Alaska Employers
Receive Credit
Rating Notices
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The Employment Security Com
mission of Alaska has just com
pleted its third annual release of
Experience Rtating Credit Notices
to employers covered .by the Act.
John T. McLaughlin, director of
the Unemployment Insurance Di
vision, state that 1,101 employers
have by now received Credit No
tices aggregating $1,390,480.39.
This credit may be used to off-set
cash contributions due for the
quarters ending September 30,
1949. December 31, 1949. March
31. 1950, and June 30. 1950.
The distributable surplus avail
able for credit this years is sub
stantially greater than for the two
previous credit years; also a great
er number of employers both large
and small will benefit for the first
time under the Experience Rating
Provisions of the Law. This in
crease is due primarily to the au
toomatic fulfillment of a four-year
employment experience require
ment by those employers who be
came liable on June 1, 1945. when
liability for coverage was amend
ed to include one or more employ
ees.
At the present time more than
45^ of covered employers are re
ceiving benefits under the Experi
ence Rating Provisions of the
Alaska Law. The remaining 55^
are not qualified for such reasons
as insufficient employment experi
ence, contribution report delin
quency or delinquencies in pay
ment of contributions due. Em
ployers in this category will re
ceive a Notice advising the spe
cific reason for disqualification. If
an employer does not concur in
the disqualification, he has re
course to file a request for adjust
ment. If such request is denied by
the Commission, the employer
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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS.
CARL OXEREOK AND METRO
Funeral services were held from
the L. W. Y. Mission Sunday af
ternoon for Mrs. Carl Oxereok
and her daughter, Metro. The
church was filled with friends of
the family who came to pay their
last respects to mother and daugh
ter who passed away within a day
of each other.
Rev. Theron McGrew conducted
the service, assisted by Rev. Rob
ert Treat who read scripture and
offered prayer. The Girls Chorus
of the L. W. Y. M., of which Met
ro was formerly a member, sang
“There's No Disappointment in
Heaven.” Juanita Fagerstrom and
Clara Brown sang a duet, “Jesus
Lover of My Soul,” and Rev. Paul
Carlson sang a solo, “He the
Pearly Gates Will Open.”
Their many friends extend sym
pathy to the Oxereok family in
their bereavement.
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may file a petition for hearing
with the Appeal Tribunal within
ten days of the mailing of such no
tice of Denial.
It is necessary to point out that
employers receiving credit have
merited such credit on the basis of
their ^employment experience dur
ing the past three calendar years.
Employers with little or not an
nual pay roll declines have re
ceived the highest rate of credit
and conversely employers with
downward fluctuations in annual
pay rolls have received the lowest
rate of credit. Int merit rating
therefore, a direct relationship ex
ists with the unemployment insur
ance risk borne by the Commis
sion with respect to employers,
both individually and collective
ly. All employers are urged to use
Experience Rating Credit now
possessed or to be possessed in the
future as a factor in management
and planning.
Annual payrolls should be sta
bilized to the extent possible inas
much as downward fluctuations
will result ih reduced credit or
disqualification for ensuing years,
t It is interesting to note that dur
ing the time experience rating has
been in effect the Unemployment
Trust Fund in the U. S. Treasury
has increased from $9,725,941.30
on July 1, 1947, to $10,111,204.70 on
July 1, 1949 despite the fact that
during this period the Agency has
experienced an unprecedented
benefit payment load.
Men of few words seldom have
to take them back.
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•Maybe* Sourdough
W ill Stay <hitside
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SEATTLE. UP)—William 'Sour
dough Bill' Patterson arrived here
yesterday from Seward, Alaska—
and this time, he says, maybe he
will stay.
The colorful figure, known
throughout the Territory, organ
ised the Sourdough Express Com
pany at Seward in 1918. He drove
many prominent tourists in his
“Sourdough” Taxi, including Pres
ident Warren O. Harding.
After nearly a half century in
Alaska, Patterson recently sold h.s
transfer business and came “Out-i
side’ ’to visit an old friend, Pete .
Ogle of Puyallup.
“After I see Pete and look i
around a bit. I'll decide whether
I'll stay,” he said.
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ANNIVERSARY DINNER
VERY WELL ATTENDED
A dinner commemorating the
50th anniversary of the Federated !
Church was held last Friday ev
ening in the social rooms of the
church with over a hundred peo
ple participating in the event. The
dinner was sponsored by the La
dies Aid of the Church under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Robert
Baldwin.
Special guests for this week’s
celebration were Gordon Gould,
Superintendent of the Alaska
Methodist Mission and Director
of Methodist work in Alaska and
Dr. Fred Pedersen, of the Depart
ment of Church Extension with
headquarters in Philadelphia. It
is interesting to note that both re
ligious leaders are real Alaskans,
Rev. Gould having been born in
Unga, where his parents were
missionaries, and Dr. Pederson
having come to Alaska with his
parents in 1902.
Miss Esther McCoy, new social
worker for the Lavinia Wallace
Young Mission was also a special
guest at the dinner.
New officers for the church for
the year were named; Trustees
Robert Baldwin, J. W. Fults, Mrs.
Harold Harper, William Cameron,
Mrs. Andrew Nerland. Stewarts;
Antonio Polet, Tolbert Scott, Mrs.
Luther Dunbar, Mrs. W. McCarthy
Mrs. John McNees; Treasurer,
Karl Dewey; Secretary, Carrie
McLain; Sunday School Super
intendent, Raymond Tveter; Mu- ,
sical Director, Mrs. W. Cameron.
In a short address Dr. Pedersen
reviewed the 50-years work of the
church with praise for the work
ers and stated that the story of
the anniversary in Nome will be
carried to churches from coast to
coast. ,
Rev. Gordon Gould warmly
praised the new pastor, Robert
Treat, for what he has already ac
complished in the short time he
has been here. He then gave an
elouent address which was appre- j
ciated by all present.
Services on Sunday morning
and evening culminated the 50th
anniversary with both the Junibr
and Senior choirs participating
and the two visitors preaching
the sermons.
Rev. Gould and Rev. Pedersen
are scheduled to depart today for
other parts of the Territory, in
cluding Homer, Seldovia, Hope,
Moose Pass, Seward and Anchor
age.
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Word has been received that
Tom Sweeney, well-known old
timer who has been in poor health
underwent an operation in Seattle
and is reported getting along fine.
He sends word to his friends that
he will be back in the spring.
Man Will Try
Fairbanks to Maine
Dog Team Run
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Cecil A.
Moore of Lewiston, Me., was doing
today what he’ll be doing a lot of,
starting Nov. 1,—he followed his
sled.
His sled, both runner and wheel
equipped, arrived 10 days ago. and
Moore arrived via Hun American
today to prepare for his 5,000 mile
cross-country dog sledding jour- ,
ncv from Fairbanks clear back to
Lewiston, Me.
Moore is 40 years old and in
top physical condition from years i
of trapping, hunting, trail-break
ing and steel engineering for ra
dar warning towers in remote j
.-pots.
His trip is sponsored by the Ce- ,
cil A. Moore fund for underpriv
ileged children, under auspices of
the Auburn-Lewiston Lions Club
of Maine.
He says he plans stopovers at
each of 25 selected United States
and Canadian cities where he will
mail autographed cachets to stamp
collectors. Receipts from stamp
sales will go toward establishing a
summer camp in Maine for under
privileged children from around
the United States.
His time table has him leaving
here Tuesday, Nov. 1 and arriving
in Lew’iston 120 days later. His
route calls for the “old winter
trail” which will bring him to
Dawson Creek, B. C., the Alaska
Military Highway railhead some
1.500 miles to the southeast.
He has arranged for airplane
food drops along the route, and
will keep in touch with civiliza
tion via a two-way radio. Mrs.
Moore will fly to meet him on the
trail for Christmas.
Moore expects snow on the
ground the entire route, but pack
ed along some sled wheels for rid
ing through towns and cities.
He’s recruiting his dog team
here, and reports that his teen-age
j son hopes to raise Siberian Hus
kies from pups he may bring back
from the trek.
Grandma's Remedies
Winning Support
Grandma, brewing homespun
remedies over the old kitchen coal
range, has been regarded as a comi
cal figure by her twentieth century
offspring. Hut the boys in the labo
ratories tell us that it’s time to stop
laughing.
I'resent day scientists are coming
around to the belief that the old gal
•»-as, after all, a pretty smart doctor.
Her mullein tea was brimming with
\itamins; the woolen sock she put
around a sore throat helped keep the
inflamed area warm and thus hast
ened recovery; her fiery mustard
plaster was even hotter than today’s
sun lamps; it would be difficult to
find anything to surpass her bone
set tea in its diaphoretic (perspira
Hon inducing) qualities.
The doctor never questioned qui
nine as a preventative and cure for
the “shakes" (malaria) but they
were pretty skeptical about her use
of it as a standard remedy for other
ailments — particularly colds and
muscle cramps.
Recently, however, Drs. H. K.
Moss and L. G. Herrman reported in
the American Heart Journal that
quinine in small dosages stimulate*
circulation by increasing power of
the heartbeat and raising the blood
pressure. This speedily remove*
waste products which cause th*
cramps.
And now there's a lot of talk couch*
ed in ninety-cent words about “basal
i metabolism” and "antibodies’*
■ which boils down to a growing sus
picion that, while quinin# does not
kill th* cold virus, it doe* somehow
condition the bodv to throw off inf*>
tions more quickly.
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