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ESC Problems Confront Legislators
(Editor's Note: This is the
second story in a five-part
series on the major problems
which will probably confront
the 1962 legislature when it
meets in Juneau Jan. 22.)
By Ward
Associated Press Staff Writer
' JUNEAU l» — Employment
Security and Workmen’s Com
pensation always seem to be good
for a few words in any Alaska
should
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'die 1962 session
>tion.
iwmakers as
they will
five major
ity bills and
dealing with
find
employmen
four major
workmen's cw^.
Held over from the 1961 ses
sion is one of two employment
security bills proposed by Gov.
wm. Egan.
The measure, SB29, would in
crease the length of time a Job
less person could receive employ
ment security benefits from 26 to
28 weeks.
u min I I ■ ■ >I1L. nuujm s.-|i lumij.i v ■ i n
to |60.
Two other biHs, SBC2 and SB90,
provide employment security
coverage for state employes. The
latter bill was offered by Egan.
Offered by State C of C
Also hanging are companion
bills, SB125 and SB126, drafted
and offered with the Klensinm
The second bill would eliminate!'
the quarterly payroll decline
method of determining the em
ployment security liability of an
| employer and would substitute, in
stead, a charge-back experience
rating system.
In other words, each employer
would be responsible alone for
any unemployment caused in con
nection with his individual opera
tion. .
Loggers Assn. Prime Mover
The Alaska Loggers Assn, is the
prime mover in attempts to re
vise the workmen’s compensation
statute as now written.
Faced with workmen’s com
pensation insurance costs which
have risen to almost $20 per $100
of payroll, the loggers ask that
the state eliminate the open end
provision of the present law.
Under the open end provision,
a workman can file a claim for
workmen’s compensation regard
less of how long it has been since
he was injured.
. The bill the loggers bade,
HBrl28, would do this by requiring
that a claim lor workmen’s comp
must be filed within torn years
after the date of injury.
It would also set a four-year
limit, with exceptions, on an em
ployer’s liability for medical
treatment for an injured worker
and it would also place a ceiling
on permanent total disability pay
ments and death benefits.
Limits on permanent disability
payments and death benefits are
also provided in another bill,
HB167.
The two remaining workmen's
compensation insurance measures
both deal with the establishment
of a non-profit, exclusive state
compensation insurance fund.
Another labor bill Which was
kicked around considerably dur
ing t&P 1W1' seteSoh and which
hold* over for additional discus*
UM this year is GB*,- which
would boost the state minimum
wag! to $1.75 an hour.
4We*t. The elaotlon code will
dome In for its share of attention.)
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than
boxmgt from is to
80 centra oup. fiapanding on the
quality of the entertnimsent
To Cut Taxes and
Slash Tariffs
WASHINGTON <* — President
Kennedy asked for unprecedented
tax-cutting and tariff-slashing
powers in laying before Congress
Thursday a massive legislative
program he described as keyed to
“fulfill the world’s hope by ful
filling our own faith.”
And, in a 6,000-word State of
the Union Message, the young
President surprised many legis
lators by calling vigorously for
multi-biUion-dollar federal aid to
public schools and for civil rights
legislation. Many had developed
the notion that the administra
tion would soft-pedal these issues
this year.
“The right to vote . . . should
no longer be arbitrarily denied
through such iniquitous local de
vices as literacy tests and poll
taxes,” Kennedy declared.
Wrapped up in his report on
how the nation stands and what
is needed were many well-anti
cipated requests —- for creation of
a new cabinet-level Department
of Urban Affairs, for higher post
al rates, for a new farm program.
Details on most of these were left
for elaboration in later special
messages.
Hote of Urgency
aounaing a note of urgency,
Kennedy called for crucial deci
sions quickly — at this moment
when he said a united Europe
flourishes and Communist unity
falters.
“While no nation has ever
faced such a challenge, no nation
has ever been so ready to seize
the burden and glory of freedom,"
the President said.
He pledged America to “talk
when appropriate, and to fight,
if necessary," to preserve a free
Berlin, and ha hinted at a coming
reorganization of the fighting
forces to bolster a military stance
which he said has steadily im
proved in the past year.
Kennedy proposed “a bold new
instrument of American trade
policy" — a rewriting of the trade
agreements act to let him gradu
ally wipe out some tariffs entire
ly and reduce others by 50 per
cent.
The Chief Executive, beginning
his second year in office in a
world still beset with the hazard
of catastrophic war, pitched U.S.
foreign policy to “the goal of a
peaceful world of free add inde
pendent states."
Begins at Home
»ut ne declared the obligation
“to fulfill the world’s hope by
fulfilling our own faith” begins
at home.
Alaska's Exhibit at C21
Hit $12,275 Mark
JUNEAU UR —<* Cash contribu
tions amounting to $12,275 have
been received to help finance
Alaska's exhibit at the Seattle
Century 21 show, Director Mor
ris Ford of the Division of Tour
ism and Economic Development
said Thursday.
In addition, Ford said his office
has received pledges for another
$4,000 in cash and has also re
ceived various offers of services
in connection with the exhibit.
Ford said the Division hoped
to have the majority of cash con
tributions on hand by the time
the Legislature meets Jan. 22.
The Legislature will be asked
to make up the difference be
tween cash contributions and the
estimated $175,000 it will cost the
State to equip and staff the ex
Joe Romig of Anchorage
Named Lineman of Year
WASHINGTON UR — The
Washington Touchdown Club se
lected Joe Homig, Colorado guard,
as College Lineman of the Year
Thursday. He is from Anchorage.
Romig will receive the Knute
Rockne Memorial Trophy Satur
day night at the 27th Annual
Touchdown Club Av/ards Dinner.
The club also announced Wed
nesday night that Alabama’s na
tional championship football team
has been chosen College Team of
the Year.
Romig, a Phi Beta Kappa
physics major, is regarded as one
of die top linemen in Colorado
history. His special talent lies in
linebacking on defense.
Draft Call for 26 la Februarj
JUN1SAU m — U. CrtU Dan
Mahoney, State Selective Service
chief, said Thursday he will call
up 26 men during February, com
pared with 85 summoned during
the last call, in November.
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Gets First Pharmacist
ANCHORAGE — Dr. K. Ka
suga, area medical officer in
charge of the PHS Alaska Na
tive Health Area Office, an
nounced that Mr. Arthur Willman,
a commissioned officer of the U.S.
Public Health Service has been
assigned to the new Kotzebue
Native Hospital.
Mr. Willman is from Staten
Island, New York, and is a 1980
graduate of St. Johns University,
College, of Pharmacy, Jamaica,
N.Y. He is married to the former
Mary McHugh also of Staten Is
land, N.Y. Mrs. Willman is a
graduate of St. Mary’s School of
Nursing, Brooklyn, N.Y., and will
also be a member of the Kotze
bue Hospital staff.
Ketchikan School Children to
Pay More for Hoi Lunch#*
KETCHIKAN UPi — Ketchikan
school children will pay more
for their lunches as a result of
increased costs of operating the
Hot Lunch Program, Superin
tendent Jack Finch announced
yesterday.
Costs per pupil will increase
from 35 cents per meal td 40
cents, Finch said, noting that the
program is going to have to pay
for itself and is not being subsi
dized.
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