Public Works, Sewer, Garage
Workers File Overtime Protest
-n lormai protest, signed by 20
employees of the City sewer, gar
age. and public works departments,
was read before the Fairbanks City
Council Monday evening, the out
come of an overtime wage contro
versy between the workers and city
officials last week.
Last week's crisis, raised when
all twenty of the men threatened to
leave their jobs due to the elimina
tion of all overtime work by the
city manager, was temporarily re
solved when the workers agreed in
a later meeting to stay on the job.
In their protest, • the workers
stated that they sympathized with
the city's financial problem as out
lined in an earlier report by City
Manager Matt Slankard, and that
the city could not pay overtime if
the money was unavailable. They
said they would be satisfied if over
time were resumed on October 1
when tax money would be replen
ishing the general fund.
Should the overtime not be re
sumed, they stated, a hardship
would be worked on many workers
■with families.
Since these city workers are em
ployed at 42 cents below whatever
the union scale happens to be on
January 1 of each year, they pointed
out that they have unquestioningly
accepted the overtime as a substi-1
tute for the wage differential.
In reporting on the protest, Slank
ard stated that the city could not
afford to resume overtime, and
would have to finance a short term
cash loan to do so. He quoted the
straight time salaries of the com
plaintants, a great majority of
which ran higher than those of
long time employees in the fire and
police departments. Councilman
Tom Downes summed up the Man
ager's attitude when he said. “I
can’t see that these are exactly what
you'd call starvation wages.”
Councilman Dick Greuel pointed
out the reason for the wage differ
ential, saying that many union jobs
were seasonal while city work con
tin ued year around.
Greuel added, however, that a
straight time pay raise for all city
employees, if only in the form of j
unemployment security and health
and welfare benefits should be
studied and considered before the
January 1, 1957 ordinance comes |
up before the council.
The men already get many bene
fits, including nine paid holidays
and one day paid vacation and one
day paid sick leave per month.
No definite action can "be taken '
until the January 1 ordinance is;
considered, although the city man- \
ager was instructed to make a com
plete study of the matter to expe
dite procedures at that time.
MRS. ADRIAN PEAVY
VISITS IN WAINWRIGHT
Mrs. Adrian Peavy and her son,
Gerald, of Anchorage passed thru
Fairbanks en .route to Wainwright
recently with Wien Alaska Airlines.
In Wainwright the Peavys will
visit with her father, Joe Aveogan
na. and her brother, James Allen
Aveoganna, and family.
Peavy owns and operates a ser
vice station in Anchorage where
the couple make their home.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
FAIRBANKS PRECINCT
FOURTH JUDICIAL DIVISION
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
In the Matter of the Estate )
of )
MILO OORANOFF, also known as > t
MIKE GORANOFF, Deceased. )
MAUDE GORANOFF. also known as )
MAUD GORANOFF. Petitioner. )
No. 1981 Probate
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by
order of the Probate Court for Fairbanks
Precinct. Fourth Judicial Division. Ter
ritory of Alaska, the undersigned has
been appointed Executrix of the Estate
of MILO GORANOFF. also known as
MIKE GORANOFF. Deceased. All persons
having claim# against the said Estate
should present them, with proper vouch
ers, within six (Si months from the date
hereof to the undersigned at the office
of Maurice T. Johnson. 316 Chena Build
ing. attorney for the said Estate, in
Fairbanks, Alaska, which office is hereby
designated as the place where the prin
cipal business of said Estate will be
conducted. .
DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska, this 22nd
dav of August, 1956.
/s/ Maude Goranoff
Executrix
First Pub: Aug. 23. 1956
Last Pub: Sept. 13, 1956
Grand Jury
Names Drawn
Clerk of the District Court Dixie
Hall released the new grand jury
list for the new term beginning
September 5 at 10 a.m. The list is
good for 18 months and grand jur
ors will be selected from the names
on the roster as needed.
Fairbanksans on the list include
Ruby H. Winters.. Mary R. Woli
ston, Bernice Keeney, Sister Ger
main, John Wigger. Paul Greimann,
Jr., James R. Huges. H. C. Beamish,
Ted Lowman, Don H. Miller. Corall
° Rvmel. -Tone Naccarato. Lillian
Hoover, Joseph E. Sellars. Rita
toercKeielcu, l.. Floyd James, Mary
B White, Charlotte H. Wilbur,
Connell C. Fairchild, Thomas Boyd,
Avery J. Nutt, Jr., A. J. Schaible,
Ruth Denver, William D. Maddox,
Richard C. Ragle. Joseph G. Bay
less, Clifford Carlson Dorothy E.
Duggan, Lonnie B. Mizell, and Dan
iel Montoya.
Others on the list are Martha
Sara. Beaver: Ida Edwards. Beaver;
Robert J. Cacy. Jr., Circle Hot
Springs; K. S. McCombe. Chicken;
Virginia Gilmore, Badger road; Hen
ry D. Kokrine, Graehl; Louis A.
Weinberg, College; Olive McElroy,
Big Delta; Belva B. Brown. Graehl;
Fay Porter. College: Jorgan P.
Krohn. Chatanika; Hulda Elieff.
Siaterville; Irene Gardner, College;
Julia Demintieff. Bethel; Allen E.
Nunley. Graehl; James F. Samp
sell, Beaver.
Also J. B. Baud, Nulato; Walter
H. Rolfe. College: William A. Sher
man. Big Bend; and Verona G.
Mathis of Badger road.
Hetherington -
Glidden Wedding
Party Visiting
Miss Fay Dabney, connected with
an advertising firm in New York,
arrived last Wednesday evening to
be an attendant to Miss Margaret
Glidden at her Saturday marriage
to Cyril Hetherington.
Miss Dabney toured through the
Canadian rockies by train, flying
here from Seattle. She was accom
panied on the trip by Joan Harris,
a member of the United Nations
staff in New York, who left for
Santa Clara, California with her this
week. The pair returned to the
states via Anchorage.
Hetherington’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ronald C. Hetherington, ar
rived here last Thursday for the
wedding. The former Fairbanksans’
two daughters, Rosa and Diane, ac
companied them on the trip north.
CHARLES PRINCES VISIT
HERE ROM ST. ALBANS
WITH THEIR SON, FAMILY
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Prince res
idents of Fairbanks for over six
years, arrived Saturday morning
with Pan American Airways from
St. Albans, Vermont to visit with
their son, Ed Prince, and his family
at 317 Seventh street in Hamilton
Acres.
Prince, once located here with
the Department of Agriculture, Bu
reau of Entomology, and his wife,
Helen a former principal of Fair
banks high school, will visit here
until Monday. They drove from St.
Albans to Seattle, boarded the plane
there.
Prince, past president of both the
Fairbanks Shrine Club and the Ro
tary club, is now district deputy to
the grand high priest of the Grand
Royal Arch chapter of Vermont.
Oldtimer Sam Hjorth was admit
ted to St. Joseph’s hospital Tuesday
for medical attention. He lives at
1403 Third avenue.
Council Approves
Presbyterian Use. |
IGreimann Home
After an hour long wrangle, the
j Fairbanks City Council gave its
unanimous approval to the Presby
! terian Mission Board to conduct a
| hospitality center at the Greimann i
1 home. 1102 Eighth avenue.
Mrs. Harry Rasmussen, church ;
spokesman. defined “hospitality
center" as a stopover for transient j
students and young people newly 1
arrived in town from outlying ar
eas.
A public hearing was held on the
i issue, since it was at first believed
j that a zoning change was necessary
if such a use were to be made of
the home. Later, however, City At
toroney Eugene Miller stated he
saw nothing in The zoning code pro
hibiting such a guest house in a
residential area. ,
Ed Rusing wrote a formal letter
of protest to the council, expressing
his view that a zoning change was
necessary and a waiver would de
tract from the property values and
general desirability of an area that
is now reasonably free of zoning
encroachments.
The supposedly necessary zoning
change had received an unfavorable
report from the Planning and Zon
ing Commission earlier.
Two other public hearings, slated
for Monday evening, were heard:
one would rezone block 23. Rlck
ert subdivision, from residential to
multiple residential; the second
would change lots one and two on
block 44. between Hall and Dunkel
on Third ar.d Fourth, from residen
tial to light industrial to conform
to the remainder of the block Both
were approved without discussion.
DEBRA LEE SMITH
IS TUESDAY ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith of
6 Mile on the Richardson highway
welcomed the birth of their first
child, a daughter. Debra Lee. born
in St. Joseph's hospital on Tuesday
at 11:10 a.m. and weighing 4- lbs.
4 ozs.
Smith is employed by the Munici
pal Utilities System. Paternal
grandfather is Leroy Smith, also
of 6 Mile on the Richardson.
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