The Nome Nugget
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W. A. BOUCHER..EditorPublisher
EMILY BOUCHER.Society Editor
Entered as second class matter
October 14, 1943, at the nostoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Ac!
of March 3, 1879.
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POSTWAR BUILDING
Ranking high among
our citizens’ consuming
postwar desires, according
to a recent poll, are the
yens for a new home and a
new car—the latter, no
doubt to enable them to
stay away from the new
home as much as possible.
This information is nat
urally of considerable in
terest to the auto makers
and to the building and al
lied industries, and to the
people who hope to get
jobs with them after the
war.
The automobile people
seem to know their pro
duction capacity and their
market so well that all
they need now is the sig
nal to switch from tanks
and bombers to sedans and
coupes. But builders seem
a little at sea, judging from
the conflicting (guesses and
estimates that are floating
around.
In fact, predictions on
postwar house construc
tion by contractors, plumb
ers, painters and other in
terested parties have rival
ed in variety the debate on
60 million jobs. But few
have been so impressively
buttressed by facts and fig
ures as the speculations of
J. E. Haines, an executive
of the Minneapolis-Honey
well Regulator Co., which
we came upon the other
day.
Mr. Haines jumps off
from the building cycle of
1919-1935. He puts down
the expenditure of new
non-farm dwellings in
those years, and relates
that expenditure to the na
tional income. It turns out
that in this period the
country’s average annual
outlay for such construc
tion was 2.9 billions, or 3.9
per cent of the national in
come after taxes.
Thus armed, he ven
tures into the realm of
conjecture. H e assumes
that we can attain a na
tional income of 120 bil
lions a few years after the
war, and will have 100 bil
lions left after paying our
taxes. He also assumes
that this high income will
give a greater share to the
lower income groups than
in pre-war years.
Mr. Haines figures a
budget of 3.75 per cent of
our spending money for
new houses would be about
right. Then, with the help
of National Resources
Planning Board figures on
income distribution, and
U. S. Building and Loan
Association statistics on
the ratio of income to prop
erty valuation, he pro
duces his estimate on how
many postwar houses will
be built, and who will buy
them. It comes out like
this:
Those 3.75 billions will
build 680,000 dwellings.
Three hundred thousand
will cost $5500 or more
(for house and property)
and will be bought by per
sons whose annual income
begins at $2500. Those
making between $1,000
and $1,500 will be able to
buy 142,000 houses in the
$3,400 class. The $1,500
$2,000 group will purchase
140,000 at an average of
$4,200; the $2,000-$2,500
earners will buy 98,000 at
about $5,000 each.
NORTH STAR DREDGE SOLD
Nels Swanberg and Axel Ed
man hive purchased the North
Star Mining Co. Dredge at Coun
cil and plan to start operations
this summer. Nels Swanberg, Sr.,
will arrive in a few weeks to
start operations. This propertly
was formerly owned by Fritz
Mebes and Henry Gumm.
NEW CHURCH FOR NOME
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Rev. Alvin Capener has pur
chased the Bert Hall residence
and adjacent lots near C street on
third avenue for Assembly of
God church which is to be con
structed. This new church will be
known as the Northern Light
Assembly. The foundation has al
ready been started and work on
the building will start soon.
Big Time! Frontier Nite Benefit
Party, April 21st.
CITY COUNCIL
The City Council met Monday
evening with Mayor Ed Anderson
presiding. This was the last meet
ing of the old council and their
time was devoted to cleaning up
various items of business in prep
aration for the incoming council
which was newly elected.
PERCY BLACHFORD HOME
Percy Blachford, son of Char
lie Blachford, who has been sta
tioned in Whittier with the Army
is home on a 45 day furlough and
awaiting transportation to Golo
vin where his family lives.
MRS. P. KUROWSKI LEAVES
Mrs. Peter Kurowski has left
for the States to join her husband
who left Nome suddenly for an
emergency operation when a
bone lodged in his throat. Mrs.
Kurowski was employed by the
Alaska Telephone Co. as opera
tor, and Mr. Kurowski was with
the U.S.E.D.
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