Civil Service Com.
For Increase In
Cost-of-Living Pay
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Civil
Service Commission has advised
Congress it favors pending legis
lation to permit payment of high
er cost-of-living allowances to
federal employees in Alaska
“even in the event of statehood.”
“The commission is in full ac
cord with the purpose of these
bills.” said chairman Harris Ells
worth in a letter.
The House committee now has
before it two bills to remove the
25 per cent ceiling on the allow
ances. Although stating the
commission’s preference for one
Ellsworth said “the provisions of
both of these bills would be ap
plicable to Alaska even in the
event of statehood.”
The Bartlett bill not only would
remove the 25 per cent ceiling on
cost-of-living allowances, he said,
but would permit payment' of post
differentials—based on hardship
and isolation—up to 25 per'cent
additional.
“That living cost in Alaska are
exceptionally high has been shown
by numerous surveys,” Ellsworth
wrote. “. . . the inadequate al
lowance in Alaska has led to
high personnel turnover, diffi
culty in recruiting competent
people for classification act
grades, and heavy pressure upon
the classification program.
“The inadequate allowance is
unfair to the employees who
work there. While employees in
other territories and in foreign
areas receive an allowance which
reasonably compensates for their
higher cost of living, those in
many places in Alaska do not.”
Ellsworth noted that the com
mission had supported similar
bills in the two preceding Con
gresses.
“Removal of this limitation is
essential to sound pay adminis
tration and the efficient execu
tion of federal activities in Alas
ka,” he said.
NOTICE
All persons having property
on city of Nome lots located south
of Third and east of Steadman
(known as old ARC area) have |
ten days to remove same or the
property will be confiscated and I
disposed of.
By order City Council j
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk 98
Sub’s Polar Cruise
May Constitute Way
To Prevent War
WASHINGTON, iff) — A Con
gresional atomic expert said Wed
nesday the ability of U.S. sub
marines to cruise under the polar
ice cap “may constitute the most
effective way of preventing war.”
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D
NM), former chairman of the
joint Senate-House Atomic Ener
gy Committee and now its vice
chairman, said the trips of the
Nautilus and the Skate under the
North Pole show “any nuclear
powered submarine can have the
polar areas as its abode.”
“We now have vast ocean areas
from which to wage war,” An
derson commented.
“There our submarines can
hide, can remain undetected for
long periods of time, and can
fire missiles at anjtone who dares
to attack us. It will do no good
even if the enemy destroys our
country and wipes out every
airfield because he inevitably
will be destroyed.
“The combination of nuclear
submarines and the use of the
polar ice cap may constitute the
most certain way of preventing
war.”
The accomplishments of the
Nautilus and the Skate for the
most part have been greeted by
silence in Russia, but the Defense
Ministry’s newspaper Red Star
commented briefly on the pro
gress of this country in the field
of atomic submarines.
Red Star, under the heading
“Foreign Military Information,”
carried a story from Washington
that the U.S. nuclear submarines
built, under construction or
authorized. Actually, the number
is 33.
“At least three of these will
have installations for firing the
missile Polaris with a range of
1,500 miles,” Red Star said.
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LOS ANGELES, (ff) — A new
rocket soon will be developed
which will be able to destroy any
approaching ballistic missile, says
an Army general.
Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau,
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ing yesterday the new rocket will
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the east side of Lane's Way which
is between Front Street and 1st
Avenue, no parking on Linton
Way which is between 1st Ave
nue and Third Avenue, and no
parking in area between Mukluk
Pool and Alaska Steamship office
which is a lot and not a street.
By order City Council
Robert F. Scott
City Clerk 98
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Statehood To Make Home
Financing Easier
“As a territory, Alaska has had
to rely largely on the federal gov
ernment and its own public hous
ing authority to meet a monumen
tal housing problem. As a state,
it hopes to see private enterprise
assume the load.”
So says House & Home business
magazine of the home building in
dustry. In its August issue,
House & Home joins salutes to
Alaska and welcomes it to the
union with a review of home
building here. The magazine
concludes statehood will help
Alaska get better housing, pri
marily because it' will aid mort
gage financing by making loans
more attractive to stateside in
vestors.
(The enormous post World War
II housing boom in the U.S. has
only been possible because pri
vate builders have been able to
get ready financing for their
projects either direct from pri
vate lenders or with government
backing for the loans. This has
started home building toward in
dustrialization by making it pos
sible for builders to mass produce
homes ahead of sale for the first
time. Thus, in a decade, home
building had changed from a
craft to an industry.)
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Switch To Research To
Reduce Salmon Predators
WASHINGTON, (A — The
House Fisheries Committee has
switched from bounties to re
search as a means of reducing
the number of dogfish sharks in
Pacific Northwest and Alaskan
waters.
The committee Thursday ap
proved a proposal by Reps.
Thor Tollefson and Tom Pelly,
Washington Republicans, to au
thorize a four-year research pro
gram, costing up to $95,000 a
year, to study means of eradicat
ing the sharks or developing an
economic use for them.
The proposal would be sub
stitute for a Senate-passed meas
ure to authorize a bounty of $10
a ton for unlivered sharks or
10 cents a pound for shark livers.
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