Building Trades
Hit Record
CHICAGO, (/P)— Homebuilding
during the last half of 1947 was
at the rate of a million units a
year, and the total year’s comple
tion was 834,000, the national as
sociation of home builders was
told today.
Frank W. Cortright, Washing
ton, executive secretary, in a re
port prepared for the annual con
vention, said this rate “broke all
home-building records.”
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There were 854,000 starts dur
ing the year, he said, “and with
the lifting of all government con
trols by June, the industry hit a
rate of 1,000,000 homes annually
—a reconversion rate unmatched
by any other industry.”
He added that “progress has
been made in meeting shortages.”
j President’s
i Face Is Red
With President Truman in the
Caribbean (/PI—President Truman
fighting a deep sunburn, relaxed
yesterday aboard his yacht, en
route to Cuba and thence to Flor
ida for a vacation.
He wound up a three-day good
will visit to Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands Mondav.
Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham,
his physician, woi'ked to relieve a
very red burn on the President’s
face, picked up while driving in
the sun around San Juan, St,
Thomas and St. Croix. On the last
trips Monday Mr. Truman kept
his Panama hat pulled down over
his forehead.
After a brief inspection of the
U. S. Naval base at Guantanamo,!
Cuba today, he will board his
LINDELL BAGLEYS WRITE
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FROM NORVIK
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Mr. and Mrs. Lindell Bagley
write from Norvik that they find
the village very attractive with its
spruce trees. They state that it is
less windy and less foggy there
than on the coast villages where
they have been (and also more
mosquitoes*.
Mr. Bagley was stationed here
while in service during the war
and Mrs. Bagley made many
friends while teaching school
here. They are now teaching in
the ANS school at Norvik.
An outstanding landmark at
Norvik is the saw mill, stated Mr.
Bagley, which is kept in use in
the otherwise quiet town.
plane, the Sacred Cow, for a trip
to the naval submarine base at
Key West, Fla.
He expects to spend nine days
in Florida combining work with
pleasure.
Will Try To Forget
Universal Training
DES MOINES, la. (/P) — Con
gress will try to shelve the uni
versal military training bill, says
James F. O’Neil, national Ameri
can Legion commander, “to avoid
alienating voters in the 1948 elec
tions.”
The Legion commander speak
ing before 700 Iowa Legion mem
bers Monday night at the 26th
Iowa department conference ban
quet, urged them to jo:n in imme
diate demands for action on the
bill.
O’Neil said the latest public j
opinion polls show Americans fa-1
vor UMT by “almost 3 to 1.” he
added: “Universal military train
ing would cost one and three
fourths billion dollars a year. Two
wars have cost a total of $538,000,
000,000. It is insurance against
kar at a low premium.”
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