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■Your 1942 Requirements Demand Your Attention !
Many articles necessary for your mining operations are
subject to war regulations. Difficulties and delays in purchasing
materials are numerous —
Our purchasing office at Seattle is familiar with the mar
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requirements.
To insure delivery place your orders at an early date.
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MIRGW AIR SERVICE
Feb. 17, Frank Whaley marie a
rip to Moses Pt, Koyuk and
Dime Landing and bock to Nome,
i Passengers were: to Moses Pt., E.
J. Bassler, Geo. Ho lingsworth,
and C. A. Whittaker; for Koyuk,
A! Lane; Koyuk to Moses Pt.
Friekey; Dime to Nome, Mrs.
Swanson.
Pilot Hager returned from
Bethel to Unalakleet.
Pilots Mr-ore and McKenzie are
still in Anchorage.
Pi’ot Hager returned from Un
alakleet to Nome with mail and
two passengers: John Ireton,
CAA engineer and Wassily Agib
inick for the hospital.
CHAMBER HOLDS
ELECTION MEETING
The N. W. Alaska Chamber of
| Commerce held its annual elec
; tion meeting at the North Pole
Bakery at noon yesterday, Presi
dent Wilbur Wood presiding.
The Treasurer’s annual report
was read by the secretary. The
President gave hs annual report
and a list of recommendations
for the ensuing year. Senator O.
D. Cochran made a short talk on
the increase in freight rates. Mr.
John Broadwell, Constructing En
gineer for CAA was introduced
at the meeting. Mr. Peter Gatz.
rperesonting the Office of Inter
i nal Revenue, explained briefly
; the set-up of his organization in
Alaska and spoke of the changes
affecting the 1941 ncome tax re
turns.
Directors elected at the meet
ing for the ensuing year are:
Thomas Givan, A. Polet, H. G
Gabrielson, Stuart Stangroom,
Leroy Sullivan. Ralph Lomen,
W. L. Slack, W. Cameron, Frank
Whaley and C. A. Schold.
Following is the treasurer’s re
port:
1941, May 20, Bal. on hand $90.82
Receipts
Dues collected 325.00
City of Nome ac Gen. 44.75
460.57
Disbursements
Aug. 25, Gen. (Hotel) 32.00
Nevada 58.26
• Oct. 30, North Pole
Guests 9.55
Nov. 21, Nome Nugget 31.25
j Nov. 21. U. S. C. of C. 10.00
I 1942
, Feb. 10, Nevada, guests 30.75
North Pole, guests 2.25
174.05
J Bal. on hand $286.52
NOTICE
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The Pull Book is now open in
the office of the City Clerk for
the Registration of Voters at the
Annual City Election to be held
April 7, 1942.
M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
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Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
Alaska Miners
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Discuss Wage
and Hour Law
SEATTLE, Fob. 16 — Recent
: meetings of the Alaska Miners’
i Association in Seattle have been
; hghlighted by discussion of Wag
es and Hours. Culmination of
these discussions, was the pass
age of a resolution enumerating
the hardships inflicted on the in
dustry by an unrealistic inter
pretation and administration of
| the Act by Wage and Hour of
i fieials. Copies of this resolution
which ask Congress and the
! Wage-Hour Administrator for re-j
; lief from the harsh provisions of
1 the act have been sent to Dele
gate Anthony J. Dimond, Wage
Hour Administrator Holland and
the proper Congresional commit
tees.
Law Declared Burdensome
The resolution points out that
under the present Administration
of the Wage-Hour Division and
according to the interpretations
placed on the act that unbearable
burdens will be placed on the
mining idustry. Norman Banfield
was one of the principal speakers
at the last meeting. He enumer
ated some of the detai's of recent
Wage-Hour litigation.
Statement by Reden
Also present was Henry Roden
Territorial Attorney General,]
who reported on the freight rate!
hearings now' being held in Seat
tle. Mr. Roden have a rather
pessimistic view of shipping con
, ditions to Alaska for the com
ing year and implied that Alas
kans would have to pay greatly
increased prees for all of their
commodities this year.
Thomas W. Streeter, associated
with the Ungalik Syndicate in
the Nome area was also present
and expressed keen interest in
the efforts cf the Association onj
the Wage-Hour question and ap
proved the tactics being used by
the Alaska Miner’s Assocation.
' Mr. Streeter wTas formerly inter
ested in the tin fields in the
i Nome area.
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Sale Defense Bonds
In Alaska In Jan.
Record of $355,954
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JUNEAU, Feb. 16 — Sales of
Series “E" Defense Savings
Bonds throughout the Territory,
of Alaska during the month of
January set a record high of
$855,954.50, the Territorial De
fense Savings Staff office an
nounced in Juneau. This figure
does not include the approximate
$73,737.50 of unfilled bond orders
for which money has been paid
and receipts issued. About $50,- i
000 of these unfilled orders are
represented on the books of the
Juneau Post Office and the First1
National Bank.
The $355,954.50 figure chalked
up for January was almost three!
times as much as the sales of the(
same series during the month of;
December, 1941, when Alaskans!
went to their banks and post of-:
flees and purchased $128,078
worth of these securities.
A breakdown of the January:
sales of Series E bonds follows: 1
Ketchikan $104,893.75
Juneau 50,437.50
! Anchorage 45,350.00
: Fairbanks 39,850.00
i Sitka 26,831.25
Nome 20,381.25
Seward 18,937.50
Wrangell 11,493.00
Skagway ... 7,668.75
Kodiak 7,425.00
Petersburg 6,712.50
Craig 5,417.75
Palmer 3,637.50:
Cordova 3,225.00:
Haines 2,062.50
Valdez 1.368.75
Nenana 262.50
. Total $355,954.50
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