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RANDOLPH COUNTY
THURSDAY
THE5 DAILY COURIER
December 16,1937
RANDOLPH’S OLDEST
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You Can Build Home For
$6,000; Uncle Sam Helps
The government's housing
• program has aroused national
interest in the average man’s
Mine-building prospects. This
series of three articles, start
ing today, tells the average
man how he can make the
most of those prospects—
without getting his fingers
burned.
First In A Series
By Sigrid Arne
».P> Feature Service Writer
Washington—From coast to
coast it’s possible for the family
that can beg, borrow, or draw from
the bank $6,000, to build a whopping
good six-room house.
\ou don’t need $6,000 in cash at
the start. If you have 20 per cent
($1,200) for a down payment, you
can borrow the rest under the Fed
eral Housing Administration’s in
surance plan. And, now, that down
payment may be reduced to 10 per
cent.
In his message to congress, the
President asked for changes in the
housing law to reduce fees paid to
FHA for insuring mortgages. That.
would mean a saving of $15 a year
on a $6,000 house.
If the bars go down, and the av
erage man can build a $6,000 house,
what can he get for his money ?
He can have a one or two-story
house with three bedrooms, a
home considered adequate for a
fam;ly with two children. It will
have gas, electricity and at least
one bath.
It will vary in different sections
of the country. Labor costs are
higher in some sections. Contrac
tors’ prices vary. Houses in the
south don’t need central heating
and basements. Some people can
get along without a garage.
Moreover, personal preferences
have to be considered. The man
who’s too lazy to shovel his own
coal is glad to put extra money
into an automatic heater, but he
has to pinch elsewhere in the
house. Some people insist on
porches, and they cost money.
Rut the $6,000 home seems ade
quate for the average family of
fou!1. Federal housing authority
architects point out that three bed
, room* will provide a room for the
1 children, regarded as a necessity
when they include boys and girls.
Building conditions vary so
I greatly that there is no universal
pattern for a $0,000 house. But
FHA shows what can be done by
taking from its files reports on
houses that have been built for
. that sum under its insured mort
gages.
Here’s one in San Diego, Calif:
Six rooms with two-car garage;
no cellar but it has a gas furnace;
tile bath and lavatory; lot 50 by
127 feet. It cost the family $40.46
a month for everything: payment
on the house, interest, taxes, insur
ance.
Here’s one in Jackson, Miss.:
Two story with six rooms, fin
ished outside with asbestos shin
gles- lot 50 by 160; bath and lava
tory, both tiled; oak floors; no
basement but gas heaters in the
rooms; rock-insulating overhead
for the hot days. It cost the family
$33.93 a month.
Here’s one just outside St. Louis:
V hite Cape Cod house of one
and-a-half stories; hot air heat
from a coal furnace; basement;
one-car garage; one tiled bath; oak
floors; lot 50 by 133. It costs the
family $44 a month.
Here’s one in Springfield, Mass.:
Two-story shingle house, six
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Czech Prepares
to Rule Ireland
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Count Edward Taffe, above,
Czechoslovakian nobleman
whose family held the titles of
Viscount Taife of Corren and
Baron of Balymote; until the
World War, was preparing to
become an Irish citizen to make
him eligible for the presidency
of the Irish Free State under
the new constitution.
Thomas Robbins
Rites Yesterday
1 homasville, Dec. 15.—Thomas
A. Robbins, f>2, died at his home
Trinity route 1, Sunday afteitioon
at 0:20 o’clock after a short ill
ness.
Mi-. Robbins is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Myrtle Robbins; three
daughters, Mrs. Noah Skeen,
Trinity, route 1; Mrs. Banks
Sechrest, Thomasville, and Mrs.
Ralph Roscoe, Thomasville; four
sons, Grady Robbins, Hemp; -John
Robbins, Burlington; Thomas Rob
bins; Greensboro, and Lee Robbins,
of the home; two brothers, J. M.
Robbins, Thomasville and Troy
Robbins, Liberty; one sister, Miss
Gemwa Robbins, Burke county,
and lti grandchildren.
The funeral service was held at
Mt. Vernon Methodist church in
Randolph county Tuesday morning
at 11 o’clock.
George W. Evans
Dies in Hospital
Kamseur, Dec. 16.—George Wes
ley Evans, 77, farmer of Asheboro,
route 1, died yesterday afternoon at
2:40 o’clock in the Randolph hos
pital at Asheboro following an ill
ness of two weeks. He is survived
by his wife, the former Miss Betty
Wilmoth; three daughters, Mrs. J.
E. Chaney, of Asheboro, route 1;
Mrs J. S. Greenwood, of Elkin,
route 1, and Mrs. Elmer Wood of
Carthage; three sons, C. A. Evans,
of b ranklinville; Richard Evans, of
Elkin, route 1, and M. W. Evans, of
Burlington, route 4; 29 gx-and
chiluren and 16 gi-eat-gi-andchild
ren. Funeral service will be held
Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
Pleasant Cross Christian church,
Rev. J. M. Srcrlin, of Builington,
and Rev. L. W. Lee officiating. In
terment will be made in the church
cemetery.
rooms and basement; oil burner;
one-car garage; oak flooi-s and tiled
bath and labntory; lot 60 by 100
feet. It's costing the family $50.13
a month.
Here’s one in Detroit:
■Onc-and-a-half-story Cape Cod
house finished in brick veneer;
coal furnace and hot-air heat; lot
40 by 116 feet; no garage; base
ment : weather-stripped, insulated
overhead; one bath.
Pay your money-—if you can get
it— and take your choice.
Missing Dancer
Slain in Paris
The mysterious disappearance
of Jean Dekoven, 21-year-old
American dancer pictured above,
finally lias been solved by Paris
police, who announced that
Eugene VVeidmann, a German,
confessed that he kidnaped and
killed the girl for the 600 francs
(S24) and $500 in travelers"
checks she carried. Weidmann
also confessed slaying four other
persons, police said. He told
authorities he buried the danc- '
er’s body in an abandoned villa."
Miss Dekoven disappeared from
ber Paris hotel last July.
Jack Dempsey Gives Girls
j]\ew Year’s Party Counsel
By Joan Durham
(,P» Feature Service Writer
Mew Year's Eve is a time for
celebration—not a signal for de
bauch.
You don't have to take our word
for that. We have it on the author
ity of Jack Dempsey, whom we pre
sent not as the former boxing
champion nor as the New York
restaurateur. Here you have Mr.
Dempsey as the purveyor of ad
vice to your ladies.
Says Monitor Dempsey: “There’s
no reason for young women (or
young men) to do a lot of heavy
drinking just because everybody
else seems to be doing it.
“Lots of our young women cus
tomers never order anything but
ginger ale, orangeade or horse’s
necks!”
Did your eyebrows shoot up at
that last? Are you one of the hun
dred who have been under the
impression that a horse’s neck is
an alchoholic drink, and a pretty
pot ent one at that?
Then listen to Counsellor Demp
sey •
“A horse’s neck, you know, is
made of ginger ale, ice and lem
on”. be confides. “The peel of a
lemon, cut in one length, is ar
ranged in the glass like a spiral
staircase. But the drink, if it’s
made by people who know their
business, doesn’t have any liquor
in it at all.”
Here’s how Tutor Dempsey
judges the well-bred young wo
man :
She sticks to her own party,
doesn’t attempt to attract attention
to herself by a lot of raucous
laughter or loud talk, and never
allows herself to be “picked up”—
even to the extent of an “innicent”
flirtation.
The First Party
What’s a good procedure for the
young girl to follow who’s going
on her first party ?
She’ll be better off if she goes in
a group, says our mentor. Some
one in the group can act as an un
official chaperone and geep an eye
on her. That someone may be an
older sister or brother or an older
friend. But it will be somebody
who’s on the look-out.
Our New Year’s celebrant also
will be better off if she goes to a
! reputable place, continues Profes
sor Dempsey, reverting a little,
perhaps, to his professional tone.
All reputable places keep trouble
shooters who are trained to be on
the luok-out for annoyances, he ex
plains.
. The young lady may order some
thing mild, like one sherry flip—if
curiosity gets the best; of her. But
there’s no reason for her to feel
embarrassed if she orders ginger
ale or a fruit drink.
How can she know whether a
man is drunk or not?
A drunkard sounds his own
alarm, our guide explains. If he
approaches her or causes any trou
ble she may ask her escort to noti
fy the waiter or the captain. Her
escort, however, shouldn’t serve
eviction papers himself. He’s apt
to wish he hadn’t. >
What about making noise?
That’s what New Year’s is for—if
she doesn’t become obnoxiously
boisterous.
How about being kissed when
the clock strikes twelve?
That’s a custom—not necessarily
an affection, says Jack with a
smile. So why not?
Tree Genetic Institute
To Be World’s Largest
Fiacerville, Calif. —t.T>—Con
struction of new greenhouses and
laboratory buildings is under way
at t!ie Institute of Forest Genetics
near here.
P. H. Woidman, superintendent,
says that on completion the insti
tution will be the largest in the
world devoted entirely to study of
hereditary principles as applied to
growth of trees.
They apparently had not met for
some time. They were sitting in
the gloaming, listening to the
languorous roll of the sea below:
She (murmuring softly)—And
you ray you were in the town where
I live last week
He—Yes!
She (cooing)—And you thought
of me, John?
He-—Yes, I did. I said to my
self, ‘Why, isn’t this where what’s
hcr-namc lives?’
Flychasing Uncle
Tuscaloosa, Ala. —(.l*)—Jack
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baseball—Outfielder Heinic Ma
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