House Committee OKs
TV2% Pay Increase for
Civil Service Workers
WASHINGTON, UP)—An across
the-board pay increase of 7Vi per
cent for the government’s million
civil service workers was ap
proved yesterday by the House
Civil Service Committee.
The committee action came af
ter a proposed 8 percent pay raise
was turned down by what mem
bers reported was a tie vote.
The 7 Vi percent increase, ap
proved by a 16-4 vote, still faces
a fight on the floor of the House,
where Rep. Moss (D-Calif) served
notice an attempt will be made to
boost it to the 8 percent figure.
The committee still must work
out additional provisions, includ
ing a retroactivity date and ex
tension of the raise to employes of
the legislative and judicial gov
ernment branches. They will be
decided today.
Congress previously had voted
500,000 postal workers an average
8 percent pay boost, retroactive to
March 1.
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Gordon Gray
Named Assistant
Defense Secretary
WASHINGTON, (ff)—President
Eisenhower sent to the Senate
yesterday the formal nomination
of Gordon Gray, president of the
University of North Carolina, to
be an assistant secretary of de
fense.
The President’s plan to appoint
Gray, a former secretary of the
Army, was announced last Fri
day. Gray, a Democrat, will suc
ceed H. Struve Hensel, who re
signed.
Asked how it happened a Dem
ocrat was being brought into the
Eisenhower Administration, White
House Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty replied:
“He’s a very good man.”
The White House also announced
the Army will name Maj. Gen.
Robert Nicholas Young as com
manding general of the Sixth
Army, which has headquarters in
San Francisco. Young will suc
! ceed Lt. Gen. Willard G. Wyman
on July 1. Wyman is to become
deputy commanding general of
the Continental Army Command.
Eisenhower asked the Senate to
raise Young to three star rank.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Time Machine
PITTSBURGH, PA —This
new research device recreates in
a few hours the passage of 200,
000,000 years! It is a growing
model of how an oil field builds
up from prehistoric time. The
hopper (upper left) deposits
clays which simulate heavy sand
and rock layers. The rise of aiv
underground “salt dome” (often
found in oil areas) is represented
by the motor-driven shaft push
ing up from below.
Geologist J. B. Currie of Gulf
Oil laboratories points out how
these forces cause faults in the
earth which often trap oil. The
time-spanning machine was de
veloped to suggest new locations
in the world-wide search for oil.
Washington
News - Letter
By Mary Lea Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett,
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
It is not yet known what the
final allocations will be in con
nection with the $6,300,000 appro
priated for the Alaska Road Com
mission. The 1956 fiscal year pro
gram based on the $7,800,000 re
quested included:
Prepartion of plans, $300,000;
continued construction on the
Taylor Highway, $400,000; con
tinued surfacing of the Richard
son Highway, $2,400,000; con
struction on the Denali Highway,
$1,700,000; surfacing on Sterling
Highway, $1,500,000; local farm
and industrial roads, $200,000; re
construction of various roads,
$800,000; and a start of a new
highway from Fairbanks to Nen
ana, $500,000.
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Of the contemplated $10,484,000
to be allocated for Alaska activi
ties, approximately $6,564,000 will
be used for operation of eight hos
pitals now under the jurisdiction
of the Alaska Native Service. In
In addition, about $2,066,000
will be available for contract pa
tients at Nome, Seward, Ft. Yu
kon, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Fair
banks and Washington State san
atoriums, while the remaining al
locations will be used for the pre
ventive health program in the
amount of $917,000; program di
rection, $203,000; and construc
tion, $734,000.
The latter figure is broken
down into $650,000 for construc
tion at Kotzebue, Tanana, Barrow
and Bethel; $50,000 for planning
a hospital at Kotzebue; and $34,
000 for alterations.
Plans call for an average daily
patient load of 943 in the govern
ment-owned hospitals, with about
600 of those allocated for tubercu
losis patients. There is a total of
so-called rated patient capacity of
1010 beds in the eight hospitals.
The $2,066,000 will t>e used for
290 contract tuberculosis patients
in Washington State, 140 tuber
culosis patients in non-govern
ment hospitals throughout the ter
ritory and 31 general patients
throughout Alaska.
The money will allow bed occu
pancy in the Alaska hospitals in
considerably larger numbers than
over the past year.
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