Federal Employes
Get $325 Average
Yearly Pay Raise
WASHINGTON, —President
Eisenhower Tuesday signed the
bill raising the pay of 1,073,262
federal employes IVz percent or
an average of about $325 a year.
Enactment of the measure com
pletes a round of U.S. pay in
creases voted at this session total
ing abdut 1V4 billion dollars.
The bill signed yesterday cov
ers 983,057 classified civil service
employes throughout the nation
and 90,205 others in various gov
ernment agencies with separate
pay systems.
The increase, which will cost
about $328 million a year, is ret
roactive to March 1. This means
the employes will get lump sum
payments totaling about 110 mil
lion as soon as they can be ar
ranged.
The annual payroll for the
workers covered by the bill is
now about $4,350,000,000 a year.
The last general pay raise for
these workers was in 1951.
The increases will run from
about $190 a year to $1,005 for the
civil' service employes.
Attempt Dropped to Try
Owen Lattimore on
Charges of Perjury
WASHINGTON, UR—The gov
ernment decided today to drop its
2V£-year-old attempt to try Owen
Lattimore on charges of perjury.
Atty. Gen. Brownell made the
announcement.
Brownell noted that the U.S.
District and Appeals courts here
had twice thrown out key counts
of indictments charging Lattimore
with false testimony before the I
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee in early 1952. Brownell
said it thus appeared impossible
to proceed on five remaining per
jury counts.
Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins lec
turer and Far Eastern affairs spe
cialist, was accused of lying in
denying that he had been a fol
lower or promoter of the Commu
nist line.
PORT OFFICE LOCATED
2nd FLOOR FEDERAL BLDG.
The port office for the handling
of military cargo from military
ships this summer is located on
the second floor of the Federal
Building with Chief Storekeeper
Ward B. Carlstrom of Kodiak in
charge of operations.
A SKATING RECORD
Skating on natural ice in Nome,
Alaska, on June 25th was.the un
usual experience of Mr. Olaf Hal
verson.
The interesting formation of ice
on Bourbon Creek during the past
winter made this late June skat
ing possible. There was little
danger in breaking through the
ice because it is still three feet
thick in certain places.
Successive overflows and freez
ing during the entire winter made
this unusual accumulation of ice
possible.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy to part cloudy with
patches of fog. Little change in
temperature. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 45. Highest to
morrow 55.
Send $15 for spinning outfit—
rod, reel, line. Satisfaction
guaranteed or your money back.
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SIMPSON'S
Box 1047 Spenard, Alaska
Carl Webb Appointed
Chief of Nome Fire
And Police Departments
Carl Webb, who has been pat
rolman at the Police Station, is
the new City Fire and Police
Department chief, having been
appointed at the Council meeting
last Monday evening. Webb has a
background of police work in the
Sheriff’s Office in Tacoma, Wash
ington.
Councilman Hedreen of the
Street Committee reported that
the work near the Federal Bldg.,
is about completed and the street
will be completely open this
week. Work was delayed, he re
ported, due to the break-down of
the city dump truck. He also re
ported that the next street im
provements project will be on D
Street.
Councilman Morgan of the
Health Committee reported that
the new comfort station at the
rear of the Fire Station will be
ready for use by the 4th of July.
(Morgan also reported that the
clean-up of scattered junk will be
continued throughout the summer
and that large pieces such as old
abandoned cars, will be hauled
away whenever equipment is
available to handle them.
Civil Defense “walkie-talkie”
portable radios were reported
kept in readiness by the police
and fire depts., in the event of
emergencies.
A communication from the
Nome School Board requested the
council to keep in mind a suitable
site for a playground for school
children, since the school addition
is being built on the existing
playground. One suggestion made
was to close the alley (3rd Ave.)
south of the school during school
hours, until a new location near
the school could be set up.
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CBS Newsman
Tells He Was A
Communist Spy
WASHINGTON, — Winston
M. Burdett, now a Columbia
Broadcasting System newsman,
told Senate investigators today
he went to Finland during the
Russo-Finnish war to spy for the
Communists.
Burdett said that for a half
dozen years he had been “a de
voted and dedicated member of
the Communist party.”
He said he joined while he
was wbrking for the now-defunct
Brooklyn Daily Eagle and did his
spy work while he was on that
paper’s staff.
Burdett said he broke with the
party in 1942.
Burdett, a curly-haired hand
some young man in his late thir
ties, told the Senate Internal Se
curity subcommittee he joined the
Communist party while working
with the Eagle in 1937.
He said “It had a very great
appeal to me. I was not a casual
member. I was a very devoted
member, young, enthusiastic and
very earnest.”
Burdett said he made a clean
breast of his past to the FBI in
1951 and he elected voluntarily
to go before the Internal Security
subcommittee.
In New York, CBS, said it has
known of Burdett’s former Com
munist affiliation since 1951. It
said it believed his break with
the party 13 years ago was com
plete and final, that “he has been
a loyal and honest citizen ever
since,” and decided in 1951 to
continue him in his staff position.
The network also produced a
letter from Sen. Eastland (D-Miss)
subcommittee chairman, saying
Burdett, in earlier, private testi
mony before the committee, had
“rendered a real service,” and
that he should be commended for
it.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Catherine Yerger,
Josephine Kaija, Robert Iyatun
guk, Raymond Charles, Frank
Nunooruk.
Discharged: Tom Tungwenuk,
Moses Epokook, Ralph Pootoogoo
look, Elizabeth Walsh and son,
and Gabriel Eognuk.
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