, told a news conference. 348-fo- "If that hapepens, it means higher interest rates, at least a strong possibility of it. But Krebs also said the recent increase in Interest rates to 8 per cent for prime borrowers probably will cool off the economy toward the if there is no end of 1969 tax cut. "If business slews down, and interest rates do discourage borrowing, as I think they will, we will have a slowing of inflation, he said. "I think there is already a lessening of inflationary psychology. There is less talk about capital investment although capital divestment is planned s o far ahead it is hard to shut it off. Personal income is still growing, but not at the rate it has been. si Sailboat Built In Utah Under sail on Great Salt Lake is Edo Western Corp.s fiberglass Sun Dancer now being manufactured in Salt Lake City. The company also n makes kayaks and is testing a new line of fiberglass canoes. The Sun Dancer is 13 feet, 9 inches long, 4 feet wide and has 75 square feet of dacron Bail. two-ma- Manager v Copy Seivlce has branch 148 E. 3rd South. The Nevada based firm Greg Warner as man- - duces s),ort-ru- n offset printing of their Salt Lake on a while you wait basis. 3 Minute pro-nam- ager missed But Hughes plans for th July 1 opening of his sixth Las Vegas gambling resort rar. into eleventh hour problems when a realty company filed a $500,000 claim against the previous owners. It charged that amount was owed it In a crni-!,- r for the sale to mission Hughes. nt)i Wednesday, U.S. Dlst Court Judge Peirson M. Hall di p misseu the claim, holding that it might jeopardize or destroy the right of creditors to get1' 'u1 payment. The landmark has two ca&,. nos one on the ground floor and a second on the 29th story. Its bubbletop dome is 31 stories above the ground. Li men formal graid opening today will mark the compleremodeltion of an extensive FabWay at Bay ing program ric Center, 1356 E. 33rd South, formerly Bay Way Draperies. The grand opening celebration at the center will extend to through July 3, according A F. M. Baj vice president The firm has expanded into a full line of dressmaking fab- - rics and will continue to mato-- 1 custom draperies and supply accessories and hardware, The remodeled facility h square feet of sales audM storage space. Ira M. Bay Jt l' board chairman with Irvin Mi 5,000 Skousen, and president, ' Al Freeland, second vice preSf-- 1 dent In charge of production. Choose Utahn BOISE, IDAHO - The tral Western Shippers ry Board elected tiO Copjl Adviso W. Cowles, Salt Lake City, as its new generHARK OF iXCEUEMCfl al at chairman conclusion the groups s e m a nnual nee ting at of Boise. The adviso- board pa ms na ids is ry one of 13 regional boards in the country more than Mr. Cowbeo, representing:: 2,000 persons Qnd In Utah, Ida Wyoming tfna mOT Nebraska. ings are held with the roads to discuss transportalV tion problems and other companies Colorado, Semi-annu- tual matters. Mr. Cowles is traffic man,-.-, Sugar Qo. ager for Previously the vice generiU chairman of the advisor-boarhe suceeds Mr. E.JT Utah-Idah- , o Weigel, vice president traffia for Nebraska Consolidated Co. at Omaha, Neb., as general chairman. r Air Routesxrir To Hawaii 3f6' nfi Youve heard that general rule: To get more you pay more. 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