Home Building Experts To
Conduct Housing Conclave
Many home building experts will be on hand to speak on
•their own particular fields at the Home Builders Conference to
“be held this weekend by the Cooperative Extension Service of
the University of Alaska.
The program, which will be held on the evenings of March
29 and 30 and all day on March 31, will include information on
financing housing, permafrost prob-*
lems. construction principles, and
landscaping.
Participating in the conference,
which will be held in room 946. Arc
tic Bowl, will be: Mrs. Mary Put
nam. City Planning Officer: Irving
Abbott of the Arctic Alaska Test
ing Lab: Jim Matthews, District Ex
tension Agent: R. L. Voss, Regional
Sanitarian. Alaska Health Dept.:
James Miller: Dale Sanner. Farm
' ers Home Administration: and Don
ald Bruce of the Alaska National
Bank.
Also participating in the three day
affair will be: Glenn Willacy, Real
tor: Ivan Branton. Agricultural En
gineer; Ray Pierce, Extension Edi
tor: Ed Osborne. Gray. Rodgers and
Osborne. Architect and Engineering
Firm; Mrs. Catherine Oberg, Phil
leo Engineering; Harold Pillsbury,
Extension Horticulturist; and Ag
nes Sunnell, State Home Economics
Leader. Extension Service.
Opening Meeting
On Thursday evening, starting at
7:30 p.m„ the group will discuss
standards for planned cities.' stand
ards for rural zoning, permafrost
problems in housing, and water and
sewage disposal.
On Friday. March 30. starting at
7:30 p.m. the group will discuss
water conditioning and treatment
recommendations, and rural and ur
ban house financing.
On Saturday. March 31. the con
ference will begin at 10 a.m. Dur
ing the morning the group will dis
cuss construction principles, in
sulating and vapor seals, housing
plan services, utilizing an architect
in home building, and use of color
in interior decorating.
Local Chamber
Needs Volunteers
Volunteer workers are needed at
the Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce to help in answering tourist
mail and general information in
quiries. The work consists of stuff
ing and addressing envelopes,
mimeographing, sorting and mail
ing.
No experience is necessary. Per
sons interested please call Mrs.
Baird, GL 2-1105, or come to the
Chamber Log Cabin. 550 First Ave.
After lunch, the group will dis
cuss selecting and landscaping a
homeside and planning good space
and home traffic patterns.
Alaska Airlines
Plans To Train
Alaskan Workers
Plans are presently underway for
the establishment of a school to
train Alaskans in airplane mechan
ics and other ground crew func
tions.
R. E. Murray, director of train
ing for' Alaska Airlines, last week
conferred with Senator Ernest
Gruening and officials of the De
partment of the Interior concerning
his firm's planned program.
The airline plans to institute a
14-month ground crew training
course to train Alaskans. By train
ing Alaska residents, the firm feels
it will eliminate a past problem
which has faced many Alaskan
firms, when, after considerable
training, employees choose not to
remain in Alaska.
Murray feels the school will solve
a problem common to all airlines in
Alaska. According to Murray, many
individuals on ground crews are
nearing the retirement age, and re
placements must be found.
He pointed out that while Alaska
Airlines’ training school at Payne
Field, Wash., has trained many
pilots, navigators, stewardesses, and
other personnel for the various air
lines in Alaska, there has been no
training for ground crew's.
PLAN FIRST ALASKA RAINBOW ASSEMBLY
Alaska will have its first Grand i
Rainbow Girls' Assembly in August
1963.
This was the decision made re
cently in Anchorage by Alaska s
Grand Rainbow Executive Board.
Members representing all sections
of Alaska met in conference there
to decide the feasibility of plan
ning a grand assembly for all
of Alaska sometime in the near
future. The group unanimously de
cided to go ahead and formulate
plans for such a meeting with the
target dates, August 23, 24. 25, 1963.
The host assembly and city of the
meet will be decided by the board
at a later date. Robert M. Parkins,
Supreme Rainbow Deputy of Alas
ka said. Grand assemblies will be
held in alternate north and south
portions of Alaska each year.
Parkins explained mai iur o.>
years. Alaska has been part of a
grand jurisdiction composed of the
states of Washington and Idaho, but
about one year ago Alaskans were
informed by the Supreme Interna
tional Order of Rainbow for Girls
that the 49th State had been made
into a separate jurisdiction. That
meant that this is the last year that
Alaska Rainbow Girls will partici
pate in a tri-state meeting.
In fact, the executive board stated
that they hope to have the new
Alaska Grand Rainbow officers for
196.3 installed this June in Spokane
at the Grand assembly there.
1,025 Active Girls
At the present time there are
about 1025 active Rainbow Girls in
Alaska in about 13 active and one
inactive Rainbow assemblies.
Members serving on the Grand
Executive Board for Alaska other
than Mr. Parkins include Mrs. Os
car Elisen, Miss Norma Brekke,
Miss Barbara Peterson, Mrs. Hal
Drinkall, Charles Wilson and Mary
Halm.
Parkins, who is Supreme Deputy
of Rainbow in the State is also past
master of Mt. Susitna Lodge No.
294. F&AM. He resides at 629 15th
Avenue. Anchorage.
Mrs. Elisen. who is a past matron
of Juneau Chapter No. 7, Order of
Eastern Star, will serve the board
as president. She has served on the
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Juneau Rainbow Assembly No. 3
Rainbow Board for many years.
Miss Brekke. who is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brekke.
1522 J 5th Avenue. Anchorage, and a
charter member and Past Worthy
Advisor of North Star Rainbow As
sembly No. 9, will serve as board
vice-president.
Secretary of the board is Miss
Peterson, a member of Anchorage I
Rainbow Assembly No. 5. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon
C. Peterson, 3307 Greenland Avenue.
The newly elected treasurer is
Mrs. Drinkall of 213 Marathon
Drive, Seward. She is J'r. Past
Matron, Order of the Eastern Star,
chapter No. 10, and Mother Advisor
of Seward Rainbow Assembly No. 6.
Grand High Priest of the Royal
Arch Masons of Alaska in Palmer
and active board member is Charles j
Wilson. He is also a past board
member of Palmer Rainbow AssemJ |
bly No. 7 and Past Master of Mata
nuska Lodge No. 239, F&AM.
Mary Halm, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Halm. Ketchikan, and
student at the University of Alaska, 1
will serve on the board as Alaska
coordinator for Grand Assembly
this year. Miss Halm is a Past Wor
thy Advisor of Ketchikan Rainbow
Assembly No. 2 and a Jr. Past Grand
Representative to Michigan from
the States of Washington. Idaho
and Alaska.!
“We hope that Rainbow will be
able to overcome the natural geo
graphical and economic barriers of
this vast state and that within a
few years, girls will have the oppor
tunity to see all the portions of
Alasa and meet their distant west
ern and southeastern neighbors, thus
uniting the state through the young
women of tomorrow," the board
summed up.
FAA MEN HERE
N. W. (Pat) Noble, public affairs
officer, Alaskan region. Federal
Aviation Agency in Anchorage, was
a visitor in Fairbanks last week.
Sanford Peterson, Fairbanks FAA
station manager, accompanied Noble
locally on the latter's visits with
local businessmen and officials.
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effective
April 1,1962
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For the benefit of our patrons we have a direct line
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