Californian Sees
Eight Million
Trailers On Road
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LOS ANGELES—Sterling Glea
son, public relations director for
the Civilian Production Adminis
tration in southern California,
says he is conservative in predict
ing that 20 million Americans will
be “living in trailer homes” soon.
Gleason’s picture of postwar
war motor touring puts a trailer
behind every four autos. It cre
ates for the trailer industry, he
says, the task of building eight
million rolling homes.
The boom will be a little while
getting under way, Gleason con
cedes, “because even Detroit
turned out only four million autos
annually before the war, and ma
terial shortages are still a very
real factor.”
Gleason, who spent several
years traveling in a trailer before
the war, bases his predictions on
research conducted toward a mas
ter’s degree. Mass production, he
says, will bring trailer prices so
low that almost any American
family can afford one. “Trailers
were selling as cheap as $300 be
fore the war,” Gleason says, “and
manufacturers were a long way
from assembly-line methods.”
Some southern California fac
tories are turning out trailers at a
rate of one every six hours.
Gleason says the war punc
tured a trailer boom prematurely
but predicts another is already in
the making. “The manufacturers
here, in Indiana, and in other
parts of the country can’t begin!
to meet the demand,” he says.
“It won’t be long before you’ll
see the biggest mass movement of
tourists in history, and at least 20
million of them—probably more—
will be dragging their trailers be
hind them.”
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Desert Mission
Monument To
Cents Sense
By RALPH DIGHTON
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GANADO, Ariz. — Some great
men make business their religion.
Dr. Clarence Grant Salsbury has
reversed the process, putting his
keen business mind to work for
his religion.
As superintendent of the 200
acre, 50-building Presbyterian
mission here on the desert 56 miles
from the nearest railroad, Dr.
Salsbury seems almost out of
place.. He ought to be, say his
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FRISKY, Dr. Salsbury's pet
terrier plays and sings for his
master.
friends, a bank president or a cap
tain of industry.
Tall, broad and friendly as a St.
Bernard, Dr. Salsbury has all the
typical attributes of at least a
vice-president in charge of public
relations. Instead, he is a mission
ary and a surgeon.
He might have gone further in
some other field. He doesn’t deny
it. But, he says “this is my work.”
His work, since his assignment
to Ganado Mission in 1927, has
been the building of an institution
inventoried at nearly $1,000,000
and which could not be duplicated
for $3,000,000.
There is an explanation for this,
but it does not lie in increased
costs of construction. It lies in the
way Dr. Salsbury approaches a
financial problem. He never whee
dles. He works with finesse.
Ganado Mission's 150-bed, excel
lently equipped hospital is a result
of his policy of encouraging influ
ential visitors. One of these visit
ors was so impressed with the
area's need and Dr. Salsbury's
ability to administer to it that the
mission received a gift of $50,000
from the Sage Foundation legacy
of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage,
widow of Russell Sage.
One of Dr. Salsbury’s pet proj
ects is the nurses’ school. An ex
tensive library was required, but
there were no funds available.
“I was about to scratch my head
bald,” he says, “when a nurse,
Irene Moran, donated $100 to start
the library, with the hope that
others who could would chip in as
the years went by.”
But Dr. Salsbury did not wait
for the years to roll by. He wrote
the various publishers of medical
books. He told them of the gift
and said he would like to use it to
build shelves for the books he was
sure they would donate.
Today the nurses’ school has a
library valued at more than
$2,000.
Food storage is a critical prob
lem here during the hot. desert
summer. To meet the needs of the
hospital's increasing personnel and
patients. Dr. Salsbury began plan
ning for a huge deep-freexe unit.
A bazaar was selected as the me
dium of collecting funds.
On the night it was held, 1,200
traders and Navajos came from as
far as 100 miles away. Net pro
ceeds from the sixhour party were
$4,100, and the deep-freeze build
ing is under construction.
Like any other good business
man, Dr. Salsbury has the knack
not only of getting money but of
stretching it.
The mission was allotted $15,000
to build a new church. With the
aid of donated labor, a 300-seat
building was completed in 1941 at
a cost within the original allot-1
ment. It recently w’as appraised,
says Dr. Salsbury, at $40,000.
Parents Shun School
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SANTA FE, N. M.—(#*)—Clos- <
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Boys has been announced by Di- i
rector Fermor Spencer Church,
who said one reason was associa
tion of the name with the Los Ala
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site was taken over by the War
.Department for atomic research.
WORKER— This pretty
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when her photo was snapped on
a Moscow street that ”1 hope
my cousin in Toledo sees my
picture.”
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—(JP)
Sadie, supposedly plan e - w i s e
blonde cocker spaniel mascot at
the Jefferson Airport here, got a
chilling rebuff from a B-25 the
other day as the plane prepared
to take off. Sadie trotted behind
the plane just as the pilot revved
his engines. She was rolled 25
feet down the turf runway, then
stood with her feet braced, her
ears flying and her nose wrinkled
up in puzzlement.
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