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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1968
Page
2
Washington AP report says a nine member panel will draft pay raise recommendations for Congress and top federal officials. If Congress does not reject within 30 days the current $30,000 salary rises automatically. panel succeeds every four years. Proposals due by end of 1969 and sent with the budget in 1970.
The Senators agreed to create a commission to resolve differences on two bills after disputes over raising third class mail rates. They defended raising pay as a necessity while assigning the task to outsiders, accepting the commission as the price for House-approved proposals.
The U S Environmental Science Services Administration Weather Bureau releases a 15 minute color film to show how a tornado forms and progresses from initial charting to its destructive funnel effect. It will be distributed to schools public service groups and television outlets.
E. Bradford Burns received the 1967 Herbert J. Bolton Memorial Prize for The Unwritten Alliance Rio Branco and Brazilian American Relations. The award, of 309 dollars, honors a significant Latin American history study. Burns, Columbia University history associate professor, analyzes Brazil's pivot from London to Washington under Roosevelt.
In Muscatine and an Iowa graduate, Dr Burns studied at Twane and Columbia Universities and abroad in Guatemala Portugal and Venezuela. Decorated with the Order of Rio Branco by Brazil in 1966 he wrote Perspectives on Brazilian History published by Columbia University Press in May 1967. He is the son of Mayor and Mrs E S Burns. Office decorations in Columbus Ohio reveal Gov Rhodes will receive new office carpeting and draperies. Mine employee Harry Ross dies after a 368 foot fall in Gillespie Alabama.
A miner at the Dog Coal Co. mine in Gillespie fell 368 feet into an elevator shaft and died early Tuesday. Authorities said Ross, from Carpentersville Illinois, and Hiram Turner were involved in efforts near the shaft. A coal car toppled into the shaft and Turner grabbed a metal bar at the entrance trying to intervene.
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