Sewer, Garbage, Public Works
Departments Threaten Strike
That twenty city employees in
.he sewer, garage, and street de
partments may walk off their jobs
oomed as a definite threat today.
ift< r an overtime wage controversy
between the workers and city of
ficials came to a head yesterday.
At a meeting last night at 4:30
p.m. in the city garage, twenty
employees of the city garage,
sewer, and public works depart
ments decided not to walk off
their jobs, despite the fact that
all overtime has been eliminated
by the city manager.
A spokesman for group said,
however, that they would peti
tion the Fairbanks city council
for a union shop, to be effective
January 1. 1957. The men are
currently employed under ordi
nance.
Although ont all the complain
ants are union members the Op
erating Engineers, Teamsters,
and laborers unions are repre
sented in the group.
City Manager Matt Slankard
said this morning that if the men
submitted such a petition, it
Mould have to be recognized by
the city council, which, if they
approved the proposal, would
then enter into a union shop con
tract. The men would receive
the regular union pay scale,
Slankard added.
Slankard said that he had
heard that the men might ask
for a regular straight time pay
boost.
"We will never go back to over- ;
Sme such as we have had in the
>ast. stated City Manager Matt
Slankard before 17 of the complaint
>nts in a session yesterday at the
-ity garage.
Except in the case of extreme
Imergency. Slankard has eleminated
ill city employees’ overtime. T|:s
beans a wage cut of $140 to S120
)er month for each of the men in
juestion.
In his comprehensive report to
hi group at yesterday afternoon's
"netting. Slankard stated that 38
*r cent of all time worked in the
hree departments since January 1,
•Sa6 has been overtime at time-and
t-half.
I "The sewer foreman has averaged
872 per month more than the city
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
K THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF ALASKA.
FOURTH DIVISION
IMTED STATES OF AMERICA for »
'i?* of the ESTATE
3F CHARLES A TRAEGER, De- *
Sased, and or L, C. FERGUSON
Pi ecu tor of said Estate,
Plaintiffs,
i vs. >
IARL L BUTCHER and UNITED .
ITATLS FIDELrrY AND GUAKA.N
rEt COMPANY, a corporation. >
10 8 13 7 Defendants, i
NOTICE OF MARSHALS SALE
I Uraer and by virtue of a writ of exe
s'';0" issued on July 9, 1956. by the
District Court for the District of Alaska,
fourih Division, in the above entitled
iction wherein United States of Ameri
" **>« use and benefit of the Estate
' S" ^ es A. Traeger, deceased, and/or
■r c Ferguson, Executor of said Estate
ire plaintiffs, and Earl L. Butcher and
united States Fidelity and Guaranty
eon.party, a corporation, are defendants
Pursuant to judgment in favor of said
JJainttffs and against said defendants
s intered by said court on the 19th day of
January, 1936, for the sum of $1,800.00.
.wwful money of the United States of
America, and for the costs and disburse
merits thereafter made or incurred by
said plaintiffs in this action, plus interest
in said judgment from January 19, 1956.
Jo date of this sale, I have this dav lev
ied upon all right, title, claim and in
terest of said defendant Earl L. Butcher
Jti ana to the following described real
property situated in Fairbanks, Alaska.
. to wit:
J. *• and 9 of Block 18 of the
Maria T Rickert Homestead Subdivi
sion, according to the plat thereof re
corded in the office of the United
states Commissioner and Ex-officio
^Recorder of the Fairbanks Precinct.
Jfourth Division. Territory of Alaska,
as instrument number 96332
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I
Ft111' ®n the 7th day of September, 1956,
* p M. of said day, in the lobby of
the United States Post Office and Court
House, at Fairbanks, Alaska, sell at pub
a“ction. for current lawful money
r* ’ne United States of America, all the
right, title, claim, and interest of said
defendant in and to the above described
Property, or so much thereof as may be
hccesaary to satisfy said judgment, with
11 'crest and costs and accruing costs,
®.o the highest bidder for cash
DATED this 8th day of August, 1956.
A. F Dorsh. United States Marshal
By Ethyl I. Lowell, Chiel Deputy
.tie rney for Defendant. United
rates Fidelity and Guaranty
.'ompany.
lOLUNS CLASBY and SCZUDLO
“irst Pub: Aug. 9. 1956
St Pub Aug. 30. 1956
Council Acts On
Cemetery Land,
Weeks Field Lots
The Birch Hill Cemetery Associa
tion petitioned the Fairbanks City
Council Monday evening to trans
fer the original tract of 47 acres
to the city of Fairbanks.
Several problems were raised
with the petition, which will have
to be solved before such a transfer
could take place. Individual tracts
of land have been sold to specific
persons, raising a question of title.
The Association further queried the
council how they would police the
property, since the cemetery is out
side the city limits. The city would
control only the unused portion, ac
cording to Merle Thomas of the
Fairbanks Memorial Chapel.
In other business, the council re
fused to approve the transfer of a
liquor license from Hubert F. Cox
to R. and Mary Hill. The establish
ment in question is the Town Club.
The matter was referred to the City
Manager for further study.
The council approved two peti
tions for the sale of Weeks’ Field
land, and ordered ordinances be
drawn for official purchase. George
B. Rayburn applied for lot 18, block
139. and Merle W. Damaron ap
plied for lot 8, block 140.
Hazel Clasby submitted a peti
tion for lots 24 and 25 of block
140, to be traded later for a lot on
the Northwest corner of block 145
should the council decide to open
this block for sale. Her petition was
referred to the City Manager.
manager for the past seven months."
Slankard said. The city hall em
ployees get straight time, but put
in a good deal of overtime, he add
ed.
Slankard ended his speech with
the discouraging status of city fi
nances: The current balance in the
general fund is $49,446.88. After the
next payroll, there will be about
$25,000 left. It simply cannot stand
the strain of any more overtime.
The city manager stated that, al
though the men were now limited
to a 40-hour wfeek. they received
many benefits, including nine paid
holidays, one day per month sick
leave, and one day per month paid
vacation. He said that the workers
were also free to petition the city
council for workman's compensa
tion and health and welfare bene
fits. but that these could not be
considered until the budget was be
ing drawm up in November.
The workmen get a straight time
wage of 42 cents less than the union
wage scale.
The workmen said that they felt
that they needed at least some
wages in overtime in order to have
sufficient funds to live on. But they
said that they would be satisfied if
their 48-hour week were resumed
as of October 1. Slankard said that
this was impossible.
A spokesman for the group said
that they would initiate petitions
to the council for both unemploy
ment and health and welfare bene
fits.
Slankard said that he doubted
that they all wouid walk off the
job. but if they did. the work would
have to stop. "We have no money.
We can't pay more than that.” he
said. He would have to find other
men who would work the 40-hour
week.
Most of the men involved in the
controversy are members of the Op
erating Engineers, local 302. As to
leaving their jobs they said that it
was “up to the boys to decide just
what we want to do.”
A meeting of the men involved
was scheduled for 4:30 p.m. yester
day afternoon, in an attempt to de
cide upon a course of action. An
operators’ union representative was
slated to give his recommendations
on the situation.
THIS WAS ALL DONE IN A YEAR'S TIME
This is the farm that the A1
wendts have cut out of virgin
timber some 18 miles out of Fair
banks on the Chena Hot Springs
Road. At the left in front of the
bam are 1,000 laying hens. The
Wendt home is to the right. Farm
machinery may be seen in the
center with a vegetable garden in
the foreground. See Page 1 for
story.
Bartlett Bills
Signed Into
Law In Wash.
Alaska will be able to bond itself
for public works through one of
Delegate E. L. Bartlett's bills which
was passed by the 84th Congress
and signed by the President. The
Organic Act of Alaska enacted in
1912 prohibited bonded indebted
ness. In 1952 Territorial voters ap
proved a referendum calling for
views as to $12,500,000 bonded in
debtedness for school purposes.
Delegate Bartlett's bill calls for a
debt limit of $20,000,000 to be used
for school and other public pur
poses.
Another Bartlett bill which be
came law eliminated the require
ment that there be a quarter-mile
space between all public land en
tries on navigable waters in Alaska.
Other bills introduced by Dele
gate Bartlett and signed into law
include legislation to permit 55-year
; leases of Alaska Railroad property;
\ authorize a yearly appropriation of
$250,000 for Bureau of Reclamation
investigations in the Territory; re
define the boundary between the
Second and Fourth Judicial divi
sions to conform with natural boun
dary lines; allow the Alaska Road
Commission to construct roads thru
towns; abolish Old Kasaan Nation
al Monument; authorize the Secre
tary of the Interior to draw up
plans for federal office space and
facilities for the visiting public on
the Alaska highway at the border
| between Canada and Alaska; estab
| lish a five-year program of camp
| sites and other public recreational
| facilities with a $100,000 yearly au
| thorization (the initial $100,000 was
appropriated for the 1957 fiscal
| yean; and allow Eskimos. Indians
* and Aleuts to dispose of homestead
allotments after five years of oc
cupancy and use.
During the past two years other
legislation was passed including a
bill authorizing construction of two
Coast and Geodetic Survey ships
for Alaska waters with $3,700,000
appropriated for the first vessel this ;
year; legislation disposing of an
excess of funds for wildlife restor
ation projects allowing Alaska $15,
000 a year for five years in addi
tion to the $75,000 yearly allotment
for this purpose: Senator Magnu
son's bill creating a 12-member Al
aska International Rail and High
way Commission to study the need
and possibility of rail and roan
connections between the States and
Alaska; Congressman O'Brien’s bill
authorizing the Secretary of the In
terior to dispose of lands to be re
stored from highway, telephone
and pipeline withdrawals, giving
an adjoining landowner or claimant
a preferred right to acquire th »
land subject to disposal; a measur*
granting a partial tax exemption i
travel between the States and Alas
ka; a bill allowing ail U, S. poses
sions to become participating mem -
bers of the so-called Crime Control
Consent Act among the states
Congress also passed an omnium
bill in which the Chena flood con
trol was proposed. The measure t
at the White House for Presiden
tial consideration.
Alaska will share on a matching
basis in the five-year program t>
assist in providing library servica
in rural areas throughout the coun -
try. Alaskan fishermen will be able
to participate in a $10,000,000 re
rolving fund established for loam
to fishermen in legislation rede •
fining the functions of the present
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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