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4 Kennedy Asks Solons Get School Aid Bill WASHINGTON Wl Presi dent Kennedy sent to Congress Tuesday a 24-point program of federal aid to education, and asked for $1.2 billion to get it started. As before, his proposals made no provision for direct aid to private or parochial schools. Included in the omnibus measure are 13 new programs and 11 existing programs to be extended and expanded. They include a complex sys tem of grants for public ele mentary and secondary educa tion, work projects for college students, expanded student loans, and loans and grants to help public and private colleges alike to meet the surge of new enrollments. The President placed no price tag on his total package, which he said would "phase out feder al aid over a four-year period." But he told Congress, "It is clearly realistic in terms of its Flemming: 'National Interest Dictated Stockpile Contract' Combined VPI, AP Rrports WASHINGTON UO Presi dent Arthur S. Flemming told Senate investigators Tuesday that the "national interest" dic tated the terms of a government contract favorable to a Chicago copper producing company in 1955. The former Eisenhower ad ministration official defended the disputed contract with Calu met and Hecla Inc. in testimony before the special Senate stock pile subcommittee. Flemming was director of the Office of Defense Mobilization during negotiations on the con tract to supply up to $57 mil lion worth of copper to the national strategic inventories. 'Forgave' $3.6 Million Subcommittee counsel Rich ard C. Coburn said it appeared Calumet and Hecla got "special treatment" when Flemming let the company stretch out its corf traded deliveries almost three more years and "forgave" $5.6 million in defaulted copper de liveries in June, 1955. Ranchers Okay Range Program LAKEVIEW IB An under standing on a range use plan for livestock grazing has been reached by ranchers in the Pais ley Unit of the Bureau of Land Management's Lakeview Dis trict. A survey shov ed that there is not enough forage on the public lands to meet present licensed demands.: At a weekend meeting in Lakeview, sheep and cattle ranchers agreed to keep enough stock off the grazing land the next three years to meet the re quirements of the land-use sur vey. MONDAY It's the greatest tire sale we've ever held . . . and we guarantee you tremendous savings on Firestone tires. Take you choice of blackwall, whitewall, nylon, rayon, tubed or tubeless and get one of the best tire deals in town! (Some factory seconds at great savings!) You'll be amazed, too, at our low, low prices on Fire stone Town & Country Winter Tires. Every tire is top quality and carries Firestone's Road Hazard Guarantee from 15 to 36 months . . . with replacements pro-rated on tread wear. We'll give you an extra big trade-in allowance on your old tires, and you don't need cash. Come in, make your deal and just say Charge It. Conven ient payday terms will fit your pocketbook. You'll get a valuable FREE gift, too, with any Budget pur chase of $ 1 9.95 or more. OPEN $1.2 Billion cost and it is clearly essential to the growth and security of this nation." , High Priority An administration spokesman called it a high priority pro gram, designed to pin-point the most crucial needs and prob lems in American education, and at the same time to avoid controversy wherever possible. For the past two years, Ken nedy's education proposals have foundered in a controversy over aid for church schools. Kennedy says he believed such aid would be unconstitutional, breeching the barrier between church and state. The Roman Catholic hier archy has contended this :s not true and has opposed any fed eral program which doesn't in clude aid for private and paro chial schools. Although his new program contains no provision for direct aid, there is one suggested Flemming acknowledged that he could not remember any company being given compar able treatment. But he said the contract concessions were justi fied on the basis that it was "in the national interest" to re tain this key source of copper for the strategic stockpile. In his second day of testi mony, Flemming also was ex pected to be questioned by the Special Armed Services Subcom mittee, headed by Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., on nickel, lead and zinc contracts negoti ated while he was head of ODM. High Policy-Maker At previous hearings, stock pile officials estimated that eight times more zinc and four times more lead was purchased than needed. The General Services Admin istration figured last Sept. 30 that the taxpayers stand to lose about $217 million on a zinc and lead investment of $843 mil lion. During 1953-57 Flemming was chief of defense mobilization and thus a high policy-maker in the many-sided stockpile effort. Later he entered the Eisen hower Cabinet as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He is now president of the Uni versity of Oregon. 'In Other Words . . .' The subcommittee has re ceived estimates that the tax payers could lose from $1 bil lion to $4 billion of the $9 bil lion invested in stocks of strate gic and critical materials, hoard ed against the possibility of na tional emergency. William N. Lawrence, who was one of Flcmming's top aides and now is deputy director of the Office of Emergency Plan ning, testified June 20 that he had protested to Flemming against the volume of lead and DM - TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY (Open 'til 9) iQNLY. 'TIL 9 THESE SALE as a Start change in the college student loan program which might make it easier for church and private schools to secure teach ers. A notable omission in the sweeping program of recom mendations was any request for college scholarships, a constant source of congressional bicker ing in past years. Study on College Students Kennedy did, however, ask for a national study to deter mine why students do not at tend or finish college. The ad ministration spokesman said that if the study indicates a need for scholarships, a request for them could be made next year or later. Highlights of the far-ranging proposals: A four-year program to provide $1.5 billion to the states for selective improve ment of public elementary and secondary education. Part of zinc purchases but said he learned that Flemming "had his directions, too." Chairman Stuart Symington, D-Mo., asked Lawrence then: "In other words, you told him you thought this program was wrong; and he said he had been told to do it; is that right?" "Yes, sir," Lawrence replied. Lawrence told of what he called some "pretty elastic" fig uring used to justify the pur chases. He said he believed Flemming was "not following the intent of the law" or Eisen hower's directives, in approving the zinc-lead purchase pro grams. Jury Being Picked For Booher Trial ROSEBURG (Special) A 12-member jury was expected to be selected by Tuesday noon to hear an appeal by Willis Boo her, of Curtin, who was found guilty last November of violat ing the state compulsory school attendance law. Booher, who was found guilty in Drain Justice Court, has re fused to send his 14-year-old son to Drain High School for religious reasons. The rppeal is being heard in the Douglas County Circuit Court of Judge Charles Wood- rich. Soviets Sending Aid HAVANA, Cuba Wl The Soviet Union will send 400 farm technicians to Cuba, ac cording to press reports here. Among those expected are ag ricultural engineers, economic and financial experts, veterin arians and specialists in poultry and zoology. DAYS! the money would have to be spent for such special projects as upgrading slum area schools, remedial reading, programs for the gifted, and the like. The balance could be used to build badly needed classrooms or raise teachers' salaries, or both, but only after the state had drawn up and publicized a pri ority list of needs. A system of allotments would provide more money to the most needy states. A three-year program to provide $1 billion in federal loans to public and private non profit colleges and universities alike for the construction of academic facilities. Expansion of the govern ment's student loan program from the present limit of $90 million to $135 million in fiscal 1964. The forgiveness of up to 50 per cent of the loan, now limited to public elementary and secondary teachers, would be extended to college and uni versity teachers, and to teach ers in private non-profit ele mentary and secondary schools. A federal guarantee of loans made to college students by banks, up to $150 million over a three-year period. Stu dents in both public and private institutions of higher education would be eligible. A three-year program to pay 50 per cent of the wages to needy students for campus em ployment of an educational na ture (grading papers, working in libraries or laboratories), up to 15 hours per week. All col lege students eligible. Cost: $22.8 million in fiscal 1964, starting next July 1. A three-year oroeram nf federal grants to the states for construction of public commu nity junior colleges. Cost: $50 million in fiscal 1964. Three-year programs of matching grants to both public ana private, colleges for train ing technicians in science, engi neering and medicine, building and supplying libraries, and ex pansion of graduate schools. Cost in fiscal 1064: Technician training $20 million, libraries $40.25 million, graduate schools $4u.z million. Extension for four years of the present program of aid to federally impacted areas at the current rate of $300 million $400 million a year. The graduate fellowship program of the National De fense Education Act (NDEA) to be increased from 1,500 an nually to 10,000 annually for the next three years, plus 2,000 additional summer session fel lowships'. "GREATEST SHOE SALE ON EARTH" AAore FlorsheDms Added To lurch's Clecaramice Scale 1 vv Co) GREATER REDUCTIONS ... on WOMEN'S HEELS and OUR FINEST DRESS HEELS Reg. 18.95 to 29.95 FASHION SHOES Reg. 13.99 to 19.95 WALKING SHOES and STACKED HEELS .Reg. 13.95 to 18.95 WEDGIES and CASUALS Reg. 12.95 to 16.95 Pleats NOW Feted By JFK Holdup Suspect's Hearing Delayed A preliminary hearing for a 66-year-old man who was arrest ed south of Cottage Grove Fri day and charged with the rob bery of a Portland bank has been postponed until Feb. 4. The hearing was scheduled Monday for James T. Holly wood of Seattle, but was post poned by U. S. Commissioner Claire Mundorff in Portland at the request of Hollywood's at torney. Hollywood is charged with the $53,469 holdup of the Enst- port Plaza branch of the U.S. National Bank of Portland. State police found $22,585 in the springs of his car scat after he was stopped by state police south of Cottage Grove the day after the bank was robbed by two gunmen. No other suspects have been arrested. Liquor License Bill SALEM Wl A bill to let the Liquor Commission suspend liquor licenses in event of emergency is being introduced by Rep. Rjssell Bonestcele, R Salem. Gov. Mark Hatfield rec ommended such a bill as the re sult of last year's Seaside riots. and Casuals REG. 795 to (AP Wlrcpholo) It was a joyous occasion all around when President Kennedy, honored poet Robert Frost for his literary contributions to Amer ican letters on Frost's 88th birthday anniversary last March. Frost died in Boston Tuesday. Present at the White House ceremony were, from the left, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R-Mass., and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Story, Page One. 1 Nominations Revealed STOCKHOLM (UPD The Swedish Academy, in a rare disclosure, said Tuesday Rob ert Frost often had been con sidered for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The academy makes it a policy to decline comment on possible winners only on the laureates themselves. But Academy Secretary An ders Oesterling broke that rule Tuesday on learning of the American poet's death in Boston. Oesterling said Frost was placed in nomination several times for the Nobel Prize. Tho last time was last year, he said, when the world's high est literary award went to another American, novelist John Steinbeck. TV Production Center COLOGNE, Germany Wl The North German radio and television network will open in New Delhi next month West Germany's first over seas tele vision production center. It will produce filmed reports on South and Southeast Asia. STORMY LEATHER BROGUES" REG. 2495 Sizes 6V2 to 14 Widths AA to EEE 1295 EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD. Address Given Not at Oakridge O A K R I D G E Authorities here said Tuesday an Oakridge address listed by Associated Press Monday as the home of a soldier arrested in Spain is non existent. Further, both the Oakridge police chief and city recorder said they have no knowledge that Ralph M. Davis, 22, c lived in Oakridge. Davis was one of three sol diers arrested by Spanish au thorities for allegedly beating and robbing a Spanish civil guard. Tax Dispute SALEM W The Senate Tax Committee decided Monday to invite Harvey Aluminum Co. to appear before it and voice any complaints it might have against the State Tax Commission. The vole was 5-2 in favor of this action. Sen. Walter Pear son, D-Porlland, said, however, that he planned to send the company a letter advising it not to appear. Our Books Are Cloned . . . Charges Made Now Are Not Due Until March 10. Tucs., Jan. 29. 1963 ..Page 3A Poet Eulogized By President WASHINGTON (UPD Presi dent Kennedy Tuesday said the death of Robert Frost "leaves a vacancy in the American spirit." Eulogizing the poet as "the great American poet of our time," Kennedy said in a statement issued by the White House: "His art and life summed ' up tho essential qualities of the New England he loved so much; the fresh delight in na- - ture, the plainness in speech, the canny wisdom, and the . deep, underlying insight into . the human soul. "His death improvcrishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and und- 1 erstanding. lie had promises to keep, and miles to go, and now he sleeps." T Vale Students Flee Flames : VALE Wl Tho vocational agricultural wing of Vale High School was destroyed Monday k afternoon by firs which broke out while 40 students were in side. All fled uninjured. A spark from a welding rod ignited gas oline and caused the fire, . which resulted in loss ' esti- ' mated at $75,000. The faculty ordered the rest of the school evacuated as a precautionary measure. But the '-' Vale Volunteer fire department kept the flames from the other ) two wings of the school. Officials said a student was . doing the welding when a . spark touched off a small pool of gasoline which had spilled .. from a tractor. Lost in tho blaze were four . tractors, two pickup trucks and other equipment. ' Classes as usual in other ', wings were held Tuesday. To Be Aired Pearson objected to the idea of the committee holding an In- ' vestigation on the matter of ' Harvey's dispute with the Tax Commission at a time when the. matter is before the courts. Pearson said earlier that the Tax Commission has become "vindictive and the governor should replace them if they keep their present attitude." CASUALS NOW 1 1.00 NOW 7.00 NOW 7.00 NOW 7.00 cusTOm PRICED TO CLEAR ... 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