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NERVE WRACKING EVEN WITH A BODYGUARD
Case for the Permanent Employe
'TVHE MOST IMPORTANT BILL to come before the
Legislature this Session is now under consideration
on the floor. This is the much-talked-about Employ
ment Security Commission bill, and concerns every
body in the State, whether he is employer or employe.
There are some legislators, and unfortunately,
some from our own area, who support a bill to increase
•benefits for the unemployed at a time when the State
now is deeply in debt to the federal government.
These legislators use this cry of more benefits at no
extra cost to the employes, as a sort of tranquilizer to
reasonable thinking.
The year-’round worker must be given some con
sideration also. Employers of certain groups of year
round businesses, who will take the tax load in this
total-wages bill, must in turn raise prices to meet the
tax, and the increase gained by the worker in benefits
is lost in the spiral of higher prices. Businesses which
hire skilled labor will carry the tax load.
Business rejected this bill, and so did the Gov
ernor. Two other bills are to be considered which can
liquidate the State’s indebtedness in a fair and busi
ness-like way, and give the State a sound ESC pro
gram. One of these should be supported by our
legislators, whom we will be watching as never before
to see how they vote.
The year-round worker of the backbone indus
tries of the State, as well as the unemployed, must
be considered.
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By FRITZ WITTI
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON, 0P> — It takes
a lot of talk here to get things
done, and there will be ample op
portunity to air subjects of in
terest to Alaska at hearings
slated for the first week of March.
“Filling a major missing link
in Alaska transportation,” as Rep.
Ralph Rivers puts it, is to be the
subject of hearings in both the
House and Senate.
Two bills toy Rivers concerning
a ferry system for Southeastern
Alaska are up for hearing during
the week, with a delegation from
Alaska due to appear.
One bill would classify ferries
between Prince Rupert, B. C., and
Southeastern Alaska, as engaged
in foreign commerce and make
their construction eligible for
federal subsidy.
The other would allow federal
aid highway funds to be used for
construction of approach roads
and ferry slips.
The House Merchant Marine
and Public Roads Subcommittees
are to hear the bills March 1
and 2.
It is hoped that while the Alas
kans are here they can also ap
pear before the approriate Senate
committees.
However, there is some ques
tion whether Senate committees
will be able to meet, in view of
plans for around-the-clock sessions
of that body on civil rights legis
lation.
Committee meetings may not be
allowed under such circumstances,
but both Alaska Senators Ernest
Gruening and Bob Bartlett are
hopeful permission will be granted
for hearings on the ferry bills
they co-sponsored as companion
bills to the House measures.
* * *
Scheduled for March 2 is a
Federal Maritime Board prehear
ing conference on the 10 per cent
Alaska water freight rate increase
conditionally granted in January.
Procedure for a hearing on the
matter will be decided at the pre
liminary session.
The increase was asked by the I
Pacific Coast Alaska Freight
Conference. It went into effect
January 10 on condition that any
sums found by the hearing to be
unreasonable, be refunded to the
shippers. v ,
Intervenors in the case are the
State of Alaska and the General
Services Administration. Both
have objected to the increase.
* * *
According to records of the
House Disbursing Office, Rep.
Rivers had six persons on his of
fice staff for a total payroll of
$3,081.48 in January, the first
month of the new session.
The disbursing office listed
these employes and their gross
pay for the month as follows:
Robert C. Steelman, $921.32;
Berniece M. Oertel, $541.36; Vi
vian J. Delisi, $541.38; Martha M.
Rivers, $541.38; Donald Roberi
Greeley, $293.62; Verna A. Bad
ger, $242.40.
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Ike Speech in Chile
Says ‘Get Facts
Before Criticizing’
By MARVIN ARROWSMITH
SANTIAGO, Chile, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower told Chilean
legislators yesterday the United
States will defend “with srcngth
and promptness and firmness”
any American nation that becomes
a victim of aggression.
He was challenged, however,
as he appeared 'before a joint
session of the Chilean Congress,
on the question of more economic
aid for Latin American nations.
Hernan Videla, President of the
Senate, in introducing Eisenhow
er, said the United States as lead
er in the hemisphere must come
around to the definite attitude
“of preferring your nearest neigh
bors, your truest friends, when
the need arises for support and
help.”
Peace lies not only in defensive
military strength “tout also in eco
nomic security,” the Senator de
clared.
Earlier, in a speech before 1,200
fellow Americans in Chile, Eisen
hower rejected what he said were
several misunderstandings of U. S.
policy, among them the question
of economic aid to sister American
republics.
Departing from his prepared
text to the Americans, Eisen
hower made a strong plea that
“individuals with great respon
sibility get the facts” before they
start criticizing.
It is astonishing, he said, to
hear time and again that the
United States is doing more for
other areas of the world than for
Latin America, and nothing could
be more erroneous.
Ticking off another complaint
that the United States “crushes
the economies of Latin America
in order to enrich itself,” Eisen
hower said “its falsity soon be
comes apparent to any thoughtful
person.”
A complaint that the United
States supports dictators, he said,
is ridiculous.
“We repudiate dictatorship in
any form, right or left,” he de
clared.
In his speech to the Congress,
Magnuson Charges U. S.
State Department Plans
Law of Seas Concessions
WASHINGTON, UR — “Our
State Department is apparently
going to Geneva for the Law of
the Sea Conference with propos
als not in the best interest of our
fisheries," Sen. Warren Magnu
son (D-Wash) charged Sonday.
Magnuson accused the State
Department of heading for the
conference with the idea of giving
up insistence on keeping the his
toric three-mile limit.
Many nations, including neigh
boring Canada, have urged ex
tension of the offshore limit. Rus
sia wants a 12-mile limit.
An extension beyond the three
mile limit would harm U. S. fish
ing interests, especially in the
Puget Sound area of Washington.
Magnuson said he and Sen.
Henry Jackson (D-Wash) had sent
a protest of the State Depart
ment’s stand to Secretary Chris
tian Herter.
Magnuson also said he had
turned down a department invi
tation to attend a pre-conference
briefing in San Francisco March
7. He said he and at least two
other Senators would go to the
Law of the Seas Conference in
Geneva March 17.
■MY FAIR LADY' MUSICAL
TOURS RUSSIA AS PART OF
U. S. CULTURAL EXCHANGE
NEW YORK, UP) — Arrange
ments were completed this week
for “My Fair Lady,” the long-run
musical comedy hit, to open
April 18 in Moscow, and later
visit Leningrad, Kiev. Odessa and
Tiflis during eight weeks in the
Soviet Union. A national com
pany of the show will make the
trip as part of the Cultural Ex
change Program.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
the President spoke in more gen
eral terms.
On the question of aid, raised
by Sen. Videla. Eisenhower said
the principal impetus for any na
tion’s economic development must
be its own will. But he agreed
that increased economic coopera
tion among neighbors as well as
assistance from abroad is vital.
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