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THURSDAY, FEB. 22, Jutdoor Plumbing—

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Heat Bill Runs About

By ANDREW TULLY,

on can spare the time from to be ashamed of the way the

servicemen are living in this near-arctie community,

£85 to $100 a Month or One-Room Shack

One Family Doesn't Even Have a Pump

Scripps-Howard Staff Write ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 22-1 official Washing.

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- |Alaska Housing Still Snarled Up

Plans More Ample

Than Construction By JIM G. LUCAS

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been building dream houses In Alaska since the end of World War II, Unfortunately, few have ever gone beyond the dream stage. No one is sure how many houses we've built in

its cocktail parties, it ought wives and children of Ameri-

waASHINGTON, er. Setve ve ter set in and work was /Impos-

Alaska. Army

engineers say it

fact no one is against it in principle—always has had tough sledding. } Last year despite the pleas of Alaska's Gov. Ernest Gruening, and of the then Defense Setre-| tary, Louis Johnson, the Senate

and House Armed Services Committees couldn't agree on a $600 million military construction bill. | The wrangle continued until win-|

[sible in Alaska. | Mr, Johnson warned that “delay until January will be eéxpensive. If relief is not imme|diately forthcoming, part of the forces we have sent to Alaska

{will be dissipated. The construc-/ i

{tion season is short. I} | Gov. Gruening was even more||

te the point.

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“Postponement Is the heighto

Would. take two) It means that all

days at least to Wastefulness.

men and their families— mostly enlisted men—are liv-

ing in one-room shacks without plumbing. In many cases, families with three or four children are crowded into these hovels. And they pay rents from

check their records. But they agree — along with everyone else—that we haven’t built

away. When he can hitch rides that’s fine. When he can't—well, his legs are still young and strong. Of course, the corporal and his family share their toilet with only three other families and it nearly enough, rarely gets colder than 10 below No one disaor so in the little structure ex- grees that they need to be built,

Mr. Lucas

{work will have to be stopped, {construction crews shipped home ‘and recruited all over again.” | Rushbs Through Bill | Finally—on Jan. 7 this year—|

struction bill of $111 million, ap{proximately $44.5 million of which/ /is for housing. That includes| [$24.9 million for family quarters, |

WHAT GOES?—Seekin horizons Tony Fardell of Longview, Wash, His dad, Jan Fardell, { Congress rushed through a con-| wide ad ph Thi by = hin peeked over a pillow-to find out what the grown-ups were doing,

cept around midnight. Rented ‘Furnished’

$85 to $100 a month plus an average of $50 a month for heat. Come visit in the home of 8Sgt. Eugene

William H. Epperson—a wife and

other families existing in these sub-human accommodations, they|

Grueschow in an rented their shack “furnished.” outlying section But when they moved in they of Anchorage found no dishes except a few known as Moun- chipped cups and saucers and no tain View. Mr. Tully pots and pans. There's one bed,

: {ambitious Then there's the family of Cpl. Army announced we were spend-

two children, aged 4 and 8. Like ing It said that “may be 1ess the co

military construction in Alaska. know! Use TIMES Classified ads

but, somehow, we've put it off.ig178 milion for barrack |$11, 8 and| There has been no shortage of|g79 million for bachelor officer plans. In 1048, the| uarters,

The Defense Department says that's “all we can build during nstruction season” which than one per cent of the total ryns from May through Septem-| housing contemplated for the ter- per. It's already signing con-| ritory. {tracts and recruiting labor, ] Talked of Major Base | Actually, $24.9 million will buy| It spoke of converting Alaska Only about 770 houses. A family! from. a ‘relatively undeveloped Douse that would cost $14,500 in| defense outpost into a major mili-| the United States costs $32,500) tary base.” Since then, however, |"P there., A prefabricated house the other 99 per cent has been CIN for $9800 here arrives in slow in showing up. (Alaska with a $4000 freight tag |

Since the end of the war, the ON it.

three Armed Services have spent] approximately $377 million on

ing $41 million on Alaskan hous-

TAKE A TIP from folks who,

That figure is deceptive, however. to fill vacancies, recover lost ar1t includes, for instance, the naval ticles, hire good help, sell any-| petroleum reserve at Point Bar- thing and find the job you want.

row and the long-established ’ Alaskan communications system.| YOUll like the RESULTS Times

Moreover, there were no hous-| Want-Ads bring. They're speedy, | ing funds in the first three fiscal reach thousands of homes and! years after World War II. We are so economical! PHONE Riley | didn’t get to it until the fiscal zzz; year 1048, | Since then, as a rule, we have spent about half of the money! appropriated for Alaskan construction on housing. In 1948 Congress was asked for $73.8 million for Alaskan con-|

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It's a pretty warm day, only 3 couple of chairs and a chest. five above zero, compared with|CPl Epperson bought a cot. Now temperatures of 20 below a the kids have a place to sleep. month ago. Surprisingly, most of the teniv. Ono'R ants of Mountain View and similar Only One Room spots around Anchorage are fairIn an unpainted shack €OvV-1y cheerful. At least the family’s| ered with tarpaper lives Sgt. together, they say, and that's Grueschow, his wife and three| something. Only sometimes the children. The shack is one room, smej kind of gets you. You know about 15 by 15. Mrs. GrueschoW now it is, is sitting on the couch chatting] : with a neighbor. Against one wall there's a two-tiered amy.ve (lark $a S UN bunk bed. Robert, aged 3, is sleeping on the lower bunk. Katherine, 2, a tow-head, has just awakened ) in the upper berth against an-| houldn't Wor other wall There's a bassinet in which Paul, 3 weeks old, cries fret-| Sees Gls in Action fully. A curtain in the corner] ! conceals the family's single closet.| Calls Them Best There is a counter with closets| By RICHARD APPLEGATE above the chest. There are also “United Press Staff Correspondent drawers, a cupboard, a chest and] ON THE WESTERN FRONT, a combination desk-table, Heat i8| Korea, Feb. 22 Gen. Mark W.! furnished by an oil cooking range. Clark, Chief of U. 8. Army Field Being a staff sergeant, Gene Forces, saw American troops in| Grueschow has been able to buy action today and said “the United! on terms a small, four-cubic foot Nations have nothing to worry, electric refrigerator, There is no about.” . toilet. There is no wash basin.| “The Chinese.troops are not one There is no sink for drinking fraction as good as our men,” he ‘water. The Grueschows have to said. “We can whip them every walk up the street to a commu- time so long as they do not outnity pump used by 30-odd other number us 10 to 100 per man. | families. Water flows freely from; “Our men are better fighters! the pump except when the pump and better soldiers, better trained freezes. Then Gene Grueschow and with better morale. Their has to go three miles for water. tails are higher.” Common Toilet Gen. Clark, who is responsible To go to the toilet, the Grue- for the training of American schows have to walk 50 or 60:troops before they get to Korea, ! yards tb a community “utility/saw the GI's dug in within rifle room.” This is poorly heated if shot of Seoul, which is still in at all. The shack has space on Communist hands. | one side for men and on the other | - Different Fighting Te for women. There are also show-/ At a forward command post, ers’ which often have hot water the World War II commander of and tubs for doing the family American troops in the Italian! laundry. campaign said: { The Grueschows are lucky be-| “The fighting here is different] cause they are buying their shack. from any we have known. Our They've made the down payment and now are paying only $60 a month on the mortgage. Of and gentlemanly manner. Now course, they still have to shell we have to fight men who have out $50 or so a month for heat. no moral conception of warfare. And, since they're buying, they're; “They believe in nothing that also charged $5 a month for elec- we feel is important. They have tricity, $5 a month for “ground no rules of honest warfare.” rent” until they buy the lot for, “I do not know where this war the shack, and $5 a month for will end,” he added, “but I know use of the utility room. Their out- our men will acquit themselves lay comes to only $75 a month in- with honor and fierceness.” stead of the $85 most tenants RRO pay. That's not counting the money for heat. | Lucky, at That Yes, the Grueschows are lucky. They're not like the family over on Lane St. several blocks away who dén’t even have a pump. The corporal who is head of this family of four—the kids are 2 and 3— doesn’t want any trouble with anybody so he asked .to stay annoymous.» You might call him Daniel Boone considering the way he and his family live, Anyway, all the water used by this family is carried by the corporal in big pickle jugs from Elmendorf Air Base a couple of miles

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