THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at
the postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
_ Monday, May 21, 1945
HOW LONG WARTIME CONTROLS?
The time when wartime controls can
be lifted is more than ever the cause of
discusions.
The questions arise, how and when
will they disappear. Will it be accom
plished in a moment at the peace table,
or how long will the period of transition
be?
Generally speaking, legislative author
ity for most of the wartime controls ex
pires on a fixed date, or at an earlier
time, at the option of Congress. The OPA
bill has an extended period now to June
30, 1946.
The present trend of thinking, among
officials, is that the controls will be term
inated singly as each situation according
to district, approaches a normal condi
tion of supply and demand.
In order to protect the future of the
nation and its position with respect to
the rest of the world, careful planning,
and solving of the transition problem
must not be delayed.
A statement by the Advisory Beard
of the Office of War Mobilization and
Reconversion says “Full employment
can and will be attained here; it can be
achieved under our system of free enter
prise; and that our nation will be able in
that way to help the needy abroad and
alleviate their misery.”
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AIR PARCEL POST
(New York Times)
A broad extension of the benefits of
air express is proposed in a bill creating
airmail parcel post service, which is now
before a committee of the House of Rep
resentatives. Exploratory ship m e n t s
made by the airlines have already dem
onstrated that it is feasible to carry per
ishable products economically from farm
to market in many areas. Airmail parcel
post would carry such trade a step fur
ther by making possible fast movement
of fresh vegetables, fruits and specialized
products in small quantities for long dis
tances, from even the smallest producer
to the individual customer. This would
materially expand the market already a
growing one, for specialized products of
the farm and garden now marketed un
der brand names.
Parcel post by air, in the reverse direc
tion, would enable the small-town dwel
ler and the farmer to order good supplies
and repair parts from far-away market
centers and receive them within hours
rather than days or weeks. The shipment
of seeds, small machinery parts, special
ized drugs, crop and orchard spray ma
terials, and the like, would be expedited.
Some 29,000,000 persons living in 22,000
towns and villages or on Rural Free De
livery mail routes would be the benefi
ciaries of-such a new service. One useful
by-product would be to assure a still
larger use of an expanded commercial
air fleet after the war and the employ- ,
ment of the flying and ground personnel
necessary to operate it. There would ap
pear to be every reason to authorize the
extension of the benefits of airmail to
parcel post at the appropriate time.
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ing for Nome?
Should Nome have more and better resi
dential houses?
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I
Amendments to The Work
men’s Compensation Law 1
Mr. Ralph J. Rivers, Attorney
General for the Territory of Alas-1
ka, gives the folowing informa
tion about the proposed amend-1
ments the the Workmen’s Com
pensation Law:
Proposed amendments to the
Workmen’s Compensation Law. I
Section 2161, et seq. CompMed
Laws Alaska, 1933, failed to pass
both Houses. Therefore, the
Workmen’s Compensation law re
mains the same with only em
ployers hiring 5 or more persons
coming under it.
There has been a material
change, however, in the Unem
ployment Compensation law,
which was first enacted as Chap
ter 4 of the Extraordinary Ses
sion Laws of Alaska, 1937, Here
tofore, the employers first liabil
i
ity under the unemployment com
pensation program was created by
having 8 or more employees for
some portion of time in 20 or
more different weeks during the !
calendar year. The change, under
the new Act, Chapt. 8, Session
Laws Alaska, 1945, approved
March 1, 1945, is as follows:
The word “employer” means:
“On and after July 1 1945, any j
employing unit which for some (
portion of a day, has or had in
employment one or more individ
uals.”
Accordingly, after July 1, 1945,
all employer-employee relation
ships will come under the Unem
ployment Compensation law ex
cept agricultural. labor, domestic
servants, and other exempted
classes.
In addition to the foregoing
another charge appears in said
New Act, under the head of ex
cluded employees, as follows:
“Casual labor not in the course
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of an employer’s trade or business
(labor which does not promote or
advance the trade or business of
the employer). Temporary labor
in the usual course of an employ
er’s trade or business shall not be j
deemed to be casual labor.”
j
Incidentally, the original Act i
has been amended so many times
that the average person couldn’t j
help but get confused in reading
same together with all of such
amendments, and considering in- j
cidental repeals of original por
tions and repeals of early amend- j
ments thereto. Accordingly the i
Unmeployment Compens a t i o n
Commission is presently recom
piling the whole subject in pam
; phlet form and will soon distrib
ute same showing the Unemploy- J
ment Compensation Act as it now I
stands.
Incidentally, this field of un
employment compensation is only
one of many subjects where con
fusion may arise because of mul
t;plicity of amendments. There
fore, the matter of recompiling
the Alaska Code is getting urgent
and should in my opinion, be
Adjusted Service Bonds
Due June 15, 1945
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau today reminded veterans
of the First World War who hold
3 percent Adjusted Service Bonds
of 1945, issued in payments of
amounts due on Adjusted Service
Certificates, that the bonds, which
are dated June 15, 1936, will ma
ture on June 15, 1945, when the
face amount of the bonds and in
terest for the full nine year period
will be payable. The amount due
on each bond is $63.50, which in
cludes $50 principal and $13.50
interest.
The bonds may be presented to
any post office in the United
States, where, after proper iden
tification, the requests for pay
ment on the back of the bonds
may be executed, that is, signed
by the registered owner in the
presence of the postmaster who
will certify to the signature. The
postmaster will issue a receipt for
the bonds, and will forward them
to the appropriate Federal Re
serve Bank for payment, without
charge to the veteran. The bonds,
of course, may be presented by
owners direct to any Federal Re
serve Bank or Branch, or to the
Treasurer of the United States,
Washington, D. C., after the re
quests for payment on the backs
of the bonds have been properly
executed. Payment will be made,
in each instance, by check drawn
to the order of the registered
owner and mailed to his address.
given appropriate treatment by
the next legislature. In the mean
time this office will do what it
can along the lines of revision so
that when the new compilation is
completed it will be as good a
product as possible under the cir
cumstances.
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