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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1957)
Salem,' Oregon, Thursday, May 2; 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAD Section 1 Page 11 C.C. Opposes Near AH New U.S. Spending 69 Policy Declarations Passed, Some Aimed At Ike Program By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON UB-The U. S. Chamber of Commerce today was armed for its battle against fed eral spending with 69 new policy declarations some of them aimed squarely at President Eisenhow er's legislative program. Before ending its 45th annual meeting here last night, the Chamber adopted resolutions put ting its 3,100 local and state affili ates on record against virtually all the new spending programs awaiting action by Congress. About 700 voting delegates en dorsed almost without change and in most cases unanimously a stack of resolutions offered by the Chamber's policy committee. The major ones included: 1. Opposition to Eisenhower's proposed four-year program of federal loans and grants to assist in school construction. "Federal financing leads to federal con trol," the Chamber said.' 2. A declaration that the gov ernment should leave the con struction of atomic power plants to the utility industry. This strikes at Democratic -proposals in Con gress for a federal "crash" pro gram to build demonsration re actors to speed, the -generation of electric power from nuclear fuels. 3. Opposition to Eisenhower's plan for federal aid to depressed areas. .This plan involves brincine new ..industries into cities where unemployment is chronic. The Chamber said the government should not help one city attract Industries from another. , 4. A recommendation that the government halt all appropria tions and participation "in the fi nancing of public subsidized housing." 5. A request that Congress re peal all restrictions on the Dower of the secretary of defense to com plete the unification of the defense establishment. 6. A "prompt" extension of So cial Security coverage to workers not yet brought under the pro gram. But Congress, the Cham ber said, should withdraw last year's act providing disability benefits under Social Security., 7. Endorsement of a new bill to exempt natural gas producers from utility-type price regulation. 8. A request that television and radio stations be permitted the freedom "inherent in a free press" in preparing programs, with government regulation "kept to a minimum." At its final banquet last night the Chamber presented its new president, Philip S. Talbott, Wash ington, D. C, departmentstore executive.,' ' ? .' ? ; :VV-;; Talbott, a former president of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn., succeeds John S. Coleman, Detroit, president of the. Bur roughs! Corp. Coleman now be comes ' chairman of the Cham ber's Board of Directors. Irish Jaunt Was Nightmare With A Happy Ending HOLYOKE, Mass. 11 Mrs James P. Joyce's dream of a vacation tour through Ireland turned into a nightmare . . nightmare with a happy ending, Her original dream was coming true in a big way in March, a year ago, as she and her husband rode sighteeing through ire- land. Then an auto crash, Mrs. Joyce was hospitalized with a shattered arm and leg. A tall, pretty girl came to Mrs. Joyce from St. Vincent Hospital Dublin, to care for her as she convalesced in a hotel. Elisabeth Mayer had left Hungary after the' war with her parents, who were now in West Germany. She was helping them with her earnings, Mrs. Jovcc wrote her soldier- son Jimmy In Japan about the tail, pretty girl. She said she had agreed to come to America to care for her. Jimmy's out of the Army now and in the Insurance Business line his dad. And a tall, pretty nurse at Holyoke Hospital, named blisa heth Maver. has stopped worry ing about visa renewals. She has something better a diamond en gagement ring, from Jimmy. 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