THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Integration Leader Freed
From Prison On Traffic
Violation Sentence
DECATUR, Ga., UPI—Negro in
tegration leader Martin Luther
King was ordered freed from the
state penitentiary under bond of
$2,000 pending an appeal from a
traffic violation sentence.
The bond was set by Judge
Oscar Mitchell, who earlier had
sent King to prison for 4 months
on the ground that his partici
pation in Atlanta lunch counter
sit-ins violated probation on the
traffic count.
Mitchell granted attorneys for
King an appeal from his revoca
tion of part of a suspended sen
tence given the integration lead
er for failure to have a Georgia
driver’s license.
Mitchell said pressure for re
lease of King came in a telephone
call from a person he said was a
member of Sen. John Kennedy’s
family. He added, however, that
he was not influenced in his de
cision by anything but the law.
Mitchell did not identify the
Kennedy family member who
telephoned.
Asked if there had been sim
ilar intervention from the camp
of Republican candidate Richard
Nixon, he said no.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Appeals Court Deals
Near Fatal Blow To
Teamsters Union Monitors
WASHINGTON, GW —The U. S.
Court of Appeals today dealt the
Teamsters Union Monitorship a
possible fatal blow.
The court ruled 2-1 that either
side may veto the appointment of
a chairman “on reasonable
grounds.”
Some observers interpreted the
decision as possibly meaning it
will be impossible for U.S. Dis
trict Court Judge F. Dickinson
Letts to find a new chairman.
The Appellate Court’s decision
upheld objections of the Union to
Lett’s appointment of former FBI
agent Terence F. McShane as
chairman of the Monitors Board.
Letts named McShane late in
September. He served only a few
days before the Appellate Court
held up the appointment pending
a formal ruling.
NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on Retail
Sales and Services for the quar
ter ending Sept. 30, 1960, must be
in the City Clerk's Office by Mon
day. Oct. 31. 1960.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Publish Oct. 21, 24, 26, 28, 31.
RE-ELECT “BOB” BARTLETT
For
Hydro - Electric
Power
Fisheries
Rehabilitation
UNITED STATES SENATE
Paid Political Advertisement
THE 6 BONDING PROPOSITIONS
IN ADDITION TO VOTING for the President of the
United States for the first time as Alaskans, the
voters of this area have a big responsibility in deciding
whether they want to bond the state and if so, on
what measures.
If the voters vote favorably on all bonding pro
positions they will be bonding the State of Alaska
for 39 and a half million dollars plus several million
in interest for the next 20 to 30 years.
Propositions 4, 5, and 6 are definite needs and
clearly defined, namely, a gymnasium for the Univer
sity of Alaska, matching funds for hospital construc
tion and funds for improving bush airfields in the
state. There can be no misunderstanding about these
issues involving education and health and transporta
tion help to remote areas.
Proposition 3 is also an educational need, more
vital than realized by people of other parts of the
state. This calls for a vocational school north of the
Yukon so that the young peope of the far north may
have the same educational opportunities offered in
other parts of the state. At present the alert young
people who want education in skills mechanically and
otherwise must be transplanted by “relocation” to
other parts of the United States. If the youth is drained
out of Northwestern Alaska, as is being done at present
the economic result will continue to be disastrous to
development here. Proposition 3 would mean a voca
tional school in Nome which is the center of the area,
so that all the people of the area might have educa
tional privileges now possible only to a few, and with
out broken home ties at an age when young people
need their family life too.
Proposition 2 is the most controversial bonding
issue on the ballot as it not only involves the most
money, namely $23,000,000, but is not very clearly
defined.
According to our legislators of the last session,
$15 million is slated for the Southeastern Alaska
ferry, $3 million for the Homer - Kodiak part - time
ferry and $5 million for road work on an “east-west”
road, meant, we are told, for a connecting road from
Nome to Fairbanks or Anchorage. This part of the
issue is the stumbling block at present as the legisla
tors are not agreed on where this money is to go.
Candidates throughout the state have an obligation
to the voters to express their opinions on how this
road money is to be spent, and where, before election
otherwise the people may not accept it. Some of the
candidates are very vague as to how they stand on
Proposition 2.
Proposition 1 has more or less eliminated itself
as Anchorage has expressed the opinion that they do
not need or want a state building at this time.
Northwestern Alaska Distributor for
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ft RE-ELECT ft
One Session in the House
Two Sessions the in Senate
32 Years In N.W. Alaska
SEN. LES BRONSON
Paid Political Advertisement
Employers Given Four
Options In ESC
Contribution Rates
JUNEAU, lip — Four options
which Alaskan business firms
may use to cover inequities in
their unemployment insurance
contribution rates were announ
ced today by the Employment
Security Division.
Director Merrill Weir said the
four options were designed to
meet apparent inequities in the
new variable tax and experience
rating procedures which went
into effect Oct. 1.
Under terms of the Unemploy
ment Security Act passed by the
last legislature, employers and
workers pay employment security
taxes under a variable rate that
sildes up and down according to
variations in quarterly payrolls.
The system was devised to tax
more heavily those businesses
whose employes draw most heav
ily on the unemployment compen
sation fund.
However, Weir said some firms
which paid worker bonuses, made
lump sum payments to employes
or which paid their employes on
a bi-weekly basis had quarterly
payroll totals which reflected ar
tificial variations.
The new options allow em
ployers to pro-rate the earnings
for variable rate purposes over
the period the money was earned
or to delete it from the payroll
total used in computing the ex
perience rating.
In the case of annual Christ
mas bonus payments, for example,
employers could apportion the
money as earned in the preceding
quarters or delete the sum en
tirely from the fourth quarter
payroll.
Nobel Prize for Peace
Withheld This Year
OSLO, Norway, UPI—The Nobel
Committee of the Norwegian par
liament decided today not to
award the Nobel Peace Prize this
year.
The prize money was reserved
for next year, a brief announce
ment from the committee said.
The amount of this year’s prize
was not disclosed.
The Nobel Peace Prizes are
awarded from a fund established
under the will of Alfred Nobel,
Swedish inventor of dynamite.
Nobel Prizes for medicine and
literature for 1960 have been
awarded and the prizes for chem
istry and physics will be awarded
Nov. 3.
The Peace Prize in 1959 went
to Philip Noel-Baker of Britain.
The last time it was not awarded
was in 1956.
SELL — Those surplus items that
you don’t need. Just let a
Nugget Classified Ad convert
them into cash for you.
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