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days. After the Senate acts.
the conference report then has
J 10 be acted on by the House.
From there II goes TO the
White House.
Any conference report Is priv
legged matter and has priority
over any pending legislation In
, the House or Senate. There
fore, once the conferees agree,
there will be prompt action on
the report In the House or
Senate.
once the postal pay-rate bill
goes to the White House, action
by the House can be expected
on the classified employe pay
raise bill. The Senate already
has approved a rs per cent
classified pay-raise measure and
this was amended to 10 per cent
by the House Civil Service Com
mittee. Once the House acts,
this will send the legislation
to House-Senate conference to
adjust the differences between
the rs and 10 per cent figures.
Whether President Eisen-
hover will sign or veto the
postal pay-rate bill remains to
be seen.
The President has told as
sociates he has an open mind"
on the bill and wants to see the
final version approved by Con-
yreSs before deciding what to do
There's no doubt that Post
master General Summerfield
along with Mr.. Eisenhower
want very much to have the
rate increases become law this
year.
Therefore. even If the postal
pay provisions are distaSteful
to the administration, the
President still would probably
sign the bill il the rate increase
portions Of the legislation are
considered worth while enough
to Offset the Objectionable
features.
This will depend mainly on
the postal policy statement
adopted by the conference and
whether the Senate version is
watered-down enough to elimi-
nate an estimated S400 million
loss in postal revenue because
various postal services are con-
sidered public services" and
therefore not chargeable as
regular postal costs.
APPROVED - Congress has
approved and sent to the White
House the bill to increase the
mileage allowance Of rural letter
carriers from 9 to 10 cents
mile, or $3.50 a day. whichever
is greater, and authorize an
additional allowance bringing
the daily equipment main
tenance allowance up to a
maximum of $6 on heavily
oatronized routes. The measure
was strongly backed by the Ma
tional Rural Letter Carriers
/ Association.
4
CAPITAL ROUNDUP The
National Capital Chapter Of the
Public Personnel Association
will hold its first annual SEM
inar on public personnel ad-
ministration from 1918 to S
pm. next Wednesday at Lisner
Auditorium. George Washing
ton University. The chapters
officers are Gustav Hertz, presi-
dent; Lawrence Quimby, vice
president; Burton Meyer. jr.,
secretary, and Audrey Brown,
treasurer. The Agriculture
Department Branch, National
Federation of Federal Employees
has selected Mrs. Eloise Moss
as president. Others elected
we're: Clyde Markeson, j. Clark
McColly. D. William Metzler.
vice presidents; Mrs. Irene
Hardaway, recording secretary;
Martin Hendrix, corresponding
secretary.
Members of the board of rep
resentatives, Cyril Allen, Doro-
thy Bigelow, Cyril Briggs, Mrs.
Alice Connery, Mrs. Catherine
Goodenough, Mrs. Dorothy
Halderman, Martha Hendrix,
Charles Kellogg, Joseph Kud-
lack, James Lyons, Clyde Mark
eson, J. Clark McColly, DR..
William Metzler, Mrs. Eloise
Moss, Mrs. Bertha Penturff,
William Perry, Mrs. Helen
Peyton, Mrs. Florence Primm
and Dayton Ward. The
State Department has presented
commendable service awards to
Antonio Certosimo. Helenann
Clarke, Roberto Coeto. Manuel
] Corona, Alice Curran. Vaughn
J DeLong, Lelah Joy Eastwood,
Fritz Eberhard, L. Lucille Fir
ing, Geraldine Elliot. Helmut
EN- m erich h. Miguel Eseiza,