HOUSING: The Templeton System

"Private enterprise had better get a social conscience if it's going to justify its existence." The speaker was Harry R. Templeton, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co. And last week Templeton showed that he had a social conscience. Builders started work on a 50-unit veterans' housing project. The Templeton system, he thought, would solve the veterans' housing shortage if enough other advocates of private enterprise followed it.

Harry Templeton did not think that the Government was getting houses built fast enough. So he got together with Realtor Milton Ludwig and Builder George B. Payne to form the Painesville Civic...

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