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Show X 1 SUNDAY HERALD Palf reyman, Anderson Debate .The pros and con of Provo's new municipal employes act, providing retirement and other benefits for city workers, were discussed Saturday in statements by Mayor Mark Anderson and Commissioner B. D. Palfrey man, with the mayor standing for the act as a whole and Palf reyman objecting to many of Its provi sions. , The act was passed Thursday with the - affirmative votes of Mayor Anderson and Commissioner Commis-sioner J. Earl Lewis. Commissioner Commis-sioner Palfreyman refrained from voting. Mayor Anderson pointed out that city employes were not projected pro-jected by social security, and needed the protection of the act. He declared it followed closely the pattern used by other cities in intelligent employe relations. The mayor said the law cov ers city employes other than fireman .. or policemen, who are in need of retirement protection which up to now only these two groups have had. Police and firemen fire-men each pay two percent of their salaries into a retirement fund, and retire at half pay, with retirement pay not to exceed $100 monthly. These are the provisions of the new city, law, except other city employees will pay three percent. Police and firemen will not be affected by the new law. Their retirement is governed by state law. The mayor said the new act standardizes vacation and sick leave regulations for city employes, em-ployes, something which he classed as a long - needed improvement. im-provement. Mayor Anderson pointed out that while the act sets up a board of appeal for labor la-bor disputes consisting of ' two members of the city commission com-mission and three from appointive ap-pointive officers and employes, em-ployes, yet the final decision rests with the city commis-' commis-' sion as a whole. The appeal board can only recommend, he said, and final authority still is in the hands of the commission. Mr. Palfreyman, in presenting 'his objections, said: "At the meeting of the city commission on the 29th of May, 1947, at the time the death, sick ness and retirement benefits act was passed, I declined to vote, and I wish to state, into the record rec-ord some of my reasons for so doing. do-ing. "I had requested a written opinion of s the city attorne upon up-on certain phases before being required to vote on the matter, -but without waiting for that, the votewas called. "Some of my objections to the death, sickness and retirement benefits act are as follows: "In the first place, I find no provision in the ordinance by which employees who have been in service for many years will be required to contribute from their wages any money for the years they were in service previous to the enactment of the ordinance, which will result in their receiving receiv-ing their retirement benefits for nothing, not having paid any money into the fund under the years for which they claim benefits. bene-fits. l "In the second place, there is ?no assurance that the money to be raised by a three percent contribution con-tribution of employees and an sequal amount from the city, will be sufficient to meet the death, iDickie Bird Barber Joseph Casa lathers F. W. Howard in his San Francisco shop as Dickie the bird watches the tonsorial operation from his owner's shoulder. Customers can count on an outburst of song from the pet canary as soon as the clippers start to hum. For. FLUORESCENT LIGHTING FIXTURES Or Prompt Efficient Electrical Work Phone 1017-J I i 1 1 Sunday, June 1, 1947 sickness and retirements benefits. bene-fits. If the amount is insufficient to meet the benefits, the city will be obliged to make upany difference. dif-ference. "The provision authorizing the employees to withdraw from the fund contributions paid in, at any time they quit or leave the city's employment, without permitting the city to withdraw what it has paid in, automatically requires the city to pay in more than three per. cent of the salary of the re maining employees. "It Is certainly unfair to have employees who have been work ing for 15 to 20 years or longer get benefits of a fund which is supposed to be built up by the city and the employees,, without having contributed anything to it And if the amount they receive depletes the fund so that the city has to build it up from tax, money, the taxpayers are really paying their contribution into the fund. "It seems rather unfair for the tax payer's dollar to pay for life Insurance, disability benefits and hospital bills paid up to and in cluding as high as $225, for surg ical treatment and hospitaliza tion. "The city employees are already al-ready Insured under the workmen's compensation law the same as any other employees em-ployees for industry. "As to the right for employees to take their troubles to an ap peal board, consisting of three members appointed by the employees em-ployees and two members appointed ap-pointed by the city, seems in and of itself an unfair rule so far as the tax payer's dollar is con cerned. While the city commission commis-sion has the final say as to the discharging of any employee, I see no reason why we should be spending tax payers' dollars to go through an appeal board together togeth-er with a lot of unnecessary time and expense. "It seems to me that it is certainly cer-tainly unfair for the employee to have insurance, disability benefits bene-fits and hospitalization benefits and then at any time that he chooses to withdraw or leave the employment of the city, be given the right to withdraw all moneys that he has paid into the fund after he has had and enjoyed this protection of insurance, disability dis-ability and hospitalization benefits. bene-fits. "This death, sickness and retirement re-tirement benefits act seems to be a swell way of giving a substantial sub-stantial s.-Jary raise and paying for an insurance policy which the employees get for nothing. 1 am sure there are a lot of Provo citizens who would like to have policies." INJURED GIRL IMPROVING SPANISH FORK Iris Willis, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Willis of this city is improving im-proving at the Hughes Memorial hospital following an injury to her back suffered when she feli off a horse Friday evening. Her condition is satisfactory, it is reported re-ported by hospital attendants. The first printing press set up on the American continent was established by the Spaniards in Mexico in 1538. RO i I City News Mr. and Mrs. Loren Scott, of Provo, left Saturday for a trip to Yellowstone park. Audrey Day and LaDean Ellis, of Moab, have arrived in Provo to visit relatives. They plan to be here most of the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Thomas, of Boise, Idaho, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Thomas parents, Mr and Mrs. J. H. McDonald. . Mrs. Farris Horner and daugh ters, Saundra and Nancy Joe, of Salt Lake City, visited here Saturday Sat-urday with Mrs. Phil Payne, sister sis-ter of Mrs. Horner. Mrs. Payne was entertaining in honor of her six-year-old son, Donald, on the occasionof his birthday. Brace Black son of Mr. and and Mrs. Mitchell Black, has been visiting in Provo, where he graduated grad-uated from Provo high school at exercises this week. The young man received his credits before going into U. S. Marine Corps. He is stationed at Santa Aha and will return there tdday. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Boyns and children, LeeAnn and Becky, and Jack Black, aU of Pacific Grove, California, Cali-fornia, have arrived in Provo to visit at the Mitchell Black home. Mr. and Mrs. Orson P. Millet and family, of Ogden, were visitors visi-tors in Provo during the Memorial Memor-ial Day weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis D. Harding of Salt Lake City spent Memorial Memor-ial Day at the home of Mrs. Harding's Hard-ing's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dangerfield. LeGrande J. Dunkley, of Provo Music Mart, left by plane Friday for Chicago, where he will attend the National Music Dealers convention. con-vention. He will return in a week. Mrs. Harry L. 8waln has returned re-turned from a three-week trip to Washington, D. C, where she visited a sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lewis. She was accompanied on the trip by her parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ren Wootton and Madeline Wootton, of Heber City. Many places of interest were visited en-route. en-route. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Randall have returned from San Francisco, where Mr. Randall attended a special meeting of district managers man-agers and agents of Equitable Life Assurance Society. Albert Kirk-patrick, Kirk-patrick, from Provo, also attended. attend-ed. He took top honors in the Utah-Nevada agency, with Mr.i Randall placing second. The provo district gained second place in the Western department. Mr. and Mrs. Lynne Roberts were hosts to overnight guests Mr. and Mrs. Ed Praeske and Mr. and Mrs. William Shulkie, of Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. Wisconsin. The visitors are enroute to their summer home at Greenlake, Utah. Donald L. Beebe, Mrs. Aria! Beebe and Patsy and Robert Bee-be Bee-be will leave Monday for Chicago, where Donald will marry Charlotte Char-lotte D. Daluege, June 8. After the marriage the couple will have .aaicrii Biaica, mil. ccuc, x awj and Robert, will attend the wedding wed-ding and enjoy a vacation before returning to their home in Provo. Introducing Another Famous Appliance Line NIT IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ii . i m v.-;... , v" :i Briefs Mrs. Arthella lint, 207 West Third North. Provo. has received word that her son, Nephi Loraine Dowdeli, has been advanced to the rate of Yeoman second class. He enlisted in the navy in Febru ary 1948 at the local recruiting station. Mr. and Mrs. La Roy Muadorff (Alice Greer) have left for their home in Los Annies after visit ing here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Greer. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Llndstreas and daughter Gayla are leaving today for Denver, Colorado, for a two weeks vacation. They will be accompanied by Mrs. Willis Payne, of Salt Lake City, in Denver Den-ver they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Reed Lewis. 17 Graduate From Central Utah Vocation School Seventeen graduates of the Central Vocational school received receiv-ed two-year certificates last week at commencement exercises con ducted by the school. The certificates covered train ing in nine vocational subjects. The exercises, neid at canyon Glen, were attended by 200 peo ple. According to Director Wilson Sorensen, the school will be closed during the summer and will re-open Sept. 8. "As stated in the law which made the school a permanent state organization,' Mr. Sorensen said, "'World War II veterans will be given preference in enrolling the coming year." Graduates who received two year certificates included: Machine shop Edward R. Part ridge; carpentery and cabinet making Clifford D. Mace and Harrison Price; forging and blacksmithing Paul Carter and Ross Reiske; auto mechanics Harold E. Jones and Don A. Tay lor; electricity Hyrum N. Scott, Gordon w. Dyer. Howard enns man and Raymond Parks; aircraft mechanics Roger Stireman; vocational vo-cational , business Mary Jane Heelis and Lavearn M. Brad- shaw: power sewing and dress making Ram on a Hary; refrigeration refrig-eration Richard F. Miller and Frank King. Statistics BORN At Utah Valley hospital: Friday Boy to Marvin S. and Rhea Johnson Boren. Girl to Martin A. and Rosamond Sessions Johnson. Boy to Alvin and Violet Grundy Thomas. Boy to Glen M. and June Anderson An-derson Vernon. . Girl at Lehi hospital Tuesday, to Harold C. and Marie Holder Hutchings. DIVORCES GRANTED Theora LaRae Will iamson Lavender from William Clyde Lavender. Plaintiff restored maiden maid-en name of Theora LaRae Williamson. Wil-liamson. Geraldine Hair Kelson from from Devon Max Kelson. Plaintiff Plain-tiff granted custody of minor child and . $40 monthly for its support. 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