Former Pastor
Of St. John’s
Plans Local Visit
Word has been received from
the Rev. Woodrow Kurth, former
pastor of St. John’s Lutheran
Church, that he and his family
plan an Alaskan vacation. They
will visit for about two weeks
in the Palmer-Anchorage areas,
arriving approximately July 8.
Tentative plans are that Rev.
Kurth will conduct services at
St. John’s on July 10 or July 17.
A congregational get-together in
the form of a pot luck dinner
will be held in his honor .
Rev. Kurth served the Palmer
and Anchorage congregations
from 1940 to 1944. His present
parish is at Pittsburg, Kansas.
This congregation dedicated a
new church in April of last year.
"ROADEO" PLANNED
AT FT. RICHARDSON
AUGUST 8 - 12
The ninth annual all-Alaska
Accident Prevention Conference
and Motor Vehicle “Roadeo”,
which will bring together indi
viduals interested in and respon
sible for safety matters in Alaska,
will be held at Fort Richardson
August 8-12.
During the conference, acci
dent prevention problems and
latest information on safety
methods will be discussed. Rep
resentatives from all armed ser
vices, federal agencies in Alaska,
local territorial officials, and re
presentatives of private industry
will attend.
The Motor Vehicle "Roadeo”
will be held during the confer
ence and will feature contests
between drivers from Army,
Navy and Air Force units who
will compete for prizes to be
awarded the most skilled and
safest driver of trucks, jeeps,
tractor-trailers and sedans. The
driver must have had six months
experience with the type of ve
hicle with which he competes and
must have driven one year with
out an accident,
NEW WAGE LAW
NOW IN EFFECT
Harry A. Benson, commission
er of labor, advised today that
Alaska’s Wage-Hour Law estab
lishing minimum hours of work,
bcame effective the workday
Tuesday, June 28.
This law, enacted by the last
legislature, requires that every
employer in the Territory hav
ing four or more employees shall
pay each employee not less than
$1.25 per hour of work. The min
imum wage of $1.25 applies to
both male and female employ
ees. Baby sitters, paper delivery
and errand boys, and aged and
partially disabled persons, may
be paid less than the $1.25 mini
mum only under permits to be
issued by the Labor Commission
er.
The law further requires that
no employer of four or more em
ployees may employ any person
for more than eight hours in any
one day or for more than 40
hours in any work week unless
such employees are paid for such
overtime at the rate of time and
one half the regular straight time
rate of pay.
Certain classes of employers
are exempt from the overtime
provisions of the law, including
airline operators, mining opera
tions having less than 12 employ
ees, and some employers who are
at present exempt under the Fed
eral Wage-Hour Law.
Commissioner Benson has di
rected particular attention to the
need for accurate record-keeping
by every employer and every
worker. “The employer’s perma
nent files should record not only
the name, address, age and occu
pation of every employee, buL
must also plainly reveal the
hours of the day worked, the
total hours worked in any week
and the amount of wages actually
paid to each employee for that
pay period.”
Commissioner Benson will
travel throughout the Territory
during July and August to dis
cuss the application of this law
with Alaska’s workers and em
ployers. Mail inquiries should be
addressed to the Labor Depart
ment at Juneau.
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A Roadmaster Bicycle will be awarded at the j;
end of June, July, and August, to the boy |j
or girl turning in the greatest number of j:
Donald Duck bread wrappers. j; j
In June a 24 in. Roadmaster will be awarded; ;j:
in July a standard model and in August j|
a DeLux Model.
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KFQD, 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. Mon., Wed., and ij
Fri. for further information.
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WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?
Are you shipping feed, fertilizer, produce, machinery,
seed, dairy products or other agricultural supplies?
In performance of our duty to help develop the agri
cultural economy of Alaska we have always main
tained exceptionally low shipping rates on all
agricultural equipment and supplies.
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SEE YOUR LOCAL FREIGHT AGENT FOR
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AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS on the staff
of the Federal Civil Defense Administration pro
vide a variety of voices for one of the skits in a
series of “spot" announcements on “Coneirad,”
the emergency Civil Defense radio system. Re
corded by FCDA's audio-visual director, Chet
Spurgeon, and radio-TV head Nat Linden
(seated), the skits and an accompanying tune are
designed to make the public conscious of Conel
rad's 640 and 1240 emergency radio frequencies.
More than $5,000 has been saved the Government
by using mostly amateur voices instead of pro
fessional actors. A West Coast firm pressed the
records and mailed them to radio stations.
High School Graduates
Eligible for Many
Special Army Schools
Lt. John E. Witsch, territorial
Army recruiting officer, announ
ced today the continuation of
numerous Army schools for high
school graduates who enlist in
the Army.
Among many career opportun
ities mentioned by the recruiter
are electricians, telephon instal
lation and repair men, radar
specialists, and power equipment
mechanics. He also pointed out
that young men are qualified for
enrollment in one of the courses
will receive a letter indicating
the course for which they are ac
cepted and the starting date of
that course.
“The U. S. Army”, comment
ed Lt. Witsch, “has a unique
technical training program for
high school graduates. Complete
ly realistic and /up-to-date, it
gives young men an opportunity
to chose any one of over 100
career courses before they en
list.”
For further information on a
a possible school appointment,
write SEC Frank Castaneda, Rm.
6, P. O. Bldg., Anchorage.
Methodist Conference
Being Held in Sitka
The Alaska Mission Conference
of the Methodist Church conven
ed in Seward Methodist Church
at Seward, on June 28. The con
ference opened with a banquet,
with the main address of the eve
ning delivered by Bishop A. Ray
mond Grant, area bishop for the
Portland area, which includes
Alaska.
Business sessions will run thr
ough Sunday, July 3. Conference
speaker this year will be Dr.
Clarence Forsberg, minister of
the Garden Street Methodist
W.Q.O.M. INSTALL
NEW OFFICERS
New officers for the Women of
the Moose Palmer Chapter 942
were installed in office Tuesday
evening. Taking part in the im
pressive ceremony held at Moose
Hall were Jeanne Pruitt, install
ing regent; Feme iLeek, install
ing guide; Neva Roark, installing
chaplain and Kathleen Moore, in
stallation chairman.
The following co-workers took
their stations for the ensuing
year: Emma Fogg, senior regent;
Diana McKechnie, junior regent;
Eva Plumley, junior graduate
regent; Sarah Moffitt, chaplain;
lone Curtis, treasurer; Wanda
Summerville, recorder; Haleen
Ingalls, guide; Genevieve Moffitt,
assistant guide; Margaret Lucas,
argus, and Ann Rehard, sentinel.
Following the meeting a lunch
was served to members and
members of Moose Lodge 793, in
vited guests at the installation.
BENTTI-HUDGINS
NUPTIALS ANNOUNCED
FOR JULY 8
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hudgins of
Palmer have announced the
forthcoming marriage of their
daughter, Barbara Eloise to Irvin
A. Bentti, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Toivo Bentti also of Palmer.
The double ring ceremony will
be performed at the United Pro
testant Church at 8 p.m. on Fri
day, July 8, by the Rev. Brian
Cleworth.
All friends of both families are
invited to attend the ceremony
and the reception which will fol
low at Elks hall in Palmer.
Church of Bellingham, Wash.
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