The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-16
ACTON HELD
 UP ON CIVIC
 CENTER BLDG.
Woman's CIubbers Plug Hard for Recreation
 at Council Meet

session lOullQ JIie OouiiSAAiSN " ceptive as to the desirability of Juneau Recreation Center building, but unwilling to take action until the proposal has been outlined ln more definite form.
 Result = vote on application to the Federal Works Agency for ad- vance planning funds was post poned till a special Council session called for next Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
 Councilmen were agreed that recreation center is a Number One project, but they hung up on the fact that no estimate on cost with in the City's means has yet been named. The City Fathers were un- willing to pass a submitted resolu- ticn writing a blank check for ap- plication for a planning loan based on building estimate that might run to any old amount. They wanted to see a top limit set on the application amount.
 Sights Too High
 Mayor and Council were also agreed that the one figure so far quoted-s4OO ,000-is out of range; the sticker being that, should the City later find iself unable to se- cure liberal Federal aid to help de- fray the construction cost, build- ing on that extensive scale would he beyond the community's bond ing capacity and Juneau would then find itself with a nice set of plans not adaptable to smaller struc- ture.
 The Woman's clubbers were set to proceed on the assumption that Federal funds would be forthcoming for their dream castle and when asked to wield the shears on the project were unable to say just what should be included in the necessary" category to arrive at cost within assured reach.
 With long-range Civic Planning Committee being oiled up for ac- tion, it was thought that commit tee of representative citizens should be called in to function on the mat ter as part of the emergency hous- ing meeting set for next Monday night. Once the planning corps ha' set a sum it figures is adequate and attainable, the Council will fill out the application blank and go after the planning loan.
 Must Hurry
 The special Wednesday session to act on the application resulted from the expressed need for haste before the remaining dab of public works planning funds in the TWAS sock is allocated elsewhere. Mayor Ernest Parsons said he is advised by EVA representative Earl Me Ginty that there is reasonable present assurance that a blaming loan for the project can be obtain ed.
 Mayor Parsons also stated, how ever, that the bruited 80 percent 20 percent, Federal City participa. tion in construction costs is yer, questionable; though he thinks i not unreasonable to assume tha some precentage of Federal aid 1T financing community public work can be obtained. That assumption is based on past Federal govern ment policies. In this view he wa seconded by Architect Harold Foss
 Mrs. Don C. Foster, leading of for the women, stressed their viep that the City should go out aftel a recreation building under ful steam as long as there is chance to get Federal aid; that it is pro. ject the need of which has beer felt for the past 30 years or more and has the overwhelming vot' of youngsters and mothers alike though menfolks' voices have no yet been loudly heard.
 She quoted letter from forme Juneau resident Mrs. Ray Day, wht proposed a recreation center as i; World War II Memorial Mrs. Eos ter took her stand against repeti tion of past experiences when tn recreation center has alway beel called "too expensive" and ha been sidetracked for something else
 Nop Strategic Time
 Mrs. Robert E. Coughlin wa next in the lineup, for the ladies She corroborated Mrs. Days sin cerity and declared the men ar equally concerned in what happen to our young people. She decrie the lack of adequate supervisio of youngsters recreation.
 Labelling now "a strategic time to gain the end. she asked fc recognition of the necessity of say ing yes now when attainment of recreational building is possible.
 Salvation Army Adjutant Hem Lorenzen ran into volatile Woman Club opposition when he whole heartedly endorsed the recreatio center project but advocated that be erected next to the school an be operated as a part of the scho' system.
 Mrs. Foster described the some what hay vision the JWC has hel of what's wanted in the way of recreation building: A two-stol cf~r.otrtro tt11 r