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Show High and Dry President Truman's appointees to the national labor relations board were left high and dry by the senate, sen-ate, which declined to confirm their nominations. They are Robert N. Denham, named general counsel; former Sen. Abe Murdock of Utah, and J. Copeland Gray of Buffalo, N. Y. So although they must administer the difficult Taft-Hartley labor bill along with the three other hold-over members of the board, they don't know whether they will have a job or not come next January. It may be that action of the senate was deliberate de-liberate to see how these men would work before confirming their appointments. ap-pointments. The 79th congress provided 75 million dollars for the school lunch program throughout the country. It also provided 6 million mil-lion dollars more as a deficiency appropriation, making a total 0 81 million dollars available for school lunch programs in 1947. The 80th congress slashed thfs to 65 million dollars, so if the states wish to provide school lunches on the same basis as in 1947 they will have to make up that deficiency defi-ciency of 16 million dollars from local funds and local taxes. 'Don't Fence Me In' CEN. W. Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel ol J Texas Is one of the most unpopular unpop-ular men in the senate. He is unpopular un-popular with his Democratic colleagues col-leagues because most of the time he votes with the Republicans. Senator O'Daniel bought an apartment house near the capitol and went into court to evict the tenants. To toss out these long-time tenants, the senator told the court and the rent control board that he I --ff.fONY FENCE ? $ needed all 40 rooms, 14 kitchens and 14 baths for the personal use of his own family. He said he paid $52,500 for the apartment house. Now he is selling the apartments on a cooperative plan for from 10 to 13 thousand dollars dol-lars an apartment which figures out some $150,000 profit. Of course, the senator never occupied all 40 rooms but, being from Texas, he probably didn't sfant to be fenced in. Slash in Workers The slash in the department of agriculture's budget will mean a lay-off of approximately 13,700 employees em-ployees in the department. Although Al-though at the beginning of this year Secretary Anderson had reduced personnel of the department 10 000 below the prewar figure and his budget as originally sent to congress con-gress provided for a further reduction reduc-tion of 9.100, the slashes made by congress will add approximately 4,600 more lay-offs. |
