Butler Charges
Gruening Used
A.N.S. to Influence
Eskimo Voters
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the lesources of the federal gov
ern meot for political purposes. It
can be construed in no other way.”
Butler, a leading Senate oppon
ent of statehood of Alaska and
Hawaii, added:
“The question immedi a te 1 y
arises as to whether this would be
the manner in which the preesnt
officials of Alaska would seek lo
continue their control under the
proposed new state government,
and whether this is not the real
reason why these officials appear
so avidly anxious to have the sta
tus of statehood conferred on the
Territory."
JUNEAU, (/P) — Governor Er
nest Gruening said yesterday he
had "no comment" on charges
aired in the U. S. Senate yester
day that he had used a federal
agency to influence votes among
the Eskimos. The charge was made
in a prepared speech by Senator
Butler (R.-Neb.)
BINGHAMS TO LEAVE
FOR MONTANA VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bingham
and son Gary, are scheduled to
depart for their home in Missoula,
Montana, on the Sunday Pan
American.
Their home has been sold to Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Tveter of the
U. S. Marshal’s Office.
Mr. Bingham came to Nome
seven years ago as superintendent
of the Nome school and has been
District Attorney for the past six
years.
Mr. Bingham stated this morn
ing that “although he has sold his
home an dother personal effects
he is not leaving Nome perman
ently, but is on annual leave for
three months and plans to return
to Nome.”
Their son Ralph who was
Nome’s representative at the Boy
Scout Jamboree is now in Mon
tana awaiting their arrival.
$7,000,000 FOR ISRAEL ROADS
TEL AVIV, Israeel, (/P)—Israel
plans to spend $7,000,000 this year
fo rthe maintenance of 1,280 miles
of existing roads and the building
of 70 miles of new highways.
E. Aronov, director of the pub
lic works department of the min-1
istry of labor, said road work had
supplied jobs for 3,500 workers in i
May alone.
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Fairbanks Now
Very Short Of All
Kinds Of Workers
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The labor
picture has changed so swiftly
this year that contractors are diz
zily trying to adjust their con
struction schedules.
Three weeks ago unemploy
ment figures, estimated by the
Territorial employment agency at
2,500, stood the highest in the
city’s history.
Today, when labor is needed
most and contractors are pushing
to complete as many of their pro
jects as possible before the end
of the building season, the labor
market is suddenly so tight that
e^ven common laborers cannot be
hired.
More than 100 jobs calling for
skilled labor are going begging.
William Frisby, acting manager
of the Fairbanks employment of
fice, attributes the sudden exodus
of labor in part to the war scare
and expectation of being drafted,
and in part to advertisements in
Outside papers for workers in the
United States.
A large percentage of the labor
market this year was composed of
college students and itinerant
workers who drifted up for the
season. Many of these have re
turned to the States. Most of them
sat around all summer or did odd
jobs at pittance wages to make
subsistence money.
Nearly 25 per cent cjf the short
construction season was dissipated
before labor and management
controversies were ironed out suf
ficiently so that building could go
ahead full speed.
Now the brakes are off, but the
fuel tank of labor and materials is
running dry, and from present in
dications there won’t be any re
fills this year.
Many of the jobs available are
for skilled labor on government
work at Ladd and Eielson Air
. Force Bases. Wages there are low
and that is one reason they will
remain unfilled as long as the la
bor market is tight, Frisby said.
Compared with union scales,
taking into consideration over
time which the government does
not pay, and board and room, gov
ernment workers make about half
the union scale. In other words,
working a full year they earn just
about the same amount as the
union worker does in six months.
In favor of government jobs are
inducements such as year-round
employment, many benefits, auto
matic wage increases and promo
tions and job training.
But the average itinertant work
er sees big money in seasonal
work and is not interested in
long-term operations.
It has been an unpredictable
year. It will continue to be so if
conditions remain as uncertain
as they are now.
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Military Chiefs
Say Morale In
Korea Is Good
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WASHINGTON (/P)—‘The chiefs
of the army and navy returned
today from a quick visit to the
Korean war front and said they
“sensed a general offensive spirit
and an air of optimism” by all the
American fighting men.
General J. Lawton Collins,
army chief of staff, and Admiral
Forrest P. Sherman, chief of na
val operation^, arrived back in
Washington where they left only
last Saturday morning.
In the Far East, they conferred
with Gen. MacArthur and visited
the war front and the ships of the
navy in the battle zone.
Sherman told reporters that the
spirit of offensive and optimism
was present “in the army, navy
and air force—all of them.” •
Collins said that “everything is
going along very satisfactorily but
they still have got some pretty
tough fighting ahead.”
Asked if he had brought back
any special report from MacAr
thur, Collins said “no.”
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The scientific name for the boa
constrictor is “constrictor constric
tor.”
MISS EILEEN UTTBCH TO
VISIT BARROW
Miss Eileen Uttech, district rep
resentative for the Alaska Depart
ment of Public Welfare, left Nome
for Golovin Monday, where she
boarded the North Star, the Alas
ka Native Service boat on its voy
age to Barrow. EnrOute to Barrow
she will visit several of the vil
lages in her district.
Miss Uttech represents the Pub
lic Welfare Department through
out the Second Division in its va-^
rious programs of Old Age Assist
ance, Aid to Dependent Children,
General Relief, and Child Welfare
Services, so this trip northward
will give her the opportunity to
become acquainted with the resi
dents and department agents in
many villages, and get a first-*
hand picture of their needs and*
problems.
During Miss Uttech’s absence of
about six weeks, the local office
of the Department of Public Wel
fare will remain open Monday
through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.
Henry Pearson, of the Gassland
Construction Co., and formerly of
the Mt. Vernon, Washington, daily
paper editorial staff, who is en
route to the north to help on mili
tary installations visited in the
Nome Nugget office today.
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