Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1936 — Page 34

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Education Os Youth And Adults Provided In Local Community

With some 28 children of school age living In the homestead area, the problem of education has arisen _ to be solved through community cooperation. While the area is located In Washington Township, the town-J ship rural school was unsuitable because of limited site both of the building and the number of teachers. In addition, the distance was too great. The problem was met by Washington Township arranging to have the children sent to the Decatur public schools. "The cooperation of Washington Township in this matter is just another example of how the Decatnr community has worked to make this project a success." said Walter A. Terpenning. Regional Management Chief for the Resettlement Administration. "Through this aid the children have been able to continue their school work. Transfer of the area from the Federal Government to a local community corporation will replace the property on the tax rolls and the homesteads will be included in the Decatur District.” In addition to education of the children, various details are being worked out for a rather com-, plete plan of adult education. Already. County Agent Archbold has. been active in conducting gar dening meetings. Miss Leila Ogle.l Regional Home Economist for the Resettlement Administration, and Mrs. A. Hadley, State Rehabilita-. tion Specialist, are interested in l the splendid opportunities for edu-1 eating and service offered by the recently organized Homestead 1 Home Economics Club. As arrangements become morei complete it is expected that the Homesteaders will want to cooperate on many neighborhood conferences covering every subject from gardening to canning. Landscaping, furniture repair, flower growing parental education and dozens of other home hobbies and occupations can be discussed by thoughtful parents and home builders. Still a third phase of education now being considered will be that of a day nursery school. This probably will be for the entire Decatur community. However, it is expected ttjat families living in the ■homestead area will make com siderable use of the school. Since the homesteads are really a part of Decatur rather than a separate community, no steps are being taken to establish a community center nor to organize

I* DECATUR’S 1 I Pioneer Theatre One hundred years ago when Decatur was founded, the field of entertainment of the Pioneers was limited. Along with the years of ad--4 I vancement, came the greatest of all entertainment — the Talking Pic- * tures. Starting with the silent pictures, the development of this popular form of entertainment grew rapidly until today you actually live I with the characters on the screen. The CORT is the pioneer theatre in Decatur. Starting in the early! days of the silent drama, we have with your patronage continued to progress and keep step with the entertainment world. Today finds us operating for your entertainment as fine a theatre as ’will be found anywhere. The latest and| best pictures ... air conditioned for your comfort.. . best recording in the city and the maintaining of low admission prices daily. We expect to continue to operate your favorite movie house and to continue to give to you the finest in motion picture entertainment Success to the Centennial and a cordial welcome to all Centennial viaitors. i CORT Theatre The Leßrun Family -WL ,-■■■ ■ ■

A Pioneer r~ 1 i •b. t MM { jir-wx ip _ ffWtrwMii friMßi Jimmy Helm, Jimmy Helm, the first baby born at the Decatur homesteads, a project under the Resettlement Administration. And is Mrs. Helm proud of her “homestead baby?" What do you think? strictly community activities. “Most of the occupants formerly lived in Decatur and naturally have maintained contacts with their churches. Sunday schools, clubs and social groups," Terpenning said. “Since the area will again include the city limits we can see no reason why any attempt should be made to set up a community center." o Hawaii Holds Fairs Honolulu —(UP)—The Hawaiian islands hare fully adopted the American system of county fairs for agricultural progress. They are largely made possible through contributions from sugar 'planters.

CITY AMONG (Continued From Page 33> 29 houses of the two story colonial type, 18 of the 5-room story and a half type with underslung porch. I of the 5-room btory and h half type with side porch and straight roof, 2 of the story and a half type with side porch and break in roof, and one 5-room story and a half type with front porch and break in roof. ' 15 Acre Park The homestead community was laid out with a sweeping drive en circling a 15-acre park in center and all houses facing the park An average of 1.2 acres of ground was included with each home. In addition to a living room, combination kitchen and dining room and three bedrooms, each house is provided with a bathroom and basement. The kitchen Includes a compact arrangement of combine tion laundry tray and sink, built-in cupboards, broom closets and space for gas range and refrigera tor. Basements contain hot furnace, space for fruit cellar, coal bin and hot water heater. House dimensions range from 20 by 30 feet to 24 by 32 Bedrooms measure 9 by 12 feet and bathrooms 6 by 7 feet. All houses are roofed witn cedar shingles, drop siding. Walls and roofs are completely insulated against heat and cold, one-half Inch Celo-tex Insulation on sides and sheet alumninum cemented to heavy tough paper on roofs. Interior walls are all 3-16 inch ply wood instead of plaster. Landscaping Provided The houses are wired with electricity and connected with artificial gas. Plumbing is complete for hot and cold water. Through a CWA project, approximately 1.500 trees and shrubs, including 240 fruit trees, were included in landscaping plans. A donation of |1,300 made by the Gen eral Electric Company to the Decatur Chamber of Commerce for Improving the park areas was used for plowing, fertilizing and seeding to develop lawns and thus add to the beauty of the homesteads. An 18 foot highway of three course asphaltic macadam which enters the homesteads from the county highway at one end of the community and comes out at another end was completed in September of 1935. This drive, constructed on a new engineering design. is built with a 5 inch drain tile laid approximately 3 feet undder the center of the road connected by catch basins at the break of the road grade. The road grade is constructed on a flat “V” shape, the center being 6 inches lower than the edges, thus fortfiing a gutter for the drainage. There is no side drainage as the ground is sloped back on a grade according to the surrounding territory. On April 28, 1936 the Resettle-

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meat Administration gave author ization for additions and betterments to bring the homesteads to final completion. Modern Garages Garages of the most modern type were provided for the homesteads, doors of all houses were screened, and laundry tubs installed with hot and cold water connections. With these improvements, the homesteads were complete on August 1 to take their place as a mod ern up-to-date residential community of the city of Decatur, subject to taxation and enjoying the same protection as that accorded other citlsens. o HOMESTEADERS (Continued From Page 33) I has not been entirely successful. However, the homesteaders have signified their Intentions of mak ing every effort to beautify both the park areas and their private ground. WRITER LISTS THE (Continued From Page 33) to show whether his basement light was turned on or off. Another bragged of the convenient shelves which he had made in the entry to his basement by extending the steJTs of his stairway backwards I found his wife, at ten o’clock at night, joyfully canning colorful fruit with which to decorate those shelves? Incidentally, it is not unusual to find several hundred ( quarts of vegetables in prdject basements, vegetables raised and canned with the assurance which makes all work a work of love, namely, knowing that ones belloved is to eat the fruit thereof. A home deserves all the poetical attention which it has received, whether it is a new one, or an old! Kentucky one. There is no governmental activity which is more praiseworthy than the various encouragements to the building and financing of homes. The provision for the security of tenure of horn- i es means more than the reduction' of building and interest costs. It means the location of homes where they are needed, and where there is opportunity for productive and remunerative labor. The Resettlement Administration is engaged in assisting families to provide such homes for themselv-j es and of promoting the conditions' under which occupants will desire' to occupy them and be able to occupy them securely. The results of ■ such occupancy must be evaluated , in terms of a restored self-respect,

Hfc 100 YEARSEH 1 Have created a great c h a n g e in Decatur's inode of KfißflTO’iVTw r PI transportation. The change has been nearly as outstanding at /< AnSpAll f rom days °f the old oxen-pulled covered wagon to the new = sleek powerful car built in 1936. Hut today the wise auto owner in Decatur has a Terra--1V; plan, with its ELECTRIC RAND, its economical and powerful operation and its beauty of design. TODAYis 3 6 P. Kirsch & Son wish ■ ’’ " the best of success to the Centennial Celebration, in honor ■■■nW of those pioneers, who so gra- • ciously gave their lives in the MM am w> founding of the city of Deca- BP KJF Jta» IIJ wT W»E W?tur and Adams County. JKw 1 q n c fcrraplane is the choice of Decatur It’s more economical — with an offi1 » 4 O drivers. Terraplane is bigger with its 115 cial record of 23.95 miles per gallon in the inch vvheel basc—- up to 3 inches longer Los Angeles — Yosemite Economy run. than the other three leading low-priced ... . iir . ... cars . it s more beautiful with a design . that is entirely new, not a modified 19 Its more powerful with 88 or 100 style, horsepower—3 to 9 more than the others. ... . , . .., - ... , ~ It s more rugged— the only one <>i Its safer with Duo-Automatic Hy- (he four with body all of steel and seamdrauhe brakes— finest hydraulics, with a less solid steel roof. It has these exclusive separate safety braking system operating features: Radial Safetv Control; The Rh'automatically from the same brake pedal thmic Ride; True— Line Steering and if ever needed. many others< P. KIRSCH & SON OLDSMOBILE HUDSON TERRAPLANE Monroe Street *‘l4 Years Your Local Dealer” Phone 335 ”■■■■■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ « ■ ■ n ■ ■ ■■■■■■ BBBBBBBBBBB B a ■ BBB b BBBB BB £9 BBB a9B>» ,!l>

psychological security, and a new lease on Builds Courage Even a dog fights best on his own doorstep. A man needs a secure headquarters from which to view this conflicting, confusing world, and from which to combat the impersonal and threatening enemies of our social and economic order. He needs an integrated and unified community which will give him some of the sense of having the world at his back uhich the rock villages of Provence and the walled and moated villages of the plains gave to the population of the Middle Ages. I think the Decatur homesteads will contribute toward that attainment. . ———.—o— —— Raising Vegetables Important Activity At Decatur Homesteads The veffetable gtarden—long a neglected part of American home Ute—gives every promise of stag ing a comeback at the Decatur Homesteads. At the present time there are

I rX I Decatur’s Birthday IE Next week marks the 100th Birthday H of the founding of the City of Decatur. H We prize most highly the friendship ■B and good-will extended to us during the few short years we have been here and trust we muy continue to merit your confidence and fl patronage. SUCCESS TO THE CENTENNIAL 1315 W. ADAMS ST. nJJF'

Community Advisor. ( that all of our gardens aie pe S’ she said. “SOU treatment. > more fertilizer and better sc ect on nt varieties will be needed to bring production up to a high, Btan J“ ; Hut every family on ,he » roJ r! 1 of ‘ga'X S t , ! C uck nd being ri 'prodmed. l experience. ‘ Estimates show that ' ely 20 acres of the 80 acre a l now planted to various ' e « e ‘* ble crops As a beginning toward build . ing up and maintaining soil fertil ity many of the homesteaders have planted part of their garden plots to soybeans. This is all in line with the original idea of the project which_ was first of all. to give people a chance ; to own modern homes and. second to raise sufficient vegetables to cut t food costs and provide additional. 5 health-giving foods. A beginning was made when r fruit trees, including apple cherry and pear, were purchased fsom. e CWA funds.

! different variety, were set out on each homestead i Aside from chickens and a few other small animals, no livestock >is being raised on the project. i With nearly an acre of ground available for garden space on each homestead, it Is believed that gardening will eventually become a big item In cutting living costs. j Sleeps 2 Hours, Works 22 Bronto. Ont.. — (VP) ~ Th ® | I trouble with thia world is that it

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