VALLEY SETTLER
Published once a week in Falmer,
Alaska for the Matanuska Valley
Farmers’ Co-operating Association,
for the purpose of giving news of
the Association's work, problems
and accomplishments.
By... Lucille Le Due
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AHA PROJECT FOR
FAIRBANKS AREA
Closing the loan on the largest
project undertaken by the Alaska
Housing Authority by lending
.'52,257,200 to build 150 single
family homes near Fairbanks, will
be a major matter of business at
the quarterly meeting of AHA to be
held in Juneau January li|-15-lb,
according to E. Glen Wilder, Ex
ecutive Director.
''The 1G0 single family homes be
ing built on Bentley’s Island near
Fairbanks will be the first large
scale complete housing project
undertaken in Alaska," E. Glen
Wilder said. "The 83 acrea of the
project, will have paved streets,
curb and -utter,, side wa-lks*, street
lighting, sewers, and sewage treat
ment plant. These facilities are
under the supervision of the A
laska Public Works administration
whereas the-bulling of the I50
homes is a direct loan by the A
laska Housing Authority," Wilder
stated.
11 Also to be taken up at this
quarterly meeting, which is the
30th consecutive meeting of AHA, is
whether the Board shall ask Con
gress for $1,275,000 the differ
ence between our present loan ap
propriations and our total author
ized capitalization; or whether we
shall further serve the people of
Alaska and aid private builders in
meeting the progressive housing'
needs of the Territory by asking
Con‘ress to increase our total
loan fund," Wilder declared.
Ther.e is .an increasing interest
in building low-cost homes in A
laska. This interest is being ex
pressed by large scale builders
who have constructed completely
self-contained projects in critic
al housing areas in the States.
These projects consist of as many
as 2,000 homes. Interest is being
shown in the major cities of Alaska
*
by these contractors and if these
projects develop, they may fjo a
lon.-i; way toward permanently solv
in' our housing problems in the
Territory," Wilder said.
To help solve these problems and
matters of major policy, Rcvorcnd
Faul C. O'Connor, S.J., Chairman
and 2nd Division representative,
has called the meeting for January
l[(.th in the Senate Chambers in
Juneau. Other members of the AHA
are Jake Croploy, Juneau, 1st Div
ision Representative; Harold n.
Byrd, Plat, J+th Division Rcprcsonfc
ative; Zac Loussac, Anchoraro, J>rd
Division Representative; and Mrs.
Louise W. Miller, Ketchikan, Com
missioner at .Lar^e.
OPS NEWS RELEASES
JUNEAU--The first "tailored" reg
ulation drawn up entirely by the
Alaska Office of Frico Stabiliza
tion, went into effect January 9*
It sets specific ceilings on anti
freeze and lowers prices on this
product 5 to 10 cents a gallon in
some areas, according to Fred G.
Hanford, territorial OPS director.
Ceiling price for T'-pc F anti
freeze, which constitutes the bulk
of sales in Alaska, was set at
$3*95 a gallon for the Juneau area.
Other less common types are Typo
S, a non-permanent anti-freezej
Type SC, a volatile or non-perman
ent type containing more than 3
per cent v/ater by volume, and Type
N, a non-permanent type containing
fermentation ethanol. Prices for
these are pl.65, $1.55 and $2.15
per r:allon respectively.
These prices also were set for
Ketchikan, Sitka, Wrangell, Peters
burg, Skagway and 'Haines. Higher
prices are allowed for the Fair
banks and Anchorage areas.
Studies by the local OPS office
show that over 80,0u0* gallons of
anti-freeze arc- -usod by Alaska
automobile and boat owners at the
beginning of each winter, and a
nother 20,000 gallons arc used dur
ing the winter rponths• At current
prices it is ostimatod over *>360,
000 is spent annually by Alaskans
for anti-freeze.
The new regulation covering these
sales, Ceiling Price Regulation 111
was prepared by Lauren Lucas of the
Juneau OPS staff, under the direct
ion of Charles W. Peters, price
executive.
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