NOME UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
WAS 34.2 PCT. LAST WEEK
JUNEAU GD — Labor Commis
sioner Gil Johnson said yesterday
Alaska’s insured unemployment
rate for the week ending May 5
was 15.8 per cent, down from the
previous week’s 16.2 and the 17.8
rate for the same week a year ago.
New unemployment was listed
at 366, while continuing unemploy
ment amounted to 5,163, Johnson
said.
The insured unemployment rate'
by area included Anchorage, 16.2
per cent; Fairbanks, 18.0; Juneau,
8.6; Ketchikan, 11.2; Nome, 34.2
Petersburg, 28.7; and Sitka, 5.7.
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LABORATORIES
Assayers — Metallurgists
Chemists —- Ore Testing
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kinds assays. Includes daily
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MISSILE SITE TEST
SOIL BORINGS MADE
Pearse Walsh, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, is in re
ceipt of a letter from the Asst.
Secretary of Defense in Washing
ton, D.C., Department of Installa
tions and Logistics, concerning
missile sites.
The letter states that the Air
Force has already selected locations
for all the missile complexes in
cluded in the fiscal year of 1963.
However, test soil borings have
been completed in a number of
other areas for consideration in
future siting plans and part of
this program is in Alaska, Hawaii
and Guam.
The correspondence sent from
here on the possibility of a site in
the Sawtooth Range is up for con
sideration.
Girl Scout Cookies On Sale
Girl Scouts are selling delicious
cookies in sandwich and chocolate
varities as part of their 50th An
niversary. Attractively packaged
the girls are having no trouble :
disposing of them.
The girl who sells the most will :
have a free ticket to the Girl Scout
Style Show, which is planned for i
next Sunday at the Seaview Room.
9
Sen. Gruening Suggest $2
Billion Public Works Program
WASHINGTONS— Sen. Ernest
Gruening suggested Tuesday what
he termed a modest public works
program. Its price tag: $2,645,
000,000.
The Alaska said he would offer
an amendment to the emergency
public works bill to raise that
figure in the $600 million author
ization the measure now proposes.
His figure was arrived at, Gruen
ing said, by adding to the $600
million “an amount equal to the
monies appropriated for foreign
economic assistance in fiscal year
1963.”
Gruening said he did not see
how Congress could take care of
unemployment abroad without first
taking care of the unemployed at
home.
Danced the Hula
MIAMI Beach, Fla. (£> — Hono
lulu Mayor Neal Blaisdell danced
the hula for delegates to the U.S.
Mayors Conference.
Before joining a group of Hawi
an entertainers during a conven
;ion luncheon Monday, Blaisdell
mnounced he would invite the
nayors to Honolulu next year. |
NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL
BOARD DROPS RACIAL BAR
NEW ORLEANS UF> — The New
Orleans School Board, under pres
sure by the federal courts, has
voted to drop all racial bars in the
first grade of public schools this
fall.
The board currently is under a
federal court order to desegregate
the first six grades, but has filed
an appeal for a new trial.
Under the board’s decision Mon
day night, all children entering the
first grade in September will be
permitted to attend either the
white of Negro school for their
district, whichever they choose.
The board action was by a 3-0
vote. Two board members, includ
ing Emile Wagner, an outspoken
opponent of school desegregation,
were absent.
The board also authorized School
Supt. O. Perry Walker to begin a
study of how to abolish bi-racial
school districts, starting with the
first grade.
A newspaper story recently re
ported that a man donated a loud
speaker to his church in fond
memory of his wife.
ESKIMO STUDENTS
RETURNING FROM SCHOOL
Eskimo children who have been
attending school at Chemawa
School in Oregon arrived back on
May 11 with 4 for Nome, 1 for
White Mountain, 7 for Wales, 3 for
Teller Mission, 1 for Teller, 3 for
Shishmaref, 3 for Savoonga, 1 for
Koyuk and 1 for Golovin.
Due to arrive yesterday from Mt.
Edgecumbe are 10 for Koyuk, 8
for Teller, 7 for Golovin, 13 for
Elim, and 2 for Gambell. Due to
arrive today are 4 for Savoonga
and 9 for White Mountain.
Students from Wrangell Insti
tute are expected over the week
end and those from Haskell have
not yet been announced, stated
Robert Grant, BIA Director.
All these children have been
away from their families since last
September.
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