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Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 27

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Reno, Nevada
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RENO EVENING GAZETTE JUNE 23, 1965-27 Harvest Course Smooth team members and the Salinas growers. The advisors said the change so the boys could have milk with A-Teams are working. They arej all their meals instead of one, also harvesting the cantaloupe has made living at the campkrop in the Blythe area. from the bracero program to easier. ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF RENO'S NEWEST and MOST MODERN DRY CLEANING PLANT ARTIST CLEANERS 225 GENTRY WAY 322-5000 the A-TEAM program required a change in attitude on the part of the growers.

When the boys first arrived, the growers thought the boys could live under Ihe same conditions the imported Mexican laborers had lived under. Since an investigation this The U.S. Department of Labor reported many boys in the area are making from $16 to $18 a day. The A-TEAM idea was developed by the Labor Department as a replacement for the bracero program which expired last Dec. 31.

The object of the A-TEAM program is to ease the California farm labor shortage and at the same time reduce teen-age unemployment. Sweet said that under supervision of federal inspectors now living in the camps, the food has improved and recreational prog rams are being planned. Sweet added, "The barracks-type housing lias been adequate all along. The boys just have to adjust to it." The Salinas area Is bug one location in California where the past weekend by state and federal labor department Investigations have greatly improved, SALINAS (AP) After a rough shakedown period, the U.S. Department of Labor's A-TEAM program to help harvest California produce crops, seems 1o be settling down on a smooth and successful course, in the opinion of several A-TEAM advisors.

Trouble came in the second week of June when some of the newly arrived teams of high school youths left the Salinas carrot and strawberry fields and other areas formerly worked by imported Mexican laborers. As of Monday, 190 had gone home out of several hundred brought to California under the program. The dispute between the Salinas growers and the A-TEAM (Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower! members arose over wages and living conditions at 1he labor camps, said Utah team advisor Tom Sweet and Idaho team advisor Grove Haddock Monday. Various state employment offices had said the team members would be paid $1.40 an hour for the entire program. When Sweet and Haddock said.

Haddock said such Improve ments as a milk dispenser installed in the camp mess hall, State Upholds Casino Refusal To Pay Ticket A Sparks casino refusal to thev reached the farms the pav a $10,000 "winning" keno team members were told by growers they would be paid piece rates Actually, the boys are paid the $1.40 only during the initial Money for University ticket was upheld by the Nevada Gaming Commission Tuesday. The Sparks Silver Club had refused to pay the ticket on the contention the ticket was not legitimate. The commission, voting 4-1, dismissed the Nevada Gaming Control Board's complaint against the Silver Club. The 64-hour training period, after which they will be paid $1 per strawberry flat on a niece work basis. University of Nevada President Charles J.

Armstrong, right, accepts a check for $1,000 presented to the university music department by the National Automobile Dealers Association. Archie Pozzi, Carson City auto dealer and Nevada director of the NADA, says the money can be used by the music department in any manner they see fit. Idaho team advisor Grove Haddock, whose team lost seven bovs. said ihe remaining 24 are club had deposited $10,000 withj the commission to oe usM case the commission upheld the happy with the existing pay conditions. He said Monday, "I feel inv bins will enual or ex Deposit Fee System Set For Schools claim hv Denver Steele, a dea nier at a South Lake Tahoe Club.

ceed the guaranteed wage. and failing to The commission conducted ex- All three high schools in: Under the reinstatement of leaving the area Washoe County will return to a procedure the monev wil he return books. thive of them are exceeding Monsive hearings in the case iirt I'mi-lor Ilnrr tort the earlier this year. i land are making $1.30 an student deposit fee of $,.50 for jn smdpnt flccount and lifwks issued to students at the start of the school year. the.suidenis reimbursed on the final Washoe County School District's day of the school year, board of trustees decided Tues-' Officials pointed out that a day night.

great many books have been The deposit fee, formerly IoPt by the district in people at Sparks High School and cv) would get a lot of books! Tom Sweet. I tah team ad-back from people who leave the visor, said about the wage d.s-area I pule. "I lost 11 of my team due The board also authorized the; mainly to the misunderstanding appraisal of the four room I over the wage agreement, but I Home Gardens School and that my remaining team grounds for sale. will stay to complete Hug told ihe board that the program and show promise acre proprrtv is In the airport of making at least the $1.40 flight pattern hich is not de-i minimum on the piece rate sirahle Hoard members di-i basis, if not exceeding it." Fike in Reno Hospital for Treatment Assembivman Edward If all vodka is tasteless, isn't it strange that -Jsk people with good taste select this genuine vodka? Of course the modest price doesn't hurt either I'iMMiltlviil': Stout Heads Bankers Association 57.50 at Reno High School, has-been suspended in recent officials felt The collect-j ing of the money and then re-! turning it at the end of the year was not worth the trouble. 100-year-old Alumnus ill I i mtoH lit iv to run-act the.

Cirv Sweet added, "Some A-ToamsFik It-Clark, is in satisfar of Reno for possible sale of the arP averaging the ir.inimumjrondition today at Washoe Mrd-nmnertv wage on a piece rate a eady." jral Center here he is under-i for a brain An architectural study of a J.egaming ttie Mousing conm-, going treatment proposed expansion of the tin. the two team advisors hemorrhage. Marches in rarade I ST AT KLINE (AP.) H.L. iStout, executive vice president WOLFSCMRIilDTH! viptad cieruri rn tut ma-nc iri? Hint rfnii tbi-b en it inn repnr nrnnerT ftf I I Washoe County School District said it was a promcm ot anjust-; ihe -10-year old freshman leg-j office on Ninth Street was au--mPnt- a problem for both underwent an e.plora-j thorized by the board. Hug jtory operation After admittance said expanding school popula- A MA klePT Picketed "o'11 Sunday from La BRATTLEBORO, Vt.

CAP) 'of the Bank of Las Vegas, has Among the floats in the Brattle- been elected president of the boro High School alumni parade Nevada Bankers Association. it ion made additional space in, iegas. riKe is listen in me ieg- was one topped by a gaily dec-i Other new officers, named a idlative handbook as president "Re-ithe association's Lake administration building nec- rrateri chair with a sien. NEW YORK (AP)-Five hun-i a ill- i served for Henry Allen." convention, are R.O. KwaDil.

dred chanting members i-yr l3. The chair, however, wasn't; Reno, senior vice president of supporters of the New York Congress of Senior Citizens, calling REZONED Used. 'the First National Bank of Ne-I Portions of property lying on on the nation's docton to eoop- Henry Allen, 100 years old and, vada, vice president; Col in J. It makes good Gents to save at American! the only living member of thejSmith Las Vegas, executive both sides of Vassar Street eastjerate in medicare, picketed a Class of 1884, marched along'vice president of the Nevada'of Wells Avenue have been re- hotel where an American Med-with the youngsters, a straw State Bank of Las Vegas, trea- zoned from residential to eom-ical Association committee was hat protecting un. him from the surer, and Lester W.

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