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...sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster. It's time for men of better will to get to work...
Businessman Governor Luther Hodges made the wage floor a key part of his legislative program two years ago, got it to floor debate after ten years of death-by-committee. This year, backed by a determined band of freshman legislators, Hodges insisted on the minimum wage as necessary paving on the state's road into the future. Said he: "Employers can afford it, employees deserve it, and the state's economic progress demands...
...Nenana lottery started in 1917, when railway workers got up a $600 pool, won by a man who guessed that the ice would break up at 11:30 a.m. on April 30, still a favorite date among pool guessers. Not since that first year, mourn citizens of Nenana, has anybody from the lottery's home town won a prize. But Nenana (pop. 350) runs the contest as a civic enterprise and rakes in some 40% of the total take every year without any help from luck. In the spring, just about every adult in town works for the lottery...
...years after Kuter got his star, the Ninth Air Force's Richard C. Sanders made brigadier general at 28, becoming the youngest U.S. general since the boyish brigadiers of Civil War and Indian war days. Sanders is now retired, lives in Washington...
Nuts & Bolts Week. The issue was obviously more than procedural, and there were mutterings that the conference might break down even before it got started. At best, the Western delegations expected an early Soviet rejection of the Western "package plan" (TIME, May 11) for settling in one interlinked proposal the future of Berlin, German reunification and European armaments levels. "The first phase of the conference," predicted a gloomy West German diplomat, "will be to wait until the Russians stop laughing at the Western proposals...