Men Explain Rent Rules
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 20 — In a question-and-answer
dialog put on over Station FKAR, Steve McCutcheon,
district director of the Office of Price Administration,
and Inspector Everett Hepp of his office, explained
the meaning of the OPA’s rent control. In the course
of the program, Hepp said:
“The Territory of Alaska was designated a ‘defense
rental area’ on May 26th. The 60-day waiting period
thereafter expired long ago. Leon Henderson has con
sequently, within the last few weeks, issued an order
to the effect that rent control shall become legally
effective in Alaska on November 1st.
“Upon that date all rents of dwelling facilities must
go back to the level in effect last March 1st.
From Houses to Shanties
McCutcheon: “The coverage is extremely broad,
commercial as well as residential structures. It includ
es houses, apartments rooming houses, and individual
rooms whether in private homes or in hotels. It does
not matter whether such rooms are rented to transients
by the day or to permanent tenants by the week or
month. In fact, the coverage of the law extends to
every place where people choose to live, trailers, boats,
shanties, or packing cases.”
H pp: “Let me explain how 1 tenant will know
what is the maximum rent ho c :i be charged. ri he
regulation requires that landlords file a registration
state men t sheaving the rent charged on March 1st. He
files, three copies of this statement for each dwelling
unit. One copy is kept by the OPA, one goes to the
landlord, and one to the tenant. Tn this way, the ten
ant can be sure he is not paying excessive rent.
McCutcheon: “Has the date for registration in Al
aska been set?”
Date of Effect
Hepp: “We have not yet fixed the date but it will
be as soon after the first of November as we can get
the forms ready. But rent control becomes effective
November 1:-' in any event. After that date, tenants
should pay exactly what they paid on March 1st —
not a penny more.”
McCutcheon: “Will tenants receive some notice
flora i eir landlords cuncein n. the reduction in their
rent?”
Hepp: "A notice is not necesary. If their rent is
hight than, it was on March 1st. they simply cut it
back to the amount they paid on that date. They do
l this lb ■ fu ! time they pay their rent after Nov. 1st.
McCatel eon: “But suppose they have recently sign
ed a n -,v lease'. Say they were paying $45 a month on
March 1st but on July 1st they s'gned a lease agree
ing to pay $50 a month?”
C ancels All Agreements
Hepp: “In spite of the terms of the new lease their
rent automatically goes back to $45. The new rent or
der wipes out any agreement, whether written or ver
bal, to pay a rent higher than the legal maximum.”
McCutcheon: “There are a number of grounds upon
which a landlord can apply for an adjustment. For ex
ample, if the landlord has made a capital improve
ment since March 1st, such as the addition of a room,
he may apply for permission to increase his rent."
Hepp: “Suppose he paints the woodwork, or installs
a new furnace?”
Cannot Cite Repairs
M Cutcheon: “Such expenditures are not improve
ments because they are in the nature of ‘repairs.’ The
law expects a landlord to maintain his premises in the
condition that they were originally rented.”
Hepp: “Does that principle apply in the other di
rection too? That is, suppose I rent a house with an oil
furnace for $50. Suppose the furnace stops working.
Can f demand a rent reduction if the furnace is not
repaired?”
McCutcheon: “You can not only demand it — you
will get it.”
Hepp: “In other words, if the landlord furnishes
more, he can apply for permission to charge more. If
he furnishes less, he is required to charge less.”
An expansion of the duties and jurisdiction of Steve
McCutcheon, recently appointed director of the Of
fice of Price Administration in the Fourth District,
was indicated with announcement of plans to fly to
Nome to inspect the price-control setup there. This
will mean that McCutcheon will be in charge of the
OPA program in both the Second and Fourth Districts.
Inspector For Nome
There are plans for stationing an OPA inspector at
Nome, who will work out of the Fairbanks office.
McCutcheon said he will fly with Wien Alaska Air
lines and remain in Nome for perhaps a week. There
has been no OPA office in that city, although its price
situation was studied recently in a tour made by Cal
vin Pool, assistant director of the OPA for Alaska,
with headquarters at Juneau.
Meanwhile, Inspector Everett Hepp of the Fair-;
banks office, was scheduled to leave on a trip down the
Alaska Railrod. He will inspect the price-control situa
tion as far down the line as Cantwell, and will step at
Nenana, Healy, and other waypoints.
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Officer Tells
of Progress on
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Alcan Highway
Lieut. Richard L. Neu
berger, aide to Brig. Gen.
James A. O’Connor of the
Northwest Service Com
mand, told members of the
j Juneau Chamber of Com
I merce at a recent noon
luncheon that Gen. O’Con
nor has his staff hope to
visit Juneau in the near
future and talk over the
problems of the new Alcan
Highway relative to how
thev affect Southeast Al
aska.
Lieut. Neuberger, public
Relations Officer, also told
members that Gen. O’Con
nor has extended an invit
ation to any Southeast Al
askan to visit with him
and his staff in White
horse.
Remarkable Achievement
Neuberger. well known
writer and a member of
Oregon’s State Legislature
touched on the early disa
greement concerning the
route of the new highway
which was formally open
ed on November 20, but
.said that he didn't believe
that any disagreement ex
isted when it came to con
sidering the remarkable
c. c h i e cement reached b y
Army engineers and civil
ian workmen in putting
the 1,600-mile road thru
in 6 months, many months
ahead of schedule.
He stressed one point —
“This is not a finished high
way,” he said. Neuberger
pointed out that compared
to roads in the States, the
new Alcan Highway is by
no means completed. In
many places it provides
only for one-way traffic.
Other sections will not be
open to traffic during the
thawing season.
But Very Useful
i “But the road can be us
ed,” he added, “to move
thousands of tons of equip
, meat and supplies to Al
aska from Central Can
ada” beginning tentatively
j on November 20 and ex
tending through the win
ter.
Eventually, he said, the
highway will be further
developed and will have
'->~ess roads to the coastal
communities. He described
the present route from
Dawson Creek to White
horse as the beginning of a
network.
Building Bridge
Paying tribute to the
! men who built the road,
' Neuberger told of one Ne
gro regiment pushing a
bridge across a wide river
j in 44 hours, driving piles
and laying planks so that
; two-and-a-half- ton trucks
were able to cross. The
i men worked with little j
equipment and under the j
difficulties of long supply i
lines in pushing the high
way across four or five
mountain ranges, through
thick forests, around and
over muskeg.
Trucks with vital sup- j
; piies for the Alaskan fore 1
j es already have almost i
| reached the Canadian-Al-!
| askati border and are ex- J
I pec ted to be roaring into j
i Fairbanks in about two j
weeks.
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Iii Ordinary English:
Translated by an expert, this is what actually hap
pened: A white collar worker in the front rfice sent
a note to the superintendent, who gave it to the fore
man. The later called in his assistant mechanic to
talk over what was written in the note.
The foreman said production would have to speed
ed up and instructed the piece workers to grind the
valves faster. But the piece workers didn’t like the
idea and the superintendent had to argue with them.
Finally, the piece workers realized they were wrong
and felt ashamed of themselves. They agreed to work
harder because this was war and Uncle Sam nee-:
| the valves for his army.
The real names for "bosses,” jobs and machines in
war plants are sometimes stronger than mere slang.
This will give you an idea:
A rapid sliter is not a throat cutter but merely creas
es and trims cardboard boxes.
A pulpit man in a steel mill is not a clergyman blit
only one who stands on a raised platform to watch
the metal in the furnaces.
The shakeout gang is not a band ofShy locks but a
l crew which shakes out the dirt from moics.
A binder is not an o Id
ols, hi ned New England
lover but cne who counts
“ortons and m. kes them in
to packages.
“Penny-dog" is Foreman
Whre collar workers be
dries being cr'.'ed cacklers,
us > are swivel chairs,
.’■'Pip Uniters, pencil push
mu ink s lingers end payer
re. hts.
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Pernv-c.og is cnlv one
n me for the f >: nan. He
als ■ is r Ik. "1 nine'" called
rrmrod or r; n _ pusher.
His assistant is known as
an arm of Assh. cry nurse
or straw boss.
All war -v v.-.rs call
each, ether ox. plug or stiff,
and if they're veterans
thev're called barnacles.
Workers with easy jobs
are called politicians, mi
gratory employees from.
West Virginia or Ken
| tucky are termed stoop
workers.
Anv iran n : ? maintenance
department of n plant :.s called
| Charley; a be nr -.r -s a structur
' steel worker; a groundhog, a
rnnel builder: a 'logger, a loco’
! motive engineer: a pattern mak
j or, a wood butcher; a molder, a
I sand slinger.
A mechanic is a gr->isball un
I less he’s particularly skilled and
| then he’s a master maniac.
Machine shock s what women
workers get the first Vtr.e they’re
confronted with a dirty, greasy
machine. Any kind of machine is
called a heap; a crane is a crab,
but a wrecking crane is a grass
hopper.