Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1936 — Page 22

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FARM COLONY | IN MATANUSKA HELD SUCCESS!

3000 Vie for 40 Vacancies, Director Says; Cites. "Project’s Growth,

BY ROBERT S. BROWN ! Times Special Writer i WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — The government has a waiting list of some 3000 families who want homesteads in the Matanuska farm colony in Alaska. There are only 40 vacancies. One hundred and sixty-two families of the group which made the original trek northward have firmly estab- | lished themselves. Houses have been | built, roads "improved, a commu-~ | nity center put in operation and first crops harvested.. | This fall snug, comfortable and | efficient schoolrooms will be avail- | able. A hospital was completed | several months ago, and a trading post, creamery, cannery and meeting hall are in operation. More than 1000 acres were under | cultivation, Eugene Carr, director | of the Alaskan relief project, said | here today. All types of crops ex- | cept corn and tomatoes were grown | “with excellent results, he said.

Find Ready Market The colonists have found a ready |

market for their produce. The | farm plots lie’ along the Alaskan |

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to Fairbanks. It is only a short | haul to the towns and villages along - the route. Mr, Carr said approximately 800 “men, women and children are on | the farms. In addition Sheeley, general manager of the project, an administrative staff .of | 19 is employed. There are seven attendants at the Matanuska Hospital and 28 more working for the trading post, barber shop and other community utilities. : The houses built for the colonists, who came mostly from northwestern states, are of frame, log or frame-and-log construction. They are so constructed that additions can be | made, No settler lives more than eight miles from the community center. Barns to house livestock and farm machinery have been constructed along with houses.

Families Quit Relief Of the 162 families established, eight were able to go off relief the first year, raising enough produce to meet their own needs and selling

a sufficient amount to provide a cash income. The others still get subsistence payments from the government averaging about $35 a month, an amount slightly lower than it cost to maintain them on relief rolls in the states. Each family has a contract with the Alaskan Rural Rehabilitation Corp., a government-operated com‘pany. It provides that for-the first three years the homesteader is not ~ obliged to begin payments on his land, house and other chattel property. Then he begins to pay yearly a part of the principal plus interest at 3 per cent. He has 30 years to pay off the mortgage. . The government loaned the famflies almost everything necessary for them to earn their own living. Horses, cows, chickens, pigs and sheep have been imported and turned over to the settlers. Seed and farm machinery have been supplied. . Zero During Winter

The land cost the government about’ $7.50 an acre. Asked about the weather in the Matanuska Valley, Mr. Carr said it was more constant than in most sections of the United States. ‘Last winter the average temperature was one degree above zdro during the coldest part of the year, he said. “This summer the temperature has averaged about 69--de= grees.” Mr. Carr said the families which returned to the statés following the migration” last year were largely those not suited for rugged agricultural pursuits. He said that in filling the vacancies the government was demanding families with farm background. “We still have many problems to iron out up there, but I am convinced that the project is a success,” he said. | “Many of the stories which came out of the colony during its early days did riot represent the sentiment of the majority.”

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Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind, Sept. 8—The | | Rev, Charles I. Stephenson, Rush- |

ville Christian Church pastor, has | | accepted a call to become pastor | { of the Wooster Avenue Church ol { Christ at Akron, O. where he succeeds the Rev. Harold L. Lunger. | He is to begin his new duties on | | Sept. 20.

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FRANKLIN, Ind. Sept. 8.—The| following Pledges have been initiated!

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That night she was awakened by a deafening

“Looking into the square,” she said, “I saw men and women shouting, waving guns and axes and all kinds of weapons. The ‘Viva Republica!’ ” Confused days followed public services were discontinued. She was a virtual prisoner for two weekc while’ the siege continued,

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into Delta Delta Delta Sorority at { Franklin College: ‘Mary Lucia Manning, Anderson: | Martha Ellen Carlock, Washington,

D. C.; Lois Gable, Monticello: Mary |

White and Virginia Patterson, both | of Franklin, and Rubylea Chambers, Princeton.

ROBBED OF 125 MELONS

Awakened while sleeping in his truck in front of a market at [South and New Jersey-sts, Earl | Adams, 52, of 153912 Madison-av,

| was slugged and robbed of 125 wa-

| termelons and four bags of onions, he reported to police today.

STEAL BUTCHERED HOG Burglars carried away $40 worth

| of assorted meats; including a whole

butchered hog, from James Taylor's Meat Market, 701 Indiana-av, the owner reported to police today. The theft is believed to have occurred early Sunday morning.

VOLUNTEERS PLAN REUNION

The sixtieth annual reunion of Col. A. E. Streight’s regiment, the Fiftyfourth Indiana Volunteers, is to be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Hattie M. South Hopkins, 328 Bright-st.

+ UTILITY VALUE BOOST CHARGED AT CONFERENCE

Heavy Book Writeup Over Physical Worth Is Contended.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—H. BS. Persons, New Deal power consultant, charged before the third World Power Conference today that Amo-ri-ca’s private utilities place a $17,000,000,000 “book value” on their properties, although = their physical worth is about $12,000,000,000.

Mr. Persons, a consultant for the Rural Electrification Administration, set off an expected extensive debate between utility officials and Federal officers. Declaring the power industry in the United States is “essentially monopolistic,” he said: “It has built up a book value of properties amounting to $17,000,000,000 on a physical value of about $12,000,000,000.”

Regulation Brought Up

Mr. Persons put government regulation in the discussion forefront, adding private utilities are “prolific in the exploration of the twilight

zone of ‘enterprise ofganisation tre from both Federal and State control.”

J. F. Fogarty, ptesiient of the | North American Co. of the United ! States, answered for the utilities, de- | claring the New Deal's regulation | of holding companies is an “appar- |

ent indictment” of the system.

Judge Robert E. Healy of the Se- | curities and Exchange Commission |

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