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of 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 a a February 10, 1955 Two ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Labor Federation Backs Minimum Wage Measure From the Journal's Santa Fe Bureau SANTA -The New Mexico Federation of Labor Wednesday came out flatly in favor of a bill providing a 75-cent-an-hour minimum wage in the state, with no deductions for meals or lodging. W. S. Roberts, secretary of the federation, made the declaration at a House Labor committee hearing on three wage and hour bills. Representatives of the New Mexico Business Men's Assn.

opposed the bills, declaring any would drive some persons out of business and increase prices to the consumer in others. The committee will make its decisions on the bills at a later meeting. Advocates Passage Roberts advocated passage of House Bill 158, which calls for a flat 75-cent minimum, with time and a half for all hours over eight in a single day and over 48 in a week, with the work week dropping to 44 in few years. The federation secretary said he opposed House Bill 26, which would start at a minimum of 50 cents an hour, but which he said allowed deductions for lodging and meals cent per hour wage could be paid. He also opposed House Bill 27, for its procedure of setting up a wage advisory board to recommend a wage in any industry either below or above 75 cents.

He cited figures of the Employment Security Commission showing New Mexico wages dropped to as low as $17.09 a week for Socorro county workers of the lumber industry. Mrs. Gustave Holohan, representative of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, declared "We have people receiving as little as $2 to $3 a day for eight, 10 and 11 hours work a day." She said said no deductions should be allowed for meals, lodging or tips. Phil Carter of Albuquerque, speaking for hospitals of the state, opposed the bill and declared adoption of a minimum wage would mean increase in hospital charges throughout the state. He said hospitals employ 8 number of crippled persons, old and young persons who could not earn the minimum.

Elliott Testifies Elmer Elliott, proprietor of the Court Cafe in Albuquerque, declared adoption of the bill hurt the very little peo-1 you are trying to help. The little people are going to be out of jobs." Loger Funk of Taos declared "for the economy of the ern part of our state this bill will be very, very detrimental." Don Swanson, Las Vegas laundry proprietor, said average profit in the laundry industry is 3 to 5 per cent and adoption of a minimum wage would force prices of laundry upward. Matusow's Publisher Sentenced for Contempt NEW YORK (P)-The publisher of Harvey Matusow's forthcoming book "False Witness" was sentenced to six months for contempt of court. He was charged with refusing to give certain records about the book to a grand jury. However, Albert E.

Kahn, of the publishing firm of Cameron and Kahn, won a stay until he can appeal the contempt sentence on grounds it invades freedom of the press. Matusow's book reportedly will tell how he testified falsely in a number of cases people accused of Communist against connections, including the trial of 13 5 second-string Communist leaders. Mrs. Mary L. Bishop Dies Here Wednesday Mrs.

Mary L. Bishop, 63, who moved to Albuquerque from Iowa seven years ago, died early Wednesday. She is survived by her husband, J. H. Bishop, 324 Harvard SE; three daughters, Mrs.

Mildred Austin, Omaha, and Mrs. Elizabeth Erickson and Mrs. Rose Bolie, Iowa; her mother, Mrs. Clara Sullivan, in South Dakota; and four sisters and one brother. She was a member of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in the Chapel in the Garden at French Fitzgerald Mortuary. The body was taken to Fort Dodge, for burial late Wednesday. Alicyn Sanborn Named Beauty Day Queen A Valley High School student, Miss Alicyn Sanborn, has been chosen by the Mexico Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Assn. to act as Beauty Day Queen. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Sanborn. B- Day will be observed Feb. 22 by Albuquerque beauty shops, which have pledged receipts from their business that day to the New Mexico Boys Ranch, as their project for this year. Beauty shops participating in the project will display the B- Day posters on that day.

The association hopes to clear about $5000 on the $23,000 Boys Ranch debt. Suspects Nabbed In Holdup Try Two suspects arrested by police after an attempt to hold an Albuquerque service station up were identified Wednesday by their intended victim, Chief of Frank Stephenson said. The pair, 22 and 21, was arrested about an hour after they attempted to hold up, Whiting Bros. Service Station, 8713 Central West Tuesday night and fired two shots at the attendant, Higino Gutierrez. Gutierrez told police the oldler of the two Albuquerque men drew a gun which discharged when Gutierrez grappled with the wood-be stickup man.

A second shot was fired at him when he ran from the station to his nearby home to call authorities, Gutierrez told police. Stephenson said the pair has not been identified as suspects in other recent service station holdups here. The pair fled in their car after Gutierrez upset their plans and were arrested in the 3200 block on Fourth NW by Officer Filemon Torrez. Gutierrez supplied a description of the car which enabled police to apprepair. said a pistol was found on one of the two men.

Andrew J. Means Of Alameda Dies Andrew J. Means, 72, of Alameda, died early Wednesday. He is survived by his wife, Vivian Means; a Raymond Kitts, Albuquerque; drew three sons, Jack C. and J.

AnMeans, Albuquerque, George W. Alhambra, one brother, William Means, California; four sisters, Mrs. Newman, Albuquerque; Mrs. Bird Munns, Modesto, Mrs. Bessie Silvia, Long Beach, and Mrs.

Georgia Kerney, Concord, 14 grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. French Fitzgerald Mortuary will announce funeral services. Truck Driver Fined In Federal Court Joe Wimberly, a truck driver charged with two counts of entering false statements in the driver's log required of interstate drivers by motor carrier safety regulations, was fined $100 on each count Wednesday by U. S. Dist.

Judge Waldo Rogers. Wimberly pleaded guilty to the charges, transferred here from Houston, at his arraignment morning. Judge Rogers immediately assessed the fine, and allowed Wimberly 45 days to pay the fine. So that all Effective February 9, IT STARTED NOW WATCH Endorsed by New Mexico Southwest Bleed Service appointment of Hospital Plan serving the state of enrollment representative In New Mexico. Blue Cross community service without You may writing to ingside 6-3585.

State Engineers Draft Protest to Legislation By the Associated Press I Delegates from the northern New Mexico section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers go to Santa Fe Thursday to talk with legislators "about a bill which they say adversely affects good engineering tices in the state. The engineers will appear be, fore the House Committee on Public Affairs. They will discuss HB84 which, according to section chairman Rex A. Tynes of Albuquerque, relaxes requirements for registration as a professional in New Mexico. Tynes said the group particularly is concerned about a provision that would allow a man with two years of college and who is a licensed surveyor with eight years experience to become a registered engineer in the state.

The New Mexico section of the engineers association Tuesday night approved a lengthy resolution in opposition to the measure. Among other things the resolution said that any person obtaining a license to practice the profession under the proposed measure "could be a menace to the public and to the public welfare, both from the standpoint of safety and of receiving pensation from the public performing work for which he would be in no manner qualified to perform." The resolution said that in most states there are laws on the books requiring higher professional standards than the Seven Detonator Caps Missing From Magazine An explosives expert and sheriff's officers Wednesday warned Albuquerque residents about seven electric-type detonator caps which were missing after a raid by two teenagers on a powder magazine in the southeast section of the city. A sheriff's report said the boys, one of whom is recovering from the effects of. a blast of one of the caps, admitted stealing the detonator explosives Sunday from an Illinois Powder facturing Co. building, located south of Miles Rd.

SE and east of Broadway SE. G. Hostetter, of the powder firm, said he and Sheriff's Deputy Sip. Griego recovered five boxes of 250 caps and an additional 39 of the caps scattered around in the southeast sandhills. WOODMEN TO MEET will be a meeting Albuquerque Camp No.

Woodmen of the World, at the Fraternal Order of Police Hall, 315 South Pine on East Central Friday at 8 p. m. All Woodmen are invited to attend. will have an equal this non-profit community HERE ALBUQUERQUE IT GROW! Hospital Association Plan is proud to announce the Service, the Blue Cross New Mexico, as the exclusive for Southwest Bleed Service offers this program as remuneration. contact Blue Cross by Blue Cross, 202 Drive, SE, or calling 'Union Busting' Charges Raled Unfounded Here Help keep your city CLEAN: CHIEF IN ACTION: Fire Chief Art Westerfeld turns the hose on a blaze near a city Sanitation Dept.

truck Wednesday afternoon in the 300 block Quincy Dr. SE. Chief Westerfeld said the unidentified driver dumped a burning load from the truck but couldn't get truck away from the source of blaze which damaged the paint on the truck and two rear tires. Hot ashes in the truck started the fire, Chief Westerfeld said. (A.

0. Pipkin photo) Fire Department Gets 5 Alarms Within 2 Hours Five alarms were answered by the Albuquerque Fire in a little over two hours day afternoon, one a grass and weed fire that did about $200 damage to trees at the Professional Landscaping 727 Candelaria Rd. NW, Fire Chief Art Westerfeld said. The grass and weed fire had jumped into the nursery before; it was controlled, Chief Westerfeld said. The first of five fires was at a 2:39 p.m.

when a city sanitation department truck suffered damage to paint and two rear tires due to a burning load which was dumped in the 300 block on Quincy Dr. SE. The unidentified driver tried to dump the load when hot ash ignited the trash in the truck Chief Westerfeld said. There was no damage done when weeds caught on fire in a vacant lot on Grecian Dr. NW at 3:42 p.m.

while a section of three or four blocks of blazing weeds and grass at Mullen and Commercial NE on the Santa Fe Railroad right-of-way brought out fire trucks at 4:36 Chief Westerfeld said. The nursery and grass and weed fire on Candelaria NW was timed at 4:19 p.m. while at 4:44 p.m. firemen were called to put out a trash fire with no damage at 2121 Oxford SE, the home of Mrs. C.

McFall. 'Friendly' Game Ends in Dispute A "friendly" dice game between five men Wednesday morning resulted in two of the participants being losing a beaten total of it up, was reported to police. Chief of Detectives Frank Stephenson said one man was being held for investigation. A report by Officer Moises Sosa said one man complained he lost $140 and another lost $20 when a dispute arose over the dice being used in the game. The disputed dice were turned over to police who were continuing their investigation of the complaint.

Commissioner's Wife Is License Distributor Mrs. Mel O'Neal, wife Bernalilio County Commissioner, has been appointed drivers license distributor here, it was learned Wednesday. Mrs. O'Neal said she was informed the appointment by Coaster, Spann, chairman. "I'm Democratic just rs thrilled as I can be to get the job," Mrs.

O'Neal said. She went to Santa Fe Wednesday for a briefing on duties of the new job and will go to work today at the state police office here. There will be seven employes under her supervision in that office and at the city hall, where driver's licenses also are sold. Mrs. O'Neal said understood she will replace Thomason as license distributor.

She said Mrs. Thomason plans to stay on the job about two more weeks. Carl Hendricks, 70, Dies in Hospital Here Carl Hendricks, 70, a retired butcher who lived at 637 Arizona SE, died Wednesday evening in an Albuquerque hospital, He had lived in Albuquerque 37 years. He is survived by his wife, Emilie; two sons, Carl Hendricks Albuquerque, and Edward Hendricks, Florida; five daughters, Mrs. Jack Finley, now in Belgium; Mrs.

Harry Carroll, St. Louis, Mrs. Richard Trask and Mrs. Lowell Sharp, Albuquerque, and Mrs. Max Ahlgrim, St.

Paul, Minn. He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. French Fitzgerald will announce funeral arrangements. I statutes now enforce in New Mexico.

It added, "In a lowering of present standards in this state. as contemplated in HB84, would be a definite step backward." The resolution said that the group does not believe any investigation of the conduct of the present or any past New Mexico board of registration before professional engineers and land surveyors would reveal any injustices to any individual. The New Mexico section of the electrical engineers also called on the New Mexico Society of Professional to "offer its assistance to the New Mexico legislature to aid in the introduction of appropriate and effective legislation toward improving and strengthening our engineer registration law." Driver Training School Measure Be Sought The Albuquerque Citizens Traffic Commission plans to seek legislation to enable city police court to dole out sentences requiring motorists who violate traffic laws to attend a training school. The City Commission 'recently authorized CTC to set up a school to attempt to improve attitudes of drivers who are convicted of violations. Start of the school was scheduled for month but has been delayed.

Without legislation, said Harry Kinney, chairman of the CTC legislative committee, the police judge can only influence violators to attend the school by agreeing to reduce sentences for persons who attend. Attorney Dave Boyd is preparing the proposed legislation, Kinney said. Meantime, the CTC is to at, 7:30 p.m. today in the police courtroom at City Hall to elect officers. Leroy Ervin Seymour Dies at Hospital Here Leroy Ervin Seymour, 46, resident of the city for 18 years, died Wednesday in an Albuquerque hospital after a long illness.

Seymour, a dairy products salesman, was a member of the Fruit Ave. Baptist Church. is survived by his wife, Dorothy; four children, Phyllis, Mary, and James Seymour of Albuquerque and Leroy D. Seymour of Norman, three sisters and six brothers. Arrangements will be announced by Exter-Tonella Mortuary.

chance Official Announcement Charges of "union busting" activities against a City Garbage Department employe are founded, City Manager Edmund Engle and City Atty. Frank Horan said Wednesday. garbage department workers, with the State, County Municipal Employes Union, last month charged Joe Martinez of the garbage department with attempts to discourage membership in the union. The charges called for firing of Martinez; firing of his superior, Ignacio Aragon, assistant superintendent, and suspension of G. B.

Robertson, superintendent, for allowing Martinez to do as alleged. Engel said that as far as he was concerned the "matter is closed," adding that the employes Telesfor Sanchez, Reginio Chavez, Archie McAfee, Aurelio Sedillo, Manuel Nieto and Bennie Martinez -may want to present further information. A statement by Horan, in which Engel concurred, said that "In the absence of further testimony or evidence I cannot see any proof that the charges made are substantiated." Horan recommended a hearing be scheduled to hear an additional charge that Martinez was promoted over the heads of other qualified men. Martinez was accused of handing out cards which would enable garbage department workers to stop the city from holding dues for the union, making derogatory remarks about the union and urging them to withdraw. At a hearing last month the six men backed down and testified that about all Martinez had done was make available the withdrawal cards.

Man. tinez did this, testimony show. ed, because some workers had asked how they could stop the withholding of dues. Youth Fined $200 U. S.

Asking Bids On Parking Lot For Drunk The General 1 Services Administration has announced L. M. Juan 18, of 409 Manuel SE, was fined $200 by Police Judge Alexander Sceresse Wednesday on a drunken driving charge. Moya, arrested at Third and Santa Fe SW, Saturday by Officer Robert Sparks, appealed the fine. In other police court action, Margaret Ortiz, 42, and Lucille Allen, 52, both of 1012 Georgia SE, were fined $25 each on drunkenness charges.

Officer Eddie Chavez said the pair was fighting in a tavern in the 200 block on Gold SW Saturday and force had to be used to bring them to city jail. Eugene Ledford, 25, of 306 Texas NE, whom two women identified as the person who made improper remarks to them, police said, was fined $50 on a a disorderly conduct charge. Thomas Mendez, 24, of 1207 12th NW, was fined $10 on a drunkenness charge and sentenced to five days in jail on a charge of disorderly conduct by damaging private property. Officer Robert Karickhoff said Mendez kicked out the headlight of a car parked at First and Silver SW early Wednesday. Also fined $10 on a drunkenness charge and sentenced to five days in jail for resisting arrest and escaping custody was George Padilla, 22.

of 1615 Central West. Officer Filemon Torrez said Padilla ran when he was arrested in the 1700 block on Central West, Sunday and then fought with police when recaptured. Appeals Received From Drouth Victims Dale Helsper, state ASC executive officer, said Wednesday his office has received no appeals from an Agriculture Dept. ending emergency Mexico feed shipments to New counties under the drouth program. The drouth committees will stop taking feed orders next Tuesday.

Farmers and ranchers in northern counties are allowed to order 90 days' supply, and -where those in southern counties range grass can pected sooner--are allowed a 60-day supply. Helsper said the state ASC committee will meet next week. He said that if the East Side gets moisture this spring, ranchers there may be able to support their herds on range grass. Men Are Bound Over To Federal Grand Jury Two men arrested for possession and sale of marijuana were bound over Wednesday by U. S.

Commissioner Owen J. Mowrey for action at the next session of the grand jury, which meets Monday in Albuquerque. Mowrey said Sylvester Turrietta, 21, Rt. 1, Box 424, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over under $2000 bond. Joe Sanchez, 25, of Rt.

3, Box 3208, was bound over under $4000 bond following a preliminary hearing Wednesday. The men were arrested Monday by federal, state and city officers. Turrieta is free on bond, and Sanchez was in Bernalillo county jail Wednesday night. NAMED ON COMMITTEE E. V.

Balcolm has been appointed as a member of the citycounty consolidation committee. He was appointed by the City Commission to replace George Hannett who recently resigned. ROYAL PACIFIC, FANCY SOLID PACK. TUNA Mauldin has federal cancelled his lot, lease on the parking west of the Federal Building at Fifth and Gold SW, and GSA advertised for bids on leasing the property. Any new federal building in Albuquerque probably will be built on the site.

Bids on leasing the 150 by 142-foot lot, with a small brick filling station building, will be opened Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. in the office of the GSA real, estate officer, room 405 of Federal Building. The call for bids said the land can be used "for a parking lot or other purposes satisfactory to the government." The lease would go into effect about March 1 and extend for an indefinite period, and could be cancelled by the government on or the 90 man days' leasing notice. the The property month's rent must be paid before is occupied, and the successful bidder will be required to pay all usual utility charges and keep the property neat.

Greyhound Starts New Bus Service Greyhound Lines will put its new double-deck Scenicruiser service into operation today. Company officials here said the first of the new buses will leave Albuquerque at 4:15 p.m. for St. Louis. Beginning Friday, westbound buses will leave Albuquerque for Los Angeles daily at 12:01 a.m.

and 2:30 p.m. and eastbound buses will leave for St. Louis at 6 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. The Scenicruiser, which seats 43 persons, was displayed at West and Third St.

Wednesday. Several city officials took a ride in the new model Tuesday. Edward A. Garley Dies in Hospital Here Edward A. Garley, 47, of 118 46th SW, died in an Albuquerque hospital Wednesday after a short illness.

Garley, a cook at the Hacienda in Old Town, came here two years ago from Winslow, Ariz. He was a member of San Felipe Old Town Church and a veteran of World War He is survived by his wife; four sons, Eddie, Frank, Robert Herman Garley, all of Albuquerque; two daughters, and Mele of Albuquerque. Services will be announced by Strong-Thorne Mortuary. "Easy to get soft job, comrade. Just give glorious leader a bottle of delicious OLD Mr.

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