The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-10
Housing Facilities For the
 Muscle Shoals District fo
 BeProUidedBy GoUernment
By H. FoNrAINE LITTLE

Sheffield, June -(SpeciaL)-Th burning question of the hour in the Mus cle Shoals cities of Sheffield, Florenee and Tuscumbia is that of providing hous- ing facilities to accommodate govern ment workers engaged and to be en- gagged nere in the completion and opera tion Ct the government nitrate plants. Officials are now giving this matter seri- ous consideration with view of offering government aid in solving the problem, which has become in part one of the most serlous confronting this district. In the present emergency it is highly probable that the government will take immediate action and authorize the building of a large number of houses here.
 The Tri-Cities committee, composed CT Willis G. Waldo, J. T. Kirk, W. H.. Mitchell and Henry Bradshaw, have re- turned from Washington, where they were in conference with, and presented data to Otto Eidletz of the department of labor, who, it is understood. will make recommendations in the premises Members of the committee report that the Washington officials are in sympathy with the movement inaugurated here, to solve the housing problem without further delay.
 Under the plans formulated locally tae government would construct, beginning immediately, 800 houses for government employees In these environs. and for the same purpose, citizens of Sheffield, Florence and Tuscumbia are building CT ring tO hiIild additional 1tbJ houses. The hope is entertained locally that this programme will be carried out and the houses completed before she winter months ensue.
 East Sheffield is rapidly becoming an integral part of Sheffield, as equal in importance to this city s growth as the West Sheffield section, where Nitrate Plant No. l is located, and numerous other industries. abound. East Sheffield is immediately contiguous to Nitrate Plant No. ?. at Muscle Shoals, and is already the scene of much building ac. tivity and development otherwise. Shet- fields corporate limits were recently extended to take. in the East Sheffield section, winch added more than IUjU population to the city proper. Subdiyi- 5ions have been opened up in this sec ton, and many dwellings and stores are being built there. @s~
 AcCOTllUS lO reports TeC6iNcu ncIS +tL9 chief engineers office in Washington has issued an order of transfer to Mai. w. s. Winn, district United States engl- neer at Nashville, sending him to Muscle Shoals as district engineer in charge of the Muscle Shoals division of the Ten nessee river. Major Winn has been ac- lively identified with the Muscle Shoats district for many years, having been one of the co-laborers of Colonel Worth ington in the Muscle Shoals campaign.
 Under the order issued Major Winn will take up his new duties here imme- diately.
 Improvements in the Sheffield post office, under the direction of Postmaster J. R. Coleman, have just been completed. and as a result the public is being a. corded improved service Additional windows and new signs and a lobby booth for the sale of stamps and money orders have been provided.
 The government is seeking larger quar- ters for the local office. the present building being entirely inadequate for