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Show POLICEMEN SEEKING RAISE IN SALARIES Petition to Commission Will Be Presented in Near Future. Members of the police 'force contemplate contem-plate petitioning the city commission for increase of the department wage scale because of tile mounting cost of living. Information to this effect was given the commission yesterday morning by Commissioner Com-missioner Karl A. Scheid, head of the department of public safety. , Mr. Scheid said that a committee of policemen had called upon him, asking for his support in the action. He said he is investigating and will favor then-cause then-cause if he finds it justified. Among other things he is gathering information, he said, concerning the salaries of policemen police-men in other cities. Mention of the intention of the policemen police-men was made by Mr. Scheid when a petition from a fireman for a raise In pay came before the commission and was referred to the committee of the whole for consideration. The commission voted an appropriation of $271 to the Gunton memorial chapel of Westminster college to cover damage done to the basement of the church building build-ing by flood waters last spring. The action ac-tion was taken on the advice of the city attorney that the city was liable because of the insufficiency .of the Parley's creek conduit in the vicinity. Because of today being Memorial day, the regular meeting of the commission has been deferred to tomorrow morning. |