Spending money

Henry Witt

Henry Witt (right), machine operator at Federal-Mogul, receives vacation check for $361.51 from Kermit M. Hart, manager. The local division of Federal-Mogul-Bower Bearings, Inc., will fork over a total of $105,323.98 in vacation pay Friday to 350 hourly employees. The yearly windfall is based on a percentage of gross earnings, including overtime. Witt, a 10-year employee at the plant, lives at Ovid with his wife and five children.
– June 22, 1961