Texas Gov Smith defies wage freeze with state pay hikes
Gov Preston Smith orders state agencies to grant Sept 1 pay raises for teachers and employees, defying Nixon era wage price freeze. He cites the General Appropriations Act 6.8 percent raise for 62 000 workers, and automatic raises for teachers per Education Code, with total teacher costs about 40 million dollars.
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Mrs. Armstrong may donate Louis Armstrong home to New York
The widow of Louis Armstrong said she probably will donate the Queens house he shared for 28 years to the City of New York as a memorial after his death on July 6. She noted thousands of sympathy letters since his passing and the home remains filled with his possessions. Indira Gandhi plans a U S visit this fall, officials say.
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Names in the News and Broadway Casting Shifts
A roundup notes Gloria Swanson joining the Broadway play Butterflies Are Free to play Mrs Baker from September 7 replacing Rosemary Murphy. Rex Harrison travels from London to marry Elizabeth Harris as his fifth wife. DC delegate Fauntroy gains parking privileges beyond Congress members with three reserved spaces outside his Vermont Avenue office.
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Black Halts Corpus Christi Bus Plan Over Desegregation
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black allowed part of a desegregation order for Corpus Christi schools to stand while halting the bus plan that would have desegregated 14 500 pupils. About 900 black students will be reassigned with up to 25 teachers moved to balance racial and ethnic groups. The Sept 1 opening remains as scheduled pending further ruling by the court reconvening in October.
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Texas
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