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Federal Pay Raise
With Postal Rate
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Sen- tion of the bill saying the idea
ate reject( I charges of pre-elec- lof the pay boost was to attract
and
m m e o n re t and better talent
He to
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tion vote-buying yesterday
voted 72-3 to give 1.6 million goy' th ink ir well-behooves the senator
ernment workers an immediate ; from Ohio" to make such a charge.
pay raise
The same bill, which goes back
to the House, carries a $603 mil
lion-a-year, increase in postal
rates starting Jan. 7. If accepted
'by the House, the new rates would
raise „letter maA from 4 cents to
S cents, air mail from 7 cents
to 8 cents. and increase other
postal rates. - -
.The House had previously
passed a similar postal rate bill
which did not deal with federal
pay-
THE PAY RAMP— totaling:
$l.O/9,000.000 a year, would go in
two steps to one million classified ;
Civil Service employes -arid 590.-;
000 postal workers. The first in -1
stallme.4 would start when the I
bill is signed. -
The bill fulfills mast of Presi
dent Kennedy's requests for post
al rate increases and contains
substantially what he sought in
pay raises. Sen. Olin D. Johnston.'
D-S.C., who steered the -measure
through the Senate, said be had!
White House assurance it will!
receive K. mnedy's approval if it
clears the House.
Johnston and his supporters
beet back several attacks on both
flanks of the combined postal
rate-pay increase bill.
Sen. Frank .1: Lausche D-Ohjo,
made a couple o!, unsuccessful
assaults on the pay raise side,
denouncing it as a measure to
buy votes m an election year.
SEN. JOSEPH S. CLARK. D-
Pa.; challenged Lausche's descrip-
600 Decd Expected
From Barcelona Floods
BARCELONA, Spain (kit--Capt.
Gen. Agustin Munoz-Grandes,
vice president in the FiCanco gov
ernment, told newsmen yesterday
after a tour of the triangular
flood area -north of Barcelona he
expects the final death toll to
reach 600.
As he spoke, the latest official
casualty Itst.showed 368 dead. 445
missing, and 20X1 heapitalized with
injuries.'
Relief supplies and rescue ex
perts poured into Barcelona from
all parts of the country.
4 Lausche replied that if the gov
ernment raises its pay rates, pri
vate industry will do Ithe same , .
and the government will be %Imre
it started.
THE FEDERAL' employes cov
ered would get the first install
ment of their pay increase next
month, in the first pay period
after the bill is signed. The sec
ond would be in January. 1964.
The Civil Service employes
would receive an average iaise of
5.5 per cent in the first step, 41
per cent in the second. The postal
workers, often treated more gen
erously by Congress, would get
8.6 per cent in - the first step,
2.6 per cent in the second.
These percentage figures 'are
averages. The raises vary consid
erably between grades of workers.
Army Faction in Yemen
Seizes tleighboring Men
ADEN ( —An army faction
in neighboring Yemen announced
yesterday it has seized power and
proclaimed the kingdom a repub
lic
This Red Sea country's left
leaningi ruler, on the throne only
a week, was variously reported
arq2ssinated or deposed.
THE COUP apparently.was en
gineered by friends of President
Gamal Abdel Nasser'S United
Arab Republic. Shortly after its
announcement, the U.A.R. minis
ter of state, Abdel Kader Hatem,
declared the opposes any
foreign intervention in Yemen
affairs. - •
The radio at Sapa, Yernen'3 cap
ital, repeatedly bfoadcast a state
ment 'by the "liberal revolution
ary army" that it had taken con
trol.
It said "those who subjected you
to torture in the past have been
shot and killed," but mentioned
no names.
An informal source in Aden
said the' 35-year-old king, Imam
Moammad al Badr. was slain,
Wednesday night. The Cairo ra
dio, which also announced the
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UNITED N./mass,: N.Y. Grit-
British Foreign Secnttary Lord
Home urged the U.N. General
Assembly yesterday to pressure
the Soviet Union into halting ten
sions- on the ;Berlin wall.
Terming the wall almost
,tolerable provo
mtion to civil" Pd
people," he ex
pressed hope the
assembly .would
make clear to the
Soviet Union
that it •must stop
artifically Creat
ing crises in the
divided city. He
asked fot a So
viet settlement
with the West
"which pays-due taed Hew*
regard to the
rights and interests oil all parties."
Lord Borne made the statements
in a major policy speech to the
108-nation assembly. 4lkdlai E. Ste
venson, chief U.S. dftlegate, com
mented outside the assembly hail
coup, said Badr was deposed, not
killed.
WHATEVER HIS. FATE, the
rebels apparently wttre intent on
keeping any of the royal family
from making an .escape. One
broadcast called on The people to
seize any - Officials of the old
regime who tried to . leave the
country.
Badr ascended• the; throne Sept.-
19 after his father, lniam Ahmed.
often a target of assassins, died of
natural causes- The lather, known
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point with _which, the United
States is in complete accord.
Lord Home declared that the
only permanent solution for Ber
lin lies "in the context of self
determination for Germany. If
this assembly is true to itself, it
will insist that this principle is
accepted for East Gentiany as
well as the West."
BUT HE ADDED that because
as of now "Russia preaches self
determination for everyone else
but will not allow it in East Ger
many, the only thing we can do
is to seek a modus vivendi."
Lord Home stressed that the
Western Allies could not accept a
settlement "which would merely
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prlovide a cloak for a Communist
takeover of 2.% million free .13Z 1
pie. 'That, as I have said, is
negotiable." , .
!The assembly also heard a dec
laration from Cambodian Foreign
Minister Huot Sambath .that his
country would turn to the Sovi4_
Union and Communist Cbina for )
help if necessary against:any at
tack by pre-Western Thailand and
South Viet Nam.
He criticized the United States
for km ding military aid to Cam
bodiWs two neighbors. He• de
dared the choice is clear—to re
main neutral or, if survival is at
stake, to become a satellite of
the Eastern bloc. He cited Cuba
as an example of such a nation.
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