Evening star., 1949-03-06
DC. BiI|sFace
Action Of House
Unit Tomorrow
Rent Control, Pay
Raises and Doylieht
Saving Are Issues
BY Harold B. Rogers

Saving Are Issues
By Harold B. Rogers
The House District Committee
plans to act tomorrow on daylight
saving, extension of rent control.
and pay raises for policemen, fire-
men and teachers.
Although some opposition is ex-
pected in the committee to day.
light saving, the bill to authorize
the District Commissioners to
establish the time change for the
coming summer only. is expected
to be approved, and sent to the
House.
Representative O'Hara, Repub-
Iican. or Minnesota, a confirmed
foe of daylight saving time, has
promised to fight the proposal. The
bill would permit the city heads
to start daylight saving the last
Sunday in April and end 1t the
last Sunday in September.
Meeting Is Scheduled.
The District Committee, meet
ing in executive session at 10 am.
will have before it the bill to ex-
tend District rent control for IS
months to June 80, 1850. The
measure has been amended by .
subcommittee to recontrol recon-
verted dwellings where conversion
costs were less than $1,000 each.
Those whose cost of reconversion
was $500 or higher would re-
main decontrolled.
The bill would provide that .
person who prior to March l, 1949'
bought an apartment IN q CO.
operative project to be used as his
own quarters could evict from the
apartment a tenant who did not
want to buy. Beginning March
/, however, tenants who refuse
to join the cooperative could be
evicted only after IS per cent OF
the tenants are owners.
The District rent control bills
termination date Of June 80, next
year comedies with the termina-
ton date fixed in a national rent
control bill reported to the House
by the House Banking and Cur
rency Committee.
Pay Raises Set at $3.50.
Pay raises for policemen, fire.
men and teachers are all set at
$3.50 a year in the new bill intro
duced by Representative Davis.
Democrat, of Georgia. Reports
were current last night that the
teachers, whose pay increase fig-
ure recently had been cut back to
5000 a year by three District sub
committees. might be given the
$3.50 by the full District Commit
tee. The teachers, headed by DR..
Hobart M. Corning. superintend-
ent of schools. had pleaded for
the higher figure.
Another bill to correct certain
inequities in the pay of teachers
and school employees is expected to
be approved by the District Com
mittee. 1t is identical with mea-
sure which passed both the House
and Senate during the closing days
of the 80th Congress. but never
became law. Each chamber Of
Congress passed it's own bill. so
none could be sent to the President
for signature.
Subcommittee to Meet.
Meantime, legislation to raise
the pay of classified employees Of
the District government will get
attention soon by Senate and
House Civil Service subcommit-
tees.
Senator O'Conor, Democrat, Of
Maryland announced last night
the subcommittee of which he is
the head will meet 10 am. Tues
day to act on the pay raise bill
for high level Federal officers. The
measure carries a $330-a-year in
crease for the unclassif1ed city
workers and the Foreign Service.
On the House side. a similar
bill over which House Civil
Service subcommittee has had a
long wrangle, will come up for
consideration again March IS.
The District Committee also
plans to act on a bill to liberalize
payments made by the District
Commissioners on the installment
plan to contractors handling con-
struction jobs for the city.