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in Houston to $6,567 in Chicago.
The Bureau estimated the total
cost of goods and services con-
sidered necessary to maintain such
a family adequately according to
standards of what is needed for
health, efficiency, children's nouri-
shment, and social and community
activities. 1t also took into account
Social Security deductions, insur-
ance premiums and tax payments.
The annual cost for other cities
follows: Atlanta $5,642; Baltimore
$5,718; Boston $6,317; Cincinnati
$1,000; Cleveland 5000; Detroit
$6,O72; Kansas City 1864; Los
Angeles s6,285; Minneapolis s6,1s1;
New York $3.50; Philadelphia ST.
1893; Pittsburg $500; Portland,
Ore, $6,222; St. Louis 1926; San
Francisco $6,O34; Scranton $5,-
562 and Washington, D. c., $6,147.
Nixon's Tie-Breaking Votes
And Ties He Did Not Break
AS Vice-President, Richard Mix
on has voted eight times to break
tie votes in the Senate. Trade uni
onists remember bitterly his vote
on April %, 1859 to break a 45-
to-45 tie on motion by Barry
Goldwater r., Ariz.) to prevent
reconsideration, and possible de-
feat, of the infamous Mcclellan d.,
Ark "bill of rights" amendment
to the Labor Management Report
ing and Disclosure Act. This sub
jected honest unions to endless
attacks and litigation. Nixon's tie
breaker insured the anti-labor
character of the legislation.
On his other tie-breaking votes,
Nixon voted against small bust
ness twice (June Is, 1859; against
price supports for farmers at 80
per cent of what is considered
fair price March 8, 1866; for
giving state agencies, rather than
the Secretary of Labor, authority
to set the prevailing wage rate
for interstate highway construc-
ton MAY 20, 1850; for higher
interest rates for veterans housing
March IL, 1889; against increas-
ing authorized appropriations from
$500 million for each Of the next
two fiscal years to $25 per school
age child (amounted to $1.1 billion
for the next fiscal year, for each
succeeding fiscal year, to be used
for either school construction or
teachers salaries, or both (Feb. 8,
1860; and against restrictions on
the Presidents use Of his contin-
gency fund to situations where un-
foreseen circumstances make ad-
vance programming by Congress
impossible MAY 2, 1960).
Just as important are the tie
votes which Nixon did not break.
Two Of these, in particular, stand
out: On May %, 1858, after the
Senate rejected, 1910, the Long
d., La.) amendment to increase
public assistance payments to the
aged, blind and disabled roughly
S. q month by raising the maxi
mum Federal-state payment per
person to $40 and increasing Uncle
Sans share of the cost; and on
June Is, 1868 when the Senate de-
feated, 1888, an increase in funds
for soil and water conservation
practices deemed essential to the
welfare Of the nation.
Kennedy and Nixon and
Their Taft-Hartley Votes
One Of the first actions taken by
Jack Kennedy when he came to
the House Of Representatives in
1947 as a freshman Congressman
from Massachusetts was to make a
speech against the anti-labor Hart
ley bill. Kennedy said that the mea-
sure would strike down in one
devastating blow the union shop,
industry-wide bargaining, and 80
strangle collective bargaining with
restraints and limitations as to
make it Intellectual"
The Hartley measure was wat
cred down" bit and was later in
corporated into the Taft-Hartley
Act. Kennedy voted against Taft
Hartley and also voted to uphold
President Truman's veto Of it. On
the other hand, Richard Nixon. his
opponent in the 1860 Presidential
race who also was . freshman
House member in 1947, supported
the Hartley bill, voted for Taft
Hartley and voted to override Mr..
Truman's veto.
Ard He Might Not
"If you gave me . week,
might think Of one. can't re-
member" - President Eisen-