RHfi CULLS FOI? BIDS
The Alaska Housing authority has issued
a call for bids for the construction of
75 low-rent units at Fairbanks. Bids will
be opened in ..nchorage on May 8, 1951*
with actual construction expected to start
soon afterwards.
This is the first of four projects of
this type planned for construction thi3
year, it was explained today by E, Glen
Wilder, Executive Director of the <<..H
Besides 75 units at Fairbanks, a bid call
for 50 units at Juneau is expected to go
out later this month, ahd a call for the
construction of another 50 units at Ketch-;
ikan early in May. One hundred and fifty
units planned for .'.nchorage will follow if
there remains sufficient building season
to get well underway with construction be
fore ngxt winter. Wilder eaid.
Low-rent housing is constructed with
Federal financial aid as authorized by
Congress in the Housing .»ct of 1949* It
is rental housing to be made available for
families of low-income who by reason of a
limited income could not otherwise afford
to rent decent standard dwelling accommo
dations. The projects will be owned and
operated by the ..laska Housing authority.
The Fairbanks project is to be located
between West Second ..venue and West Tenth
Lvenue, and will be two-story units con
tained in ten multiple unit buildings plus
a management and maintenance office build
ing. The construction contract will in
clude, besides the building, the install
ation of utilities, central heating plant
and the construction of streets, walks,
and yard areas.
The low-rent projects planned by the A.
H.„. will be a real asset to the four
communities, 7/ilder declared, and will
assist greatly in overcoming the serious
shortage of standard housing, especially
where private enterprise cannot fee expect
ed to supply decent housing for families
of lower income.
BARTLETT'S HEWS-LETTER
United States Commissioners in Alaska
will be able to retain as annual compensa
tion $7,500 in net fees instead of the
present $5,000 limit if the terms of a
bill Delegate Bartlett introduced in the
House, becomes lav/.
In 1948* the limit on the ceiling of
$31000 in effect for 48 years was raised
to #5,000. On March 20 of this year the
Judicial Conference adopted the recommend
ation to raise the limitation on the net
fees v/hich commissioners in the Territory
may retain from $5,000 to $7,500 a year,
and two days later Delegate Bartlett in
troduced the legislation to place the re
commendation in effect.
DON'T FORGET ME* MEETING aERIL 14, 8 P.M,
iltlllS LEI TER CON'TD.
Delegate Bartlett will serve on three
subcommittees of the House Merchant Marine
and Fisheries Committee in accordance with
assignments made thi3 week.
The three subcommittees are Coast Guard,
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, and
Alaskan Problems.
On ..pril 24 the native reservation at
Hydaburg will be established, according to
an order signed this week by Secretary of
the Interior Chapman.
The same order revoked the proclamation
issued in 1949 setting up reservations at
Shungnak, ivobuk and Barrow. Following the
proclamations signed by Julius Krug on the
last day of his tenure of office as Sec
retary of the Interior, the natives of
Hydaburg, Shungnak, hobuk and Barrow held
elections and only the natives of Hydaburg
approved the reservation proclamation.
GRpriGE PLflns nm-ofiy omcE
Do you want to be "QfJEEN OF THE Iv_Y"?
If you are of high school age, you are el
igible to compete in the May Day dance to
be given May 26th., in the High School
Gym., and sponsored by the Northland Pi
oneer Grange.
For more information, see Carol Stephan,
at the Co-op Creamery.
Marylou Lashbrook has returned from her
trip to Valdez, where she held Craft Shop
for the Valdez Homemakers1 Clubs, Miss
Lashbrook said that meetings were very
well attended, and that they also organ
ized 4-H Clubs while there.
LETTER TO THE SETTLER con'td,
one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five
tons for the coal he was pulling, plus
ninety tons for the coach and twenty-five
tons for the little red caboose, and ask
your daddy, if he was going thirty miles
per hour with his car and all this added
weight-- if he slammed on his brakes—
how far would he go before stopping?
You know Santa Claus conies only once a
year. But Santa's nephew, the railroad
engine, comes every day and at any hour,
and brings you groceries, lumber, candy
and everything you need to enjoy life, and
for your happiness*
Santa's nephew pretty nearly hit one
little child last Friday, That poor old
engine cannot stop—it would lay down and
die rather than scratch one of you little
lads.
Now, 1 know a new way to enjoy this nice
spring weather. Over in the fields there
is just as much water and it's just as
muddy, ahd it runs down-hill better than
on the tracks. So, let all the children
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