MUNICIPAL ELECTIO
SITKA, l/Pl — The Progessive
Party scored an almost sweeping
victory in Tuesday’s municipal
election, with all but one of their
candidates winning races.
Earl Shennet was re-elected
mayor by a vote of 455-381 over
Leslie Yaw. Gay Helland and
Adolf Thomsen were elected to
council posts and Lin Thielke to
the Sitka Public Utilities Board.
Only Citizen’s League candidate
to win office was George Beacom,
who topped all the council votes
with a total of 563.
KETCHIKAN, Iff! — A record
1,235 voters Tuesday elected three
councilmen, ratified the city char
ter and turned down an agree
ment for operation of a proposed
new hospital.
Named to a one year council
term was Harry Ludwigsen. Carl
Hobbs and Ted Ferry were
elected to three year terms.
The city charter was accepted
by a narrow margin of 101 votes
and a resounding negative vote
resulted from a public opinion
poll on a proposal to turn a con
templated new hospital over to
the Sisters of St. Joseph of New
ark.
The order operates the present
hospital but the building has been
declared unfit for continued use.
SEWARD, OPI—Citizens of Sew
ard gave present members of the
city school board a vote of con
fidence Tuesday when the recall
of three members failed.
Retained in office were E. C.
Casey, John W. Jeffery, and A.
G. McRae.
Elected to the city council were
Jack Werner, Russell Painter, and
Merle Trevethan.
ANCHORAGE, Wl — Anchorage
voters Tuesday approved $10,
250,000 in bond issues and elected
three city council members and a
like number of school district
board directors.
Approved were four separate
bond issues, including $5,750,000
for continued school construction.
VS AROUND ALASKA
City bond issues totalled $4.5 mil
lion for street, telephone, water
and storm sewer improvements.
Incumbents Harry Pursell and
Bill Besser were joined by Dr.
Robert Livie on the city council
for three-year terms.
FAIRBANKS, Wi — Voters
elected a new mayor, a new coun
cilman and re-elected three in
cumbents in Tuesday’s municipal
election.
Dr. Joseph Ribar was elected
new mayor 519 to 428 over his
nearest rival, Edward Merdes.
Dr. Ribar, previously a coun
cilman, will appoint a new coun
cilman to fill the vacancy he
created by moving up to the
mayor’s position.
Mrs. Sylvia Ringstad was elect
ed to the city council along with
incumbents E. A. Cox, Darrell
Brewington and Edmund Orbeck.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Olson
Write Of Attending
Sourdough Reunion
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Olsen, who
attended the Sourdough Interna
tional Convention in Los Angeles,
report on seeing many former
Nomeites among whom were Gus
Masik and Pete Brandt, who now
live in Elsinore, Calif.; Harold
Dill, Katherine Bongard, Joe Sur
sik, George and Della Goshaw.
They also visited with Mr. and
Mrs. E. K. Johanson and the
Harry Gabrielsons.
Mrs. Olson is a social worker
with the Lake County, Calif., wel
fare department and says she en
joys it very much. She was a
school teacher here for several
years and also taught In Teller.
Her daughter, Sigrid, is mar
ried and lives in San Francisco.
The Olsens send greetings to
their many friends here.
TALKEETNA DUE TONIGHT
The ldst boat, the SS Talkeetna
will arrive late tonight or early
tomorrow morning according to
advice received here by the local
Alaska Steamship Co. office.
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Slate Personnel
Rules Compare
With Unions’
JUNEAU, (#) — In general, the
new state personnel rules which
were established Sept. 21 com
pare very favorably with union
contracts or procedures recog
nized in private industry.
In many respects, state em
ployes are accorded benefits
which many employes in private
industry do not receive, particu
larly in hours of work and in
vacation time.
The new personnel rules call
for a normal work week of 37t£
hours. The work week in private
industry generally is 40 hours.
Employes in classifications as
signed salary ranges 2 through 13
who work hours in excess of their
scheduled work week are paid
overtime. State overtime is at the
regular hourly rate, not at time ■
and a half.
Employes in the top salary i
grades, 14 and over, are eligible
for overtime pay only by special
approval.
The new rules specifically pro
hibit a state employe from en
gaging in any other employment
during the hours he is scheduled
to work for the state.
The moving expenses of current
employes will be paid by the state
under the new personnel rules if
their move is required by the
state.
New employes being appointed
to permanent positions requiring
professional and technical train
ing may be reimbursed for a
part of their transportation and
moving expenses, if the expendi
ture is deemed necessary to re
cruit qualified employes.
State employes and officers, un
der the new rules, are eligible for
three weeks of vacation at the
end of their first year of work.
After two years of state work,
they become eligible for an an
nual vacation of 21 working days
—four weeks and one day.
After five years, their annual
vacation goes to 24 working days
—four weeks and four days. After
10 years, they get annual vaca
tions of 30 working days — six
weeks of actual vacation time.
No employe will be permitted
to accumulate more than 60 days
of vacation at the end of any cal
endar year. Unused leave in ex
cess of the maximum at the end
of any calendar year will be can
celed.
Paid sick leave accrues to a
state employe at the rate of one
and a quarter working days for
each full monthly pay period.
Sick leave accrued but not used
accumulates until termination of
state employment, then it is can
celed.
The new personnel rules also
provide for maternity leaves,
court leaves, military leaves, sick
leaves without pay and leaves of
absence without pay.
CATHOLIC
INFORMATION CLASSES
St. Joseph's Hall
Starting Oct. 4 — 8:00 p.m.
Non-Catholics Welcome
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