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THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
Ellender Plans
To Oppose Hike
In Minimum Pay
Washington IUPD - Sen. Al
len J. Ellender (D-La.) says
today he will tight against
passage of legislation to boost
the federal minimum wage
gradually from $1 to $1.25 an
hour.
"By and large," he said, "I
see absolutely no reason for
passage of this measure."
Ellender said that congres
sional approval of such a 'bill
would only add to the na
tion's "inflationary spiral."
Thus, he said, in the end,
It would not bring any bene
fits to those it is designed to
help.
Sponsored by Kennedy
The legislation, sponsored
by Democratic presidential
candidate John F. Kennedy
(Mass.), was approved by the
Senate labor committee this
week. It would boost the
hourly minimum in steps of
three to four years and ex
tend coverage of the wage
hour act to about 4 million
new workers.
Ellender said he thought
some provisions of Kennedy's
bill were "so vague and ap
parently so broad that it
could conceivably cover ev
ery private employee In this
country."
Another southerner, Sen.
John Stennis (D-Miss.), al
ready has announced he will
try to organize Senate oppo
sition to the measure.
Stennis promised a stiff
floor fight but Senate Demo
cratic leaders have served no
tice that the bill is "must leg
islation" in this national elec
tion year.
Mental Deficiency
Rate of Twins
Said To Be Higher
London (Science Service) -A
child born as a twin has
a greater than usual chance
of being mentally defective,
a study reported here indi
cates. Drs. J. M. Berg and Brian
H. Kirman found that among
I, 390 mental defectives re
ceiving care in the home or
in institutions in the London
area, about 6.4 per cent were
members of twin pairs. Twins
make up only about 2.1 per
cent of the general popula
tion. The study also showed:
The twin born last is more
often mentally defective: 61 I
per cent of the mentally de
fective twins were second
born. The second born are
also more frequently the vic
tims of stillbirth.
Lower Birth Weight
Whether twins or single
tons, mentally defective
babies usually had a lower-than-usual
birth weight. Two
thirds of the defectives
etudied had additional physi
cal abnormalities. These rang
ed from a small. head to heart
defects and deformed feet.
In one way, twins are the
luckier group. Mongolism, a
deformity usually accompa
nied by idiocy, is six times
more common among single
tons. Reason Unknown
The reason for the higher
incidence of mental deficien
cies among twins, ranging
from Idiocy to subnormal
learning ability, is unknown.
In autopsies on nine twins
who died during the study,
there were no gross brain
m al f o r m ations indicating
that something had gone
wrong in embryonic life. The
brains did show pathological
changes that appeared to be
the result of damage late in
pregnancy, at birth or short
ly after birth.
The doctors, reporting in
the British Medical Journal,
pointed out that the greater
risk in multiple births is in
d i c a t e d in a stillbirth-rate
comparison. For all births
there are 23 still-births per
1.000 births. In twins the
rate is S3 per 1,000.
Mixup Increases Pay;
Solution in Ordinance
Santa Ana, Calif. - A slight
mixup in paper work gave
a $2,500-a-year pay raise to
the new Orange county ad'
ministrator before he was
even hired.
The board of supervisors
last year aeciaea me juu
called fnr a S22.500 salary
and budgeted this amount.
However, the county person
nel director pointed out that
the board previously had set
the salary at $25,000 and had
included it in an ordinance
which took precedence.
The ultimate solution was
that the supervisors decided
to draft a new ordinance set
ting a monthly salary for the
Job -at $2,085 - which adds
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