Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1946 — Page 4

District “Manager Expects Data From Washington,

Albert O. Evans, newly appointed district construction office manager of the Civilian Production Administration, announced today that his office next week will be able to answer some of numerous questions Being asked about the government's non-essential construction proclamation. . . COPA lawyers are still wrestling with the order in Washington and should complete their study soon, Mr. Evans said. . The Civilian Production Administration, successor to the defunct war production board, will be charged with the responsibility of producing and channeling building materials for construction other than housing. It hopes to curb non-essential construction and di-| rect the building industry to help) the ex-serviceman's housing prob-| lem. | The office here will deal only with| construction matters in CPA's field and will not handle any other CPA activity. Local conditions will be taken into account in making decisions and on the essentiality of nonhousing construction projects -advice will be given by an area committee of representative citizens, Appeals may be made to Washington.

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! . |GARDENING: Local Gardeners Make Discovery

By MARGUERITE SMITH

SET STRAWBERRY plants as!

soon as your ground is workable.

Give them plenty of humus -and |, {see that they have good drainage. {A mulch of straw not only keeps |!

berries clean but prevents evaporation of that important soil moisture. cake, get some everbearers and what various local gardeners have learned about strawberries.

st, is starting a new bed with plants from his neighbor, L. W. Nail, 5253 Woodside drive, who raises the everbearers Mastodon and Wayzata and the dependable spring berry, Premier,

picked over 30 quarts from 100 | plants of ‘the spring bearing Senator Dunlap—good tasting berries,

favorable weather they did not produce so well. The soil for that patch, he explains, good. His experience with poor soil has sold him on the importance of

{ humus for a good crop of any sort.

5 » » Pi | ? SO HE began preparing. for his| Mrs. K. E. Cowles, 515 E. 61st st. . . . pampers the Cowles strawberry

new patch last fall, using a twoinch layer of mushroom soil on [the plot before it was turned. He {plans to use more of it plus his lown compost before spading the

{bed again, and will also use it on |

| top of the bed. | With limited time .to take care {of his patch he is going to raise {his berries by the matted row | system. With two “staggered rows" {about a foot apart (these double rows three. feet apart) he will let the runners grow to fill the one-

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| Concerning shortages of building | materials, Mr, Meadley said buildlers are going ahead with all home | construction that aveilable mate(rials will allow. «The fact is that 180 residential building permits were issued by the building commissioners of the city of Indianapolis and Marion county] |during the first two months this

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MR. FENWICK put in some ever-iand I'd have had more if I'd taken bearing raspberries, Indian Sum- | better care of my plants,” she says.

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{general rule. | Herbert Flinchpaugh, 2605 E. 30th |st., is starting three kinds of ever- | bearing strawberries this spring — | Mastodon, Gem and Wayzata. He, tures similar to the automobile |too, stresses the importance of body method. A heavier gauge {humus and says, “Every bit of veg- 2 'etation you can turn under helps steel, however, is pressed and porto keep air in the ground, keep it celain enamel is applied at temperaloose and prevents it packing under tures of 1600 degrees F. resulting

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