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MEDFORD (OREOOK) MAIL TRIBUNE HIH3 enate Committee Recommends Against Passage of Sales Tax for . Oregon Monday, May 1, 1955 Vote Scheduled On Conlroversial Issue on Tuesday Salem OJ.PJ The Senate Tax Committee headed by Sen. Rudie Wilhelm of Portland de cided to give the full Senate a chance to vote on the sales tax, but voted 4 to 3 after an all day session yesterday to recommend against its passage. The Senate votes today to have the bill reprinted with the amendments made by the Sen ate Committee yesterday. The is gue will be voted on tomorrow. Sugar Coating The measures were amended to take out what the opposition called "sugar coating." One of the problems facing the commit . tee was the estimate of tax ex perts that the sales tax would not raise enough money in the first year of the next biennium to offset an anticipated deficit. To correct this, the committee knocked out S15 per census child which would have gone to the counties and the basic school fund under tlie House version of the sales tax package. Part of this was for construction in dis tressed school districts. Under the Senate version, the counties would still get $10 per census child. Second-Year Surplus Tax commission statisticians estimated that under the Senate version the state would end the first year of the next biennium $5,000,000 in the red; but with $6,000,000 surplus in the sec ond year. Other Senate amendments would exempt cigarettes from the sales tax if the cigarette tax goes into effect and would also exempt transient lodgings such as hotels and motels. Forty-five per cent surtaxes on Income taxes would not go into effect if the sales tax is passed. If the sales tax is adopted and approved by the voters, the in come tax exemptions would be raised from the present $600 per person to $1200 for each husband and wife and $600 for each child. Senate Subcommittee Conducts Hearings on Hells Canyon Dam Washington OJ.PJ A Sen ate Interior subcommittee be gins the second phase today of hearings on a bill to authorize the government to build the con troversial Hells Canyon dam. The bill was introduced by 39 Democratic senators but it has met with passive resistance, if not outright opposition, from the Eisenhower administration. Technical Testimony The subcommittee held hear ings earlier in the year in Idaho. Members said the sessions here would be devoted mostly to tech nical testimony. Four Interior department officials and two from the Army Engineers are among witnesses scheduled to ap-1 government dam, along with Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.) who made a campaign issue Former Husband of Mrs. Smith Unable To Help in Quiz Portland (U.P.) The sec ond husband of Marjorie Kermit Smith, attractive Portland wid ow accused of planning the bomb-slaying of her husbar.d was questioned by police yesterday but said he could shed no light on his former wife's activities. Michael L. Brant, who mar ried a southern Oregon girl on April 16, said he had not seen Marjorie for four or five years. He returned Sunday from a honeymoon in California, Nev ada and New Mexico. Married in Vancouver Brant married the accused widow in Vancouver, Wash., in 1949 four years after she was divorced from her first husband, Merrick F. Hershey of Sacra mento, Calif. Smith's confessed slayer,. 45-year-e'd Victor Laurence Wolf, has accused Mrs. Smith of en gineering her husband's death so that they could collect $21,000 in insurance. ' She has been charged with first degree murder, but has em phatically denied the charge. California Town Gradually Becoming Covered by Sand " Seaside, Calif .XU.PJ Seaside has proved an ironic name for this town as day-by-day there is more seaside and less town. Unnoticed, tiny grains of sand are tumbling down from the lofty dunes behind this village on the rim of Monterey bay, en croaching on the inhabitants and their properties. To date the invasion of parti cles has buried a sycamore tree, sifted through a house so that only the roof remains in sight, covered an automobile and sub merged a mythical street under 50 feet of sand. Started 30 Years Ago The ever-increasing w a v started more than 30 years ago when a brick factory on the north side of town was torn down. For more than 20 years the sand covered more and more property, but a sudden growth of brush halted it for a time. Residents say the brush was a perfect retaining wall until 10 years ago when maneuvers by Army tanks along the dunes kill ed the plants. From then until now the relentless sand has pushed on. No that someone hasn't tried to stop it. . Richard Mercier but a retain ing wall behind his home on Spruce st. The sand Just backed up until it was high enough to flow over it. Now, Mercier said, it's shifting his whole house on its foundations, Ellsworth Amos lost an auto under the sand. "I sold the car but had to take it back because the buyer didn't make the payments," Amos said. '"But I couldn't find it. A few months later I discovered it had been covered by the dunes." City officials point out that if Third st., which -shows only on county maps, actually existed, it would be under 50 feet of sand. Eight years ago Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harding were proud of the handsome sycamore that grew in their backyard. Today only the dead topmost branches are free of the dazzling white sand. Mrs. Harding tried fighting the sand by growing a lawn. She admits that it slowed the wave's progress but not for long. Implacable Menace "We try to keep the children from playing on the dunes be cause every movement sends little more sand down on top of us," she said. The sana has become an im placable menace. It seeps under Buying MILK Today? Reach for GILLIAN'S doors. It trickles through win dows. No weatherstripping is tight enough to keep it out. On windy nights its finds it way into beds and clothing, and food has a continually inescapable grittiness. The residents' quiet despera tion has been growing with the soft wave but not as fast. As Mac Rowe, a reporter for the Monterey Peninsula Herald pointed out, Seaside townspeo ple "have been fighting hopeless individual battles." The only solution seems to be a community sponsored project to replant the whole stretch of dunes. So far none of the resi dents has been able to inspire a concerted counter-attack. New York Harbor boasts 24, 000 annual arrivals and de partures of ocean-going vessels discharging and picking up cargo and passengers, more than any other port in the world. Each month 1,000 ships sail away. Italy's population density about 412 per square mile. is A human eye blink takes from l10th to Vi, of a second. pear. The bill would authorize the $350,000,000 Hells Canyon dam on the Snake river on the Idaho Oregon border, a smaller pow er plant on Scriven creek in Idaho and transmission lines to tie the plants into the govern ment's Bonneville power sys tem. The project was sponsored by the Truman administration but a House committee refused to approve it. Interior Secretary Douglas McKay officially drop ped the project two .years ago. The Idaho Power Company then applied for a Federal Pow er commission license for three low dams in the canyon. Drawn out hearings on the application have been completed but the FPC examiner who . heard the case has not made a recommen dation yet. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Is chief sponsor of the bill for the Pope Proclaims St. Joseph Day Vatican City OJ.PJ Pope Pius XII proclaimed May Day the feast day of St. Joseph the Workman in a speech yesterday to 300,000 workers and pilgrims in St. Peters Square. The Pope's announcement, made at the most impressive Vat ican ceremony of the year, stole the spotlight from Communists who had long claimed the May Day for themselves. He warned workers against the "discordant and alluring voices directed at you from dif ferent quarters, some to ensnare your souls, some to debase you as men, or to defraud you of your legitimate rights as work ers . . ." And he said it was a "mon strous lie . . . that the 'church is allied with capitalism against labor'." The Pope, in a 23-minute ad dress in which he warned labor to stiffen its resistance to Com munism, was borne through St. Peter's Square on his golden ges tatorial chair for the first time since his collapse last December. Veterinarians May Treat Casualties Washington OI.PJ Veter inarians should prepare now to treat human casualties in the event of a national emergency, the Federal Civil Defense Ad ministration advises. Immediately following an at tack, veterinarians will be ex pected to aid physicians in treat ing shock, burns, surgical casual ties, administer medication and blood and assist in the care of radiation casualties. For this work, they are urged to register for American Red Cross first aid training courses'. 'Protection of food animals against disease and the effects of atomic, biological and chemi cal warfare also has been dele gated to the veterinary medical services in a civil defense emer gency. Veterinarians also will in spect meat, poultry and other foods of animal origin, the FCDA said. Daad lin Sunaa? Classified la at noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday; other day 3:30 previous day. Court Records POLICE COURT Shirley Ann Hatchan. stop at stop sign. 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Compared with Yalta He compared such a cease fire meeting with the Yalta confer ence and said "The history of these conferences has been that it is always the free world that gaves up territory and surren ders human beings to the con trol of the Communists." The Californian said that he knows of no "legal, moral or constitutional rights for the heads of two great states to sit down and carve up an aly, eith er in Eastern Europe or Asia." The famed swallows of south ern .California's mission of San Juan Capistrano are cliff swal lows, one of the few western birds that live close to man. Square-tailed, they build globu lar mud nests under eaves. Clarke School for the Deaf at Northampton,' Mass., and New York City's Lexington School for the Deaf, both founded in 1867, started the movement in America to teach deaf children to speak and read lips, the oral method of education. m 1 3 i PACIFIC QUEENS At the crossroads of the Pacific in Honolulu three international beauties get together and math charms. Left to right: Mae Biemes, Hawaii's "Poster Girl," Glenys Wood, Australia's "Girl of the Golden Beaches" and Ann Adam, "Miss Alaska Statehood of 1955." Steelworkers May Frame Demands for Big Pay' Increases Pittsburgh (U.R) The United Steelworkers' wage-policy com mittee was expected today to frame demands for a substantial pay increase when it meets here May 11-12 to plan strategy for 1955 wage talks with the nation's steel makers. ' Union sources gave no hint of what their demands would be, but industry forces expected a money demand of not less than 10 cents an hour for the 1,200,-000-strong union whose members currently average $2 an hour. Whopping Demands Predicted The industry predicted whop ping demands because steel pro duction appeared headed for the second best year in history with output at nearly 96 per cent of practical capacity. Industry lead ers have predicted, on a basis of first quarter reports, that pro duction this year might hit a peak second only to the record production of 1953. The steelworkers won a 12V4 cent hourly boost in 1954 when the industry's operating rate had skidded to slightly more than 60 per cent. The increase includes aJ five cent hourly wage hike, with the remainder going for addi tional pension and insurance benefits. ; Wage Clauses Reopened' ' USW President David Ji. 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