NOME UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
WAS 38.3 PCT. LAST WEEK
JUNEAU iff) — State Labor Com
missioner Gil Johnson said yester
day Alaska’s insured unemploy
ment rate during the week ending
April 7 was 17.4 per cent, up from
the 17.3 figure of the previous
week but under the 19.8 rate for
the same week a year ago.
Johnson said new unemployment
totaled 586 during the week, while
continuing unemployment amount
•ed to 5,706.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 16.5
per cent; Fairbanks, 20.4; Juneau,
13.5; Ketchikan, 12.6; Nome, 39.3;
Petersburg, 37.6; and Sitka, 10.7.
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
The Nome Ministerial Assn, is
again sponsoring the Annual Easter
Sunrise Service. It will be held
Easter morning at the school
gym and will begin at 7 a.m.
A special feature will be a united
choir under the direction of Mrs.
Seldon Ivers with Mrs. Irma John
son as accompanist. Ernest Han
sen will deliver the message and
there will be other special music.
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VATICAN TO BROADCAST
POPE'S EASTER MESSAGE
VATICAN CITY — The Vat
ican radio will broadcast the
Easter message Pope John XXIII
gives the world Saturday.
The Vatican radio will broadcast
on short wave lengths of 41.38
meters; 31.10 and 25.55, and middle
wave lengths of 196 meters.
Radio stations of Italy, Spain,
Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Monaco and Switzer
land will connect with the Vatican
radio to broadcast the message. It
will be delivered at 8 p.m. — 2 p.m.
EST.
Robert E. Sharp Named
Deputy Commissioner of Highways
JUNEAU UP> — The appointment
of Robert E. Sharp, former city
manager at Anchorage and Ket
chikan, as Deputy Commissioner
of Highways was announced yes
terday by Highways Commissioner
Donald McKinnon.
McKinnon said Sharp would be
responsible under McKinnon’s di
rection for general administration,
program coordination and budget
review activities within the de
partment.
EASTER BREAKFAST
featuring
Sourdough Hotcakes
from a pioneer recipe
FELLOWSHIP HALL
Community Methodist Church — 8 to 9 a.m.
EASTER MORNING
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Adults $1,50
Children 750
Sen. Gruening Says
Alaskans Pay
i
i
Higher Rates on
Railroad Freight i
WASHINGTON (#-—Alaska suf- i:
fers from discrimination in rail- r
road freight rates, Sen. Ernest I
Gruening said yesterday.
“Alaskans pay a higher rate on r
goods to Seattle than do residents t
of Hawaii,” said Gruening in call- C
ing for equal treatment for Alaska r
along with the other states. \
Gruening argued in support of
his bill, co-sponsored by Sen. E. L. 1
Bartlett in a statement prepared for i
the Senate Surface Transportation t
Subcommittee. (
“My bill states, Gruening ex- 1
plained, “that it shall be the policy j
of Congress that commodities ship - ]
ped to and from Alaska shall pay 1
no greater rates and charges for
transportation subject to the Inter- 5
state Commerce Act . . . than are i
applicable to similar commodities, ]
or services rendered to or in the <
Pacific Ocean.” 1
Trans-continental railroads car
rying cargo to the port of Seattle, i
he said, now may charge the high- j
er domestic rates for goods des- <
tined for Alaska than the lower ■
import-export rates allowed for
shipments to other Pacific Ocean ;
ports. 1
“This rate discrimination forces 1
improper and constitutionally un- -
intended increases in the cost of
commodities purchased by residents
of Alaska,” Gruening said. J
He cited as an example freight :
rates on cars shipped from Pon- :
tiac, Mich., to Alaska or Hawaii.
The rate per 100 pounds from
Pontiac to Honolulu is $7.83 and
from Pontiac to Seward, Alaska, is
$10, he said.
“Thus the freight charge to ship
a car weighing 2,500 pounds to
Seward would be $250 while the
charge ||to Honolulu would be j
* f laD.Vy,"' he saia.
\.c. HIGHWAY DEPT. TO
IEBUILD HIGHWAY 16
HAZELTON, B.C. ^ — The
iritish Columbia Highways De
artment, with an allocation of $5
lillion, will start reconstruction
nmediately on Highway 16, con
ecting Prince George and Prince
Lupert, B.C.
Highways Minister Gaglardi
lade the announcement Monday
o the Associated Chambers of
'ommerce of North-Central B.C.,
raeeting here to discuss the high
way’s future.
The Chambers and other have
ong sought an improved stand
ard in the link that will join later
his year with a ferry system to
iperate between Prince Rupert and
laines, Alaska. It was felt the
»resent highway would not sup
>ort an expected increase in truck
raffic.
Gaglardi said that apart from the
15 million for the actual highway
t further sum will be used to im
>rove bridges along the route. He
aid the highway work will involve
he letting of two contracts.
Getting special attention in High
way 16 reconstruction will be a
ection around Port Edward, about
fight miles east of Prince Rupert.
Gruening noted that the Inter
itate Commerce Commission up
leld the legality of the rate situa
ion in a June 1957 decision when
Maska was not a state.
Today, he said, “Alaska is one of
;he 50 states, and it is on behalf of
ny state that I request that this
present inequity in law be cor
•ected.”
Gruening emphasized he has no
argument with Hawaii which also
has a high cost of living because
of dependence on imports, adding:
“The point I do make is tha1
lower rates should apply equally
to merchandise shipped to Seattle
on American railroads for the iden
tical rail service and destined fo
aSii 8B Alaslra ”
Bids On Hardwood Floor at
Armory to Be Opened April 26
Bids have been invited for the
installation of a hardwood floor in
the Nome Armory, Leonard Lowell,
Director of the Alaska Division of
Buildings, said Friday. Lowell said
the bids are scheduled to be open
ed by the State Department of
Public Works April 26.
The director said specifications
call for the installation of a hard
wood, maple floor on sleepers to
be constructed on top of the exist
ing concrete floor. He noted that
the original concrete floor was de
signed to permit the addition of
the hardwood floor later.
He said a regulation basketball
court and a regulation volley ball
court will be marked out on the
new maple floor by the contractor.
Khrushchev Is 68
MOSCOW tf) — Premier Nikita
Khrushchev turned 68 yesterday
but no official notice was made of
the occasion.
The Soviet leader’s birthday has
i passed unnoticed iii the Soviet press
for the past three years.
ASTER
...
WHILE THEY LAST
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L-O-O-K-Y L-O-O-K-Y L-O-O-K-Y!
SK-THE-HELP SALE
The Merc Brings Another First to Nome
Friday and Saturday you ask the help what the SPECIALS are — changing every hour
BIG SAVINGS TO YOU! — Just our way of proving that
IF YOU'RE NOT SHOPPING HERE YOU'RE SPENDING TOO MUCH !
CANDY CANDY CANDY j
Easter Eggs Bagged Mixes Easter Baskets 1
Congratulations To the winners of die Dog Races — especially to Art Trigg
who came in last both days, but still won both boxes of groceries put up by the manager.
EVEN THE LOSERS WIN
mmmm
A special thanks to the Nome Nugget,
make our Dog Team Deliveries a big sue
it even bigger — sort* of a unique C
MERC!
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and everyone who helped
y. Next year we hope to make
at the Annual Dog Races.
Three Free Deliveries Daily
10:30 a.m. 3 pan. 5 pan.
FRESH PASTRIES DAILY
MS ATS
ARE BETTER MEATS
BAR'S
HAMS FOR EASTER
EASTER
EYS
HOMEMADE
PORK
ROUND-UP
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