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The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 11

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Wednesday, Mar. 15, 1967 The Austin American Austin, Texas Pae 11 Total assets of the American skiing industry already exceed $750 million. WAGE LAW: Approval of Joint Appeal Expected Cattleraisers Hear 3 Views of Future dropouts and illiterates "can be to carry a normal work SHAMPOO RUGS jf F0RttAF0QTl3MYt; traced to the inability of i load due to handicap or age, since employers, will need temporary exemption in view of their inability to pay under present conditions, Dr. R. W.

and in those areas where work By CHRIS WRTTCRAFT Staff Writer A strong Protestant, Catholic and Jewish joint appeal for a Texas minimum wage law is workers to support their families in anything but is geared necessarily to of all other considerations," the statement says ecnomic system which requires the toil of human beings but which says to them they will not be paid enough to live as human beings; that they must take their children out of school and pui productivity." hopeless, sub-human conditons," ihe statement continues. now are actually five per cent below what they were 20 years Rev. Canon Gerald Jablonowski pastor of St. Stepehen Presbyterian Church in Frt Worth, told Howland's departments. Jablonowki expected to be formally approved Wednesday by the ago.

i am wondering just how "Society is paying for McAllister, council president, By CLARK BOLT Staff Writer HOUSTON Optimism, pessimism; and realism were presented in speeches here Tuesday at the 90th annual long we can continue to produce inadequate wages and paying 14th general assembly of the will preside Wednesday at presented the joint statement them to work in order to exist; Texas Council of Churches. an abundance of food and fiber for our own Decmle. not to the bard way. It is paying not only in dollars but, worst of all, division and committee reports Wednesday afternoon. that they must live in hovels, The first such joint appeal is and election of officers.

Dr. without those elementary mention the starving people The joint statement expresses in human degradation." David R. Hunter, National nl duruaa, unless our own The churches say the based on social justice concepts of the three religious traditions. The three signers of the joint sanitary facilities necessary for health such a system cannot widespread concern of the three religious bodies. Council of Churches deputy producers can receive minimum wage law would not RENT SHAMP00ER FOR $1 SHERWIN-WILLIAMS 135 WEST OLTORF 309 WEST 5th general secretary will speak at It says religious concepts of cure all social ills; other be justified.

If it is not corrected we believe it will ultimately statement urging a minimum reasonable rewards for their production. Farmers can double the closing luncheon methods including rehabilitation living wage for all workers said social justice are to combat radical and extremist LA: at their production from they would read it at Texas exact an awful price of the society that permits it to and ie-training will have to be used for those who can't or philosophies that weaken the House and Senate Labor Com convention of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Convention. Undersecretary of Agriculture John Schnittker spoke optimistically of the future for the cattleman and the farmer despite lowering prices and the drought. Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee W. R.

(Bob) Poage of Waco said, "We are headed for trouble unless technical know-how standpoint, but from an economic matter. indlviual in society. continue. In cases where a living wage mittee hearings Wednesday TRAIN FOR A JOB WITH A FUTURE they can't," he said. Social justice requires a just night and Thursday after won't work.

The Texas Council statement1 of legislative principles and policies for 1987 was also sent He urged the TSCRA join with noon. is economically impractical Jewish, Catholic and Protestant wage be paid those who labor and the very minimum is a' all segments in agriculture in The statement leaves to the religious bodies urge society to telling the truth about farm to the assembly floor for Leigslature the amount of approval Wednesday. The prices. Then, he reasoned, the minimum wage. correct the conditions.

"The problem cannot be living wage, lhis is aenned as enough to allow the worker to earn his own keep, support his wife and children, educate his consumer would understand general board of the Council Day and Night Classes in Basic Electronics Communications Industrial Electronics Austin School of Electronics Offers training in that will qualify a goad job. It does say, however, that as can put some effective we glossed over," says the joint a skill you for a general rule $1.25 an hour is back into why it is necessary for the farmer to get more income than incentives children and protect his family's statement. So long as even certainly not' too much to approved this Dec. 1, 1966. It includes this recommendation: "We favor a state -wide health.

It should be at least he now does. one honest worker is paid an earn" in view of the cost of agriculture." Gov. John Connally laid out his proposal for a Texas WILL SPEAK Dr. David Hyatt, executive vice president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, will address the annual Brotherhood dinner of the Austin chapter Wednesday night. The dinner, 7 to 9:30 p.m., will be held in the Driskill Hotel's Crystal Ballroom.

Laymen of three faiths who have been active in the affairs of the local chapter John D. Simpson, Protestant; Chester Snyder, Jewish; and J. P. Darrouzet, Catholic will be honored at the dinner. enough to make it possible for unjust wage society should not Gov.

Connally said agriculture living. It adds that for part time the worker to dischage the now represents perhaps the minimum age law adequate for workers even this pay can be Agricultural Development responsibilities society imposes AUSTIN SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS Approved For Veterans Training Telephone HI 4-1929 for FREE INFORMATION (or Nixon-Clay College GR 7-9453) rest in its efforts to remedy the sitution." Rsing costs of public welfare, poorest investment of ell at "woeflly inadequate." It upon him. present economic needs, recognizing tire necessity for the exemption of young persons in Board, which he said, can improve agriculture in much the approves temporary exemptions present. But the Texas Agricultural Development "Any wage not a minium crime, delinquency and special to particular large groups of same way as the Texas living wage is unjust regardless part-time work, those physically, education programs for Board can help to correct this employers who need time to Industrial Commission has done for industry. adjust to the pay scale change.

situation, he said. The convention ends Signers are Harold Kilpatrick, Wednesday with adoption of executive secretary of the Texas resolutions. A short feed grain crop will mean higher feed prices for the cattleman. Drought continues to grip the southwest and southern Council of Churches; Gus plains where about one-sixth of the nation's wheat crop is grown. -But Schnittker said he is Radio Station KHRB Signs On in Lockhart Falk, director of the American Jewish Committee Southwest regional council; and Callan Graham, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference.

The joint statement won unanimous approval Tuesday from Texas Council of Churches hoDeful that we will have a normal wheat crop, will maintain our normal wheat carryover stocks, and will attain USDA's goal of increasing need Reasoner of Fort Worth. Christian social relations and cultural and community grain acreage this year. Heath, former chief engineer at radio station WTAW in Bryan, said he and Reasoner He admitted that cattle prices relations departments. Chairman is Rev. William C.

are not What some thought they Howland would be. "But I do not believe have worked for more than two years to build the station and pastor of Christian Church of University Austin. American-Statesman Service LOCKHART The first radio station ever constructed here will go on the air at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday. Station KHRB, 1060 K.C., was approved Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C.

One of the station's two owners, Dan Heath of Lockhart, said he received a telegram secure FCC approval. A hitch in FCC approval arose market developments of the past several months should be allowed to obscure the tremendous growth prospects This recommendation then last summer when anothear won approval from the council's prospective radio station owner Christian life and work division, which the cattle and beef in another town sought the same industries expect in the years Chairman is Dr. Jack Ramsey of Carrollton, Presbyterian frequency from FCC. ahead," he said confidently, The station was built last Poage, on the other hand, December. Church the United States who will present the statement Wednesday morning for With some $10,000 to $12,000 in equipment purchased from a adoption by the full assembly, from Ben J.

Waples, secretary to the chairman of FCC, notifying him of the approval. The 250-watt station will have a radius of 120 miles in the Houston firm, the station has Kilpatrick said assembly approval of division two 155-foot towers. It will noted that the farm population continues to decline, and that more than half of the farmers are now over 50 years old, and only a few young men are going into agriculture. "Who, then, will produce our food?" -he asked. Prices farmers are getting recommendations is expected and usually routine.

Central Texas area between San Antonio and Austin. Cost was employ five, including Jimmy Crouch, program and news director, Arnold Garcia, Spanish announcer, and Harold Reasoner, engineer. Valley workers would not immediately benefit from the $32,000, Heath said. The other owner is Marion proposed minimum wage law fe NOTHING DOWN 36 MONTHS TO PAY NOTHING DOWN 36 MONTHS T'5 I V. BETTIS PRE-SEASON a f- pSIte 4 DAYS I llliESHl iQUARANTEEX 1 I 'M 5 We will pick up and repair or JTf I llll 1 I JL replace the entire refngera- siw I i i -lift tion system any time within 1 HUM 5 years including labor.

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