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Show Town Wants U.S. Loan To Raise Employees' Pay ITHACA, N.Y. The mayor of Ithaca, Stanley C. Shaw, has asked ! President Truman for a million dollars to give city employees a wage boost. "Of course, this request is ridiculous," ridicu-lous," the mayor said in a letter to the president. "However, it is no more absurd than the report of a promised loan to a country (Iran) that is destroying one of the world's greatest sources of oil." "We also have been Informed that Prime Minister Churchill will be seeing you for the purpose of getting another loan for England," the letter said. He then asked for the loan to give the city employees a raise so they can meet the increase? Income tax that "you just had the congress to enact." |