Brooks Says
Employment Picture InAlaska ‘is Bleak*
Have you read about all those
jobs in Alaska9 Don’t buy your
ticket.
That’s the word from the North
Carolina Labor Department.
According to State Labor Commis
sioner John C. Brooks, certain
advertisements now in circulation
nationwide are misleading, ‘the
empioyment picture in Alaska is
bleak and North Carolinians
should not travel to that state in
hopes of finding employment.”
Brooks said that national pubticr
ity concerning the gas pipeline
waiver package recently passed by
Congress has generated a marked
increase in persons arriving in
Alaska in search of work. “As a
cooperative effort with Edmund
Orbeck, commissioner of Labor in
Alaska, we are issuing warning
_about advertisements whirh nffnr
to secure high paying jobs or
information about such jobs, for a
fee.”
Brooks notes that “construction
of the Alaska Highway Gas Pipe
line has not begun, financing for
the project has not been finalized
and recruitment of workers is not
underway.”
‘The ads would make readers
believe that there are many job
openings in Alaska when the truth
is that state's unemployment rate
averaged 9.3 percent in 1981, when
the national average was 7.4 per
cent and North Carolina’s was 6.4
percent. Areas experiencing an
unemployment rate of 23 percent
are common in Alaska,” Brooks
reported.
Brooks urged job seekers not to
go to Alaska unless they have in
hand a firm offer of employment.
He asked anyone seeing phony
promotions about the job picture in
Alaska to notify the Communica
tions Division, N.C. Department of
Labor, 4 W. Edenton Street,
Raleigh, N.C. 27601, (919) 733-4904.
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Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. reported
sales for the 12-week third quarter
ended March 31, 1982 of $1,388,
032,000 as compared with.
$1,480,058,000 for the 12-weeks t
ended April 1, 1981, an increase of
7.3 percent.
The company expects to open
approximately 40 new stores and
close about the same number
during the fiscal year ending June
30. 1982. The rate of new store
openings during fiscal year 1983
will remain at reduced levels due
to the inability of developers to
obtain shopping center financing
at acceptable interest rates and
terms. --
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It has been said that America is
a nation with no sense of the past,
and, therefore, little hope for the
future. If you are interested in
preserving and protecting our
past-get involved in Preservation
Week in North Carolina May 9-15.
Preservation Week has been set
aside to celebrate the benefits of
historic preservation. This year’s
theme is "Reinvesting in Ameri
ca’s Past,” emphasizing the econo
mic good sense of saving and using
old structures.
Activities planned for North
Carolina include a May 12 program
in Raleigh on historic architecture
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Mat’s
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of North Carolina and publication
of the first major study ever of the
challenges of rural preservation.
For details, call Margaret Lane
Peterson, Archaeology-Historic
Preservation Section, N.C. Depart
ment of Cultural Resources,
Raleigh, yiif-Vif /M?
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Governor James B. Hunt Jr. has
proclaimed the week of May 8-15 as
Armed Forces Week in North
Carolina.
In proclaiming the week, Go
vernor Hunt urged all North
Carolinians to observe it as
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tribute to those brave men and
women, those who have served,
those who are serving, those miss
ing in action and those who gave up
their lives for their country," while
in the Armed Forces of the United
States.
Armed Fdrces Day will 'be May
15 this year. The first Armed
Forces Day was in 1950, in ac
cordance with a proclamation by
President Harry Truman
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President of the nation’s oldest and
largest black-led labor union
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The union leader has been hold
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Under White’s admimstration, the
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Twelve area firms have earned
special awards from the N.C. De
partment of Labor for outstanding
achievement in on-the-job-safety
Assistant State Labor Commis
sioner Charles Jeffress presented
honor extended operations without
a lost-time or disabling injury, at a
dinner in Charlotte on Tuesday.
April 27th.
Fourmillion-hour certificates
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Supply Company, Charlotte, for
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