THE NOME NUGGET
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CLINTON GRAY .*. Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
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What Kind of A State?
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r? THE STAGGERING proposed changes in the
EmDloyment Security Commission tax on employers
is to be imposed on total wages paid each employe, as
recommended by the ESC Advisory committee, we
predict that there will be a long list of unemployed
employers in the second year of existence of the State
of Alaska.
Employers have been paying into this fund 2.7
per cent of each dollar paid its employes, up to $4,200,
just as they paid- 2 Vs per cent on each payroll dollar
into the Social Security fund up to $4,800. They also
pay a Federal Unemployment Compensation levy.
The proposed change, which would cover total
wages paid, in the case of skilled labor, paid at union
scale, would more than double the levy for small
businesses, particularly in services and retail'trade.
The result will be the closing of many businesses
in the new State; further drain on the impoverished
ESC fund, and an added discouragement to new
businesses which might be attracted to the state.
The annual report of the ESC shows that over
a million dollars was spent by this department just
for saleries and wages; over $21,000 was spent on com
munications (it’s easy to talk on long distance phones
when the taxpayer foots the bill); $54,000 just for
v travel; $93,000 for rent in its five offices, and another
$8,000 for lipht and water; “transportation of things”
is another $8,000.
Before digging any deeper into the pockets of the
businessman, who makes employment possible, it
mmht be a good idea to start, economizing within the
department.
We hope the legislators from this district have
som° vision of the kind of State they are helping to
mold, and will have the courage to defend the rights
of +hos° who have placed their confidence in them,
(before they cast their ballot deciding this controversial
bilh They must not be blinded by trying to help the
unemplbyed. They could be penalizing the fellow who
works the year ’round, and impoverishing the business
which provides the payroll.
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‘Love Triangle’ Shooting
In Calif. Town Kills 2
EUREKA, Calif., — A shoot
ing here last night left two men
dead and the wife of one critically
wounded.
William M. Cram, 52, shot and
killed Lester W. -Mayhew, 42,
wounded Mrs. Cram, 31, then
killed himself police said.
Mrs. Cram, her right arm
shattered by a bullet from a rifle,
was taken to a hospital in nearby
Areata.
The Cram’s son, Donald, 15,
was a witness to the shooting in
the three-room Cram home.
Police said a love triangle was
indicated.
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Pete Walsh. Station Mgr.
Industry Says Steel
Workers Union
At Fault in Strife
WASHINGTON, (£> — The steel
industry said today that union
demands for an inflationary settle
ment have been the block to a
steel-labor peace pact.
R. Conrad Cooper, speaking for
the industry, told President Eis
enhower’s inquiry board that in
stead of reducing wage-benefit de
mands to keep within the indus
try’s productivity gains, the union
has only recently boosted its
settlement terms.
Cooper is executive vice presi
dent of U. S. Steel Corp. and chief
industry negotiator.
“The union now, in the face of
an urgent need for settlement that
would eliminate the economic un
certainties arising from a continu
ation of the dispute and the pos
sibility of resumption of the na
tionwide strike at the end of the
injunction period, seeks to im
pose even more burdensome terms
of settlement,” Cooper said.
“This is the very antithesis of
union responsibility and proves
beyond question that it is the
union’s policies and bargaining
practices that have been solely
responsible for the continuing
deadlock.”
Governor of Maine
Found Dead In Sleep
AUGUSTA, Maine, <# — Gov
ernor Clinton A. Clauson 64, died
in his sleep early today.
Clauson, born in Ames, Iowa,
was in the first year of a four
year term as Maine’s Chief Exec
utive.
A Democrat he wiN be suc
ceeded under the terms of Maine’s
constitution by the Republican
President of the State Senate,
John H. Reed of Fort Fairfield.
Dr. Joseph R. Crawford said
the Governor was dead when he
arrived at the mansion at 2:35
a.m. He said that “in all likeli
hood, the cause of death was heart
or cerebral hemorrhage’”
New Missile-Carrying
Sub Said to be
Practically Indestructible
GROTON, Conn., (£> — Presi
dent Eisenhower’s special assist
ant for science and technology
today hailed the Navy’s first
Polaris missile submarine as a
“secure deterrent” to war.
Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky of
Harvard praised the nuclear
powered George Washington in
the principal speech at commis
sioning ceremonies for the deadly
prowler that can fire from under
water.
“Her detection and destruction
will be well-nigh impossible, and
yet her targets for retaliation will
be continually within reach,” Kis
tiakowsky said in prepared
j remarks.
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East-West Geneva
Disarmament Meet
Will Be Resumed
MOSCOW, GP! — The Soviet
Union and four Communist neigh
bors will reopen long-suspended
East-West disarmament talks
with five Western nations in Ge
neva March 15.
The Soviet Union Monday night
agreed to the starting date pro
posed by the five Western nations
— the United States, Britain.
France, Canada and Italy.
The Soviet reply, handed to
French Ambassador Maurice De
Jean, said Bulgaria, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Romania
would be the other four Commu
nist nations at the table.
Disarmament talks sponsored
by the United Nations have been
suspended since September, 1957,
because of Soviet refusal to par
ticipate in negotiations in which
the Communists did not have nu
merical representation equal to
the West. The U. N. subcommittee
which carried on previous nego
tiations was made up of the So
viet Union and four Western na
tions, the United States, Britain,
France and Canada.
Four UW Students
Killed on Highway
EUGENE, Ore.. UP) — Four Uni
versity of Washington students,
bound for the Rose Bowl football
game at Pasadena, Calif., died
early yesterday in a crash on an
icy, foggy highway.
Their automobile slammed into
a tank truck and trailer that had
jack-knifed into the wrong lane
on two-lane U. S. 99, five miles
north of here.
The dead: Derwood Burr Nor
din, 23, Palos Verdes Estates,
Calif.; Myra Lee Taylor, 21, Ta
coma, Wash.; Evelyn Joy Sim
mons, 20, Shelton, Wash.; William
Robert Moser, 22, Tacoma, Wash.
Seriously injured was Barbara
Jean Hill, of Seattle.
U. S. Firm Wins Contract
To Build Russ Textile Mill
MOSCOW, Of) — An American
combine has Won a 33-million
dollar “cash on the barrelhead”
contract to build a textile plant
for the Soviet government. It is
the biggest deal private American
business has made with the So
viets since World War II.
The plant—to be built at Kal
inin outside Moscow — will be
the largest of its kind built in
recent years, said a spokesman
for Intertex International Inc. of
New York City.
He said the Americans won out
over a British combine which
offered to build the plant 20 to
30 per cent cheaper on three to
five-year credit.
Sidney Scheurer of Intertex
International directed negotiations
for the' American combine which
is made up of 40 firms.
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