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Treetop Housing Popular, Except With Cops Area Construction Pay Hikes in June tie i Increases Assured hy Formula Tying TC to Upstate Average By JAMES HEAVEY Binghamton Press Writer Wages will go up again next month in the Triple Cities area construction industry. Building trades unions in the area currently are negotiating with contractors' representatives, but many BIXGUAMTOS pay increases already are assured under a formula tying new $3.59 rate even before meeting on the subject of a new Triple Cities wages to averages YEARLY SESSIONS Other issues, of course, can raised in the yearly bargaining May 13, 1959 37 sessions, such as working conditions or travel pay. E. B. Lambert, business agent prevailing in five other upstate cities.

Already settled Is a 19V4-cent hourly increase June 1 in the top rate for members of the Operating Engineers Union from last year's an hour to $3.90. Wages of members of the Carpenters Union at the same time will increase from $3.42 an hour to $3.59. a rise of 16 cents. The Ironworkers Union, under terms of a two-year contract which last August ended a costly of Carpenters Local 281, said he does not expect any substantial Suae LWV Voles Today In JV. Y.

City contract changes this year other than the formula-dictated wage increase. 1 The operating engineers new $3.90 hourly rate does not include a continuing 10-cent employer contribution to a welfare fund for union members. The engineers, in negotiations which ended late last week, also won agreement on establishment of a pension fund. Jack Wilke, business agent for eight-week strike, will get a 25- cent-an-hour pay hike with the Mrs. John Chalmers of Bing start of next month.

This will hamton was on a slate of nomi i-V Xwml yimM i JJLT WILD, SWINGIN' ROPE-Captain Cams indicates x1f7 ilF 1 how boys usec rope t0 swing off embankment ver XI yb, 20-foot drop. Swinging on different rope at same rSti spot April 19, a 15-year-old boy fell, broke shoul- fe? 'MhlA Tl7'A der, is still hospitalized. raise the ironworkers' wage rate to $4 an hour, including 10 cents for a welfare fund and 10 cents nees to be voted on today by for a pension fund. the New York State League of Women Voters in New York City. As construction activity in the Local 410 of the Operating Engineers, said the pension fund will start Oct.

1 at 5 cents an hour, Mrs. Chal with an additional 5 cents to be mers, who lives area goes into seasonally high gear, no rumblings have been heard so far on the labor front to indicate a repeat of last summer's disruption of building ac at 20 Allendale Road, was a fed nominee for a directorship. The state or- a i a -tion, meeting in a three-day con vention which opened yesterday, was sched added Oct. 1, 1960. TRAVEL PAYMENT Donald F.

Davies, executive secretary of Associated Contractors, said 2Vt cents of the engineers' 19-cent wage increase represents a payment in lieu of a travel-expense allowance, which was 10 cents a mile for travel outside a 10-mile radius of the Johnson City Municipal Building. Other unions covered by the "master's agreement" include the Laborers, Bricklayers, Painters, Lathers and Roofers, according to Mr. Lambert, who also is president of the Building Trades Council of Broome County Federation of Labor. tivity. MASTER PLAN A major reason for this is the "master agreement" plan under which most of the Triple Cities building trades locals have been dealing with the contractors for almost a decade.

The employers are represented in this by Associated Building Contractors of the Triple Cities. With the statewide Ironworkers contract in effect until May 31 of next year, wage rates for the other trades generally will be set automatically. This will come about with figuring of the average uled to vote to day and announce results MRS. CHALMERS of the election tomorrow. Mrs.

Chalmers, the wife of a Harpur College professor, was president of the Binghamton League of Women Voters in The State Labor Department's of wages to be effective next month for various trade groups in Division of Employment has re- 1946-47. While she was president, the Albany, Syracuse, Schenectady, I ported a high level of construction activity this year, following a slow Rochester and Utica Binghamton League initiated a referendum on a proposed 1 VW; Thus the carpenters and con start caused by lingering winter conditions in this area. WE TREE-Police Capt. E. Francis Cams, city's head juvenile officer, inspects hut built 40 feet up in tree near Upper Court Street by group of five to seven boys, oges 15 and 16.

Police are attempting to learn who owns property so hut can be dismantled. tractors are in agreement on the change to a county executive form of government in Broome County. The proposal was re jected by county voters. Other Binghamton delegates to the state convention are Mrs. i -jrj- Mtf" jii JVo Decision By Evans On 6tk Term Giiliiz Won't lie Candidate GOP Field Down to 2 In City Judge Race The field in the race for the Republican nomination for city judge was narrowed to two men today as Carl R.

Gitlitz announced that he will not make the run. Mr. Gitlitz, 42-year-old Binghamton attorney and a Harry G. Morse, president of the Binghamton League, and Mrs. E.

Scudder Mackey. The convention yesterday was urged by Mrs. George J. Ames of Scarsdale to keep pressure on local political leaders for an effective state court reform. Tivo to Attend Eye Meeting Supervisor Lewis M.

Evans of the 13th Ward today said he is undecided, as yet, about seek ing his sixth 2-year term on the Board of Supervisors. If Mr. Evans in leader Republican Two Triple Cities assistant district at- does seek re onetime ON WRONG TRACK-Railroad tracks in foreground and trestle bridge in background are among reasons police feel hut is danger to boys. Captain Cams said it was "too bad hut wasn't built where kids could use it constructively." will participate in the five-day oin annual xvew York State Op-tometric Association convention that starts next Wednesday at election, he will face opposition in the Republi-c a primary election from had been considering throwing his hat into the ring. In a one-sentence statement, he said last night, "It is not my intention to torney.

The city judgeship has been held for the last 16 years by Walter J. Relihan who has announced he will retire at the end of this year. The part-time job pays $9,000 a year. Until Mr Cttlitz' namp fieiirprl Robert Purves of 6 Mul berry Street. L.3KC ueorge.

William L. Roberts of Binghamton, president of the state association, will preside. Norman L. Krellen of Endicott will be among three speakers who will discuss new developments and advances in contact lenses and corrections of visual I Jir Endivell Boy Unhurt As Car Strikes Bike Mr. Purves, who said he is self-employed in be a candidate: speculation, Mr.

Keane had for the office of appeared to have the endorse ment of the city GOP the baking busi defects. ness, announced his candidacy The Endicott optometrist is judge of the City Court." He refused to expand on the statement today. A 10-year-old Endwell boy es from behind a parked car. he said. for the nomina' tion yesterday.

caped apparent Injury when his past president of the South Central Optometric Society and a director of the state association. MB. rt'RVES Mr. Romeo applied his brakes MB. GITLITZ Binghamton Pr is Photoi.

BEER AT 40 FEET Tossed-down bet canr show another menace to treetop idyl. Police iid boys stole case of beer recently from grocer father of one, got "high" in hut. He is past treasurer of the Some of the influential Republicans who threw their support to Mr. Keane had done so believing Mr. Gitlitz was not inter- ested in the job.

Included among Mr. Keane's backers are some ot Mr. Gitlitz but the car skidded into the bi cyclist, the driver reported. OUT OF RACE With Mr. Gitlitz out of the Kulinrn Will Speak Richard F.

Kuhnen, city Re- 13th Ward Republican Club, a member of the North Side Civic Association and a disabled veteran of World War 2. Mr. Purves is married and the father of two married chil-j race, the only contestants so closest political associates. For 35 Pupils At West Junior bicycle was struck by a car In Country Club Road at 7:02 p. m.

yesterday, sheriff's deputies reported. John Klitzman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Klitzman of 3525 Phyllis Street, was taken from the scene by Johnson City police ambulance. He was discharged from Wilson Memorial Hospital after examination.

would have 13th Warn Rpnnhliran Tlnh tn vujr uaiy created an within the dren. awkward situation be held at 6:15 p. m. Tuesday at' Councilman Daniel J. Keane, Theodore Roosevelt School.

and Frederick J. Vavra, Thirty-five pupils at West party. EJ Shoes to Be on Display In Moscow This Summer Junior High School achieved Hartman to Speak Lloyd Hartman, director of straight A averages during the marking period just ended. They are: Endicott Johnson Corp. will tries would be five or six pairs of moderately priced shoes, none by a 1957 sedan driven by general education at Broome Technical Community College, will speak at a meeting of the Women's Traffic Club of Broome County at 6:30 p.

m. Tuesday in Post CO, American Legion, 76 Main Street, Binghamton. WA V'X f'cav 7 retailing at more than $12. James P. Romeo, 41, of The shoe display Is being or- Chrysler Road, Johnson City put its best foot forward in Moscow this summer.

EJ will take part with other U. S. shoe firms in a display of footwear at the American National Exhibition In thp Russian RD 2. Grade 7B, Keith Ford. Kathleen Chapman, Anne Drazen, Judith Green, Nancy Hemstreet, Ellen Isaacson, Janet Shick, and Laurel Sprung; 7A, Bradley Greenblott, Renee Akel, Lynne Leeper and Sally McQuide: 8B, John Gltlitz, I'ichael Melamed.

Philip Savitz. Cynthia Dickstein, Mary Ellen Humphries and Starr Heckhow. Also, 8A, Stephen Barron, Ronald Hock, William Seiden, Suzanne Eau-man, Valerie Griffith, Marilyn Grunert, Sharon Hurwitz. Tina Amprira a trarfp nrcranl7ntinn Mr. Romeo told the deputy Marcello Monacl.

jailed Invanital. The pxhihiti he was driving west after In capital. The exhibition will Rome for beating up his mother.lopen July 25 in Moscow's Sokol- elude promoting trade and giv-! emerging from the parking area said she had overcooked his' ni. i Park. ling Russians a glimpse of Amer-of a nearby market.

The boy on spaghetti supper. 1 EJ officials said the firm's en-ican life. I his bicycle appeared suddenly Both Mr. Keane and Mr. Vavra have bucked the GOP organization in the past.

Mr. Keane last fall sought the nomination for district attorney. In a primary contest against incumbent Louis M. Greenblott, Mr. Keane was beaten.

In 1955, Mr. Vavra unsucess-fully sought the GOP nomination for the same post and he too was beaten by Mr. Greenblott. Mr. Vavra then ran as an independent in the general election and again was beaten by Mr.

Greenblott although lie finished ahead of Democrat Harry Margolis. Two Groups Back River Clearance Lyons and Joan walls, SB. Del ot Fact. Santiago, and OA, Gerald Guinane, Philip Mitchell. Abbie Bandell, Margaret Hull, Robin Roscfsky, Mary bax ana Cheryu fehust.

Ted Mack Show Democrats as Mayors Curl GOP Hair By TOM CAWLEY IE phrase "Democratic Re Here May 29 The Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour will originate from Binghamton's Sheraton Inn May 29 in the new studios of publicans" came up in a terned in the same mold. He was reelected. John Burns, his right-hand man was poured out of the same political jug. The winter book says he is a 3-to-l bet for nelection in 1961. than do the Republican nominees.

To say, however, that this is the answer is to sloueh it off too easily. rEORGE HINMAN, the new Station officials said today that Arnold Rittenberg, manager of the network amateur show, is in Binghamton, auditioning per IS that much of a favorite, H1 that is, unless the Republi formers for potential appearance on the program. Persons wishing to try for a place on the show are asked to write as soon as possible to WNBF-TV. 1 Henry Street, outlining their acts. cans come up with somebody whose political limits are those of a man' whose campaign is ded perhaps it also is true that the local Republican organization has been too conservative to put up a liberal Republican.

THE GOP may forever depend on the same old McKinley-type candidates as a sentimental gesture toward the past. With that type of nominee, it could always lose, for the reason that the new liberal Republican can't take the Binghamton GOP choices for mayor. So they go for Democrats like Donald Kramer and John Burns, liberal until the cows come home. Donald Kramer's first utterance following his first flee-tion in 1919 was a speech in favor of compulsory national health insurance. He championed publie housing.

His every official act was Pat Applicants will be auditioned only on the basis of letters or lcated to something besides the return to Normalcy and the Full conversation we had the other day with Richard Kuhnen, the new city Republican chairman, and Donald McManus, the Democratic county chairman. Each agreed there is such an animal in Binghamton. Since 1949, the Republican crowd in Binghamton has been electing Democratic mayors. The Republican crowd is a big one, to judge by the enrollment books. For every enrolled Democrat, there are two enrolled Republicans.

But Democrats continue to be elected to the mayor's chair. It'i enoueh to curl a good Republican's hair. We never have besn able to fathom it, except by depending on invidious comparisons. For 10 years, the Democrats Imply have put up nominees appeal to more people personal appearance at WNBF offices at 1 Henry Street. The station will move to new facil Two county- taxpayer groups have announced support of a campaign to get the Board of Supervisors to allocate a share of county road improvement money for tree-clearance work in the flood-plagued Chenango River.

Johnson City Landlords and Property Owners and Taxpayers Association last night joined Binghamton Property Owners and Taxpayers Association, which earlier had announced support of the drive. The campaign was started by Harry Bolton of Broad Acres, chairman of the Taxpayers League, in a recent open letter to the Board of Supervisors. He recommended spending "a chunk" of the road allocation "in removing trees from the islands in a 40-foot swath to permit free flow of the water" as a partial solution to Chenango River flooding north 'of Dinner Pail. Kramer and Burns are Rocke VJ member of the Republican National Committee, seems to have solved the problem for us brow-furrowers. He said, in an interview with the New York Post, that most Republicans are amazed to discover that the GOP once was a party of liberalism, and that Nelson Rockefeller is bringing the Republican Party back to the liberal tradition.

If this is so, perhaps it is true that the Republicans who Democratic mayors here fit into the old traditional liberal Republican slot; and feller-type politicians, and Rockefeller-type municipal officials who took and still take their responsibilities seriously. ities at the Sheraton May 25. Award lo Knowlton Cadet Richard Knowlton. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard D. Knowlton, of 20 Kneeland Avenue, Binghamton, has been awarded the Blue and Silver Riband with silver star for academic proficiency at Admiral If the local Republican organization can't come up with a Binghamton Prm Photo. ITS ALL ACCORDION-Margaret Boa, 8, of Knight Road, Vestal RD 2, plays for Floyd Branan during a visit of the Binghamton Eagles Youth Talent Floor Show to the Broome County Tuberculosis Hospital last night. Youthful performers entertained patients with a musical variety show under the direction or Lester P. Bloom.

candidate like that, the Democratic Republicans may rule the earth forever in these green val Farragut Academy In St. Petcrs- leys. burg, iia..