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Show Adequate Mousing Facilities Now Available Construction Hill Field Six Days After Pearl Harbor for arWorker Provides Homes, Trailer Units Solve Vexing Problem of housing war He problem a familiar head-,eb- e been workers has all over the nation, but at local economics, Utah, odeSnhv and culture combined fSe In bred "usually acute. The in the Mormon tradi-- . is quiet, stable, conservative, enable it to sup-So- rt hitfl facilities sizeable flour and processing s, slaughtering and meat pack-JTfirm- refineries and But the number of workers these, and in the local agricultural and stock raising industries, remains fairly constant. In 1930 the population was salesmen and Vacationists, came and went, but .u... travelers VUiCl ' to the next 10 years the perman ent population increased oniy auw to 43,000 in 1940. Such was Ogden the year before Pearl Harbor. The of its tttural "stretchability" can-aeri- es oil 40,-D- accommodations housing approxi-nate- d zero. people 100,000 nearly Now O, are or trying to live in Ogden and the towns between Og-d- en and Salt Lake City are Bring done, trammed to overflowing. These Mwcomers work at four major in the urea: The Air HBWl''""' Service Held, fAroM Command base at Hill the Utah Army service Denot at Oeden. the Ogden and the Naval Supply at Clearfield. Despite the excellent climate, Arsenal, rz - Depot Msr- teemine' thousands cannot five in the open air. The battle to fauna them adeauatelv nas Deen litter as bitter, on its own small tVl mm iiak CrOD teT mmm O MM, M on., 9tJ haMia In Hun workers that The United I would arrive. hearing of a single unoccupied house awaiting sale, pressure was wan put on the Home owners to make it available Corporation frit Anil fa t oiirni iTAHf 4llO W. Mw for rental to war workers. Ogden (M nlley people had even heard of to realty associations contracted i piace called Pearl Harbor. There build 2000 demountable houses for u no' speculative rush to build emu Kt wnrir on them was de ercer lor a worker s until ghost army layed by material shortages that might never I lltO arrive. " -j an when a year dragged by. In November, July, hammered througn. U, it was already difficult for Units newcomer to find a to live, Open Trailer place . INI. were the Field linany Hill For rising, yet tne nn in August. 1942, "Me and the three t other war in- u actions had laid out huge re- - when the first of 300 trailer units MnIM 8 programs totaling nearly were opened for occupancy a uZ. .W0 new workers. In Ogden 160 south of the base. Built by the units had Farm Security Administration, gwnment housing transferred to built and were already full. these were later emergency survey disclosed that FPHA management. k..l1J t- - xt ,mkor a bier block of cirMl need "aers, now fully aware of on for new housing, were vilian dormitories was opened "wpered by priorities on ma- - the field itself. Originany Pm..... - mA fool 2500 single men, i and building labor short- to the project was later planned J'rom Hill Field, Colonel Ber-J"- include units lor singio States was then in the midst of and de mise, but actual war clouds were lend-lea- se TT KAJ 4W WW - O 1 m a-x- ... au .... log-ja- m h-.- olr . . made for 2500 J JJt" u. , ' y : Amplication units to be the government . . . nuituon is enremeiy nd unless Dromnt ac this depot-wil' nandicapped . , ana mree tWO wafl nw'"" less than a month ma - a """W . . A. 1 0-d- en r' - " nd k.j T raping towara In AfJT .uy Were Sgsfl reUeve ..Mlf A L Hill Fieia nou.. -At. o keeping in mpaign to nerauad that Sure signs rlt .ll breaking wer. i- r-- - pressure . -- "V WRs fwai " 15 Saturday EEE...OWWW..AHHH for the affair anArrangements of Sid direction the were under Johnson, recreation ployes' Welfare associawu, - " has teawar department The . . .. 1 regula- ormv cinded mat pletely occupied after opening. At vvf'""s,r" were .ton., race, near Ogden, 1400 units J first opencu DUllt, anu Ik. v.ra lld in a. moniu, i . MtaUm .-the faot ttwas not complex- - " carry their the tenanU had 11 to nilfTK c LB COOKing:. waier toilets. n.itaiHe Forty t uw i T. houses," very little mane cent of these units were four per f ental property and W.1 ...lirned ;to r.Hill Fieia JMatively little rehabilitation originany .V1 Vacancie. ahnua 4. fAMi were Arsenal a e now oc iWhTf1'k,Iled workers Actually 55 per cent look "e .tZn .at.th by Hill ""nown VI "'"v,n on. Ana an cupied Rtlllt UnmM tVo..! the. dozInf United U houses cloud" were Katn wlTh hundred demountable "" fast. bedroom three two and for the quar stunnlnarly. t h were built by FPHA of the utan detachment near a7i .uck- Por this country termaster with the ASF Depot At Anchorage fkpidity S changed ncw sliJe n a intern ted magic the Naval supp.y crete dIock un.w ""- were not the -r . tntnl: Though these, projectir w" new aa omnlnva on W 4 , director, employe Quartermaster WAt Hill from miles three "A recent Layton, Washington: snowed at least 4000 hous- - Field, the Verdeland Park project, Rescind Over Age unu w.w. COm- comprising . . in Over 1100 employes and their guests, the largest crowd yet to attend any of the social affairs sponsored for Hill Field employes were by the Welfare association, last held dance the at present week in the White City ballroom, Ogden. One of the many features of the evening was the awarding of $50.00 in five war stamp books of S10.00 each. The winners were: account Amy Judkins, property Schow. maintenance, ing' Eugene . Mill WMA eiiMt: t plant equip- Harriman, Walter ment; and Charles Reina, mainten- to the months ... November 6, 1943 Evening Featured By Awarding Of War Stamps te r7 . m City Dance Friday vet in touch because of poor living conditions, men, predict and countless others never bothi peat increase in tne oases aiae ered to go to work at all but rer the net 18 months, and urge moved on as soon as they arrived. them to anticipate the housing ,The situation was aired in the seas oi the swarm oi civilian press and over the radio. Upon m. i 1100 Attend White was tn Ogden business with . .. eV 5 A T their homes, patriotic people in Ogden set up "hospitality centers" Tn when Colonel to in help newcomers find rooms 600 Korris Berman arrived to take homes. Nevertheless private Hmmand of Hill Field, one or his employes in the area dropped out 8nt mnven ...i picture, a WHEN THE JAPS STRUCK ON DECEMBER 7, 1941 . . . Hill Field was still in an agonisinginperiod of ofrapid construction. Top the brick barracks the operations completion. Right, process row, Bottom time. left, this at efforts Field's building ceneral view of Hill a long way since those days. t hangar at an early stage of construction. Hill Field has come mmm ' ' " "" " v ' More Housing Nnvemher UUO Urged - ..vernin, -. S to transfer to me corps. !t tne had roun0 yacanc e in wt hv oeople who ai1d aban- - """ ',tArv. there and brsete fo" n?e"7:;"more iSll icuS r0 more trailer u"t SiP-- at w" rv ihave who iiuiM i.kaun versfon of" Special Service show came away MUlated. 4 Hill Field Men Go to Miami OCS Four men from Hill Field will who had near future to the had now report in the Officer Candidate School, AAF AdPerson ministration, at Miami Beach, Fla., has been announced. south it The four men are SSgt. Maurice Wolfson, 32nd ADG; Sgt. James Brennen, Headquarters Squadron, OASC; Corp. John H. Mead, 482nd few With and Corp. Reed neSng completion. be- - AAB Squadron; all newworkers are Nielsen, 324th Depot Repaid Squadlng adequate y th. world a'i. i more men from Hill m this Mw nnnlierf for ASTP and .u i.ua slowly and will appear before the board this LaUTy but neverth.l- e- U.or. morning at nine o ewex. ... ougniy n""pa r - frimi 1oa Anceles (miKht'n Soldier, the 1990 "boom guldV) the into gym for last week', sports gymboree and Who wouldn't? he; Errors on Bonds May Be Corrected Individuals who, during the recent drive, purchased war bonds which are Incorrectly prepared aa to name, address or designation or beneficiary ara of advised to submit bond to the finance officer, U. S. Army, ugcien, reUtah, in person or by letter, questing the issuance of a corrected bond. The old bond must be turned lit before the new one will be issued. co-ow- locally. may not b request should state c'early the correct designation of owner, or beneficiary. ,T t j,i Bonds Any er ed |