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Unemployment Fund
Balance Rose in June
JUNEAU — The Unemployment
Compensatin Fund balance as of
June 30, 1959, rose as compared
to either April or May, due to in
creased contributions and de
creasing benefit payments.
The fund balance as of June 30
was $1,540,000, according to Mer
rill E. Weir, Director of the Em
ployment Security Division of the
Department of Labor. This asset
balance is offset by a liability of
$8,265,000 due to money borrowed
under the Reed Act.
During the month of June,
$288,000 was paid out in current
benefits as compared to $514,000
in May, 1959, and $398,000 in
June, 1958. This shows a substan
tial decline in benefit payments
as compared to either the pre
vious month or the same month
one year ago.
During the month of June, 1959,
$22,306 was paid out under the
Alaska program of temporary un
employment compensation for
workers who have exhausted
their benefits under the Alaska
Act. This brings the amount of
benefits paid under the Alaska
temporary unemployment com
pensation plan to a total of $869,
000. Since this TUC program end
ed June 30, 1959, additional pay
ments under this program should
be small.
In addition to benefits paid un
der the act as listed above, the
Employment Security agency also
paid benefits under several other
unemployment insurance pro
grams. During the month of June,
$72,000 in unemployment insur
ance benefits was paid to persons
formerly employed by the federal
government, and $2,000 was paid
to unemployed veterans under the
regular federal program. The to
tal cost of paying benefits under
these programs is paid by the fed
eral government and such pay
ments do not affect the Alaska
fund.
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President Vetoes
Housing Measure
WASHINGTON, IP — President
Eisenhower yesterday vetoed the
omnibus housing bill, calling it
extravagant and inflationary. He
asked that Congress produce a
less costly measure. —
In a special fhessage to the Sen
ate, Eisenhower expressed dis
appointment that Congress had
sent him a bill “so excessive in the
spending it proposes, and so de
fective in other respects, that it
would do far more damage than
good.”
His message attacked several
key provisions of the $1,375,000,000
measure but he made inflation his
basic objections to the measure.
This was the fourth major veto
by the President this session.
House Republican Leader
Charles Halleck of Indiana had
told reporters earlier that he had
recommended a veto.
We give more thought to what
is due us than to what is due
from us.
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Gruening Calls on
Seaton to Square
Campaign Promise
By FRITZ WITTI
WASHINGTON, UP> — Senator
Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) has
asked a meeting with Secretary
of the Interior Fred A. Seaton to
clarify Seaton’s position on min
eral rights of certain Alaska home
steaders.
Gruening made his request in
a letter in which he told Seaton, it
should be determined “whether
what you said then (in Alaska last
November) about this subject
squares with the position you are
taking now that the campaign or
atory is over.”
The controversy involves oil and
gas rights on certain land on the
Kenai Peninsula, where oil has
been discovered. Legislation to
deal with the question is being
considered by the Senate Interior
Committee.
Opposition to a bill by Gruen
ing was expressed by Seaton at a
news conference last week.
The Gruening bill, on which
hearings were held recently would
give oil and gas rights to certain
settlers who were completing
homestead requirements prior to
discovery of oil on the peninsula
in June, 1957.
Under present homestead laws,
the federal government would re
tain the subsurface rights to land
on which homesteaders had not
submitted final acceptable proof
of fulfilling requirements prior to
the oil discovery.
Those who completed the home
steading process prior to that time
received mineral as well as sur
face rights. The intent of Gruen
ing’s bill is to give oil and gas
rights to those who were on the
way to completion.
in his letter to Seaton, made
public Monday, Gruening quoted
the Secretary as saying the Gruerr
‘ng bill would take 90 per cent of
A1 a ska's revenue from mineral
leasing on public domain and give
it to the homesteaders in the Ke
nai Peninsula.
“I think those who entered on
the land in good faith to home
stead it prior to discovery of oil
should be entitled to oil and gas
rights with surface rights,” Gruen
ing wrote. “That is what my bill
would accomplish and it is all that
it would accomplish.”
The senator referred to a Sea
ton news conference in Kenai last
November, at which he quoted
the Secretary as saying “the. only
remedy is to get the (homestead)
law changed. That is the way we
do things in America.”
MONDAY BASEBALL SCORES
(AP Special Washington Servicei
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 11, Sacramento 5.
California Man Was
Stampede Miner
From S.F. Sourdough News
Jeff Godin went to Dawson via
the Chilcoot Pass in May, ’98. Jeff
tells us thaat the Chilcoot had
been used by the Indians for many
years before the famous Stam
pede. After a stay in Dawson, he
traveled down the Yukon to St.
Michaels, staying there until after
the freeze-up, and then on to
Nome. At Nome, Jeff staked a
claim on Osborn Creek, and
Walter Johnson built their dredge.
Jeff was' manager of the Julian
Gold Mining and Dredging Com
pany for many years. Today, Jeff
lives at 1410 9th Street in Ala
meda, Calif.
Retired U. S. Admiral,
Pre-World War Figure,
Dies at Naval Hospital
NEWPORT, R. I., UP — Admiral
Harry E, Yarnell, U.S.N. (Ret), 83,
who helped form the United
States’ firm policy in the Far
East immediately before World
War II, died Tuesday at the New
port Naval Hospital. He had been
hospitalized for two weeks. The
cause of death was not announced.
Admiral Yarnell was command
er of the Asiatic fleet when the
Japanese blasted the U. S. gun
boat Panay on the Yangtze River
in China in 1937. He was instru
mental in bringing about the Jap
anese payment of $2,200,000 in
demnity for the incident.
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Kozlov Shown
Capitalistic System
Detroit Style
DETROIT, — Industrial De
troit yesterday gave Soviet Dep
uty Premier Frol R. Kozlov fhe
treatment usually accorded heads
of state.
Kozlov was welcomed by busi
nes executives despite a snub
from the city’s mayor. On a fore
noon tour there were no un
friendly demonstrations.
At the Ford Motor Co., Kozlov
was greeted by the president,
Henry Ford II, and the board
chairman, Ernest R. Breech.
Kozlov’s tour may be one big
objective of his visit: studying
how and why capitalism works.
Mayor Louis C. Miriana carried
out his announced intention of ig
noring the visit of the right-hand
man to Soviet Premior Nikita
Khrushchev.
Louisiana Governor Rests
BATON ROUGE, La., tP)—Gov
ernor Earl Long rested in the
executive mansion today on the
eve of a projected trip to recu
perate from physical exhaustion.
The ailing 63-year-old Gover
nor has had little relaxation since
he engineered his release from a
state mental institute on June 26.
The Governor has indicated he
would start an extended Western
trip Thursday.
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