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LAI
aies Tax?
imnrrY-srvENTH year
CRT
The -senate passed with but six
dissenting votes an amended bill
levying a sales tax. Accompanv
ing legislation will refef the mea
sure to a vote of the people in ei
ther June or November, 1947. Dif
ferences between house and sen
ate versions will be ironed out by
conference committees. '
f The contemplated levy I 3 per
cent on retail sales of all tangible
- personal property with food' sold
ior consumption off the premises
exempted. The distribution of the
proceeds is a matter of cutting the
'pie into' six pieces, according to
the senate version.. - ' J !
' One-sixth would go to counties.
' One-sixth would go to incor
porated cities. -
- One-sixth would go to schools.
One-sixth would go for public
welfare. v
Two-sixths would go into the
. state general fund.-
" Actually though there are hed
ges on all the "sixths" except the
last. The amount going to coun-
tie and cities and school districts
must be used to offset property
taxes. Thus half the proceeds go
. to the relief of the general prop
erty taxpayer. '
- The sixth which is tagged for
public welfare does not go to sup-
' plement the grants to the aged
and the destitute. It goes into
"reserve fund" to be used "only if
the liquor revenues do not equal
the amounts appropriated, from
them for public relief
likewise the first $12,000,000 of
- the one-sixth a Dotted to schools
goes into a "basic school reserve
account'' - a reservoir to be drawn
on when proceeds of income taxes
do not prove sufficient to take
care of the basic school support
fund voted last November.
- That in brief is the bill. The
voters can take -it or leave it at
lection time. f " '
The -debate in the senate .over
ai 5 t . - .
uk bui was mua. mere was gooa
reason for "that Arguments for
end against the sales tax have
' been- rehearsed so many times.
(Continued on Editorial Page)
Britain Avers
Russian Veto
Strangling9 .
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y April
3 -V Britain declared today that
soviet Russia "strangled the ma
jority will of the United Nations
security council by vetoing a Brit
ish resolution censuring Albania
in the Corfu channel mine case.
This accusation touched off once
. more a lively battle over the veto
right of the five great powers,
and that argument temporarily
eclipsed the Albanian-British dis
pute. ' : :r-;::: '-
Andrei A Gromyko, soviet dep
uty foreign minister, who has in
voked nine of the ten vetoes Rus
sia has cast in the security coun
cil, listened calmly to Cadogan.
Then be joined with Dr. Oscar
Xangev of Poland, in calling Cad
egan "out of order" for throwing
the veto issue into 'the Albanian
The current dispute arose over
mine damage to two British de
stroyers close to the Albanian
shore in Corfu channel which
caused the deaths of 44 British
sailors last Oct 22. Cadogan said
direct negotiations with Albania
for apology and compensation had
failed. The council was .given the
case on January 10, and seven of
the 11 delegates voted for a watered-down
resolution which held
, that the mines could not have
been laid without the knowledge
cf Albania.
Animal Crachcrs
By WARREN GOODRICH
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18 PAGES
U. S. Eyes
Seizure
Of Phones
WASHINGTON, - April 3-M-President
Truman tonight con
sidered intervening to prevent a
nation-wide telephone strike
which union leaders 'described as
seemingly "inevitable." - . .. '
Mr. Truman told a news con
ference he is investigating to de
termine whether he has authority
to seize the industry. ;
Mr. Truman's seizure powers'
under"' the Smith-Connally labor
disputes act ' expired last Decem
ber 31. However, some ' officials
are studying ? the federal com
munications act, in the belief
that it may permit seizure. - -Federal
Power Doabted , .
Secretaryof Labor Sch we lien
bach said be may - ask Attorney
General Clark for a ruling on the
government's powers.
He informed newsmen, how
ever, he probably will wait un
til- Saturday before making such
a request, because experience has
shown "they never start talking
seriously until the last 24 hours."
John-J. - Moran, chairman of
the National Federation of Tele
phone Workers, told reporters:
"If they (the government) seized
the telephone Industry, and
there's a law against striking,
we'll obey the law. But I don't
know of any law which gives
them the power." ;
Little Hope for New Law f
All : concerned conceded that
the negotiations are in a stale
mate, - and J. A. Beirne, NFTW
president, today - messaged top
telephone company officials that
"the apparent lack of collective
bargaining" Indies ter "that a
strike is inevitable."
A . bill - to authorize the presi
dent to obtain ! injunctions
against strikes in key communi
cations and transport industries
was approved by the house labor
committee 18 to 3 yesterday. But
hope -iias . been abandoned for
getting - it through - congress '.be
fore Monday's Is. m. (local time)
strike deadline less than four
days off. '
Beirne said that in event of a
strike emergency telephone serv
ice will -be furnished by' the
unions to police, fire departments,
hospitals "and other services vi
tal to the preservation of life
and safety. '
But he said this policy will
continue only "as long as man
agement (Of the respective ; com
panies makes no attempt to assign
management- personnel to the
performance of non-management
duties."
The union demands. $12 weekly
pay increases and other contract
revisions;
Logging Jobs
Break Record
Oregon' part hi the national
effort to - provide material for
pressing housing needs is reflect
ed in an employment analysis
which shows that February em
ployment in lumber -and logging
plants broke all off-season rec
ords in the state. . ...
The state unemployment com
pensation commission announced
yesterday that 59,000 logging and
lumber workers on payrolls in
mid-February exceeded the for
mer high of 57,000 such workers
employed during February, 1942,
and the 10-year average for Feb
ruary of 46,000 workers.
The commission's special analy
sis noted that, although present
employment is 6,000 less than the
post-war high of August, 1946,
employment, the seasonal decline
is considerably lower than usual.
The report ascribed this condition
to the unprecedented demand for
wood products and the moderate
winter weather.
Linn to Slash
Aid toNeedy
- ALBANY, April 3.Hf)Small
er allotments for Linn county's
700 welfare recipients will be giv
en until June 30, in a drastic at
tempt to eke out general assistance-
funds, Mrs. Ruth Marsters
said today. .
The county public welfare ad
ministration said the move, was
unavoidable after the county court
refused to grant extra money.
Salem Firm Bids Low ' -
On River Bank Work
Low bidder on a proposal to
extend; the Bauer Lane revet
ment of the Willamette, river
north of Eugene and to build bank
protection -was Robbins and Webb
of Salem, the army engineers an
nounced , Thursday at Portland,
according, to Associated Press.
The firm's bid was $25,377.50,
higher by $1458.12 than govern
ment estimates. .
Salem. Oregon. Friday
Lewos FEays Krag
Ftr Mime Desooire
Where Blast Killed Miners'
CENTRA LIA, I1L, April i la Centra 11a mute Ne. 5, where ,111 eest
t miners lest their lives March 25, Bey Cappa. U. 8. boreaa of mines
safety instructor, views an overturned ear. This first Interior fteeoe-4
-ef the mine was made by Ralph Walters. Chleage Times photograph
er, who was chosen by lot (AT Wlrepbote to The Statesmaa).
Order Says 518 Dangerous;
Truman Says No TRemovaF
- " WASHINGTON1 April 3w-VFive hundred eighteen mines pro
ducing 26 per cent of the .nation's soft coal were closed as "danger
ous" by Secretary of the Interior Krug today, and John L. Lewis called
the action "a deathbed confession." V-'' "
Lewis indicated his miners will go back to work in the others
Monday morning at the end of their "mourning" layoff for-Hhe'lJt
victims, of the Centraua, 111., ex
plosion,
But he shouted new demands
for the ouster, declaring Krug
should have , acted , sooner and
roasting him as a "scheming, de
signing politician faithless to his
trust- . . , .
President Truman quickly and
vigorously defended the 'cabinet
officer, He told his news confer
ence Krug is an efficient public
official and he has not even con
sidered removing him.
. Krug shut " down the mines,
sprawled over at least 19 states,
just as Lewis, before a house la
b o r sub- committee, demanded
more rigid safety laws and got
support from several congress
men. - ' i ; - -
He also won support' for a pro
posal that congress return the
$700,000 fine paid. by the ynited
Mine Workers for contempt of
court He suggested that the mon
ey be used to aid the widows and
orphans of victims of two mine
disasters.
The 518 mines which Krug
closed produce 616,000 tons of bit
uminous coal a day and employ
102,699 men, according to William
J. Dougherty, spokesman for the
solid fuels administration. .
Defending his order of the
"mourning shutdown, Lewis said
it was necessary to "attract atten
tion" - - to get congress and Krug
to act'
CENTHALIA, HL, April 3-ff-Secretary
of the Interior Krug re
ported today that a federal in
spection made less than a week
before the Centralia coal mine ex
plosion In which 111 died March
25 showed "no imminent danger."
Krug, federal coal mines ad
ministrator, submitted, a prelimi
nary report to a U. S. senate sub
committee which began a federal
investigation of the tragedy here
today.
Previously a company superin- l
subcommittee revealed that some
of the workers trapped in the
mine telephoned to the main shaft
for aid immediately after the ex
plosion. ' V
Truman Discounts
Red Party Danger
, WASHINGTON, April
Individual communists in govern
ment posts are a menace in the
eyes of President Truman but their
party as a political force is not a
danger to the nation. ;
That was the explanation the
president gave to his news confer
ence today of a letter he wrote to
George H. Earle, jr., on February
28 saying that "I am of the opin
ion that the country is perfectly
safe so far as communism is con
cerned we have too many sane
people." : "v:
BOISE SECOND SAFEST -CHICAGO,
April 3.-JP)-Boise,
Ida, tied with Watertown, N.
today for second place among cit
ies in the 25,000-50,000 population
class in the 1946 national traffic
safety contest conducted by the
national safety council
POUNDDD 1651 ' -r-
Morning, April 4, 1947.
Marshall Asks
romise,
rations
' MOSCOW. April 4-PH5ecre-tary
Marshall urged the council of
foreign ministers tonight to adopt
a compromise proposal on Ger
man reparations in an effort to
smash the deadlock, on this key
issue barring four-power agree
ment on Germany's future. t
The meeting, lasting for more
than four hours, was enlivened
when Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov accused British For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin of
defending dictators and what
Molotov said was the kind of de
mocracy prevalent in Greece.
Soviet or French stands blocked
all progress on German negotia
tions. In the only issue of the day
which saw the Russians, British
and Americans on one side, the
French impeded' action by refus
ing to agree on establishment of
nationwide political parties and
trade unions for Germany;
Marshall told the ministers that
the United States was . willing to
consider limited German repara
tions from current production,
provided the allies . agreed to
leave In Germany a number of
industrial plants now earmarked
for capital reparations.
Fireworks Plant .
Blaze Toll at 12
CLINTON. Mo. April Z.-iJPj-The
raging fire that swept through
the Brown Fireworks factory, lev
sn Brwt knnin, ih in m.
eling the one-story frame build
ployes, claimed two more lives to
day.
Mrs. Morton Johnson, 51, and
Mrs. Hazel Shepard, 28, died this
morning from burns, bringing to
12 the number dead from the blaze
that followed an explosion at the
plant about 2:30 p.m. yesterday.
Ten of the 28 workers making
toy Fourth of July buzz, bombs
were killed outright Two of the
three remaining injured are in
critical condition. "
County Heads View
Progress on Ferry
Members of Marion and Yam
hill county courts r.Thursday in
spected progress of the new
Wheatland ferry,-which is being
constructed at the ferry site.
Judge Grant Murphy and Com
missioners Roy Rice and Ed .Rog
ers of Marion county pointed out
new features of the ferry to Judge
H. M. Hoskins and Commissioners
Homer Ross and Albert Youngberg
Of Yamhill county. The ferry is
expected to be completed in about
two months, according to Ted Mc
Kenzie, county construction' fore
man. . !
Comp
Repa
"i
Mips Told
To Start
WASHINGTON, J April 3-JP)-The
v United States jammed
through an order I for an imme
diate start on reparations from
Japan today in the face of pro
tests from some other ' members
of the 11-nation far eastern com
mission. A diplomatic official! said the
action taken to benefit China
and other war-torn lands irew
protects from' Kuvtian French,
Indian and Australian represent
atives at a commission meeting.
'''It was the first time the United
States has resorted to such dras
tic action. In doing so, it was said
to have been supported; by New
Zealand, Canada, China, The
Netherlands and the Philippines.
Great Britain steered clear bf the
dispute.
MacArthnr Geta Order
The maneuver was' accom
plished by rommitioii meeting
today when the United States is
sued an "interim directive" to
Gen. Douglas MacArthurj supreme
Allied commander for Japan,
telling him to put the plan into
effect Immediately.
'Under commission rules the
directive is subject to later com
mission review, but it cannot be
changed unless- the U. S. as one
of the "veto powers' agrees.
This development came to light
when the state department re
leased a text of a statement given
by Gen. Frank R. McCoy, U. S.
member of the commission, at a
closed session today.
Philippines, China Benefit
McCoy told the commission
that on February 13 the U. S. gov
ernment submitted the proposal,
to make a start on taking repara
tions, to the commission and ad
vised it that the U. S. considered
the plan an "urgent first move in
getting .reparations removals
started
: He pointed out that the start of
aetual reparations removals from
Japan has now been delayed for
over a year. x j
McCoy then announced the U.
S. tJecision to send the "interim
directive" to MacArthurj
This program is designed to
give. China, The Netherlands,
Britain, and the Philippines a
certain percentage of available
industrial reparations from Japan
immediately for relief purposes.
U. S. Not to Share i
. Reparations going to The Neth
erlands are destined for the East
Indies; those for Great Britain
are for Burma, Malaya and Brit
ish colonial possessions in the Far
East -
China will receive 15 ;per cent
of reparations already declared
available; the Philippines will get
5 per cent; The, Netherlands 5 per
cent and Britain 5 per cent.
McCoy said the United States
will receive nothing for itself un
der this program and emphasized
that the percentages assigned to
the four countries do not "preju
dice their own or any other coun
try's interest in final j national
percentage shares of Japanese
reparations." a
Firm to Boost
Valley Service
Mid-Willamette vallejf facili
ties will be improved, gas com
pany officials stated yesterday,' if
Portland Gas and Coke company's
application for SEC approval of
$2,500,000 in loans from Portland
banks is approved.
District Manager J. A. H. Dodd
listed among items in the $3,000,
000 building program i contem
plated for this year a booster feed
for Salem low-pressure distribu
tion to augment capacity of the
300-horsepower compressor now
used on the high' pressure side.
Another construction i project
may be additional compressor
units at Tualatin, and Portland to
increase carrying capacity of the
high pressure main serving Wil
lamette valley points.
National Debt at
New Postwar Low
WASHINGTON, April! 3 -OP)
The national debt dropped today
to the lowest v point since June 30,
1945.?
Redemption of most j of the
$1,500,000,000 in government se
curities which the treasury offer
ed to pay off in cash sent the
debt down to $257,786,305,339 as
of April 1.
Weather
Max.
5
53
55
- 33
Mini.
Precip.
Salem
Portland .
Saa Frjincisco
Chicago
New York
43 .OS
47 ! .01
49! .00
38 j tract
Willamette river .a reel.
FORECAST ( from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): CeneraUy
cloudy with light rain howem today
and tonicht. Highest temperature to-
Paying
."y SI. Lowest tonigni ti.
-i ' - "
No. 7
Showers in Store
For Easter Hats
Milady's Easter bonnet will
have more than frills upon it
Sunday morning if the weather
bureau is correct. It also will
be dripping wet
Moist weather conditions are
forecast for west of the Cas
cades in Oregon tomorrow and
Sunday by the McNary field U.
S. weather station. Weekend
snow is predicted east of the
mountains.
Crack Zephyr
Crashes at
75 mph; 1 Dead
CHICAGO. April 3.-JP- One
person was reported killed and 33
injured, eight of them seriously
when the Burlington railroad's
speeding Twin City Zephyr was
derailed tonight in suburban
Downer's Grove by a tractor that
fell from a puinK freight.
The eastbound Zephyr passer
ger train, which a railroad spokes
man said ordinarily passes through
Downer's Grove at 75 miles an
hour, is of modern, stainless steel
construction, and an observer said
the structural strength of the cars
apparently held down the num
ber of dead.
A reporter said that none of
the eight cars in the train was
damaged badly.
John Albrecht, Du Page county
sheriff, gave this account of the
accident:
As the Zephyr, going east to
Chicago, where it was due at 11
D.m. (CST). was" pulling past a
westbound freight a large farm
tractor fell off the freight directly
in the path of the Zephyr.
The coupling between the en
gine of the Zephyr and the train
snapped. The first two cars ca
reened against the west corner of
the brick Downer's Grove station
in a shower of masonry- The en
gineer, Clarence Thurston, was
wedged in his cab and had to be
nit out. -
The next two cart were derail
ed but remained upright The en
gine blocked three sets of tracks.
Senate Denies
Reref erral of
Nomination
WASHINGTON, April 3
David E. Lilienthal. President Tru
man's choice for chairman of the
atomic energy commission, scored
a major victory today when the
senate refused, 52 t 38, to send
his nomination back to'committee
for an FBI check.
This was widely interpreted as
meaning that the senate will" con
firm' Lilienthal when a final vote
comes, perhaps next. week.
Senators Vandenberg (R-Mich)
and Taft (R-Ohio), sometimes re
garded as the "big two" among
senate republicans, split on the is
sue. Taft supported the recom
mittal motion.
Th$ senate had agreed In ad
vance to recess until Monday if
the. motion lost
voting to recommit were II re
publicans and 7 democrats, while
the Victorious side included 18
republicans and 34 democrats.
It was a bitter defeat for Sen
ator McKellar (D-Tenn), who has
been fighting Lilienthal at every
opportunity for years. .
The roll' call included:
Republicans against committal
Morse. (Senator Cordon was ab
sent as chairman of the commit
tee investigating the mine disas
ter.) Added Daily
Set, Portland
PORTLAND, Ore.. April 3-WP)-Sheldon
F. Sackett. Coos Bay,
Ore., newspaper publisher who
recently moved into the Seattle
and Vancouver, Wash., fields, to
night . announced intention to
start a daily newspaper in Port
land also.
It would be the third daily In
Portland.
Sacket announced purchase of
the Metropolitan Printing com
pany here for approximately
$1,000,000. Its printing facilities
will be used to change his recent
ly acquired Portland . Sun from
a weekly to a daily, he said. He
added that the change-over would
not come for several months.' -
Sackett said ex-Sen. Hugh
Mitchell of Washington had
agreed to become editorial direc
tor of the Sackett newspapers.
Truman Sees 'Trend'
WASHINGTON. April 3 -OP)
A beaming President Truman to
day interpreted the triumph of
democratic Martin Kennelly in
the Chicago mayoral election as
the beginning of a trend to the
democrats.
Price Sc
Psr odd QoaesfeOu
, . ' By Weadeil Webb; y ! ' ,
Managing Editor. The Stateamaa j
Admitting thai nothing is certain but death and mor
taxes, there certainly was every indication today: that ;t
night's moon, if any, would find the 1947 Oregon legislature
on its collective way home. t j .j
The well-known adjournment fever became evident at
the statehouse early Thursday, rose a notch when the house
beat down moves to consider one-tabled bills and settled
in to stay at a; high pitch when the senate, with surprising
speed, stamped final approval 21 to 6 to the measure for! a referen
dum on the sale& tax. - j-. -r. ; ' . Uj.' T -J
The senate also passed house-approved measures .providing :lor
boosted income tax exemptions if the sales tax is ratified at referen
dum, lowered exemptions if it is defeated, and for a 1 per cent with ,
holding tax on salaries. 3 All these measures, however, were amended
to some extent and compromises are expected to be worked out today.
Compromise Necessary la Sales Tax Election Date ! .
. A compromise also will be necessitated on the election date for
the sales tax, the house having voted for June 24 and the senate foe
November 4. - ' f. . ; -
The house completed" Its Thursday calendar In mid-afternoon,
but the, senate - - wading through the heaviest legislation it has farrdV
this session carried on until 103 last night. - .
Major legislation action finished by the senate Thursday -in,
addition to all-but-final action on tax measures included that on
house-approved measures; '- I V i ; . "
1 r - Requiring counties to levy up to 4H mills in property t?x fo
public welfare, or whatever below that amount Is needed to meet
their demands (26-2); i . . t
2 --Ratifying the proposed constitutional amendmeat to limit
presidential tenure to two terms (25-3). j j
J--Allowing state acceptance of the $.000.000 Klamath ' Fafls
marine barracks, and appropriating $620,000 for its use a a school
for vocational education (24-4). r I, .j 1 i.
4 --Voiding the transfers of property belonging to recipients e
old-age pensions, if such transfers are designed to avoid" state claims
to recovery (19-6). ' ? r ... ; i- . ? ,
Cemmanity Property Law Repassed by Senate 1-1 1
Re-passed with bouse amendments, thus ending the issues, wero
measures (1) making Oregon a community property state; (2) dis
couraging aiscrtmtnauon in nir- ,
Ing as to race, color, ancestry, sex
or union membership; (3) broad
ening the powers of the state fish
commission.
Major final actions taken by the
house Thursday included passage
of senate-approved measures: ,'
1. Authorizing construction of
a $750,000 of flee building for the
state highway commission in Sa
lem. 2. Providing for an interim com
mittee to study salaries of county
officers.
3 -Asking the federal govera
men to retain the war assets ad
ministration office in Portland.
4. Making a rural school dis
trict j la w . operative next Janu
ary 1. , .
Defeated In the senate was the
house-approved measure to li
cense and . tax bookmaking on
races. 7 'C
Defeated In the bouse " were
proposals to repeal the rural
school district , law; ' require as
sessors to meet certain specifica
tions, and levy a 30 per cent tax
on slot machine receipts to raise
an estimated $4,000,000 a year.
The latter proposal, reached the
floor with a do-not-pass commit
tee recommendation which was
adopted 29 to. 26.
The vote came after Reps. Giles
French and Henry Semon con
tended such devices would con
tinue operating regardless of law
and that it was unfair to raise
revenue from property and in
come levies without taxing
-racketeers, and after Reps.
Stanhope Pier and J. E. Bennett
declared the bill constituted the
"semi-legalizing" of gambling and
"surrender to the racketeers.
Basin Commission Continues
Surviving an attack in the sen
ate and sent to the house was the
measure appropriating $18,125 for
continuance of the Willamette
river basin commission, defended
by Sen. Douglas McKay as vi
tally necessary.
Pushing through the senate
and going to the house was a
resolution providing for an .in
terim committee to study gam
bling, with a view to recommend
ing control, suppression or taxing,
. The senate Thursday also up
held Gov. Earl SneU's veto of the
measure providing lor the siate
acquisition of Camp White for
hosDital use. The vote was 15 to
13. with 20 needed to over-rule.
The joint ways and means com
mittee estimated the session will
cost $395,000, providing it closes
tonight, including allowances for
interim committees, legislative
lounges and other incidentals ori
$4817 a day. Cost of the last ses
sion 69 days and a record at that
time was $232,000, of $3347 a
day. - - -. " .
More than four carloads of
paper have been used tor legis
lative calendars -and measures
since start of the current session
last January 13.
Today the -82nd and probably
true last of the session finds the
senate with 18 and the house with
six measures up for final passage.
Calendars Not Indicative
But the calendar is not partic
ularly indicative of the work
ahead. Moves for reconsideration
of bills already passed or defeat
ed are deemed certain to be made.
On the schedule for the house
are senate-approved bills provid
ing for statues of Oregon pio
neers in statuary hall in Wash
ington,, and making constables
appointive instead of elective.:
Set for final action to " the sen
a: are- measures liberalizing
rules for absentee ballots; let
ting dispensers of game licenses
change and! retain an extra 25
cents for . handling; allowing
counties to help finance buildings
fo- veterans, and permitting is
suance or bonds . to usance a
state-wide reforestation program.
Both the senate and house will
resume at lo a. m. lor perhaps
their final meeting of 1947. . ,
Sales tax story, on page 2:
Legis. action on page 6.
Aid for Greece
Has Approval; j
U.N. May Halt
WASHINGTON. April S -f
The senate foreign relations com
mittee stamped 13 to 0 approval
on President Truman's Greek and
Turkish aid program today aftes
tacking on an amendment giving
the UN restricted power to half
the program. j u . --
It was the first b!g test of thf
proposal to bolstemhe two Med j
terranean countries against com
munism by granting them $400,
000.000 worth of financial ar-4.
limited military aid. , ; r
A senate vote may come next
week. Meantime.: an Associated
Press survey showed a majority:
of the house foreign affairs con
mittee also favors passage, -;
The senate committee approved!
a modified version of an amen4
ment written by it J chairmen
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich).
This new version, worked out aM
ter consultation with the under
secretary of state,. Dean Acheson,
reads: - : '-I .
"The president Is directed to)
withdraw any or sli aid authr
ized herein under any of the foU
low circumstances: 1 f i j
"(1) If requested by the gcv
ernments cf Greece and Turkey,
respectively representing a ma
jority of the people of either sue i
nation; ' ...-- . r
f'(2) If the president . Is offii
cia41y notified by the United Na
tions that the securiQr council
finds (with respect to which find
ing the United States waives the
exercise of the veto) or that the;
general assembly ifinds that ace
tion taken or -assistance furnih
d by the United Nations-makes
the continuance of such assistance)
unnecessary or undesirable; ,
"(3) If the president finds thai '
any purposes of the act have been
substantially accomplished by the
action of any other intergovern-i
mental organizations or finds fha
the' purposes of . the act are in .
capable of satisfactory accompe
lishment.'
County Welfare r
Policy Revision
Set for Today
f The- Marion county welfare
corrmiissioa will . meet today at -1:30
pjn. to discus a new policy
in welfare benefits as the result
of changes to state matching fund
policies. County 1, Judge Gran
Murphy said yesterday. f; i
Usually the commission meets
the third Monday of the month,
but . the . advance 1 meeting . was
called to iron out , the problems
caused by the 20 per cent reduc
tion -of state -matching funds for
general assistance, from $15,09 '
to $12,000 per month. Murphy ex
plained. . : - - . ; . ,
The county welfare program im
divided into assistance for th
blind, ; dependent children, per- ,
sons i. over 5 years of ace and
general assistance. Under the new
matching plans j the general as-,
sistance fund receives more from
the state and the others less.
During the month of March tho
county paid out $22,393 for gen
eral assistance, but with the new
plan the county would have paid
only S 19,654, or a reduction ef
X12 per cent, with a' saving of
over $2000 to the county. Judge)
Murphy declared, ; Thus a new
policy, of benefits Is needed and
will be worked out today, Murphy ,
indicated. - i
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