Botanic Garden Homes Open To Occupants 1 Month Early

Work on the 128 family project where the Botanical Gardens used to he has gone so well that the first new occupants will be able to move in to some of the apartments this month. According to the original schedule on one would have been able to move in until December.

The entire development, according to the contract, is to be finished by March, but it will probably be done early in January.

The majority of the tenants, it is expected, will not be connected with the University. The University's chief motive for replacing rare flora with houses was to make money.

Veterans of World War II will get the first chances to rent apartments, in accordance with the Rent Act of 1949. The next priority goes to members of the faculty, students and the staff of the University. Then the general public gets its chance at the apartments.

The rent, which will range from $155 to $190 dollars per month, is thought to be the main reason why students won't want to five there.

The group of apartment buildings and small houses, designed in somewhat modern style, stands across the street from the back door of Moors Hall. The three-story and the combination two-story and three-story apartment houses at the corner of Linnaean and Rayment Streets will be the first occupied.

All the buildings are now swimming in deep grayish mud, but the plot will eventually be landscaped.