Show BOARD TO STUDY BREWSTER PAY Members of the state board of examiners Wednesday will consider consider consider con con- sider for forthe the third time a payroll claim to put Sheldon R. R Brewster former speaker of the house of representatives on the payroll of of the publicity and industrial development development development devel devel- I commission at a month The board on two previous occasions occasions occasions occa occa- held up claims pending clarification clari clan of the duties Mr Mn Brewster is to perform The claim to come before the board Wednesday was approved Monday by the finance commission commission commis commis- sion and lists Mr Brewster's position position position po po- po- po as director of fairs and ex ex- positions It provides that his salary of a month will be paid entirely from funds of the publicity commission Question of Department Previous claims were held up by the examiners because it was contemplated that Mr Brewster should receive half of the salary from the state fair board and the theother theother theother other half from the centennial commission Attorney General Grover A A. Giles member of the board of examiners examiners ex ex- ex- ex I was designated by that board to study the claims He held that the claims should not be approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved unless the fair board and the centennial commission had made the Brewster appointment with approval of the publicity com corn mission The new claim to be considered by the examiners has Mr Giles' Giles approval because he said under the law the publicity and indus- indus development commission has authority to set up such a position as director of fairs and exposi exposi- Mr Brewster will be strictly an of the publicity and industrial development commission commission commis commis- sion ion but whether the fair board 1 and centennial commission accept I him into their organizations re remains remains remains re- re mains to be se seen n. n Matter l of Economy Approval of the present claim by the finance commission Gordon Taylor Hyde chairman said was given in the interest of economy We will be saving the taxpayers ers ens a month Mr Hyde said The centennial commission formerly forn for for- merly n nth Ra paid Gus P. P Back Backman a T 50 T nth Ta a m month and a month to Roy Backman The state fair board has has been paying a month to Ernest S. S Holmes as secretary Mr Brewster will do all these jobs Records at the state auditors auditor's office show that Gus P. P Backman was paid a month by the centennial centennial cen cen- tennial commission from October 15 1939 to and including May 1941 Roy Backman was paid in September 1940 each for October November and December of that year and for January 1941 Of this latter payment 50 was refunded to the state |