House Again Attempts 3-Man Board
Solution for Employment Commission
JUNEAU, (#) — The Territorial
House made a new bid last night
to reconstruct the Employment
Security Commission into a three
man board.
The action came on an amend
ment to a Senate-approved bill
which would revise some of the
technical language of the present
act and raise the taxable base
for contributions to the unemploy
ment compensation fund.
Here’s what happened:
The House more than a week
ago passed a bill to abolish the
present five-man ESC board, in
favor of a new commission of
three men.
The members of the board
would have been appointed by the
governor from lists submitted by
the Territorial Federation of La
bor, by the All-Alaska Chamber
of Commerce and by the Alaska
Bar Assn.
Last Saturday, the Senate re
fused to pass that bill in an 8-8
vote. A motion Sunday to rescind
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the vote ended in another tie and
the bill died.
Meanwhile, the House had
started work on a Senate-approved
bill which would make a number
of changes in the present act.
As the House added its amend
ments to the bill, Rep. George
McNabb (D-Fairbanks) salvaged
the three-man board from the
scrap heap and moved for its
inclusion in the Senate bill. The
amendment was adopted after a
hot debate.
Other changes, likely to be more
readily accepted when the bill goes
back to the Senate for concur
rence in the House amendments,
include the exemption of pro
fessional hospital employes, such
as nurses and technicians, from
coverage under the act.
Left unchanged by the House
was the proposed new taxable
wage base of $4,200 a year — up
from the present $3,600 a year.
The House also did not alter the
employer contributions rate of
2.7 per cent of the taxable base
or the employe contribution of
one-half of one per cent.
If enacted, the employe con
tributions wuold be retroactive to
Jan. 1 of this year — when they
were discontinued under terms
of the 1955 act.
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DENOUNCES
SOVIET THREAT
WASHINGTON, Iff) — President
Eisenhower today denounced as
completely indefensible a Russian
threat to inflict a destructive blow
on Norway should it become an
anticommunist military^ base.
Eisenhower told a news con
ference the United States recog
nizes the right of any nation in the
world to take measures for its
own defense.
He said he regards the state
ments of the Russians as com
pletely indefensible, although
saying he knows of no purpose
or plan which would lead to the
kind of thing the Soviets were
talking about.
Eisenhower was commenting on
a letter from Russian Premier
Nikolai Bulganin to Premier Einar
Gerhardsen of Norway warning
that country not to allow its terri
tory to be used as a base against
Russia.
Norway is a member of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion (NATO) and might eventual
ly obtain from the United States
missiles capable of carrying atom
ic warheads.
Bulganin said the Soviet Union
would react against “aggressive”
action by taking “the most ener
getic measures to inflict a de
structive blow against the aggres
sors and also against bases sit
uated near our borders.”
Simultaneously, William Ran-'
dolph Hearst Jr., editor-in-chief
of the Hearst newspapers, ex
pressed belief Norway would fight
if necessary to back up her com
mitments under NATO.
Hearst made a study for a spe
cial Senate committee studying
froeign aid last fall. He told the
group today Norway didn’t have
to join NATO but “did so of its
own free will.”
Appropriations Get
Top Legis. Priority
JUNEAU, iff) — An appropria
tion bill calling for general fund
expenditures of $36,507,264.36 was
passed by the House Monday and
sent to the Senate.
The budget bill whizzed through
the lower chamber without
change after its introduction ear
lier in the day by the Ways and
Means Committee.
In addition to the general fund
approrpiation, the bill sets out
$588,027.95 for use from the spe
cial Territorial Highway Fund.
The House took no action on
three other bills introduced along
with the appropriation measure
Monday by the Ways and Means
Committee.
One of the companion bills was
a measure calling for a hike in the
territorial income tax from 12.5
per cent to 15 per cent of an in
dividual’s federal income taxes.
It was designed as a means of
balancing the budget for the 1957
59 biennium, which is expected to
be about five million dolars in the
red unless a major revenue meas
ure is approved before the Legis
lature adjourns Thursday.
The other two bills yesterday
would set salary limits on key
territorial officials, and would
regulate the number of school
teachers and provide a formula
for figuring teacher salaries and
so on.
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