The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1948, Page 8

l HOUSING PLANS MADE FOR ALASKA, E. 6. WILDER SAYS, Private Bui—ld?ng Aids In-| cluded in AHA Director’s Legislative Program Specific plans that would carry into etfect the general program| of the Alaska Housing Authority, were outlined by E. Glen Wilder, AHA director, in Juneau on his way to Anchorage headquarters after attending the National Conference of Housing Authority Officials in| Beattle The Alaska Housing Commission has one intention, Mr. Wilder said, “to seek the best solution to hous-| ing problems in Alaska for Alaska | itseli, not for any other advantages.” One point to which the Housing Director called attention is that the Alaska Housing Authority, which is strictly a territorial agency, might be confused with the FHA or PHA| in the States, and the FHA func-{ tions, which are strictly federal.} “Under the Territorial Legislature’s enabling -act which established the Alaska Housing Authority, we have a somewhat different purpose be-| hind our functions than those in/ the ‘states,” Wilder said. “Where housing authority functions in the states are restricted to public hous- ing, Alaska's chief problem is to solve housing problems.” “We will do everything within our | power and ability to aid private | enterprise and private home con- struction,” Mr. Wilder said. “By bettering the financial situa- tion and, insofar as possible, by re; dueing building costs by the en- couragement of local production of building materials and supplies, we hope to be able to help private enterprise solve the territorial hous- ing problem.” Hopeful that the Alaska Federal Housing Authority can encourage private home construction by co-! ordinating the efforts of individual groups and by apprising them of the various needs in the housing field, Mr. Wilder mentioned the progress that he made in Ketchi- | kan by coordinating community needs and the services the AHA was able to supply. i viding land Mrs. of practical experience, was tech- nical adviser to Bremerton’s. mu- nicipal housing authority which built 9,000 units during the war During this period he saw Bremer- ton grow from a town of 15,000 at the beginning of the war to 83,000 on V-J day. And one of the rea- sons for this growth, Wilder indi- cated was that the town provided housing necessary for the tremen- | dous shipyard personnel brought to Bremerton by the war “It Alaska will cooperate by pro- housing necessary for peo- ple, the people will come to the territory,” the housing director said, | predicting a growth of population and industry for the territory. g MEN OF CATHOLIC PARISH TO HOLD ONE-DAY BAZAAR| | At a recent meeting of the men of the Catholic parish it was de- cided to hold a one day bazaar to raise the necessary funds for the operation of the parish school. H. L. McDonald was appointed chair- man of the Bazaar, Joseph Thibo- deau is in charge of advertising; Robert Thibodeau in charge of tic- ket sales and Mrs. Lloyd Connell Katherine Nordale in charge of publicity. The date set for tre Bazaar is the afternoon and evening of November 3. A new Admiral console radio| phonograph equipped with an au-| tomatic record changer and FM| attachment will be awarded on the evening of the Bazaar. The radio is| valued at $309.95 and is now on display in the window of the Ju- neau-Young Hardware store H ‘The ladies of the parish will have needlecraft and fancywork on sale during the afternoon and evening of Ncvember 3. In the evening dif- ferent forms of entertainment will be provided. There will be a turkey shoot or all who are interested, and a fish pond for the children. Re- freshments will be served by the ladies in the tea room. B INTERNATIONAL NEWS BREVITIES (By The Associated Press) Communists in China had govern- “As a secondary part ot our pro- gram that has been forced upon us by the acuteness of the housing sit- uation in the Territory, we are seeking federal and territorial aids to provide such emergency public housing as is required for those groups of people not served by pri- vate home industry and for those needs that are not met privately when the lack of housing would | retard and jeopardize the develop- men: of the territory.” A .definite program in the form| of territorial and federal aidl through legislation has been formu- lated by the housing commission, Mr. Wilder said, “Proposed legislation to ke pre- sented to both the Congress and the | Territorial Legislature which would | provide funds for aiding in finan- cial marketing or production of pri- vately developed housing is being prepared. Under such legislation we would be enabled to make studies that would aid us in improving the { material and costs situation and included would be provisions for funds to develop public housing if and when that becomes necessary,” said the AHA director. “In these bills we have stipulat- ed that no public housing shall be constructed in any community un- less that community specifically re- quests such housing be constructed,” the director said, and, as an im- portant feature of the AHA pro- gram, he added, “in no case wil such public housing be constructed when it will interfere with the pro- visions of private homes when pri- vate homes are vacant and available in the community at a reasonable renta] or sale price." The importance of housing in the development of the Territory is paramount in the opinion of Mr. ‘Wilder. “Before we can get people up here, we have to be able to®of- ter them decent places in which to live.” “I've talked to the people inter- ested in the pulp projects at Ket- chikan and Sitka, None of these want. to build their necessary hous- ing and it is up to the territory to provide the housing that will be netessary for thie personnel of their organizations,” said Mr. Wilder, in emphasizing the advantage of hous- ing to industry, “But always, and I want to make that clear, our first hope is to de- velop private housing so that a minimum of public housing will be necessary,” was his emphatic con- clusion At the National Conference of Housing Authority officials, in Se- attle, Wilder talked to the Hawalian housing authority executives who told him of the $5,000,000 appro- priated by the Hawailan legislature to develop public housing. The need for Lousing in the Islands is much less than in Alaska, Mr. Wilder said, and there is the additional dit- ference that building costs in Ha- wali are about 50 percent less than in’ Alaska. The Alaska Housing Authority is supported completely by the housing units it operates. These include 31 units, the Channel Apartments, in Juheau; 204 War Housing units in Anchorage and 96 Veterans' Housing units in Anchorage; in Fairbanks, 86 War Housing units, and 72 Vet- eran “apartment units. Wilder, whose background is that ment troops reeling. They apparent- ly had captured the Manchurian capital of Changchun and tk of Shansi and Suiyuan Greek troops took another peak from communists in that country and asserted they k'lled 245 rebels in three days. A U. 8. carrier and eighl navel vessels sailed from Greece for exercises after tive- day visit Two Russian officers escaped the Soviet Union by flying a bomber to Linz, in Austria. The U. S. po- litely returned the plane and one member of the crew who preferred to go home. STOCK @gmidus NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'%, American Can 80%, Anaconda 38%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 29%, Kennecott 59, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 207, U. S. Steel 84}, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,180,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 186.51, rails 61.09, util- ities 35.54. - FROM ANCHORAGE Donna Marie Hubacher of An- chorage is a guest at the Baranof. a QUEAKS in your car mean dollars out of your pocket when you go to trade h @ car on the junk heap. Drive in now for a check-up. differential, chassis . . . th refill and repack wherever arrives! R. W. "We aim to take care of our own”’ with Chrysles-Plymouth rvice that matches Chrysler-Plymouth engineering | Ind Division Returns from ! 21 Precincls NOME, Alaska, Oct. 20.—Reports | of the Second Division's from 21 BERLIN BLOCKADE SUBJECT WILL BE TAKEN UP FRIDAY Issues GoesB-;ck fo Secur- ity Council-New Airlift Trouble Promised 34 precincts in the recent Terri- torial Gener: al Election show following vote: 376. Willlams 318. Auditor, Boyle 441, Goetz 379. Engineer, MacDonald 497, Met-!six neutral powers for a resolu- calf 338. For two territorial Senators: Cnrl!ade, Anderson (R ) 493; the (By The Associated Press) The Berlin blockade issue goes For delegate, Bartlett 757, Stock(pack before the Security Council led Friday. Attorney general, Peterson 497,) The U. S. Britain and France. iwmch accused Russia of endanger- {ing peace looked hopefully at the tion asking an end of the block- A Russian veto can be ex- Ed Anderson ipected, but the record will be made. PARALYZING WORK IN ALL COAL MINES (By The Associated Press) France's communists kept the coal fields paralyzed. They refused even to permit maintenance crews to safeguard the mines, four of which are reported ruined already by flooding. Rail strikes snarled traffic along the Riviera. A Paris sutway strike is predict- One estimate had French coal pro- duction cut by a fifth. The com- munist strikers are aiming mainly, it seemed, at the European recovery plan which is costing the United States more than $5,000,000,000 this year alone. spite of its many rivers and fjords,”| Somme said. “Fish conservation and' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA | ! FRENCH COMMIES; ) | NORWEGIAN SAYS | U. 5. LEADS IN | FISHERY SCIENCE Visitor, Studying Conserv- ation, Lauds Ameri- can Program SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—®— Sven Somme of Norway said the United States was “far ahead’ 'in the field of scientific fish breeding and hatch- ery development. He is head of the salmon and fresh water fisheries division or his government and came | here to study fish culture and con- servation. “Norway is being overfished in | | i i i | ~_ WEDNESPAY, OCTOBER 20,T948 | eat- ened Taiyuan and Kweisui, capitals * wearing away—and 1t doesn’t iake much of that to put 8o don't wait until your car groans for lubrication. his eagle eye on everything—oil filter, engine, transmission, ment will get you a sweeter ride now, and a sweeter tradein deal on the big day when your new Chrysler COWLING CO. 115 FRONT STREET — PHONE 57 (D) 522, Howard Lyng (D) and George Waldhelm (R) 543. For four territorial Representa- tives: William Beltz (D) 583, Frank Degnan (D) 441, Percy Ipalook (R) 584, Frank Johnson (R) 655, W. W. Ldws (R) 524, George Madsen (D) 446, Samuel Mogg (R) 421, and| Almer Rydeen, 589. ‘ The vote to abolish fish traps was 643, against 222 fcr continu- ance. 558, ( PRI PSS MONEY IN BRIDES MATTRESS BUT SHE NEEDS TRAIN FARE SPOKANE, Wash, Oct. 20.—#— A 19-year-old bride who has been | sleeping with $15000 under her! mattress is waiting for a sister to send her train fare to go back to Chicago. She is Mrs. Betty Glenn, whose; 25-year-old husband, Donald G. Glenn, has been arraigned on’ charges of embezzling $27,261 (rumI a Chicago bank. The Federal Bureau of gation announced that $15,000 cash had been found under a ma tress in a home where the newl: weds had been staying. Officers said Mrs. Glenn told them she! hadn’t known it 1 | l | { | Investi- in was there. : The young disabled veteran and his bride of six months have been | hunting and fishing near Addy,| ‘Wash,, for a week. They had been | ing at the home of Mr. and! 1. L. Striker Mrs, Striker said that Mrs. Glenn was “strand- ed” in Addy until she received train fare from a sister in Chicago. 80,000 GERMAN WORKERS STAGE DEMONSTRATION FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 20. —I(M—About 80,000 German workers[ demonstrated in two American zone| cities today against high 1ivmg| costs. ' Some 170,000 attended a one-hour | nrotest meeting in Mannheim, and industrial center, and 10,000 con-;} aucted a similar session in the old university city of Heidelberg. STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tled up by coastwide strike. Princess Louise is scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. HOTEL GUEST W. O. Thompson of Fort Rich- ardson is at the Gastineau Hotel. or in. They're signs of metal Our lubrication man will tura e whole works. He'll renew, necessary. Your small invest- The Russians are tightening the blockade and ignoring the issue in the U. N. Berlin newspapers said the city's Communists are bringing in 3,000 epecial police to strengthen them and help seize any foodstuff com- ing into the city except by the expensive air lift. PRSP L FROM TULSEQUAH improved breeding in modern hatch- eries must be developed soon to help i | { R Big Pacific Survey WASHINGTON.—1— A special Congressional committee appointed to make a survey of all American possessions in the Pacific, will de- part from San Francisco Novemkter repopulate our fishing areas.” liam F. Thompson, director of the Fisheries Research Institute at the University of Washington. He is the guest here of Dr. Wil- AR e L ol | 8. | The committee will go first to' !Hawali, then to Christmas Island, Queen Elizabeth of Romania,! who died in 1916, was the author of a number of books, written' T. O. Anstey of Tulsequah, B. C, Samoa, The Marshalls, Guam, Ja- under the pen name of Carmen; is at the Baranof. 'pan and China, Gordon said. Sylva. 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