SOCIAL
SECURITY
COLUMN
Alaska Office
Social Security Board
Juneau, Alaska
JUNEAU—As an aid to States
in administering uneiruployement
compensation laws. Social Secur
ity account numbers are now
being issued to employees 65
years of age and over, the Social
Security Board announced. The
Board emphasized that applica
tion for an account number by an
employee 65 years of age or over
is voluntary in so far as the Soc
ial Security Act is concerned.
However, the same type of Soc
ial Security account number card
will be issued to those 65 years
of age and over as has been issu
ed to other workers.
State unemployment compensa
tion law®, the Board said, cover
employees of all ages. Since State
agencies will use Social Security
account numbers, the Board add
ed that account numbers for em
ployees 65 years of age and over
are needed by the States.
Unmployiment compensation
Jaws are administered by t'he Sta
tes, the Federal Government con
tributing the amounts necessary
for proper administrative costs.
Alaska and 44 States, including
the District of Columbia, now
have unemployment compensa
tion laws approved by the Social
Security Board. In the most re
cent months for which estimates
are available approximately 18,
520,000 persons were at work in
employments covered by these
laws.
Employees 65 years of age and
over in States not having approv
ed unemploy-ment compensation
laws are also urged by the Board
to register voluntarily for Social
Security numbers. Account num
bers, the Board said, will be issu
ed to employees 65 years of age
and over through the facilities cf
the post offices now being utilized
in the assignment of account num
bers under the Federal old-age
benefits program of the Social
Security Act.
Applications for account num
bers, the Board explained, may
be obtained at any local post of
fice and at the Alaska office of
the Social Security Board in Jun
eau, Alaska.
The Board pointed out that an
employee may choose any one of
four different ways to file his
completed application. They are:
(1) through his employer, or (2)
through any labor union of which
he is a member, or (3) by deliver
ing it to his local postoffice, or (4)
by mailing it in a sealed envel
ope addressed, “Postmaster, Lo
cal.”
The Board also announced that
information on applications for
account numbers, by agreements
between the official State unem
ployment compensation adminis
trations and the Social Security
Board, will be held as absolutely
confidential and will be used by
the State agencies as well as by
the S eial Security Board solely
in the administration of Social
Security laws.
The Board pointed out that
Social Security account numbers ,
will be used by the States in ad
ministering unemployment com
pensation laws. Their use, the
Board declared, will prove ad
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Labor Leader
Jonn L. Lewis, wno broke with th«
American Federation of Labor ovei
his policy of industrial unionism
today is one of the dominant figures
in the nation. Now in his middle
fifties, the former coal miner claims
allegiance of some two million
workers. This portrait was made re
cently in Washington. (Associated
Press Photo)
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Only employees in industrial
and commercial employments
who had not readied 65 years of
age bef 'i'e January 1, 1037, arc
eligible for participation in the
Federal old-age benefits program,
the Board said.
Federated Church
Rev Vincent C. Widnev, Pastor
Services for Sunday, May 23
Church School 11 o’clock.
Evening Worship, 7:45 P. M.
The sermon will be in keeping
with the observance of Health
Week. The topic: “Public Health
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Native Methodist Church,
Service 5 P. M.
Sermon: “Health and the
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Notice Of Final Settlement
No. 519
In the Probate Court for the Cape
Nome Precinct in the Second
Division of the Territory of Al
aska.
In the Matter of the Estate f
PETER BLOMBERG, deceased.
To Oscar Eckberg, St. Paul,
Minnesota; to Mrs. Glen Reiter,
Pasadena, California; to Anders
Blomberg, Parish of Stangby,
Province of Malmohus, Sweden;
to Karl Blomberg, Parish of Up
pakra. Province of Malmohus,
Sweden: to Mrs. Henry Viktor
Oskar.-son, Parish of Foss, Prov
ince of Goteborg and Bohns,
Sweden: to Mrs. Anna Blonroerg
Blomqcist, City of Lund, Prov
ince of Malmohus, Sweden; to
Arne Valentin Persson, Parish of
Skabersjo, Province of Malmo
hius. Sweden; and to Mrs. Kurt
Egil Unander, City of Karlstad,
Province of Varmland, Sweden:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
that the Administrators of the
Estate of Pc»ter Blomberg. deceas
ed. have filed in said Court their
Report and Final Account, as
such Administrators, and that
Saturday, the 24th day of July,
1937, at the h ur of ten o’clock
in the forenoon of said day, has
been fixed by the Court as the
date of hearing the objections, if
any, to said Report, and, at the
same time and place,' the Judge
of said Probate Court will hear,
adjudicate, and determine who
the heirs and distributees of de
cedent are.
Thorulf Lehmann,
John Swedman,
Administrators.
Publish May 13,20.27,June 3, 1937
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ALASKA’S MATERNAL AND
INFANT DEATH RATE HIGH
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three times as high as the infant
death rate in the United States.
The extremely high mortality
am >ng the native infants is chief
ly responsible for this embarrass
ing infant death rate of Alaska.
While the infant death rate
among the white population var
ied during 1930-1935 period from
52.3 to 85.8 per thousand live
births, the death rate among the
native infants for the same inter
val varied from 129.1 to 270 per
1,000 births. Thus, some years,
one out of every four children
born died before he was one year
( old.
However, when we review the
high maternal mortality rate of
Alaska, we do not find any suc.t
correlation. The average per
centage of maternal deaths am
ong the whites, for the above six
year interval, is practically the
same as that for the native moth
ers. 10.4 was the average num
ber of maternal deaths for 1,00*)
white births, and 10.1 mothers
died for every 1,000 births among
the natives.
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