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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
3
The barber employers guild, 318, rejected a plan to raise haircut prices from 5 cents to 1.20 dollars. The proposal would have lifted the price per share from 50 to 65 cents. In Rye, parking space requirements for new apartment houses were approved, mandating off street parking and tenant recreation facilities. The mayor hailed it as a pioneering ordinance.
Nation's unemployment crisis prompts Walter Feather of the United Auto Workers to call for an immediate national conference on the rising jobless figures. He cites about 3.5 million unemployed and urges leaders from labor management agriculture and government to study the issue.
Hawaii longshoremen offered to end their 41 day strike if employers accept the governor’s fact finding board recommendations. Employers accepted the action, while the union insisted on prior acceptance of the board findings, effectively seeking arbitration which employers had resisted since May 1.
Obituary notices list Homer Guck 71 former Searst executive in Chicago New York City and San Francisco. William Bailey 76 Westminster Press Provincial Newspapers director Reuters Trust former British Newspaper Society president. Frank Elbridge Webb 79 farmer labor and Liberty Party presidential candidate in Washington. Dr Wolfgang Born 56 art historian and City College of New York assistant professor. Harry J Dingeman 58 Michigan circuit judge Detroit city attorney and council member.
Walter Kiernan writes on 1949 graduates at a notably feminine school and the uncertainties facing new college alumni. He notes two Vassar graduates showing courage and luck, then shifts to economic ambiguity with inflation versus deflation and a clash between the Teamsters Union and Good Humor in New York.
Albany report shows New York averaged 25 man-days lost per 310 000 available from 1934 to 1938, the best among 11 leading states. Massachusetts was second with 33, while the national average stood at 37.
Detroit report cites Alfred P. Sloan and C. E. Wilson of General Motors arguing against a widespread U.S. mood decline. Sloan links stocks to Washington’s economic signals while Wilson notes GM will maintain production of 22,500 cars amid market uncertainty.
Mrs. Jamesina Bruce, 82, of Milford, fell while trying to shoo a bee from her front door. She fractured her wrist and shoulder and injured her hip, treated at local hospital.
Ennis Texas UP report H M Schoeps misplaced the day’s grocery receipts in a paste board box and forgot the money inside. The box was opened and the loss totaled 300 dollars.
In Tuscola a civil suit seeks damages for injuries after a man fell from a tavern stool. Placed by Mr and Mrs Carter and Mrs Louis Carter. The case references a claim of about $20,006 for resulting injuries and statements about the incident.
The tropical hurricane season began last midnight as the weather bureau initiated hurricane watches along the coast from Brownsville Texas to Charleston South Carolina. Navy hurricane hunters stood ready at Miami to track disturbances forming in the Caribbean where most storms originate.
Seven German university professors will leave on June 19 for the United States to study American university techniques, according to the American Military Government.
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