Post Office faces cuts amid budget battle in Congress
The Post Office struggles with red ink as Donaldson seeks 2.235 billion for the year. The House committee trims to 2.207 billion and orders delivery cuts including fewer daily runs and earlier closings. Congress teeters on protests from home voters.
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J. M. Donaldson
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House Appropriations Committee
Terms of Barr Will Include $1 000 Gift
The will of the late Mrs. Florence Myers Barr specifies gifts to nieces and nephews including $1 000 to Ruth Atwell Colston and $100 each to James Atwell Elizabeth Lockman Sarah Atwell Little Martha Comer Julia Atwell Louise Kimmerling William Atwell Fred Batewell Virginia McC Barr and Helen Wall Grim. Personal effects go to Eva Taylor Minnie Taylor and Marjorie Nelson. Remainder is to be sold and divided among Eva Taylor Minnie Taylor Allyn Myers Randall Myers Warren Myers Charles Myers and Marjorie Nelson. Ansel B Solenberger serves as executor with an $85 000 bond.
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Florence Myers Barr
Ruth Atwell Colston
James Atwell
Elizabeth Lockman
Sarah Atwell Little
Martha Comer
Julia Atwell
Louise Kimmerling
William Atwell
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Virginia McC. Barr
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Ansel B. Solenberger
Coin Weighing Practices at U S Mints
Dimes are not weighed individually. only silver coins are weighed as blanks before striking by automatic m machines. All silver coins are weighed after striking in bags totaling $1,000, which equals about 803 troy ounces or roughly 66 11 12 pounds.
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Negro Pianist Hazel Scott Wins Damages in Suit
In Oxane Washington a white jury after 15 hours awarded Hazel Scott 250 dollars in a racial discrimination case against former Pasco restaurant owners. She sought 50 000 dollars in damages.
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Oxane
Wash
Hazel Scott
Pasco, Wash
Remarks on racial service refusal and museum location Q&A
The article notes Miss Scott, wife of Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr, claiming a restaurant refused service on February 11 1949 due to color. Defendants testified they denied no policy against Negroes. they left the business. A 1909 state civil rights law governs such public accommodations.
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Adam Clayton Powell ,Jr
D-Ny
Harry Utz
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