The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 267, Ed. 2 Friday, March 15, 1946 Page: 3 of 16
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rch 15, 1940
Friday Evening, March 15, 1946
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 15—(-
Senate leaders today found them-
selves minus sufficient support to
pass the administration’s 65cent
minimum wage bill intact. But they
got hints that Votes could be pick-
ed up by eliminating the meas-
ure’s provisions for enlarging
wage-hour coverage.
Senator Smith (R-NJ), who vot-
ed against the measure in the la-
b .■ committee, told reporters he
was more concerned over the pro-
posed expansion of coverage than
over increasing the statutory mini-
mum wage from 40 to 65 cents an
hour.
As debate reached its second
day, the leadership indicated it
wwould seek to postpone votes on
any amendments until the situa-
tion is clarified by week-end con-
ferences.
The minimum wage law now ap-
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plies to about 20,000,000 workers.
Some 3,500,000 others would be
brought under it by the adminis-
tration bill. These include seamen,
first -processors of agricultural
products, and employes of chain
and larger retail establishments.
This means, for instance, that
employes of cotton gins, now ex-
empt, would come under it.
Southern senators argue this
would hit their farmers two ways:
1. By increasing ginning costs,
and 2. By boosting the wages the
farmer pays to meet higher wages
in gins and like establishments.
Most of them are ready to back
that argument with votes to sad-
dle to the bill an amendment rais-
ing farm prices. • !
ABILENE
Continued From Page ONE
well as executive of the city gov-
ernment. It is his duty under the
charter to administer the govern-
mental operations.
Then, off to one side, is the chief
of police. He is responsible per-
sonally, for running of the police
department and protection of life
and property. But, he can’t hire
or fire a man in his department
unless the other five part-time
managers let him. And four of the
five part-time managers were in-
terested enough, to run for an of-
fice that pays $75 a month. They
weren’t drafted.
Before you go, read again the
black type at the top of this col-
umn. Read it and remember it
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GREENSBORO, N. C., March
15 —(PP)—The U. S. collector
of internal revenue here re-
ceived an income tax return
from a North Carolina woman
showing, correctly, that she
owed no tax.
Accompanying it was a
check made out for “no dol-
lars and no cents,” with a no-
tation “no tax due” in the low-
er left hand corner.
Parking Meter
Receipts Double
In addition to relieving the
downtown parking situation, the
new one-hour time limit on the
business district parking meters is
proving a profitable change for the
city, records of the city treasurer
reveal.
The city ended its first month
of the one-hour meters yesterday
with slightly more than twice the
revenue of the preceding full
month of two-hour operation.
For the period .Feb. 15 to Mar.
15, the meter receipts were $4,795.-
80, compared with $2,374.20 for
the month of January, the records
show. Ordinarily, February is one
of the year’s lightest months for
the meter receipts.
Pioneer Oilman
Takes Own Life
ELECTRA, March 15-145-Jus-
tice of the Peace Thomas Haynie
rendered a verdict of suicide last
night in the death of S. C. Messe-
neill, 52, retired oil operator.
Messeneill, who as a member of
the crew that drilled the Playco
company wild cat well, April 11,
1911, opening the Northwest Texas
oil field, was found dead at home
yesterday afternoon by his wife.
RED CROSS
Continued From Page ONE
to dedicate the campaign here to
I her.
So, as the scores of Abilene and
Taylor county people go among
their friends and neighbors to ask
I gifts to Red Cross, the grave in far- |
off Italy symbolizes the cause for
which they "fight the good fight
of faith,” as the Rev. King put it.
Miss Richards was the first Red
Cross worker killed in World War
II. Her death occurred Feb. 9.1944
The Italian government’s War
Cross of Military Honor was award-
ed posthumously to Miss Richards.
New reports turned in since
yesterday morning had brought
the total collected in the Red
Cross drive to $11,146.50.
Miss Richards previously had
been awarded the Purple Heart. A
1 resolution adopted by the Board
of Supervisors of San Francisco
shortly after her death is to be
preserved in the Red Cross Mu-
seum in National headquarters.
A native of North Platte, Neb.,
Miss Richards later resided in
Houghton, Mich. She held degrees
from the University of California
and Columbia university.
The citation awarding the Italian
War Cross reads:
“The civil and military com-
mandant of Rome and its territory
situated in the war zone, in virtue
of the powers conferred upon him
March 24. 1944. by the Royal gov
ernment and the high command,
has awarded to Miss Esther Rich-
ards (in commemoration) the War
Cross of Military Valor ‘on the
field’ for the following reasons
This heroic Red Cross worker,
heedless of the enemy’s extremely
violent fire, gave proof of a high
sense of duty and of contempt
for danger She sacrificed her
young life for the ideals of civili-
zation and for the liberation of
Rome”
WAGSTAFF
Continued From Page ONE
of the highway department were
transferord to the Confederate
Pension fund, with provisions for
later re-payment, so as to make
the Confederate pensions payable
at a time when the pension fund
was exhausted: and the first act
setting aside the Big Bend park as
a state park.
...
Wagstaff also took a prominent
part in legislation affecting edu-
cation. He supported the legislation
which raised the per capita pay-
I menu in 1933 from $7 50 to $17 50
I He was also the author of the law
changing the method of leasing the
| public school lands for oil and gas,
| which act provided for the selling
of oil and gas leases by competitive |
bids This act has resulted in the
i permanent school fund receiving |
many millions of dollars additional |
as bonus for oil and. gas leases
He took a leading part in the
passage of the act for the assump-
| tion of the county road bonds. He
l was chairman- of the sub-commit-
tee of the Highway and Motor Traf
fic committee which wrote the act.
Tand was a member of the confer-
ence committee which prepared |
I the final act, which was adopted |
by the legislature. As a result, the
| | state took over the payment of the
outstanding indebtedness of the
I counties, incurred for the build-
ing of state highways.
Waggstaff has been active in lo-
I cal and civic affairs, having served
i as director of the chamber of com-
j merce and as chairman of the com
| mittee which secured Camp Bark-
j eley. He has been a very active
attorney, with an extensive prac-
lice in this section of the state
He is married to the former Tex |
as Orms, and has two children, a
I girl and a boy.
TEHRAN, BOMBAY
Navy Vet's New Job Will Take
Him to World's Two Hot Spots
Tom 0. Gaston doesn’t know I _
whether to feel good about his Ms---======R
new job or not. Y
He also was on the destroyers USS
Case and USS Hatfield prior to
the war. He was transferred to Dal-
las for recruiting duty last July.
The chief worked with the Fire-
atone Rubber company in past
years between enlistments in the
. navy.
CROCHET A NEW
SPRING BAG
After safely seeing through a
three-year wartime hitch in the
navy, he’s going abroad, and he
couldn’t pick two hotter spots than
those on his itinerary.
The former chief of the Abilene
Navy Recruiting will leave the
states early next week headed for
Bombay, India, via Iran
Bombay, where he will have
headquarters, has been the scene
recently of violent rioting by In-1
dian nationalists. Tehran, capital j
of Iran, through which he will
pass enroute to Bombay, is cur-
rently the world’s potential powder
keg. It is under pressure of So-
viet army troops maneuvering,
nearby.
Gaston expects that his visit
may be stretched over a period
from three to five years. An as-1 ust, 1942, Gaston had previous-
sistant sales manager of the Fire- ly served aboard the light mine
stone-India Rubber Co.. Gaston will layers USS Maury and USS Mahan,
do much traveling in that part
t
TOM 0. GASTON
Having come to Abilene in Aug-
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Gaston is a chief petty officer in
the navy and was placed on inac-
tive duty later part February,
following his re-enlistment.
Jaycees Organize
HAMLIN. March 15—Charles N.
Prater was elected president, L. B.
Howard and Marvin Carlton first
and second vice presidents, and
Herman Treadwell secretary treas-
urer of the Hamlin Junior cham-
ber of commerce organized here
last night. A delegation from the
Abilene Jaycees assisted in the or-
ganization.
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