The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-04-13
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 Alaska's new Territorial building, which was authorized and appro- priated for by the 1949 Legislature, was in jeopardy today by National Production Authority. Robert L. Hosmer, field liaison officer from the Seattle office of NPA, yesterday ordered construction of the Sturm locker building on 9th and E streets suspended indefinitely.
 The Territorial building gets into the controversy because of the nec- essity for Sturm to find quarters before he vacates his present loca- tion which is to be demolished to make the site available for the new Territorial building.
 In an interview today Hosmer said the matter was now "out of my hands and is up to higher au- thority.'
 Hosmer's trip through the Terri tory was for the purpose of &C., quainting the people of Alaska with regulations governing civilian con- struction in the Territory.
 The mix-up in Juneau started 10 days ago when he was through Jun eau and informed Sturm, of Sturm's lockers, that permit was necessary before construction on his new building at 9th and E could be con- tinued. Sturm was using materials he already had on hand.
 On Hosmer's return from the in- terior yesterday he said he found Sturm had not obeyed his cease work order and immediately shut the project down indefinitely. In the meantime, Sturm had contacted the Seattle office for a permit to build and in a telephone conversa- tion last night with Phil M. Craw- ford, regional director for the Seat tie NPA office, was told that he would hear from that office Satur- day or Monday.
 Cows Office In It
 The governors office entered the picture when Hosmer told them of the cease-work order he had given Sturm. Acting Governor Lew M. Williams expressed concern due to the delay entailed in starting con- struction of the Territorial building.
 "The governors office has never received information of any sort on specific requirements under NPA," he said. Tt seems now that the method of informing us is to stop construction"
 Several Juneau contractors con- tacted by The Empire also said they had never heard of the NPA regu- lations.
 At a chamber of commerce meet ing in Fairbanks last Tuesday Hos mer outlined the NPA's military order. He pointed out that 1t pro- hitbits construction of buildings or structures to be used in connection, or for, recreational, amusement, or entertainment purposes. He also noted that the order makes it nec- essary to obtain NPA authorization before commencing construction of most types of commercial buildings such as, personal services, barber shops, laundries, buildings for dis tribution, display or sale of con- sumer goods. retail stores, shopping centers and wholesale establish ments.
 Exemptions
 Exempted under the order, he said, are certain types of ware houses, and wholesale establish ments, such as those forming a part of manufacturing or processing plants; wholesale food establish ments; wholesale supply facilities for fuel oil, gasoline, coal, gas dis tribution systems and pipelines, edu- cational institutions, religious build ings and hospitals"
 He further pointed out in Fair banks that the regulation on recre- ational, amusement and entertain ment purposes went into effect Oct. 26, 1850, and the permit require ments on most commercial building went into effect January 13, 1851.
 At mention of the Territorial build ing, Hosmer said he had no knowl- edge of any Territorial building to be built. He said no permit had been filed with NPA for such building.
 Hosmer is scheduled to leave this afternoon for Ketchikan and then will go to his Seattle headquarters.
 Asked by reporter if it was his duty to recommend construction or reconstruction on various jobs in Alaska, Hosmer said it was not. He said that he simply turned in his report and it was up to higher au- thority to be guided by his report.