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First Check for Unemployment Payment Written 20 Years Ago Madison, Wis. U.R) Twenty years ago today a Madison, Wis., photoengraver was out of a job and .nearly out of funds. Then It a government check for fig. The check was the first ever written by a government agency in the United States for unem ployment compensation. . Nels B. Rudd. the man who received check No. 1, weathered his unemployment period. In the 19 years since then nearly S15.4 . billion has been paid out in un employment compensation. Paul A. Raushenbush, direc tor of the Unemployment Com pensation Division of the Wis consin Industrial Commission, had personally directed the is suance of 9.S million checks worth some $197 million, includ ing that first paid to Rudd. Principle Outlined The Wisconsin law under which that first 15 check was written outlined the principles that "helped shape the whole unemployment compen s a t i b n program In this country," ac cording to Raushenbush. "Those principles were recog nized by Congress in 1935, and by most of the state U.S. laws passed from then on." A special session of the Wis consin Legislature called by the late Gov. Philip F. La Follette (son of Sen. Robert La Follette) passed the first U.C. law in Janu ary, 1932. It took until 1936 to build up a fund of employer contributions to begin paying benefits to jobless workers. The law also paved 'the way for special jobless benefits. The nation's railroad workers have received more than $700 million and unemployed veter- ployers must accept responsi bility for giving their men steady work and an adequate annual wage; or else pay benefits to these workers during slack pe riods . . ." Ohl's statement foreshadowed the so-called "guaranteed annual wage" or "supplemental unem ployment benefits" secured in last summer's automobile con tracts. Arthur Altmeyer, Madison, who went on to become the "father" of the federal social security program, also had a hand in the first U.C. law. He was secretary of an interim legislative committee that help- ans more than S4 billion, accord-. ed draft the 1932 law. ing to Raushenbush. There was a check signing ceremony here Aug. 17, 1936, and various spokesmen of gov ernment, industry and labor made statements. One proved almost prophetic. Henry Ohl, then president of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, said check No. 1 stood for the "principle" that . "em- That August day 20 years ago may go down in social and eco nomic history as a major event. If it does, the history books can be documented with checks No. 1. It never was cashed. Rudd, now retired in Madison, sold it for $23 to a man who wanted to preserve it. The check is in a safety deposit vault at a Madi son bank. Networks Will Rush Tons of Equipment From Chicago To San Francisco Parley Chicago W.R) This is head ache day for the three major networks. It' the day in which broad casters must move out a couple of two -ton autos, a 10 -ounce camera, cables, amplifiers, Bet ty Fumess' cook, a scale model of the aircraft carrier Forrestal, creepie - peepies, walkie - talkies and a chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs. That is, assuming the Demo cratic convention ends on sched ule. "This time element is mur der getting everything set up by Monday for the Republicans. It's by far the most frantic move In network history," says Al Bryant, director of office serv ice for CBS and the man boss ing the shipment of all pool equipment and personnel. Tare Plane Chartered The NBC-ABC-CBS pool con cists of 38 key commentators and technicians from each of the networks, 114 in all. Each af the nets also will throw 10, 000 pounds of equipment into the pool. To make sure this joint ship ment is sped on its way six hours after Sam Rayburn's gave) drops, Bryant has chartered three planes. But that's not all. The net works also must get their main show on the road, too. CBS has 280 additional peo ple it must send to San Fran cisco. NBC says it has 402 ad ditional people to ship and squeeze into 15 hotels, two mo tels and two private mansions in the GOP city. The mansions had to be rented by the network for the entire month. ABC is moving 50 people out of Chicago and, 75 more from Los Angeles to San Francisco. That network also must send about six more tons of equip ment by plane and a station wagon equipped with a com plete transmitting unit. The lat ter will have to go by rail. ABC owns the 10-ounce cam era, perhaps the smallest object of any value to make the trip. NBC will ship the other auto mobile, a doctor, a lip reader (she is listed on the roster as a . transposed ) and J. Fred Muggs. NBC is moving six tons by air freight and four more by train. In the CBS shipment are scale models of the Forrestal and Queen Mary and a large model airplane all used in commer cials. Betty Furness, who is sad dled down here with 12' pieces of luggage, one typewriter, two hat boxes, one large camera case and assorted paper pack ages, also must go. With Miss Furness will go the cook for her commercials, her press agent, an assortment of ad agency men and Miss Fur ness' personal assistant, former movie star Ann Shirley. "I tell you," says Bryant, "this is the kind of special job which nobody in his right mind would tackle. But with a little luck, we may make it." Worcester, Mass. (U.R) Richard L. Lizotte was fined $5 for driving with four persons in the front seat of his car. One of the four was riding to his left, police said. BELA LUGOSI Heart Attack Fatal Actor Bela Lugosi Succumbs in Sleep Hollywood (U.R) Horror actor Bela Lugosi died in his sleep Thursday. . The body of the Hungarian- born actor, who was 73, was dis covered by his wife, a movie stu dio cutting clerk; when she ar rived home from work at 6:45 p.m. (PST). She -said he usually took a nap in the afternoon. His physician said he had a background of hardening of the arteries but it was believed he died of a heart attack. Girl Hurt When Hit- , By Rock at Crater Lake Klamath Falls (U.R) A six-year-old girl from California was injured seriously when struck by a falling rock at Crar ter Lake national park yester day afternoon. . Little Karen Wehrman, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Wehrman of Hayward, Calif., was walking with her parents on the Lake trail when the rock fell, striking her on the head. . r.-t. --. r -y.-. j - - - " ,." OUNCES jUAfS Ha fi?5Jr I 6-bottle carton of wonderful new Canada Dry KING-SIZE Flavors HERE'S HOW TO GET IT: 1 Buy o o-bottle carton of king-iiza Canada Dry Flavors a at regular price. Send the 6 bottle caps to Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., a P. O. 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