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G Know, and Wants Huge Debt Payment Before Government Installs Tax Cut o O G O o O California!! Doubts. Administration Would Lower Taxes Washington ftJ.R) Senate Re- . publican Leader William T Knowland aid today he would like to se th government able to bout S1,0G0,000,000 on Wi .natior.l aibt before vexes are ct. He also inflic1d t he doubt e Eisenhower adminis tration will recommend a tax reduction in. the 1858 election year. Knowland told newsmen he wag not suggesting the 31,000, 000000 annual payment on the national debt as a "rigid" fig ure or as one backed by the administration. But he did make clear that he believes the ad' ministration is prepared to give priority to at least some debt reduction ahead of a tax cut, Wants Balanced Budget "I don't believe there should be any tax reduction contem plated until the budget is bal anced and there is some reduc tion of the national debt," he said. He al said hethinks there can be no appraisal of tax cut ting prospects until aftee the heavy tax collections due next April 15. Knowland said the adminis tration "wants to see what the fiscal facts are" before tax legis lation is considered. If govern ment revenues should increase substantially above expected levels, he said, there could be enough for both a payment on the federal debt and a tax cut. But" he added that "based on present treasury figures, that does not seem lately ." Near Legal Limit He noted that the treasury now is pressing against the legal limit of $281,000,000,000 on the national debt, a ceiling which reverts under present law to $275,000,000,000 next July 1. "I can't oonceive of Congress and the country approving an Inorease in the debt limit to allow for a tax out,9 he said. Sen. Barry Ooldwater (R Ariz.). said he hopes small busi nesses will get a tax out next year. He told witnesses appearing before a joint Congressional economic subcommittee Wednes day that small business are more entitled to a tax cut than big corporation or persons with high incomes. Medford Tribune United Prtsi Full Leased Wire United Prn Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1955 Page 1 to 10 Church Leaders Elated Over Plan For Sharing of Surplus Foods Washington ttJ.R) Elated church leaders said today Ameri ca's new "share our surplus" program will provide free food for more than 10,000,000 hun gry families all over the world. They said relief food pack ages, drawn from the vast U.S. store of surplus farm commod ities, will start moving abroad by Jan. 1. Altogether, some 800,000,000 pounds of wheat, flour, corn, meal, syrup, dried beans, rice, dairy products and cottonseed oil will be distributed to the needy in 67 countries. The government's decision to release the surplus foods to church agencies and other char itable organizations won prompt and widespread public support. The decision was announced by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson Wednesday. Church Leaders Jubilant Protestant, Catholic and Jew ish religious leaders, who had long been urging Benson to take Government Surplus By UNITED PRESS Background on Government Surplus The big buildup of U. S. farm surplus products be gan in 1952 when Commodity Credit Corp. owned outright farm products worth $1,000,000,- 000 .. . rose to $2,700,000,000 in 1955, not including farm pro ducts used as collateral for price support loans. . . . Total investment m surplus as of Oct. 31 was $7,746,000,000 of which $1,800,000,000 held under loans . . . Big items in in ventory: Wheat, 920,000,000 bushels; corn, 697,000,000 bush els; cotton, 6,340,000 bales; rice, 15,500,000 hundredweight; dairy Tax Levy Needed for Malheur Courthouse Ontario U.R) County Judge G. Y. Chester said yesterday that it would take a special tax levy and about five years to raise enough money for a new Malheur county courthouse. The judge said a new court house of adequate size would cost about $500,000. He suggested at a regular meeting of county commissioners that the county vote next spring on a special tive-year tax levy of two mills. That, with $140,000 now available for building, should raise the sum needed, he said. products, 796,000,000 pounds. Government not only pays out billions to buy up surpluses, but storage costs for all products amount to about $1,000,000 ev ery day . . . wheat storage alone ranges upward from $150,000, 000 annually . . . All-out farm production need ed for World War II and Korean war led to much of surplus ac cumulation . . . After the Kor ean war farmers didn't halt production . . . U.S. export trade dropped and U. S. couldn't eat all it produced . ,. . Additional donation of wheat and corn to foreign relief will take only about 8,000,000 bushels from the U.S. wheat board. . . Officials held off previously from foreign relief donations be cause it was feared it might sup plant regular market, thus hurt ing export situation more . . . Also some hesitancy about send ing free wheat and corn aboard on ground legislative intent of Congress did not permit it . . . Idea changed because everyone wants to reduce surplus . . . NOT TOO LONG San Francisco U.R) Autos are getting longer, but not as long as you . might think. The average 1955 car is only 2.7 inches long er than the cars in 1941, a Calif ornia State Automobile Associa tion study has revealed. - Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY - DECEMBER 16-17 O STORE HOURS: WEEKDAYS 8:30 TO 7 - SUNDAYS 10 TO 7 TUNA STANDBY ROYAL HAWAIIAN CHUNK STYLE 6Vi-ox. can... 4 $100 CANS I Ubb? 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Republican and Democrats in Congress, farm organizations and diplomatic officials also expres sed warm approval of the action as an appropriate Christmas time expression of America's good will toward less fortunate people of other lands. Herschel D. Nelson, master of the National Grange, said tha program will "serve two good purposes at the same time: It will help American farmers by disposing of some of the sur pluses that are depressing the market, and it will help the hun gry abroad." Democrats Cite Law Some Democrats, while sup porting the decision, declined to give Benson any particular cred it for it. Noting that Congress passed a law last year authoriz ing use of farm surplusses for overseas relief, House Demo cratic Whip Carl Albert (Okla.) commented: "I'm glad that Benson finally decided to do what Congress meant for him to do all along." The Agriculture Department previously has released for over seas relief only surplus commod ities which were in danger , of spoiling in storage, mainly dairy products and cottonseed oil. Pri vate U. S. relief agencies have distributed about $50,000,000 worth of these foods to the needy in 29 countries during 1955. Kiwanian Dames' Doll Project Nets More Than $500 Medford Kiwanian Dames' an nual doll project netted more than $500 for Low Echo, Girl Scout camp, it was announced yesterday following the joint luncheon of Kiwanians and Dames at Rogue Valley Country club. The doll went to Patricia Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill J. Cox, 1407 Dakota ave. Patric ia is a six-year-old student at Washington grade school. Her parents said they will "try" to keep the doll and its elaborate wardrobe a secret from her un til Christmas. Mrs. Ward Samuelson, presi dent of the Kiwanian Dames, presided at the women's portion of the meeting yesterday. Mrs. Everett Faber completed the fund portion of the project, Mrs. E. W. Sickels sang three Christmas songs and Mrs. John Pletsch and Mrs. Lou Cranston, doll project co-chairmen, and Girl Scouts Sandra and Susan Filatreau, participated in the program. Preluncheon music was pro vided by a Kiwanian band. New Officers Introduced as new officers of the Medford Kiwanian Dames were Mrs. Boyd Budge, presi dent; Mrs. Dick Field, vice pres ident; Mrs. Norma Foland, sec retary, and Mrs. Vernon Thorpe, treasurer. Kiwanians will hold their an nual party for people at the county farm home on Tuesday evening. They will bring money or toys to their noon luncheon next Wednesday at the Country club. The toys contributed and purchased will go to handicap ped youngsters of the Medford schools at their annual Christ mas party. " January 6 was announced as date of the installation party for new officers of the club; It will be at the Country olub. When man reaches an altitude of 120 miles, or 630,000 feet, he will encounter all the medical problems characteristic of space, among them cosmic and ultra violet radiation, meteors, weight lessness, and the darkness of the void, says the National Geo graphic Society. Daily's U-Drive .Medford Airport Renewal of Copco Contract Discussed At Yreka Hearing Yreka Public hearings con cerning renewal of a. contract between California Oregon Pow er company and the bureau of reclamation began here Mon day. The hearings, which grew out of public controversy over the contract concerning the use of Klamath river waters for gener ation of hydroelectric power, were conducted by .the Cali fornia state assembly interim committee. Discussion at the hearings centered around the proposed Copco construction of a fluctu ation control dam at Iron Gate, and a prior use contract signed in October between Copco and the Oregon and California Klam ath basin commissions. . A representative of the Siski you county board of supervisors said the board felt the disputed contract should not be signed until provisions have been made for a regulatory dam. A repre sentative of the Wildlife and Public Land Use committee also opposed signing the contract until the dam has been built. The prior use agreement be tween Copco and the Klamath basin commissions provides that no Klamath waters shall be used by Copco when needed or re quired for use for domestic, mu nicipal, or irrigation purposes on land other '.than "project land," within the upper Klamath basin. Clarification of the agreement and the question of whether or not the agreement will be in cluded in Copco's proposed con tract with the bureau of recla mation were discussed. Spurned Youth Goes on Shooting Spree; Three Killed, Girl Hurt Vandergrift, Pa., ftJ.R) John Fallone, 17, who killed the parents and unci of a girl who spurned him, was captured today after a gun battle in a woodland hollow where both he and a police chief were wounded. He was surrounded near where he staged the wild shooting spree last night. Vandergrift, Pa. ttJ.R) State police intensified a three-county search today for a 17-year-old rejected suitor who killed three members of a family and serious ly wounded the teen-age girl who spurned him. The killer was identified as John Fallone, of Ford City, Pa., believed to be a "mental case." He was the object of a wide spread manhunt in the rugged countryside surrounding the small rural community of Ma teer, Pa., four miles north of Vandergrift where the triple slaying occurred Wednesday night. ' After the three killings, Fal lone returned to his suburban home about a mile from Mateer, ate and calmly watched tele vision accounts of the murders, police said. Then he went to sleep. Fled Through Window ' When officers arrived at the Fallone home, they were told he was in bed. But the boy evi dently had heard police ap proach and escaped through a window. One of the victims, William Smail, 47, received only a leg wound in the first outburst of shooting. He crawled for help and returned only to be killed in another fusillade. The other dead were identi fied as Jay Warren Smail, 44, brother of William Smail, and Jay Smail'g wife, Irene, 36. A daughter of the Jay Smails, Gladys Alene, 15, was reported in poor condition in Armstrong Memorial hospital at nearby Kit tanning, Pa., with a chest wound. Justice of the Peace Homer King said William Smail .burst into his home Wednesday night, bleeding from foe leg, and shout ing: "There'i a criminal on the loose." Met By Rifle Fire King notified state police and then drove Smail back to the Smail home where the shooting took place. They got out of the car and approached the house, only to be driven back by0 rifle fire by Fallone. A bullet struck Small in the stomach, and he fell to the ground. Officers said he then was killed by a bullet in the head. As police arrived at 1jhe home, Gladys staggered onto the porch and collapsed. She had been shot in the right breast. Inside the house officers found Mr. and Mrs. Jay Warren Smail, both shot to death. Six other children of the dead couple, ranging in age from 3 to 14 years, were unhurt. Officers planned to question them later today. "I don't knowijow men? times the boy shot at us," King told police. "I heard somebody say she (Gladys) had given him up. Ideal for Chrletmat givfagi BEHIND THE BURDEN by Mildrtd AHm Jirfny Charming book of inspirational vers particularly appropriate for a gift at this season of peace on earth, good will toward men. 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