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Show FPHA CANCELS A TEMPORARY BAN ON VET HOUSING An order temporarily averting a shutdown of all veterans' temporary tem-porary housing projects in Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada, Thursday, is announced by Federal Fed-eral Public. Housing Authority regional re-gional headquarters in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. And as the order-riddled body of federal public housing was propped up on its death bed, pillows pil-lows after the reprieve from Friday's Fri-day's scheduled date with the executioner, it was estimated that more than 400 units in six Utah projects will be finished before the authority's temporary lease on life expires. In announcing modification of the original "stop construction" directive, Langdon W. Post, regional re-gional FPHA director, made it clear, however, that the program in these states henceforth will be living on borrowed time and will function in a limited capacity. Just how long it will be before life ebbs completely out of the government - sponsored low - cost housing plan anemic for some time because of fund shortages today remained conjectural. If the program continues to function for a few days in Utah with the "skeleton" crews stipulated stipu-lated in the modification order, about half the 850 F PH A units in Utah will be completed, estimated esti-mated Allen L. Strong, assistant FPHA management supervisor for Utah. He pointed out that not more than a week or 10 days will be required re-quired to finish this number of nearly completed units, and that only skeleton crews will be necessary neces-sary because the degree of completion com-pletion does not require a full crew of workmen. |