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II Page 2 Section 1 $50 Maximum Jobless Benefit Proposed in Senate Measure; House L&bor-Sponsored Package Would Kill Board, By WILLIAM WARREN United Presi Staff Correspondent Measures to abolish the Stale Unemployment Compensation Com' mission and replace it with an em ployment security commissioner, and to increase maximum weekly unemployment compensation bene fits up to (50 a week were before the Oregon Senate today. The bills were two of three econ Itituting the package, of unemploy ment compensation proposed by wc urcgon aiaie Liaoor luunui, AFL-CIO. The third will deal with a new payroll tax structure designed to finance the program ana mane in come at least equal outgo, some thing it hasn't done in seven of the past eight years. Duplication End Sought A kill introduced by Sen. Phil Brady of Portland is designed to do away with duplication of the unemployment commission and the State Industrial Accident Com mission to make for tighter ad ministration, George Brown, po litical education director for the State Labor Council, said. The three commissioners now nerve on both commissions. Under terms of the bill,, the three would continue to serve on the Industrial Accident Commission. But that commission would be divorced from the unemployment compen tation setup which would be han dled entirely by the employment tccurity commissioner, serving tinder the appointive power of the governor. A companion measure would provide for a maximum of $40 a week during the benefit year be ginning next July 1; $45 (or the benefit year beginning July 1, 1958; $50 for the benefit year be ginning July 1, 1959; and 66 2-3 per cent of the average weekly wage in covered employment for the benefit year beginning July 1, 1960, and thereafter. 21 Week! Ankril Under the formula proposed, Brown said, only a few would get the maximum of 66 2-3 per cent, with the great majority getting a maximum of 50 per cent. He said the bill dealing with covered payroll tax rales would be ready lor submission this week, probably Wednesday. The measure dealing with bene fit! would extend unemployment compensation insurance to enr Jiloycrs of one or more persons nstcad of the present , two or more. Brown said the labor council proposal also called for a uniform duration of 26 weeks for unem ployment compensation, whether at the minimum rate of J IS a week, or the maximum. The pres ent duration is 12 weeks to 26 weeks, depending on earnings. Tom Bids Democrats Keep Surtax Promise Ren. Allen Tom (It-Sherman) has called on all Democratic legis lators to "keep their promise lo Ihe people of OrcRon" and join Republicans in support ol II. R. 361. which calls for repeal ol the 4. per cent surtax on income tax returns. "Every person in this legislature has promised In work in behall of Ihe repeal of Ihe surtax, but no one has done anything." Tom said. "We are now in the 23rd day of the session and Ihe mailer hasn't even been discussed with the house tax commlltee yet. It's time we had some action." Tom said Ihe Kepuhlirnns have Ship Sinking 1 n I neport raise KKY WKST. Kin. i - A renorl iVat a Liherian freighter with 35 Ihe Florida Slrails 70 miles west 1 of here turned out Tuesday to be a false alarm. Kleven hours after the start ol an intensive search by air and surface craft, the SS Nortuna was localed by a Navy vessel, in no danger and sullering Irom noth ing worse than a lost propeller A garbled radio message in mixed Spanish and Knglish, re ceived by a commercial station at Lantnna. Fin , was interpreted In mean that Ihe ship wns sink ing and her crew wns going over hoard. CHICKEN IN A BOX 2190 So. Comml. Closed Thru FEBRUARY OPEN Mor.5, 1957 Gets Canital Gain Bill MEET THE LEGISLATORS V. I (' f SENATOR DWIGHT HOPKINS Senator Dwlght H. Hopklm (D.-Unlon) li newcomer to the Oregon legislature, having de feated Republican Charlea W. Blnger In the Eastern Oregon district embracing Baker, Union and Wallowa counties. He li In buiinesi with H. L, Wagner It Sons, wholesale seed merchants, as general manager and secretary. He has been on board of directors af Pacific State Sccdmcn's association, ice-rclnry-lreiiHurcr and on the board of Merlon Itlucgrass association, Ihe special turf committee of American Seed Trade association and also on Ihe board of Oregon-Idaho Seedmen association. He was appointed by late Gov. Paul L, Patterson on Chewlngs and Creeping Red Fescue com mission. Sen. Hopkins was mayor of Imbler one term after serving two terms on city council. He was chairman of March of Olmei In Imbler nine years, la mem ber of Klwanls club, active In Parent Teachers and member of First Methodist church In l.a Grande. He Is a member of the Union county Chamber of Com merce, an Elk, Mason, Farm Bureau and LaGrande Country club. Is ion of Methodist minister and for a time was a theological student at Methodist school of Southwestern States. Later he moved to San Diego where he was with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant, 'and served as secretary of union local there and Ihen on wage review board. Sen. Hopkins Is an ardent Democrat and a delegate to Democratic National convention in Chicago last year. Ills Interests center around labor, agriculture and business. He Is anxious to have an extension laboratory In his port of stale. kept failh with the residents of Oregon. II, I). .161, introduced Monday, be said has Ihe backing of every Hcpublican in the legisla ture. "It calls for the complete repeal of the 45 per cent surtax, with no strings attached." Tom declared. "It's exactly what wc promised, but we cannot fulfill that promise without llemocralic support." Tom said H II. 1, which was introduced by the house taxation committee at Ihe request ol Gov ernor llohcrt D. Holmes, would also repeal the surtax. But. Tnm quotes Speaker of the House 1'nt Donley as saying "This hill to repeal the surtax and re store Ihe higher exemptions amends the same section that con tains the rale schedule. II anyone wanls to rotor Ihe hill coiilnining I the rale changes he will have lo 1 l ie responsibility lor killing """ "I"'"' me una In view of these facts." Tom IZl't''1 '7', "V,11' '"! .V1":"1',.11"; r' "T11' no strings attached, will he keeping with the desires nl Ihe i .,i.. i . ... ' " ,,, " "',,,; , . "J T relerendum to be eroded by such devious means at those Mr. lino- Icy referred lo." BOX OFFICE O TICKETS NOW ON SALE THE ST. OlAF CHOIR Tlll'HS. KKR. llth :15 P.M. Kes. Seats 1.25 A. 2.00 VIENNA CHOIR BOYS l-HI. MAR. Kth 11:15 P.M. Res. Seats 2.10 & 3.0 For Reservations Dial KM 4 2224 JKW'rXKRS SII.VLRSMITHS Certified Gemolntist Amerlran Gem Sorlrly SENATOR BEN MUSA Senator Ben Musa, (D-Wasco) Is a member of Ihe husband and wife team of the 1957 legislature. His wife Katherine Musa Is serv ing her second term In the house. Sen. Musa, a certified ac count returns to Ihe Oregon senate after a four-year lapse, having aerved In Ihe 1941-1951 sessions. He defeated former Senator John P, Ilounaell In the 1956 general election. Long active In Democratic circles, Sen. Musa some years ago was president of the Young Democrats of Multnomah county before he moved to The Dalles. He also has been secretary of the State Young Democrats. Born In Boring, Clackamas county, August 20, 1905, he at tended grammar school there, pent two years of high school In Gresbam and later attended business college and Oregon In stitute of Technology In Multno mah county. For 10 years worked for Port land General Electric company and Portland Traction company, and was deputy collector of inter, nal revenue from 1936 to 1942. Became CPA In 1043. Member of Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Ac countants, Sen. Musa has been treasurer of Wasco County Red Cross, and Wasco United Fund. He served a year as chairman of The Dalles planning commls-, alon, Is past director of The Dalles Chamber of Commerce, and is active In Klwanls club. He la a member of Ihe Episcopal, church. The Alusas have two children. Saudi Prince Has Cerebral Palsy Illness WASHINGTON W Preside! Kischnwcr's doclors reported Monday that Saudi A r a b I a s Prince Mnshhur is partially para lyzed because of cerebral palsy but "surgery is not indicated at the present time." A bulletin on the .Tj-yenr-old boy's condition was issued nl Waller Reed Army llospilal by Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Ilenton and Mnj. Gen. Howard Snyder, Ei senhower's, physicians. It was released with the de parture of the child from the hos pital. Prince Mnshhur entered it Inst week for medical studies of his condition. King Saud came to the hospital for Ihe hnv. The monarch had an examination ol his eyes as the first step In a head ln-loe physical ; checkup he plnns this week No statement was issued on the King's condition. Saud is pnrlinlly blind In one eve and hns faulty vision In Ihe olher. Abdullah Rntkhnlr, Sand's press officer, told reporters that Mash bur 11 1 "a small contribution" for Ihe hospital. In reply to questions, he said this would be $2,000 each year. In he used for children un dergoing treatment at the hospital. PHONS EM IAST TIME TONIGHTI "WAR AND PEACE" Feature SlarH 1:30 Shown Onlv Once STARTS TOMORROW FIRST RUNI A I) OKI) ATTR ACTION In Life V vif l V ChlMirn ?Oc Students MV Adults V.r . Investors Said Shying Away From Oregon Bills providing a middle ap- piuach on taxation of gains and losses from the sale or exchange of capital assets, recommended by the legislative interim tax study eommilloe were considered by the Oregon house taxation com mittee Monday. At present Oregon docs not dif ferentiate between capital gains and other kinds of income while the federal government takes only half the gain where the equip ment has been held longer than six months. Interim Commlltee Views Told Senalor Lee Ohmart (R-Marion), in presenting the interim commit tee views said the investors were shying away from Oregon because capital gains were not given any consideration in Oregon. The bills prepared for the in terim committee will meet the demand for a capital gains pro vision, yet avoid the pitfall of the short federal holding period," Ohmart said. The committee's proposal is promised on the logic that it gives capital gains taxpayers a measure of equal treatment with other taxpayers but docs not give them a preferable status as found in the internal revenue code. Sen. Ohmart said that too often legislative tax committees think only of the dollar and cents as pects of a taxation bill but give consideration to the equity that a bill might provide in be half of one class of taxpayers as against another. Accelerated Depreciation Proposal A pair of bills providing for a schedule of accelerated deprecia tion, with the greatest deprecia tion credits given in the first sev eral years of the life of the equip ment, was also discussed by the committee. Rep. Alien Tom, (R-Shermanl. a member of the interim commit tee argued In behalf -o( this bill and cited his purchase of a $15,000 tractor for his ranch, on which he was not allowed any acceler ated depreciation. You want the state of Oregon to act as a bank and carry vou? questioned Rep. Clarence Barton (D-Uoos), "No," answered Tom, "I think I am carrying the state of Ore gon. Would Aid Younger Men Tom said that the granting of acccieralcd depreciation would be of benelil In small businessmen and young farmers just starting out in business. Members of Ihe lax commission staff said they had no figures nn what the slate would lose in tax revenue if the two bills were en acted into law but said "they would be substantial." The internal revenue service be gan lo grant accelerated deprecia tion nn machinery and equipment in nps.1 ana ihe two bills proposed for Oregon would be retroactive lo Ihe date of the beginning of the federal program in this respect. lorn Sennlon, representing Ihe Oregon AKL-CIO, was Ihe only person testifying that opposed both proposals, on the grounds that it would be unwise lo pass any bills that would reduce slate revenues at this time. Haiti's Army Keeps Order PORT At' PRINCE. Ilaill I 'Initi's political leaders were split wnay over ine next step in sol' ing Ihe government crisis result ing from Ihe resignation of Pro visional President Joseph Ne mours Pierre-Louis. The general strike that forced Pierre-Louis out was continuing, hut no disorders were reported. The army appeared lo be main taining order. Senate President Charles Kom brun called a special Senate ses sion today to discuss selection of a new acting chief executive. 4-4713 1 KM MIT' OnbmaScopE GORDON MacRA? DAN DAILEY s ERNEST BORGNINE SHEREE NORTH THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Twisted NASHVILLE, Term. Four workmen were flung to their deaths when this nearly completed television tower crumpled in a maze of twisted steel. The base of the 1,265 foot tower (upper left) fell outward, while Hoover Notes Depression Signs; Sen. Smith Seconds By STERLING F. GREEN . WASHINGTON Ml Underscor ing comments of former President Herbert Hoover, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) said to day the nation's "fantastic" bud get and "Frankenstein" debt con tain Ihe makings of economic dis aster. Mrs. Smith prepared her ad dress for the third National Con ference on Government Reorgan ication. Hoover told the same group last night that the country is courting an economic "agony" like the one which afflicted his own administration. He endorsed a recent declara tion of Secretory of the Treasury Humphrey that the rising trend of federal spending, unless checked, will bring on a "depression that will curl your hair. "Mine has already been curled once, said Ihe 83-year-old Hoover in a wry reference to the 1929 boom-and-bust, "and 1 think I de lect the signs." Jtlrs. Smith said she has asked Humphrey by: letter to point to places in the budget where reduc tions can be made. She said he suggested no specific cuts. She recalled that Humphrey told reporters there were "a lot" off places where cuts could be made, I and contended his statement car ries with it "the serious obligation to specify those places instead of placing Congress in Ihe position of guessing as to what those places are." She added: To me it is almost a fright ening comparison that the federal government today pays more in interest on Its national debt than it paid for all governmental ex penditures in fiscal 1938 just 19 years ngo. She said Ihe budget provisions include "forces which threaten our financial solvency forces which if not controlled could set torch to inflation, which . . . could wreck the financial stability of this government and this na tion." The ennference. sponsored bv the Citizens' Committee for the Hoover Report, was organized to mobilize public opinion for adop HHItH:H STARTS ? THE COMEDY TEAM OF THE YEAR! in YISTAVISION and TECHNICOLOR Bob Katharine HOPE-HEPBURN HILARIOUSLY TArTurn r-sr tur FIRST TIME TTvrvTiiviriiT NOELIE MIDDLETON JAMES ROBERTSON JUSTICE ROBERT HELPMANN i "Ml TT Ruins of Death Tower tion of the Hoover Commissin recommendations b y Congress and the administrate. Hoover told the 500 delegates from 30 states, at a dinner session last night, that the country is in "the midst of an inflation move ment" which if not controlled will end in a "bump." "While secretary of commerce, I witnessed a growing inflation movement," he said, adding: "I protested vigorously at its promotion by federal activities. Then I had to live through the agony of its inevitable conse quences." Among means he suggested to cut spending. Hoover mentioned: Greater unification in the mili Mother Dro wns 3 Tots in Bath Tub CHICAGO m-A young mother who, police said, left notes admit ting she drowned her three chil dren and then tried to kill herself, was held in a hospital today on a charge of murder. The bodies of the children, 3- year-old twin girls and a 5-year-old boy, were found by police in the suburban Park Ridge home of nichard ftl. ruetz, 32, and his wife Deputy Coroner Charles Ttich Bcvcrly, 27. ar(js saj,j a n0(e (oun(j jn the Puctz Larlier, when Puelz arrived 1 home from work he found his wife unconscious. Her head was in the oven of Ihe gas stove in the kitch en and the jets were turned on. Puctz said he dragged her to the rear porch, tried to revive her, and called police and firemen. After firemen revived Mrs. Puctz with an inhalator, she only cried, "My children!" The chil dren, John and his twin sisters Deborah Lynn and Cora Lynn, were fully clothed when found drowned in the hath tub. Puelz is manager of a women's apparel shop in suburban Evanslon. A warrant charging Mrs. Puelz ; with murder was issued by Police j Magistrate Edward Lundberg on 1 ENDS TONITE CLARK GABLE "MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" WEDNESDAY its mm - With Li V -1 M-G M otesenls I! 'i ; '4 1 IIJ l.AFF HIT , ItM ri.is i . S : in Voir -T the upper portion, on which men were working, landed beside it (foreground). The tower apparently buckled in the middle. Station WSM-TV officials said the cause was not known. (AP Wirephoto) Bust Fears tary establishment, and the aban donment of "obsolete methods and weapons of defense." Better pay and promotion poli cies in the federal career service lo cut the present annual job turn over from 600,000 to 200,000. Elimination of hundreds of business-type enterprises carried on by the government. MEXICO ARTIST DIES MEXICO CITY IB-Miguel Co- vai-rubias, 53, one of Mexico's most popular and successful mod ern artists, died yesterday after a brief illness. Death was attri buted to septicemia, a blood pois oning, a recommendation of an assistant state's attorney. Police Chief Wil lis Jones ordered a mental exam ination. Puelz said his wife had a ner vous breakdown recently, but that she had appeared content alter i returning within the last few davs i from ' a visit with relatives in1 , Bonaparte, Iowa. kitchen read: "Notice from Beverly Puetz. I drowned the children trying to kill self but having trouble gas, electricity, etc. Want police to know I did it because I can't han dle myself. Been going on for some time ... My husband, Dick, has been wonderful and is better off without me and the kids lor I have them so mixed up 1 felt they couldn't be straightened out nor myself." Another note, addressed "To Dick." said: "I hope you can build a new future. I have ruined all this kids and you all my own doing You deserve so much belter and 1 failed you and I couldn't go on." j .! y TECHNICOLOR GUY MADISON ftlKU IMI . UTHRYN GRANT T"3 TT" J STARTS FRIDAY MARION .GlEtfW . wycBueo BRAND TRD too ThTaAhouM of Iht Aurat Wpob ' . . Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 6, 1567 4 Die as TV Tower Falls In Nashville Men Working 700 Feet up Hurled To Deaths NASHVILLE, Tenn. W Four men working 700 feet above the ground were hurled to their deaths yesterday when a nearly completed, giant television tower buckled and crumbled. The tower broke in the middle and both sections collapsed in a heavilv populated residential area but miraculously did not strike any houses. The new 1,262-foot broadcasting lower, which was to have been 1,379 feet when topped with the antenna, was being built for sin- lion YVSM-TV by the Jonn r. Beaslev Construction Co. of Mus kogee, Okla. The four dead, workers for the construction company, were iden tified as: Donald Ward Kinnan, 25, Tuc son, Ariz.: George Fresier, jj, Union City. Tenn.: Ray H. Max well. 33, Jacksonville, Fla.: and Robert Lee Kirshner, 30, Califor nia, Mo. Harold O'Neal, 29, of Boonehill, N.Y., a fifth steelworkcr, was treated for shock. O'Neal had just climbed down from the tower and was inside the transmitter station. Officials of the construction firm were at a loss lo explain the collapse. A new type steel alloy, known as T-l, which officials said was upposcd to be three times as strong as regular steel, was being used in the lower. Theories that the vibrations from a jet plane passing over head or high winds had collapsed j the lower were discounted by the I officials. "I've never seen anything like it and I've been in the business t' Hw wri.,wa twinns 'BUCCANEER JANET TRADE-IN aquateen' . vwsp , 'MARY ;-,Ssv ' V' ' 1 "The Diamond Store ofSnlem" HARMANBR0S. for 34 years," said G. A. Wallen strom, of Syracuse, N.Y., Gen eral Electric Corp. engineer pres ent at the crash. "We arc going to try and find out what caused the tower tt fall," he sai . "I'm going lo do every, thing I can, but I don't have much hope." 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