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10 The Newt-Review, Rostburg, Ore. Tuei., Dec. 27, 1949 Showdown Seen For Excise Tax Cut In Congress WASHINGTON UP) A show down on whether to cut excise taxes appears certain to come In the early days of the session of Congress which starts Jan, 3. The test Is shaping up in the Senate where the first scheduled order ot business is action on a House-passed bill to repeal the federal taxes on oleomargarine. Pending in the Senate is a se ries of amendments which would lash or repeal the excise levies collected on such items as tele phone bills, transportation tick ets, jewelry, furs and cosmetics. At the start the amendments were being pushed mainly by some dairy state senators who are opposed to the oleomargarine repealer. Vtts Possible They figured that President Truman would veto any bill which provided for a sizable re duction of excise taxes. And they felt quite positive about It after Mr. Truman said he knew of no way to wipe out the federal def icit without a tax increase. But just last week the Presi dent said the treasury and the House Ways and Means comml tee were at work, with his bles sing, trying to find out whether come excise levies could be trim med without too big a strain on the federal purse. Any administration decision to call for lower excises probably would be coupled with a request for off-setting higher taxes from other sources, including new ones. At the last session, Democratic leaders In Congress were Inclined to cold-shoulder proposals to trim excises. But support for the idea has been increasing and the pros pects for a reduction now look fairly good. . Soma 8e Difficulties Some senators who had been lukewarm about a cut say pri vately it would be difficult to vote against a reduction with congres sional elections coming up next year. The drive for some reduction now has the backing of influen tial Senator George (D-Ga), chairman of the Senate finance committee. Rep. Doughton (D NC), chairman of the House ways made it clear he would like to see a cut if a way can be found without increasing the federal deficit . The Senate finance committee already has approved an amend ment which would cut most ex cise taxes back to 1942 levels a reduction of SO percent or more on many items. That amendment was tacked onto a House-passed industrial alcohol bill which the Senate shelved at the last session. Krvfeock Riding Cum Man Of Siege Of Hiccups PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. UP) Next time you have hiccups try next time you have hiccups try a horse. That's the advice of Frank Sal vaggio, local restaurant owner. He says a horse cured his 21 month case of hiccups. Salvaggio, who lost 40 pounds during the siege, took up horse back riding after everything else he tried failed to halt the spasms. His doctor had recommended, a sport. The restauranteur says he went riding two hours every day and the hiccups gradually disappeared. OLDEST PATIENT DIES TACOMA, Dec. . 27. VP) Madlgan General hospital au thorities announced Friday the death of the oldest U. S. Vet erans hospital patient in the na tion. He was 94-year-old Thomas A. Murphy, born in Ireland in 1856. Murphy came to this country and enlisted in the army at the age of 19. During his 10 years as a soldier he served In Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho. Murphy was confined to Mad lgan in 1947 with a fractured hip. AttpnrifintA Raid death was due to a heart condition. A daughter, Mrs. J. C. Wine coop of Chelan, survives. FARM VOTE AT STAKE STARTING WEDNESDAY 9:30 A. M. Sharp SHOP and COMPARE! OUR VALUES LEAD! fTD SMART STYLES! FINE FARICSI WANTED COLORS! ALL SIZES! Values lo 24.95 Sal Price AND SUITS Values to 39.95 Sal Prica Values to 49.95 Sale Price $O00 $2 $3i SIM DRESSY AND CASUAL STYLES! Wonderful Selection! FINE QUALITY FABRICS! ALL COLORS! GOOD SIZE RANGES! Values to 8.99 Sale Price Values to 10.99 Sale Price Values to 16.99 Sale Price $300 $00 $7 00 Farmer 2.99 Former 3.99 Former 2.99 Blouses Skirts Sweaters s 1i59 psrice 2i00 is li59 Cottons and Rayon ' Smartest Styles 100 Wools and Some Crepes! Many Styles Wools! Novelties! Nylons! All Colors! Others 2.00 to 3.00 Others 3.00 to 4.00 Others 2.59 to 2.94 121 N. JACKSON Hot Fight Over Brannan Price Support Program Will Occur In Congress By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON WASHINGTON, UP) A roarlng-ear-splltting argument about farm legislation appeared certain today at the next session ot Congress. : ! Congress comes back Jan. 3 and farm-minded lawmakers already hive - started the verbal sharp-shooting. At stake are votes of farmers and consumers in the 1950 elections. The main prize Is political control of Congress with all 435 House and 36 of the 96 Senate seats at stake. ' Both Republicans and Demo crats expect; President Truman, wno oiten nas cauea nimseii a Missouri farm boy, to Increase the agricultural discussion next month in his state of the union message to Congress. - He Is expected once more to urge Congress to pass the oontro versal farm subsidy plan pro posed by secretary oi Agnciu ture Brannan. - s This same Congress, under De mocratic control, flatly rejected the Brannan plan earlier this year. Instead it ground out a complicated farm price-support program intended to continue through the vital 19S0 election year the relatively nign-ievei war time price props. But all congressmen remember the bitter and successful 1948 campaign In the farm belt staged bv candidate Truman and Secre tary urannan against me iarm act of the 80th Republican-controlled congress. Fight Will Continue ' Mr. Truman charged that the Republicans "have already stuck a pitchfork In the farmers' back and are now ready to let the bottom drop out of farm prices." Since then the president has signed the compromise farm sup port plan that emerged from the Democratic 81st Congress and termed it an Improvement over the 1948 GOP program. But actions of both the White House and Secretary Brannan Eoint to an effort to sell the ran nan plan to farmers, con sumers and other voters during the coming year. Even its sharpest critics ad mit the Brannan proposals have fiolitlcal appeal. Instead of tak ng major food products that are perishable off the market with' government funds in order to keep prices up, Brannan sug gested consumers benefit from lower prices for milk, meats and similar farm products. If this should reduce farm in comes below pre-d etermined "fair" levels, Brannan said farm ers should get cash subsidies called "production payments." Blasted By GOP Senators Two key Republican senators, Taft of Ohio and Wherry of Ne braska, already are guessing that the Brannan plan will be a major issue next session and are snip ing at it In almost every speech. Taft, running full speed for re election in Ohio next year, has termed the Brannan plan "ob viously fraudulent." Wherry, in a round of speeches that may indicate presidential ambitions, has called it "'a swin dle" and a "monstrous political scheme" to bait the "votes of consumers, whose grocery pur chases would be subsidized with money extracted from the tax payers." . ' Taft said It Is "obviously fal lacious to pay the farmer the price he would like to receive, then turn around and sell to the consumer at the price he would like to -pay, and charge the difference to the taxpayer. The farmer and consumer are the taxpayers." -Lucas la Cautious Two of President Truman's party aides in the senate, Demo cratic Leader Lucas of Illinois and Anderson of New Mexico, were the main sponsors of the long range price support law just enacted., Lucas, also busy with a re election campaign, has refrained from blasting the Brannan plan. But he calls the new price prop act a "vast improvement upon our past farm legislation." He said It protects both farm ers and consumers and will be a "firm foundation for our per manent iarm doucv." Anderson, former Truman sec retary of agriculture, promises that the new act will attain a "balanced abundance" with rela tively small costs to the tax payers. Most major farm organizations also are fighting the Brannan proposals. The national grange at Its con vention last month called the Brannan plan "an internal can cer that would ultimately destroy our free enterprise system." The American Farm Bureau federation, largest of the farm organizations, has been eauallv critical. Lib! Suit Against Satan Ntwspaptr Ousted ly Court SALEM, Dec. 24. OP) A $150. 000 libel suit against the Salem Capital Journal was dismissed here by Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg of Klamath Falls. The suit was brought by for mer Sheriff Andy Burk, who claimed that he was libeled by an editorial In the newspaper during last November's election campaign. During that campaign, Burk, Hit lor 12 years who had been sherii before 1945, was trying to get back Into the sheriff's office. Judge Vandenberg, In throwing the case out of court, said the editorial was ' not libelous or malicious; It was made when Burk was seeking a political of fice, and that it was fair com ment. The editorial charged that Burk had failed to do his duty in enforcing laws against gam bling and labor racketeering. LOVERS INTERRUPTED SEATTLE, UP) A tree fell in Seattle and two couples had to be taken home from a lovers' lane by police. The couples were parked at Mount Baker bathing beach when some unidentified persons felled two trees across the roadway behind them, , 'I The cars are still narked at the beach presumable keeping each other company. "Feeder" airlines serve 140 cit ies In the United States. ; t U.S. Bureau of the CensuW r . ARIA Xffl I ' .A ' ' ' '' r in iiiiiii Sii.ij VI Apple Storage Tests Revealed CHICAGO. UP) Exoer- ments on storing apples were de scribed here bv G. F. Sainsburv. a Department of Agriculture en gineer. - Sainsbury, in an address .pre pared for delivery to the winter meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, said tnat delicious variety apples, 11 held at 30 degrees Fahrenheit, have a normal life exDectancv In storage of 280 days, but standing outside at u degrees lor one week will reduce the storage life by about nine weeks. If a Delicious apple Is held at 70 degrees continually its life in storage will be only 20 days, he said. In another apple report Robert L. Glvens, also of the department said tests at Blacksburg, Va., showed that "quick removal of lntlal heat from apples js one of the Important factors in their storage life." ' Local government revenues from alcoholic beverages have increased the past three years while state and federal incomes have fallen. Sine tht war. Pacifie Ttlephon gamed at many Ultphona in tht West au in th prtwoui 19 year. West's four-millionth telephone goes to work v ' ' A 1. Takes a lot ot equipment to serve 4,000,000 telephones making 22,000,000 calls a day. And in just the few high-speed years since the war, we've almost doubled our facilities as measured in dollars. And those dollars have produced results. It took 45 years to install our first million telephones, 17 years to install the second million, 6 years for the third . . . and only 314 years for the fourth. J. 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