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Show Delaware Towns Expand as U. S. Steel Constructs New Mill MORRISVILLE, Pa. Growing pains are bothering the small communities com-munities on the Delaware river between be-tween Yardley and Bristol a short distance from the $400,000,000 steel mill being constructed by United States Steel company. The most pressing needs are increased in-creased traffic facilities, enlarged local government services, expanded expand-ed school operations, hospital accommodations, ac-commodations, new business centers cen-ters and more public transportations. transporta-tions. Two major development corporations, corpora-tions, currently engaged in constructing con-structing self-contained towns for some 60,000 persons, are expected to keep pace with housing requirements, require-ments, barring a sudden influx of workers to the steel plant and allied al-lied industries in the area. One company will soon complete the first 1,100 home unit of Fairless Hills. The town is rising on 1,250 acres of rolling farm land at Oxford Valley, four miles west of the new steel plant. Ultimately it is to have from 3,500 to 4,000 prefabricated houses, plus more than a score of custom built dwellings. Another company is busy with the initial construction phase of "a complete city of 16,000 homes" on a 3,000 acre tract. Erection of the Fairless works, which began last March, has gone well. At present, some 6,800 construction con-struction workers are engaged in the project on the river front flat lands south of Morrisville. When completed next year, the plant will employ 6,000 persons and turn out 1,800,000 ingot tons of steel a year. The new community of Fairless Hills, when completed next year, will have at its hub a civic center, schools, modern shopping area, fire station, dispensary, parks, playground play-ground and swimming pool. In the same area, sites are being set aside for churches and the erection of a high school. The other modern Bucks county community will be known as Levit-town. |