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November 5, 1946

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TRANSIT PAY RISE VOTED FOR 33,000; NOT RETROACTIVE; Board Action at Brief Special Session Adds 20c an Hour or $480 a Year OTHER ISSUES ARE PENDING Taxpayer Suit Up Tomorrow, Challenging City's Right to Give Increases From July 1

By Robert W. Potter

Transportation Bd votes immediate pay rise; proposed retroactive increase cited; TWU to consider action to force retroactive pay and collective bargaining plan; city expected to rely on bd commitment on retroactive issue

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Notable Births

Gram Parsons

1946Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)[†]

Ingram Cecil Connor III, known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American musician. He recorded with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, popularizing what he called "Cosmic American Music", a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock. He has been credited with helping to found the country rock and alt-country genres and received a ranking of No. 87 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Notable Deaths

Joseph Stella

1946Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (born 1877)[†]

Joseph Stella was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.