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2 McHENRY PLAINDEALER Stct tonA W»dntsd«y, S«pt»mb»r 11,IMS Today Weather TEMPERATURE * PRECIPITATION SHOWERS Figures indicate 90 /" maximum temperatures VJ FRONTAL SYSTEMS A AIR FLOW 29.77 30.00 30.24 30.00 i 30.00 National Weather Service Forecast to 7 p.m. EST 9-11-85 UPI Weather Fotocast ® Congress urged to exempt states from wage laws Forecast By United Press International Illinois: Wednesday partly sunny north and mostly cloudy south: Highs in the lower 70s to lower J?Qs. Wednesday night cooler, fair north­ east and partly cloudy west and south. Lows in the upper 40s to up­ per 50s north, mid 50s to lower 60s south. Thursday mostly sunny north­ east and partly cloudy west and south. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s. Southern Illinois: Wednesday cloudy early, becoming partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the middle or upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 18 mph. Partly cloudy and cooler Wednesday night. Lows in the mid­ dle or upper 50s. Partly sunny Thursday.. McHenry: Becoming partly sunny Wednesday. Highs in the lower or mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy and cooler. Lows in the lower or mid 50s. Mostly sunny Thursday. Highs in the lower or middle 70s. Illinois extended forecast: Thurs­ day through Saturday: Fair. Highs low 70s north to low 80s south, lows low 50s north to low 60s south. By Mary Deibd Scrtpps Howard News Service WASHINGTON - President Rea­ gan urged Congress Tuesday t* ex­ empt state and local governments from having to pay their employees overtime under federal wage and hour law. But Labor Secretary William Brock said the exemption proposal -- which could save states and local­ ities up to $3 billion a year -- also might be used as a vehicle for other changes in the law, including new minimum wage levels, or the youth subminimum wage the administra­ tion wants. "We are willing to negotiate on any and all issues," Brock told re­ porters after announcing the presi­ dent's stand in support of the state and local exemption to a Senate La­ bor subcommittee. The exemption legislation is one of more than half a dozen bills intro­ duced in Congress to modify a Feb. 19 SupremejCourt decision bringing more than 7 million state and local workers under the Fair Labor Stan­ dards Act. Mayors, governors and other state and local officials have been lobby­ ing to limit the ruling's impact to allow them flexibility in scheduling police, firefighters and other emer­ gency workers whose shifts don't always conform to the law's standards. Groups such as the National Gov­ ernors' Association, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Con­ ference of Mayors have insisted, however, that relief not be tied to controversial issues such as the youth subminimum wage that could endanger congressional action. Statfe and iocai officials toia the Senate earlier that the annual cost of compliance with the wage law could be as high as )3 billion nationwide. Union leaders, who put the nation­ wide cost at closer to $1.3 billion, say it is only fair to extend the wage and hour law to state and local employees. t Until/the Supreme Court ruling, states and localities were free to make their own policies on overtime and compensatory time for workers performing "traditional government functions. " Some union locals have asked Congress to let them keep the choice of compensatory time off agreed to in collective bargaining arrangements. Some 28 House members -- 14 Republicans and 14 Democrats -- have introduced legislation to per­ mit the popular "comp time" option, but Brock said the administration is backing the broader exemption b£ cause it "provides the most effective and fair relief." Unless Congress acts, the Labor Department will start enforcing the high court ruling and investigating complaints alleging failure to pay ) time-and-a-half for overtime as of Oct. 15. Governments could be ordered to award retroactive pay from April 15, the effective date of the Supreme Court decision, and workers who file suit and win in court will be eligible to collect double damages plus court costs. Some state and local officials and union leaders have complained pri­ vately that the Labor Department is being too rigid in setting the rules, but Brock said Tuesday, "We have no alternative." "We're really bound by the law and the court's opinion," he said. Senate Labor subcommittee Chairman Don Nickles, R-Okla., sponsor of the Overtime exemption, said he hopes to move the bill through the Senate "as quickly as possible."; The House, however, has not tak- en up the issue. House Labor Com­ mittee Chairman Augustus Haw­ kins, D-Calif., a co-sponsor of the "comp time" bill, has called for hearings. But a spokesman for Hawkins cau­ tioned that he is concerned about opening the Fair Labor Standards Act to any amendments. Almanac By United Press Internatkmil ' Today is Wednesday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 1965 with ill to follow. • The moon is moving toward its new phase. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this date in history: In 1777, troops commanded by Gen. George Washington were badly defeated by the British under Gen. William Howe in the Battle of Brandywine. .7 In 1841, all members of President John Tyler's cabinet resigned, except Secretary of State Daniel Webster, in protest of Tyler's veto of a banking bill. / ~ In 1973, the elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende of Chile was toppled in a right-wing military' coup supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Allende died, reportedly by his own hand. In 1982, a U.S. Army helicopter crashed at an air show in Mannheim, West Germany, killing all 46 people aboard. .* In 1964, Secretary of State George Shultz said the United States was willing to admit some 8,000 children fathered by American GIs during the Vietnafn War and 10,000 Vietnamese political prisoners. A thought for'the day: British essayist and dramatist Sir Richard Steele said, "Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more pernicious than the love of flattery." Record heat wave in D.C. City v HI Lo Pep ChicagoO'Hare 85 62 .10, Decatur 98 na none Mollne 81 62 trace Peoria Quincy Rockford Springfield 83 63 none J 81 na none \l" 78 63 none M 60 mpe AN EDITION Of THE NORTHWEST HEUAtD (USPS 335 200) Founded 187S 3112 W«st (Irn Street. McHcnri. IHMOII MOM) Uttftmt: SIS 3*5 0170. T'tillUlir SIS3B-0I71.OMct M*n: I A M 5 p in Monai, through fiifej Publnhtd MO.KUJ throitch frtdfl tictf* NM TW'I 0*. Mwwitl Dm. 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"We're going to have a dramatic change. Just by the weather you'll think you were someplace differ­ ent," National Weather Service fore­ caster Scott Prosise said. "We're going to go from bikinis to blankets." The stifling heat and humidity was expected to give way Wednesday to a cold front that dumped snow on the Northern Rockies last week, Prosise said. The heat wave began Sept. 3, when the daytime highs climbed into the 90s and remained there through Tuesday, settling a new record for the number of consecutive days of 90-plus temperatures during the month of September. . The old record was set between Sept. 4 and Sept. 10 in 1884, the weather service said. Normal highs for the first two Weeks of September are in the middle 80s. Wintry weather chilled the north­ ern California mountains and west­ ern Nevada where up to 10 inches of snow fell Monday night in the upper elevations of the Sierra Nevada. LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF McHENRY NOTICE TO BIDDERS The City of McHenry will receive sealed bids for the purchase of one (1) dump truck chassis, dump box and hydraulics, snow plow and mate­ rial spreader to be used by the Public Works Department, all in accordance with specifications by the City of McHertry, IL 66050, between 8 AM and 5 PM Monday through Friday. Sealed bids will be received at City Hall, Public Works Dept., 1111 N. Green Street, McHenry, IL 60050 until 10 AM, on September 18, 1985 tit which time they will be publicly opened and read. The City of McHenry reserves the right to waive any technicalities, to reject any or all bids, or to accept any bid considered advantageous to the City. Paul Halvensleben, Supt. Public Works Dept. SALE DATES SEPT. 11 THRU SEPT. 17 WHILE OUANTITIESLAST CHECKS ACCEPTED ONIYWITHOUR CHECK PURCHASING CARD MERCHANDISE CLEARANCE CENTER 301W. VIRGINIA AVE. 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