The Journal News from White Plains, New York • Page 14

THE ROCKLAND COUNTY JOURNAU-NEWS NYACK, N. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1955 Page Fourteen has been handled by the TomlitP Girl Stowaway HOME GIFT FOR FREED AIRMAN THRUWAY INTERCHANGE AT SCHENECTADY OPENS LISTEN, WORLD East Toronto, Ontario. Program to Save Old Homes From Future Slums Is Active Yi A 1 The first adhesive posta: The Schenectadv-Route 5S Inter- stamps were five and 10 cent iA i of Benjamin Franklin an0 By Elsie Robinson Vnti StnlolSUeS 'or which required the FHA to Issue WASHINGTON, (INS) The gov-, tK George Washington. Thruway will be opened to traffic ia -to ernment's broad program to save its loan insurance on the basia of estimated value of the project. Real the nation older homes from be estate groups contend this limited coming future alums is reaching a their ability to earn a fair profit decisive stage.

Congress haa just, loosened a ma in the operation. Loan Processing After studying the matter furth jor financing stumbling block in er, Congress has now authorized BUILDING DRIVEWAYS PAVED, PERMANENT DUSTPROOF ESTIMATE INVOLVES NO OBLIGATION Call VICTOR SMITH FHA to process the loans on the basis of "replacement cost" of the today at 4 p. the Thruway Authority announced today. The interchange connects tho cross-state superhighway with Route 5-S on the western outskirts of Schenectady. Opening of the facility will give motorists in the Schenectady area two Thruway interchanges.

The Schenectary-Route 146 Interchange located six miles east of the Route 5-S Interchange, has been In use since the Utica-Newburgh portion of the expressway was opened to traffic on Oct. 26, 1954. Construction of the Route 5-S Interchange the program and the Federal Housing Administration reports that It Is ready to approve the country's flrst rehabilitation plan in New Yoik. Other big cities like Philadelphia, and St. Louis are preparing to fol work.

Thig will permit the agency to approve a larger amount of loan and provide some incentive to the I tied taken short cut down on. of those i-owsy old alleys which, happily, are disappearing In these 'cleaner, modern days, Just slit It was, between walls of mildewed brick and rotting Wood. Garbage palls spilling: Into the putter, mangy black cats slinking by. A dismal place and my mood waa just as depressing. Worry and debts and sickness, all churning their dreary round In the lives of everyone I knew.

What horrible, blind alleys life holds for ua all sometimes Yet. even aa I groaned to myself, something made me look up. And there, teetering on an ancient sill, was a window box filled with flowers, A crumbling box, old and atalned. But the flowers as fresh as tomorrow morning's dew. All the old favorites were there, larkspur, sweet William and phlox, nansies.

verbena, even a spindly i uiiejskk''' real estate industry. low New Yoik'g lead. The big jr. a. er t) I question is: Will the program so In the case pf at least one large city, liHA officials say the change NEw City 4.2415 should greatly help municipal authorities find a private developer for a former slum site which has remained vacant for some time due WHY RISK HAIR DAMAGE? mIti to the financial roadblock.

FHA officials are cautiously op timistic about tha program. They Sal feel that rehabilitation will overshadow the amount of new con struction in the early phases of lose. There, In that filth and de painstakingly mapped out catch on? Last year, Congress adopted President Eisenhower's comprehensive plan to wipe out slum living in the U. S. by tearing down hardcore slum buildings and rehabilitating older homes on the verge of becoming slums.

About 15 million substandard dwellings or about one-third of the nation's total housing inventoryare affected by the program. Workable Programs Under the President's plan, municipal authorities are obliged to draw tip so-called "workable programs" listing In detail the steps they will take in the anti-slum tight before they become eligible for federal aid. So far, more than 50 cities have fell their anti-slum fight. HAWAIIAN hula dancer Jocelyn Joan Pllapil, 16, ii shown before she stowed away on the Canadian destroyer Atliobajkan when it sailed from Hile for Long Beach, Calif. The girl left her mother a note saying she was about to become a mother.

The vessel's arrival at the California port found the skipper, Comdr. E. Richardson engaged in an investigation of how the girl got tat International Kadtophoto) Get a Professional WONDER CURL PERMANENT $2.50 (Extra Chsrge For Cut Shampoo Set) MAJ. WILLIAM H. IAUMER, of Lewuburg.

who walks on crutches because he refused to "talk" despite Red Chinese tortures, grins happily as he receives package from home at Tachikawa Air Force Base, outside Tokyo. Delivering the gift, mostly of cigarettes, is Mrs. Lloyd Sweetser, a Red Cross Gray Lady. (Internationa! Radiophoto) But they also feel that the main responsibility for an effective anti-slum fight rests with the cities themselves. That's one reason why top government offlciala and the American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods will be launching major campaigns this fall to stir up interest in the fight to combat spair, a splash of a flame of hope.

I wondered about that strange loveliness. How had It happened, who had put It there, and why? Someone who remembered happier, sweeter times? Someone who hungered for release from grime and poverty and, lacking other expressions, had answered that hunger with 'flowers? And, even as I wondered, the yesrs rolled back and I was standing in my mother'! garden again. Acres of lovaltnoss, blossom and shrub and tree, scarlet and turquoise and gold, I had taken It all for granted a a child lor I had never seen It In Its earlier, cruder days when California was still the Wild West. Few a thousand miles of garden. And housing blight.

out of the same hunger and faith, someone had planted the window box to carry on the flame. Sweat, Dom's Beauty Salon "Tomorrow'! Heir Stylei Today" 2 Vi Franklin Ave. PEari River 5-2712 callouses, back aches, they are still our common lot. Always life must be broken before it can bloom. But as strong and determined as the tough, yellow soil which they broke with their spades.

Yea those pioneers had something within them far more precious than anything that came In a store package. They had sweet memories of gentler havens, bright dreams of new homes on this barren earth, sweet visions of lilies and clematis against clambering ivy, and beloved men resting under pomegranate and fig and children everywhere, laughing and always the heart can hoIM the sweet seeds of faith. And always, qualified for the special govern-j ment aids which include grants for slum clearance, public housing and special FHA loan Insurance on the housing The FHA program which covers new construction on former slum sites and rehabilitation of older structures is just getting started. It has taker, nearly a year to Iron out technical difllcul-ties to get th operation off the ground. One of the main difficulties has been provisions enacted in 19M no matter now dreary the path, we can say it with flowers.

COMING EVENTS Aug. 14 Annual barbecue, Haverstraw Council, Knights of Columbus, at Krucker's, Laden-town. Aug, 17 Card party, St, John's Afternoon Guild, in St. John's parish hall, New City, 8:30 p. m.

Aug. 18 Peswrt card party, Ladies Aid, St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Nyar.k, in social room, Park Street, 1:30 p. m. flowers then In the Army post of All brtcks used In Virginia dur VOLKSWAGEN Benicla, Barren and sunbaked it rosa above the beach and there ing the 17th and 18th centuries seem to have been made there and Yes, thosa mothers had some not Imported from England, according lo modnrn historians.

thing better than flower catalogs. was scant time for making flower beds. But you know how women are. Show them a patch of gravelly clay and the next time you pas by they'll have It filled, with forget-me-nots. Jt had been like that with my Mother and all the other wives and mothers who made up- our little settlement.

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She era a little thing, not long out of the sheltered gardens of Ireland. How hard aha must have labored and dreamed and battled to give ua those blooms. And everywhere along the ehining coast of California It waa the same. Not etna overflowing bouquet in all its length as it is now. but peopled by humans Route 59 NYack 7-0066 West Nyack bail vmSW.

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