The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1946, Page 8

FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAM HERE IS OUT FOR PRESENT Seek Owner Cooperation in Improving Present Structures for Use r representatives of var- organizations gath at the City Hall ir n ways and solution Juneau’s itical housing ge. n considera delegate Club Forty-f fous Junea ed last evening earnest means current In the the of shor sue Juneau Woman's bro forward that or program to . provide a center and civic recreational ilities Three principal suggestions were advanced for meeting the housing crisis: Use of Yakutat Huts still standing at Duck Creek, removal here of shelters left behind by the Alaska Spruce Logging Program at Edna Bay and use of Quonset Huts at the Juneau Subport Investigation conducted this morning by Mayor Ernest Parsons has shown it impractical to move the Edna Bay buildings here be- cause of the extensive cost of transportation by tugs and barges and the considerable labor involv- ed in dismantling and re-assem- bling here. Subport Housing Also, the present status of the Subport housing is indefinite and the red tape so involved as to make it unlikely that use of vacant Quonset Huts there can immed- iately be obtained. However, use of the Subport huts was first ad- vanced as housing relief for war veterans by the Veterans of Foreign Wars post here and the post is continuing to strive tq that end in cooperation with the City admin- istration. Fifteen of the Duck Creek huts have been turned over to the Alas- ka Native Service, and it is pos- community fac- 50 of ! s that no funds are presently avail- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946 retained Army Engine may be for temporary housing relief Rehabilitation Mose likely solution put forward alleviate the housing shortage here is to secure the cooperation of owners of currently incomplete and unlivable ps to finish or rehabilitate their structures suffi- ciently to make them suitable for emergency housing accommodations. To that end, 0 such prop- erties are asked to contact the City Engineer, who will survey the properties and seek means for fit- ting*them for use. No Federal Funds The suggested project to secure additional Federally financed pub- lic housing here has been put aside the since information from George Housing Admin- Representative of foi by evenir obtained at 8 o'clock, to check on develop- ments regarding both the housing and recreational programs. Asked to attend next Monda are all those present last evening as well such other citizens as are in- terested others as e, — ® e 0 00 0 v 000 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning e o o In Juncau—Maximum, mirimum, 34. At Airpoiv—Maximum, 36; minimum, 33. . ° . s of . . . 37, present been received National Regional WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Coplen, istration Occasional rain or and not much change in temperatice tonight and Wednesday Southeasterly winds 15 to 20 m.p.h. de- creasing Wednesday. Lowest temperatuic near freezing. sSnow Federal J. L. housing McNamara night’'s meeting for such City Engineer Yeported to last that the campaign launched last week to collect data on housing needs here has resulted in return to him of 23 filled-out questionnaire forms. More are still coming in to his office, he reported and, of those on hand by last night, 60 percent are from ex-service men with fam- ilies Mackay able HEINKE OPENS NEW PLUMBING-HEATING REPAIR SHOP HERE Malcolm, local architect and Lions Club community welfare committeeman, is to be named by Mayor Parsons as temporary chair- man in charge of seeking housing rellef, pending formation of a per- manent emergency housing com- mittee to be selected from interest- ed local groups. { The need for a civic recreational program was presented by Mrs. Don Foster, the JWC, and by Girl Scout Councilors Mernice Murphy and Virginia Ashcraft. More meet- ings on the matter to work out to just what extent the City is justi- fied and able to expend toward a community recreation center are to be held In the meantime, it is proposed that the City Council ap- ply to the Federal Works Agency for advance planning funds for recreation center, similar to the Joans already obtained for planning of other civic buildings. The opening of a repair shop, specializing in plumb- ing and heating, at 929 Twelfth Street, has just been announced by the owner-operator, Frank Heinke. Heinke needs no introduction to most Juneauites, having been a resident of this city for many vears, and with the Harri Mach- ine Shop for the past 20 years. D - WAGES OF CRIME PORTLAND, Ore. —A woman re- ported today a man had offered politely to-hold her heavy shopping bay while she waited for a bus— and then he ran off with it She was enroute to a relative’s farm to bury a dead dog which she of at the City Hall WILLISON- TRIAL HERE TOMORROW Negro Sailor to Face Mur- der Charge Growing Out | of Shipbqgrf! Stabbing James Franklin {:nany days in Court here tomor- row, when the first of two murder trials on the current District Court calendar gets under way. Willis, undez indictment by the Grand Jury of murder in the sec- ond degree, has pleaded not guilty to the charge. Defense counsel for Wwillis local attorney M. E. Mon- agle with R. E. Robertson asso- ciate counsei. Willis, a |charged with negro Navyman, is slaying a shipmate aboard a U. S. Navy vessel, the |0. 8. 8. strom, at Wrangell jast Navy day. A coroner’s jury at Wrangell brought in a verdict ‘ac- cusing Willis, a fireman, of stab- new general Willis will have what is likely to be the 'first of ; to death Leonard Phillip Si ‘qum\v, a seaman aboard the Sell- | strom Robert - Waters, a boatswain's mate, testified at the inquest as an witness cf the knife assault which climaxcd a quarrel between willis and Supernaw. Waters un- derstood the quarrel grew from willis having kicked Supernaw carlier in the evening. i Otuer men:bers of the Sellstrom’s crew, at the time, asserted the crime a result of several days of quarreling between Willis and Supernaw and that Supernaw, a 180-pound white man, had been picking on” the 140-pound negro. The final qnarrel was stated to have begun itz a Wrangell cocktail bar Sclection of a trial jury will be the opening wvroceedure in Court here tomorrcw and is expected to consume a large part of the day, it does not extend over into Thursday. A special venire of jur- ors was ordered drawn last week by Presiding Judge J. W. Kehoe, in order to bring the petit panel up to 80 jurors before opening the raurder trials. An unusuelly large number of peremptory challenges is available to both prosecution and defense in trials of murder charges. pected to speed selection of a trial jury for the Willis case is fact that Ittle is known here of its cir- cumstances. eye i Il been keeping one eye cocked on Capitol Hill. That's Lecause a new GI Bill has been in the making. Way back in September, I wrote a couple of articles about what I thought the House and Senate might do. At that time it looked lik> the new bill was well on its w to becoming a law Then the Senate changed the House amendments, and the House and any possible future bonus. Well, that clause is out the win- dow. If there ever should ke a bonus, there won't be any deduc- tions. That goes for the read- justment allowance, too. There you have the most impor- tant changes with respect to the education provisions. Soon T'll ex- plain how I think some of these changes are going to work out, and what they mean. Pan American World Airways clip- per at Shannon, County’Limerick, and was presented to City Hall by an she City Hall Kouncil would be more appropriate. EORGE BROTHER Liquor Store Phones 92-95—2 Free Deliveries Daily Loiten’s Agquavit 0SLO, NORWAY 6.70 Fifth ‘Metaxa Brandy 5STAR...GREECE Z.50 Hali Fifth TILE PRINT — Design- ers went into a huddle with some building material and came up with this new tile print which is draped around Model Adrian Storms. KIFTY MOVES IN NEW YORK—Kitty Kouncil, a Our Prices Are Lowest inJuneau EORGE BROTHER Liquor Store Liquor Depariment open fo 12 p. m. every wee bit of a cat born in County Limerick in Eire, took up residence today in City Hall where Arnold County Mayo boy, Mayor William O'Dwyer, is head man. The cat stowed away aboard a stewardess. Originally dubbed O'Clipper, but attaches decided Kitty airline was e didn't seem to like it much, nothing happened. Up to now, $2,000 was tihe larg- Recently, though, the House and | est part of a loan the government Senate got together in a joint con- could guarantee under the GI bill ference, ironed out some of their|loan provisions. But the new law disagreements, and reported a bill says Uncle Sam can guarantee up acceptable to both. That bill has to $4,000 on all real estate loans— now passed both houses, and has|loans for homes, farms and pieces President Truman’s signature,~In|of land. Top business loan guar- short, it's the law of the land. | antee remains $2,000. So, quickiy, iet me iry and give| Lots of loans in the past have you the scoop on some of the most hadl to be black-marketed because important changes in the new bill. the value of the property was not Later, I'll go over the whole she- considered reasonable and normal. bang carefully ¢ | .But under the new bill it doesn't First, education — the set upls have to be. It just has to be “rea- quite different. No more age {tm- Scnable.” That is, the value must its! Every Ex-Joe and Jane get be In keeping with the present- one year plus one month for every day values of similar pieces of prop- month they served. Of course, you €rty. I'm told this means a lot have got to have the right kind'of more loans will be okayed. discharge, and must have served at| Youll have up to ten years af- least 90 days. | ter the official end of the war to Top limit of free GI Bill edu-|apply for a GI loan. Farm loans cation is still four years. But the don't have to be repaid until 40 subsistence allowances are up. Years after they're made and home Single vets get $65, those with de-|loans can run for 25 years. | pendents, $90. In at least one big respect red You'll now be able to take short,|tape and confusion are cut from intensive courses which may cost the loan provisions as they used $500 for less than “an ordinary;to work. I'm running out of space school year.” And youll be able here, so that’ll have to wait until to take= correspondence courses, L:€xt time. though no subsistence allowance is| e paid. { | The new law says you don’t have' ARMY szI(H | i # 3 2 Baier came here the other day to |ter the official end of the War, gan arm it o D hever 16 later, pid. thet SRETEL. SIS IaUliloe. WELE B | o B ¥OU ' eouldn't find a room. He talked idon't have to finish till nine years!with jack H oA !after the end of the war. DL Jack Hoenkr, 19): &TWest HaE |ginian living in Fremont, convinced | That gives us a little more time} A & [to make up our minds about what ;:'r: the @inly Wae, e RS JER 2 3 , enrolled him and then-rented we want to do in the way of get=|pis room Iting knowledge. | 4 | | Disabled veterans, eligible for vo-| { cational rehabilitation, will now get | DOG’S lIFE | their pensions ,boosted to $105 &, | month while they're in training. It - |used to be $92. If theyre married,! BOISE, Idaho — Seven-year-old | jor have other dependents, they will Patty Peck thought she was in the |get an additional ten bucks, plus “dog house” because she stayed |$10 for their first child and $7 away from home to play—so she | {each for any other children they | slept there. | /may have. Her foster mother, Mrs. Jflmeswl l I've heard some vets complain Pheiffer, said Patty was found in labout the clause in the old GI the dog kennel after a night-long |bill that any money paid them for search. ng in the bag. sible that use of them, as well as Another meeting has been set for was carry LUMBERJACK — BUT You DO NEED 1 A HEARTY BREAKFAST! And here is an old friend back again . . . GOLDEN MIX--Soy and Wheat For Waffles and Griddle Cakes It Needs No Iniroduction — Sold at PIGGLY WIGGLY 'CALL 16 or 24 0000000000000 00000 . Until 2 a. m. Saturday Nights Gas has more than 20,000 in- dustrial uses. | R — ) Loy = @ Many thousands of ‘men in uniform have yet to be returned home from the Pacific theatre. That's Union Pacific's first and most important job. + A Message from Yvonne Cooper to the LUCKY WOMEN i 0. 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