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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1949
Page
19
A national builder survey shows a conservative outlook with cost cuts of 5 to 15 percent, averaging about 6 percent. Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana builders report more starts, while others anticipate fewer. Most homes will be under 10000 dollars, commonly 7500 to 8200, with an expected 13 percent rise in new homes built vs last year.
English born twins Clare and Kenneth Gompertz, 19, traveled from Syracuse New York to Houston Texas by hitchhiking for the summer to be with their mother Edith Gompers. They slept in cars parked at 90 degree angles and endured a 50 mile ride with an Irish setter licking them constantly. They logged nineteen rides including a truckload of new cars, facing a shotgun in a car during one leg of the journey.
In Ostrava the Communist government fights manning gaps in coal mining, posting absentee notices in the square and offering free spa vacations to attract workers. Housing priorities target flats expelling undesirables, while veteran miner Karel Benedikt (76) is celebrated for his 42 years in pits and his ten sons in mining.
The 1949 Britannica Book of the Year projects the U S population may exceed 150 million after record immigration and births. It predicts 159,000,000 by 1955. It notes the country born from lands once owned by Spain France England Holland and Sweden.
The Belview offers a combined living dining area with three exposures front side and rear. A compact kitchen leads to a rear utility room near basement stairs. Front and rear entrances connect via a center hall with a coat closet and a 7 foot storage cabinet.
Homes adopt a low voltage remote control wiring system using weak 22 gauge circuits to operate relays in fixtures and outlets. A transformer powers doorbell like circuits making multi switch control feasible in low cost homes and reducing heavy cable costs and fire hazards.
A new plaster paint blends soybean oil and styrene with silica sand and pigments to form a thick textured coating. It can be applied to interiors or exteriors and acts as a single heavy coat replacement for plaster and multiple paint layers. It resists moisture and can be washed.
East West Farm’s Best notes farmers favor rural roots as a steady life. Fred E. Herndon of Macomb Illinois credits consolidated schools rural electrification and modern conveniences with giving farm people an edge over city folk. Walter L Randolph of Montgomery Alabama praises farm life’s quiet and natural charms. Fleury Miplet, who started Montreal’s first printing plant in 1778, was backed by Benjamin Franklin.
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