The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-19
By MARTHA COLE

BUFFALO GAP, Ie&.-lRi-GlrlS- town. LISA, was still unfinished when applications for girls who needed help started pouring in.
 A home for a girl who needs a home, it opened it's doors in this small west Texas town March l3, a cold gray day. Already it had offered refuge to several girls.
 "Girlstown, I relieve, is the first of its kind in the nation,' said its founder. Miss Amelia Anthony. All sorts of provisions have been made for bcys-none before for girls
 Girlstown plans to take in girls from West Texas first and then from over the rest of Texas and the nation.
 At present it can handle 50 or 60 girls.
 eIf more buildings are needed, we will get them Miss Anthony said
 The home is a huge reconverted army barracks set amid an old oak grove covering four acres in the heart of this small town. The walls of the 32 bedrooms are in pastel colors. A picture window stretches across one wall of the rosy-hued living room. An added wing houses @ dining room with shining white tablecloths on tables to seat 50 persons.
 This is a home, not an instl- tution,' Miss Anthony said The girls will be given the same super vision they would get in any normal home. We want them to grow up to be ladies.
 @Our primary purpose is to teach girls the basic principles of life and instill in them the fundamen- tals of Christianity so when they marry they will know how to main- tain a home and thus decrease delinuuency.'
 NlAoo AAltAaptly oi1o 4ANl Sto+A VIII pass on all applicants for the home GHls from infancy to the age of 15' years will be eligible for en- trance. The home will work with juvenile judges. pro5ation officers, welfare agencies and anyone else interested in youths problems.
 
 Girls will be selected carefully from homes where problems have arisen which would leave the girl homeless, from homes where the mother alone may be unable to provide for the girl and from homes where parents believe their daugh- ters may need help in working out their individual problems,7 Miss An thony explained. The girls will be required to at tend public schools. Every effort will be made to see that they get a college education or finish busi- ness course before the home relin- quishes it's supervision. The only re- ligious requirement. is that the girls attend some church each Sunday.
 For recreation there's a tennis court, a swimming pool only two blocks away, picnic tables behind the home and two horses waiting.
 ''I chose a small toWn-Buffalo Gap has 300 population-because the girls can become part of the community, can get more individ- ual attention M.ss Anthony said.
 The girls will have projects each week. she continued. Tn that way they will do something useful and make money also"
 No public donations will he asked for the home. Individuals will be at liberty to make a gift of money anytime they wish Miss Anthony says they can use hay for the horses or anything even pothold- CTS. So far she has backed the pro- ject herself.
 Al donations will be used for the operation of Girlstown,' she said. Operating expenses and ac- counts will be open to the public"
 Seven West Texans are on the advisory board City Judge A. K. Doss of Abilene is the legal ad-