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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, May 18, 1961 dip Am? riratt Stork Elttztt " Published Every Thursday at American Fork, Utah by the ALPINE PUBLISHING CO. Catered as Second Class Matter, at the Postoffice at American Fork, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate $3.50 Per Year NATIONAL EDITORIAL BY IALPH BOBEY Kennedy Wins On Minimum Wage So far President Kennedy has lost only one remotely significant test with the Congress. This was on minimum wages and the defeat was by only one vote in the House. That has now been wiped out and we have a new minimum wage bill. ' The legislative history on this has been unusual and significant. When Mr. Kennedy was a Senator he worked hard for increasing the minimum wage to $1,25 (it is now $1.00) and broadly extending, the coverage. The Eisenhower Admin istration was in favor of a modest extension of those to pe covered but it wanted the minimum increase to only $1.15 There was extensive Congressional debate but no agreement agree-ment was ever reached and so nothing was done. This year President Kennedy again proposed the minimum min-imum be lifted to $1.25 and that coverage he extended by well over four millions The House took up the measure first and it refused, to go along with the President. It passed a bill lifting the minimum to $1.15 and providing for only a quite limited additional coverage. This was the measure which was enacted by a one vote margin. Then the Senate began its deliberation and, in time, as was expected, passed a bill almost as recommended by the President. The next step, of course, was to iron out the differences between' the two bills by means of a conference committee. This was not easy and for a considerable period there was some reason to believe that no solution could be found. The great problem was to win over enough Southern votes to assure House acceptance of the conference committee report. This was done by eliminating from coverage various groups which the Southern House members were insistent should not be brought under the Act. The largest single group was laundry workers. The bill extends the coverage by an estimated 3,600,000 workers, and of these about. 2,000,000 are retail employees. This is the first time that such workers have been covered. Provisions for lifting the minimum wage are most complicated. com-plicated. Some go up immediately, but the $1.25 figure does not go into effect until the fall of 1963. Now everyone likes to see wages go up when the increase is justified. But that is entirely different from having increases in-creases forced by law, which is what this particular measure does. This is not just a matter of raising the pay of those now receiving less than a dollar an hour. There is a pretty well established differential in wages all up the line, and this will have to be maintained. This means that if those getting below a dollar are raised, all of those earning more than that also must be paid more. This applies even to the highest paid hourly workers in the nation. In some instances the higher wages can be absorbed out of profits, but this is not true in most cases. At other places prices either will have to be raised or the employers will go bankrupt. At still other places the increased minimum will be above the value produced by the employee, and the em ployer will have no choice but to discharge the worker. At a time when unemployment is a serious problem, when business profits are under a severe squeeze, when the public will not stand for a further increase of prices, when there is need for increased capital mvestoent-anri-rprfiipMrn?tr-Pf production, and when we are just getting out of a business slump, it is extremely unfortunate to have a higher general wage scale forced upon the economy by legislation Again, it should be emphasized that higher wages are desirable when justified. The difficulty in this case is that mere is no relation between what has to be paid and what earned through production. is On Feb. 27, 1954, the first steam catapult ever installed on a Navy ship was treated aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hancock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Ship-yard, Bremerton, Wash. AT YOUR CHEVY DEALER'S .rtl ri am bmii'Tiiiimm r.rn Mimi i ilthiniM m nJ v.. The famous Thriftmaster 6 does the saving as standard equipment in this Fleetside model. For V8 power, you can choose the Trademaster V8, optional at extra cost. Here to talk up Chevy's big savings roundup is Western star Roy Rogers! "They tell me it's the best time of all to put your brand on a hard-working, easy-riding I.F.S. truck. You'U find a full corral to pick from each built and priced to save you plenty." Roy's laying it right on the line, letting you in on the best time to buy and the best place to save! That goes for whatever model you need, too . . . from pickups to tandems. And with Chevy's I.F.S. (Independent Front Suspension) Sus-pension) soaking up road shock and vibration, your Chevrolet stays young, protects the load better, works faster, you make more money. And who can offer you anything better than that? Just see your dealersoon. CHEVROLET ibl truces OF , i v. ... . - fe; " ( I Back-Log From Citizen News Columns 10 YEARS AGO Tht' American Fork Garden Vb has almoscompleted their project of the year; the planting of 500 rose bushes on the grounds surrounding the new hospital. Centering tht' rose plots Is the Peace rose-garden containing 27 bushes, each one in memory mem-ory of a boy who made the supreme sacrifice during World War II and the Korean War. On either side of the Peace garden are beds of a variety of rt'd roses and adjacent plots have shades of pink which blend Into yellows and then into in-to whites. Many hours of planning and time have been put into this project by the members of the Garden Club. The Sophomore Class of the American Fork High School mixed old and new in a party last night. 40 young folks climbed on a big hay rack piled with hay and Mr. Robert Smith driving a tractor pullfd them all over the outlying roads of the city. After the ride they all went to the Smith farm southeast of town for a weiner roast, after af-ter which all of the group collated col-lated inside the house to watch television. In charge of the plans were: Glen Smith, Marilyn Scholes and Deanne Grant. Chevy's hefty 261-en.ln. Jobmaster 6 Is a big reason for the outstanding popularity of Series 0 middleweight. r'":.,CSei your local authorized Chevrolet dealer - TinpnnoGos noTon eotiPAnv Corner Main & Center - Am. Fork - Tel. SK 6-3547 20 YEARS AGO Mel Devey and Ed Conder of Alpine brought a 900 pound bear to an untimely end to put a stop to. his molesting sheep herds - on the north mountain. The two men ran onto the bear about two blocks from Devey's orchard at the f oot of ' the mountain. His hide is now stretched out and drying alongside the hide of the bear killed here last year. Four members of the American Ameri-can Fork High School graduating graduat-ing class .have been awarded university scholarships, Principal Prin-cipal Jesse M. Walker announced announc-ed .today. . I . - The students are: Nina Sykes, for the University of Utah; Mary Robinson and Gene Welsh, for the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural college; and Fred T. Wright, for the Brigham Young University. The scholarships are for one school quarter. Dean Gordon of American Fork has accepted a position with the Shell OU Co. in the company laboratory at Wil mington, California, .according to Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gordon. He has been employed at Doug las Aircraft. His brother, Arthur Gordon Is still employed at Douglas in the blueprint department.. depart-ment.. - - 4 ,30 YEARS AGO - The Poultry Day Committee is organizing for the" big cele bration by getting the Banquet committee named. Mrs; Sadie Bromley has been chosen as chairman and Reed H. Robin son as Secretary and Treasurer. The program committee that will be acting under Mrs. Bromley Brom-ley will be Mr. and Mrs. John Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tre- gaskls and Vern Holindrake.' Miss Ann Clayson, who won second place in the High School Day Contest at the University of Utah last week, played her contest numbers before the Lehi Lions Club at their meet ing. She was acclaimed by the members for her very fine artistry. Clubs and Socials Philadea Study Group Members of the Philadea Study Group enjoyed a lovely dinner with mothers and friends as special guests last Thursday evening at a local restaurant. The tables were decorated with colorful spring flowers and mothers favors which consisted of milk glass vases, each holding a red car nation. Mrs. Harvard Hinton, Lehi, reviewed the play, "Death Takes a Holiday." Included also al-so on the program was a duet, "A Cottage Small" by Mrs. Lee Crawford and Mrs. Bliss Fitzgerald. Fitz-gerald. "A Mother's Parable" was given by Mrs. Evan Brady as a tribute to mothers. The committee in charge of aramgements included: Mrs. Keith Adamson, Mrs. Robert Cook, Mrs. Bliss Fitzgerald and Mrs. Jay Criddle The Magpie Drive, sponsored by the Sportsmen of American Fork, Is yielding good results with those entering the contest con-test up to date turning In 336 eggs and 225 young magpies. This should materially decrease de-crease the Magpies population in this district and be a means of saving hundreds of pheasants pheas-ants and quail, which suffer at the nesting season from the inroads of the magpie on their eggs and young. The contest will close June 1 with the boy turning in the most eggs and birds receiving a complete fishing outiit in addition to the cash awards of 1 cent per egg, 22 cents for the young birds and 5 cents for the older birds. Ray Lee, secretary for the Sportsmen gave the names of the boys who are ahead so far in the contest; . Glen Whitby, D. Adams, K. Hansen. M. Skinner, Skin-ner, Leon Robinson, R. Julian, E. Lund and S. Staggel. 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