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Women Are Named To Housing BoardThe two women named to Gov. Walter Bickers special task force on native housing problems are Interior Alaska women,Mrs. Laura Bergt, originally from the Bering Sea coastal region of Alaska, is Eskimo. She is the niece of the late Bill Beltz, the first president of the Alaska Senate.Mrs. Lula Young is Athabascan and was born in Chalkyit-sik. She is the wife of 16th district legislator Don Young of Fort Yukon.The two young native women left Fairbanks Wednesday night for the two-day conference being held in Anchorage now.The 10-member task force on native housing problems is beginning a long-range program under the $10 million Alaska Native Housing Act approved by Congress last year. The task force also includes state and federal officials.Others named to represent native interest were state representatives Jules Wright of Fairbanks and John C. SaekettofHus-lia; State Sen. Raymond C. Christiansen of Bethel; Emil Notti and Flore Lekanof of Anchorage; Richard Stitt of Juneau; Andrew Demoski of Nulato; and Eben Hopson of Barrow.Mrs, Bergt is chairman again this year of the Eskimo Olympics, an annual Eskimo and Indian session of games held in Fairbanks,She is a former stewardess and for several years worked as secretary of die Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. She is the mother of four young children. Her husband Neil Bergtis vice president of Interior Airways.Mrs. Young's family consists of two young girls, both preschoolers.Both women have been active in native organizations and have been delegates to statewide native meetings in the past two years. Both have lived and traveled in many areas of the stateand are familiar with housing problems in the outlying and bush areas of Alaska.Mrs. Bergt and Mrs. Younges-pect to return to the Interior this weekend
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Fri, May 26, 1967
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