European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday november 23, 1973 Alaska Oil Rush is on but jobs Are scarce by Bert Tarrant Anchorage Alaska a the Alaska Oil Rush is on but workers head ing for the Yukon to Prospect for jobs May Well end up panning for their for tune on the unemployment line. Alaska which had its last massive influx of Fortune Hunters in a turn of the Century Gold Rush is bracing for an other mass immigration of Job seekers for the trans Alaska Oil pipeline project. But this time it s  already has a High unemployment rate and Able bodied natives arson the scene ready to work. About 13,000 persons will be employed on the pipeline at the height of construction in 1975-76, according to Public relations chief Robert Miller of Alyeska pipeline service co. The firm will build the pipeline through con  450 of those will remain in Alaska on a permanent basis after the pipeline is completed Miller said "100 in Anchorage 100 in Fairbanks,150 at the tankers terminal in Valdez and 100 Strung along the  said the spinoff for related services will add an additional 10,000 jobs for a total work Force of 20,000 to25,000 jobs. Alaska already has a near 10 percent unemployment rate said employment Center manager Arthur , who added that the state could provide up to 15,000 of those jobs at the drop of a  Alyeska is negotiating with the Alaska federation of natives to hire at least 2,200 and perhaps 3,000 indians for the project. The state could pro Ideall the workers needed Miller reported. State officials and Alyeska Are Wor ried. Health and social services officers say 300 new persons Are arriving in Testate monthly. Looking for jobs. And applying for welfare. Frederick p. Mcginnis commissioner of the department of social services said 220 persons have applied for food Stamps in Anchorage in the past six weeks All of them out of state arrivals seeking pipeline or pipeline relate jobs. One Day recently a string of 70 applicants began arriving at his office at 2 . In frigid temperatures in an Effort to be one of the 20 to 25 cases the office can process each Day. Miller said his office in Anchorage i averaging 50 letters and 30 Long Dis Tance phone Calls a Day inquiring about pipeline jobs and our Houston Tex. Bellevue Wash. Washington d.c.,and Fairbanks offices Are taking the same  we be had 11 per cent unemployment earlier this year confirmed one employment division spokesman audit s going to get worse. I Don t think we can Stop the  snowballing the. Problem is the plethora of Fly by night Job agencies that Are advertising All Over the unite states Canada and Mexico said assist ant atty. Gen. Stanley Howitt of the consumer Protection Section. The method of operation is disarmingly simple the huckster place san advertisement in classified sections of newspapers and magazines Advertis ing pipeline jobs and asks prospective employees to guarantee themselves one of. These Topflight positions by re turning an application with a $5 to $25"refundable registration  the distortion of facts is almost laughable said Howitt  these adware frauds. We be already stopped one and Are moving on  said mailed brochures triple and even quadruple the number of jobs that will actually exist and Promise the prospective worker not Only fantastic wages but also bonuses food and hous ing allowances and even cold weather wearing apparel. Meanwhile Alyeska and state officials Are moving to Stem the tide of Job seekers. We Are sending 100 television stations throughout the United states a film clip of Alaska it. Gov. . Red Boucher and two More clips with stat and Alyeska officials urging people not to come to Alaska Are on the Way Miller said. Alyeska has contacted the major Tele. Vision networks and is telling labor unions and Chambers of commence nationwide about the Alaska Job situation Miller said. He said his office is even thinking of placing classified ads in major news papers urging workers not to come Talaska. Africa couple brings gospel to texans Dallas up the Rev. And  Nkosi were shocked by the sinfulness of the natives during a visit to Texas in 1970. It seemed to the Black african couple that what was needed was a Good dose of the gospel. They returned to Africa and after think ing about the idea for almost three years have come Back to Dallas As , 44, stoutly denies that coming from Africa to the United states to spread the word is a Case of Man bites  the tide of missionary work in the past has been for Whites from the United states to go to Africa to convert Blacks to Christian Ity. Comment on Dallas Nkosi said he and his wife had no idea of putting Down White missionaries. He said they Are not the first african missionaries to come to the United states. And he said Dallas is no More sinful than any other american City. We Don t have it quite that bad in Africa Nkosi said. Drug abuse is very Little of a problem there. But this country is in need of the gospel Christian values to an extent Are being thrown overboard he said. Dallas is strategic place from which to operate. Not that i feel it to be More sinful. It just fit better into my  former ring Champion Nkosi is a former welterweight Boxin Champion of Johannesburg. His Church is the african evangelical Church which has no congregation in the United states. The Kosis will work among Young Blacks they believe they have a special faculty for reaching the Young but will not devote themselves exclusively Tob lacks. Nkosi said reception by White texans to him and his wife has been  Black missionary said he used to hate Whites but was converted by radio and no thinks of Blacks and Whites As equal Mem Bers of one body of humans. Seized marijuana missing Coquille Ore. Up nine Hundred pounds of confiscated marijuana valued at $15,000 have disappeared from the police department s storage locker one door of which was secured by a Bent Nail an offi cer said. Wallace supports Black mayors conference Alabama gov. George. C. Wallace shakes hands with an unidentified per son As he pays a Surprise visit on officials attending the second annual South Ern conference of Black mayors at Tuskegee Ala. Wallace who made known his support for the Black group told newsmen later that he receives 2,000 let ters every Day indicating support should he want to run for president in 1976. He also said he believed he is More popu Lar today than Ever in his career. Up Energy crisis could snarl Yule mail from press dispatches Washington Christmas mail could be seriously disrupted this year because of the Energy crisis postmaster general Elmer t. Klassen has told Congress. Airlines already have Cut some flight Sand Are threatening to Cut More which otherwise would carry mail and the postal service s own trucks May be unable to get enough fuel Klassen said. Economic constraints already have forced the postal service to seek a 27 per cent hike in rates in january an 8-Centstamp would Cost a dime and yet each one cent increase in fuel costs us $3.5 Mil lion a year Klassen said. If All of the transportation problems Are As severe As they appear to be Candor compels me to say that disruptions in serv ice seem inevitable he told the Senate Post office committee. Klassen said the airline Industry has eliminated 300 com Mercial flights in anticipation of a Winter fuel shortage. Other statistics place the number of flights Cut at closer to 500.joseph Jones a Klassen Deputy said pending schedule cuts coming into effect dec. 1 could have a significant Impact on mail  although the service has t been seriously disrupted yet Klassen predicted i can say with certainty that mail service will suffer unless the airlines add extra sections during the Peak Christmas mail ing season. Mail service is going to suffer if the fuel shortage cancels additional flight schedules. However despite the Energy crisis Klassen assures that Christmas is going Tobe different. Different that is from last Christmas. Personnel cutbacks machinery snarls and what Klassen called Damn poor manage ment stayed the postal service s couriers then More surely than Snow rain and gloom of night Ever did. Reports of letters taking 25 Days to go from new York to Albany or eight Days to go 40 blocks in Baltimore were example last january of the complaints which flooded the postal service in double the highest volume received in any Mont since the Agency was launched on its mis Sion to become self supporting. We per haps lost track of service Klassen told a angry Congress. But this year Klassen said in an inter View he has Given District directors More authority to hire extra help and has Bee making the rounds of major Post offices to make sure they re ready for the Christma crush