r
Smaller Percentage
Unemployment
Checks Go Outside
FAIRBANKS, ltft—Fourth Divi
sion Democratic legislators were
told at a conference here that the
percentage of unemployment
checks going to persons outside
the territ6ry dropped sharply in
the past three years.
Bob Dixon, a labor member of
the Employment Security Com
mission, made the report at one of
a series of conferences called by
the lawmakers to discuss prob
lems which will come before the
1955 lagislature.
The unemployment fund prob
lem was spotlighted last week by
a report that the fund has been
depleted to the point where there
k may not be enough money avail
^able to pay the normal rate of
Hkaims beyond February.
^^W(|>ere was more than 10 million i
dollars in the fund two years ago 1
and SV2 million a year ago. As of,
Nov. 30 this year, it was reported ,
slightly above 4',/fc million.
Employment Service officials
reported the drain on the fund
was 35 per cent higher in the first
11 months of the year than in the
same period in 1953.
Dixon reported that 52 per cent
of the checks in 1950 went to per
sons who left Alaska after losing
their jobs, but that the percentage
in 1953 was down to 26 per cent.
The legislators and others at the (
conference agreed that loopholes
which have allowed abuse should
be plugged.
On a long trip at 60 miles an
hour, the surface of your car will
be 0.6 degrees <F) hotter because
of air friction.
Western Leaders
Agree on Civilian
Control of A-Bomb
PARIS, (tf>—Western leaders
agreed Saturday that civilian
governments must control the
■trigger of atomic warfare. But
Belgium’s foreign minister sug
gested they also believe the Uni
ted States would have a free hand
to cope with a sudden devastating
Communist assault.
“If an aggressor makes an at
omic attack on us, I don’t think
anybody’s veto will be of much
importance,” said Paul Henri
Spaak in explaining to newsmen
the deliberations of the western
leaders on the use of atomic
weapons at a time of crisis.
The foreign, defense and fi
nance ministers of the North At
lantic Treaty <NATOi powers
clearly pinned their hopes for
survival and victory on nuclear
arms in case of attack by the
Soviet Union.
They reached this conclusion
in approving a military defense
plan for western Europe drafted
by their military chiefs of staff.
The plan envisages the use of
atomic weapons to counter-bal
ance Russian manpower superior- j
ity.
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NOTICE TO MOTORISTS
The City of Nome is posting a
STOP sign at the corner of Third
Ave. Alley and B. St. facing the
alley which fronts the south side
of the Nome Public School. A
FULL STOP is requested 24
hours of the day.
Nome Common Council.
By Carrie M. McLain.
City Clerk ,
Nome School Rates
Credit Transfers
Most major high schools in the
Territory of Alaska are now on
the approved list for transfer of
students’ school credits to other
accredited schools, according to
Territorial Commissioner of Edu
cation Don Dafoe.
Dafoe returned last week from
stateside conferences of the
Northwest Association of Second
ary and Higher Schools at which
the status of Alaska school credits
was reviewed.
Now on the list of accredited
higher secondary schools in Al
aska are those at Anchorage, Cor
dova, Douglas, Fairbanks, Juneau,
Ketchikan, Kodiak, Kodiak Naval
Station, Mt. Edgecumbe, Nome,
Palmer, Petersburg, Seward, Shel
don Jackson, Sitka, Skagway, and
Wrangell.
Another school attempting to
gain membership in the associa
tion but unable to at the recent
session was Valdez.
PANSY BROWNIES NEWS
The Pansy Brownies have been
very busy the last month. We
finished our letter holders. Today
we had a party. We played “pin
the trimmings on the tree.” Then
we ate ice cream, cookies, cup
cakes and Kool-Aid.
After opening our presents we
went and sang Christmas Carols
for Sam Alexine.
—Linda Doyle, Scribe
Having Siove or Oil Problems?
See Tom Tungwenuk
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SMOKE STACKS CLEANED
Milady’s Mink Coat
To Cost More Now
SEATTLE, i/Pi—-Milady’s mink
coat is likely to cost more next
year. At least the season’s first
fur sale of the Seattle fur ex
change showed most skins selling
Friday at 10 per cent more and
more over their 1953 price.
Bidders from all parts of the
nation and Europe purchased
120,000 pelts, buying out the en
tire mink collection at prices
ranging to $64.50 a skin.
Fifty-thousand ranch mink of
various varieties went under the
hammer. Highest price of $64.50
went for cerulean (sapphire) var
iety. This was 10 per cent higher
than a year ago. The cheapest, if
mink ever can be considered
cheap, was wild Alaska, up 30
per cent to a top of $40.
Also sold were 60,000 muskrat,
which also were up 10 per cent
to a top of $1.40. Martens jumped
15 per cent, with 1,000 sold at a
top of $37. Three thousand beaver j
went for up to $24 and 1,500'
lynx brought in a top of $15.
SON OF MARY MARTIN
WEDS DRESS DESIGNER
LONDON, lift—Sgt. Larry Hag
man, 23-year-old son of American
musical comedy star Mary Martin,
was married to Swedish dress de
signer Irene Axelson Saturday at
the Swedish Church.
Sgt. Hagman is stationed in
London with the U.S. Air Force.
His mother, now playing Peter
Pan on Broadway, gave the couple
an automobile as a gift.
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