Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • Page 24

PAGE TEN THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEW 'SKELETONS" DANGLED ON FRONT LAWNS-- Tune In On KRB0 Bimday Morning, March 2G, 1939 Drive Down One Street-It Might Be Any 5t reel-Discloses Blots to City Beautiful Bjr MAURINE ROE the street, We're going to march the sliele- 'toru right c'H on front lawns and dangle them from gnarled mes- qultes on weed-tangled vacant lots, This is the story of one street, end to end. Thts reporter drove (he length of that street, and wrote down those things which could be regarded as blots on any cUlm Abilene might make as a "City Beautiful." Any street, It seems, taken Its full lengts. Is proof that Abilene does need a Cleanup-Palntup-Fix- VP campaign, This might be any street, but the fact remains that is one given streeU--the one on which you may happen to live, It is a street on which there are few places of business, on which there are numerous prosperous homes, and some that are less pretentious. Another point Is that It Is typically Abilene--before the spring cleanup campaign gets underway. This Is the unretouched picture of that street, as It was recorded the reporter's scratch pad.

Pretty house, but the roof and frames need paint. Grass iWould help that big yard, and trimming the trees would be a Idea. More shrubs around the house would make It more attractive. Vacant lot, with catclaw bushes getting a good start. Burned spots where someone once made an effort to clean up.

Vacant lots to (he rijht and Ticant Sols (o the left, knet- deep In dry weeds flaunting red and black sale circulars on Muth breeze. Pretty back yard, nice fence, nice house, but the roof needs paint. Bad to have to live facing mass and tangle of lot across the street Nice stucco house, walled In with vacant lot jungles on cither side. Sagging garage door. Vacant Jot little above the avei-- age.

Another vacant lot waist high In weeds and bushes. Good location, but must be hard to sell. The sign a real estate man nailed to a tree could be SO years old, ft Is so weather beaten and dangling. More wilderness. Plowed lots, clean and neat across the street.

Front yard neai, but (he folk who live there don't seem lo know it does lltlle rood (o wash your face and leave your neck and ears dirty. Partly burntd trash, plies of cans at the back. A cowlot, sagglnf, rails, assortment of odd shaped unp'alnted sheds. Servant house with gaping window showing junk stored Inside. Old shoes on steps.

Warped oil can for trash practically on the pavement. Vacant lots, old car bodies added to unpretty picture. 1VO SCREENS, U.NTAlNTEn House with two screens off. Paint needed badly. Incinerators and piles of trash on adjoining vacant lot.

Broken walks, sagging trellis, dangling garage door at next house. Occupant of this house does business there, but sign In front yard nearly bent over. Hedge ragged. Vacant lot partly burned off. House all right.

Old stove, old Tashlnj machine--both apparently junked--parts of old waf- on litter yard. Shedj in ill assorted sizes and materials at back. Beautiful yard faces mcsquite thicket, with old oil barrels on back CLEANUP EXAMPLE NO. 1-Children Clean Vacant Lois To Provide Ground For Play IVHAT 1'OUNGSTERS In one neighborhood accomplish, bojs and rlrU ta any other neighborhood can likewise undertake. wai the Uootht these pictures were riven (he title "Abilene's Cleanup Eiample AbllL, Crtdl lor thl! anp lo Mts Thorn Jm, AMkne Garter, elub.

president and genefal co-chairman of the cleanup fcj UA rf un participated in hborhpod vacant lot cleanup. They plan to use the lots they are oil lot wftball canws and picnic suppers. racant Cln bottl a wllh weeds and mesquilt thicket -'her (rash. Armed wl10 livf1 rb work at Wiii. PROGRESS: The piclure abore show ihc same corner arler tno after- In ih lS tm and ia points were riven for other "oys'an OLFEN'S NEW SCHOOL BUILDING BEING DEDICATED TODAY PAINTING AND LANDSCAPING INCREASE VALUES OF HOMES The new $17,800 school build- Ing at Olfen, Runnels county, shown above, will be dedicated In special ceremonies this afternoon.

The modern sin- room structure was completed March 22. It Is one of the outstanding school plants of the county, located In a prosperous farming section. The group of men pictured here as formal acceptance was given the building are, left to right, E. C. Grlndsiaff, county school superintendent; John C.

Becker, architect who designed the building; the Rev. O. A. Bocck- man. Catholic priest at Hugh Horn, of the Abilene Construction company, general contractors, and Glenn A.

Rector, PWA engineer and The building was made possible by a 55 per cent PWA grant. of the lot. This lot plowed, but only makes oil cam used for Incinerators and piles of trash at back of lot Cap- parently belonging lo house next door) more easily visible. 1 Garage door clean off--and leaned up against building. Trees in bloom fall to hide trellises that are falling Old wheels, old tires and othsr junk in yard.

A gray house needs new paint. The house--a bit white one- Is beautiful, and (he back yard as well as the front Is beautifully landscaped. But how dirty (he "neck and tare" are. On the adjoining vacant lots are piles of brush, oil cans where (rash Is burned. Old cans and brush piled on another vacant lot.

Well--a new paint Job, all green and white. More brush on another vacant lot. Old quills swinging on line parallel with street. Weeds waist high, only partly burned, another vacant lot eyesore Palings off the fence, and dangling unevenly In many directions. Contrast--bird bath and oil can In trash Is burned occupv same back yard.

'Nice spot--lot with fall, evenly trimmed hedge all around. Vine and trellis falling down at (lib house. Clean lot, looks like kids been playing ball there. Bravo! Someone piled brush on lot already head-high in weeds. Half-clean lot; papers btam into weeds on other half.

Large two-story house, In good condition, but ugly spot at garage entrance. Hocks, brush, weeds describes a half-block space. Cans, weeds and paper litter corner lot--yes, even beer cans. Weeds grow right out (o the curb, with a narrow trail winding down sfde of block. An old red picket fence, literally falllnj: apart, xo curbing.

Trash cans along; street. Garage with gaping door, much 3unk inside. Weeds and mesquiles so close they brush the car along side of one lot. Old house, no paint, old picket fence falling at all angles. Oarage gaping to show unsightly contents.

Window out, but boards nailed over it. No walks for a block, vacant lots cleaned off, but old unpainted house on adjoining space. Bead vines, old garage, junk made this place unsightly. On the street, an old'roolleM shed, boxes, boards, Junk (in. tot burned off but weeds outline curb.

Wore vacant lots and Junk, followed by a clean lot. Incinerators belching Into street House fairly crying for paint It may have been cream color once. Leaning Tencc losing its palings Garage looks awful, with boxes and' trash plainly visible. Olti sieves and other hash nijpti back yard. Filthy wagon sheet covers old VM bUckcLs and en ebris litters open space between buildings.

Filling station corner study in contrasls: on this side, a clean station w.lh area In back neat ills trass and (rimmed trees- on the other side of the s(rect a run-doTM building, with (y oil cans piled In back and "rant area IHlcrcd Kith pa per weeds. Another old slove in the yard of this house (what do people want to Veep old rusty stoves houe and fences need paint Thicket of mcsquiJK partially screens pile of junk lumber Cowlot along the street, wilh two va Cal TM tar the back yard: another old stove Feed piles belching all around Unpainted house, row of trash "ong lKi Garage building offers a clean ur P'led window-high In Ilic back. Sandwich stand centers lot grounds liitertd with pap aE sins, ramshackle board fence in rear needs fixup and p.iintup. Bravo again-to a service a tion corner. Spottos station, thrifty shrubs and vines, few signs.

The station across the street looks all right, too, but "I junk piled behind the building. A small business house. The sign wig-waggles and needs paint. Iris bloom in an a vacant lot which in contrast lo others nearby, Is quite clean. Uncle Sam probably isn't very proud of the mailboxes along the street.

Posts unsteady and unpainted. Another service Ing." Dumps cjns In draw on next lot, but keeps area Immediate to station spotless. Unpainted building, awning sagging. Open space--but covered with weeds, thicket, ek. Paper banners weaving "unclean." CLEANUP PAINTUP PIXUP provides all the answers.

Here are a few of the suggestions vhlch have been made by work- jrs who have given serious study lo the value of a community-wide Two fast growing shrubs, or a trellis and vines can be used effectively to conceal the.cans used for incinerators. These trash cans should be on the property line, not out In the alley. Nothing ours an otherwise beautiful yard and home like an unsighlly alley scene. Vacant lois plowed once a year look much better than lots which receive no altenlion at all. A still better method Is lo use rate and hoe, pile the trash and have it burned.

If It isn't, it should be against the law for any person to dump trash, cans or garbage of any vacant lot. There is one sandwich sUnd which has all the papers picked up by an odd-job man every day. There may be others following: a similar program, bu( in the most part paper napkins and other (rash blowing from sandwich stands make a cleanup problem for large adjoining areas. Fences in repair make an attractive frame for yards. Paint not only makes a house more attractive it increases its value.

By MOItKY President, Abilene Iteal Eslale Board Most cleanup- palntup and fix- up work done In Abilene during the city-wide campaign be done because ol the personal satisfaction each ol us gets out of seeing our O'AII homes and their surroundings beaulllled. It appeals to our pride and gives a sense of well being that Is extremely pleasant to see our homes blossom out In a new of paint, and our yards become a more harmonious selling for the "House Beautiful." But we we cnnsidercd the actual cash value we are adding to these homes taking mch steps. It has been conservatively estimated that a nen' coat of paint adds twice Its cost to the sale value of the house. Landscaping (he ot In pleasing lines has an even greater ratio on enhancement In sale value. When we consider these actors the expense we encounter making such improvements will lot loom so large on our budget lorizon.

There Is In addition, the element of preservation, or retarding ")1 physical depreciation In a prop- by making necessary repairs when they are needed. One coat paint this year may save put- Ing on two coats next year, or the year after, and thus cut the cost ot repair. Fixing the "broken step" low might save building a new one few months hence. These things are obvious, but they are things we overlook. Since we have become accustomed to seeing the house in its "patntless" condition, we no longer notice that as being unusual.

We have skipped that second so long because it was broken that we have forgotten its need of repair, and now we go from the. first lo the third step as automatically as it the steps Modest Income Purchases Home The construction of substantial, sanitary, and comfortable types ol shelter within the means of fam- built wilh a skip in (hem. a must do Is look at our homes through the eyes of 3 stranger; slare at them is though we had never seen them before and let our natural talent for criticism have a rein. In that manner we will find plenty of faults to correct. Painting to be done, repair that needs attention, and cleaning up that demands action.

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