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IL Cherokee, Navajo Top Census List WASHINGT9N (AP) Chero-' kees and Navajos account for one- fourth of the American Indian population, the Census Bureau said Tuesday in its first count of tribal membership. Most of the 542 tribes counted in the 1990 census have fewer than 1,000 members, the agency said. Only four have more than 100,000 members: the Cherokee, Navajo, Chippewa, and Sioux, 103,255. The tribe count covered 1.9 million American Indians. It didn't include Eskimos and Aleuts, found primarily in Alaska.

In 1990, there were 57,152 Eskimos and 23,797 Aleuts in the United States. Among Alaska's Indian tribes, the census counted 13,925 Tlingits, 13,738 Athabaskans, 2,432 Tsimshians, 1,805 Haida and 1,302 who listed themselves as 'Alaska The Census Bureau said the Alaska Native category is a generic catchall for people who identified themselves as Alaska Indians or Alaska Native without identifying a specific tribe. The largest American Indian tribes are mainly in the West, where European settlement came late, or in Oklahoma, where some eastern tribes were forcibly moved to semi-auionomous homelands. The 1990 census was the first in which the government tried to count the tribal membership of all American Indians. In previous censuses, the government estimated tribal membership.

Valdez Proposes Smaller Budget VALDEZ (AP) The city administration has proposed its first budget in 15 years to call for less spending than the year before. The draft 1993 budget, distributed to Valdez city council members last week, calls for a general fund budget of $26.8 million for the next fiscal year, as compared with $28.9 million for 1992, the Valdez Star reported. Hearings on the budget start Nov. 18. The proposed budget includes $9.3 million, or about 35 percent of the budget, to go toward routine debt service.

Among budget cuts proposed by City Manager Doug Griffin are the elimination of two city positions. An assistant fire chief will be cut, and adjusting the hours of part-time employees will amount to cutting another position. Residents took away a small chunk of city spending this fall by voting to eliminate city council salaries, for a savings of more than $50,000. Unions, State at Odds Over Supervisor Jobs Something SMOKED TURKEY OR GOOSE for the Let us do the cooking for you! Bring us your holiday goose we'll return it fully cooked and ready to eat! Just 1321 SMC 747-7540 Sawmill Creek Plaza tip November is McDonald's Treat your friends family Order Any 4 Extra Value Meals for plus tax Coupon good until Nov. 30,1992.

I I One Coupon per person Not good with any other McDonald's Offer. 913 Halibut Pt. Rd. 747-8709 Locally Owned Operated by Fritz Suzanne Sabath JUNEAU (AP) Three unions of state employees say the state may try to force several thousand supervisors to give up their union rights. The unions fear the state's recent effort to revoke the union rights of 13 senior personnel officers will be applied to other workers.

"I'm convinced we are the first step in a major union-busting effort by the administration," said Paul Grant, attorney for the 200-member Confidential Employees Association. Open House Scheduled The Forest Service will hold an open house from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Centennial Building Maksoutoff Room to discuss the environmental analysis being conducted for helicopter use in wilderness. The Forest Service is identifying past helicopter landing areas within wilderness on the Tongass National Forest and will consider authorizing continued landings on areas where use by helicopters was established prior to designation as wilderness. All other areas within wilderness areas are closed to helicopter landing for public use.

Administrative, government and other agency use will not be analyzed at this time, the Forest Service reported in a news release today. The public is invited to view maps of landing areas used before wilderness designation, make comments, express concerns and ask questions about the analysis. for further information, contact Lynn Humphrey at Admiralty National Monument-Kootznoowoo Wilderness Office, 8461 Old Dairy Road, Juneau, Alaska 99801 or call 5868790. Salvation Army Campaign Set Bells will once again be ringing in Sitka. The first bell for The Salvation Army's 1992 Christmas kettle kickoff will ring at the Ben Franklin Store 10 a.m.

Nov. 27. From Nov. 27 through Dec. 24, bell ringers will be posted at The Salvation Army booths in front of Ben Franklin and on weekends at the Sea Mart store to collect funds for those in need.

Salvation Army officials, kettle workers, volunteer groups from many organizations and local advisory board members will all participate in ringing the bell this Christmas season. All contributions wilTbe used to provide food, shelter, clothing and gifts for the hungry and homeless. Last year, through funds received locally, The Salvation Army gave assistance to 427 individuals and 84 families. In addition, personnel made 2,071 visits to persons in hospitals, Pioneers Homes and jails throughout the year. This year, The Salvation Army expects to serve even more people.

Those needing assistance or wishing to volunteer should contact Capt. Randy Clarke at 747-3358 or P.O. Box 454. ALFA Meeting Set Wednesday The Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association will hold a meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday in the NSRAA Building, 1308 Sawmill Creek Rd.

Agenda items will include rockfish management, Sitka block system, observer program and comprehensive rationalization. The meeting is open to the public. New Arrivals Baby Boy Thain Tyler Buchan Thain was born 9:23 a.m. Nov. 12 at SEARHC ML Edgecumbe Hospital.

At birth, the infant weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 20! inches long. Parents are Troy and Di Thain of Sitka. The father is employed at Blatchley Middle School and the mother with Dr. Ken Cameron, DDS. Maternal grandparents are Jack and Carole Shreckengost of Summerset, Pa.

Paternal grandparents are Dina Merchant of Klawock and Scotty Thain of Lihue, Kauai. This is the couple's first child. Baby Boy Cavanaugh Elijah Drew Cavanaugh was bom 2:45 p.m. Nov. 12 at SEARHC ML Edgecumbe Hospital.

At birth, he weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 2l'Ainches long. Parents are Eugene and Carla Cavanaugh of Kake. The father works for the Kake Tribal Logging. Grandparents are Archie and Bertha Cavanaugh and Lloyd and Charolelte Davis. Other children include Anthony, Rudolph and Isaiah.

Whidmier Boy Keagan Teague Whidmier has been born to Teague and Shelly Whidmier of Twin Falls, Idaho. The baby, their first, was bom Oct. 8 in Murtaugh, Idaho. He weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce, and measured 19 inches in length. Maternal grandparents are Maxine and Warren Vaughn of Sitka and Diane and Bob Whidmier of Murtaugh.

i The parents are students at the Coli lege of Southern Idaho. No so, said Commissioner Nancy Bear Usera of the Administration Department, which oversees state labor negotiations. "That's not what is driving our actions here at all, and I have continued to say we are strong supporters of collective bargaining," Usera said. "But it's important that we also recognize the need of the employer to have representation as well." Earlier this year the state announced plans to transfer senior personnel officers into new jobs called "human resources managers." The state said the new jobs would require more involvement in policymaking and labor relations, and that the workers would have to quit their union to avoid a conflict of interest. But the union said the job duties would be the same and the only change would involve union membership.

After the transfers took place in early September, the union sued in state Superior Court to reverse them. The lawsuit was dismissed and the issue instead went before the Alaska Labor Relations Agency, which the state had to petition before removing the personnel officers from their union. In the state's petition, labor relations analyst Art Chance said it would be unfair and impractical to put workers in a position "where, by the nature of their duties, they must necessarily divide their interest between those of their employer and those of their union." Chance acknowledged the argument went against two decades of state negotiating precedent, which has allowed supervisors to be represented by unions. He also noted that a ruling in favor of the state could affect other state employees. Those employees include several hundred members of the Alaska Stale Employees Association; most of the Alaska Public Employees Association, which represents supervisors; and several supervisors in Public Employees Local 71, Grant said.

Jan Hart DeYoung of tiie Labor Relations Agency said no decision on the personnel officer transfers is expected for several months. The personnel officers remain in the union. And Mail Would Be Written On Rocks Imagine a world without wood. We're the Alaska Forest Association Let face it. In a world without Hundreds of men and women wood, things would be quite across Alaska working hard different.

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