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Minutes of actions taken by the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System on Monday, October 8, 1951.
PRESENT:

Mr. Norton, Chairman pro tem.
Mr. Powell
Mr. Sherman, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Kenyon, Assistant Secretary

Letter to Mr. Brainard, Federal Reserve Agent of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Cleveland, reading as follows:
"In accordance with the request contained in Mr.
Fletcher's letter of October 4, 1951, the Board of Governors
approves the payment of salaries to the following members
of the Federal Reserve Agent's staff at the rates indicated:
Name
Title
Annual Salary
Head Office
Norman R. Matter
Assistant Federal Reserve
Agent
$ 5,244.2o
F. William Daeuble
Alternate Assistant Federal
Reserve Agent
4,648.8o
Edison F. Peck
Alternate Assistant Federal
4,648.8o
Reserve Agent
Cincinnati Branch
W. Howard Marsh
Federal Reserve Agent's
Representative
5,418.1to
Harry H. Ostendorf
Federal Reserve Agent's
Representative
51785.00
Pittsburgh Branch
William J. Cosgrove Federal Reserve Agent's
Representative
4155o.00
Gordon M. Trowbridge Federal Reserve Agent's
14,810.00"
Representative
Approved unanimously.
Letter to Mr. Lunding, Federal Reserve Agent of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago, reading as follows:
"In accordance with the request contained in Mr. Meyer's
letter of October 12 1951, the Board of Governors approves




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"the payment of salary to the following Federal Reserve
Agent's Representatives retroactive to July 2, 1951:
Annual Salary
Name
Detroit Branch
August J. Pettke
$ 6,143.00
5,670.00
Everett D. Jones
"The Board of Governors also approves the payment of
salary to Mr. August J. Pettke, Federal Reserve Agent's
Representative, effective October 8) 1951, at the rate of
$6,343.00 per annum."
Approved unanimously.
Memorandum dated October 2, 1951, from the Division of Personnel
Administration, recommending for reasons stated therein that the Board's
action of September 27, 1951, approving the appointment of Mr. Fred G. SherVice President, J. G. Boswell Company, Los Angeles, California, as a
Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for the threeYear term beginning January 1, 1952, and the action of September 11, 1951
appointing Mr. J. G. Lee, Jr., Dean, College of Agriculture, Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a director of the New Orleans
Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta for the three-year term
beginning
January 1, 1952 be rescinded; and that Mr. Harry R. Wellman,
Director, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of
California, Berkeley) California be reappointed as a Class C director

of

the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for the three-year term

beginning

January 1, 1952 and Mr. Joel Lafayette Fletcher, Jr., Presi-

dent, Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana, be appointed
a director of the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of




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Atlanta for the three-year term beginning January 1, 1952.
Approved unanimously.
Telegram to Mr. Cook, Vice President and Cashier of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas, reading as follows:
"Reurtel October 4. It is contemplated that when
Regulation X is next amended, section 5(1) will be changed
by amending 130 months' to read 136 months'."
Approved unanimously.
Memorandum dated September 21, 1951, from Mr. Allen, Director,
Division of Personnel Administration, recommending that stenographic
and typing classes be organized for Board personnel by the Division
of Personnel Administration, and that the appropriat
e items of the
1951 budget of that Division be increased by $360 in order to cover
expenses of




the program.
Approved unanimously.

Assistant

ecre ary.