Snow Delays Look for Equine Race at Watent
Weather disrupts plans as light snow slows preparations for an equestrian event at Watent. Participants and officials await clearer conditions to confirm schedules and safety measures for the upcoming race.
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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1944
Page
4
Weather disrupts plans as light snow slows preparations for an equestrian event at Watent. Participants and officials await clearer conditions to confirm schedules and safety measures for the upcoming race.
Russell Richards, a 33 year old Crane worker from Breckenridge Pennsylvania, faced a wage-raise dispute before a War Labor panel while lacking an overcoat for years. His income last year totaled 201.47 dollars and he has six children, highlighting broader concerns amid union wage petitions and government stabilization rules.
The War Labor Board awarded 2 general pay increases or four cents an hour retroactive to June 2, 1943, for 1700 employees at Central New York Power Corp Niagara Lockport and Ga Xario Power Co and New York Power & Light Corp. The IBEW represented workers. The board also ordered double time for holidays worked and denied some union demands. Other actions included a 10 percent wage hike for 220 employees at Fuld & Hatch Co. and night shift bonuses for Remington Band Syracuse plant workers.
A dense, fragmented radio timetable lists daily programs, hosts, and show names across many bands and stations. It mentions entertainers like Basie, Crawford, and Albert, with various time slots from morning to midnight, showing a full day of music, news, sports, and variety.
London dispatch reports Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, in a Volksischer Beobachter article, warned that captured Allied airmen may face civilian mobs as retaliation. He claims Allied raids target civilians to crush German morale and says authorities must prevent lynching.
A UPI report says the United Mine Workers and Southern Coal Producers near agreement on a wage contract to end their long dispute. A spokesman noted an expected signing Monday and said litigation over underground travel time would continue as a condition of the deal. The operators had challenged travel time as nonwork time and won a federal district court ruling that travel time was not work time, an issue the union has appealed.
New York State opened its highways Saturday to overweight and oversized trucks engaged in war work. Charles H. L. Sells, superintendent of public works, announced immediate emergency permits for such vehicles to operate on state roads within legal weight and dimension limits. Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein noted the authority to issue these permits rests with the state under traffic law.
Amed Beil superintendent of parks announces new American flags will fly from city parks and boulevards for Memorial Day. Flags were placed over the last several days as part of the observance effort citywide.
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