Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1938 — Page 6

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SLUM PROGRAM |

These Homes Will Replace” Those in 1 Bligh ted Areas

IN STATE NOW AT,

BUILDING STAGE

Projects at Kokomo and Vincennes Are Viewed as Testing Ground.

By TOM OCHILTREE

Elimination of “blighted areas” and construction of livable low-rent dwellings under the U. S. Housing Authority program is to take definite form in Indiana within the next few months when construction begins on projects at Vincennes and Kokomo. : This announcement was made today by Walter E. Stanton, State Housing Board executive secretary, who reported that projects in these two cities have received the approval of Federal officials and have en‘tered the “detailed planning” stage. . Upon these projects and their influence on public opinion depends :much of the future of the slum clearance movement in this State, shousing officials believe. The reason is explained in the “Housing Yearbook of 1938,” published by the Na‘tional Association of Housing Offiscials which reported: “The major difficulties of - the -housing program in Indiana appear :to be the complete absence of genseral public sympathy and the con:servative fear and antagonism of private and political interests.”

Indianapolis Shown Lagging

Indianapolis, conceded to have -the largest housing problem in the :State, has not established a local -housing board to work with State sand Federal authorities in obtaining «slum clearance loans. : “Other Indiana municipalities, Mr. “Stanton said, have shown more in‘terest, however. At the present ‘time, 10 cities have been given ear‘markings of Federal funds totaling $10,120,000, "although specific \proj= sects are not as advanced as in the :case of Vincennes and Kokomo: i Pourteen Indiana cities have ap;plied for an additional 20 million :in Federal loans. USHA officials as yet have taken no action on this ‘group of requests. :

90 Per Cent of Cost Loaned

. The Kokomo loan amounts to 7$634,000 and the Vincennes loan to “$317,000. Both of these Federal loans represent 90 per cent of the ‘actual cost of construction and are for terms of 60 years at 3% per -cent interest. Most of the remaining 10 per cent ‘of construction. cost is expected to ‘be raised through the sale of bonds to private investors. Total estimated cost of the Kokomo project, including construction of dwellings, land, non-dwell-ing facilities and architectural and overhead charges, is $705,000. The Vincennes estimate is $353,000. The average estimated construction cost of dwellings per family unit in Kokomo is $2815, and Vincennes $3078. Material, labor and designing costs account for the difference between the Cities, Mr. Stanton said. | Contending ‘with the sociologists that slums are the breeding grounds for crime and disease, which eventually make their costs to society through increased expenditures for police and public health services, housing authorities declare that these projects are designed for lowincome families.

For $700-Income Families

The Vincennes project is being built for families receiving a total annual income of between $600 and $900, with most of the tenants expected to have incomes reaching only to $700 a year. The Kokomo units are to be for families with a total annual income of between $800 and $1100. According to present plans, the Vincennes project is to consist of 83 family units of three, four and five rooms each, and rentals are to range from $9 to $15 a month, depending on the size of the units. The Kokomo project is to contain 175 units with monthly rentals from $9.59 to $15.07. Site of the Vincennes project consists of an area three city blocks in size in the northeastern section, close to Memorial: Blvd. and the banks of the Wabash River. Total net area of the site is 7.7 acres, of which 5.04 acres are to be utilized for immediate development. Although this area now is almost entirely barren of buildings, at one time it formed the heart of the city’s notorious “Oklahoma” slum section. Several years ago, the City decided to convert this area into a ‘playground and began purchasing the property. It now is almost enrely City-owned. Near Factory Areas.

Recreational and school facilities :are located within a short distance ‘of the site, and playgrounds are to ‘be provided adjacent to the buildvings for small children. It is a 15‘minute walk from this area to 15 -factories and a 10-minute streetcar ‘ride to the center of the City. In describing the growth of the housing movement in Vincennes and the private efforts to solve the slum

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Structures of this type are to be built under Vincennes low-rent housing program.

problem, the “Housing Yearbook of 1938” said: “The small City of Vincennes has one of the most interesting housing experiments in the country. There a group of private citizens has established and ‘had under operation for over four years a community

slum-~clearance project consisting of 20 houses and a community building. “The cost of this project was approximately $45,000, which sum was raised locally by private subscription. These houses are being rented at figures ranging from $1 a month to $1 a year, and the annual maintenance deficit, amounting to about $12,000 a year, is being ine? by local subscriptions. “This project was used by the City’s local housing authority as one of its chief talking points in applying to the USHA for funds. . . . It was pointed out to the USHA that local citizens were aware of the problem of slum clearance and had made and were now making a determined effort to solve the problem by means of private subscription. Dual Need Cited

“It was also urged that the need for housing to meet the demand of low income groups was expecially pressing for two reasons: “1, The condemnation and actual demolition of a substantial number of houses of the type occupied by this income group, such action being called for by the fact that Vincennes is a very old city and contains a large number of overage and obsolete houses. “2, The sudden influx of industrial workers due to the discovery of oil fields of considerable size im=mediately across the river from the City with consequent raising of rents throughout the community. “The Federal agency also was assured that tentative plans for the USHA project had been approved by the City Planning Board as being in keeping with long-range city development.” Kokomo has a similar housing problem, Mr. Stanton said. While the number of families in Kokomo has increased approximately 100 a year since 1930, an average of only eight new dwellings a year have been built under private enterprise, he said.

PERKINS ON AUDUBON BOARD Times Special: ' NEW:YORK, Oct. 27—Samuel E. Perkins, Indianapolis, has been elected to the advisory board of the National Association of Audubon Societies, it was announced today. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, New York, is association president. ~

POSTAL COMPANY STRIKE SETTLED

150 Return to Work at Local Office.

Settlement of a strike affecting about 150 employees of the Postal Telegraph & Cable Co, here was announced today by Mrs. Irene McCallie, division chairman of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union, A. F. of L,. Company officials said employees of the local union, No. 55, had returned to, work and service had been resumed.

Messengers, clerks, telephone operators, machine operators and branch managers were reported to have walked out of the company’s offices at 3:30 p. m. yesterday in a disagreement over application of the Wage-Hour Law.

CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (U. P.).—The Commercial Telegraphers’ : Union called off today a strike against the Postal Telegraph Co., after having reaghed an agreement with company officials to settle their differences by negotiations. Frank B. Powers, international president of the C. T. U, an affiliate of the A. F. of L., announced he-and a company official at Kansas City had conferred by telephone and had reached their agreement at midnight—only nine hours after the strike had started. The strike was the first resulting directly from

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SUSPECTS IN MURDER CASE ARE RESLATED

Police today reslated two men and a woman on a murder charge in connection with the death Oct. 8 of Wesley Lanthere, 50, a roominghouse proprietor. The suspects were Andrew Hen-

derson, 45; Arthur Abbey, 51, and Beulah MacDonald, 41, all of 726 Roanoke St. The men are WPA workers. Police said Lanthere, who lived

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