Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1951 — Page 20

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Gls Based in Alaska Gouged Heavily on Living Necessities

' With Virtually-No Controls, Rentals Bring Whatever Landlords Cah Get

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps- -Howard Staff Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb, 26—Servicemen in Alaska get $ a month as a cost-of-living allowance. draw overseas pay of $8°to $22.50 a month, But this extra dough doesn’t mean much in necessities of life cost roughly twice as much as in the United State =" and where rent control is a farce. —— It isn’t so bad for those family men who can live on the base. They get rent free in plate of their| rental allowance. to the commissary where food and| other things can be bought fog the same prices they bring in the

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They are close

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fourth of our military personnel gome In Alaska can be accommodated (hem, on bases, the lucky ones are the price exception rather than the rule, The rest have to shift for them-tthat a house which costs $5000 to selves among the money-hungry puild in the States costs $15,000

landlords, They usually

end up in one of Mountain View's | one-room cabins with no inside!you've just been inside one ofl four pay those one-room cabins in Moun-|cabin. rom $85 to $100 a month, plusitain View, but you can'® argue dier wouldn't be here If his coun1bout $50 a month for heat. This is real rough on the prirate, who draws $224.50 a month, ess insurance and income-tax de-

for which they

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the in a series of stories about the shameful conditions [to civilization.” under which American service- ww 5 HN men and ‘their families are living in Alaska. . . doesn't seem door or a flimsy partition.

means he ean jack up prices, n ~

| One character, though, was brutally frank. “Sure,” he said, “I'm getting

THERE. ARE a lot of fly-by- | nighters like this guy. And there to be much that But it can be done about them, Half the time they can’t find anybody to run the local rent control of-

MOST L ANDLORDS have the fice, The diréctor now—Miss Jean

story when you talk to|Camon everybody else does,

cept more so. They point

ex-office closed for out months.

But it seems

was

(here, {country in

has only been here since They pay the same high last August and before that the several’

putting it mildly rather bad taste for the richest! the world to let ani

This is not too convincing when! American soldier with a wife and

kids live in

with shrugged shoulders, try hadn't sent him

a one-room Especially when that sol-!

luctions. n corporals,

It is almost as rough who draw $241.05,

place. to pay.

“improvements.” consists ofa new shelf or a storm |

ind on staff sergeants, who draw

$319.60. actly easy on first lieutenants who |

draw $433.88.

It is not considered ex-

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ALL OF these men, of course, are entitled to buy food and other supplies at the commissary, But] it they don’t live on the base this] is often impracticable. don't walk two or three miles) every time you run out of bread | so you pay the civilian grocer 40! cents a loaf, You pay 20 cents a gallon or fuel oil. quast for fresh milk. Not at the end of the month, though, when you're running Then you pay 25 cents a quart! for “recombined” milk, which is powdered milk with water and| vitamins added. Or frozen milk from Seattle at 19 cents a quart,

If you like a couple of beers, that’s one buck, brother—50 cents a bottle. If you don’t have a car,| it costs you a minimum of $1 for.a cab ride, or two bucks if you live outside the city limits, which don’t extend more than a mile or two in any direction.

You just|

And you pay 40 cents a|

low on money.

you buy!

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THE BIG BITE, of course, is your rent. you find the big gimmick. Technically, Anchorage is under rent control. of thé shacks available to military personnel were built after August, 1947, they don’t come under the regulations, landlords can charge whatever they can get. Even if you find a shack where the rent is controlled, however, that doesn't mean much. landlord can get month under the table from somebody else if you don't want the That's what you're going,

That, also, is where

But since most

Thus, the

The $20 more a

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