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o o BIXTEEW toBBCOWl MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July as. 1857 Honer' Hemine Se Power of President to Influence Bills Demonstrated in Congress By A. FOERT StrttTTS Mail Tribunt C.rv Vflek Washington Te t- whelming power of to arc dent to influence the outccswe of legislative battles on Caitc Hill has seldom been so clearly demonstrated as last week jn three of the most bitterly fought issues facing Congress. In each c?s; Hells Canyon federal aid to education and the civil rights bill the out come followed the course in- d i c a t e d by President Ei senhower. The Hells Canyon bill was killed alter passing the Senate, in A. Kobe Smltb the House Interior committee where a soliJ wall of Republi cans, aided by two Democrats, blocked it from being sent to the House. The rigidity of the GOP position was due to White House pressure to vote against Hells Canyon. Education Bill The aid to education bill was . more complicated, because Ei senhower had said on several occasions that he favored fed eral assistance to local school districts to help solve their over crowding problems with new schools. He sent Congress a bill to provide an aid program Democrats wanted to provide a larger aid program, so the re sult was a bill that was a com promise between the two. After the bill was reported out of the House education committee, the Republican leaders took a poll and found a majority of the GOP congressmen opposed to passing the school bill. On the day the bill was up for a vote last week, Eisenhower had a conference with GOP Leader Joe Martin and author ized him to say that he wasn't happy with some parts of the j qcniDQj Did dui prooaDiy wouldn't veto it. (Ztext oi Indication Tin effect ef this indication frcw tke White House that the resident wsuld-n't- be sore at the Republicans if they ducked out on the school bill was quick ly observed. When the vote came to kil1 the bill. Ill Repub licans teamed up with 97 Demo crats to bury school aid. With the 126 Democrats who tried to pass it there were 77 Repub licans. Every Northwest law maker supported the bill. The civil rights bill voting was along similar lines: al though the bill itself is still be ing debated, one vital amend ment has been adopted to whit tle down the effectiveness and scope of the bill. As it came to Congress, the civil rights bill was entirely the product of the Justice de partment and a vital part of the Eisenhower program. By turn ing on the pressure in behalf of it, the White House succeeded earlier this session of getting it through the House without any of the amendments sponsored by southern Democrats aimed at scrapping the bill When the Senate debate got hot, and southerners attacked in greatest strength, the president began to express doubts about the bill's part III, by which in tegration of public schools might have been enforced. Fought in Vain Sen. William F. Knowi;ind, the civil rights leader and the Senate's Republican leader, fought in vain thereafter to pre vent part III from being emascu lated. The Senate voted 52 to 38 to trim this section ct its author ity. Joining the sponsors of the amendment were 18 Republi cans whom Knciwland can usual ly keep in line but who defected this time. As several congressional ob servers put it: u the president had gone down the line for the school bill and civil rights as strongly as lie did against Hells Canyon, it would have been a different story." The results indicate that a president can usually get pretty much what he wants when he is as popular as Eisenhower, and that when he doesn't want it very badly he doesn't get it. n Paris Fashion Report Paris 0.1 The curtain will rise on the Paris Fashion shows Monday and so will Milady's hemlines. Chistian Dior has de creed it. Advance reports and rumors seeping from the heavily-guarded showrooms proclaim the day of the long skirt is past. Dior, who brought the world the "new look" with calf-length skirts, is bowing to the trend first developed by Italian design ers at their showing earlier this month. Best guess in Haute Coutoure circles is that skirts will tip the knees. 7,000-Pound Elephant Goes On Six-Hour Romp in Town icial Toll of Flood Passes 1,000 Nagasaki, Japan SPi The official police toll of dead and missing in the worst floods in kyushu's history today passed 1,000. The area now is threaten ed with an epidemic. Health officials of Nagasaki Prefecture and American doc tors at the Atom Bomb Casualty Commission in Nagasaki sent out an urgent call for medicine. The U.S. Air Force rushed 85 pounds of antibiotics, vaccines Robert Strom Wins On Challenge Show New York W Robert Strom, 11, boosted his total quiz show earnings to $224,000 Sun day night by winning S32.000 on "The S64.000 Challenge" tele vision program. Strom split a $64,000 prize with his challenger, David Jun chen, II, Sherrard, 111., when each correctly answered ques tions about electronics on the and antitoxins from Camp Drew, north of Tokyo, to the flood area by helicopter and B26s. CBS show. Strom previously had won S192.000 on "The S64, 000 Question." In another match, Gregory Si monsen, 59, a Philadelphia wait er, tied at S4.000 with his chal lenger, Joel Kupperman, 21, Chi cago, a former "quiz kid." They will meet next week at the 58,000 level. About 60 per cent of the gen eral adult population needs glasses but only about 30 per cent are wearing them. American Can Company Employees Back on Job Portland (IB Over 400 employes of the American Can company here were to go back to work today, pending further discussions of a union grievance. The employes elected to return to work at a meeting Sunday. Workers walked off the job Thursday night after a foreman allegedly "shook" a woman em ploye after the woman talked back to him. Five pounds of coal are re quired to make an army rifle. State Taxes Nudged Higher With Rising Living Cost, Service By ROBERT G. SHORTAL United Press Financial Writer New York (IP) State taxes are being nudged higher by the twin pressures of rising costs and growing demands for new and enlarged services. The fiscal problems confront ing the states and their efforts to cope with them generally have been overshadowed by the dispute over spending and taxes on the national level. In an effort to bring expendi tures into line with receipts, many states have been boosting taxes on gasoline, tobacco and liquor and adopting new taxes such as those on incomes and sales. The tax foundation pointed out that "the pressures exerted by a growing, prosperous popu lation for additional schools, highways, and other state expen ditures continue unabated. Increase Taxes "Bumper yields from state taxes are not adequate to make ends meet and many states have had to increase taxes." States, like individuals and corporations, must pay more to borrow money these days, and they also must pay more for Velfare Chairmaii Resigns in Protest Ontario (IP N. O. Richards, Democratic chairman of the Mal heur county Public Welfare com mission, said today he is resign ing in protest over appointment of a Democrat to replace a Re publican on the commission. Gov. Robert D. Holmes last week named Leslie E. Downie. Ontario Democrat, to the com mission to replace L. J. Kinney, Ontario Republican whose term had expired. Richards wrote Holmes saying his protest resignation was ef fective Aug. 12 or sooner if the governor desired. He said he felt the new appointee was "better qualified than most" ?nd would prove a valuable addition to the commission. But Richards said he felt com pelled to "make clear my per sonal disapproval of the politi cal practice which this appoint ment would appear to represent, a practice which in any field considered so impractical and other than government would be unwise as to immediately im press the stamp of administra tive inadequacy upon its practi tioner." Richards said he referred to the replacing of qualified ap pointive governmental servants "upon no bcrter basis than po litical party label and indorse ment of patty leaders." The governor's office in Salem had no immediate comment. Heavy shade is needed for mink farms because sunlight "rusts" live mink fur. wages and materials. The tax foundation said these factors will combine to push state spending across the $22 billion mark in the fiscal year which began July 1. That com pares with just $9 billion a dec ade ago. The foundation said 31 states have increased rates on one or more major taxes in the past 18 months, in an effort to close the gap between receipts and expen ditures. So far this year, it added, 26 states have enacted changes in major tax rates, with 23 increas ing one or more rates and six reducing one each. Colorado, Iowa and Montana did both. New Items Taxed The foundation said the quest for more revenues has brought such varied items as prunes and lightning rod agents to the atten tion of legislators in 45 states this year. But the most popular items to carry the tax boost are the old standbys cigarettes and gaso line. Seven states have raised taxes on cigarettes, five on gas oline and four each have jacked up income, liquor and motor ve hicle taxes. Three states each have raised retail sales and property taxes. Out of 39 states which have completed legislative sessions, the six making reductions are Colorado and Oregon, higher personal exemptions for income tax; Montana and Pennsylvania, one-cent reductions in gasoline tax: Iowa. 0.5 per cent reduction in retail sales and use tax, and North Carolina, comprehensive revisions expected to save tax payers S7 million a year. New York, the only state to vote a tax cut in 1956, boosted the personal income tax credit to 15 per cent on the first $100 and 10 per cent on thi next $200 for the 1957 tax year. Chesterton, Ind. (lf Resi dents of this "sleepy" Indiana community breathed easier to day because Babe, a 7,000-pound elephant, was back on her leash again. The venerable, 61-year-old lady went on a six-hour romp before she was captured and re turned early Sunday. Few people were able to get much sleep during the night. You just can't ignore an elephant on your front lawn or stomping about in the garden. The excitement began Satur day night when the elephant roamed away from a Chesterton super-market where she was sta tioned as a publicity stunt. Her attendant disappeared at the 'Mystery Witness' Arrives in Florida DeLand, fa. OP) The "mys tery witness" in the Marilyn Sheppard murder case turned up unexpectedly here today to try to make "positive" identification of Donald Joseph Wedler, who claims he is the man who club bed her to death in 1954. Ernest J. Kolofolias, 32, iden tified Wedler by pictures in Wa terloo, Iowa, last week as the man with the bloody hands who picked him up on the outskirts of Cleveland some 24 hours aft er the slaying. Kolofolias and two attorneys for Dr. Samuel Sheppard, who is serving a life term in the Ohio Penitentiary for his wife's mur der, registered at a local hotel here under the week end, Kolo folias under an assumed name. The two attorneys, William Corrigan and Fred Garmone, both of Cleveland, planned to question Wedler thoroughly to see if his "confession" can be linked to the actual slaying. Last week a Cuyahoga county, Ohio, coroner came here to question Wedler and later said the 23-year-old convict's story was a hoax. Kolofolias came here unan nounced by bus. He had a tele gram in his pocket from Dr. Ste phen Sheppard, Dr. Sam's bro ther, which was to identify him to Sheriff Rodney Thursby m case he could not make contact in Florida with Corrigan and Garmone. The telegram indicated that the Sheppard familys ponsored Kolofolias' trip here. Only a week ago Corrigan announced that he was not interested in Kolofolias' identification of Wed ler. Corrigan drove to Florida by car, arriving with Mrs. Corrigan Sunday. Garmone has been here since Saturday. same time. So "Big Babe" wandered off, and it wasn't long before most of the town was aware of it. A posse of 60 residents and three policemen took up the chase. They had no trouble fol lowing her trail along streets and alleys to the northeast edge of town. But they were wary of getting too close to Babe, as she resented the chase and trumpet ed menacingly. Outside of town. Babe found a 10-acre field of soybeans to trample, and, tiring of that, ambled into a woodland on the farm of Lon Snyder. There her attention was diverted by some succulent twigs and the posse closed in. Grab Dangling Chain Several men grabbed the ele phant's dangling chain and staked it to the ground. Mean while Babe's owner, C, A. Vern on. St. Louis. Mo., arrived and led Babe back to the grocery store. Wide-awake residents were treated to a one elephant parade as the triumphant searchers re turned. Since the midnight ram ble made Babe thirsty, they stopped at the fire station where firemen turned hoses on her. But Babe got in the parting shot. She squirted the water back at them through her trunk. 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