House expands minimum wage scope and social security changes
The House voted 361 to 35 to increase the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents for many workers while broadening exemptions to exclude fringe staff and various groups. The plan would keep a 40 hour week with overtime and ban child labor outside farms. House Ways and Means advanced Social Security changes expanding coverage to about 11 million more people, raising base to $3,600, boosting monthly benefits, and introducing a new tax schedule by 1970. A cotton acreage quota conference settled near House terms, setting October 15 as the marketing quota proclamation date and preserving soil payment ineligibility for overplanting. Adjournment seemed distant as of August 13.
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Lucas
House
Lesinski
House Ways and Means
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Conference
Planes Patrol the Inch Lines in Ten States
A Beaumont Texas pilot flies weekly from Beaufort to New York along Texas Eastern gas lines inspecting for leaks and washouts. Aerial patrols cover Arkansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania and more, guiding crews to spot risks before damage.
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Beaumont
Texas
New York City
Texas Eastern
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Air Patrol
Indiana
Ohio
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
Shell opens Houston wax plant producing 75 million pounds a year
Shell Oil Company announces the new Houston plant will yield seventy five million pounds annually of high purity petroleum derived wax for milk cartons, bread wrappers, candles and cosmetics. J G Jordan says the facility can produce all wax types meeting strict purity and color standards for food packaging. Output includes five finished wax grades in cakes or liquid form shipped via wax jobbers or directly to customers.
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Shell Oil Company
Houston
Texas
J. G. Jordan
Shell
Comments from the Missouri Capitol by W D Cruce
W D Cruce reflects on Missouri’s 65th General Assembly. He notes high appropriations with slow non appropriation lawmaking and warns schools risk funding. He urges school finance, fire safety in institutions, insurance reform, and careful ten year statute revisions.
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65Th General Assembly
Milinois
Missouri
Busi
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